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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Gift article. 🎁 Shocking how little coverage this outrageous shit is getting. 🤯🤦 "The Trump administration is airing campaign-style television ads using money Congress approved for border security upgrades, efforts to combat drug trafficking and memorials for officers killed in the line of duty..."
wapo.st
Campaign-style Trump ads use money meant for border security, memorials
The White House Office of Management and Budget added $20 million to the pot for commemorative events a day before DHS awarded an advertising contract of the same amount.
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Gift article. 🎁 So f'ing delusional!! 🤬🤬 "Israel mattered because it could help forge an American-led economic and military order, linking the so-called start-up nation to the Persian Gulf and extending outward to South Asia and Europe, thus blunting Beijing’s influence."
nytimes.com
How Democrats Were Torn Apart by the War in Gaza (Gift Article)
In “Crossing the Red Line,” Akbar Shahid Ahmed goes behind the scenes in the Biden White House in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks.
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Gift article. 🎁 Hmm, I wonder why Yemen is falling to the Huthis? "The administration previously eliminated the position of special envoy to Yemen and did not appoint a permanent ambassador. President Trump also slashed U.S. foreign assistance to about $53,000 last year from $763 million in 2024."
wapo.st
As Houthis capitalize on U.S.-led war with Iran, fighting engulfs Yemen
As a brutal civil war reignites in Yemen between Iran-backed Houthi rebels and the government coalition backed by Saudi Arabia, a humanitarian disaster seems inevitable.
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Gift article. 🎁 This is so goddamned shameful, not paying a veteran what they PROMISED to give her..all because she is trans and therefore an easy target. 💔💔 "Shapiro had tried to do everything right...all in exchange for an honorable discharge and the promise of an $86,665.32 severance check."
wapo.st
A trans veteran became homeless after the military didn’t pay her severance
Chloe Shapiro is one of a dozen former service members identified by The Washington Post who have waited months for full payments.
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Gift article. 🎁 Sounds to me like he was actually quite prescient... "The 'last men' of our age grew so restive that they fell for populist demagogues who convinced them everything was rotten — 'an outcome,' he says, 'that was perfectly predictable more than 30 years ago.'"
nytimes.com
He Warned That the End of History Could Be Rough. Maybe Now People Will Listen. (Gift Article)
Francis Fukuyama’s famous take on the post-Cold War world was widely misunderstood. In a new memoir, he tries to set the record straight.
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Gift article. 🎁 It was "degenerate art" to Trump, I suppose? 🤔🤮
nytimes.com
Kennedy Center Removes ‘Blue’ Sculpture That Was an Artist’s Gift (Gift Article)
The towering artwork, added to the campus in 2019, was targeted for elimination after President Trump’s takeover of the center.
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Gift article. 🎁 Nothing shady here people! [insert circa 2017 joke about Russian salad dressing] "Bettina Trump denied any sinister or political motive. 'Generosity doesn’t automatically come with an agenda,' she wrote on Instagram. 'Sometimes a wedding gift is simply a wedding gift.'" 🙄🙄
wapo.st
Trump Jr. wedding celebrations were sponsored by powerful Russian businessman
Umar Kremlev, who heads the International Boxing Association and does business with the state, hosted two nights of parties, according to bride Bettina Trump.
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Gift article. 🎁 💯! "Ong observed that modern civilization was entering a phase of 'secondary orality,' in which a once-literate society reverts back to some of the conventions of preliterate cultures... [where] Meaning depends on the identity of the speaker, not on any concept of objective truth."
theatlantic.com
The End of Reading Is Here
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Gift article. 🎁 As one myself, this article rings very true. "We’ve followed a distinct arc over the past 50 years: one of disillusionment. Better than most, we understand the disjunctions of our present because they happened at crucial inflection points alongside the timeline of our lives."
theatlantic.com
What a Bicentennial Baby Knows
When I was born, the moniker carried a sheen of optimism. So much feels different now.
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Gift article. 🎁 Hopefully no one is surprised that this draft dodger who with zero respect for service people would ever do this. "More American service members have died in the Middle East during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has disclosed publicly, according to six U.S. officials."
wapo.st
More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly
Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Gift article. 🎁 Can’t believe any Jewish people back him…🤦🏻‍♂️ “…another example of the way the president is merging the pageantry of dictators and the big screen’s schlocky past into a communications chimera that... By cloaking the horrors of the past in the costumes of escapism, it normalizes them.”
nytimes.com
Trump’s Latest Makeover Target? Space Force Uniforms. (Gift Article)
The president shared a provocative new look for the next-gen Space Force ’fit.
