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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Paywall free article on Trump's defilement of the Kennedy Center. Truly depressing accounting with multiple links to details of the corruption and violation of pubic trust this pig of a man has performed. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...
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How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center (Gift Article)
Internal emails and documents demonstrate the political capture of the institution, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection.
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Manafort provided polling numbers to help target their bots. Call it hacking or how about aiding and abetting enemies of the US. Fuck you and that fat horse you rode in on.
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
link please, Dumb Guy?
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
free article - Not the 1st time Enes Kanter has involved himself in what he sees as imortant issues, including against Turkey, his native country, and China for human rights abuses. According th this reporting, the interaction was started by Cloud: www.nytimes.com/athletic/753...
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Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom ejected from Sky-Fever game after confrontation (Gift Article)
Sky guard Natasha Cloud confronted Enes Kanter Freedom during the game.
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Maybe experimenting small scale, but this has been an unpopular issue at voting which is why it has pretty much been dropped by previous advocates since awhile after George Floyd. It's a vote loser.
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
At the risk of being considered a Nazi or worse by those who brook no wavering on trans rights orthodoxy, here's a remarkable statement from a very young NH state legislator that goes to the heart of the issue - are today's young transitioners yesterdays gays, and which are more revolutionary
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
For those downplaying differences between our 2 major parties, and the importance of the coming election(s), hopefully this NYT editorial - with metrics - on the decaying of our democracy will cause some reavaulation of the importance of defeating Trump and the GOP. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | Trump’s Election Interference Is Eroding American Democracy (Gift Article)
The president is prioritizing his own interests over the national interest.
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/o...
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Opinion | El-Sayed’s Winning Path in Michigan
A swing-state Democratic Senate nominee needs to keep saying this: Jews have a right to a Jewish homeland.
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Gift article - Ukraine is the battlefield we should be committed to, not the stupid and counterproductive attack on Iran. Now that effort is crippling what should be a 1st priority. This adminiustration is both incompetent and evil. wapo.st/4fTRFK8
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Ukraine fails to halt Russian barrage as Zelensky blames partners for ‘horrific casualties’
U.S.-made systems are Kyiv’s only means to shoot down ballistic missiles, and Ukraine says it has run out of interceptors. Seventeen Ukrainians died overnight.
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
free NYTs column by Thomas Friedman on Mamdani's failure as a statesman and opportunity to be one in a city of 3/4 million Jews and Muslims and the political parties in Israel with both as members, and seeking the 2 state solution. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/o...
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Opinion | Mamdani’s Netanyahu Stunt Was a Waste of His Talent and Our Time (Gift Article)
What if Mamdani actually wanted to be a bridge builder between Israelis and Palestinians, a role for which he has the unique capacity and talent?
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
DSA? No f...ing way! This is unbelievable. The co-chair of party lays out radical platform that should sink any DSA candidate. If this it, they need to quit. www.foxnews.com/video/640229...
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DSA co-chair Megan Romer outlines socialist agenda | Fox News Video
Fox News host Brian Kilmeade discusses Democratic Socialists of America co-chair Megan Romer's comments on the organization's agenda on ‘The Will Cain Show.’
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Then continue talking to yourself. I have minimum interest in one person and have been talking about the issue, not her.
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
@bsky.app CDC buries report on effectiveness of Covid boosters (around 50% less hospitalizations), almost certainly on anti-vacine position of DHS. Link is subscription free: wapo.st/4vjk9To
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Opinion | Why the CDC refusing to publish covid vaccine research is so worrying
The publication of the study in another journal doesn’t erase the troubling questions raised by its suppression.
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Yeah likewise a shame Hama didn't count heads and realize they had no hope of winning the war they started or that Israel might know they lived in Gaza and seek to blow themn to smitereens. Of course if they were "good guys" they could have come out like men and surrendered anytime to stop the bombs
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Friedman fills out the ME score card for post Oct 7: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/o...
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Opinion | Everybody Is a Loser in This Middle East War
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Centrist blacks vs cultural warrior whites is the main split in te Democratic Party today. The former gave us Biden and victory. NYTs article, no paywall: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/o...
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Opinion | These Are the Voters Who Can Keep Democrats From Going Off the Rails
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Fans - support the NAACP encouragement of black athletes to boycott the SEC conference teams who's states are all disenfranchising their black voters since the SC reactionary ruling: The NAACP’s boycott call is a wake-up moment for the American Black athlete www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/m...
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The NAACP’s boycott call is a wake-up moment for the American Black athlete | Howard Bryant
In a country where their rights are being attacked from all sides, it’s time for Black college athletes to utilize their power
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Student-athletes more likely to attend school than peers, new research finds. Along with lower teen pregnancy rates and obvious health benefits, girls in sports is a success story of our time and shouldn't be messed with by adding unwanted biological males in the mix. Link is free wapo.st/4eaq1Jx
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
to abide by conflicting state statutes.The terminations are an escalation of the administration’s efforts to enforce President Trump’s executive order that the government recognize only person’s sex assigned at birth." NYTs Typical of why Trump is wrong & dealing in bad faith on transgender issues
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
"The Trump administration on Monday terminated multiple civil rights settlements aimed at ensuring transgender students’ rights to equal opportunity to an education, forcing school officials to choose whether to comply with the government’s interpretation of federal anti-discrimination laws or
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Richard Dawkins on our binary sex: "....the Universal Biological Definition (UBD), based on gamete size. Gametes come in two radically different sizes: the phenomenon of anisogamy. Female gametes are very much larger than male gametes, with no intermediates whatsoever,
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Newsome fights Trump AI plan ".....on Monday, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, a Democrat, defied Mr. Trump by issuing an executive order that requires safety and privacy guardrails for A.I. companies contracting with the state. .. “We’re not going to sit back and let that happen,” Mr. Newsom said.
