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JB Holston

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CEO, Sr. Advisor, former Engineering and Comp Sci Dean, F100 exec, entrepreneur. Sustainable, Inclusive Growth jbholston.substack.com . Colorado, Maine, London. @jbholston on Threads.

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Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social · 9h
Before thousands in Florida’s Polk County, JD Vance said Florida’s Black candidate for Senate Angie Nixon doesn’t “belong in America.” “Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here,” Nixon responded. “This is my home."
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SpyTalker @spytalker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How Ken Paxton’s candidacy was built on a foundation of wealthy, phony evangelist pedophiles. By Sidney Blumenthal. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Ken Paxton’s Christian identity politics obscure a history of scandal | Sidney Blumenthal
The Texas Senate candidate rose to power as a culture warrior. His record is a marriage of hypocrisy and cynicism
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
😳 On 9/29/26, Argentina’s Supreme cleared the way for President Javier Milei’s administration to scrap historical restrictions on foreign land ownership, opening the door to the likes of Peter Thiel & Sam Altman who have shown great interest in the region … 1/ share.google/t7nTsPAkbpC8...
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Supreme Ct clears way for Milei to scrap limits on foreign land purchases
Opposition parties condemn the ruling, question its scope and warn that it leaves the door open to unrestricted foreign ownership of rural land.
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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
WSJ: "The .1% are worth 15% of the nation's total wealth" ...
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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Exporting ugliness: www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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‘It’s like the Scottish Upper East Side’: shame and snobbery as American students blamed for St Andrews classism
Online comments reflect class tensions at Scottish university between those from lower-income families and wealthier US undergraduates
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
*They're great as a duo, actually, the organic and the mechanical, that's a really strong ticket
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A key passage from Dexter Filkins' description of Kushner-Witkoff "diplomacy" in the current issue of the New Yorker www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Atlantic masters understatement: "Among many other scandals, ICE agents keep shooting people, some of them American citizens. "
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 25/09/2026
Trump's vanity projects would waste $1.8 billion of taxpayer dollars, per new report from Dems on Senate Joint Economic Committee. www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cach...
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Communist China’s state-controlled media traipsing around the White House while American media is suing for access
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Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In destroying the Voting Rights Act and gutting the 14th and 15th amendments, the Roberts court is recycling legal arguments once advanced by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction. From me and @ariberman.bsky.social
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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sad NY Times hit piece on a woman Senatorial candidate from their tech bro SF correspondent @kellen.bsky.social . Disappointing and unsurprising ; rents are high in SF, gotta generate those clicks.
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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
MAGA: Babies good; brown babies bad. Guardian:
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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Why control AI? Bloomberg:
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 17/09/2026
It was confirmed yesterday that the centre left coalition won the election in Sweden As predicted, with the far right performing poorly, coverage has almost entirely vanished from international media
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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
💯 : Opinion | The perilous economic conditions facing the UK can be traced back to Trump - The Guardian
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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Embattled Trump Goon Pulls Natalie Harp Into Wild Feud - The Daily Beast “Wax’s initial dismissal apparently stemmed from hosting pro-Kremlin Serbian politicians for lunch at the State Department’s executive dining room” Corrupt incompetence at its worst.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/09/2026
Breaking News: Federal agents may have broken state laws as part of an effort to find noncitizens on voter rolls, a whistle-blower said.
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Whistle-Blower: Federal Agents May Have Broken State Laws in Search For Voter Fraud
Agents expressed concern about being directed by top Homeland Security leaders to use private information to look up voter records in state databases.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: Once exceptionally rare, illegal deportations — in defiance of court orders or due to ICE screw-ups — are now a routine part of President Trump's mass deportation push. It happened 3 times this past week and more at least 30 times in recent months. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Like Donald Trump’s enormous ballroom, Bezos’s extravagant wedding epitomized the obscenities of our networked gilded age." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The end times fascists are plotting their escape from our world. Our mission is clear | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
An unholy alliance is working toward an apocalyptic future from which only a chosen few will emerge unscathed. It’s becoming clear how we stop them
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster
A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A few days ago someone armed with multiple weapons attacked a Democratic gubernatorial candidate
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The president ordering USPS to illegally throw out millions of ballots is at least on par with what he tried to do for 2020, and in big ways it's worse. It's another attempted self-coup, trying to create a fake Congress. That he's even attempting it is already a deadly serious constitutional crisis.
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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Golden dome - utterly predictable golden shower of corruption. ig.ft.com/golden-dome/...
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The holes in Trump’s Golden Dome
The president says a missile shield stretching from Earth into space can be built for $185bn. But formidable engineering, financial and political obstacles stand in the way
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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A Sun rises in the East, too! @coloradosun.com
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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The scale and scope of criminality is beyond measure in this regime.
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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
" “We can’t trust America. That was basically de Gaulle’s theme in the ’60s.” Great book; looking forward to the film. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/m...
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Another Lonely Hero Conquers France’s Box Office. But This One Isn’t Odysseus.
An epic historical film about Charles de Gaulle has become an unexpected hit, introducing him to a new generation.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
So, Trump's biggest benefactor, Elon Musk, is a eugenicist & white supremacist who supports Germany's AfD, which promotes neo-Nazi ideologies. The State Department hires a Nazi enthusiast Nate Hochman as the Trump Administration unveils Nazi uniforms for Space Force. Oh well let's condemn Piker.
