Blasé Boylan
@blazesboylan.bsky.social
Journalist/author/academic.
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Blasé Boylan
@blazesboylan.bsky.social
· Jan 10
In all the reading I've done on how we got to where we are, and why Trumpism rose to where it is, I feel as if what's often missed are the two key reasons all this has happened. A thread. 1/
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This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t know how else to say it…
December 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t know how else to say it…
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Did you know that before Nixon and Reagan, health insurance companies in America were non-profit? Yep, they screamed about "socialized medicine" and gradually shifted the focus of our entire healthcare system from public welfare to... making bucks off illness.
December 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Did you know that before Nixon and Reagan, health insurance companies in America were non-profit? Yep, they screamed about "socialized medicine" and gradually shifted the focus of our entire healthcare system from public welfare to... making bucks off illness.
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RFK Jr.'s claim that COVID vaccines are deadly? Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. In this new extraordinarily large study, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality compared to those unvaccinated. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults in France
This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-t...
jamanetwork.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
RFK Jr.'s claim that COVID vaccines are deadly? Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. In this new extraordinarily large study, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality compared to those unvaccinated. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
6 Republican Voters on U.S. Strikes on Boats Suspected of Smuggling Drugs
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Years ago my oldest daughter took a job at walmart (despite my better advise). She said two hours of orientation was instructions on how to fill out federal assistance applications.
December 2, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Years ago my oldest daughter took a job at walmart (despite my better advise). She said two hours of orientation was instructions on how to fill out federal assistance applications.
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We are so far off the playing field here we can't even see the stadium.
December 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
We are so far off the playing field here we can't even see the stadium.
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Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
Finally the NYT is starting to get it!
Alternate theory: This headline writer will be disciplined for saying it out loud.
Alternate theory: This headline writer will be disciplined for saying it out loud.
December 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Finally the NYT is starting to get it!
Alternate theory: This headline writer will be disciplined for saying it out loud.
Alternate theory: This headline writer will be disciplined for saying it out loud.
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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Lane Kiffin's LSU contract will pay him the equivalent of my Louisiana public university annual salary every two days
December 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Lane Kiffin's LSU contract will pay him the equivalent of my Louisiana public university annual salary every two days
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Alina Habba’s parents emigrated to the US from Iraq citing persecution.
November 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Alina Habba’s parents emigrated to the US from Iraq citing persecution.
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This stuff needs to be told.
As Stalin said, "A single death is a tragedy, but a million deaths is a statistic."
The White House is compiling statistics.
We need to tell these stories, over and over.
As Stalin said, "A single death is a tragedy, but a million deaths is a statistic."
The White House is compiling statistics.
We need to tell these stories, over and over.
Rabbiatu is a nurse who worked during COVID, had been in the U.S. 30 years. A judge ordered that she could not be sent back to Sierra Leone for her safety, for fear of torture (!). So our evil regime sent her to Ghana (in shackles), and Ghana dragged her back to Sierra Leone.
🧵This 58-year-old nurse from Maryland is seen being violently dragged along the ground by officials in Ghana.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
November 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This stuff needs to be told.
As Stalin said, "A single death is a tragedy, but a million deaths is a statistic."
The White House is compiling statistics.
We need to tell these stories, over and over.
As Stalin said, "A single death is a tragedy, but a million deaths is a statistic."
The White House is compiling statistics.
We need to tell these stories, over and over.
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“He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.” He accepted a $1 million bribe from El Chapo to allow cocaine shipments to pass through Honduras.”
Now Trump set him free.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
Now Trump set him free.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
“He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.” He accepted a $1 million bribe from El Chapo to allow cocaine shipments to pass through Honduras.”
Now Trump set him free.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
Now Trump set him free.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
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RFK Jr. is against vaccines that have been proven to be safe and effective, because he claims they aren’t tested enough.
At the same time, he promotes supplements and IV peptides that aren’t approved or regulated by the FDA or any other body.
At the same time, he promotes supplements and IV peptides that aren’t approved or regulated by the FDA or any other body.
November 29, 2025 at 10:02 PM
RFK Jr. is against vaccines that have been proven to be safe and effective, because he claims they aren’t tested enough.
At the same time, he promotes supplements and IV peptides that aren’t approved or regulated by the FDA or any other body.
At the same time, he promotes supplements and IV peptides that aren’t approved or regulated by the FDA or any other body.
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So Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump really just want Mark Kelly to run for POTUS and humiliate JD Vance, right?
Bc that's the only explanation that actually makes sense.
Bc that's the only explanation that actually makes sense.
November 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
So Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump really just want Mark Kelly to run for POTUS and humiliate JD Vance, right?
Bc that's the only explanation that actually makes sense.
Bc that's the only explanation that actually makes sense.
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31 years ago this month, I warned that America was becoming a two-tiered society composed of a few winners and a larger group left behind, whose anger and disillusionment could be easily manipulated.
I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.
I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.
A Warning from 1994 of a Two-Tiered Society | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
31 years ago this month, I warned that America was becoming a two-tiered society composed of a few winners and a larger group left behind, whose anger and disillusionment could be easily manipulated.
I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.
I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.
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I'll say it. Trump is the reason the two national guards were shot. If Trump wouldn't have sent in the national guards into D.C. for a made up crime epidemic, they would not of been there. He can spin it anyway. This is what he wants, chaos. That way he can invoke the insurrection act.
November 29, 2025 at 8:28 AM
I'll say it. Trump is the reason the two national guards were shot. If Trump wouldn't have sent in the national guards into D.C. for a made up crime epidemic, they would not of been there. He can spin it anyway. This is what he wants, chaos. That way he can invoke the insurrection act.
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Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
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Just figured out what I want fir Xmas…
November 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Just figured out what I want fir Xmas…
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Trump envoy Steve Witkoff has been outed as a Russian asset. This is traitorous stuff.
Steve Witkoff helped Russia derail Ukraine’s access to Tomahawk missiles. He tipped off the Kremlin about Zelensky’s U.S. visit, giving Moscow time to arrange a call that convinced Trump to block the deal. Witkoff actively works against Ukraine’s defense, in coordination with Putin’s regime.
November 26, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Trump envoy Steve Witkoff has been outed as a Russian asset. This is traitorous stuff.