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justinwolfers.bsky.social
Holy cow: TRUMP LEAKED THIS MORNING'S PAYROLL NUMBERS.

At 8:20pm last night he posted a photo of a briefing he received from his CEA. It reveals market-moving numbers that were officially released at 8:30am this morning.

(Note: CEA receives the data—confidentially—on Thursday evening.)
January 9, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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pbump.com
fuck outta here
January 6, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
Just as the Nazis successfully rewrote the history of their failed putsch, so Trump is feverishly recrafting the history of Jan 6, using all the levers of power to do so. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
January 6, five years on: sustained effort by Trump to rewrite history
President and Republican allies have tried to make sure the deadly attack on the Capitol has been erased from memory
www.theguardian.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:24 PM
fgranada.bsky.social
Maybe even 20yrs ago? Regan years plus?
December 30, 2025 at 4:59 AM
fgranada.bsky.social
Feel like this was the same shit from 10 yrs ago.
December 30, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
The Trump Admin has repeatedly demonstrated to allies around the globe that US security guarantees mean nothing as long as Trump is president. He won’t even agree to abide by the NATO charter, so how can he be trusted to honor any Ukraine deal.
December 30, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
Imagine it being easier to just pay the 8 billion dollars and it won't affect you in the slightest. Man what have we done lol
December 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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archive.org
🛒🎄 Ride your shopping cart back to a bygone era with the “Attention Kmart Shoppers” collection at the #InternetArchive.

These tapes of In-store announcements & seasonal jingles are pure time travel.

🛍️ Wrap your holiday spirit in classic shopping nostalgia ⤵️
archive.org/details/Kmar...
December 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
This works on the left too.

Attention
Polarization

His tribe, our tribe.

Rinse, repeat, ten years of this.
emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · Dec 15
Trump's tweets aim to 1) Reclaim attention 2) Polarize the country. It has been his secret sauce for 10 years.

Here's how it worked with Jack Posobiec.

First: Oh, we won't be utter shitholes abt Reiner.

Then, the gotchas.

Then the denials.

Trump put him right back in the tribe.
A Jack Posobiec tweet: You won’t see people on the right celebrating the horrific murder of Rob Reiner and his wife Compare to the Left’s reaction to Charlie Kirk’s murder Governor Newsom Press Office account RTing Posobiec, saying: Jack, seems like your president may disagree with you. Sick. Posobiec RTing his own tweet. He says: Libs are trying to Community Note this with Trump's post Where is the celebration in Trump's post? He isn't celebrating, he is warning
December 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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archive.org
🧵 It’s the holiday season. Santa Claus is an icon of that history, but he wasn’t always reaching for a soda. 🎅

Unwrap more vintage Holiday magazine art & more in our collection ⤵️
archive.org/details/@ias...

#HolidayArt #PeriodicalArt #Archives #CulturalMemory #ChristmasHistory #PrintCulture
Vintage 1920 advertisement showing Santa Claus reclining against a brick chimney, smoking a cigarette. He wears a red suit and black boots, with a night sky and evergreen branches in the background. A pack of Murad “The Turkish Cigarette” peeks out of his sack of presents with holly and wrapped gifts. Large text at the top reads “MURAD THE TURKISH CIGARETTE,” and smaller text at the bottom reads, “What could you enjoy more this Xmas than Murad?”
December 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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conorlambpa.bsky.social
What’s worse, Fetterman working harder to get a pardon for Netanyahu than healthcare for his own constituents….or the fact that he did the Netanyahu letter in secret?
December 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
December 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
So today I found out that my TED talk ‘This is What a Digital Coup Looks Like’ was TED’s most watched talk of the year.

It’s sort of amazing & terrifying. Because this *is* what a digital coup looks like.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...
This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED
YouTube video by TED
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
fgranada.bsky.social
Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn were the best duo
December 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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dgraham.bsky.social
I wrote about one of my greatest musical heroes, Steve Cropper: www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
Play It, Steve!
The late Steve Cropper laid a template for generations of rock-and-roll guitarists.
www.theatlantic.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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allmusic.com
Jimmy Cliff, 1944-2025

The first major influence in the global expansion of reggae, with a hit film and album in 1972's rollicking The Harder They Come.
Jimmy Cliff Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More... | AllMusic
Explore Jimmy Cliff's discography including top tracks, albums, and reviews. Learn all about Jimmy Cliff on AllMusic.
www.allmusic.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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somevelvetblog.bsky.social
Some of these you might know, some you might not.

open.substack.com/pub/offlinec...
Cool Sites for Real Music Discovery
six sites that make music discovery feel personal again
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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trbrtc.bsky.social
The forensic audio analysis by Rob C. Maher of the 2024 Trump assassination attempt has been peer-reviewed and published in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. This is great news for visual and audio investigations! aes2.org/publications...
Diagram explaining how the timing between a bullet’s supersonic shock wave (“crack”) and the muzzle blast (“pop”) can be used to estimate the distance between a shooter and a microphone. Three scenarios (T₁, T₂, T₃) show a rifle firing a supersonic bullet past a microphone. In each scenario, the ballistic shock wave cone reaches the microphone before the slower muzzle blast sound. To the right of each diagram is a waveform: a sharp spike labeled the shock-wave “crack,” followed by a later cluster of peaks labeled the muzzle-blast “pop.” The time delay between these events (t_d1, t_d2, t_d3) increases as the microphone is positioned farther downrange. A formula shows distance = t_d / (1/c − 1/v), where c is the speed of sound and v is bullet speed. Text boxes explain: “Downrange timing between shock wave ‘crack’ and muzzle blast ‘pop’ gives distance estimate between shooter and microphone,” and “For investigation of Trump assassination attempt: microphone signal was from the lectern.”
November 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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tchristianmiller.bsky.social
Remember the immigration raid on the apartment complex in Chicago almost two months ago? The one with the Black Hawk helicopter and federal agents rappelling on ropes? @ProPublica decided to take a deeper look. We found little evidence to support the government’s claims. 🧵
November 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
fgranada.bsky.social
Gotta appreciate the pile of spaghetti cables
November 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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thenatidude.bsky.social
Meanwhile in the First World…
marklemley.bsky.social Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · Nov 6
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
from 2003
November 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
fgranada.bsky.social
Oldie but goodie from earlier this year and trying to make sense of it all.
eliothiggins.bsky.social Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Feb 28
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
October 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM