DTwyman
@dtwyman.bsky.social
Retired Govt, film & broadcasting teacher. Politics & econ watcher, gardener & cat ❤️- Darth Kitty’s mine. If you don’t appreciate science, journalism & film, have a sense of humor I'm not your thing. Eclectic who knows politics isn't a spectator sport.
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DTwyman
@dtwyman.bsky.social
· Apr 4
In the coming days, you’re going to be hearing the word stagflation a lot, here’s a brief explanation of its meaning
Stagflation is a term for an economic situation that combines high inflation, stagnant economic growth & high unemployment. Stagflation is a combination of stagnation & inflation. 1/
Stagflation is a term for an economic situation that combines high inflation, stagnant economic growth & high unemployment. Stagflation is a combination of stagnation & inflation. 1/
As one does....
REPORTER: Could you imagine receiving a Kennedy Center honor next year?
TRUMP: Yeah, I think I'm going to nominate myself for next year
TRUMP: Yeah, I think I'm going to nominate myself for next year
December 8, 2025 at 12:07 AM
As one does....
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In a moment of folly I decided to look up tickets for world cup games, you know as one does when a big sporting event is coming to your city. Beloved the resellers have taken over. These are ticket prices for group stage games on stubhub!
My couch and TV will have to do because this is obscene.
My couch and TV will have to do because this is obscene.
December 7, 2025 at 11:46 PM
In a moment of folly I decided to look up tickets for world cup games, you know as one does when a big sporting event is coming to your city. Beloved the resellers have taken over. These are ticket prices for group stage games on stubhub!
My couch and TV will have to do because this is obscene.
My couch and TV will have to do because this is obscene.
Narrator's voice: No, he doesn't. Actually, he doesn't have a good relationship with anybody, with the possible exception of Putin - if being perceived as a useful idiot counts as a good relationship.
December 8, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Narrator's voice: No, he doesn't. Actually, he doesn't have a good relationship with anybody, with the possible exception of Putin - if being perceived as a useful idiot counts as a good relationship.
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Colorado told the DOJ to “take a hike,” becoming the latest state to reject its request for private voter data. Read an exclusively-obtained email from the department revealing its push to access the state’s “unredacted voter registration” information👇
Colorado Tells DOJ ‘Take a Hike’ as It Rejects Demand for Statewide Voter Data
Read more here.
bit.ly
December 7, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Colorado told the DOJ to “take a hike,” becoming the latest state to reject its request for private voter data. Read an exclusively-obtained email from the department revealing its push to access the state’s “unredacted voter registration” information👇
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A sad sad story and your reminder that rabies can have a very very long incubation period up to over a year.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/h...
Kidney Recipient Dies After Transplant From Organ Donor Who Had Rabies
www.nytimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:13 PM
A sad sad story and your reminder that rabies can have a very very long incubation period up to over a year.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/h...
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December 7, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Laser focused on the kitchen table issues affecting the American people
December 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Laser focused on the kitchen table issues affecting the American people
This, absolutely this 100%!
We do not want to go back to sham health insurance plans and denials
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
We do not want to go back to sham health insurance plans and denials
Obamacare isn’t perfect, but it’s better than what we had—and what the GOP proposes.
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:11 PM
This, absolutely this 100%!
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Trump last night had the complexion of a Thanksgiving turkey that was left in the oven too long and bandages were again visible on the back of his right hand
(photos via Getty and by Aaron Schwartz and Paul Morigi)
(photos via Getty and by Aaron Schwartz and Paul Morigi)
December 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Trump last night had the complexion of a Thanksgiving turkey that was left in the oven too long and bandages were again visible on the back of his right hand
(photos via Getty and by Aaron Schwartz and Paul Morigi)
(photos via Getty and by Aaron Schwartz and Paul Morigi)
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when you're a size 8 but the 10 was on sale
December 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
when you're a size 8 but the 10 was on sale
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*nods enthusiastically in library board VP*
I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
December 7, 2025 at 7:49 PM
*nods enthusiastically in library board VP*
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Literally professional victims
Ohio Supreme Court rules cops can be considered victims under Marsy’s Law ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/05/o...
