George Luft
@gluft3.bsky.social
Long-time twitter user. Looking for the new frontier. Data guy and bee keeper from Connecticut.
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We're sitting Shiva tonight for Rob Reiner at 9PM. Join @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social , @sonnybunch.bsky.social , @richardrushfield.bsky.social, @daveweigel.bsky.social to talk his movies and more.
Watch on:
YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/iBofLeW...
Substack: open.substack.com/live-stream/...
Watch on:
YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/iBofLeW...
Substack: open.substack.com/live-stream/...
Remembering The Best of Rob Reiner (w/ Sonny Bunch, Bill Kristol, David Weigel & Richard Rushfield)
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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December 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
We're sitting Shiva tonight for Rob Reiner at 9PM. Join @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social , @sonnybunch.bsky.social , @richardrushfield.bsky.social, @daveweigel.bsky.social to talk his movies and more.
Watch on:
YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/iBofLeW...
Substack: open.substack.com/live-stream/...
Watch on:
YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/iBofLeW...
Substack: open.substack.com/live-stream/...
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PHOTOS: A magnitude 7.5 earthquake hit northeastern Japan tonight, injuring multiple people and triggering tsunami alerts and evacuation orders for thousands of residents.
Photos: Powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake rocks Japan's northeast
The quake injured multiple people and triggered tsunami alerts and evacuation orders for thousands of residents.
www.axios.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:45 AM
PHOTOS: A magnitude 7.5 earthquake hit northeastern Japan tonight, injuring multiple people and triggering tsunami alerts and evacuation orders for thousands of residents.
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Don't know whether this is new or has been up for awhile. Either way, when the White House creates a hit list of journalists it doesn't like, the free press is in danger. www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/
Media Offenders
Explore the Media Bias Tracker that fact checks and holds Fake News accountable. False claims debunked, Hall of Shame for serial offenders, Leaderboard of networks ranked by Repeated Lies. Stay inform...
www.whitehouse.gov
November 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Don't know whether this is new or has been up for awhile. Either way, when the White House creates a hit list of journalists it doesn't like, the free press is in danger. www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/
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The past decade has seen grave threats and unmistakable decline. But the past few days and weeks reveal that we have entered in a new and more perilous chapter here in the U.S. It must be a call to a new kind of action. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
We Have Descended into Utter Madness
A new sense of urgency is needed. Our national crisis has grown much more acute.
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The past decade has seen grave threats and unmistakable decline. But the past few days and weeks reveal that we have entered in a new and more perilous chapter here in the U.S. It must be a call to a new kind of action. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
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I have a few thoughts on how to stop our current descent into madness. Add your own in the comments. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
How to Stop the Descent into Madness
To the degree you're just a spectator to this crisis, you're a contributor to it.
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I have a few thoughts on how to stop our current descent into madness. Add your own in the comments. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
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The erosion and erasure of government data by the Trump Administration threaten both public safety and the economy, says former US chief data scientist Denice Ross on the @washingtonmonthly.com podcast.
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/26/f...
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/26/f...
Federal Data Are Disappearing
Former U.S. chief data scientist warns that Trump is suppressing, altering, and dismantling data essential to public safety and the economy.
washingtonmonthly.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:08 AM
The erosion and erasure of government data by the Trump Administration threaten both public safety and the economy, says former US chief data scientist Denice Ross on the @washingtonmonthly.com podcast.
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/26/f...
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/26/f...
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TEN MONTHS IN:
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
TEN MONTHS IN:
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
History of the World I - Mel Brooks at Caesars Palace
YouTube video by Beowoulf69
youtu.be
November 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.’
George Orwell, Animal Farm
George Orwell, Animal Farm
November 20, 2025 at 9:25 AM
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.’
George Orwell, Animal Farm
George Orwell, Animal Farm
I keep hearing @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social in my head to the tune of The Edmund Fitzgerald.
November 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I keep hearing @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social in my head to the tune of The Edmund Fitzgerald.
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
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Kash Patel in 2023: “I’m just saying Chris Wray doesn’t need a government funded G5 jet to go to vacations. Maybe we ground that plane. $15,000 every time it takes off. Just a thought.”
November 3, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Kash Patel in 2023: “I’m just saying Chris Wray doesn’t need a government funded G5 jet to go to vacations. Maybe we ground that plane. $15,000 every time it takes off. Just a thought.”
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
November 1, 2025 at 4:48 AM
F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
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every blue governor must form well regulated volunteer militia's according to the 2nd amendment to defend their states and citizens from tyranny as the founders intended
it is our right and what must be done in response, no court has it's own troops to carry out their orders.
it is our right and what must be done in response, no court has it's own troops to carry out their orders.
Chump's Military Dictatorship or
Martial Law, That's What We'll Be
Up Against, If He Gets His Way.....
Martial Law, That's What We'll Be
Up Against, If He Gets His Way.....
October 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
every blue governor must form well regulated volunteer militia's according to the 2nd amendment to defend their states and citizens from tyranny as the founders intended
it is our right and what must be done in response, no court has it's own troops to carry out their orders.
it is our right and what must be done in response, no court has it's own troops to carry out their orders.
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Coming soon to The Nerd Reich podcast...a rare cameo by Bernie the Anti-Fascist Fancy Rat!
