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Rim Brake Monkey @rimbrakemonkey.bsky.social · Mar 27
Time to re-up this.
Picture of an enormous supertanker stuck in the Suez Canal with the words "THE CRUSHING DESPAIR OF EVERYTHING FROM THE LAST YEAR" superimposed on it, and a man in an excavator digging around the base of the ship with the words "YOU, DOING YOUR BEST" superimposed.
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onestpress.onestnetwork.com
THIS!!!!!!

(Former FM of Lithuania)
Gabrielius Landsbergis = @ @GLa...•2h X There is a glaringly obvious message for Europe in 1 the 28 point plan: This is the end of the end. We have been told repeatedly and unambiguously that Ukraine's security, and therefore Europe's security, will be Europe's responsibility. And now it is. Entirely. If you are a European leader asking your team to book you on the next flight to Washington to go talk to Daddy, please don't. Not without a plan, not cap in hand, not humiliating us all in front of the cameras at the Oval office. Europe is our continent, our future is decided here, not there. We aren't poor, we have options, we can finally decide to assist Ukraine to the full extent of our very extensive capabilities, restore European dignity and defend Europe. Or we can continue to wait for the miracle we now know is not coming.
November 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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reuters.com
Germany to classify date rape drugs as weapons in trials reut.rs/4rfi22a
Germany to classify date rape drugs as weapons in trials
Germany plans to treat the use of date rape drugs like the use of a weapon in prosecutions, as part of broader measures to ensure justice for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, said Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt on Friday.
reut.rs
November 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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ericrlarson.bsky.social
A little farther from Chicago, but The Nature Conservancy also has bison herds on restored prairies at both Nachusa Grasslands in Illinois (www.nature.org/en-us/get-in...) and Kankakee Sands on the Indiana border (www.nature.org/en-us/get-in...). Both are ~1.5 to 2 hour drives from the loop.
Visit Nachusa Grasslands
Consisting of 4,000 acres of restored, remnant prairie, Nachusa Grasslands is home to 180 species of birds, more than 700 native plant species and a herd of bison.
www.nature.org
November 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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maxkozlov.bsky.social
About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in.

Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A glorious selfie with the official MAHA lanyard seconds after I made it past Secret Service screening.
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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rickperlstein.bsky.social
George W. Bush's CIA did this with torture videos.

www.404media.co/two-weeks-of...
Two Weeks of Surveillance Footage From ICE Detention Center ‘Irretrievably Destroyed’
"Defendants have indicated that some video between October 19, 2025 and October 31, 2025 has been irretrievably destroyed and therefore cannot be produced on an expedited basis or at all."
www.404media.co
November 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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phillipspobrien.bsky.social
Here is Trump's full 28 point plan for Ukraine. It would destroy Ukraine as a sovereign state and leave it helpless to face a Russian attack in the future. It would also give Putin full vindication and immunity from prosecution.
www.axios.com/2025/11/20/t...
Trump's full 28-point Ukraine-Russia peace plan
The full plan was obtained by Axios and verified by Ukrainian and U.S. officials.
www.axios.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com
FYI www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
Just a normal day in Texas, where psychotic delusions pass for normal conduct. Two Texas men from Argyle, plotted to invade an island off Haiti, kill all the men and turn the women and children into their sex slaves. The two were charged while trying to organize a mercenary force.
2 North Texas men indicted in alleged plot to invade Haitian island, kill all men, enslave women and children
Two North Texas men are facing charges after allegedly plotting to invade an island off Haiti, kill all the men and turn the women and children into their sex slaves, according to the U.S. Attorney's ...
www.cbsnews.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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laylaayanna.bsky.social
So basically, the U.S. no longer collecting race and ethnicity data is a major blow to medical advancement and directly harms Black American kidney failure patients. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-m...
The Trump Admin’s War on Data Is Compromising Major Health Advancements for Black Americans
Thanks to a 2009 medical breakthrough, researchers could be on the precipice...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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janemayer.bsky.social
Has hell frozen over in Washington? Read my great colleague Susan Glasser’s account of the unthinkable social tableau at Dick Cheney’s Long, Strange Goodbye
November 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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lawgunsmoney.bsky.social
Epstein’s financial collaborators
Epstein's financial collaborators - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Ron Wyden is asking good questions: The top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee issued a report on Thursday calling for an investigation into whether JPMorgan Chase deliberately underreported more than $1 billion in suspicious transactions by Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender. The report from the senator, Ron Wyden of Oregon, said the […]
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
George Washington's 1790 letter to the Jewish congregation in Newport, RI would like a word, Mike Pence.
founders.archives.gov/documents/Wa...
The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for having given to mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens, in giving it on all occasions their effectual support. It would be inconsistent with the frankness of my character not to avow that I am pleased with your favorable opinion of my Administration, and fervent wishes for my felicity. May the Children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and figtree, and there shall be none to make him afraid. May the father of all mercies scatter light and not darkness in our paths, and make us all in our several vocations useful here, and in his own due time and way everlastingly happy. Go: Washington
November 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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jasonleopold.bsky.social
NEW/EXCLUSIVE: A French branch of HSBC closed a bank account maintained by Jeffrey Epstein in 2007 after compliance officers flagged transactions for suspicious activity, including payments tied to a modeling agent later accused of rape & sex trafficking
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www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
The letter says We hereby inform you that we do not intent to maintain our relationship and notify you this day, subject to a one-month notification period, the end of our banking contract for your account in existence since December 22", 2006. that is with effect on January 21", 2008. Consequently, after this period is over, you should retumn all unused checks still in your possession and provide us with your new banking references, in order to enable us to wire the amount remaining on your account upon closing date. If not provided, we will issue a certified check for said amount, Furthermore, we would like to have communication of the list of drawn checks which may still be presented for payment on your account, so as to keep sufficient and useful amount in order to avoid your account to become in debit. Failing that, your checks will be rejected. The end of our banking contract occurring at HSBC's request, no charge will be invoiced for the closing down of your account. The letter says We hereby inform you that we do not intent to maintain our relationship and notify you this day, subject to a one-month notification period, the end of our banking contract for your account in existence since December 22", 2006. that is with effect on January 21", 2008. Consequently, after this period is over, you should retumn all unused checks still in your possession and provide us with your new banking references, in order to enable us to wire the amount remaining on your account upon closing date. If not provided, we will issue a certified check for said amount, Furthermore, we would like to have communication of the list of drawn checks which may still be presented for payment on your account, so as to keep sufficient and useful amount in order to avoid your account to become in debit. Failing that, your checks will be rejected. The end of our banking contract occurring at HSBC's request, no charge will be invoiced for the closing down of your account.
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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cpsc.gov
Notice how adding water is bad.

