Sandynightsky
@sandynightsky.bsky.social
Bookseller, Oregon, former desert dweller
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The Krugman blog today on affordability gets at exactly what I think is happening, and what's missed in the vibecession debates
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November 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The Krugman blog today on affordability gets at exactly what I think is happening, and what's missed in the vibecession debates
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/affordabil...
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/affordabil...
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Number of states where average gas prices are below $2:
Zero.
Number of states where average gas prices are anywhere NEAR $2:
Zero.
Zero.
Number of states where average gas prices are anywhere NEAR $2:
Zero.
HASSETT: Gas prices dropped below $2 a gallon in a lot of places
CORDES: Gas prices on average are still at $3 a galloon
HASSETT: For a few states they got below $2
CORDES: Gas prices on average are still at $3 a galloon
HASSETT: For a few states they got below $2
November 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Number of states where average gas prices are below $2:
Zero.
Number of states where average gas prices are anywhere NEAR $2:
Zero.
Zero.
Number of states where average gas prices are anywhere NEAR $2:
Zero.
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Trump allowed 17 members of the Sinaloa cartel into the US.
In May he commuted the 6x life sentences of the leader of the Gangster Disciples, most notorious drug trafficking & murderous street gang in the US.
Now Honduran drug trafficker Hernandez.
Is Trump setting up his own drug corridor?
In May he commuted the 6x life sentences of the leader of the Gangster Disciples, most notorious drug trafficking & murderous street gang in the US.
Now Honduran drug trafficker Hernandez.
Is Trump setting up his own drug corridor?
November 30, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Trump allowed 17 members of the Sinaloa cartel into the US.
In May he commuted the 6x life sentences of the leader of the Gangster Disciples, most notorious drug trafficking & murderous street gang in the US.
Now Honduran drug trafficker Hernandez.
Is Trump setting up his own drug corridor?
In May he commuted the 6x life sentences of the leader of the Gangster Disciples, most notorious drug trafficking & murderous street gang in the US.
Now Honduran drug trafficker Hernandez.
Is Trump setting up his own drug corridor?
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🧵This 58-year-old nurse from Maryland is seen being violently dragged along the ground by officials in Ghana.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Woman deported from Maryland shown on video being dragged in Ghana
Rabbiatu Kuyateh was detained this summer at her annual ICE check-in, her son said. She moved to the D.C. area 30 years ago as she fled civil war in Sierra Leone.
www.nbcnews.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:30 AM
🧵This 58-year-old nurse from Maryland is seen being violently dragged along the ground by officials in Ghana.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
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They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
November 30, 2025 at 6:43 AM
They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
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Oh my god the absolute depravity of this.
🧵This 58-year-old nurse from Maryland is seen being violently dragged along the ground by officials in Ghana.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Woman deported from Maryland shown on video being dragged in Ghana
Rabbiatu Kuyateh was detained this summer at her annual ICE check-in, her son said. She moved to the D.C. area 30 years ago as she fled civil war in Sierra Leone.
www.nbcnews.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Oh my god the absolute depravity of this.
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This is the correct name now..
November 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
This is the correct name now..
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www.cnn.com/2025/11/29/p...
“I think we just gotta quit electing knuckleheads. We have a very high knucklehead percentage compared to non-knuckleheads up here,” Rep. Tim Burchett said when asked about recent rise in tensions on the floor. “By and large, we just need to start electing better people.”
“I think we just gotta quit electing knuckleheads. We have a very high knucklehead percentage compared to non-knuckleheads up here,” Rep. Tim Burchett said when asked about recent rise in tensions on the floor. “By and large, we just need to start electing better people.”
‘What’s going on with this place?’: GOP faces a House in chaos | CNN Politics
House Speaker Mike Johnson already had one of the toughest jobs in Washington: controlling an unruly GOP conference, with its razor-thin majority on the line next November.
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November 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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“I think we just gotta quit electing knuckleheads. We have a very high knucklehead percentage compared to non-knuckleheads up here,” Rep. Tim Burchett said when asked about recent rise in tensions on the floor. “By and large, we just need to start electing better people.”
