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Uwaine

@uwaine.bsky.social
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I have been lucky enough to keep my same username from the other site. I hope I see some friends & acquaintances here. No Crypto please, it's not for me.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Scott Bessent is easily Trump's most grown-up cabinet member (as low a bar as that is). And yet he committed a grave ethical lapse yesterday, as @pkrugman.bsky.social notes. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/cronyism-c...
First — and why aren’t more people saying this? — what the hell was the Treasury secretary doing giving a closed-door briefing on a significant policy change that hadn’t yet been officially announced? Isn’t that a setup for large-scale insider trading? Indeed, attendees at that conference surely made market bets before Bessent’s remarks became public.

And since when are major policy announcements by government officials made off the record to closed private-sector meetings? One even wonders whether Bessent was announcing policy or making it: Did Trump back him up only after the fact?

The content of his remarks aside, what was Bessent even doing at this event? Senior government officials aren’t supposed to be helping investment banks entertain their clients.

Was Bessent paid for his appearance? That would have been inconceivable under any previous administration, but now God knows. Or are we now entering an era in which companies that do favors for Trump and co., either in the form of money or support for their policies, get lucrative insider briefings?

Put it this way: New York Times conflict of interest rules would have prohibited me, as an opinion writer, from talking to a closed-door session at J.P. Morgan. For the Treasury secretary to do so — especially when announcing a major policy change — is a huge ethical breach.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 22/04/2025
Amazing how England's Conservatives were in power for 14 years and everyone got completely fed up with them to the point that Labour clobbered them last year, only for them to turn around and say "haha just kidding, Tories again"
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RC deWinter @rcdewinter.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman took their wives to play a round of golf.
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The damage is done. As an example soybeans need to be going into the ground right now. Farmers are sitting on millions of dollars in seeds alone and their export contacts are now gone. ADM just shut down a soybean processing plant in S. Carolina. No exports, no jobs. Done.
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David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Pete Hegseth is clearly on his way out due to incompetence. I wonder if the next Secretary of Defense will be from Newsmax
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23/04/2025
Every conversation between a MAGA and a liberal…
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Michael Stahlke @michaelstahlke.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Six months since leaving the ICU. Two months after that at Physical therapy they were like “what are your goals?” I said “I want to be able to pick up all my kids at once”. Helluva thing.
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Law enforcement experts www.cnn.com/2025/04/22/p...
Law enforcement experts have raised concerns about whether the incident, which involved a thief getting so close to a Cabinet official and then absconding with her belongings, may have been a lapse in security.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 23/04/2025
It's 5am, it's dark, and I'm starting the day as god intended humans to live: sending invoices to national newspapers who have been using London Centric pictures and video without permission.
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
He took TS/SCI info from the CENTCOM JWICS portal and texted it to his wife and friends. I will die on this hill: everyone who has a star on their uniform would smile if they could shoot him!
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Hegseth Pulled Airstrike Info from Secure Military Channel for Signal Posts, NBC News Reports
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pulled the airstrike information he posted into Signal chats with his wife, brother and dozens of others from a secure communications channel used by U.S. Central Comman...
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
One thing that should be said about every voter suppression law is how unnecessary they are. Voter impersonation is the one crime we have all but eliminated with extensive cross checks, burdens, & enforcement. Meanwhile, we do almost nothing to fight the most common crime in America—wage theft.
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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
@azagmayes.bsky.social @captmarkkelly.bsky.social @gallego.senate.gov Please put a stop to this most egregious violation of HIPAA & our rights to privacy. The administration needs to be immediately reigned in. This is sheer insanity! #ProudBlue #OneV1 #MomSky www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...
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RFK Jr.'s autism study to amass medical records of many Americans
The autism study is planning to link confidential data "with broad coverage in the U.S. population" in one place for the first time.
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
If your religion is threatened by the existence of a book, then your religion is weak.
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RC deWinter @rcdewinter.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Feels like? He was! anyone who doesn’t recognize this very glaring fact is either living in a cave drunk/stoned or just plain stupid.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
CBS Evening News did a remarkably frank and pro-Owens segment on his departure from "60 Minutes". www.cbsnews.com/video/60-min...
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"60 Minutes" executive producer Bill Owens to step down
"60 Minutes" executive producer Bill Owens, whose career spans nearly four decades at CBS News, announced on Tuesday that he will depart the network, saying it has "become clear that I would not be al...
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Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com · 22/04/2025
The S&P 500’s performance since Inauguration Day is now the worst for any president up to this point in data going back to 1928.
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Anonymous ⩜ @youranona.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Reading Obama’s tribute to Pope Francis is a stark reminder of how far presidential dignity has fallen. Where there was once eloquence, compassion, and moral clarity, we now endure a swaggering caricature—petty, reckless, and painfully unworthy of the office.
This image is a tweet from former U.S. President Barack Obama, posted in tribute to Pope Francis. In the tweet, Obama describes Pope Francis as a rare leader whose humility and compassionate actions inspired people to be better. He highlights the Pope’s acts of kindness—embracing the sick, helping the homeless, and washing the feet of prisoners—as reminders of moral responsibility to one another and to God. Obama ends the tweet by expressing shared mourning with Michelle and people around the world, urging others to follow the Pope’s call to engage actively in the “march of living hope.”