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
What could go wrong? 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ “I speak to him. I know him very well. Putin is not looking to attack NATO territory.”…every time Putin hears such words, it reinforces his view…that he has Trump right where he wants him, thus further diminishing prospects for serious negotiations, let alone peace.
washingtonpost.com
Opinion | No wonder Putin feels bold
Trump’s envoys in Ukraine seem desperate while Germany’s right surges.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“Yay, Nazis!” is definitely an unusual presidential stance before midterm elections. Let’s see how it works out for him.
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Gift article 🎁 Sad but true 😭 “The combination of corruption, stupidity and sycophancy…that pervades the Trump administration is now infecting the Pentagon at the moment that our most powerful enemies are becoming more aggressive.”
nytimes.com
Opinion | Pete Hegseth Is a Wrecking Ball (Gift Article)
We are already paying a high price for the defense secretary’s purges and whims.
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Gift article. 🎁 For use with your favorite Trump supporter. 😂 "All in all, while Mr. Trump continues to boast about the 'greatest economy we’ve ever had, by far,' the record to date falls far short of that lofty pronouncement."
nytimes.com
Opinion | Trump’s Broken Promises, in 11 Charts (Gift Article)
The president likes to boast about the “greatest economy we’ve ever had.” His record falls far short.
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Gift article 🎁 "The anti-woke movement has taken all the excesses of wokeness, absorbed it into the Republican Party and weaponized it into the worst and most repressive administration for free speech since Woodrow Wilson arrested and prosecuted thousands of political opponents during World War I."
nytimes.com
Opinion | There Is a Sickness Worse Than Wokeness (Gift Article)
The anti-woke movement’s “cure” was more intolerance and more repression.
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Gift article. 🎁 Lots of other solid observations in here! "I now love drag. I can appreciate it as a commentary on the theatricality of female gender expression. And Ms. Parton knew that power and freedom. She showed us how a woman could appropriate the costume of femininity for her own purposes."
nytimes.com
Opinion | Dolly Parton Was So Fake She Was Real (Gift Article)
Dolly Parton was utterly real about her unrealness. She played with the over-the-top details.
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Gift article. 🎁 When people underestimated Dolly for looking like “the town tramp,” as she put it, she embraced it. ..."By the time they think that I don’t know what’s going on, I’ve done got the money and gone.” We call that particular trick country dumb where I am from. Dolly was a master at it.
nytimes.com
Opinion | Loving Dolly Was Easy. Understanding Her Was Hard. (Gift Article)
She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Gift article. 🎁 "There are the first stirrings of something like popular resistance. As the East India Company’s excesses eventually provoked a reaction not just in Parliament but also in the country at large, so too a broad and strikingly bipartisan hostility to Big Tech is taking shape..."
nytimes.com
Opinion | What It Took to Dismantle the Most Powerful Company in the World (Gift Article)
A playbook to curb the growing power of Big Tech.
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Gift article. 🎁😱😱 "The administration is now concerned about competition from open-source models from China, but it had walked back many measures that were preventing China’s A.I. advancement...and it was targeting its harshest restrictions on Anthropic, an American company, not a Chinese one."
nytimes.com
The U.S. Military Wants A.I. Dominance. Feuds and China May Thwart It. (Gift Article)
The administration is veering wildly in its response to the national security implications of A.I. as China, America’s main technological and military rival, charges ahead.
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Gift article. 🎁 Some really good commentary! I just hope that his diagnosis here is right. 🤞 "Nolan’s Odysseus is not a trickster. He is a man living in the ruins brought about by tricksters. So, too, are we. This movie, and the reaction to it, is a sign that the age of the trickster is ending."
nytimes.com
Opinion | Christopher Nolan’s Trojan Horse (Gift Article)
The big trick of his “Odyssey” is smuggling the core of Judeo-Christian ethics into an ancient Greek epic.
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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 14/08/2026
Trump imposed tariffs to steal from hard-working Americans and give to his corporate donors. Total scam!
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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Gift article. 🎁 "Anti-Semitism isn’t the principal reason that many Americans have come to view Israel as indifferent to Palestinian suffering. Netanyahu’s choices, rhetoric, and actions encouraged these perceptions, and at every point where the damage might have been contained, he made it worse."
theatlantic.com
How Netanyahu Lost America
The prime minister, a self-styled expert on the U.S., has shattered his country’s standing.
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Gift article, from 2021. 🎁 Crazy stuff. 🤪 "Those who had warmer views of Mr. Trump were more likely to become evangelical between 2016 and 2020 than those who didn’t feel warmly toward him...for many Americans, to be a conservative Republican is to be an evangelical Christian."
nytimes.com
Opinion | Why ‘Evangelical’ Is Becoming Another Word for ‘Republican’ (Gift Article)
It’s not necessarily a theological affinity for Jesus Christ. Many Americans are being drawn to the evangelical label because of its association with the G.O.P.
