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@claytonabernathy.bsky.social
I am working the issue.
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It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
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Replying to @meetthepress.com
When the domestic terrorist-supporting Mike Rogers repeats CONVICT Trump's lies about El-Sayed, ask him if he supports the domestic terrorist gangs of Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, 3%ers, J6 terrorists, etc...the real threats to America..and when he just bullies to talk over you...turn off his mic
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Re Trump and Elon and all the rest of them, Gramsci said it best: "In this interregnum a great variety of morbid phenomena occur." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-monste...
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Replying to @claytonabernathy.bsky.social
Letter from a Birmingham Jail! Well worth the time to read in full. In case anyone is looking for it; www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen...
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It’s so brazen. Kushner, Witkoff, Trump & Musk What price for the devastation Ukrainian lives, towns, cities at the receiving end of Russia’s illegal war when these pigs at the trough can profit
A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...
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Undoing the Alaska Purchase to own the libs. Or possibly to own some dachas and overseas LLCs, not entirely clear
JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...
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In 2020, Jared Kushner was senior advisor to the president of the United States, a full-time employee of the United States government, and was subject to numerous disclosure requirements and ethical restrictions under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.
Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations—Including More Than $700 Million In Transfers
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Anyone that tells you that we can't afford single payer healthcare is lying to you.
NEW: Another controversy involving taxpayer-funded Trump ads Democratic Natl Committee alerts court that MAGA Inc Super-PAC is paying to air a "no tax on tips" commercial that was produced by White House staff "whose salaries are paid using Congressional appropriations"
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"Reading books is active resistance" is something I tell to my students every day.
AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"
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“Top officials in the State Dept made clear that only candidates who voted for President Donald Trump would be eligible for the mid-to-upper level foreign service roles.” They have effectively blurred the difference between career and appointee roles. Only loyalists rise in a personalist regime.
Not a surprise from this administration, but both unlawful and incredibly destructive of effective governance. www.washingtonsun.com/administrati...
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Tanker Struck By Unknown Projectile Near Iraq — A tanker was hit by an unidentified projectile about 30 nautical miles from Iraq, according to the UK Maritime Trade Operations Centre. The incident adds to security risks for shipping in a region already roiled by conflict. #business…
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Replying to @marisakabas.bsky.social
Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.