Howard Wilkins
@howardwilkins.bsky.social
Career management consultant. Privileged straight, middle-aged Jewish white guy, soccer nerd, nerd-culture nerd, proud dad, gun violence survivor. Pro women's rights, trans-rights, being kind and also calling out bad faith arguments. #ProtectTransKids
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President Free Speech has struck again!
Trump wants to cancel TV licenses because he doesn't like what late night TV hosts are saying about him.
What happened to "stop cancel culture" and buck up "snowflakes?" And what happened to the First Amendment?
What happened to "stop cancel culture" and buck up "snowflakes?" And what happened to the First Amendment?
December 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
President Free Speech has struck again!
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J. D. Vance has “clearly made the calculation that anti-Semites are part of the Republican Party’s base, and he can’t afford to shunt them to the side as he plots his own presidential bid,” Franklin Foer argues.
J. D. Vance Fails a Simple Moral Test
The vice president welcomes anti-Semites into the Republican coalition.
bit.ly
December 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
J. D. Vance has “clearly made the calculation that anti-Semites are part of the Republican Party’s base, and he can’t afford to shunt them to the side as he plots his own presidential bid,” Franklin Foer argues.
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This rule is terrible conceptionally , but somehow the execution is even worse than I thought. Just garbage. Why are you giving marketing firms and European journalists (many of whom don't even watch your league) so much influence over what your GM's and owners can do? A complete fail.
December 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This rule is terrible conceptionally , but somehow the execution is even worse than I thought. Just garbage. Why are you giving marketing firms and European journalists (many of whom don't even watch your league) so much influence over what your GM's and owners can do? A complete fail.
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The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
December 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
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The maga divide summarized: does the gutter racism that is the mortar of our coalition apply to Jews or not? And if it doesn’t do we mean that or are we just pretending for the moment?
December 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The maga divide summarized: does the gutter racism that is the mortar of our coalition apply to Jews or not? And if it doesn’t do we mean that or are we just pretending for the moment?
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Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.
December 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.
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We know there are hundreds of good Americans at the FBI and DOJ who also want to see justice for Epstein’s victims and survivors.
To anyone who worked hard on the files and is now seeing their work being hidden by their own DOJ, there are whistleblower protections.
To anyone who worked hard on the files and is now seeing their work being hidden by their own DOJ, there are whistleblower protections.
December 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
We know there are hundreds of good Americans at the FBI and DOJ who also want to see justice for Epstein’s victims and survivors.
To anyone who worked hard on the files and is now seeing their work being hidden by their own DOJ, there are whistleblower protections.
To anyone who worked hard on the files and is now seeing their work being hidden by their own DOJ, there are whistleblower protections.
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Trump pardoned these criminals. Trump is soft on crime.
December 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Trump pardoned these criminals. Trump is soft on crime.
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By now any news outlet that directly quotes trump or trump officials in headlines without fact checks & context is intentionally spreading propaganda.
Justice Department officials were protecting victims by removing images from files tied to the notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said.
Blanche Says Pulling Trump Photo From Epstein File Was Justified
Justice Department officials were protecting victims of Jeffrey Epstein when they removed several images from agency’s release of files tied to the notorious sex offender, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said.
bloom.bg
December 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
By now any news outlet that directly quotes trump or trump officials in headlines without fact checks & context is intentionally spreading propaganda.
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A generation that grew up on The Simpson's monorail episode shouldn't be buying any of this, and yet.
December 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
A generation that grew up on The Simpson's monorail episode shouldn't be buying any of this, and yet.
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We were on track for a massive energy shift that might have helped keep the planet from cooking.
December 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
We were on track for a massive energy shift that might have helped keep the planet from cooking.
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It drives me crazy to think about how much better we'd be off in every possible way if five million more people who get that off-the-charts bigotry and corruption aren't OK had gotten off their asses and voted last year.
December 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
It drives me crazy to think about how much better we'd be off in every possible way if five million more people who get that off-the-charts bigotry and corruption aren't OK had gotten off their asses and voted last year.
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I cannot state any more baldly or clearly than I already have about what an immense menace RFK Jr. is. The number of preventable illnesses and deaths - of *babies* - will be horrific. This anti-vax crap is grotesque anti-science, and always has been.
Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better
BREAKING: RFKJr directs that the US instantly stop recommending all vaccinations for children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
December 20, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I cannot state any more baldly or clearly than I already have about what an immense menace RFK Jr. is. The number of preventable illnesses and deaths - of *babies* - will be horrific. This anti-vax crap is grotesque anti-science, and always has been.
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The official death count in South Sudan is nearly 1,600, making it the worst cholera epidemic in the country’s history.
But that toll is a dramatic undercount.
ProPublica found newly dug, unmarked graves alongside roads and in backyards.
But that toll is a dramatic undercount.
ProPublica found newly dug, unmarked graves alongside roads and in backyards.
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 20, 2025 at 2:40 AM
The official death count in South Sudan is nearly 1,600, making it the worst cholera epidemic in the country’s history.
But that toll is a dramatic undercount.
ProPublica found newly dug, unmarked graves alongside roads and in backyards.
But that toll is a dramatic undercount.
ProPublica found newly dug, unmarked graves alongside roads and in backyards.
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Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things.
There’s no third option.
There’s no third option.
In addition to this administration trying to kill kids, and they're also coming for our binders? OUR BINDERS.
December 19, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things.
There’s no third option.
There’s no third option.
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Feels to me like the last quote here is more devastating and incriminating than even the birthday book and the photos and the rest.
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
December 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Feels to me like the last quote here is more devastating and incriminating than even the birthday book and the photos and the rest.
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The ADL does not operate in good faith. It aligns itself with known white nationalists and should no longer be considered the arbiter of what is and isn't anti-semitic.
December 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose
The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
December 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose
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FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years.
It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
In the 90 minutes since I posted this, I've gotten two more death notifications.
ICE has a responsibility to take care of these people, something they are clearly disregarding. This is beyond horrifying. We must ensure dignity and humanity for detained people in this country.
ICE has a responsibility to take care of these people, something they are clearly disregarding. This is beyond horrifying. We must ensure dignity and humanity for detained people in this country.
Within 15 minutes today, I got two back-to-back notifications of deaths at ICE facilities.
28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.
28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.
December 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years.
It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
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January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.
December 18, 2025 at 4:47 AM
January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.
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Brutal numbers for food in the latest inflation report:
- bananas rose 6.7 percent in the past year
-beef and veal rose by 15.8 percent
-coffee, which rose 18.8 percent in the last year.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
- bananas rose 6.7 percent in the past year
-beef and veal rose by 15.8 percent
-coffee, which rose 18.8 percent in the last year.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Inflation spikes 2.7 percent despite Trump’s claims ‘prices are down’
Prices on numerous goods spike as the labor market continues to be sluggish
www.independent.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Brutal numbers for food in the latest inflation report:
- bananas rose 6.7 percent in the past year
-beef and veal rose by 15.8 percent
-coffee, which rose 18.8 percent in the last year.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
- bananas rose 6.7 percent in the past year
-beef and veal rose by 15.8 percent
-coffee, which rose 18.8 percent in the last year.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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the full speech is something to see & is one of the reasons it is good to have a trans member of congress
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Rep Sarah McBride on the steps of the Capitol
YouTube video by David Steinglass
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December 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
the full speech is something to see & is one of the reasons it is good to have a trans member of congress
youtu.be/5LqVMCW4e0c?...
youtu.be/5LqVMCW4e0c?...