Our new episode—an interview with Paulina Borsook, who saw tech fascism rising out of San Francisco 30 years ago—drops soon.
Subscribe on YouTube to get it first:
www.youtube.com/@TheNerdReic...
Our new episode—an interview with Paulina Borsook, who saw tech fascism rising out of San Francisco 30 years ago—drops soon.
Subscribe on YouTube to get it first:
www.youtube.com/@TheNerdReic...
October 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Coming soon to The Nerd Reich podcast...a rare cameo by Bernie the Anti-Fascist Fancy Rat!
Our new episode—an interview with Paulina Borsook, who saw tech fascism rising out of San Francisco 30 years ago—drops soon.
Subscribe on YouTube to get it first:
www.youtube.com/@TheNerdReic...
Our new episode—an interview with Paulina Borsook, who saw tech fascism rising out of San Francisco 30 years ago—drops soon.
Subscribe on YouTube to get it first:
www.youtube.com/@TheNerdReic...
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Make sure you know your rights!
Attending a No Kings protest today? Know your protest rights:
Know Your Rights | Protesters’ Rights | ACLU
The First Amendment protects your right to assemble and express your views through protest. However, police and other government officials are allowed to place certain narrow restrictions on the exerc...
www.aclu.org
October 18, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Make sure you know your rights!
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4. I encourage you to see the film.
But let me give you examples drawn from Orwell’s “The Prevention of Literature,” an essay that the documentary quotes frequently.
In this one, it’s like he describing the Republicans under Donald Trump:
But let me give you examples drawn from Orwell’s “The Prevention of Literature,” an essay that the documentary quotes frequently.
In this one, it’s like he describing the Republicans under Donald Trump:
October 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
4. I encourage you to see the film.
But let me give you examples drawn from Orwell’s “The Prevention of Literature,” an essay that the documentary quotes frequently.
In this one, it’s like he describing the Republicans under Donald Trump:
But let me give you examples drawn from Orwell’s “The Prevention of Literature,” an essay that the documentary quotes frequently.
In this one, it’s like he describing the Republicans under Donald Trump:
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🚨 🚨
Pop Quiz!
Every American should know the basics of our Founding, don’t you agree?
The history, and the Constitution itself?
Well, to make sure you know it, and as part of my virtual Democracy Academy, let me give you a quick pop quiz.
1/
Pop Quiz!
Every American should know the basics of our Founding, don’t you agree?
The history, and the Constitution itself?
Well, to make sure you know it, and as part of my virtual Democracy Academy, let me give you a quick pop quiz.
1/
October 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
🚨 🚨
Pop Quiz!
Every American should know the basics of our Founding, don’t you agree?
The history, and the Constitution itself?
Well, to make sure you know it, and as part of my virtual Democracy Academy, let me give you a quick pop quiz.
1/
Pop Quiz!
Every American should know the basics of our Founding, don’t you agree?
The history, and the Constitution itself?
Well, to make sure you know it, and as part of my virtual Democracy Academy, let me give you a quick pop quiz.
1/
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ICE seizes community leader at CT court check-in, immigrant groups say... https://go.ctcapitolreport.com/4gDodIh
September 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
ICE seizes community leader at CT court check-in, immigrant groups say... https://go.ctcapitolreport.com/4gDodIh
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After tracking the explicit merger of Trump and Christianity in the aftermath of Kirk's killing, I pulled a bunch of data on where the overlap already exists. www.pbump.net/o/the-critic...
The critical role Christianity plays in Trumpism
I remember being in Des Moines in August 2015 when Donald Trump made one of the first major appearances of his 2016 presidential bid: A stop at the Iowa State Fair. He emerged from a Trump-branded hel...
www.pbump.net
September 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
After tracking the explicit merger of Trump and Christianity in the aftermath of Kirk's killing, I pulled a bunch of data on where the overlap already exists. www.pbump.net/o/the-critic...
Great interview with @grahamformaine.bsky.social today, @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social !!
youtu.be/ccZgWyhj14M?...
youtu.be/ccZgWyhj14M?...
IHIP News: 🚨 Trump's WORST NIGHTMARE Comes True, He Knows He's SCREWED!!
YouTube video by I've Had It
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September 23, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Great interview with @grahamformaine.bsky.social today, @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social !!
youtu.be/ccZgWyhj14M?...
youtu.be/ccZgWyhj14M?...
Spend an hour with @chrislhayes.bsky.social and @grahamformaine.bsky.social
youtu.be/9I_xx44fBrs?...
youtu.be/9I_xx44fBrs?...
Getting 'back from the edge of this dark precipice': Graham Platner on race against Susan Collins
YouTube video by MSNBC
youtu.be
September 20, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Spend an hour with @chrislhayes.bsky.social and @grahamformaine.bsky.social
youtu.be/9I_xx44fBrs?...
youtu.be/9I_xx44fBrs?...
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A progressive candidate like @katmabu.bsky.social being manhandled by ICE on the same day 95 Democrats including @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social votes to honor Charlie Kirk tells you volumes about who is on the right side of history
September 20, 2025 at 3:28 AM
A progressive candidate like @katmabu.bsky.social being manhandled by ICE on the same day 95 Democrats including @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social votes to honor Charlie Kirk tells you volumes about who is on the right side of history