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Not for nothing but ‘Genocide Joe’ wouldn’t have deported you for protesting, even when the person being protested was him.
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Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
A database of autistic Americans? That’s not healthcare—it’s control. Objection: RFK Jr. wants to build a registry of autistic Americans. New post up now. open.substack.com/pub/objectio...
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Objection: RFK Jr. Wants to Build a Registry of Autistic Americans
A horrifying proposal rooted in ableism, surveillance, and control. We’ve seen this playbook before.
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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Mars and the Beehive from last night. 22 April 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour
The Beehive star cluster at left of centre. Orange planet Mars above right of centre. Many faint star dots on a dark background.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Update! Over 1750 people have signed up for the Resistance Summer School pilot course! This is the seed to a new movement and parallel education structure. It won't put participants in lifelong student debt. Or be subject to attacks on diversity. karenattiah.substack.com/p/columbia-c...
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Columbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway.
This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Yeah no kidding. They want to play golf not end up in a Salvadoran gulag www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Many Canadian 'snowbirds' in US looking to pack up and fly north - for good
The number of Canadian "snowbirds" planning to sell their second homes in sunny Florida and Arizona has surged this spring, many of them put off by the sudden chill that has blanketed relations between their homeland and the U.S.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Stay loud stay visible stay brave
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I hate the way media fall back on the word "controversy." MSNBC just called SignalGate a controversy, as if there's a rational debate over whether sharing military secrets with a journalist and your wife is a good or bad thing.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
It would be a laudable and modest goal to see one of the 5 people who resigned from SDNY on principle would one day lead it -- but we've got a shit-ton of work b4 that might happen. static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...
Serving in the Southern District of New York has been an honor. There is no greater
privilege than to work for an institution whose mandate is to do the right thing, the right way, for
the right reasons. We will not abandon this principle to keep our jobs. We resign.
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 22/04/2025
Well this is probably one of the more insane statements I'll read today
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Satan @thedevil.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
never forget that we’re currently facing total economic destruction because fox news got upset about 0.0001% of our population wanting equal rights
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
RFK jr may be the most dangerous member of this administration
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AltFDA @altfda.altgov.info · 23/04/2025
Good morning ppl! I am super fired up and pissed today. Before I get to my damn rant, yesterday the VA launched a snitch line. Anti-Christianbiasreporting@Va.gov Spam the fuck out of this…
Snitch line Anti-Christianbiasreporting@Va.gov 
Spam in the gears snitch line Anti-Christianbiasreporting@Va.gov
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Uwaine @uwaine.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
North Atlantic right whales gave birth to 11 babies this season #RightWhales #Endangered www.bangordailynews.com/2025/04/22/n...
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North Atlantic right whales gave birth to 11 babies this season
That’s lower than scientists had hoped for given the endangered species has endured a high number of deaths in recent years.
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Uwaine @uwaine.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
#Tree rings and models paint a picture of past, present and future #drought www.msn.com/en-us/weathe...
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum: “We are going to change the law to prohibit foreign governments from carrying out political and ideological propaganda in our country.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/w...
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Mexico’s President Punches Back Against Kristi Noem’s Anti-Migrant Ads
The D.H.S. secretary’s appearances on Mexican television blaming migrants for societal ills in the U.S. have drawn a sharp rebuke from Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
It seems that reporting on how Trump and Witkoff want to gift Crimea to their Russian handlers ought to mention that in the same appearance where Trump asked Russia to hack Hillary in 2016 (& they did), he said he might do just this. It's just delayed payoff. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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U.S. proposes recognizing Crimea as Russian ahead of new round of talks
Ukraine and its European allies will be meeting with top U.S. officials in London on Wednesday to discuss the proposals, which may not sit well with Kyiv.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
this is so frigging insane. we're worried about hardened Japanese tourist/business traveler radicals destabilizing the the US during their visits?
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The US military is engaged in an air war in Yemen, its largest bombardment campaign since the one against ISIS in 2014. What are the goals? Have the strikes made progress towards them? Or undermined them? At what cost? Is it drawing from other priorities? Remarkable how little there is on that.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Reup: Tulsi Gabbard is lying about an NIE, just like Dick Cheney once did. In this case, she's doing it bc the IC has debunked a key claim behind Trump's Alien Enemies Act invocation. www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/22/t...
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Tulsi Gabbard's NIE Lies Make Dick Cheney Look Honest by Comparison - emptywheel
Tulsi Gabbard built her entire career around opposing the wars that Dick Cheney ginned up two decades ago. Now, in Cheneyesque fashion, she's grotesquely inventing a war that doesn't exist so she can ...
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Children as young as *four* are being put in the position of representing themselves without lawyers/parents present in front of immigration judges in cases that will determine whether they are deported. gothamist.com/news/4-year-...
“The reason we’re here is because the government of the United States wants you to leave the United States,” Judge Ubaid ul-Haq, presiding from a courtroom on Varick Street, told a group of about a dozen children on a recent morning on Webex.

