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Jeffrey Deutsch

@jeffreydeutsch.bsky.social
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Neurodivergent (AuDHD). Political / social / cultural wild card; my stance depends on the issue. Enjoy history, politics, law, economics, and business.

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Morgan Fairchild @morgfair.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
NEWS: SAVE Act is Dead, Congress Members Call for 25th Amendment, Trump Discussed Marking Living People "Dead," and More open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
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NEWS: SAVE Act is Dead, Congress Members Call for 25th Amendment, Trump Discussed Marking Living People "Dead," and More
Good morning, everyone.
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
As a short-haired woman on holiday, I went to another resort for breakfast. Admiring architecture led to conversation with two women. I accepted their offer to see their cabin, cheerfully thanked them, and left. Realised fifteen years later that they were hitting on me.
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Ivy • she/her @elare.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I can’t put to words how soothing it is to have my autism officially diagnosed. Knowing why I’ve struggled all my life and been ostracized and bullied so relentlessly all these years. It’s nice to know it’s not my fault that I’m so “weird”. No excuse, obviously, but it’s a sense of closure I needed.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Holy crap. “The Antichrist.”
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Pete Hegseth's make-discrimination-great-again campaign is in full swing and it's disgusting. Also depressing, infuriating, and possibly illegal. Gift link 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...
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Hegseth Criticized for Removing Four Officers From Promotion List
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Mack Butterfield @mack2114.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
No Kings is worth attending for the entertaining signs.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
A very sobering and worrying piece.
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Jeffrey Deutsch @jeffreydeutsch.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Stone Bridge Resistance” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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NO KINGS Stone Bridge Resistance · No Kings
Join us on the stone bridge in Mount Vernon with messages letting folks know that this is not normal. We will have big banners but you can bring your own signs. What began in 2025 as a single day o...
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
On a night out with a girl I excused myself to go to the loo. I was gone for a few minutes and pretended it was do a big ol' shit. Really it was because my Duolingo streak was about to expire.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Huh. The demise of Camp East Montana may have been announced too soon.
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Lanzifer Longinus @lanziferlonginus.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
My husband was a bit of a wild boy when we married. Since then he has done everything I have asked to change. Drinks less, less angry, more caring. He has become the ideal husband. But, god am I bored with him. I've started shagging a student who moved in down the road.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Menfolk who maybe don’t want to vaccinate, please google “orchitis”. It occurs in 20-30% of post-pubertal boys and men who contract mumps.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading. Now we’ve got mumps rolling up. Expect more. This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.
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Maryland health officials warn providers about an upsurge in mumps cases
Maryland health officials are warning about an uptick in cases of mumps.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
The Gravamen of the Disclosure

4. The gravamen of the disclosure is as follows: 
a. By memorandum dated May 12, 2025 (“the May 12 Memo”), Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons authorizes ICE agents to forcibly enter into certain people’s homes without a judicial warrant, consent, or an emergency.

