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Dan Murphy
@bungdan.bsky.social
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Ex Journalist Bloomberg/FEER/CSM. Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia, then Iraq/Egypt with a smattering of everywhere else. Same handle over at Mos Eisley Spaceport. Made wine for a few years. Now training a blue heeler in the CA foothills.
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
The spirit of Thanksgiving has infused the White House press office today, bringing us together in a blessed moment of harmony and goodwill.
Steven Cheung @StevenCheung47 Jane, respectfully, shut the fuck up for trying to politicize this tragedy. They were protecting DC and trying to make the nation’s capital safer. People like you who engage in ghoulish behavior lose all credibility. Not like you had any to begin with. Quote Jane Mayer @JaneMayerNYer · 20h This is so tragic, so unnecessary, these poor guardsmen should never have been deployed. I live in DC and watched as they had virtually nothing to do but pick up trash. It was for political show and at what a cost. x.com/kaitlancollins…
November 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
Marilyn Whirlwind. ICE accosted Marilyn Whirlwind.

They've got to go.
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
The Trump administration has reacted to a small scale lone wolf attack by in DC announcing a sweeping collective punishment, using the organs of government to heap blame on partisan rivals, and potentially dissuading anyone from collaborating with US forces abroad for a generation.
mikeeckel.bsky.social Mike Eckel @mikeeckel.bsky.social · 5h
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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schooley.bsky.social
Did anyone ever get to the bottom of whether appropriate asbestos mitigation occurred in the rushed tear down or are we just going to treat this as unknowable like so many other things with this president?
November 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
I wish it didn’t feel so unusual and inspiring to see a leader treating everyone like they matter and saying that we have a responsibility to help each other
zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4h
Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
November 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
bungdan.bsky.social
$54 million is the combined annual salary for 1,000 Louisiana public school teachers. bsky.app/profile/chri...
christinastephens.bsky.social Christina Stephens 🐯✨ @christinastephens.bsky.social · 19h
5:45 pm on Thanksgiving Eve?

Now THIS is how you news dump.
A screenshot from the espn app says Sources: Brian Kelly has been informed in writing that he's been terminated by LSU without cause. This means LSU is set to owe him the nearly $54 million remaining on his contract.
November 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
bungdan.bsky.social
This is "laughed loud enough to startle the dog" funny. Bravo. www.theringer.com/2025/11/25/n...
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
www.theringer.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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brandonfriedman.bsky.social
No idea why an Afghan refugee shot National Guard soldiers within walking distance of the White House, but this new USCIS directive was revealed on Monday. Worth noting.
brandonfriedman.bsky.social Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2d
The folks at @afghanevac.bsky.social have in hand a new USCIS directive which largely targets Afghan refugees who fled the Taliban in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal in 2021.

In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
USCIS Refugee Memo – Summary of Key Provisions Effective immediately, USCIS is ordering: ● A total freeze on all pending Form I-485 applications filed by refugees admitted from Jan 20, 2021 – Feb 20, 2025 ● A mandatory re-interview of all principal refugees admitted during that period ● A review and potential re-interview of derivative refugees, including spouses, children, and follow-to-join beneficiaries ● A reassessment of whether each refugee met the definition at the time of admission Authority being invoked: ● INA § 101(a)(42) (refugee definition) ● INA § 207 and § 209 (termination and adjustment authority) ● USCIS asserts power to undo past refugee admissions Consequences: ● USCIS may terminate refugee status for principals and all derivatives ● USCIS may deny green cards, even for those who already have them ● There is no appeal of a denied refugee-based I-485; the only option is to contest removal in immigration court ● Refugees placed in removal proceedings may renew their I-485 claim before an immigration judge Additional conditions: ● USCIS has 90 days to create the priority list for who will be re-interviewed ● The freeze on I-485s remains until lifted in a future memo ● Only the USCIS Director or Deputy Director may authorize exceptions ● USCIS is explicitly framing this as correcting “expediency,” “quantity over quality,” and “vulnerabilities” in Biden-era adjudications ● The memo states USCIS will revisit all inadmissibility grounds, including those previously waived ● The memo highlights a review of the persecutor bar ● It asserts a need to ensure refugees “pose no threat to national security or public safety”
November 27, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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anniaciezadlo.com
Whenever I hear the word gratitude I think of Oscar Wilde
"We are often told that the poor are grateful for charity. Some of them are, no doubt, but the best amongst the poor are never grateful. They are ungrateful, discontented, disobedient, and rebellious. They are quite right to be so. Charity they feel to be a ridiculously inadequate mode of partial restitution, or a sentimental dole, usually accompanied by some impertinent attempt on the part of the sentimentalist to tyrannise over their private lives. Why should they be grateful for the crumbs that fall from the rich man’s table? They should be seated at the board, and are beginning to know it. As for being discontented, a man who would not be discontented with such surroundings and such a low mode of life would be a perfect brute. Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less. For a town or country labourer to practise thrift would be absolutely immoral. Man should not be ready to show that he can live like a badly-fed animal. He should decline to live like that, and should either steal or go on the rates, which is considered by many to be a form of stealing. As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg. No: a poor man who is ungrateful, unthrifty, discontented, and rebellious, is probably a real personality, and has much in him. He is at any rate a healthy protest. As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid."
November 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
bungdan.bsky.social
I'm kind of rooting for this guy to have been one of the CIA's Ahmed Wali Karzai goons. bsky.app/profile/mike...
mikeeckel.bsky.social Mike Eckel @mikeeckel.bsky.social · 5h
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social
Ad for Petrol Ofisi, Türkiye, ca. 1960
Color photograph of some women goofing around at a gas station one of them is pretending to pump gasoline into the mouth of a woman in a red dress with white polka dots
November 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
bungdan.bsky.social
Counterpoint: No it doesn't. bsky.app/profile/reut...
November 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
“Shane Trucking confirmed they are no longer working here with the Boring Company”