Follow the instructions that come with your turkey fryer. Use your turkey fryer away from your home. Have a working fire extinguisher.
November 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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kairyssdal.bsky.social
It’s always a good idea to read what Josh writes.

www.downtownjoshbrown.com/p/the-cure-f...
The cure for FOMO is...time.
"Stick around and watch" is almost always good advice.
www.downtownjoshbrown.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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dhnexon.bsky.social
This is just as true as before the “official release.” Ukraine won’t accept this. The European powers are already a big nope. The amount of coercion that the Trump admin would need to get this through? Even trying for a prolonged period would do real damage to U.S. national interests.
dhnexon.bsky.social Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social · Nov 19
More on my #hottake on the “Ukraine plan” — it rests on a paradox: to make it happen, the U.S. needs to further sabotage its credibility, but it needs that credibility to make the plan viable!

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/visu
“The only way Ukraine and our European allies agree to this arrangement is if the U.S. basically says ‘we will make it impossible for Ukraine to defend itself against Russia.’ From a pure power-politics position, this would be an extremely bad move. It would mean the de facto end of credible American security guarantees in Europe. Which is why the plan rests on a fundamental paradox. The United States needs that very same credibility, first, to sell Ukraine and Europe on the plan and, second, to prevent future Russian aggression Ukraine.”
November 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
WHOA. The FBI was/is spying on a Signal chat for a New York immigration court watch group, claiming they were “anarchist violent extremist actors.”

Your reminder that the government is watching and don’t say anything in a big group chat you wouldn’t say on TV.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
I have now seen a series of anchors on CNN and Fox insist that "no one is alleging that Trump had any involvement" in Epstein's business. That is a simple lie. And indeed it shows that none of them actually watched the victims' press conference yesterday, where his involvement was focal.
November 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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brandibuchman.bsky.social
www.huffpost.com/entry/usda-s...
Trump Admin Signals Mysterious ‘Structural Changes’ To SNAP Food Benefits
USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins' talk about making SNAP recipients reapply for benefits has program stakeholders scratching their heads.
www.huffpost.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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nicolelafond.bsky.social
And it seems like at least one layer of Trump’s attempted public bamboozlement on the matter might allow him to release only part of the DOJ’s tranche of Epstein material.

More here:
The Latest Way Trump May Seek to Avoid Releasing All the Epstein Files
This is your TPM evening briefing.
wherethingsstand.talkingpointsmemo.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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ryanjreilly.com
The Comey case ‘is dead,’ fmr. Trump WH lawyer says after legal misstep

www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...
The Comey case ‘is dead,’ fmr. Trump WH lawyer says after legal misstep
Former Trump White House attorney Ty Cobb and NBC News Legal Affairs Reporter Gary Grumbach join Meet the Press NOW to explain the government’s misstep in the case against former FBI Director James Co...
www.nbcnews.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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joshtpm.bsky.social
This Schedule F charade is a textbook example of the corruption of Roberts Court, which will likely endorse it. The entire argument rests on a tacit agreement to pretend that the plain meaning of words, as the legislators understood them, don’t exist. Pure corruption. www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
Final Schedule F regulations to describe civil service protections as ‘unconstitutional overcorrections’
OPM officials told agency HR leaders Tuesday that President Trump has Article II constitutional authority to remove tens of thousands of career federal workers in jobs over potential “resistance to po...
www.govexec.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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lkrozen.bsky.social
New: ‘Glimmers of lame-duckism’:
Republicans are starting to push back on Trump as his popularity falls to all-time low.

open.substack.com/pub/diplomat...
‘Glimmers of Lame-Duckism’
Republicans are starting to push back on Trump as his popularity falls to all-time low. “The fear of Trump was paramount on Capitol Hill for Republicans. Now, they’re starting to fear voters.”
open.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
🇺🇸
November 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
rimbrakemonkey.bsky.social
This is some bullshit.

www.pressconnects.com/story/news/p...
Binghamton mayor denounces naturalization ceremony cancellation, calls for rescheduling
The Trump administration set off an uproar by cancelling naturalization ceremonies in several New York counties, including Broome.
www.pressconnects.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM