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Cville Gooner

@cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social
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Wordsmith, eater, drinker, thinker who has logged plenty of hours in financial, food/travel, politics, defense, emerging tech sectors. Virginia native. Gooner.

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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Money doesn't talk? C'mon. We're being ruled by an oligarchy not a democracy
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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
These premiums are being shared with you, dear consumer, farmer, commuter #econsky www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Hiring US-to-China Oil Tanker Costs More Than Launching a Space Rocket
For a sign of just how extraordinary oil shipping costs have become, consider this: It’s now more expensive to hire a tanker from the US to China than to launch a rocket into space.
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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Bizarre www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Pentagon says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed
Nidal Hasan, army psychiatrist who killed 13 people, will be executed by firing squad on 3 December
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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Big story. Strong arming allies for AI oligarchs and fascists #natsecsky www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request
Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website
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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Disgusting. #AU #Musk timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/a-t...
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A Texas city will pay at least $175,000 after the SpaceX site it owns pumped 128 million gallons of groundwater above permitted limits over three years; the settlement includes monitoring payments for...
A groundwater dispute involving SpaceX’s sprawling Texas operations has left the city of McGregor facing at least $175,000 in penalties and a 25-year financial commitment after the company pumped 128 ...
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Bunkunin @bunkunin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jewish human rights barrister, 94, arrested for supporting Palestine Action www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10...
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‘I’m rather proud’: Barrister, 94, arrested for supporting Palestine Action
Margaret Owen OBE, a celebrated human rights lawyer and friend of Ed Miliband’s late mother, talks to Al Jazeera.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Mourning NAVALNY😢 @jan-readsalot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just when we think it can’t get worse … it does.
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Sunny Ella @sunnywillow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Zionism is racism. The United Nations voted to declare it as such in 1975, half a century ago. This isn’t new, and this isn’t controversial.
A group marching down a street holding a banner that reads zionism is racism
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 04/10/2026
Plague outbreak in Russia from a lab. We MUST ban all commercial flights to and from Russia NOW
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Excellent point www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Republicans say they hate communists. So why do they like Donald Trump?
Trump supporters may be surprised to learn the state takeover of means of production is not driven by the left
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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Pentagon should be under intense scrutiny given the mess that going on, but the guy at the top seems to think creating diversions and waging a culture war is more important than managing the US military in an efficient and respectable way. #natsecsky greggearly.substack.com/p/the-pentag...
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The Pentagon’s Growing Conundrums
SecDef Hegseth planning on cutting 20% of flag officers...while we’re at war. The Pentagon also has major supply issues rearming munitions across the board.
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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Love it! #AI www.cnet.com/tech/service...
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This Comically Dark PSA Pushes Back Against Big Tech Enshittification - CNET
Cory Doctorow and the Norwegian Consumer Council are behind a hilarious and insightful ad campaign about how everything's getting worse.
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Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hackers issue chilling warning to Donald Trump after stealing data on 'every FBI agent Cybercriminal gang ShinyHunters claim to have obtained the names, home addresses, phone numbers, and dates of birth of FBI agents as well as details about their spouses. www.the-express.com/news/us-news...
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Hackers issue chilling warning to Trump after stealing data on 'every FBI agent'
The hackers made a chilling warning to the Trump administration, threatening they plan to employ 'coercion'
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
States aren't just laboratories of democracy. Some like Montana and Hawaii have become the frontlines for saving our democracy from Citizens United and restoring power to the people. Read this piece from James Baratta in The American Prospect.
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Can the States Stop the Corporate Domination of Our Politics? - The American Prospect
States giveth corporations the right to exist, so the states can taketh away their political spending power—or at least,
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The national average for diesel is currently $6.40 a gallon, and analysts expect it to get worse. This is not sustainable.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Elizabeth Warren, AOC, and other members of Congress have introduced a bill to ban private equity funds from owning or controlling medical practices. This is a big deal. Here’s what you need to know about the shady private equity industry and how it operates.
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This One Thing Is Making Your Life More Expensive | Robert Reich
Private equity is shutting out millions of people from buying their own homes.In 2021, private equity investors bought n
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Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
An American soldier shares a video of himself in uniform, raising the Palestinian flag and saying, “Free Palestine.” He writes: “Don’t let Trump and Netanyahu distract you with Iran. There's still a genocide being committed by Israel in Gaza.” x.com/QudsNen/stat...
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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This an state army using guerilla tactics against a largely destitute civilian population. And this isn't troubling? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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‘Run! Get away!’: witnesses recount Israeli ‘double tap’ strike that killed child and medic in Gaza
When Mohammad Abdul Zinati, 15, rushed to help a man wounded in a bomb attack, he had no time to react before he too was hit
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A data center in New Jersey spilled 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel into a local creek, putting the area’s entire river system at risk. Is it any wonder nearly 70 percent of Americans don’t want a data center in their community?
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My high school calculus teacher came to our event🥹 Thank you Mrs. McDonald!
