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Jefficus

@spiraljazz.bsky.social
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Optimist, realist, and always seeking the truth and the beauty both. Also jazz. (Struggling of course with the optimism these days)

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Kinda wild that there have been wild protests going on in Albania for months set off by a corrupt Kushner luxury resort project and there has been barely coverage of it here 🇺🇸 and Trump never gets asked about it.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
(Reuters) - The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter. @reuters.com 🇺🇦 www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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David C Bell @moviehooligan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If you’re wondering what the vibe is going into the midterms the New England fall fair I went to today had a crochet guillotine for sale.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Harris County TX. He's hospitalized: "ICE claimed the man ran in front of the agents' vehicle and was struck. However, the surveillance video appears to show the SUV veering left through empty parking spaces before running the man over..." abc7.com/story/ice-ru...
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ICE agent strikes man with car during pursuit in Texas, authorities say: VIDEO
Surveillance video shows the moment an unmarked SUV carrying ICE agents ran over a man during a pursuit at a shopping center in Texas.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/10/2026
The Pentagon has again quietly raised the number of U.S. casualties during operations related to the Iran war. The military now is reporting that 21 U.S. service members have been killed, up from 18, and 865 have been wounded, up by 98 since August.
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Pentagon Again Increases Number of U.S. Casualties in Iran War
In an unannounced change, the Defense Department is now acknowledging troops who died or were wounded in support roles.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
To go in there alone, no backup, is bravery approaching madness. Just months ago, we watched live as a sitting MAGA Senator--backed by police--broke the arm of a uniformed Marine who came to protest peacefully. He was white; didn't matter. Truly surprised this woman made it out alive & unbloodied.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/10/2026
In Opinion “Democrats are right to feel bullish about their odds in a slew of this year’s congressional races,” Ben Wikler writes in a guest essay. “But to avoid another Jan. 6 scenario, they should devote just as much attention to — and sufficient resources toward — electing Democratic governors.”
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Opinion | Want to Avoid Another Jan. 6? Defeat These Republicans.
The 2028 election is on the ballot right now.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
ONE WEEK FROM TODAY IS NO KINGS #4 (Details at: nokings.org) We must turn up in MASSIVE numbers to show the world we don't support this Administration or a criminal president who has enriched himself to an obscene level at the expense of everyday hardworking Americans! #GettingReadyToDump-tRUMP 🟠💩 👎
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Jefficus @spiraljazz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump really is dancing away on Putin’s strings, now, eh? I mean, he has been for a long time, but between this and the diesel deal it’s become flamboyant…
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump announces that the U.S. will buy Russian oil. This is just a few weeks after Trump signed the Lindsey Graham Russia Sanctions bill, which authorized him to place 100% tariffs on countries that are the biggest importers of Russian oil/gas. Are we going to tariff ourselves now?
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The Republican Party was a pile of crap before Trump showed up. He simply serves as a tool to make them even crappier. He’s the AI of politics: He makes shit up, exploits every weakness in the system, is soulless and unregulated, and could end up killing us all.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My man ended USAID, condemning millions to death
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The chair of the committee that found that Israel had committed genocide. Well done. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...
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Nobel Peace Prize Live Updates: Navi Pillay, Human Rights Lawyer, Wins (Gift Article)
Ms. Pillay has served as a judge in her native South Africa and on international courts investigating war crimes. She led a U.N. panel that determined that Israel had committed genocide against Palest...
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Academia distilled.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Congress can legislate to overturn Roberts court decisions and then strip jurisdiction for the court to review. I describe this strategy here. nyulawreview.org/issues/volum...
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Congress's Article III Power and the Process of Constitutional Change - NYU Law Review
Text in Article III of the U.S. Constitution appears to give to Congress authority to make incursions into judicial supremacy, by restricting (or, less neutrally, “stripping”) the jurisdiction of fede...
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Kavi Kat 🌬️ @katinthestars.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What would you do if you found out a January 6th domestic terrorist was running for a seat on your city council or state legislature? For thousands of Americans, that question has stopped being hypothetical. #WeThePeople are taking notes. 📝 #J6Tracker 👀
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J6Tracker | Keeping the Record
Explore the January 6 public record: people, prosecutions, pardons, preserved evidence, and reporting on what happened next.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Meanwhile, earlier today Pete Hegseth bragged about how he fired 20% of the country’s generals, weeding out the ones he and Trump find disloyal to their agenda And while I hope to G-d these things aren’t related, I’m terrified that they are
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Please, for the love of God, can the media stop calling random cranks who write fan fiction about their personal heroes in the past "historians."
Geoff Shepard, a former Nixon aide turned Watergate historian and revisionist, recently gave a two-hour presentation at Justice Department headquarters that laid out his theory that the deep state took Nixon down. The title of his 78-page slide deck: “Watergate As Lawfare.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 27/09/2026
Beyond the fact that it’s incredibly illegal and corrupt to use taxpayer dollars to run political ads on television, there’s another problem with re-running old ads like this: the messaging only reminds everyone what a fraud you are.
Black-and-white image of Donald Trump standing in a hallway from a recent ad he ran on TV with taxpayer funds. White subtitle text on a black bar at the bottom displays what Trump’s voiceover says in the ad: “we will expel the warmongers from our government.”
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💙Patrice for Democracy 💙🦋🏖️♓️♻️ 🇺🇦🇺🇸🇨🇦🇵🇸🌈🐶🐱🐴🐾✝️🫶🏻☮️🥳🍷🎭⛴️🏈💙💚 @davis23patrice.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Exactly!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I know I've posted this many times - needs to flood the media until election day.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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CBF @cblessings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Room empties out at the UN as Netanyahu begins his speech.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
