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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
SecDef "has focused on obstacles that have blocked military modernizers for six decades — the Pentagon’s addiction to legacy weapons systems and the myriad rules and regulations that make it nearly impossible for the Pentagon to spend money wisely." gift link-- wapo.st/46XZqL5
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Opinion | The good, bad and dangerous in Hegseth’s Pentagon overhaul
The Trump team’s modern-day Jacobins are coming for the officer corps.
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Americans no longer share a single information space: Media fragmentation has created separate realities. And when a government cannot establish shared facts, democratic decision-making becomes harder." gift link-- www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/o...
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Opinion | This Mistake Doomed Biden. Trump Is Falling Into the Same Trap. (Gift Article)
When leaders ignore people’s lived experience, their political messaging collapses.
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"hedge funds are sitting on $2.35 trillion in cash Treasuries, roughly 7% of the entire marketable Treasury market...When the buyer of last resort for government paper is a leveraged hedge fund chasing basis-trade pennies, that’s not exactly a rock-solid foundation for 'risk-free.'" --KingCAMBO
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"If Trump had done literally nothing when he entered office—just played golf each day—we probably would have achieved our 'soft landing' on inflation and not needed additional rate hikes." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-shou...
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Here’s Who Trump Should Blame for the Rate Hike He’s Raging About
He promised lower prices and lower interest rates. His policies delivered renewed inflation and a rate hike.
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
FDR didn't ask for "another 2 years."
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
KingCAMBO:
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
'Pilgrim' was a must-read back in the day. gift link-- www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/b...
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Annie Dillard, Meditative Author of ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,’ Dies at 81 (Gift Article)
Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Deportation Damage: Job Destruction "In [ICE] surge cities, employment fell beneath trend immediately following the surge, the gap widened in the months that followed, and even a year later there were 'no signs of recovery.'" dkotok.substack.com/p/deportatio...
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Deportation Damage: Job Destruction
Mounting data shows that deporting immigrant workers erodes American jobs. TLRwire reports.
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Video: Is Iran Shaping Up to Be a ‘Forever War’?
Our White House and national security correspondent, David Sanger, compares past “forever wars” that President Trump campaigned against with an Iran War that has no clear endgame.
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Ivan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
*OPENAI IN TALKS FOR NEW FUNDING AT $1.2T VALUATION: INFORMATION
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Cartoon Men Burning Money
Cartoon Men Burning Money
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Records flew off shelves..." I can personally attest to that, working that summer in a book/gift shop just down the street from Boston's city hall. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/16/m...
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For years, Boston’s demo tapes were rejected. Then came ‘More Than a Feeling.’ - The Boston Globe
Five decades later, the band’s inaugural record continues to influence rockers. But it almost wasn't made.
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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This anti-Trump brigade delivers its message to motorists from on high - The Boston Globe
They're called the Boston Bridge Brigade and members use a Southeast Expressway overpass as their stage.
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"The president in recent weeks has increasingly expressed a commitment to campaigning in person for vulnerable midterm candidates..." Good. May he campaign hard, real hard. He'll find that it is counterproductive--and not good for his health either. Win-win. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump, Vance open midterm campaign tour as GOP troubles deepen
The president and vice president are trying to rescue Senate candidates in North Carolina and Kansas, states Republicans carried two years ago.
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"Mr. Trump himself continues meddling, despite having displayed a reverse Midas touch in statewide races." gift link-- www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...
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Opinion | Trump Catastrophically Miscalculated in Georgia (Gift Article)
The president incubated the career of one of his greatest critics.
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"The corrupt machinations of the Missouri case reveal that MAGA’s perfidy is limited only by its creativity. And while we keep dodging MAGA’s legal bullets, I fear that it is only a matter of time before one hits." gift link-- www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/o...
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Opinion | The Fix Was Almost In (Gift Article)
The midterms dodge their first MAGA bullet. It won’t be the last.
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"it’s like the Pentagon got bombed all over again." Question: Where is Uncle Jeff going to get his material once the Orange One is gone?
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"I can’t remember who won any of those games, but I’ve never forgotten the time I bought underwear for the manager of the Boston Red Sox." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/06/s...
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Joe Morgan, from Walpole to the Red Sox dugout and back, was both one of us and one of one - The Boston Globe
There's a great symmetry in this wondrous 2026 Red Sox season, tying interim manager Chad Tracy to Morgan, the one-time interim who died Saturday night.
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
“Karma? I don’t want to talk about that. If you win, you’re great. If you lose, you stink. End of story.” www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/06/s...
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Walpole native Joe Morgan, whose 1988 Red Sox club defied the odds, dies at 95 - The Boston Globe
A lifelong resident of Walpole, Morgan got the top job at his hometown club at age 57 after spending most of his career toiling in the minor leagues.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
After SCOTUS’s ruling on Trump’s White House Ballroom, the case to stop his Triumphal Arch appears to hinge on whether plaintiffs have standing. Three plaintiffs are Vietnam vets, who say they regularly visit fallen comrades at Arlington Cemetery & hope to be buried there. … 1/5
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
$10 million is 'small potatoes' given the massive corruption of the Trump era. But David Kotok sees the Hope Florida scandal as a big deal--"a warning to every entrepreneur in America about Florida’s legal system...political extortion risk is possible." dkotok.substack.com/p/hope-flori...
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Hope Florida Scandal Bad for Business
It took a “leaked” grand jury report to reveal this scandal. The damage to Florida business will never be tallied. This scandal rivals the Teapot Dome scandal or Nixon 18½-minute tape scandal, IMO.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 05/09/2026
"Iran has imposed a strategic defeat on America without a single Iranian soldier firing a rifle. Hegseth obsessing over soldiers’ physical fitness in 2026 is like a European general fixating on his troops’ horsemanship in 1940."
