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ejholstein.bsky.social

@ejholstein.bsky.social
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UW, retired and former US State Dept FSO. Malinois lover who enjoys x-c skiing with my canine pal in the PNW.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Me and 1,200 of my friends in St. Clair County. This movement will win on November 3rd.
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ejholstein.bsky.social @ejholstein.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Excellent summary of the entire ME mess brought to you by the most incompetent Defense Secretary in American history
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ejholstein.bsky.social @ejholstein.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Everyone needs to follow Marcy Wheeler
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ejholstein.bsky.social @ejholstein.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
@emptywheel.bsky.social op k
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ejholstein.bsky.social @ejholstein.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
America, summarized in one hideous photo
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ejholstein.bsky.social @ejholstein.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Great news
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ejholstein.bsky.social @ejholstein.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Good news — congratulations
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ejholstein.bsky.social @ejholstein.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Fantastic
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ejholstein.bsky.social @ejholstein.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
These ‘men’ hate women. Every day it becomes more obvious
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ejholstein.bsky.social @ejholstein.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
www.thebulwark.com/p/no-venezue...
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No, Venezuela Is Not a ‘Small Latin American Country’
And talk of a quick invasion and easy ‘regime change’ is dangerously misleading.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
This is very good
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ejholstein.bsky.social @ejholstein.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Ohio needs to do better. Despicable.
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narceducator.bsky.social @narceducator.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
People seem surprised that the narcissistic psychopath, who creates his own reality with lies, fabrications, magical thinking, and grandiose delusions, has trouble discerning between fact and fiction, objective reality versus AI-generated conspiracy and propaganda.
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ejholstein.bsky.social @ejholstein.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Another decent man forced out of job he was committed to. The sickness of this regime is a metastasizing cancer.
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ejholstein.bsky.social @ejholstein.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
This enrages me. Now we’re going to round up Iranian Christians in LA? Iranian Jews next? When will people rise up against this insanity?
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ejholstein.bsky.social @ejholstein.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
This clip needs to be shared far and wide. Seniors in wheel chairs being zip tied for protesting cuts to medicaid.
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ejholstein.bsky.social @ejholstein.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I love this young man.
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ejholstein.bsky.social @ejholstein.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
American Gestapo in action
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ejholstein.bsky.social @ejholstein.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The horror being inflicted on foreign scholars is a crime. People need to wake up. You are next.
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ejholstein.bsky.social @ejholstein.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
A tiny victory in a sea of evil
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ejholstein.bsky.social @ejholstein.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Can anyone explain why 17 members of El Chapo’s family were permitted to enter the US a few days ago? Journalists? Former/current DEA employees? Immigration officials?
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ejholstein.bsky.social @ejholstein.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Another enraging arrest and detention of an academic with a valid visa. (Maybe DT wants to trade her for a friend/fellow criminal being held in Russia?). Harvard: where’s a statement re your researcher’s detention?
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ejholstein.bsky.social @ejholstein.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Read everything Masha Gessen has written.
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ejholstein.bsky.social @ejholstein.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Absolute insanity re Harvard in a letter from the ‘Secretary of Education’ today. This administration is embarrassing in its incompetence.
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ejholstein.bsky.social @ejholstein.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Another outrage committed by our regime
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Fire and brimstone from the fourth circuit 🔥
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
This is what they're doing to Dr. Badar Khan Suri. This is not my America, and the world is aghast.
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ejholstein.bsky.social @ejholstein.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Unbelievable. The level of incompetence is staggering.
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ejholstein.bsky.social @ejholstein.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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Frank Bajak @fbajak.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Now, just like folks in Russia and China, Venezuela, Iran, Belarus and North Korea, these Americans are being forced to use VPNs, the Tor browser and other means to view independent news.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Everyone knows what happened here. Trump can only exist around people he can causally humiliate. Guys lie JD and Rubio. He wanted to do a ritual humiliation of Zelensky and Ukraine but Zelensky wouldn’t accept that and so Trump reacted like a stung bitch.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
No way, we are just magically buying Elon’s products? I’m shocked to discover this is about Elon making money.
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Wait. It gets worse: "The new document states that the revenues will be directed to a fund in which the United States holds 100 percent financial interest, and that Ukraine should contribute to the fund until it reaches $500 billion....The US has allocated $119 billion for aid to Ukraine."
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ejholstein.bsky.social @ejholstein.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Extortion on a massive scale. I despise the monsters responsible for this evil.
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ejholstein.bsky.social @ejholstein.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
This is who is running our got now. Happy Maga???
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ejholstein.bsky.social @ejholstein.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Fifty years. Finally home.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
These lines in Sassoon's letter to the U.S. Attorney General could provide a solid basis for NY Governor Kathy Hochul to remove Mayor Adams from office.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
“President Trump regards people who take their constitutional oath seriously as, by definition, his political enemies. His attack on public service is not about reform; it’s a first strike against a key obstacle to authoritarianism” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Total Contempt for Public Servants
Trump and Musk do not understand the value of an apolitical service that must obey the Constitution and the law.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
After all that Marko Elez was the first taker on the resignation program.
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ejholstein.bsky.social @ejholstein.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Thank you Judge Coughenour
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ejholstein.bsky.social @ejholstein.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Those Valentine bouquets are going to be 25% more expensive this year. Sigh
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Liz Cheney @lizcheney.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
My response to Trump’s remarks in the Capitol Visitor’s Center:
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Holy fuck.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
This isn’t a “seems like” or “appears to be” event… It was intentional, deliberate, and unequivocal.
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ejholstein.bsky.social @ejholstein.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Governor Pritzker isn’t messing around. Excellent info, and those national phone lines can be used by others in different states
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
"Choosing who fills the three roles would allow Trump's team to divert resources to and from parts of the State Department, control the information gathered by the numerous bureaus and embassies and manage personnel decisions..." www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Exclusive: Trump team asks three US senior career diplomats to resign, sources say
Aides to President-elect Donald Trump have asked three senior career diplomats who oversee the U.S. State Department's workforce and internal coordination to step down from their roles, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter said, in a possible signal of deeper changes ahead for the diplomatic corps.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Love this.
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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
"It’s time that we made corruption — and the Republican-picked judges that enabled it — the villain. We need to explain the world, and the explanation really is corruption, not migrants." @emptywheel.bsky.social www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/08/w...
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Why and How to Hold John Roberts Accountable - emptywheel
Every time Trump flouts the law, we need to remind people that John Roberts gave Trump sanction to do so.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
At least for the moment national publications are radically understating the contents of Matthew Livelsberger's political minifestos which call for a violent, militia-backed "culling" of Dems from and national rebirth of masculinity under the rule of Trump ... talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/why-a...
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Why Are Publications Sugar-Coating Livilsberger’s Political Minifestos?
Over the last four days the bizarre Cybertruck fire outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas has run from comical interlude to possible terrorist incident to tragic suicide of another veteran of America’s…
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