mvpNM
@mvpnm.bsky.social
Twitter refugee. Former Foreign Service. New Mexico transplant.
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These psychos care immensely about online chatter about them, even though they pretend they don’t care. Musk sued Media Matters, Thiel sued Gawker. They care desperately and we on the left don’t invest enough time, energy and money in pushing out good, accurate, embarrassing intel.
We need to otherize weird right wing billionaires like the smear campaigns they fund against minorities do. Musk leads a baby breeding cult and Thiel wants to suck up the blood of young people. They’re fucking weird and more people need to know.
December 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
These psychos care immensely about online chatter about them, even though they pretend they don’t care. Musk sued Media Matters, Thiel sued Gawker. They care desperately and we on the left don’t invest enough time, energy and money in pushing out good, accurate, embarrassing intel.
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Trump’s White House renovations have drawn attention for their scale, cost, and potential impact on the historic residence.
Trump Shares New Pictures of White House Renovations
www.newsweek.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Trump’s White House renovations have drawn attention for their scale, cost, and potential impact on the historic residence.
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JD Vance, couch fucker went from online joke to real world talking point in a nano second. We don’t have Fox but we can spread info just as fast and wide as the right.
December 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM
JD Vance, couch fucker went from online joke to real world talking point in a nano second. We don’t have Fox but we can spread info just as fast and wide as the right.
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shilling my extended family's books this christmas!
Hey my cousin wrote a whole book on double entry bookkeeping! www.amazon.com/Double-Entry...
Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance
Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance - Kindle edition by Gleeson-White, Jane. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance.
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December 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
shilling my extended family's books this christmas!
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We need to otherize weird right wing billionaires like the smear campaigns they fund against minorities do. Musk leads a baby breeding cult and Thiel wants to suck up the blood of young people. They’re fucking weird and more people need to know.
December 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
We need to otherize weird right wing billionaires like the smear campaigns they fund against minorities do. Musk leads a baby breeding cult and Thiel wants to suck up the blood of young people. They’re fucking weird and more people need to know.
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“Destructive moral ideas” - like women voting; 🏳️🌈 people existing & having rights; immigrants contributing to society; people with liberal ideologies being allowed (gasp!) to advocate freely for them!
The Vance/TechnoChristocrat future is a terrifying but real possibility.
The Vance/TechnoChristocrat future is a terrifying but real possibility.
JD VANCE THINKS BRITAIN & FRANCE ARE AMERICAS LIKELY ENEMIES.
The world is getting bizarrely screwed with this kind of bull being spewed out.
The world is getting bizarrely screwed with this kind of bull being spewed out.
December 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
“Destructive moral ideas” - like women voting; 🏳️🌈 people existing & having rights; immigrants contributing to society; people with liberal ideologies being allowed (gasp!) to advocate freely for them!
The Vance/TechnoChristocrat future is a terrifying but real possibility.
The Vance/TechnoChristocrat future is a terrifying but real possibility.
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Just as AI can personalize ads online, bad actors are using it to glean personal information that enables them to create custom-tailored scams.
How AI Is Making Life Easier for Cybercriminals
Phishing and other cyber scams are becoming bigger, more targeted and more convincing.
on.wsj.com
December 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Just as AI can personalize ads online, bad actors are using it to glean personal information that enables them to create custom-tailored scams.
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Living in the panopticon means exactly this. Everyone behaves as if they are being watched and judged at all times, regardless of whether it’s actually happening.
From @parkermolloy.com at New Republic. newrepublic.com/article/2047...
I'd go a bit further. The system needs no conspiracy to function. It just needs everyone to understand the direction things are going in. Bari Weiss was put there not to protect a legacy, but to align its politics differently.
I'd go a bit further. The system needs no conspiracy to function. It just needs everyone to understand the direction things are going in. Bari Weiss was put there not to protect a legacy, but to align its politics differently.
December 26, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Living in the panopticon means exactly this. Everyone behaves as if they are being watched and judged at all times, regardless of whether it’s actually happening.
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Acton: [Ramaswamy] literally treats Ohio like a flyover state.
When you love Ohio the way I do, you don’t treat it like a flyover state. You don’t move your business from Ohio to Texas. You don’t pit Ohioans against each other with endless culture wars…
When you love Ohio the way I do, you don’t treat it like a flyover state. You don’t move your business from Ohio to Texas. You don’t pit Ohioans against each other with endless culture wars…
December 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Acton: [Ramaswamy] literally treats Ohio like a flyover state.
When you love Ohio the way I do, you don’t treat it like a flyover state. You don’t move your business from Ohio to Texas. You don’t pit Ohioans against each other with endless culture wars…
When you love Ohio the way I do, you don’t treat it like a flyover state. You don’t move your business from Ohio to Texas. You don’t pit Ohioans against each other with endless culture wars…
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“But it's also clear that there is likely something in the files that further incriminates him.” This is what I think, too. Horrible as the facts at hand are, there must be something else, something verging on the unimaginable.
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/feminism-ver...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/feminism-ver...
Feminism Versus Trump and Epstein
We already knew that Jeffrey Epstein had sexually assaulted and exploited dozens of girls and young women, that he had done so openly, that his dehumanization of the vulnerable had not prevented a who...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
December 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
“But it's also clear that there is likely something in the files that further incriminates him.” This is what I think, too. Horrible as the facts at hand are, there must be something else, something verging on the unimaginable.
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/feminism-ver...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/feminism-ver...
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NYC on track for near-record low number of homicides in 2025. gothamist.com/news/nyc-on-...
NYC on track for near-record low number of homicides in 2025
The number of homicides is in the same ballpark as 2018 and 2017, when the city recorded fewer than 300 killings.
gothamist.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
NYC on track for near-record low number of homicides in 2025. gothamist.com/news/nyc-on-...
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26 December 1933 | A French Jewish girl, Hélène Pokoïk, was born in Paris.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 17 August 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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▶ The first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 17 August 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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▶ The first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
December 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
26 December 1933 | A French Jewish girl, Hélène Pokoïk, was born in Paris.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 17 August 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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▶ The first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 17 August 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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▶ The first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
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More than half a million people have been forced from their homes and displaced since the RSF siege in El Fasher began in May
✏️ Paola Totaro
✏️ Paola Totaro
A journey into Sudan’s forgotten war
Western leaders and diplomats have spent huge amounts of political capital on Gaza and Ukraine - but not on Sudan. Even now, the slaughter goes on, but where is the response?
www.thenewworld.co.uk
December 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
More than half a million people have been forced from their homes and displaced since the RSF siege in El Fasher began in May
✏️ Paola Totaro
✏️ Paola Totaro
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"[Terezin] was created to prove that the Nazis weren’t in fact cruel, but gracious keepers of their subhuman charges.
MAGA has no such concerns. They practice cruelty expressly to celebrate it, and market it to inspire more cruelty. "
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- Brad DeLong
MAGA has no such concerns. They practice cruelty expressly to celebrate it, and market it to inspire more cruelty. "
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- Brad DeLong
CROSSPOST: STEVE SCHMIDT: Bari Weiss killed CBS News in 76 days
Long story short: a 40-year-old woman named Bari with an Ivy League pedigree, who maintains a constant spotlight on her identity as a Jewish lesbian snuffed out a story about a concentration camp...
braddelong.substack.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"[Terezin] was created to prove that the Nazis weren’t in fact cruel, but gracious keepers of their subhuman charges.
MAGA has no such concerns. They practice cruelty expressly to celebrate it, and market it to inspire more cruelty. "
braddelong.substack.com/p/crosspost-...
- Brad DeLong
MAGA has no such concerns. They practice cruelty expressly to celebrate it, and market it to inspire more cruelty. "
braddelong.substack.com/p/crosspost-...
- Brad DeLong
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New, from me: Time for something fun - I wrote about themes and fashions of the Knives Out Universe (KOU). 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/exploring-...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/exploring-...
Exploring the Knives Out Universe
Are they just entertaining murder mysteries or something more?
donmoynihan.substack.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
New, from me: Time for something fun - I wrote about themes and fashions of the Knives Out Universe (KOU). 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/exploring-...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/exploring-...
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NEW: Alan Dershowitz tells Jeffrey Epstein prosecutor "You are a real mensch:" Newly released emails show that Florida federal prosecutors had "social" meetings with Epstein's lawyers as they worked to mitigate the sex trafficker's sentence. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...
As Epstein’s cushy jail sentence raised concerns, his lawyers went on charm offensive
The Epstein Files show how his attorneys mixed personal and business relationships with prosecutors who had agreed to settle Epstein’s case.
www.miamiherald.com
December 25, 2025 at 11:53 AM
NEW: Alan Dershowitz tells Jeffrey Epstein prosecutor "You are a real mensch:" Newly released emails show that Florida federal prosecutors had "social" meetings with Epstein's lawyers as they worked to mitigate the sex trafficker's sentence. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...