“I think we just gotta quit electing knuckleheads. We have a very high knucklehead percentage compared to non-knuckleheads up here,” Rep. Tim Burchett said when asked about recent rise in tensions on the floor. “By and large, we just need to start electing better people.”
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Rabbiatu is a nurse who worked during COVID, had been in the U.S. 30 years. A judge ordered that she could not be sent back to Sierra Leone for her safety, for fear of torture (!). So our evil regime sent her to Ghana (in shackles), and Ghana dragged her back to Sierra Leone.
🧵This 58-year-old nurse from Maryland is seen being violently dragged along the ground by officials in Ghana.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Woman deported from Maryland shown on video being dragged in Ghana
Rabbiatu Kuyateh was detained this summer at her annual ICE check-in, her son said. She moved to the D.C. area 30 years ago as she fled civil war in Sierra Leone.
www.nbcnews.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Rabbiatu is a nurse who worked during COVID, had been in the U.S. 30 years. A judge ordered that she could not be sent back to Sierra Leone for her safety, for fear of torture (!). So our evil regime sent her to Ghana (in shackles), and Ghana dragged her back to Sierra Leone.
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PBS: “A poll from the journal "Nature" found 75% of researchers are considering leaving 🇺🇸— including a man dubbed the Mozart of Math… a scientific brain drain.”
The Trump Effect. The opposite of Making America Great Again. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
The Trump Effect. The opposite of Making America Great Again. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
November 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
PBS: “A poll from the journal "Nature" found 75% of researchers are considering leaving 🇺🇸— including a man dubbed the Mozart of Math… a scientific brain drain.”
The Trump Effect. The opposite of Making America Great Again. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
The Trump Effect. The opposite of Making America Great Again. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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$1.6bln: The amount of his fraud scheme
7: Years of his sentence
10,000: Victims of his fraud
1,000: Letters from victims to the court
13: Days he served
1: Pardon from Trump
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
7: Years of his sentence
10,000: Victims of his fraud
1,000: Letters from victims to the court
13: Days he served
1: Pardon from Trump
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
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November 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
$1.6bln: The amount of his fraud scheme
7: Years of his sentence
10,000: Victims of his fraud
1,000: Letters from victims to the court
13: Days he served
1: Pardon from Trump
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
7: Years of his sentence
10,000: Victims of his fraud
1,000: Letters from victims to the court
13: Days he served
1: Pardon from Trump
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.
ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms
Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.
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November 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.
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When you have fired the military’s top lawyers, that means you are getting ready to order the military to do unlawful things
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Explainer: JAG Firings Spark Concerns About US Military Legal Oversight
In a significant shake-up at the Pentagon last week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired the top military lawyers for the Army, Navy and Air Force. This decision comes amid a broader series of dismis...
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November 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
When you have fired the military’s top lawyers, that means you are getting ready to order the military to do unlawful things
www.jurist.org/features/202...
www.jurist.org/features/202...
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Will be on @velshimsnow.bsky.social shortly to talk about Border Patrol (1) framing peaceful protesters for violence, (2) brutally assaulting them, then (3) getting caught by courts thanks to bodycam footage that tells the whole sordid story. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Trump’s Border Chief Framed Protesters for Violence. Then the Bodycam Footage Came Out.
The Trump administration faced back-to-back rebukes in a pair of cases that challenged the president’s efforts to intimidate or terrorize deep-blue cities.
slate.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Will be on @velshimsnow.bsky.social shortly to talk about Border Patrol (1) framing peaceful protesters for violence, (2) brutally assaulting them, then (3) getting caught by courts thanks to bodycam footage that tells the whole sordid story. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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The reason the top 10% of income earners pay more than half of all tax revenue is NOT because they are taxed more than ever.
Their tax rate has been cut FIVE times in the last 25 years.
They are paying more because their INCOME has increased astronomically, where the income of the bottom half has
Their tax rate has been cut FIVE times in the last 25 years.
They are paying more because their INCOME has increased astronomically, where the income of the bottom half has
November 29, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The reason the top 10% of income earners pay more than half of all tax revenue is NOT because they are taxed more than ever.
Their tax rate has been cut FIVE times in the last 25 years.