b. Specifically, in the May 12 Memo, the Acting ICE Director authorized ICE Agents to rely on Form I-205 (which is not a judicial warrant) to enter the residence of an alien subject to a final order of deportation, without consent, including by “a necessary and reasonable amount of force.”2c. While addressed to “All ICE Personnel,” in practice the May 12 Memo has not been formally distributed to all personnel. Instead, the May 12 Memo has been provided to select DHS officials who are then directed to verbally brief the new policy for action. Those supervisors then show the Memo to some employees, like our clients, and direct them to read the Memo and return it to the supervisor.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 21/01/2026
The Trump administration's response to Renée Good's killing was more than a hint: Mess with ICE, and this could happen to you.
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The Trump doctrine: Violence is us
The message is clear—be afraid.
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Took a phone message for my mum in 1978. Only remembered in in 2007 and texted her early in the morning after a big night. Mum told me the caller had died 6 years previously. I was always terrible at writing down messages.
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
My wife gets upset unless the TV's volume is set to a prime number (generally 67 or 73) but I have to have it on an even number. The range she selects is fine but need it to be divisible by 2. So we watch very little TV and mostly read detective novels.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
It is not up to the armed forces to put a stop to Trump’s ghastly ideas of war against NATO. The United States is not run by the military, nor should it be. Americans, and their elected representatives, must take this burden away from the armed forces—now. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Military Is Being Forced to Plan for an Unthinkable Betrayal
Attacking an ally would be a perversion of everything the armed forces have been trained to do.
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elfach.bsky.social @elfach.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Thank you, Minnesota open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...
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Thank you, Minnesota
There is no greater obligation for an American than loyalty to the Constitution of the United States.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18/01/2026
Voters are souring on Trump personally and on his agenda. And it’s an election year.
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A wave of new polls shows Trump’s support cratering across the board.
Voters are souring on Trump personally and on his agenda. And it's an election year.
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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
One thing that could have saved me some time is a visual like this. Credit to Dow Janes for this even though I wouldn't recommend paying them any money. IMO this graphic is the most valuable thing they have to offer & it's from their free webinar which is mostly a sales pitch.
Alt: It's a flowchart showing a series of steps to build financial health. It's arranged as a stack of 5 green blocks forming a pyramid. The bottom block, the first step, says "spend less money than you make." The next one up says "pay off high interest debt." The next one, in the middle of the pyramid, says "save an emergency fund". The next one says "save for retirement". The last one, at the top, says "invest".

There's a line weaving from the bottom of the pyramid to the top with an arrow, showing you should read the diagram from bottom to top. 