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Doctors interviewed 21 deported mothers. More than half said ICE never asked if they had children before deporting them, leaving babies and young children behind in the U.S.
sanfernandosun.com/2025/12/24/d...
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Deportations Have Caused Growing Crisis of Family Separations - The San Fernando Valley Sun
Last month, a young woman stepped off a plane and set foot in her native Honduras for the first time in at least 15 years. But this wasn’t a happy […]
sanfernandosun.com
December 26, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Doctors interviewed 21 deported mothers. More than half said ICE never asked if they had children before deporting them, leaving babies and young children behind in the U.S.
sanfernandosun.com/2025/12/24/d...
sanfernandosun.com/2025/12/24/d...
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Vance defended the administration’s vile immigration policies in a way that fundamentally degraded his own family: people he is bound by vows—which should be sacred to a Christian—to love and protect.
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Who Is JD Vance? (No, Seriously. Who Is He?)
The vice president is a cynical shapeshifter, willing to say anything—and be anybody—to become the most powerful person in America.
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December 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Vance defended the administration’s vile immigration policies in a way that fundamentally degraded his own family: people he is bound by vows—which should be sacred to a Christian—to love and protect.
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Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
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This is VERY high up on my list of things we need to do better in 2026: Find a way to use the Admin's claim they oppose antisemitism to impose a cost for the antisemitism they routinely push out.
There's literally an EO forbidding federal funding for antisemitism!
There's literally an EO forbidding federal funding for antisemitism!
As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This is VERY high up on my list of things we need to do better in 2026: Find a way to use the Admin's claim they oppose antisemitism to impose a cost for the antisemitism they routinely push out.
There's literally an EO forbidding federal funding for antisemitism!
There's literally an EO forbidding federal funding for antisemitism!
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JUST IN: CBS’s Kennedy Center Honors just hit an all-time ratings low. Preliminary Nielsen data shows only ~2.65M viewers tuned in to the Trump-hosted show, down from 4.1M in 2024. A stunning 35% year-over-year collapse.
December 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
JUST IN: CBS’s Kennedy Center Honors just hit an all-time ratings low. Preliminary Nielsen data shows only ~2.65M viewers tuned in to the Trump-hosted show, down from 4.1M in 2024. A stunning 35% year-over-year collapse.
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"America’s 902 billionaires are collectively worth more than $6.7 trillion, the most wealth ever amassed by the nation’s ultra-rich, according to Forbes."
"Trump’s Cabinet is the wealthiest in US history, with a combined net worth of $7.5 billion."
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"Trump’s Cabinet is the wealthiest in US history, with a combined net worth of $7.5 billion."
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November 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
"America’s 902 billionaires are collectively worth more than $6.7 trillion, the most wealth ever amassed by the nation’s ultra-rich, according to Forbes."
"Trump’s Cabinet is the wealthiest in US history, with a combined net worth of $7.5 billion."
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"Trump’s Cabinet is the wealthiest in US history, with a combined net worth of $7.5 billion."
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How do you just “uncover” over a million Epstein documents out of nowhere like they were misplaced in a desk drawer? You don’t, and when accountability gets slow-walked like this, it usually means the same powerful people involved have enough power to force the DOJ to delay it.
December 25, 2025 at 3:23 AM
How do you just “uncover” over a million Epstein documents out of nowhere like they were misplaced in a desk drawer? You don’t, and when accountability gets slow-walked like this, it usually means the same powerful people involved have enough power to force the DOJ to delay it.
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North Carolina lawmakers have attempted to transfer control or partial control of at least 29 boards, entities or important executive powers in the past decade that had previously been under control of the governor.
By @dougbockclark.bsky.social
By @dougbockclark.bsky.social
Inside the North Carolina GOP’s Decade-Long Push to Seize Power From the State’s Democratic Governors
For almost a decade, North Carolina’s majority-Republican legislature tried six times to strip Democratic governors of control over the board overseeing the swing state’s elections. This year, it fina...
www.propublica.org
December 25, 2025 at 3:00 AM
North Carolina lawmakers have attempted to transfer control or partial control of at least 29 boards, entities or important executive powers in the past decade that had previously been under control of the governor.
By @dougbockclark.bsky.social
By @dougbockclark.bsky.social