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Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Online hate researcher keeps hammering X despite deportation threat The US is not backing down from its fight to deport noncitizen technology researchers who monitor safety risks on the biggest online platforms. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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Online hate researcher keeps hammering X despite deportation threat
US won’t back down from fight to deport technology researchers.
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Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
GOP Sen. Kennedy asks Patel for clarity on bestiality comments: 'So you disqualified the animal?' www.ms.now/ms-now/watch...
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GOP Sen. Kennedy asks Patel for clarity on bestiality comments: 'So you disqualified the animal?'
Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) questions FBI Director Kash Patel about the bureau's hiring standards after he told Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) they would not rule out victims of bestiality.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
With 50 days until the midterms, I urge you all to: 1) Help get out the vote. 2) Protect our electoral machinery from interference. 3) Not succumb to complacency, defeatism, or cynicism. We are the only ones who can end this nightmare. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Samuel Alito flew flags used by insurrectionists. Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the Jan 6 plot. Both ruled in favor of Trump's mail-in ballot sabotage. I don't think I'll ever get over this.
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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
And so it begins...#aisky www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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AI models chatting in ‘surreal’ dialect mixing poetic language and tech bro jargon
Experts air concern over AI lingo redolent of James Joyce’s prose that is creating headaches for monitoring and oversight
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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
All oligarchs are the same. It's about time to stop admiring them and admire the people that have to survive under these horrible conditions
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/09/2026
Katie Phang on a Russian oligarch bankrolling Don Jr.’s wedding: “They’re so dumb, we see it happening in real time. But because there’s no consequence or accountability, they just do it in the wide open.”
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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
So, who's a commie lover? apnews.com/article/dona...
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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Winning! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Democracy indicators in US at lowest levels for 50 years, data shows
Trump administration undermining rule of law at home and worldwide, according to intergovernmental report
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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Why are taxpayers paying for this? #AI #MAGAwelfare www.autonocion.com/us/615-megaw...
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A 615-megawatt reactor lost its cooling towers, its transformer and its power lines to a teardown crew, so rebuilding all three to get it on the grid by early 2029 takes up to $1.9 billion in federal ...
Restarting a dead nuclear plant gets pitched as the cheap way to add power to the grid, and you can see why. The reactor's already built. The site's already
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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Here's Palantir CEO Alex Karp Wearing a Keffiyeh in College
More recently, he’s framed the Israel-Hamas War in Gaza as a struggle of good versus evil.
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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Houthis are turning up the volume on all this. Trump/Hegseth are totally outmaneuvered. Idiots
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I hope everyone is paying attention to Yemen. If the Houthis are able to hold Mokha and significantly impede Bab al-Mandab, this gets really, really bad.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I am tired of people saying we can’t win in front of the Supreme Court. I’m annoyed by those who say my firm is too partisan to be effective. Today we won a huge redistricting fight before SCOTUS and a ballot access case before the Nebraska Supreme Court. The lesson: When we fight we win.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Hegseth is using cutting edge tech before it's even tested. Idiot. Now Russians and Chinese have the tech... already
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Trump called for a national boycott of a Canadian company that employs hundreds of Americans at plants in Kansas and Indiana, which pays their bills and feeds their families. Which would put them all out of work if successful. On Labor Day. Because he’s mad at Mark Carney.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
See this chart? Workers’ share of the nation’s income is at the lowest it’s been since records began in 1947. Corporate profits’ share, on the other hand, is the highest it’s been since 1950. This is why we must build back worker power.
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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is thanks to our tech oligarchs and the presidential puppet. F#@k AI
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 03/09/2026
When I spoke out about the conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, my inbox got flooded from service members and their families. The Guard and Reserve were built to be the force that you call up when the nation truly needs it. That is not what’s happening in the war with Iran. (Link below)
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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Wowza
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I’ve known many other defense secretaries, starting with Cap Weinberger, who served as defense secretary under Reagan. I can say without fear of contradiction that Pete Hegseth is the stupidest and least qualified of them all.
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Hegseth Must Go
If Trump won’t fire him, Congress must impeach him
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amyg8907 @amyg8907.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Missouri Supreme Court rules new GOP-drawn map can’t be used for November elections www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
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Missouri Supreme Court rules new GOP-drawn map can’t be used for November elections
The court said a referendum seeking to put the map up for a vote must be placed on the ballot, meaning the state’s elections this fall will take place under its old congressional lines.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
There’s no legitimate purpose for ICE to have this information. There are a ton of nefarious ones, though.
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southpaw-616.bsky.social @southpaw-616.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Hey Mike? Prove that he’s not. Release the Epstein files. All of them.
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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Man, the continued ineptness at the Pentagon is staggering and the have the stones to double the budget under this incompetent leadership? #natsecdef #Pentagon #NATO greggearly.substack.com/p/the-fragme...
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The Fragmentation of US Power
The US global projection of power is being mismanaged and Congress is complicit. That’s changing how global allies and foes are buying, selling, and investing for years to come.
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