The takeaway is that there is a foundation of financial steps to have in place before you start investing (or even saving significantly).
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
If fewer people are insured, costs don’t vanish. They shift: to hospitals via uncompensated care, to insured patients via higher prices, to the uninsured who bear the burden of ill health, and to taxpayers via bailouts and subsidies.
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Chris @topquark59.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
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The IRS’s AI Era: What It Means for Your Next Return
Artificial intelligence has moved from pilot to practice at the IRS. The agency is using machine learning and data analytics to spot risk
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Multiple eyewitness accounts of ICE's shooting of two people in Portland agree that ICE opened fire AFTER the pickup truck with the two individuals was already driving away, violating DHS's own rules. They opened fire in a public area, near a hospital, without regard for safety. Lawless thugs.
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OldManLefty @jonbandit.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura: “We’re a 3rd world country now. I know. I’ve been to ‘em. I spent 17 months in SE Asia while the draft dodger was playing golf… that’s what happens in a dictatorship. In comes the military. That’s what’s happening here”
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Nipped to Curries in my Tesco uniform, a customer asked me for help buying a dishwasher and she was fit so I did and when she'd chosen one I asked her for a date and now we have three children, the same dishwasher, and NONE of them can load it.
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Cheryl T. @g8rgrrlcheryl.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Traveling? Be aware that US Customs might demand to see what’s on your phone upon entry. Here’s some advice on how to handle the problem. GIFT ARTICLE
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Phone Searches at the Border Are Up: How to Protect Your Privacy
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Cheryl T. @g8rgrrlcheryl.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Hey, Boomers: Read this. Your vaccinations may be doing double duty! (Gift article)
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Vaccines Are Helping Older People More Than We Knew
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Jeffrey Deutsch @jeffreydeutsch.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
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Iranians are making history - again
[Always a pleasure to share guest articles from prominent British MP and former Cabinet Minister Tom Tugendhat - one of the only Members of Parliament to speak against the JCPOA.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
More reaction to Maduro’s “arrest”
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
"Trump thrives on the ineffectiveness of his opponents. The operation in Venezuela is a warning that Trump’s imperial ambitions are growing. An ineffective anti-Trump movement is an indulgence American democracy cannot afford or accept." - @davidfrum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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Trump’s Critics Are Falling Into an Obvious Trap
The capture of Nicolás Maduro is a show of ambition that calls for an effective response.
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Jeffrey Deutsch @jeffreydeutsch.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
On 04/16/2019, I was at Orlando (Florida) International Airport awaiting my flight to Reagan National Airport (near Washington, DC). I chatted briefly with Geena Davis -- who seemed distracted because she was trying to find the correct gate for her flight. And yes, she was flying to Los Angeles.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/01/2026
The manosphere promises to fix young men’s lives. Instead, it’s making them miserable.
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How masculinity gurus cash in on the boy crisis
The manosphere promises to fix young men’s lives. Instead, it’s making them miserable.
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Jeffrey Deutsch @jeffreydeutsch.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
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Trump supports the Iranian protesters
A conversation with Shay Khateri
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/01/2026
Elon Musk “doesn’t understand context… He’s the one trick pony,” and his trick doesn’t work in government. “Breaking things is not actually the road to productivity.”
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Hero of 2025: Civil servants
They make America greater, but the Trump administration wants them traumatized.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
All Banner Health facilities are requiring masks from now until March 31st. When can we look forward to Bhattacharya, Prasad, RFK Jr, Hoeg, and the rest of the gang to rail against “face diapers" and "muzzles"? It must be pretty traumatizing for them to see people trying to protect others.
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Banner Health mandates masks due to seasonal flu cases
All patients, visitors and staff will need to wear masks in patient areas of all Banner facilities, beginning New Year’s Day.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Big protests going in Iran, and the state is trying to put them down with force, already killing 3. I don't know where this is going, and the Iranian government has survived big protests before. But whatever happens, it's admirably brave when people take on violently repressive regimes.
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At least 3 reported killed during widening protests in Iran sparked by ailing economy
Protests over Iran's struggling economy have spread into rural areas, with at least three people killed.
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Jeffrey Deutsch @jeffreydeutsch.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
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Massive Protests In Iran; Exclusive - Israeli Intelligence determines Iran at Its Most Unstable Point
In Israel, there is concern that unrest in Iran could trigger an outward diversion- possibly an escalation with Israel
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Jeffrey Deutsch @jeffreydeutsch.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
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Ukraine: The Case For Optimism
Where Realism and Rationality Meet
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
The Blue Tsunami continues!!! 🌊🌊🌊
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Jeffrey Deutsch @jeffreydeutsch.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
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2025 In Review: The Year The US Changed Sides
Amongst many stories, one stands out
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Jeffrey Deutsch @jeffreydeutsch.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
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Ukraine's Survival is More Important Than You Think
Ukraine’s fall is unthinkable because it means my children will be fighting the next global war in their lifetimes
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Was once in an elevator with Gillian Anderson. She looked like she had the flu at the time. I'm a massive X-Files fan, but I managed to keep my cool. I just politely told her that I love her work, then she shook my hand. A day later I got the flu. Thanks Gillian, best flu ever.
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
I wasn’t planning on writing anything today, but since terrorist Russia doesn’t stop for even a minute, it was important to document what happened on Christmas Day with Russia murdering more civilians in Ukraine, nuclear-capable bombers flying near Britain & airspace provocations involving Poland
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Russia Escalates War on Christmas Day With Attacks on Ukraine and NATO Airspace
From drone strikes on Ukrainian homes to nuclear bombers near Britain and airspace provocations involving Poland, Moscow used Christmas Day to escalate on multiple fronts.
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Last year my parents resolved the Abilene paradox in our marriage. After 7 years we all had Xmas together and I roasted a turkey. They asked why. I said my husband and the kids like it. They all said they were enduring it for me. We all hate turkey. This year we're having lamb.
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Bill the Cat @billthecat71.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Picking up your car from the bar the next morning isn’t a walk of shame—it’s a badge of honor. It means you made the smart call, got home safely, and kept the roads safer for everyone. Celebrate your choice, maybe with a cup of coffee.
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