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From USA Today article, the claim that Katie Zacharia worked in China as "outside counsel for the World Bank."

Zacharia attended Pepperdine University's Caruso School of Law and Seaver College, both in the Los Angeles area. Trump said she was involved with his campaigns in key swing states. Married with four children, she spent three years in China that included working as outside counsel for the World Bank, was president of the Christian Legal Society and worked in the White House Office of Political Affairs, according to a public biography.

David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Great "OpSec" by Guilfoyle, who was reportedly agog at Deters "papering" their shenanigans. Ambassador's personal phone? Hand it over to... some guy! Ambassador's personal phone full of "papering" of her grifting? Well, "no pockets!" So what can ya do? Shrug emoji!

She handed her phone to Marafatsos before taking the stage for a panel titled “Energy Security, Regional Cooperation and Strategic Partnerships.” (Guilfoyle’s lawyer said he held her personal phone because her dress had no pockets.)

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Obviously, neither impeachment nor a pardon is enough for these graspers and traitors. There’s only one thing left for it. Benjamin Franklin knew.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

An Atlanta prosecutor engaged in misconduct, and yet you VISITED Atlanta. (He did not.) Curious!

Famous frame from Matt Bors' "Mr. Gotcha" cartoon, in which Mr. Gotcha, peeping out from the top of a well with a big shit-eating grin on his face, catches a haggard and downtrodden medieval peasant saying, "We should improve society somewhat," and responds, "Yet you participate in society. Curious! I am very intelligent."

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Does anyone know what this headline means? What's this "Inspirationhome#1" thing doing there?

New York Times story headlined, "Inspirationhome#1Gold Statues and Staff Cuts: How Trump Has Disrupted America’s Parks," for some reason.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Almost as long as I’ve been saying “Trump World is a Sex Cult.” Which I guess is relevant again now that we’ve learned AI something-something is also a sex cult. (Photos in screenshot below are of an underage topless model hired to serve at a 2008 Trump Vodka Super Bowl party.)

Screenshot of Oct. 2016 tweets using the phrase “Trump World is a sex cult.”

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So, did they spell demolition wrong? Looks like an S where there should be a T. Does it say “demolision?” Or is this supposed to be a mock-up of a future headline that says “demolished?” Or what?

Press photo of Trump, seen through the cabin windows of Air Force One, viewing a placard that, through a second cabin window, appears to show part of a title reading “Center DEMOLIS…”

Close up of one cabin windows, showing the same placard, somewhat magnified.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hmm. Maybe it really IS a collapsing shithole.

The lobby area outside the presidential box at the Kennedy Center, decorated with an ostentatious gold door emblazoned with the Presidential Seal, and “artwork” depicting his raised fist moment.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just stumbled across this post of mine from May 2009, summarizing my observations from a White House meeting between Obama and detainee policy/civil liberties advocates. Lol, I guess it's the future, now.

I’m still concerned, for instance, that the Republican theory of executive power with respect to detainee policy — something the President referred to as “anything goes” in his speech today — is in fact the Republican theory of executive governance in general. That poses an extraordinarily broad array of difficulties, not the least of which is that it’s an open an ongoing threat to the greater Obama agenda, which is itself often invoked as a reason for not dabbling in the “distraction” of “looking backward.” But unless we can demarcate Cheneyism — the “anything goes” philosophy as explicitly illegal, unconstitutional and illegitimate, its continued existence (and threatened practice by future administrations) calls into question the value and durability of the whatever parts of the Obama agenda are ultimately implemented, on detainee policy or anything else.

That’s a huge problem, though it clearly was beyond the intended scope of this meeting. But I’m hopeful that there will be more opportunities to discuss this broader context in the future.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’ve also been within about that close to Epstein’s island. But he was already dead. This is Great St. James, from our Air BnB balcony. He owned that at some point, too. Little St. James is on the other side of that little spit off the end.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Just realized I’ve been on the sandbar right off the island (Little Pipe Cay) the Russian guy rented for Don Jr.’s wedding. I took a screenshot of my Google Maps position while we were there.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I demand to speak to the hiring manager!

Online job listing for "Karen Language Interpreter (Spoken in Myanmar & Thailand)"

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

What I see when I watch the Trump New Mexico YMCA dance AI slop video:

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I think I get the gist of these multilingual cognate words of warning, but they really seem to escalate unnecessarily, and in a personal way.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

More than wished it. I mean, try washing this one off his hands. Or our of your brain.

