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Francis Wilkinson

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Political Columnist, Bloomberg.

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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 28m
Perhaps he’ll describe bribing Trump in his memoirs.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 3h
Pete Hegseth was asked whether he was Putin's puppet on Ukraine and whether Putin was playing him like a fiddle.
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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 10h
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Paul Duginski
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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 1h
Trump Is Gutting America’s Core Geopolitical Advantage by Robert B. Zoellick www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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Trump Is Gutting America’s Core Geopolitical Advantage
Robert Zoellick, an expert on the global economy who served as U.S. trade representative and World Bank president, makes the authoritative case that President Donald Trump’s antagonism toward Canada a...
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 10h
“He described the torment, the spiritual state of a people who are committed to a wrong, knowing that it is wrong. He made the trials of these white people far more vivid than anything he himself might have endured. They were not ruled by hatred, but by terror;” James Baldwin on MLK
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 11h
Angry, beautiful sight.
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 13h
Link to DOJ letter: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28... My quote to AP:
“It is deplorable that rather than work cooperatively and assist states in their election administration responsibilities, the federal government is making escalating threats and unreasonable demands beyond its power in the middle of an ongoing election,” he said.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 15h
Honestly, there will never be a better time for the entire Democratic Party to get off X. Anything else acts as if this is perfectly normal.
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X OFF
Until every vote is counted, get your news somewhere other than X, and ask the people running for office to publish it somewhere else too.
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 15h
I would like to know who was murdered in this operation and what is the mechanism for punishing the murderers?
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 15h
That sentence made me tingle.
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 15h
Would Stubbs like to be ambassador to Greece?
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 17h
Based on their public comments, NYT leaders view the kind of insider details discovered by Haberman and others as essential to understanding Trump. I don't think that's correct. Public documents (Project 2025) and events (Jan 6, DOGE) to me describe this presidency better than insider accounts.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 17h
Oh.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 19h
Insiders across K Street describe the preparations as unprecedented, driven by an acknowledgment of the transactional nature of Trump’s second term — and outrage from Democrats toward those they see as complicit
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Palantir, Apple and Microsoft Brace for Democrats to Go on Offensive
For two years, congressional Democrats furious over corporate America’s cooperation with the Trump administration have been limited to the sternly worded letter.
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 22h
Polls wrong because they reflect change as profound as Watergate or 9/11, GOPer says. “you’d have to presuppose we’re staring down the barrel of a generational national trauma that no one is aware of.” Imagine being unaware of trauma of maga fascism and depravity. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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The GOP’s midterm lifeline: Maybe the polls are wrong
Part of the challenge is no one knows what the midterm electorate will look like, making it hard to know if the polling is accurate.
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 23h
In the Degenerate Clown cosmos, the dead not only vote, they take your job. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/u...
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ICE Agents Who Rammed a Worker in Houston Were Chasing a Dead Man, Family Says
ICE agents rammed a man during a pursuit in Houston, leaving him with a shattered leg. But a bulletin of the target shows a man who died in 2017, his daughter said.
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 23h
Ethnic cleansing trumps national defense.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
imo this is how you resolve the seeming contradiction between Vance's mixed-race marriage and his obvious white supremacist leanings. He doesn't believe in full white separatism, he just thinks whites get to pick which of the Untermenschen deserve junior partner status.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 16/10/2026
Video by Kevin Hertzog 😭❤️
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
NEW: ICE is trying to deport a mother of 4 while her husband is at Fort Benning in Army basic training. When she went to pick up the family's military IDs, Navy personnel turned her over to ICE. She's been in the US since age six. With @nancyayoussef.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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He Joined the Military. They Reported His Wife to ICE.
When a soldier’s wife went to pick up her military ID at a base in Texas, ICE officers showed up.
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
The Dem Party may have the longest to-do list in history. But a couple MoC should be in charge of nothing but organizing events to publicly shame each of these degenerates on a regular basis, with a perpetual threat of criminal charges hanging over their heads. They should not have a moment’s peace.
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
“I won the Super Bowl 3 times. But they didn’t give me the victory.”
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Republicans' anti-democracy project has a fast track (Trump) and a slow track (Roberts Court). They sometimes disagree on specifics, but both tracks backslide the US, and do more in concert than they could on their own. If you excuse the slow track because it's not the fast track, you're a sucker.
