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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
After which Bannon can sue the government for $12 Billion, and the Trump Administration will settle for $22 Billion, followed immediately by a mystery $20 billion purchase of Trump coin.
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Live Updates: Supreme Court Clears Way for Dismissal of Bannon Conviction
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Imagine how different things would be if they recognized people they didn’t know as humans. Gift article for the hypocritical-curious
nytimes.com
In South Dakota, Neighbors Feel Sorry for Kristi Noem’s Husband
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Funny how right-wing media has no problem believing these victims.
nytimes.com
Public References to Cesar Chavez Are Being Removed Across the U.S.
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I wonder if he’ll still be anti-mask as they wheel him into the operating room?
nytimes.com
Kennedy to Undergo Rotator Cuff Surgery
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
TACO President Trump told CBS News that the Iran war is “very complete, pretty much.” All it cost was, in no particular order:$100+ billion, seven American lives, an Iranian school full of children, untold environmental damage… Not that I want him to continue, but the tragic absurdity of it all.
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
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Petition for Active Suicide Prevention at PAUSD
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
And dispersed to Chuck-E-Cheezes across the nation.
yahoo.com
Trump's border czar announces 700 immigration officers to immediately leave Minnesota
The Trump administration is reducing the number of immigration enforcement officers in Minnesota after state and local officials agreed to cooperate by turning over arrested immigrants, border czar To...
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The IRS will settle the case with him for $12 billion.
yahoo.com
Trump sues IRS, Treasury Department for $10 billion over tax return leak
Jan 29 (Reuters) - U.S.
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Oh no. Then how will Canada be a force for peace? [half-heartedly clutches pearls]
nytimes.com
Trump Rescinds Canada’s Invitation to Join His ‘Board of Peace’
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Ah yes, remembering how Trump betrayed the Kurds during his first administration. No matter how bad it gets in the US, never think that Trump hasn’t screwed over other people worse.
nytimes.com
U.S. Pivot in Syria Leaves an Old Ally in the Lurch
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
With China leading the global economy, and the EU as leaders of the Free World, “America First” has reached its inevitable result.
nytimes.com
China Wins as Trump Cedes Leadership of the Global Economy
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Officials lying in the most disgusting fashion. Also giving CBS the opportunity to show off its new Qanon-friendly journalism.
cbsnews.com
ICE agent who shot Renee Good suffered internal bleeding, officials say
Jonathan Ross, who shot Renee Good in Minneapolis last week, suffered internal bleeding after the incident, two officials said, though it's not clear how extensive the bleeding was.
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
What are the odds that this statement was made because it’s accurate versus serving as the basis for Trump to become the first ever two-time FIFA Peace Prize recipient?
nytimes.com
Trump Says Iran Is Stopping Its Killings of Protesters as U.S. Moves Troops
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Just in case there was any doubt left as to how quickly CBS has turned into OAN.
cbsnews.com
ICE agent who shot Renee Good suffered internal bleeding, officials say
Jonathan Ross, who shot Renee Good in Minneapolis last week, suffered internal bleeding after the incident, two officials said, though it's not clear how extensive the bleeding was.
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
A Mitrokhin biography. IYKYK. Gift article for any intelligence/CI geeks out there.
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The Lowly Clerk Who Tried to Bring Down the K.G.B.
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Remind me again what people didn’t love about Kamala Harris?
abcnews.go.com
Trump says his 'own morality' is limit to his global power
Trump made the comments in a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times.
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
This is why people caution against ever saying that things cannot get worse. Gift article for those who have decided to euthanize their own last shred of hope.
nytimes.com
Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Yet another proof that MAGA has no principles, no ideology. It is a cult of personality. No more, no less. Gift article for the masochistic
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Trump Says U.S. Oversight of Venezuela Could Last for Years
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
A death I do not mourn. The article ends quoting Ames as saying that betraying those working for America sentenced him to the same fate. The most disgusting statement of self pity I’ve heard. Gift article for those with a strong stomach.
nytimes.com
Aldrich Ames, C.I.A. Turncoat Who Helped the Soviets, Dies at 84
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Russia’s military hasn’t been successful on any battlefield that wasn’t already leveled by artillery.
dpa-international.com
Russia's Medvedev floats kidnapping scenario involving Germany's Merz | dpa international
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Should we start practicing our feigned surprise for when all the “America First-ers” turn out to be perfectly fine with this? And that when it goes badly, they will look us straight in the eye and blame Biden?
nytimes.com
In Toppling Maduro, Trump Risks Blowback from ‘America First’ Base
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
War may not be the answer, but it sure is a popular guess these days.
apnews.com
At least 7 explosions and low-flying aircraft are heard in Venezuela's Caracas
At least seven explosions and low-flying aircraft are heard in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas. It was not immediately clear what was behind the explosions.
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Mel Gibson, 69, separates from 35-year old partner. Did she finally commit the cardinal sin of exceeding half his age?
independent.co.uk
Mel Gibson separates from 35-year-old partner Rosalind Ross after nine years together
The former couple share an eight-year-old son named Lars
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Of Russia and Europe, only one of them acts like they are not in an active war with each other. I’m not comparing this to what’s happening in Ukraine. I am saying that every act of sabotage is a literal act of war. Gift article for those reality-curious.
nytimes.com
Sabotage Suspected in Cutting of Undersea Cable, Finnish Police Say
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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Israel becomes the first country in the world to ban the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders. Let that sink in. File under "Things you do when you are committing genocide"... www.nbcnews.com/world/israel...
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
I’m pretty sure that as Russia allows Sharia (see Chechnya), Carlson is contractually obligated to use something else to whip up hysteria.
mediaite.com
Tucker Carlson Slammed Over Wild 'Radical Islam' Comments
Tucker Carlson is facing backlash from conservative critics after he said he feels "sorry" for people who view "radical Islam" as a bigger threat than OnlyFans.
