Keith A. Eddins
@eugeneinoregon.bsky.social
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Retired American diplomat who focused on NATO, USSR/Russia, & post-1989 Central Europe. Now adjunct faculty at the Univ. of Oregon. Political & foreign policy/international security views are my own. I will never be a collaborator. Proudly anti-fascist.
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Changpeng Zhao, the billionaire founder of crypto exchange Binance, received a pardon after months of boosting a crypto venture owned by President Donald Trump's family.
Billionaire money launderer pardoned after months of boosting Trump's crypto venture
Changpeng Zhao, the billionaire founder of crypto exchange Binance, received a pardon after months of boosting a crypto venture owned by President Donald Trump's family.According to The Wall Street Journal, Trump signed off on the pardon on Wednesday. Advisers said that the president sympathized wit...
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EPA Commissioner Lee Zeldin announces his agency is launching a major investigation into the right-wing conspiracies about chemtrails and weather manipulation to get to the bottom of it.
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NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting
The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources to...
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The destruction of the East Wing is a reminder that America has violated the only check-and-balance that actually ends up mattering: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-only-c...
The only check-and-balance that actually matters
www.doomsdayscenario.co
Historic preservation be damned— Trump wants a new ballroom (note: Hitler did too).
But it’s privately funded! Is that extortion? Pay to play?
Why don’t those same corporations help support federal workers who aren’t getting paid?
Even better, why not just have them pay a fair share of taxes?
But it’s privately funded! Is that extortion? Pay to play?
Why don’t those same corporations help support federal workers who aren’t getting paid?
Even better, why not just have them pay a fair share of taxes?
White House releases list of donors for Trump’s multi-million-dollar ballroom | CNN Politics
Apple, Amazon, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Google, Coinbase, Comcast and Meta are just some of the major companies who have made donations to build President Donald Trump’s proposed 90,000-square-foot...
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New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST
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Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
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Important to understand that Gov Youngkin (and likely AG Miyares) pushed the UVA Board to pressure the previous president to resign in order to get precisely to this place!
Unclear what the “immense pressure” that UVA faced from the Trump administration, but cutting these individual deals is an absolute disaster for higher education.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...