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Craig Alexander
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Retired after more than 3 decades at DOJ's Environment & Natural Resources Division, which was a great place to work--home to many of the nation's best lawyers. NO DM, PORN, or SOLICITATION! Looking for news, analysis, and gallows humor, not love or sex.
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Craig Alexander @scraigy.bsky.social · Aug 22
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
Susie Wiles: "Vanity Fair tricked me into saying embarrassing things about the Trump administration. And then I went back to talk with them ten more times."
December 16, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
Cartoon by @anntelnaes.bsky.social.
December 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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mingomonk.bsky.social
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
Arctic warms at more than twice global rate in hottest year on record
Warming and freshening of Arctic waters can weaken ocean circulation systems that influence weather patterns across Europe and North America
www.independent.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
He never disclosed that he’d visited Epstein in that column and did a lot of hand waving to insist that he and his fellow elites had nothing, nothing at all to do with him.
I know a thing or two about the American elite, ahem, and if you've read my work, you may be sick of my assaults on the educated elites for being insular, self-indulgent and smug. But the phrase "the Epstein class" is inaccurate, unfair and irresponsible. Say what you will about our financial, educational, nonprofit and political elites, but they are not mass rapists. But the most important reason the Epstein story tops our national agenda is that the QAnon mentality has taken over America. The QAnon mentality is based on the assumption that the American elite is totally evil and that American institutions are totally corrupt. If there is a pizzeria on Connecticut Avenue in Northwest D.C., it must be because Hillary Clinton is running a child abuse sex ring in the basement.
December 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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zackbeauchamp.bsky.social
In Trump's first year, he has developed a distinctive style of government — authoritarian, but so poorly thought out as to blunt its own effectiveness.

I call it "haphazardism," and it may just be the thing saving
American democracy www.vox.com/politics/472...
Trump’s war on democracy is failing
And it’s his own fault.
www.vox.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
scraigy.bsky.social
I almost never agree with Bret Stephens, but I agree that "We are led by the most loathsome human being ever to occupy the White House."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/opinion/trump-reiner-death-post-truth-social.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9U8.H4b7.dGjEd2mwuwZN&smid=url-share
Opinion | Our Petty, Hollow, Squalid Ogre in Chief
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
scraigy.bsky.social
Damn.
COVID, and the resulting lockdowns in the LA area, temporarily reversed an evolutionary change in the beaks of dark-eyed juncos!
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/s...
How the Pandemic Lockdowns Changed a Songbird’s Beak
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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niedermeyer.online
please take a moment to appreciate Tesla's epic accomplishment of coming dead last in the auto industry in reliability, despite making relatively expensive cars with a tiny fraction of the moving parts

www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...
Consumer Reports reliability ranking by brand, with Lexus, Toyota, and Mazda taking the top three spots, and Ram, Jeep, and Tesla taking the bottom three spots. Tesla's bottom-ranked score of 31 is less than half of Lexus's 77.
December 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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theonion.com
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-regularly-happens-3/
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
December 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
Feverishly working on this
December 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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perilinpink.bsky.social
I was trying to decide what kind of Christmas cookies to make this year, and it definitely felt like a good time to bring back my dumpster fire cookies from 2020 🙃
A dozen sugar cookies with royal icing that look like teal dumpsters with flames coming out of the top. They’re smiling and have “2025” written on them.
December 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
It's actually quite amazing Donald Trump can still astound us with his depravity.
December 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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mmpadellan.bsky.social
OMG 🤣🤣🤣🤣
December 15, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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mariopro.bsky.social
December 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
scraigy.bsky.social
December 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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@knecessary.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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amyklobuchar.com
True Breaking News (Washington Post): VA to cut 35,000 health care jobs across nation like nurses & doctors. VA already strained.

Did our vets refuse to give back medals to melt into gold bars/coin/ballroom sconces for Trump?

Truly the worst vets’ Christmas present ever.
December 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
scraigy.bsky.social
But for the remainder of history, just about everything bad will truly be tRump's Fault! He has earned his spot in the pantheon of evil.
December 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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tommasinaresist.bsky.social
Everyone’s Christmas wishlist this year.
#TrumpInflationCrisis
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
December 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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atrupar.com
I hope people understand that if Trump gets his way America will soon be part of the global axis of evil if we aren't already. You see it in the Caribbean, you see it in Ukraine, and you see it with Trump trying to buddy up to Xi. We are a malevolent force.
December 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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caitesq.bsky.social
Anjali are you familiar with this cartoon
caitesq.bsky.social Cait @caitesq.bsky.social · Oct 31
For Halloween: this Harry Bliss cartoon. (He's not on here, I don't think.)
A cartoon. Two dogs and their people are meeting in the park. One dog resembles Edward Gorey's Doubtful Guest: He is all black, with a long snout, big eyes, a scarf, and Converse sneakers. His person says, "He's a 'gorey doodle.'"
December 10, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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micheleplott.bsky.social
motherwell hitting harder w/this today.
guggenheim.bsky.social Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · Nov 6
Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 110 by Robert Motherwell, 1971

https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137843
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Gift, Agnes Gund, 1984 Robert Motherwell © Dedalus Foundation, Inc./Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
November 6, 2024 at 10:10 PM
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clarajeffery.bsky.social
This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

and these are our closest allies!
Travelers visiting the United States from countries like Britain, France, Germany and South Korea could soon have to undergo a review of up to five years of their social media history, according to a proposal filed on Tuesday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The change would affect visitors eligible for the visa waiver program, which allows people from 42 countries to travel to the United States for up to 90 days without a visa as long as they first obtain electronic travel authorization. In a document filed on Tuesday in the Federal Register, C.B.P. said it plans to ask applicants for a long list of personal data including social media, email addresses from the last decade, and the names, birth dates, places of residence and birthplaces of parents, spouses, siblings and children. Under the current system, applicants from visa waiver countries must enroll in the Electronic System for Travel Authorization program. They pay $40 and submit an email address, home address, phone number and emergency contact information. The authorization is good for two years.
December 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
It's like they are actively trying to kill the tourist industry.
clarajeffery.bsky.social Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 9d
This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

and these are our closest allies!
Travelers visiting the United States from countries like Britain, France, Germany and South Korea could soon have to undergo a review of up to five years of their social media history, according to a proposal filed on Tuesday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The change would affect visitors eligible for the visa waiver program, which allows people from 42 countries to travel to the United States for up to 90 days without a visa as long as they first obtain electronic travel authorization. In a document filed on Tuesday in the Federal Register, C.B.P. said it plans to ask applicants for a long list of personal data including social media, email addresses from the last decade, and the names, birth dates, places of residence and birthplaces of parents, spouses, siblings and children. Under the current system, applicants from visa waiver countries must enroll in the Electronic System for Travel Authorization program. They pay $40 and submit an email address, home address, phone number and emergency contact information. The authorization is good for two years.
December 10, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Once again, the ads in the print edition of @theonion.com are worth the price alone
CBS NEWS News the White House can trust
December 10, 2025 at 12:37 AM