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Putin’s bitch.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 16/10/2026
Elon didn't run from California's restrictive regulatory environment, he ran towards the ability to buy people like Ken Paxton wholesale
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
“The billionaire tax seemed to offend him more than anything we’d done on AI or even crypto,” says Bruce Reed, one of the handful of White House advisers who had joined the meeting.
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 15/10/2026
It’s Ballroom Bribes Thursday. Amongst others, $25m each from Apple and Nvidia. $10M each from Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, Palantir, and Rocket Mortgage. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Secret documents reveal donors behind $330 million for Trump’s ballroom
The records offer a panoramic view of a fundraising campaign that is extraordinary for its size and opacity.
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Can someone smarter than me explain the difference between Kimberly Guilfoyle, who was fired from her job, and Clarence Thomas, who sits on the US Supreme Court?
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Another lawsuit to keep an eye on. M.V.M., the main contractor, is the same one that in 2018 was caught holding some unaccompanied children they were transporting to shelters in an office building overnight, and making them bathe in the office sinks.
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
But she’s a woman, so ….
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Pelosi: "With [Trump], all roads lead to Putin."
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Bloomberg Law @bloomberglaw.com · 15/10/2026
The Trump administration has slowed the application process for would-be citizens, deciding 73% fewer naturalization cases over the past year — extending wait times for immigrants hoping to cast a ballot, reunite with family members, or be protected from deportation.
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Citizenship Approvals Plummet a Year Into Trump’s Second Term
The Trump administration has slowed the application process for would-be citizens, deciding 73% fewer naturalization cases over the past year — extending wait times for immigrants hoping to cast a ballot, reunite with family members, or be protected from deportation.
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Schumer and the caucus need to rein in this hack until New York can get rid of her.
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
“A family losing its palace is comedy. A country losing its republic is not.”
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Real man bites dog story here with this guy suffering consequences for his actions.
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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 25/05/2024
A study in detail & textures from a portrait of Catherina Hooft by 17th-century Dutch artist Nicolaes Pickenoy, who happened to be Rembrandt’s next-door neighbour
Against black background, part of a person's patterned white-and-grey sleeve, with  2 layers of fancy lace cuff, and pearl bracelet
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Ally Sammarco @allysammarco.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
If there’s one photo to sum up the Trump era, this is it.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
You can see Putin's lips moving
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
“What troubles me most is the disconnect at the ESPN executive level between making money and caring about the human impact of constantly bombarding fans with betting odds and talk.” www.cjr.org/the-intervie...
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Nicole Noren: “I’m not going to have blood on my hands.”
Why Nicole Noren, a decorated ESPN producer, quit in protest.
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The Degenerate Clown Regime, for all its slapstick incompetence and idiocy, is fundamentally a Nazi enterprise.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/10/2026
"In February 2024, Blanche & his partner Emil Bove — now Judge Bove — insisted that 'a fair trial cannot be conducted this year.' And yet, 22 days before the midterms, with early voting already underway in MN, Blanche’s DOJ searched a candidate’s home over paperwork a dead man filed 3 decades ago."
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Republicans learn to love DOJ weaponization
Just kidding, they always love it when they’re holding the weapon.
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
You can scoff at pedocon theory but it will find you. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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Ramaswamy Campaign Ad Accidentally Featured a Sex Offender
The campaign says it’s recutting the spot, which was meant to be about the plague of high property taxes.
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Regina Schrambling @gastropoda.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Keep talking:
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 14/10/2026
Pretty grim stuff. In the second round scenarios, Le Pen beats Philippe 53-47, so there's a path to the center holding there. But if it's everyone's favorite organic farming enthusiast, the right wins in a landslide, 68-32.
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This song does not disappoint.
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Elon Musk is a mass killer seeking to add to his tally.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Hunting down and murdering politicians in Minnesota remains a preoccupation of the right.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet
Kai Shaikh, a Ph.D. student in mathematics at the University of Toronto, also currently at SLMath, observed that theorems are easy to use as benchmarks, but that they capture little of the wonderment at the heart of math. "Just like a photograph of a mile marker can't provide much of the value of actually going on a hike," he said,
"it would seem to me that proofs without stories, or even stories without struggle or mystery, and first glimpses of strange beasts, are not very meaningful or valuable to us humans."
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Four days after Musk wrote, “Zelensky has gone too far.” @financialtimes.com #ukraine www.ft.com/content/3708...
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
“For days, Greek newspapers and tabloids splashed large photographs of Guilfoyle and the scandal across front pages. The country's main opposition party demanded answers, questioning whether Guilfoyle had used her role to advance private business interests….”
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