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Pete Hegseth 💩 the Bed Again
The secretary of WAR is obsessed with doing pushups in the age of drone warfare. America will pay for his stupidity.
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"Washington is instead weighing whether to declare the war formally over — as if the war were a magazine subscription you can cancel while the house is still on fire." --KingCAMBO
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"in legal terms, the president is an Olympic-class sprinter. He breaks the law so fast that the law is left in his orange dust." gift link-- www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/o...
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Opinion | Not So Supreme, Mr. Roberts (Gift Article)
Courting authoritarianism with a rapacious Trump.
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Deplorable. [is it O.K. to use that word anymore?]
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
For the MAGA-averse, today's post is especially pleasing.
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
gift link-- www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/u...
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Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)
A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If there’s even a small issue with a single ballot-like a woman changed her name upon getting married-the USPS system could disenfranchise 10,000 voters Allegedly, the point of this is to stop cheats. But there haven’t been anywhere near 10,000 cases of fraud in the entire history of mail in voting
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Page One. @wsj.com
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/09/2026
but this is one of my hobby horses. i would fill the four new seats with three jurists from the west and midwest, as well as one justice whose principle experience is in politics (hello barack obama)
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Traveler alert. [from Marketwatch]
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Russian wedges everywhere. gift link-- wapo.st/4i1GxxD
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Meidas Ian @lordye.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A touching piece about the letting go. gift link-- www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/o...
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Opinion | Selling My Grandparents’ Home Is Like Losing Them Again (Gift Article)
A plot of land was the last thing connecting us to my grandparents.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
When major media normalize Trump's seizure of Venezuela's oil, that's not "objectivity.” It's taking a side – the side of international armed robbery. My Stop the Presses newsletter.
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Trump’s armed robbery in Venezuela draws values-free coverage
A “might is right” mentality consumes our government and infects the media
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Moving day is here. So is ‘Storrowing’ in Boston. - The Boston Globe
Over the years, a few of these vehicles don’t reach their destinations. They get Storrowed. Or Soldiers Fielded. Or Memorial Drived.
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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At 91, Dale 'Grey Beard' Sanders reclaims record as oldest hiker to complete the Appalachian Trail
MILLINOCKET, Maine (AP) — More than 14 million older adults fall every year in the U.S., perhaps none so often as 91-year-old Dale Sanders.By his count,
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 31/08/2026
A fuel supplier says $4M in gas vanished from its reserves, unpaid. Some allegedly ended up at "Freedom Fuel" stations Trump pitched as cheap gas amid his Iran conflict spiking oil prices. Sound familiar? I fought against Trump's lies when he turned them against our democracy. (Link in reply)
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"But in this almost-perfect test case, the outcome makes clear that it’s the RINOs who represent the majority of party voters. When small-government conservatives get wiped out in the nation’s most conservative state, the writing is on the wall." gift link-- wapo.st/4gDnnvM
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Opinion | Republicans in America’s reddest state just sent their party a message
A Freedom Caucus wipeout in Wyoming shows who GOP voters want running things.
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"But no matter if you are the strictest fundamentalist from the hills and hollers of East Tennessee or a gay couple living in the most progressive city in the world, you knew — you absolutely knew — that Dolly loved you and wished you well." gift link-- www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/o...
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Opinion | What Dolly Did for Tennessee Is What She Did for the World (Gift Article)
This is what she did for the written word. And medicine. And …
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
"America’s health care crisis is brought to you by monopoly." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/29/o...
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The little-understood roots of the American health care catastrophe - The Boston Globe
We need to understand where it went wrong if we’re going to fix it.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It's disgusting that this unpopular clown is using Dolly Parton's death to ride on her legacy of generosity and popularity. He has to use AI because Dolly Parton was never photographed with Donald Trump in real life. Because he is everything she disliked: selfish, dishonest, mean, and rude.
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"Meta and its peers are guilty, but they are guilty of amplifying a pre-existing cultural drift...A two hour cap is cosmetic if the underlying social fabric is fraying." buttondown.com/amoveablefee...
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Meta’s $18 Billion Apology Tour
What a giant settlement quietly reveals about the future of attention In the last 24 hours, one story has cut through the usual AI and market noise: Meta has...
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
BTW excellent photo of POTUS. Let's all remember him this way.
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Herein Uncle Jeff explains how departed Dolly and demented Donny are polar opposites in character.
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Could he possibly do anything more to scuttle GOP fortunes than doing what he's doing? VOTE BLUE seems the easy choice.
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Frank Bruni: "We can have pockets of space and periods of grace in which we savor a shared pleasure and put our differences and our rancor on pause. [Dolly's] performances were that pause, that space, that grace." gift link-- www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/o...
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Opinion | Even Machiavelli Wouldn’t Like Trump’s America (Gift Article)
We are hated, but not feared.
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Anything to inflate the numbers. h/t NY Times
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"Before a Woke 2 takes over, let the proponents of its predecessor explain how and why they’re moving on." gift link-- www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/o...
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Opinion | A.O.C., I Have a Question (No, Not That One) (Gift Article)
Before a Woke 2 takes over, let the proponents of its predecessor explain how and why they’re moving on.
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Bill Hine @billhine.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"This, ladies and gentlemen, is what passes for an economic D-Day in the year of our Lord 2026: half-measures, flaming tankers, and a legendary investor publicly schoolyarding the kids currently holding the keys to the printing press." kingcambo812.substack.com/p/trading-pl...
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Trading Plan – Tuesday, August 25, 2026
Dispatches From the Last Sane Bastard in This Casino
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