@peapodscout.bsky.social
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During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.
January 4, 2026 at 2:36 AM
During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.
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NEW: The anonymous "researcher" in Nick Shirley's viral "fraud" video--treated as a concerned citizen on Fox News and elsewhere--is actually a Minnesota state lobbyist and political activist who worked with a GOP House staffer to provide Shirley info/
theintercept.com/2026/01/03/m...
theintercept.com/2026/01/03/m...
Unnamed Source in Viral Minnesota Somali Fraud Video Is Right-Wing Lobbyist Who Called Muslims “Demons”
David Hoch, who goes by his first name in Nick Shirley’s video allegedly exposing Somali fraud, referred to “demon Muslims” on social media.
theintercept.com
January 3, 2026 at 12:19 PM
NEW: The anonymous "researcher" in Nick Shirley's viral "fraud" video--treated as a concerned citizen on Fox News and elsewhere--is actually a Minnesota state lobbyist and political activist who worked with a GOP House staffer to provide Shirley info/
theintercept.com/2026/01/03/m...
theintercept.com/2026/01/03/m...
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With no algorithm here, I'm especially grateful to all who reposted this & also to those of you who pre-ordered (info is in the thread)!
Since I am not Stephen King, unlikely bookstores will stock my academic book in physical form. Can you please ask your public or academic library to order? Thx.
Since I am not Stephen King, unlikely bookstores will stock my academic book in physical form. Can you please ask your public or academic library to order? Thx.
Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/
January 2, 2026 at 7:25 PM
With no algorithm here, I'm especially grateful to all who reposted this & also to those of you who pre-ordered (info is in the thread)!
Since I am not Stephen King, unlikely bookstores will stock my academic book in physical form. Can you please ask your public or academic library to order? Thx.
Since I am not Stephen King, unlikely bookstores will stock my academic book in physical form. Can you please ask your public or academic library to order? Thx.
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Please read this, talk about it and share with everyone you know
It’s right out of the Nazi playbook
It’s right out of the Nazi playbook
Apparently, ICE isn’t doing enough…
So the gang is expanding its ranks, recruiting *private bounty hunters* to track down immigrants at home and at work
So the gang is expanding its ranks, recruiting *private bounty hunters* to track down immigrants at home and at work
ICE Hires Immigrant Bounty Hunters From Private Prison Company GEO Group
BI Incorporated, a subsidiary of for-profit prison company GEO Group, will help ICE pinpoint the locations of immigrants.
theintercept.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Please read this, talk about it and share with everyone you know
It’s right out of the Nazi playbook
It’s right out of the Nazi playbook
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In December 1934 the Nazis passed a law that made it illegal to criticise the Nazi party or political regime, significantly quashing political dissent.
Three months later, the Gestapo arrested the entire leadership of the 'illegal' KPD opposition party in Berlin... buff.ly/C2SgX3Z
Three months later, the Gestapo arrested the entire leadership of the 'illegal' KPD opposition party in Berlin... buff.ly/C2SgX3Z
www.theholocaustexplained.org
December 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
In December 1934 the Nazis passed a law that made it illegal to criticise the Nazi party or political regime, significantly quashing political dissent.
Three months later, the Gestapo arrested the entire leadership of the 'illegal' KPD opposition party in Berlin... buff.ly/C2SgX3Z
Three months later, the Gestapo arrested the entire leadership of the 'illegal' KPD opposition party in Berlin... buff.ly/C2SgX3Z
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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This @peterbakernyt.bsky.social paragraph is a perfect summary of our descent into authoritarianism.
He’s not even editorializing. He’s just reporting what’s happened, and what we’ve become numb to. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
He’s not even editorializing. He’s just reporting what’s happened, and what we’ve become numb to. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
December 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This @peterbakernyt.bsky.social paragraph is a perfect summary of our descent into authoritarianism.
He’s not even editorializing. He’s just reporting what’s happened, and what we’ve become numb to. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
He’s not even editorializing. He’s just reporting what’s happened, and what we’ve become numb to. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
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December 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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We are failing our kids
December 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
We are failing our kids
Please read this thread and the article.
Today, in the Sunday print NYT, we published an investigative look at Harold Hamm, the 13th child of Oklahoma sharecroppers who started an oil company named Continental, which turned him into a billionaire, powerbroker and friend of Donald J. Trump. You may never have heard of Hamm. But you should
December 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Please read this thread and the article.
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Brown U kids who survived USA 389th mass shooting of 2025 will now pay out of pocket for their healthcare, because USA guarantees guns but not health.
Australians who survived the 1st mass shooting in 29 years will pay nothing for healthcare because Australia guarantees health & regulates guns.
Australians who survived the 1st mass shooting in 29 years will pay nothing for healthcare because Australia guarantees health & regulates guns.
December 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Brown U kids who survived USA 389th mass shooting of 2025 will now pay out of pocket for their healthcare, because USA guarantees guns but not health.
Australians who survived the 1st mass shooting in 29 years will pay nothing for healthcare because Australia guarantees health & regulates guns.
Australians who survived the 1st mass shooting in 29 years will pay nothing for healthcare because Australia guarantees health & regulates guns.
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They were working on an mRNA application for glioblastoma when Elon/RFK laid wreck to everything.
[My father died of glioblastoma.]
[My father died of glioblastoma.]
This hit me like a gut punch, because I lost a good friend to glioblastoma. I wish Jason Collins a speedy & full recovery, knowing that Stage 4 Glioblastoma has always been terminal.
Hoping for a cure.
