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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Non-zero chance we have a Justice Ted Cruz by Christmas.

UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

American lives. And facts to back it up. But historical speculation is shaky. After 8 years of Clinton-style neoliberalism, a disruptor, left-of-Dems candidate may have been inevitable. If Nader hadn't run, somebody else would have stepped forward.

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Congress should follow the Second Vatican Council and legislate that Latin is banned from all court rulings.

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The algorithms are revving up. Twitter & Youtube. Grok. Fox and Sinclair. Even the supermarket tabloid covers nobody buys but millions see each day. GOP has vastly more resources than the spending $$ suggest.

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The deer-in-headlights photo of special counsel Jack Smith is a NYT editorial choice. As were the frequent serious-guy photos of John Durham.

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Who can question true love? But it's incongruous when a young billionaire heir marries like this. Age gap? Maybe. Habba describes herself as a devout catholic and her father was/is head of the US chapter of the Knights of Malta. Which party is the party of global elites?

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The NYT used the same unserious Scooby-Doo language to describe the very serious Russian interference in the 2016 election.

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Should I remigrate? The lands of my ancestors no longer exist, relatives and neighbors dragged to annihilation in mass pits or death camps, homes bombed to craters or rubble, land seized, collectivized, privatized, rebuilt, resold, reborn. But nothing left for me.

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Blind Old Man With Wisdom is an ancient literary trope. Homer, Tiresias, the guru from every 1970’s Kung Fu movie. No longer a trope, because in the 2020’s, most blind or visually impaired people have never scrolled social media.

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I watched two episodes of this HBO show and, wow, what a bore. A snore. A chore. I thought Green Lantern mythology was cool on Super Friends, but I was 8 years old in 1977. That said, HBO’s other current prestige fantasy show, House of Dragons has 5x the action but is more of a snooze fest .

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Fox News viewers will swear, under oath and with complete sincerity, that those were not the droids they were looking for.

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Trump is always imploding or collapsing at TNR.

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Diesel fuel is now at an all-time high. (AAA national average px index)

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The real scandal of Pizzagate was the casual assertion by the press that DC has good pizza. I sort of feel the same way about DC’s premier cultural institution.

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Bill Barr and Rupert Murdoch engineered the greatest Jedi mind trick in history, the Russian. At the Imperial Inquest, conservative pundits will testify under oath, penalty of death, that they were definitely not the droids they were looking for.

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Mortgages rates, construction supplies, and, as we’ll see over the next year or two, labor costs. Upzoning doesn’t mean a damn thing if people can’t buy, renovate, or build.

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This week in Taylor Sheridan far right fantasyland (Lioness): US military special forces, in FBI garb but under the direct command of the Pentagon, execute wounded prisoners on US soil. And turns out, the terrorists are…. Ukrainian!!

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This. Every pearl of wisdom from your broker. Long term equity. Growth vs income stocks. Index funds. etc. All largely depends on the US dollar as the global reserve currency.

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Josh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

NEW: Don Trump Jr’s luxurious wedding was secretly bankrolled by a Russian oligarch close to Putin. A saga involving private islands, the Olympics, and a Russian government-backed biker gang: www.propublica.org/article/dona...

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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch

The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

only people sliding into my DMs

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Republican Socialists of America.

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Bernie Sanders has always been one step ahead on technology. Even when he was running for mayor.

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Trump's homoerotic fever dream of rescue by two beefcake firefighters is part of a recent trend.

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Spencer Ackerman's Reign of Terror is, IMO, essential reading for understanding post 9/11 America. The audiobook is read by the author, so worth a listen as well.

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Reminder that Bibi engineered Gaza to fail. To slow momentum from the PA, discourage talk of a 2-state solution. But Gaza failed in a way he didn’t expect.

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Money Honey —> Trumpy Flunky —> ?

