HB on Planet Earth

HB on Planet Earth

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Only the best people … got eliminated

The Intellectualist@theintellectualist.bsky.social

In the first eleven months of 2025, 10,109 doctoral-trained scientists left the federal government. The losses were concentrated in agencies that fund medical research, regulate environmental standards and model climate. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/more-than-...

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Washington is broken for middle-class families. Costs are up and accountability is nonexistent! WE can change that, but we need your help right now. Help us fight for Pinellas and our country. Donate here: leelagray.com #LeelaGrayforCongress

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🧵Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal served with US troops in Afghanistan. He was evacuated to Texas for his safety by the Biden administration in 2021 following the withdrawal negotiated by Trump. He has been seeking asylum since. Trump's ICE detained him. A healthy 41 yo man, he died within a day.

cnn.comAfghan man who served alongside US forces dies after less than a day in ICE custody, family and advocates say | CNN PoliticsAn Afghan man who served alongside US special forces and fled his native country after its takeover by the Taliban died over the weekend shortly after being detained by immigration authorities, accord...

… No stupid rules … just big guns …

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

JUST NOW: “What are our objectives? 🇺🇸 wants to know what they’re sending men & women to war for?” In a trainwreck performance, smug Sec of War Hegseth: -fails to clarify objectives/give a timeline -calls rules of engagement “stupid” -says 4 🇺🇸 troops killed by a “squirter”

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ICE’s funding windfall is paying for massive contracts with private prison companies, as well as new government-owned warehouses and transport planes — all with little oversight of detention conditions. bit.ly/4qWSVQ4

brennancenter.orgHow ICE’s Budget Boom Is Changing Immigration DetentionLast year’s multibillion-dollar funding package has allowed the government to put more immigrants behind bars, often in worse conditions and with little oversight.

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Republicans have failed while controlling all three branches of federal government. Their current failure to impeach and remove a President who starts illegal wars for his own personal amusement, is a clear and present danger to America. Republicans need to answer for why they refuse to impeach him.

They’re just clearing the land for development … thanks maga, great job … you’ve really made things better … for the trump family …

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social

1. According to multiple reports both Saudi Arabia and the UAE lobbied Trump to attack Iran. Both countries have increased their influence with Trump by investing billions in projects that personally enrich Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

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Those three downed jets run around $90 million each. It cost $20 million a year to operate the food kitchens serving 816,000 people in Sudan.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - US military says Kuwait 'mistakenly shot down' 3 American F-15E Strike Eagles aircraft during combat. @apnews.com

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ICE just bought a massive warehouse in Social Circle, Georgia for $128.6 million. Call it what it is: an internment camp expansion happening in town across the country. 1/2

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Replying to @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social

Bad Framing. Yep. That's the best excuse as to why we won't see: Mfg jobs returning Trade balances improving Debt lowering Doge checks coming Tariff refunds coming -- It's just the framing of the question, right?

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Here’s an ugly truth. When a President sends men and women to war, they have decided to spend American lives to buy things; to buy objectives, outcomes, results. This president will be willing to trade the currency of human life…for something as worthless as his ego. We will see that soon.

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A tariff “refund” mostly goes to whoever wrote the tariff check: the importer of record. That’s not the same person who paid more at the register. So refunds -- if they're offered -- might sound like consumer relief, but in reality, they're corporate windfalls.

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Uncle Jeffy Tiedrich says today in his newsletter: "Here’s one sure way you can tell you’re living in a shithole country: when the following two headlines appear one after another."

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"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending. . . there have been no convictions. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.comDoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in courtString of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’

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Replying to @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

I’ve also noticed they’ve stopped using the word Freedom. Seems to have shifted from freedom to nationalism.

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The New York Times just launched a new "newsletter about the law and the courts." They are calling it "The Docket." The Times may not care that Democracy Docket has been publishing "On the Docket" and "Daily Docket" for years, but I believe our 400,000 subscribers might. More on this tomorrow.

“Just submit” say the ‘Powers That Be’ … “Just lay back and enjoy it”

Savchenko Volodymyr@savchenkoua.bsky.social

🇺🇸🇺🇦 Politico: According to two EU officials and senior US official, peace talks process is being slowed down by Russia's insistence on territories that Ukraine is not ready to give up. Trump is using the agreement as lever of pressure on Zelensky and wants all the details to be fixed before signing.

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Abolishing gender studies is to comply w/ 47's EO titled Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism & Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government. That document makes “the biological reality of sex” a matter not of science but of law. Read about how the Epstein files are connected...

theguardian.comGender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach ScottTexas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why