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P.J. Trombley

@ptrombley.bsky.social
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1. Fox "news" is the anchor of a multi-billion dollar propaganda machine. 2. SLAVA UKRAINI! 3. Dogs rule. 4. Avid member of The Bulwark 5. TB Lightning HOCKEY! 6. Florida Water Family, Gulf of Mexico

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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 19h
Elissa Slotkin Spots a Big Warning Sign for Trump’s GOP | Command Post, The Bulwark REMARKABLE INTERVIEW! TOO SHORT! Sen. Slotkin lays out a plan to rescue us from Trumpism... good Lord, she is brilliant. www.thebulwark.com/p/elissa-slo...
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Elissa Slotkin Spots a Big Warning Sign for Trump’s GOP | Command Post
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Republicans continue to prove they don’t care that Trump committed crimes and tried to end our democracy 🇺🇸
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Paid for by the U.S. Government - Three different commercials extolling the Dear Leader thecycle.substack.com/p/paid-for-b...
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Paid for by the U.S. Government
Donald Trump is making taxpayers foot the bill for a bizarre government propaganda campaign—six weeks before the midterm elections.
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Medical Research www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-a-...
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This Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Medical Research
Future cures and America’s innovation lead are in jeopardy thanks to Donald Trump and Russ Vought’s latest scheme.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Alex Karp of Palantir says the AI industry must be nationalized to protect it from lawsuits if it accidentally destroys the world. More likely, he sees the bubble about to burst and he wants to be bought out with our tax dollars before that happens.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Nationalizing the AI sector might be the best-case scenario, but only after the crash so the taxpayers get the assets at fire sale prices.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
msnow is currently doing a segment about hasan piker being a problem for dems
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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
He's really good at this.
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Alex Wagner NUKES Alito’s Defense of the Trump Election Power Grab www.thebulwark.com/p/alex-wagne...
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Alex Wagner NUKES Alito’s Defense of the Trump Election Power Grab
JVL is joined by Alex Wagner to trace how four conservative power brokers built the legal machine that would reshape the Supreme Court decades later, and how that project helped create the politics we...
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Impeach Them. All of Them. www.thebulwark.com/p/impeach-th...
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Impeach Them. All of Them.
Hegseth is only the beginning.
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
How a St. Petersburg marina became an unlikely haven for big band jazz www.tampabay.com/culture/ente...
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How a St. Petersburg marina became an unlikely haven for big band jazz
Billy Joel’s trumpet player, Carl Fischer, is bringing jazz veterans, students and fans together in a monthly music series.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/09/2026
Stephen Colbert wins the Emmy for best variety series!
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A Resilient Seagrass Species Could Help Reshape Coastal Restoration in Florida's Indian River Lagoon By Gisele Galoustian From Florida Atlantic University www.fau.edu/newsdesk/art...
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A Resilient Seagrass Species Could Help Reshape Coastal Restoration
FAU Harbor Branch researchers found a resilient seagrass that survives environmental stress and regenerates from seeds, offering new hope for restoring degraded habitats in the Indian River Lagoon.
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The groove of this song is wicked, wicked bad! What a freakin' horn section! "I'm The President" by the band Knower. youtu.be/tuhe1CpHRxY?...
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I'm The President - KNOWER
YouTube video by KNOWER MUSIC
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Fox News likes Trumpism a lot more than it likes Trump (A chuckle at the end re: the NY Times' "Euphemism Desk") open.substack.com/pub/stopthep...
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Fox News likes Trumpism a lot more than it likes Trump
Bartiromo’s ouster shows the Murdochs protecting themselves from the reckless president
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12/09/2026
Raskin: “You don’t see any MAGA hats anywhere in the country anymore. The support for the Republicans is melting away.” Trump “pulled the plug on Medicaid” and ACA tax credits, leaving rural hospitals and three maternity clinics in one Michigan district shut down.