MILO
@Nero
X.com
What is the etiquette if you are going about your business and find yourself observing an
ICE raid? I want to show a little respect and decency. Are you allowed to masturbate where you stand, in the street, or should you find some kind of awning or motor vehicle?
9:12 PM • 7/13/25 • 221K Views

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is a vicious and outrageous assassination threat against himself! “No more” = dead. Sick!

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Guys, there are literally 100 data centers in my “city,” already.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Who can photoshop some horses into the bottom of the old Trump Steaks poster?

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

But never in the, “You break it, you buy it” sense, of course.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Watching Trump revive Bush/Cheney era domestic surveillance, "picking up right where the last Republican president left off, and doing the same and worse," has me thinking about this old Newsweek piece from 2009. And who do you think the questioner was? www.newsweek.com/obama-faces-...

Screen shot of text from May 20, 2009 Newsweek article entitled "Obama Faces Friendly Fire Over Terror Policies":

It was at that point, toward the end of the meeting, that one attendee raised the idea of criminal prosecution of at least one Bush-era official, if only as a symbolic gesture. Obama dismissed the idea, several of those in attendance said, making it clear that he had no interest in such an investigation. Holder—whose department is supposed to make the call on criminal prosecutions—reportedly said nothing.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Trump is in the caaaaaaart! Trump is in the CAAAAAAART!

Screenshot from Dee-Lite's "Groove is in the Heart" video.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I have the same problem, because I’m on the Highway to the…

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I don’t even think he really thought that.

Wall Street Journal headline: Trump Thought Opening Hormuz Was Imminent. Iran
Had Other Plans.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

🎵 I’m bitin’ riiiight intoooo the… 🎶

Packaged loaf of “Nature’s Own” whole wheat bread.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

There’s a podcast where we know these things off the top of our heads, and talk about them all the time, including six months before it appears in the New York Times. If that’s something you care about, maybe you want to subscribe and support us? Patreon.com/kagrox We also make jokes. It is fun.

Screenshot from July 27,2026 NYT opinion piece “What’s the Worst Thing Trump Can Do in the Midterms?”: Under the procedures of the House, the speaker can install a more compliant successor - that is, a G.O.P. toady. In this scenario, Speaker Johnson's designee, at Mr. Trump's instigation, would produce a roll of new House members that included Republicans in races that Democrats believed they had won.

Screenshot of my January 15, 2026 post: Who would be admitted to the floor of the House to participate in constituting the new House would presumably be decided between the Clerk and the Sergeant at Arms (appointed by the Speaker, elected by the House, and continuing in office between Congresses until replaced).

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

“They’re coming from Africa.”

BBC News photo of “South Africa refugees,” a group of all white South Africans admitted to the US in a special asylum program under Trump. The “refugees” are of all ages, with a few halfheartedly holding miniature American flags, with a few sad, under inflated red, white and blue balloons decorating an otherwise drab warehouse type space.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Listening to Kagro in the Morning #KITM is like getting the newspaper a day early. Or in this case, six months. You should listen and subscribe to a daily politics and procedural explainer show that can walk you through scenarios like that off the top of the host’s head. Patreon.com/kagrox

Screenshot from NYT opinion piece “What’s the Worst Thing Trump Can Do in the Midterms?”: Under the procedures of the House, the speaker can install a more compliant successor - that is, a G.O.P. toady. In this scenario, Speaker Johnson's designee, at Mr. Trump's instigation, would produce a roll of new House members that included Republicans in races that Democrats believed they had won.

Screenshot of Bluesky posts from January 15, 2026.

Question: Nearly every toss-up election this cycle is in a state controlled by a Democratic governor and a Democratic Secretary of State or their equivalent. So who is going to refuse to certify?

Reply: I think at that point in the process, you're talking about a refusal to accept credentials, which falls in the first instance to the Clerk of the House.

Don't know much about the incumbent, except that it's a position awarded by majority vote of the House, and so at least potentially partisan.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Ay yo, I figured out why he lives like Jagger.

Package of “Jaggery Balls” on a supermarket shelf.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

You know. Donald Trump Mustang. Everybody’s saying it.

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