Elizabeth Warren: "It's gonna look like whatever Xi Jinping wants it to look like. Donald Trump loves to bully when he's talking to the press. He loves to bully when he's front of a big crowd. But face to face is there any evidence that he has ever been tough with another dictator?"
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In 9 months, Zohran Mamdani has: -Secured millions in worker restitution from DoorDash and UberEats -Launched the first stage of his universal childcare program -Cracked down on bad landlords -Balanced NYC's budget without cutting major social services This is what leadership looks like.
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump at the UN. Cartoon by Fahd Bahady.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: At least 550,000 voters registered or updated their registration last week, according to final tallies the nonpartisan nonprofit National Voter Registration Day shared exclusively with Democracy Docket Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Exclusive: Over half a million voters registered in a single day last week
At least 550,000 voters registered or updated their registration last week, according to final tallies the nonpartisan nonprofit National Voter Registration Day shared exclusively with Democracy Docke...
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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Mark @njdoc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Never stop talking about the Epstein Files regardless of what happens or whatever BB disastrous distraction the demented, malignant narciscisstic, orange felon deliberately creates!
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A million thanks to @hcrichardson.bsky.social for writing about the 350th anniversary of the burning of Jamestown and helping a larger audience understand this still very relevant history. I say this as Executive Director of the Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation but also as a historian & a citizen.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
NYT: “Two men deported to Equatorial Guinea by the Trump administration were hooded, bound, beaten with guns and shoved down a flight of stairs recently by police officers at a remote hotel where immigrants are being held indefinitely.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/w...
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's pretty damn impressive how much ground Mayor Mamdani has been able to cover after only nine months in office on a wide range of basic quality-of-life issues in NYC. I was reading through the numbers this morning, and they're kinda astonishing. (thread)
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18/09/2026
"It’s safe to say that in the entire known history of diplomacy, there has never been a more clownish team of envoys than Witkoff and Kushner." ICYMI Cathy Young: lnk.thebulwark.com/4hpzePo
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The Two Stooges Take Another Crack at Ukraine
Russia’s imaginary victories meet Trump’s imaginary diplomacy.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Reminder: voter fraud is not a thing. Voter suppression is.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Tech oligarchs have "allied themselves with the most unpopular president in recent history," says @billmckibben.bsky.social. It's time for Dems to stop the "small ball" and "be more aggressive." Jon Ossoff is a model here. Great piece (cites mine on this): billmckibben.substack.com/p/the-two-ho...
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The Two Horsemen, Riding in Formation
Is There Suddenly an Opening for AI and Climate Sense?
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16/09/2026
At the same time as the agency is rolling back its power plant standards, it’s launching a new study that would test the country’s water supply for abortion medication, contraception, and hormones used in gender-affirming care, along with over 1,000 other medications and chemicals.
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The EPA would rather monitor abortion pills in water than pollution
The agency is easing climate rules for power plants while testing water for mifepristone.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Once again, this was how the Economist characterized the American economy on Election Day in 2024. We had a country on the brink of stunning success, but the Republicans knee-capped it with trade wars and real wars of their own choosing.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
These people believe that individual choice, powered by the invisible hand of the free market, will naturally reveal what is good and what is bad, except when it comes to their own beliefs. Then they're gonna force you to sit there and listen.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/09/2026
NEW: As ice caps melt and new shipping lanes open in the north, the U.S. Arctic Research Commission has arguably never been more important. Its new leader is a MAGA influencer with close ties to Russia.
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How a MAGA Influencer With Ties to Russia Became Trump’s Arctic Adviser
As head of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission, Thomas Dans has backed a takeover of Greenland and other items on President Donald Trump’s list. But it’s not always clear where the administration’s ag...
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Insane. Criminal. E.P.A. Expected to Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/c...
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E.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants
Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
BREAKING: Our banned interview with Kimmel generated 6 million views on YouTube.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Another epic backfire
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“.. The 92-year-old former leader, who was prime minister at the time of the [9/11] attacks, drew a standing ovation after telling his ‘American friends’ that Canadians may be tolerant and kind but ‘we bow to no one.’” @apnews.com apnews.com/article/sept...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 09/09/2026
NEWS: Donald Trump’s own nephew, Fred Trump, is publicly calling out his uncle’s lies about 9/11, saying Trump’s claim that he brought a crew of workers to Ground Zero “so offends me that I need to speak out.”
Alt text: Screenshot of a post on X from Fred Trump (@FredTrump_) that reads:

“There are two reports out today that relate to the tragedy of 9/11. I will comment on them today because doing so on the 25th anniversary this Friday would take away from the solemn memories. I try not to comment personally about my uncle, but his claim that he brought a crew of workers to help at the sight so offends me that I need to speak out. He was not building a “big building “ at the time. The only crew he claimed to bring to the site would have been secretarial and accounting employees from Trump Tower I knew many of them, and pretty sure they were not capable physically to help (if they could, I am sure they would try). Regarding the US Steel Building, ironically, the grandfather of a very close friend of mine was one of the original engineers- the bldg was built strong. Second, the brother of a partner of mine was an engineer that was immediately called to perform an inspection. While people were originally concerned, it was eventually cleared for occupancy- not creaking and ready to fall. I hope this brings some truth to that story. The second story will follow. FT @NicolleDWallace @ErinBurnett @VaughnHillyard @ErinBurnett @kaitlancollins @MaraGay @RogerLau @HReneeHarvey”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Musk is already underwater in polls and if Democrats lean in they can make him even more toxic. He's declared open war on you all and is pushing a toxic, destructive, racist agenda. Maybe it's time to push back? I don't know, I'm just spitballing here.
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