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
So we should pencil in the press conference to announce his pardon for tomorrow?
politico.com
Justice Department says Jan. 6 pipe bomb suspect believed election conspiracy theories
The DOJ said in a new filing that the suspect was not “openly political” but believed the 2020 election had been tampered with.
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
That’s been abundantly clear for a while now. No one can tell Europe what to do, but it’s either Europe or no one.
thehill.com
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Is there a Nobel for TV Hosting? I’d absolutely offer to nominate him for that, if that would get him to resign the presidency early. Absent a Nobel for that, perhaps FIFA would agree to make that award for Trump as well.
thehill.com
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
*At least* eight flights with Epstein? Gift article for the incredulous among us.
nytimes.com
Federal Prosecutor Was Surprised by Trump’s Flights on Epstein’s Jet
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Where’s the asterisk saying that any less rosy report could have gotten people fired?
nytimes.com
U.S. Economic Growth Surged in Third Quarter of 2025
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Mitt Romney: the last person to figure out that trickle down economics is a sham.
finance.yahoo.com
Mitt Romney says the U.S. is on a cliff—and taxing the rich is now necessary ‘given the magnitude of our national debt’
Romney is worth an estimated $254 million, and was among Congress's wealthiest members.
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
I am a native English speaker with a Master’s degree and only got three of the four questions. Gift article. Whether you receive humility or validation, you will almost certainly agree that the students were rightly owed the apology.
nytimes.com
Korea’s English Exam Was So Hard It Prompted an Apology. How Would You Do?
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Ramaswamy Clutches Pearls
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Ramaswamy Challenges Conservatives on Surging Bigotry on the Right
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
What?! Trump fires the last guy to report bad economic news, and we’re not blindly swallowing the rosier reports?
finance.yahoo.com
CPI inflation print draws caution from economists: 'It’s hard to take this data seriously'
Thursday's release of November's CPI data showed inflation had unexpectedly eased to an annual rise of 2.7% that month, but economists expressed caution as the government shutdown impacted results.
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Now that Trump fires people who report bad inflation numbers, shouldn’t headlines reporting good numbers include an asterisk?
nytimes.com
Inflation Unexpectedly Slowed to 2.7% in November
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Whew. He can finally return to his true calling. How did he put it: podcasting rage-bait lies? Gift article for those who want to savor his departure.
nytimes.com
Bongino to Step Down From F.B.I.
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Trump is just a parrot and wooden leg away from being a full fledged pirate.
yahoo.com
Trump orders blockade of 'sanctioned oil tankers' into Venezuela, ramping up pressure on Maduro
President Donald Trump said Tuesday he is ordering a blockade of all “sanctioned oil tankers” into Venezuela, ramping up pressure on the country’s authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro in a move that se...
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
He may not be the worst president ever but he is without question the worst person to ever serve as president.
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Emily Ann Gregson @splashofgenz.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
“Zelensky shouldn’t have started the war with Russia.” - Trump 🙃
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Finally saying the quiet part out loud. Gift article. Read only if your good mood this morning was making you uncomfortable.
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Danish Intelligence Report Raises Concerns About U.S.
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
They’ll win the suit, but this is just another win for Trump. Fewer FBI agents with a moral code, and no money out of Trump’s pocket.
nytimes.com
A Dozen F.B.I. Agents Sue Patel After Being Fired Over Kneeling at Protest
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
A law enforcement officer murdered a civilian. During a protest against murders committed by police officers, some FBI agents showed their support for the protest against murders. As a result, they were fired. It wouldn’t make sense, if Trump weren’t President. Gift article, if you can stomach it.
nytimes.com
A Dozen F.B.I. Agents Sue Patel After Being Fired Over Kneeling at Protest
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Only slightly better than FIFA awarding Trump a peace prize.
sports.yahoo.com
World Cup 2026 to introduce 3-minute hydration breaks during every half
Hydration breaks will allow coaches to speak with players and alter strategies on the fly during halves.
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
So trans people are not the problem. Huh. I guess the best we can say is that child predators are the child predators. Unless, of course, people are just gleefully masking their bigotry using child abuse victims.
yahoo.com
Black Georgia Republican Party leader resigns after video surfaces of alleged meeting with 14-year-old boy
Social media accounts that posted the video include alleged screenshots of Stembridge’s text messages with the teen boy on a
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Trump’s sharpie has magical powers.
mediaite.com
Kristi Noem Mocked for Thanking Trump for Keeping Hurricanes Away: ‘Not a Cabinet, It’s a Cult’
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem was mocked Tuesday for comments she made seeming to credit President Donald Trump with preventing hurricanes.
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Why does no one remember that in 2017 numerous outlets reported that Kushner tried to avoid using US secure comms for conversations with Putin, preferring Russian secure comms in their embassy!
npr.org
Report: Kushner Discussed Setting Up Secret Communications With Russia
Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak told the Kremlin that Jared Kushner had discussed setting up a secret means of communicating directly, using Russian facilities, according to the Washington Post.
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Hegseth: these highly effective strikes are … ‘lethal, kinetic strikes.’ Parsing the least important aspect of this quote, I’m pretty sure that all lethal strikes are kinetic. By definition. I think that he keeps inserting that word because he saw a cool-looking person use it in a movie once.
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Inside Ukraine 🇺🇦 @insideukraine.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Why Russia cannot help but invade Hoping for Russia to ‘return’ to democracy or outgrow its violence is not a strategy — it is nostalgia for a country that has never existed.
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koblitz.bsky.social @koblitz.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
But how much credibility can you expect the Supreme Allied Commander of antifa to have?
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