“It’s my job to figure out if you have to leave,” ul-Haq continued. “It’s also my job to figure out if you should stay.”

The parties included a 7-year-old boy, wearing a shirt emblazoned with a pizza cartoon, who spun a toy windmill while the judge spoke. There was an 8-year-old girl and her 4-year-old sister, in a tie-dye shirt, who squeezed a pink plushy toy and stuffed it into her sleeve. None of the children were accompanied by parents or attorneys, only shelter workers who helped them log on to the hearing.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Tulsi Gabbard's NIE Lies Make Dick Cheney Look Honest by Comparison www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/22/t...
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Tulsi Gabbard's NIE Lies Make Dick Cheney Look Honest by Comparison - emptywheel
Tulsi Gabbard built her entire career around opposing the wars that Dick Cheney ginned up two decades ago. Now, in Cheneyesque fashion, she's grotesquely inventing a war that doesn't exist so she can ...
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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Kevin Kiley refuses to talk to his constituents about their health care and social security. Because he WON’T protect it. So, I went to Folsom and talked to them.
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 23/04/2025
Wow. Thank you San Luis Obispo. For your wonderful questions – and for coming out 2000 strong on a Tuesday night in defense of decency and our democracy.
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ivory1.bsky.social @ivory1.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
In 2000, John Waters donated 372 pieces of his art collection to the Baltimore Museum of Art. They named a rotunda after him in their gallery. He requested an all-gender restroom be named for him instead. #BOTD
John Waters standing beside a wall with a sign that says: The John Waters Restrooms. All Gender. 
Not my photo.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 23/04/2025
So this didn't help huh
Elon Musk and Donald Trump hawking Tesla vehicles at the White House
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
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What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.
Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
RFKjr intends to start a registry to track autistic people. Fuck NO! This is exactly how it started in 1930s Germany.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
So basically our core biomedical agenda has gone from cancer and heart disease research with major investments in alzheimers/dementia research to jacking up the sperm count of teenage males and a new wild goose for the 'hidden causes' of Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social & I are headed to North Carolina for our Town Hall tour! Rep Richard Hudson not only refuses to hold a Townhall, he’s the guy who told Republicans in Congress not to hold any. So we’ll do it with @abreezeclayton.bsky.social in his district. RSVP -> mobilize.us/s/OuidJN
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The People's Town Hall w/ Sen. Chris Murphy & Rep. Maxwell Frost · North Carolina Democrats
**EVENT IN ALAMANCE COUNTY / YOU MUST SIGN UP IN ORDER TO COME** Have you wondered why your members of congress are hiding from you instead of facing the harm of the GOP-agenda head-on? It's because...
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