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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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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
All grift, all graft, all the time... "In 2024 Mr. Prince signed a wide-ranging contract to provide security and mining services to President Félix Tshisekedi’s government. The contract was worth hundreds of millions of dollars over five years" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/w...
nytimes.com
Inside Erik Prince’s Mercenary Deal in Congo
The injury of a former Green Beret and death of an elite soldier from New Zealand have highlighted the Blackwater founder’s growing role in one of Africa’s most intractable conflicts.
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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Utter failure of American foreign policy.
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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Not unrelated....
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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Warning:"Heritage is already working on Project 2029, and the staff sent me some promising fund-raising numbers: Roberts, they say, raised ninety-seven million dollars in 2025, outperforming previous years. " www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The Battle for the Post-Trump Right
For decades, the Heritage Foundation was a conservative powerhouse. Can it stay relevant in the influencer age?
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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
No irony: "Heritage shared the unruly qualities of a liberal-arts college: legacy fiefdoms, ornery academics, outright defiance of authority. Scholars guarded their territory fiercely; there aren’t many jobs that pay conservative intellectuals generously... " www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
newyorker.com
The Battle for the Post-Trump Right
For decades, the Heritage Foundation was a conservative powerhouse. Can it stay relevant in the influencer age?
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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"There’s an inspections regime for nuclear weapons, regulations for international aviation, and agreements that protect the ozone layer. A new global organization for AI will need elements of all three and more. We do not have the luxury of moving slowly. " ICYMI www.gatesnotes.com/work/make-ai...
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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
" AI is the biggest capex risk episode in history" Paul Kedrosky is smart.
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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"The U.S. rapidly withdrew all 12 B-1 Air Force bombers from the air base, two U.S. officials said on Sunday," Cui bono? Russia. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/w...
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How RAF Fairford in a Quiet Corner of England Became a U.S.-Iran Flashpoint
A mysterious call last Sunday near a military base used by the U.S. set in motion a huge counterterrorism response and days of uncertainty in Britain.
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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"“It’s our immigration policy that took his life,”" vs. “I hate to say it, but there’s a lot of animosity against, just, white people,” Diana said." Gift article. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
theatlantic.com
A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Palantir CEO Alex Karp quietly purchased 37,000 acres of forests in Sweden—and locals found out when hunters lost leases to use the property” - FORTUNE
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Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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
Also WSJ this AM:
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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 · 21/09/2026
Tl;dr: there is no daylight .
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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
Worst aspect of anti-democratic GOP in Colorado, with roots in racist Tancredo and Horowitz, with a spritz of billionaires.
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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...
theguardian.com
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
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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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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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Or maybe once greader and msft killed off newsgator NetNewsWire FeedDemon 😊
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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 · 09/09/2026
As one of those behind the Colorado Sun … wishing you fair winds !!!!!
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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"
washingtonpost.com
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
via @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/bd13...
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Rerun or sequel? Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor on end times fascism
How nationalists, theocrats and tech titans turned their backs on a shared future
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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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