WSMV on the NASHVILLE worker walkout on Elon & @GovBillLee’s Teslas only tunnel project over nonpayment and safety concerns

(The tennessean has still not covered this 🤔 for some reason)
November 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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meninblazers.bsky.social
Days after Idrissa Gueye was sent off for fighting with teammate Michael Keane, Everton players arranged a pretend boxing match at training 😭

“Only love here” says cameraman Thierno Barry 💙
November 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
Loomer is particularly dangerous in a breaking news situation. Before Thanksgiving 2023 there was an explosion at the U.S.-Canada border. It turned out to be a medical incident or mechanical problem or both.

Loomer sent several unhinged tweets insisting it was terrorism. They’re still up.
Laura Loomer: BREAKING: CONFIRMED ISLAMIC TERRORIST ATTACK NEAR THE US CANADA BORDER AT RAINBOW BRIDGE IN NIAGARA FALLS SHUT THE BORDER DOWN A 'huge vehicle explosion' has taken place at the US-Canada border in Niagara Falls. The FBI has warned of a 'fluid situation'. All four international border crossings between the US and Canada have been closed following the explosion.
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
bungdan.bsky.social
State of Journalism talk: These people with their sex stuff in public and absent ethics are vapid, venal freaks. Yes. But they are not the problem. The people who put them in those jobs - precisely because they're vapid, venal freaks - are the problem. And aint no one talking about them.
November 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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josephgalbo.bsky.social
Shoutout to my brother in law and everyone else working hard today to make sure people have a nice holiday tomorrow.
A guy in a grocery store uniform pushing a cart full of boxes of frozen food.
November 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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cherylrofer.bsky.social
Summary here
Kennedy Katch and Kill Kontinued - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Ryan Lizza has further elaborated on his accusations that Olivia Nuzzi was acting as an operative for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. while presenting herself to the public as a reporter: The ex-fiancé of Rober...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:41 AM
bungdan.bsky.social
Oh, cripes. I forgot to include the New York Times in the sleaze vortex. Forgive me and thank you for your attention to this matter. bsky.app/profile/did:...
bungdan.bsky.social Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 19h
Can someone tell me what new revelation came from the Olbermann/Lizza/Nuzzi/RFK/VF/NYM sleaze vortex today? I can sense from reading this website there was something. But have no idea what it was.
November 27, 2025 at 12:37 AM
bungdan.bsky.social
Can someone tell me what new revelation came from the Olbermann/Lizza/Nuzzi/RFK/VF/NYM sleaze vortex today? I can sense from reading this website there was something. But have no idea what it was.
November 27, 2025 at 12:27 AM
bungdan.bsky.social
All of it. Everything. All this vulgar and corrosive shite.
a close up of a man 's face in a car with a woman behind him .
ALT: a close up of a man 's face in a car with a woman behind him .
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November 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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“I just want to find 11,780 votes”. If you do, you’ll be a hero. If not, you might face criminal charges.

Naw, that’s not election interference.
November 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
I increasingly think this 11th C opinion upholding decision throwing out Trump lawsuit is a BFD.

That's bc Chief Judge William Pryor and Trump appointee Andrew Brasher said much of what Trump wants to charge as CRIMINAL conspiracy is not one.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Before WILLIAM PRYOR, Chief Judge, and BRASHER and KIDD, Circuit Judges. WILLIAM PRYOR, Chief Judge: These four consolidated appeals concern five separate orders. In 2022, between his terms of office, President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against dozens of defendants, alleging several claims, including two under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act and three under Florida law. The district court dismissed the amended complaint with prejudice for failure to state a claim. On the defendants’ motions, the district court also entered sanctions against Trump and his attorneys, under Rule 11 and under its inherent authority. While those orders were on appeal, Trump and his attorneys moved the district court to reconsider each order in the light of a report by Special Counsel John Durham. They also moved to disqualify the district judge. The district court denied both motions. Two defendants ask us to sanction Trump for bringing a frivolous appeal
November 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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"This isn’t a bug in the system. It’s a feature Musk designed, then acted surprised when it attracted exactly the kind of behavior that trust & safety teams used to work to identify and limit."
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM