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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

How The War Against Iran is Choking Global Energy Supply… - The Decibel - Apple Podcasts The Globe and Mail's Eric Reguly joins the show to talk about the role energy plays in the war in Iran, and how the reverberations are being felt far beyond the Middle East. share.google/Z4XS6JPt4RzX...

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How the war against Iran is choking global energy supply

Podcast Episode · The Decibel · March 4 · 22m

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Reworded from an original musing six years ago, updated to address current events...

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

So... whatever happened to "America First"?

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Chuck Todd explores whether the United States is on the verge of a new reform era — and argues that the signs are more promising than you might think. Starting with a constitutional amendment now circulating in Congress to nullify presidential pardons... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

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Chuck’s Commentary - America Could Enter A “Reform Era” Post-Trump + Top 5 Most Absurd Awards Created To Soothe Trump’s Ego

Podcast Episode · The Chuck ToddCast · 02/18/2026 · 1h 5m

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

From 'The David Frum Show', February 10, 2026, referencing Trump's most recent racist rant... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Mona is joined by the Atlantic’s Peter Wehner to discuss the psychology of MAGA and why defeating them must be the precursor to depolarization. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

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Why Minneapolis Gives Hope (w/ Peter Wehner)

Podcast Episode · The Mona Charen Show · 02/09/2026 · 57m

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

From today's Mona Charen podcast: analysis from Peter Wehner...

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

"The Evangelicals Who See Trump's Viciousness As Virtue": At the National Prayer Breakfast, the president tested his audience’s commitment to Christian ethics... by Peter Wehner www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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The Evangelicals Who See Trump’s Viciousness as a Virtue

At the National Prayer Breakfast, the president tested his audience’s commitment to Christian ethics.

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Radio Atlantic ‘This Has Got to End’ Tim Walz on the “all-out attack on all of state government” By Hanna Rosin www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

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‘This Has Got to End’

Tim Walz on the “all-out attack on all of state government”

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

What the Neocons Got Right - The David Frum Show - Apple Podcasts America’s problems long predate Trump; elections alone cannot fix what has been lost. David is joined by the “New York Times” columnist and Atlantic contributor David Brooks share.google/AFEVfsZSGHzK...

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What the Neocons Got Right

Podcast Episode · The David Frum Show · 01/28/2026 · 1h 4m

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

"Anytime you have two jobs, you are probably not doing either of them very well.”... “It is going to take a lot of [Landry's] time out of state,” Bodine said of the envoy position. “There is no way you can be governor of Louisiana by Zoom.” lailluminator.com/2026/01/18/j...

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Trump’s aggressive use of tariffs and economic coercion could unintentionally push the U.S. and the world toward open conflict, drawing stark parallels to the Smoot-Hawley tariffs and the dangerous bloc-based thinking that preceded World War II. share.google/x0q7LAo60DGO...

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Chuck’s Commentary - Trump Is Risking A WAR With His Tariff Threats + Trump Dumps Senator Bill Cassidy

Podcast Episode · The Chuck ToddCast · 01/19/2026 · 1h 7m

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

As the country hurtles toward the 2026 midterms, Chuck Todd breaks down why winning in this moment may be more about margins than movements—and why messaging is about to get brutally hard... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

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Chuck’s Commentary - The Challenge Of Messaging The 2026 Midterms + Americans Do NOT Approve Of ICE

Podcast Episode · The Chuck ToddCast · 01/14/2026 · 1h 25m

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Trump Has Redefined Presidenti… - The David Frum Show - Apple Podcasts "Nixon was a presidency with a scandal; Trump is a scandal with a presidency." share.google/SGEh2JBvEEH1...

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Trump Has Redefined Presidential Scandal

Podcast Episode · The David Frum Show · 01/14/2026 · 57m

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The late Bob Weir was crucial to shaping the sound of the world’s greatest jam band. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

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The Soul of the Grateful Dead

The late Bob Weir was crucial to shaping the sound of the world’s greatest jam band.

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

www.npr.org/podcasts/510... The Republican Party’s approach to world affairs has shifted from attempting to spread democratic values during the G.W. Bush administration to America First in Pres. Trump’s first term and now to something else entirely. What to make of Trump’s foreign policy agenda?

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The NPR Politics Podcast

Every weekday, NPR's best political reporters are there to explain the big news coming out of Washington and the campaign trail. They don't just tell you what happened. They tell you why it matters. E...

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w... Casey Michel joins us. He’s a journalist and author of the upcoming book ‘United States of Oligarchy’. He recently wrote a piece for Foreign Policy titled “Annexing Greenland would be a Strategic Catastrophe.”

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What if Greenland’s next?

Podcast Episode · Front Burner · 2026-01-12 · 29m

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Originally posted two years ago, and presumably about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, I still stand by this with respect to the so-called "liberation" of Venezuela...

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

At a time when U.S. President Donald Trump is chaotic and vindictive, I am thankful for the calm, confidence, humility and forward-thinking of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. Makes me wish I lived in Canada, rather than the U.S. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

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Year-end interview with Prime Minister Mark Carney (2025) | CBC News Special

Prime Minister Mark Carney sits down for a year-end interview with CBC News chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton, tackling questions about how Canada’s responding to the trade war with the Un...