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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"Nearly 90% of U.S. adults said corruption was widespread in the government, a 10% point jump from last year, according to Gallup’s poll. The US also has the highest level of perceived government corruption compared with other countries with advanced economies as of 2025"
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Poll shows nearly 90% of Americans believe government corruption is widespread
Americans have the highest level of distrust in their government in two decades, voicing bipartisan frustration with the country’s institutions and the people who run them.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
State AGs and others continue to litigate. But response to unprecedented, malicious attempts to prevent voters from exercising their constitutional rights to choose their leaders requires political response. Voters should have no doubt which party is out to silence them and keep power at all costs.
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Federal judge won’t lift temporary block on Trump’s anti-mail voting order
"Defendants’ branding the Final Rule’s changes as ‘modest’ does not alter the actual requirements of the Final Rule," Judge Talwani wrote.
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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Precisely.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The El Niño climate phenomenon is “supersizing before our eyes”, the UN has said. The event is near certain to shatter temperature records and looks likely to peak at +4C over the 30 yr rolling base 2027 El Niño is likely to be the largest in at least 1,000 yrs and be the hottest year ever recorded.
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‘Supersizing before our eyes’: UN warns of record El Niño approaching
Event is likely to be largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into a world already in a climate crisis
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 03/09/2026
We are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position, with a research focus on developmental and/or social psychology. Please apply or forward to anyone who might be interested! facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant Professor, Psychology - Stanford University, California, United States
The Department of Psychology at Stanford University is seeking applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position, with a research focus on developmental and/or social psychology. In addition ...
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pennsylvania Health Department Reports 540 Confirmed Measles Cases in 36 Counties This Year
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Amen to all this!! 👍👍👍
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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"The new Venezuela deal, as traditional a piece of 19th-century colonialism as one can imagine." www.ft.com/content/c51d...
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The wheels are coming off the US world order
Trump believes in a world in which there are no allies, only satellites, and in which power is America’s alone to wield
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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
R'uh, r'oh...
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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"Generational damage" Trump era in a nutshell. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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Dan Driscoll’s Parting Shot
The Army secretary told Trump about problems in the Army and his friction with Hegseth, then resigned.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/09/2026
Breaking News: A whistle-blower at the U.S. Postal Service said Trump officials were defying court orders with a “secretive, rushed” effort affecting voting by mail.
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Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail
A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My latest @npr.org story: A whistleblower report says the U.S. Postal Service is rushing out an online system for President Trump’s push to restrict mail-in voting that could “derail” the midterm election if courts allow it to proceed. Key parts of USPS' plan are currently blocked by a court order
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Whistleblower claims USPS plan for Trump's mail voting order could 'derail' midterms
A whistleblower says the U.S. Postal Service is rushing out an online system for President Trump's push to restrict mail voting that could "derail" the midterm election if courts allow it to proceed.
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Erika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This change grants Commerce political appointees veto power over data and research releases by scientists and statisticians at NOAA, NIST, Census, and BEA.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Texas hospitals expect to lose $27 million a day in Medicaid funding starting Tuesday www.texastribune.org/2026/08/31/t...
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Texas hospitals to lose $27 million in Medicaid funding daily
Starting Sept. 1, the Trump administration will withhold about $9.8 billion in extra annual funding that helps hospitals cover the difference between Medicaid payments and the actual cost of services.
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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Bloomberg
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
New, at Can We Still Govern?: I talked to Annie Lowrey about her new book, "The Time Tax" on the administrative burdens that people encounter when they interact with the safety net. On HR1: "People are going to die. Health clinics are going to shut down." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/annie-lowr...
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Annie Lowrey on the Time Tax
A new book details the scale of the administrative burdens we face
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 30/08/2026
Exclusive: Several U.S. military leaders have advised Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that prolonging large-scale operations against Iran is unsustainable and risks weakening their ability to confront threats elsewhere, including the U.S. homeland.
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Military leaders warn Hegseth against extending Iran war operations
A recent classified assessment advised that prolonged large-scale operations in the Middle East risk weakening U.S. capabilities elsewhere.
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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
"Roughly 700 independent agents spontaneously coordinated, established roles, shared information, sacrificed themselves for collective objectives, and pursued ways to manipulate oblivious humans. " metr.org/blog/2026-08...
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Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident
Two METR staff members and a Redwood Research contractor investigated an incident in which OpenAI agents coordinated a multi-day hack of Hugging Face on a shared unsanctioned message board.
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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
"Decisions of war and peace are now taken in part by a private proprietor according to his personal judgment, exactly as the East India Company’s Court of Directors once decided from Leadenhall Street whether the nawab of Bengal or the Mughal emperor would be fought or befriended or bribed."
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Not one word here about how it’s a deal at gunpoint, how kidnapping Maduro was illegal, how this is inevitably corrupt, not one word from a critic, or an environmentalist. Three reporters who should be embarrassed. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/b...
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Trump Says U.S. Has Deal for Control of Large Share of Venezuela’s Oil
The president said an agreement between the countries involved “a partnership with private business” and more than 65 billion barrels of reserves.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 28/08/2026
Eddie Reyes-Ochoa has been in the U.S. for 20 years. He works in construction, has a wife who just graduated law school with a baby on the way, and is close to earning his green card. But after a car accident on Aug. 21, ICE detained Eddie and sent him to a detention center in Natchez, Mississippi.
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ICE Detains Kiln Man, Leaving Pregnant Wife Alone: ‘We’ve Done What the Government Told Us’
Eddie Reyes-Ochoa, just weeks from earning his green card, was detained by ICE and taken to an immigration detention center in Natchez, Mississippi.
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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The Parent Pivot!!
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