Chad Averett
@caverett.bsky.social
Science geek. Avid board gamer.
Posts will have a little bit of Louisiana flavor.
Posts will have a little bit of Louisiana flavor.
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Rand Paul: "Secretary Hegseth said he had no knowledge of this and it did not happen. It was fake news. It didn't happen. And then the next day, from the podium of the WH, they're saying it did happen. So either he was lying to us on Sunday or he's incompetent and didn't know what had happened."
December 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Rand Paul: "Secretary Hegseth said he had no knowledge of this and it did not happen. It was fake news. It didn't happen. And then the next day, from the podium of the WH, they're saying it did happen. So either he was lying to us on Sunday or he's incompetent and didn't know what had happened."
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The White House's lies about the illegal Caribbean boat strikes are so obvious and about such serious matters that they're floundering.
As @gregsargent.bsky.social and @jenrubin.bsky.social explain, specific strikes are criminal, but even more so, the entire campaign is blatantly illegal and wrong.
As @gregsargent.bsky.social and @jenrubin.bsky.social explain, specific strikes are criminal, but even more so, the entire campaign is blatantly illegal and wrong.
Crucial point from @jenrubin.bsky.social: The leaks about the bombings show there's a ton of deep consternation inside the military and civilian leadership about what's happening. And that can only get worse.
On the pod Jen is so illuminating on this scandal:
newrepublic.com/article/2038...
On the pod Jen is so illuminating on this scandal:
newrepublic.com/article/2038...
Trump Press Sec Spin Implodes as Fresh Boat Bombing Horrors Rattle GOP
As Karoline Leavitt struggles to defend awful new revelations about the bombings, The Contrarian’s Jennifer Rubin explains why even Republicans are shaken—and why this will only get worse for Trump.
newrepublic.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The White House's lies about the illegal Caribbean boat strikes are so obvious and about such serious matters that they're floundering.
As @gregsargent.bsky.social and @jenrubin.bsky.social explain, specific strikes are criminal, but even more so, the entire campaign is blatantly illegal and wrong.
As @gregsargent.bsky.social and @jenrubin.bsky.social explain, specific strikes are criminal, but even more so, the entire campaign is blatantly illegal and wrong.
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Dear Senator Cassidy,
“We” didn’t. WE didn’t pardon anyone. HE did. The President of the United States pardoned him. Come on Bill, say his name. Who’s our president? Say his name.
Best,
Your Former Congressional Colleague
“We” didn’t. WE didn’t pardon anyone. HE did. The President of the United States pardoned him. Come on Bill, say his name. Who’s our president? Say his name.
Best,
Your Former Congressional Colleague
December 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Dear Senator Cassidy,
“We” didn’t. WE didn’t pardon anyone. HE did. The President of the United States pardoned him. Come on Bill, say his name. Who’s our president? Say his name.
Best,
Your Former Congressional Colleague
“We” didn’t. WE didn’t pardon anyone. HE did. The President of the United States pardoned him. Come on Bill, say his name. Who’s our president? Say his name.
Best,
Your Former Congressional Colleague
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When a judge issues an order in any case, that is literally the law in that particular matter
Full stop
It can be appealed, reversed, stayed or amended-but until that happens (if it ever does), all parties MUST follow the ruling
So-Kristi Noem just admitted to contempt
There must be consequences
Full stop
It can be appealed, reversed, stayed or amended-but until that happens (if it ever does), all parties MUST follow the ruling
So-Kristi Noem just admitted to contempt
There must be consequences
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
November 30, 2025 at 10:36 PM
When a judge issues an order in any case, that is literally the law in that particular matter
Full stop
It can be appealed, reversed, stayed or amended-but until that happens (if it ever does), all parties MUST follow the ruling
So-Kristi Noem just admitted to contempt
There must be consequences
Full stop
It can be appealed, reversed, stayed or amended-but until that happens (if it ever does), all parties MUST follow the ruling
So-Kristi Noem just admitted to contempt
There must be consequences
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Witkoff and Co. priorities in “peace” negotiations:
1) Make money
2) Get Putin what he wants in Ukraine, which will facilitate 1
3) Get connected Americans a piece of the spoils in Ukraine
And that’s apparently it.
Not priorities: freedom, security, justice, law, US allies, avoiding future war
1) Make money
2) Get Putin what he wants in Ukraine, which will facilitate 1
3) Get connected Americans a piece of the spoils in Ukraine
And that’s apparently it.