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The Human Toll of Trump's War on Aid… –Front Burner – Apple Podcasts share.google/RpMq2BxAV1t4...

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The human toll of Trump's war on aid

Podcast Episode · Front Burner · 2025-12-18 · 21m

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

"He's Undocumented. She's Not" A young Chicago couple—one is an undocumented immigrant from Poland, and the other is a U.S. citizen—face a choice: stay in the place they’ve called home—or give up on the place that doesn’t seem to want them anymore. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

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He's Undocumented. She's Not.

Podcast Episode · Radio Atlantic · 12/11/2025 · 39m

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Americans may disagree on many things, but they still distinguish between necessary force and needless killing. They expect their government, even in dangerous work, to understand the difference. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

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When Leaders Mistake Brutality for Strength

Americans may disagree on many things, but they still distinguish between necessary force and needless killing.

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

RE: MTG Resignation - “No matter which way the political pendulum swings, Republican or Democrat, nothing ever gets better for the common American man or woman.” Wow, she's not wrong about that! 😕

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

"The End of the American Empire" - The David Frum Show - Apple Podcasts David is joined by [emeritus professor of history] Margaret MacMillan for a conversation about what a “post-American” world order might look like... share.google/bYBtstKB7cXd...

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The End of the American Empire

Podcast Episode · The David Frum Show · 11/19/2025 · 1h 1m

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

What else do you call a strategy designed to raise prices and lower productivity? www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

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Trump Is a Degrowther

What else do you call a strategy designed to raise prices and lower productivity?

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

If nothing else, at least my zinnias are growing well this summer...

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Quotable quote from Terry Moran, formerly of ABC News, as interviewed on Bulwark+ Takes, June 16, 2025...

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Creole Tomato: why have I never discovered this variety before? These things are beautiful! Rarely have I ever harvested a perfect tomato; but these are it!... 😊

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

In this episode of The David Frum Show, David is joined by the legendary newspaper editor Marty Baron to discuss how today’s media institutions are struggling to stand up to power. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

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Why Are the Media So Afraid of Trump?

Podcast Episode · The David Frum Show · 06/04/2025 · 44m

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

As Trump turns the federal government of the United States against Americans and America itself, the bill of particulars against him is already longer than the Declaration of Independence’s bill of particulars against King George III and the British empire. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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The End of Rule of Law in America

The 47th president seems to wish he were king—and he is willing to destroy what is precious about this country to get what he wants.

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

My first Scarlet Runner blossoms... 😊

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Habemus papam: We have a Father. But I'm not sure how I feel about the new Pope being from the United States. I already hear people gloating, "First American Pope EVER!!" And progressive though Leo XIV may be, I have no doubt President Trump will try to interfere in the affairs of the Church.

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

If I ever fail as a gardener, I can always grow a cat... 😸

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

The “message” is that judges who anger the administration will be prosecuted at Trump’s whim. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Trump Administration to Judges: ‘We Will Find You’

The attorney general’s message to the judiciary is clear.

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Discovered this morning, much to my horror, a packet of Scarlet Runner beans I'd never planted. 😮 (I had forgotten, I ordered two packets; not just one.) This is 2-3 weeks past optimum time to plant beans in this Zone (9a). So I hope they have time to produce before the summer heat sets in!

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I'm sure Katy Perry had no idea she was prophesying about Donald Trump when she wrote this song!... 😕

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

So Sec. of State Marco Rubio said this: "As long as [the markets] know what the rules are going to be moving forward...the markets will adjust." THAT'S THE PROBLEM, MARCO! The markets DON'T KNOW what the rules are going to be because TRUMP KEEPS CHANGING THEM!!

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

"I'm not going to be bullied, because there's no end to the bullying if you agree to be bullied in the first place. If there are consequences to not bending? - fine! It beats selling your soul." Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor-in-Chief of The Atlantic, April 3, 2025

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Louisiana showed the country that we will not be gaslighted; Wisconsin showed the country that they cannot be bought; Sen. Cory Booker showed the country that there is finally a fighter in Congress who will call out the abuses of the Trump Administration. THE RESISTANCE IS RISING!! 💪

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

"So... April 2nd: April 1st is April Fools Day. April 2nd is 'Liberation Day'!; we're going to be liberated from our money." - Molly Jong-Fast, from Fast Politics podcast for 04/01/25

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The argument that actually punishing Le Pen and her cronies for their crimes will only make them stronger in the long run is a little hard to swallow when we have a prominent example of a right-wing authoritarian who was very much not punished for his crimes and is now wrecking everything in sight.

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

"Hello, Wisconsin!" Last Saturday, Louisiana showed the country that we will not be gaslighted. Today, we're counting on you to show the country that you cannot be bought!

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

2 of 2/ Besides that, I would not be a bit surprised to see those same four failed amendments reappear on either the October or November ballot, but in 'slightly reworded' form.

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Bill Seamans @billseamans64.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I honed in on "We do not see this as a failure". 🤔 Gov. Landry has been trying to consolidate power ever since that 'rush, rush, update the State Constitution' thing that fell flat last year. So I'm wondering what end-run around the state Constitution he may try from here. 1 of 2/

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