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
In his "press conference" Trump said it's essentially over - Iran has no navy, air force, etc, as if that's it. The same was true about Iraq and Afghanistan. We lost our ass in both.
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
NYTs reports that before Citizen's United, billionaires were responsible for .3% of campaign contribuitions and now contribute 19%. The article documents individual states and campaigns and the effectiveness of their targeted donations. Depressing! No paywall: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
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Billionaires Are Swaying Elections in All Corners of America
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Doc on the very depressing take over of Florida's New College by the Governor and MAGA GOP. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...
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‘Only Nazis ban books’: on the frontlines with students fighting Trump over higher education
Documentary First They Came for My College goes inside the fight for academic freedom at Florida’s New College
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Jesse Jackson Funeral in Chicago - moving, great gospel music, and both Bidens, both Clintons, Obama, Kamala, and Newsome in attendance. www.c-span.org/event/public...
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Hesgeth claimed that we now totally control the sky over Iran and will thus dictate what follows. 1. He never said what follows, or what we want to follow. 2. I think the same could have been said about Iraq shortly after that war began.
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Today's NYT's article on changing positions of our medical associations on "gender affirming" surgeries. No paywall. "...anyone who questions these treatments, even mildly, is invariably accused of bigotry. " www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/o...
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Opinion | Medical Associations Trusted Belief Over Science on Youth Gender Care
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I'm not getting why any Democratic Senators or Representatives, or self respecting Republican ones would even attend tonight's SOTU speech. Yes, the tradition is to go if for no other reason than to express respect for our democratic government and the office of the President. When the President
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Before rejecting out of hand, Sullivan was one of if not the main voice which effectively pushed gay marriage and a very early Obama supporter. Don't agree with him on all things, but he has valuable things to day here. open.substack.com/pub/andrewsu...
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What The Dems Should Say On Trans Rights
They can own the compassionate, sane center on this. Just drop the crazy.
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that President Trump exceeded his authority when he imposed sweeping tariffs on imports from nearly every U.S. trading partner, a major setback for his administration’s second-term agenda. Paywall free: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...
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Justices Strike Down Trump’s Tariffs
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Friedman on Bibi's ruse. Paywall free www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/o...
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Opinion | Netanyahu Plays Trump and American Jews for Fools — Again
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
PS Fuck off, you ignorant twit.
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
After Donations, Trump Administration Revoked Rule Requiring More Nursing Home Staff - $4.8 million in donations ended administrations defense of new law adding to staff. It was estimated to save 13k lives a year. Much of Trump's support is from older Americans. Today's NYTs.
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
This alarming article - no paywall - is about the US losing it's previous #1 ranking for university research to China. Of the top 10 world universities producing research, of US institutions only Harvard is in the top 1 with the other spaces taken by China. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
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Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
A WaPo article today is about the unprecedented actions Trump is taking to rig the 2026 election. This is existential and what Gov Newsome has been warning about. This is also a good example of continued good reporting at the WaPo - not so much editorials. Paywall free link: wapo.st/4syrYUW
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Trump is trying to change how the midterm elections are conducted
Many of these endeavors go far beyond typical political persuasion, challenging long-established democratic norms.
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
One "expert" - DK who - said the feds will do the investigation (FBI) and charging (DOJ) on this murder, and the state has no authority involving federal agents. If true, get ready for a whitewashing as Patel and Bondi will never cross Trump and his "story". If correct, an official police state.
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
WaPo: Tech moguls close to Trump see the midterms as a path to long-term power Gear up for another tech-bro billionaire onslaught on our democracy. paywall free link: wapo.st/4scVCiD
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Tech moguls close to Trump see the midterms as a path to long-term power
As politicians in both parties raise concerns about the impacts of AI, political groups backed by tech investors and Meta plan to intervene in midterm races.
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
The US Mint is now in the war on woke. From today's NYTs, the Sec of the Treasury rejected a non-partisan committe's recommendation for coins for Frederick Douglas, school integration, and women's suffrage and chose Frankiln, Lincoln, and Pilgrims. A coin with Pres Trump on it await's his approval
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Still funky and still relevant. Less McCann and Ed Harris do "Compared To What!" youtu.be/QdDZXKe9QPA?...
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Eddie Harris & Les McCann - Compared To What (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 1969)
YouTube video by Eddie Harris
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jfgnv145.bsky.social @jfgnv145.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
A proposal to rein in corporate and dark money influence will be considered at this week’s Democratic National Committee meetings. levernews.com/democrats-ma...
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Democrats May Finally Ban Dark Money
A proposal to rein in corporate and dark money influence will be considered at this week’s Democratic National Committee meetings.
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