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Frankenbert Graveyardko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

i would like to gently suggest that, while the outstanding reporting stands on its own and needs no justification, "NBA punishes team owner for crime of paying worker above artificial cartel limit" is perhaps not the vindication of righteous adversarial journalism you were looking for

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Peggy Noonan op-ed generator: “When I first worked for Ronald Reagan — did you know I worked for Ronald Reagan? — I was inspired by Ronald Reagan’s words, [mumble, mumble]. Ronald Reagan was a great man, whom I knew, Ronald Reagan, that is…”

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Ted Cruz really, really wants Thomas’ seat. If Dems take the Senate, Trump has seven weeks to replace Thomas and Alito. At 56, Cruz is at the outer edge of a SCOTUS nominee. This is his last chance

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Trump reviews a book he didn’t read, published by Ted Cruz, who didn’t write it, about a man he doesn’t know and things that didn’t happen.

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Trump says he will win the Vietnam War, but it is not so simple.

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Trump says he will shove a dozen avocados up his nose, but it's not so simple.

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Trump says he will quarterback the Jets to a superbowl victory, but it's not so simple.

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Trump says he will conquer death and transcend space-time, but it is not so simple.

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Despite being on BlueSky I somehow am not in the Hassan Piker stream. I still only vaguely know who he is. As usual NewsCorp and Twitter have chosen a topic to fight over and then everyone fights over it.

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Where Minnesotans did not learn how to resist ICE: - Aspen Ideas Festival - TED talk - Center for American Progress - NPR’s Room For Debate™️ with host John Donvan - Interview with Jamie Dimon - NYT opinion columnist

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Here’s a number that is included in the definition of “up to $17.1 billion”: Zero.

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Norm Eisen is dancing around a dark fact. Odds Alito and Thomas retire in 2026 grow along with the Dems chance of taking the Senate. Roberts is tickling Trump's nutsack to ensure a transition to two young FedSoc members.

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This sort of comparison ignores the obvious political realities. Assuming Dems take the Senate, GOP has 4 months to find replacements for Alito and Thomas. After Jan 1 it could be 6 years. Roberts probably believes he’s the bulwark against Trump picking two Emil Boves.

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Roberts so desperately wants Trump to pick some fresh meat from the FedSoc to replace Alito and Thomas. Trump's power over Roberts increases as his popularity falls. Doubt this gets decided in 2026. @amarimow.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/by/ann-e-mar...

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Ann E. Marimow

Ann E. Marimow covers the Supreme Court for The Times from Washington.

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Op-Ed referencing Roman history, by Walter Russell Meade Walter, not Walt. Walter Russell Meade, not Walter Meade. Meade, not Mead. A Walt Mead maybe gets a column at the NYPost. But Walter Russell Meade is WSJ material.

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Trump is always erupting and exploding or plunging and imploding over at the New Republic

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The ballroom will be built. On August 21 SCOTUS will scribble on a Harlan Crowe-monikered cocktail napkin they’ll taking the case but allow continued construction… until a decision in June 2027. Construction will be 24/7 with maximum overtime w/ overages costing eleventy trillion dollars.

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I once helped a person w/ the process. Despite a timely application, she rec’d a 6 mo. visa renewal weeks after the 6 mo. period had expired. The government could not keep up. But her pending visa was honored and her status was retroactively fixed. Now gov’t delay is wielded as a weapon.

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mrspanstreppon @jamiepeppard.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Good luck trying to embarrass Blakeman. I didn't watch but speech was at the Nassau County police academy & training facility. The mostly men in khaki shirts behind Trump were cadets.

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

$500/ day. DHS has > $100bn annual budget and 250K employees.

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

When I’m indicted by Blanche’s DOJ on some bullshit, the NYPost will run a sad, out-of-context photo of me to prove my guilt.

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Does this unflattering and cropped photo capture him at the moment of doing something related to his oil and gas assets? If not it’s bad journalism.

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

No problem with Molly Jong-Fast’s choice to have plastic surgery in pursuit of “making a living” on TV as a political commentator. But why does TV employs someone with zero experience in politics or a history of studying or writing about politics as a commentator on politics?

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UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The mother of all constitutional crises is supposed to be when Trump openly defies the Supreme Court. Will it be over a ballroom?

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