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Gift article. 🎁 Well this potshot at Clinton hasn't aged well... 😗😂 “Tolerance of serious wrong by leaders sears the conscience of the culture, spawns unrestrained immorality and lawlessness in the society, and surely results in God’s judgment.” -Southern Baptist Convention, 1998
nytimes.com
Opinion | The Problem With Political Christianity (Gift Article)
Does Gen Z feel welcome at church?
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Gift article. 🎁 So f'ing true, this performative patriotism crap! "Hegseth seems to believe that hotdogging and showboating improve morale. ... One of the first things you learn as a military aviator is this: Rules are written in blood. They exist for a reason, even if you don’t know what it is."
theatlantic.com
Pete Hegseth’s Reckless Message to Pilots
The secretary of defense is making one of the most dangerous jobs in America more lethal.
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Gift art. 🎁 Surprised Kegsbreath likes him? "Admiral Caudle offered examples: If he strode naked through the forest, coated in honey, he should not be surprised if he were attacked by a bear, officials said. If he wore gold chains and a fancy watch on a visit to Harlem, he risked getting robbed."
nytimes.com
An Admiral’s Rise Reveals the Politics Driving Hegseth’s Pentagon (Gift Article)
Before he was picked to lead the Navy, Adm. Daryl Caudle found ways to signal his support for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s anti-diversity goals.
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Gift article. 🎁 Sound familiar? 🤔 "Odysseus kills the suitors. They are dangerously weak men, not strong enough to rule or to exhibit self-control but strong enough to terrorize the elderly, the blind, women and children."
nytimes.com
Opinion | ‘The Odyssey’ Gives Us the Hero We Deserve (Gift Article)
Christopher Nolan’s Odysseus is a halfway hero: he wrestles with the problems he creates. That makes him a perfect figure for our modern moment.
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Gift article. 🎁 Best commentary I have seen so far; no wonder why MAGA hates this movie so much! 😂 "Without saying one word about modern politics, Christopher Nolan has rebuked the spirit of the age. His retelling of 'The Odyssey' is an admonition: Moral transgressions always carry a consequence."
nytimes.com
Opinion | Why Odysseus Turned on the Trojan Horse (Gift Article)
This “Odyssey” takes us somewhere we didn’t know we were going.
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Gift article. 🎁 So true! 🙄 "This faction of the far right imagines antiquity as a kind of idyllic Jim Crow universe of utterly separate civilizations, one in which the integration they despise could not possibly exist. But Greece is not as far from Africa as the North American continent is..."
theatlantic.com
The Fear of Black Greeks
White people don’t own the accomplishments of ancient Greece.
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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 22/07/2026
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, FOLKS! VERY NORMAL!
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Gift article. 🎁 Wonder why the US is terrible at soccer? "If soccer costs money, millions of kids can’t afford to play it. ... A country of 340 million people becomes, in soccer terms, a country of much fewer. Many of the supposed advantages associated with a large population simply don’t apply."
nytimes.com
The ‘pay-to-play’ problem in U.S. soccer, explained in the World Cup context
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Gift article. 🎁 "The worst part about living in Trump’s Washington has been seeing just how much fun he and all the MAGA vandals he brought to power have been having sacking and pillaging the place...it’s clearly starting to dawn on the MAGA minions that the morning after is going to be a doozy."
nytimes.com
Opinion | It’s No Longer So Much Fun to Be MAGA in Washington (Gift Article)
It’s a vibe shift.
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Gift article. 🎁 Pretty gross that scum like Nigel Farage are benefitting from Brexit the most. "Before Britain quit the EU, many farm workers came from Eastern Europe. After Brexit, they lost the right to work in Britain — and many voters assumed, therefore, that fewer foreign workers would come."
nytimes.com
Those British Strawberries Are Being Picked by Central Asian Workers (Gift Article)
Ten years after Brexit, most seasonal workers in Britain are from countries such as Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Without them, agricultural chiefs say, many farms would fail.
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
More: "Those who said leaving the EU was the answer were peddling a nostalgic delusion, but for those who considered themselves left behind, it was an attractive one. A reversal would force the...psychological shift that Britain has tried so resolutely to avoid since the dissolution of its empire"
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Gift article. 🎁 Sound familiar? "Brexiteers found an opportunity...because of the failure...to tell the hard truths about the inevitable, and difficult, political trade-offs that would be necessary to restore a vibrant economy and begin the rebuilding of decaying public services."
nytimes.com
Opinion | 10 Years After Brexit, the Dismal Verdict Is In (Gift Article)
Brexit was supposed to let Britain return to a time when it still counted as a global power. A decade later, the costs are blindingly apparent.
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Gift article. 🎁 Going it alone sounds great, but it comes at a price all US non-billionaires will bear. "Some costs of the world’s de-risking from America are already hitting home. Others won’t be evident overnight... Lacking a clear alternative partner, most countries will hedge gradually..."
nytimes.com
Opinion | The World Is Cutting Ties With America. It’s Already Costing Us. (Gift Article)
When other countries cut ties, Americans pay.
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Gift article. 🎁 French was right about Platner!! "When extremism is a virtue and moderation is a vice, then roughness is part of the appeal. The respectability of the alternatives ([outgoing Texas Senator] Cornyn has occasionally compromised with Democrats!) indicates weakness and weakness alone."
nytimes.com
Opinion | Trump’s Corruption Stains, From Texas to Maine (Gift Article)
Something is wrong if vice is all them and virtue is all you.
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Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
In 1964 a Democratic president signed the Civil Rights Act, and the segregationists walked out. Strom Thurmond, the loudest segregationist in the Senate, quit the Democrats and became a Republican that same year. The South has voted Republican ever since. Don’t believe it?
YES, THE CONFEDERATES WERE DEMOCRATS.
THEN THEY SWITCHED.
1964
BEFORE 1964
The segregationists were DEMOCRATS
AFTER 1964
The segregationists became REPUBLICANS
WHAT HAPPENED IN 1964
A Democratic president signed the Civil Rights Act.
Strom Thurmond, the Senate's loudest segregationist, quit the Democrats and became a Republican.
The South has voted Republican ever since.
DON'T BELIEVE US? WATCH WHAT THEY DO NOW.
Congress votes to take Confederate names off nine Army bases.
TRUMP VETOES IT.
Congress overrides him. The bases are renamed.
Trump's Pentagon puts all nine CONFEDERATE names back.
Six states, all Trump states, now make it ILLEGAL to take down a Confederate statue.
School boards in Virginia and Texas just put Confederate names BACK on public schools.
LAGUNA BEACH DEMOCRATIC CLUB
Sources: U.S. Congress; Department of Defense; Education Week; state statutes
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Gift article: 🎁 "Trump is now going through something like the stages of wartime grief: Denial that America failed; anger, which has led to renewed attacks; and then bargaining, as if the Iranians could somehow be bought off like...construction workers in New York. None of it has worked.
theatlantic.com
Iran, Not Trump, Is in Control of This War
The cease-fire was always just a Trump fantasy.
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Pretty ironic that this administration is trying to revive this nightmare (ie Vietnam and Watergate) by blundering into more disastrous wars overseas and saying that Watergate was a joke...
theguardian.com
The US celebrated the end of a ‘long national nightmare’ as it turned 200. What about now?
A decade in the making, the 1976 bicentennial had a cathartic impact on the wounded national polity
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026
I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Gift article. 🎁 A (rare) candid look at how unfettered US largesse has enabled Israeli belligerence and occupation... "The problem was not the 'special relationship' as such. It was the extent to which it had become unconditional. Thus, the occupation could be managed rather than ended."
nytimes.com
Opinion | U.S. Support Is Israel’s True Weakness
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
To fall into a stupor of self-absorption, as Trump has done, is to flee from reality. Few wars are worth fighting; those that are fought can only be won in the world, and not within the tortured confines of estranged minds.
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
More from Professor Snyder: "The US got to a place where a war like this was possible because we allowed too much power to be concentrated in too few hands...[It] was not just the result of an error by a few self-absorbed incompetents, but of structures in which such people could attain power."
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Gift article 🎁 from Professor Timothy Snyder: "[War] is politics by other means. To win a war means changing the politics of the enemy such that they must surrender. That is what Iran just did to the United States."
open.substack.com
Capitulation Day
The dimensions of defeat, and the chance for recovery
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Yep, the party formerly known as the GOP (now the Orange Jesus Cult) is now looking to re-litigate George Floyd's murder by exonerating Derek Chauvin...
nytimes.com
Minnesota Republicans Hold Moment of Silence for Ex-Officer Convicted of Murder
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Sons wife slotting in as a "reporter" in government controlled news lofts softballs to demented dictator wannabe. No end of shame!
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twinkielimit.bsky.social @twinkielimit.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Gift article. 🎁 Fascinating! 😱 “It’s not that the wealthy become evil; it’s that their environment stops teaching them the things that nonwealthy people are forced to learn simply by living in a world that pushes back…the basic mechanism by which humans learn that other people are real goes dark.”
theatlantic.com
What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat
For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.
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