They are paying more because their INCOME has increased astronomically, where the income of the bottom half has
Their tax rate has been cut FIVE times in the last 25 years.
They are paying more because their INCOME has increased astronomically, where the income of the bottom half has
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“One of those working most closely with Epstein, up to and including attempting to scrub his public image, was Bannon…Bannon, the man millions of MAGA fans trust to tell it like it is, stands revealed as one of the most cynical liars ever to mar this country.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/steve-bann...
www.thebulwark.com/p/steve-bann...
Steve Bannon Was Epstein’s Comeback Consultant. Where’s the Uproar?
The MAGA architect is escaping opprobrium for his chummy relationship with the notorious pedophile.
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November 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
“One of those working most closely with Epstein, up to and including attempting to scrub his public image, was Bannon…Bannon, the man millions of MAGA fans trust to tell it like it is, stands revealed as one of the most cynical liars ever to mar this country.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/steve-bann...
www.thebulwark.com/p/steve-bann...
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Like the Special Counsel’s case, this case was dismissed because Trump is the President, not the facts of the case.
Accountability shouldn’t depend on politics or timing. Americans deserve a justice system that does not bend to a President who tried to overturn a free and fair election.
Accountability shouldn’t depend on politics or timing. Americans deserve a justice system that does not bend to a President who tried to overturn a free and fair election.
Georgia judge dismisses the last pending criminal prosecution against Trump, effectively ending efforts to hold him criminally responsible for attempts to overturn the 2020 election that he lost. @richardfausset.bsky.social @dannyhakim.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Judge Dismisses Georgia Election Interference Case Against Trump
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November 29, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Like the Special Counsel’s case, this case was dismissed because Trump is the President, not the facts of the case.
Accountability shouldn’t depend on politics or timing. Americans deserve a justice system that does not bend to a President who tried to overturn a free and fair election.
Accountability shouldn’t depend on politics or timing. Americans deserve a justice system that does not bend to a President who tried to overturn a free and fair election.
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So the administration's position is:
- that he was radicalized only after arriving in the US and
- that the vetting process (which was all Biden's responsibility) was a failure?
I know we shouldn't expect consistency, but come on.
- that he was radicalized only after arriving in the US and
- that the vetting process (which was all Biden's responsibility) was a failure?
I know we shouldn't expect consistency, but come on.
National Guard shooting suspect radicalized in US, homeland secretary says reut.rs/49O8CV8
National Guard shooting suspect radicalized in US, homeland secretary says
U.S. authorities believe the Afghan immigrant accused of ambushing National Guard members in Washington, D.C., was not radicalized until after he came to the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on Sunday.
reut.rs
November 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
So the administration's position is:
- that he was radicalized only after arriving in the US and
- that the vetting process (which was all Biden's responsibility) was a failure?
I know we shouldn't expect consistency, but come on.
- that he was radicalized only after arriving in the US and
- that the vetting process (which was all Biden's responsibility) was a failure?
I know we shouldn't expect consistency, but come on.
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“Is this shit legal?”
How ICE is disappearing people and holding them in a “black hole” where nobody knows where they are, even as they’re hospitalized
How ICE is disappearing people and holding them in a “black hole” where nobody knows where they are, even as they’re hospitalized
November 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
“Is this shit legal?”
How ICE is disappearing people and holding them in a “black hole” where nobody knows where they are, even as they’re hospitalized
How ICE is disappearing people and holding them in a “black hole” where nobody knows where they are, even as they’re hospitalized
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WELKER: Did you defy the court's order Madam Secretary?
KRISTI NOEM: No. That's one of the things we continue to face in this country -- activist judges who are using radical decisions that have no standing and no grounds
KRISTI NOEM: No. That's one of the things we continue to face in this country -- activist judges who are using radical decisions that have no standing and no grounds
November 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
WELKER: Did you defy the court's order Madam Secretary?
KRISTI NOEM: No. That's one of the things we continue to face in this country -- activist judges who are using radical decisions that have no standing and no grounds
KRISTI NOEM: No. That's one of the things we continue to face in this country -- activist judges who are using radical decisions that have no standing and no grounds
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WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.
November 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM
WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.
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