Fuck cancer!
www.nytimes.com/athletic/688...
Hoping for a cure.
Fuck cancer!
www.nytimes.com/athletic/688...
Former NBA player Jason Collins announces he has Stage 4 brain cancer
Collins started experiencing symptoms while trying to pack for a US Open trip.
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:20 PM
They were working on an mRNA application for glioblastoma when Elon/RFK laid wreck to everything.
[My father died of glioblastoma.]
[My father died of glioblastoma.]
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👀https://www.rawstory.com/supreme-court-2674381606/
Trump officials caught boasting about how Supreme Court could tilt midterms for GOP
Top advisors to President Donald Trump were revealed to have privately boasted to GOP donors last weekend about how two impending decisions from the Supreme Court could bolster Republicans’ chances in...
www.rawstory.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
👀https://www.rawstory.com/supreme-court-2674381606/
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Manafort, Giuliani, Gill and now Witkoff all acted as enforcers for Putin’s protection racket.
But if the West accepts bribery disguised as peace, it normalises conquest as a viable investment strategy
pdjukes.substack.com/p/bribery-di...
But if the West accepts bribery disguised as peace, it normalises conquest as a viable investment strategy
pdjukes.substack.com/p/bribery-di...
Bribery Disguised as Peace: From the Mariupol Plan to the Witkoff Deal
Manafort, Giuliani, Gill and now Witkoff all acted as enforcers for Putin’s protection racket. If the West accepts bribery disguised as peace, it normalises conquest as a viable investment strategy
pdjukes.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Manafort, Giuliani, Gill and now Witkoff all acted as enforcers for Putin’s protection racket.
But if the West accepts bribery disguised as peace, it normalises conquest as a viable investment strategy
pdjukes.substack.com/p/bribery-di...
But if the West accepts bribery disguised as peace, it normalises conquest as a viable investment strategy
pdjukes.substack.com/p/bribery-di...
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1. President Trump is directly and publicly intervening in the elections of a foreign nation and has also promised to grant a pardon to former President of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández.
November 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
1. President Trump is directly and publicly intervening in the elections of a foreign nation and has also promised to grant a pardon to former President of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández.
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I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
November 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
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The message being sent over and over again by the Trump regime is that white violence will be systematically rewarded, and non-white existence will be relentlessly punished.
97.5% of the people Trump arrested in Chicago had no criminal record
100% of the people Trump pardoned for Jan 6 had criminal records
The difference is the former are mostly Latino & the latter are mostly white. This is systemic white supremacy in 2025. If you still don’t see it, you’re complicit
100% of the people Trump pardoned for Jan 6 had criminal records
The difference is the former are mostly Latino & the latter are mostly white. This is systemic white supremacy in 2025. If you still don’t see it, you’re complicit
November 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
The message being sent over and over again by the Trump regime is that white violence will be systematically rewarded, and non-white existence will be relentlessly punished.
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What a photograph.
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
November 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
What a photograph.
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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This is important - is Bluesky now also complying?
Gets ever more clear: we need social networks of we the people!
Gets ever more clear: we need social networks of we the people!
‼️ Why did you, @jay.bsky.team @support.bsky.team suspend the account of one of the most outspoken, independent and important critics of the Trump regime - my friend and colleague @sarahkendzior.bsky.social ? By cutting her off, you also endanger her. Reinstall her account NOW!
Please share widely
Please share widely
November 12, 2025 at 8:18 AM
This is important - is Bluesky now also complying?
Gets ever more clear: we need social networks of we the people!
Gets ever more clear: we need social networks of we the people!
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Everything they do
is in the cartoon villain handbook.
Except it’s not cartoons they’re messing with - it’s real human lives.
is in the cartoon villain handbook.
Except it’s not cartoons they’re messing with - it’s real human lives.
Veterans & Jon Stewart fought hard for passage of the bipartisan PACT Act in 2022 ensuring cancer care for vets exposed to toxic burn pits
Now Trump & his VA Secretary are attempting to repeal & restrict that life-saving care and MAGA republicans refuse to protect the PACT Act
Now Trump & his VA Secretary are attempting to repeal & restrict that life-saving care and MAGA republicans refuse to protect the PACT Act
November 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Everything they do
is in the cartoon villain handbook.
Except it’s not cartoons they’re messing with - it’s real human lives.
is in the cartoon villain handbook.
Except it’s not cartoons they’re messing with - it’s real human lives.
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Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
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“We got the promise of a vote” has big “but RFK Jr told me he wouldn’t undermine vaccines” energy.
I can’t even fathom being this ridiculously inept at my job.
It’s utterly embarrassing.
I can’t even fathom being this ridiculously inept at my job.
It’s utterly embarrassing.
November 10, 2025 at 3:08 AM
“We got the promise of a vote” has big “but RFK Jr told me he wouldn’t undermine vaccines” energy.
I can’t even fathom being this ridiculously inept at my job.
It’s utterly embarrassing.
I can’t even fathom being this ridiculously inept at my job.
It’s utterly embarrassing.
👇this
It astonishes me that Schumer and others think Johnson has any intention of fulfilling any “promise” of an ACA conversation. He and the felon want the heat off their backs for something they caused. But @schumer.senate.gov is gullible enough to fall for this. Shocking.
a cartoon character named charlie brown is running in a field
Alt: Schumer is Charlie Brown; Mike Johnson is Lucy.
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
👇this
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Lucy is promising that this time she will definitely hold the football.
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Lucy is promising that this time she will definitely hold the football.