Not priorities: freedom, security, justice, law, US allies, avoiding future war
Three powerful businessmen—two Americans and a Russian—hunched over a laptop in Miami Beach last month, ostensibly to draw up a plan to end Russia’s long and deadly war with Ukraine.
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Witkoff and Co. priorities in “peace” negotiations:
1) Make money
2) Get Putin what he wants in Ukraine, which will facilitate 1
3) Get connected Americans a piece of the spoils in Ukraine
And that’s apparently it.
Not priorities: freedom, security, justice, law, US allies, avoiding future war
1) Make money
2) Get Putin what he wants in Ukraine, which will facilitate 1
3) Get connected Americans a piece of the spoils in Ukraine
And that’s apparently it.
Not priorities: freedom, security, justice, law, US allies, avoiding future war
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This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Says Noem Made Final Decision on El Salvador Removals in Breach of Court Order
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Macaulay Culkin Has a Great Idea for a HOME ALONE Sequel and It Needs to Get Made
Macaulay Culkin Has a Great Idea for a HOME ALONE Sequel and It Needs to Get Made
The Home Alone franchise has lived rent free in the holiday season for more than thirty years, and now Macaulay Culkin is stirring up fresh excitement with a sequel idea that could actually work. During...
buff.ly
November 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Macaulay Culkin Has a Great Idea for a HOME ALONE Sequel and It Needs to Get Made
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Steve whitkoff is an actual traitor
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Steve whitkoff is an actual traitor
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EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
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Three things about the Witkoff tapes:
1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.
2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.
3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.
2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.
3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Three things about the Witkoff tapes:
1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.
2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.
3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.
2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.
3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
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BP partially restarts Olympic Pipeline after leak identified reut.rs/48dmtSh
BP partially restarts Olympic Pipeline after leak identified
BP said on Tuesday it had partially restarted the 400-mile Olympic Pipeline after crews identified the source of a leak of refined products east of Everett, Washington.
reut.rs
November 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
BP partially restarts Olympic Pipeline after leak identified reut.rs/48dmtSh
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@pablo.show published an investigative report into Riley Gaines with a video, “What Is Riley Gaines Hiding? We Investigated,” inciting a social media tit-for-tat with the subject herself. Pablo gives us the details.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-evolutions-of-a-grifter-former
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-evolutions-of-a-grifter-former
The Evolutions of a Grifter, Former Journalist, and NFL Girlfriend: Offsides with Pablo Torre
"There is a fake problem that Donald Trump is using to win elections, and he's doing it at the risk of truly stripping t
contrarian.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
@pablo.show published an investigative report into Riley Gaines with a video, “What Is Riley Gaines Hiding? We Investigated,” inciting a social media tit-for-tat with the subject herself. Pablo gives us the details.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-evolutions-of-a-grifter-former
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-evolutions-of-a-grifter-former
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"LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center Just Gave Anti-Vax Hype a Home," new by me. open.substack.com/pub/robertma...
LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center Just Gave Anti-Vax Hype a Home
Pennington's appointment of a notorious anti-vaxxer, Robert Malone, gives him a prestigious LSU title that the CDC now amplifies, while university officials spin the move as routine and harmless.
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
"LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center Just Gave Anti-Vax Hype a Home," new by me. open.substack.com/pub/robertma...
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This is what you see when you die
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
This is what you see when you die
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X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
November 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
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NEW: Pro-democracy organizers filed a new lawsuit Thursday accusing Secretary of State Denny Hoskins (R) of using wildly deceptive ballot language to tilt a referendum in favor of the GOP’s mid-decade gerrymander. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Missouri Organizers Challenge GOP’s ‘Inaccurate and Biased’ Gerrymander Referendum Language
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
NEW: Pro-democracy organizers filed a new lawsuit Thursday accusing Secretary of State Denny Hoskins (R) of using wildly deceptive ballot language to tilt a referendum in favor of the GOP’s mid-decade gerrymander. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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New in PN: Lindsey Halligan's bad bad week
"It was already painfully obvious that Trump’s pet prosecutor is entirely out of her depth, with both of her big splashy political prosecutions spiraling out of control. This week, though, it became clear she'd be overmatched prosecuting a jaywalker."
"It was already painfully obvious that Trump’s pet prosecutor is entirely out of her depth, with both of her big splashy political prosecutions spiraling out of control. This week, though, it became clear she'd be overmatched prosecuting a jaywalker."