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Where’s the Beef (Coming From)? Video and transcript. By Paul Krugman paulkrugman.substack.com/p/wheres-the...
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Where’s the Beef (Coming From)?
Meat and freedom!
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Capital Is Organizing the World to Its Advantage and Everything Else Is a Sideshow "We are all mad at the billionaires and whatnot but let’s be very clear about the mechanism driving all of this..." by Hamilton Nolan open.substack.com/pub/howthing...
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Capital Is Organizing the World to Its Advantage and Everything Else Is a Sideshow
Capitalism or humanity, but not both.
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Machine Was Always Running This is JVL-level analysis. johanuniverseends.substack.com/p/the-machin...
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The Machine Was Always Running
By Johan
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Translation: It is simple: we do not agree with the cabinet's plans to cut billions from ordinary people, while the very richest get ever richer. No way. It must be fairer. We will keep fighting for that.
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Lawless Fed quick read... the Federal Reserve refuses to implement the law... prospect.org/2026/09/03/f...
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The Lawless Fed - The American Prospect
The central bank specializes in not following laws meant to restrain Wall Street.
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Simon @simon437.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The ultimate glitch in the system: we’ve optimized the economy to the point where the "small business owner" and the "unhoused" are now the same person. The hardware is failing, but the OS keeps insisting everything is functioning as intended.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Met a gun owner on my walk who wanted to talk to me about protecting the 2nd Amendment but she also believes in universal background checks and required training and was shocked to learn the NRA opposes all that - and this is a conversation I have with gun owners all the time.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 02/09/2026
There was no "censorship industrial compex" under the Biden administration. But the MAGA officials who continue to believe in it have done a lot of damage. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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MAGA’s Imaginary Censorship-Industrial Complex
The conspiracy theory that persists even though no evidence supports it
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
LYRV&B! Newsletter – August 2026 loveyourrv.substack.com/p/lyrv-and-b...
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LYRV&B! Newsletter – August 2026
South to Find Summer and Warm Water in Desolation Sound
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Enlighten Moi 😎💨💨 @elite99thc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Check out this article from USA TODAY: USS Abraham Lincoln limps into Thailand after 286 days at sea… www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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USS Abraham Lincoln arrives in Thailand after 286 days at sea
The aircraft carrier's lengthy deployment in the Middle East led to reports of mental health concerns and deteriorating conditions on board.
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cashmerecoco.bsky.social @cashmerecoco.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Is there a poll that says “Canadians won’t bend the knee to a convicted rapist whose name is redacted thousands of times in the Epstein pedophile Files?” Republicans can hate us - We don’t care.
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Unitary Stochastic Parrot Theory neoreality.substack.com/p/unitary-st...
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Unitary Stochastic Parrot Theory
Under the American system of government, power is held by three coequal branches; the President's hallucinations, the President's prompt injections, and the President's sycophancy patterns.
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The Middleman Is the Product BRILLIANT expose of the "healthcare marketplace" in the good old USA! open.substack.com/pub/longmemo...
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The Middleman Is the Product
The American health intermediary does not mediate risk — absorbing it, owning it, engineering the world to reduce it. It mediates responsibility.
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Rep. Auchincloss: Impeach Pete Hegseth First (Updated) charliesykes.substack.com/p/auchinclos...
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ICYMI: Auchincloss: Impeach Pete Hegseth First (Updated)
Plus: The sad, sad tale of Milo; the saga of a MAGA troll on the DOD payroll; and what I told the CBC about the price of defying Trumpism.
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The AI Reckoning Is Upon Us Charlie Sykes charliesykes.substack.com/p/the-ai-rec...
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The AI Reckoning Is Upon Us
Water, jobs, humanity, and the worst people in the world
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The Growing Rumble by Bill McKibben (at end of article Mr. McKibben describes the photo - a picture taken of the collapse when it happened) billmckibben.substack.com/p/the-growin...
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The growing rumble
Politics--alas--is what we need
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McCrackpire bat @mccrackenway.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Commissioned by the times, killed by the times, accepted by the bulwark, killed by the bulwark. Seems like our institutional centrist media has some shared interests against revealing that the output of Democratic Party fundraising strategy is taking money from vulnerable elderly people.
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The Bulwark Killed an Investigation into Political Fundraising Spam After Its Publisher Took the Consultants’ Side data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-bulwar...
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The Bulwark Killed an Investigation into Political Fundraising Spam After Its Publisher Took the Consultants’ Side
This is a story about the Democratic Party captured by its consultants, and about what happens when the pro-democracy press is asked to say so.
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
How Did the World Get to Be Held Hostage by Two Malevolent Cretins? by Michael Tomasky, The New Republic newrepublic.com/post/214884/... via @newrepublic.com
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How Did the World Get to Be Held Hostage by Two Malevolent Cretins?
Trump’s America is a joke. And so is Putin’s Russia. But both countries, under their unstable leaders, are as dangerous as cornered badgers, and that isn’t funny.
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Dave Long @stupordave1.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Ignored, not missed…
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The Laughingstock of the World charliesykes.substack.com/p/the-laughi...
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The Laughingstock of the World
Alas, this is not a parody.
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Here’s How We’re All Going To Die In 2029 Noah Smith, an economist recommended by Paul Krugman some years ago, describes a plausible doomsday scenario... because AI (and teenage hormones). open.substack.com/pub/noahpini...
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Here’s how we’re all going to die
Spoiler: It’s vibe-coded superviruses.
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Reality intrudes We can't actually keep on like this. by Bill McKibben billmckibben.substack.com/p/reality-in...
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Reality intrudes
We can’t actually keep on like this
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Pentagon’s Uniquely Positioned Newspaper -- the Stars and Stripes -- and Why It Should Stay That Way by General Mark Hertling (ret.) www.thebulwark.com/p/the-pentag...
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The Pentagon’s Uniquely Positioned Newspaper—and Why It Should Stay That Way
If ‘Stars and Stripes’ can’t report bad news, troops will look elsewhere.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026
Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.
aiddata.org
Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned
Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Corrupt AF www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/g...
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Grand jury finds DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money to Hope Florida
A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money for political purposes.
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Hook and Squeeze How Democratic consultants built a fundraising spam pipeline that extracts money from a captive pool of elderly donors. data4democracy.substack.com/p/hook-and-s...
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Hook and Squeeze
How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
In Conversation with Heather Cox Richardson Oh my goodness! Robert Reich and HCR together! robertreich.substack.com/p/in-convers...
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In Conversation with Heather Cox Richardson
On the Origins of Trumpism
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Hopefully Yours connieschultz.substack.com?r=q73tk&utm_...
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Hopefully Yours | Connie Schultz | Substack
An ongoing conversation about the daily mess of life: Family, politics, books, teaching, writing, journalism - and dogs, always dogs. In my world, hope is a fact. Click to read Hopefully Yours, by Con...
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Sande @sande0724.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The Trump MAGA Republican Party of Hypocrisy.
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
BREAKING: The Annexation Papers. What Trump/Lutnick Actually Demanded From Canada Behind Closed Doors, Why It Was Never A Trade Deal, And Why He’s About To Enter The Find-Out Portion Of The Program (Dean Blundell's FAFO!) deanblundell.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
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BREAKING: The Annexation Papers. What Trump/Lutnick Actually Demanded From Canada Behind Closed Doors, Why It Was Never A Trade Deal, And Why He’s About To Enter The Find-Out Portion Of The Program
The snapback clause was the least offensive thing in that document. The verified list of American demands reads like articles of surrender. Now Carney is going to punch him in the mouth.
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The President Is Selling You Out — One Second at a Time Justin Wolfers (print article or video) open.substack.com/pub/platypus...
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The President Is Selling You Out — One Second at a Time
How early access to Trump’s "truths" will drain ordinary investors
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Art and light: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis...
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