Lindsey Halligan's bad bad week
Look out, Lionel Hutz.
www.publicnotice.co
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
New in PN: Lindsey Halligan's bad bad week
"It was already painfully obvious that Trump’s pet prosecutor is entirely out of her depth, with both of her big splashy political prosecutions spiraling out of control. This week, though, it became clear she'd be overmatched prosecuting a jaywalker."
"It was already painfully obvious that Trump’s pet prosecutor is entirely out of her depth, with both of her big splashy political prosecutions spiraling out of control. This week, though, it became clear she'd be overmatched prosecuting a jaywalker."
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Updated this post on Kash Patel's taint (the legal kind, not THAT kind, you perverts!!), with a list of the shadow prosecution team that have written various filings.
There's a guy at Main DOJ and (seemingly) FBI OGC doing the nastiest work here.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/19/k...
There's a guy at Main DOJ and (seemingly) FBI OGC doing the nastiest work here.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/19/k...
Kash Patel's Taint - emptywheel
The Jim Comey prosecution seems more focused on clearing up the taint arising out of their fishing expedition into Comey's privileged communications that it is on actually convicting him in this parti...
www.emptywheel.net
November 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Updated this post on Kash Patel's taint (the legal kind, not THAT kind, you perverts!!), with a list of the shadow prosecution team that have written various filings.
There's a guy at Main DOJ and (seemingly) FBI OGC doing the nastiest work here.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/19/k...
There's a guy at Main DOJ and (seemingly) FBI OGC doing the nastiest work here.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/19/k...
The recent Epstein emails released by his estate are equivalent to chat conversations done in today's social apps. Full of gross conversations between icky people who really didn't break any laws besides common decency. The Epstein files in DOJ possession are Stringer Bell's notebook from The Wire.
November 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The recent Epstein emails released by his estate are equivalent to chat conversations done in today's social apps. Full of gross conversations between icky people who really didn't break any laws besides common decency. The Epstein files in DOJ possession are Stringer Bell's notebook from The Wire.
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“I think that many of these college journalists are laser-focused on their beats, are developing great sources among administrators, faculty and students, and are unfazed by the possibility that their stories might piss off a valued source or two” — Columbia Journalism School professor Bill Grueskin
You know what media is NOT bending the knee in the Trump era? College journalists! The Harvard Crimson's brutal takedown of the lecherous ex-prez Larry Summers is just the latest example of students showing a failing 'grown-up' media how it's done
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
College journalism exposes the rot of ‘grown-ups’ | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus a history lesson on the real ‘Charlotte’s Web,’ and fascism,
www.inquirer.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
“I think that many of these college journalists are laser-focused on their beats, are developing great sources among administrators, faculty and students, and are unfazed by the possibility that their stories might piss off a valued source or two” — Columbia Journalism School professor Bill Grueskin
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Louisiana families see health insurance plan costs go up by several thousand dollars per year as Affordable Care Act subsidies are set to expire. Story from @emilywoodruff.bsky.social
www.nola.com/news/healthc...
www.nola.com/news/healthc...
A Louisiana family paid $300 a month for health insurance. Now it's $2,000 as ACA credits expire.
A New Orleans live audio engineer opened his ACA renewal link to find his family’s monthly premium jumping from $300 to $2,000. He’s not alone.
www.nola.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Louisiana families see health insurance plan costs go up by several thousand dollars per year as Affordable Care Act subsidies are set to expire. Story from @emilywoodruff.bsky.social
www.nola.com/news/healthc...
www.nola.com/news/healthc...
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The Pedophile Protection Party
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The Pedophile Protection Party
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BREAKING: Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein said Donald Trump knew about the underage girls that Epstein was accused of victimizing, according to emails released by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives reut.rs/4hZV3nw
November 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
BREAKING: Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein said Donald Trump knew about the underage girls that Epstein was accused of victimizing, according to emails released by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives reut.rs/4hZV3nw
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Democrats have released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein suggested that Donald Trump was aware of the financier's sexual abuse and definitely "knew about the girls." Trump has denied any involvement in or knowledge of the sex-trafficking activities of his former friend, who died by suicide in 2019
November 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Democrats have released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein suggested that Donald Trump was aware of the financier's sexual abuse and definitely "knew about the girls." Trump has denied any involvement in or knowledge of the sex-trafficking activities of his former friend, who died by suicide in 2019