Ohio Supreme Court rules cops can be considered victims under Marsy's Law • Ohio Capital Journal
The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled police officers can be considered victims, and thus not subject to public disclosure, under Ohio’s Marsy’s Law privacy protections.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Literally professional victims
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this is what he paid for when he bought Twitter
This is so perfect. No one have any doubts at this point about what Elon Musk really represents.
December 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
this is what he paid for when he bought Twitter
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Liberal democracy is not a person; it's a set of institutions. The $64,000 question is how - and whether - we can rebuild *that.*
What If It’s Already Too Late?
Institutional rot or ideological infection—either way, a real “Deep State” is already taking shape.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Liberal democracy is not a person; it's a set of institutions. The $64,000 question is how - and whether - we can rebuild *that.*
In my defense, given that there is a a convicted felon & pedophile in the White House, I think this actually shows remarkable self-restraint on my part.
@dtwyman.bsky.social has swears! They've used 156 profanities in their last 5,634 posts.
🥇 "hell" (30 times)
🥈 "damn" (25 times)
🥉 "pedophile" (15 times)
🥇 "hell" (30 times)
🥈 "damn" (25 times)
🥉 "pedophile" (15 times)
December 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
In my defense, given that there is a a convicted felon & pedophile in the White House, I think this actually shows remarkable self-restraint on my part.
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Anyone else want to put Tom Cotton on top of a capsized boat in international waters miles away from Venezuela and see how helpless he is?
WELKER: Lawmakers say the 2 men appeared to raise their arms potentially to surrender. Why did Admiral Bradley interpret these actions as anything other than them trying to survive?
TOM COTTON: They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat. They weren't floating helplessly in the water
TOM COTTON: They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat. They weren't floating helplessly in the water
December 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Anyone else want to put Tom Cotton on top of a capsized boat in international waters miles away from Venezuela and see how helpless he is?
@profanity.accountant I know this will be depressing but let's go for it.
December 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
@profanity.accountant I know this will be depressing but let's go for it.
The Brookings institution is reporting that in every corner of this country, the middle class is struggling with affordability. 1/3 of the American middle class cannot afford the cost of basic necessities as of 2023.
Further proof that friends don't let friends vote Republican!
Further proof that friends don't let friends vote Republican!
December 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The Brookings institution is reporting that in every corner of this country, the middle class is struggling with affordability. 1/3 of the American middle class cannot afford the cost of basic necessities as of 2023.
Further proof that friends don't let friends vote Republican!
Further proof that friends don't let friends vote Republican!
Is now a good time to point out that under those circumstances, men with integrity either resign or they allow themselves to be fired rather than to commit murder. I was following orders is not a defense. I was following orders so I didn’t get fired is even less of a defense.
BRENNAN: Do you have confidence in Admiral Bradley?
HIMES: What it raises is what happens when an apparently good man like Admiral Bradley is placed in a context where he knows that if he countermands an order he's uncomfortable with it's very likely he'll be fired
HIMES: What it raises is what happens when an apparently good man like Admiral Bradley is placed in a context where he knows that if he countermands an order he's uncomfortable with it's very likely he'll be fired
December 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Is now a good time to point out that under those circumstances, men with integrity either resign or they allow themselves to be fired rather than to commit murder. I was following orders is not a defense. I was following orders so I didn’t get fired is even less of a defense.
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Himes: "I think it's really important this video by made public ... it's important people see what it looks like when the full force of the US military is turned on two guys who are clinging to a piece of wood and about to go under just so they have a visceral feel for what it is we're doing"
December 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Himes: "I think it's really important this video by made public ... it's important people see what it looks like when the full force of the US military is turned on two guys who are clinging to a piece of wood and about to go under just so they have a visceral feel for what it is we're doing"
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Mark Kelly on Hegseth: "He doesn't look out for anybody. When you see what happened with this boat strike, it's not leadership to throw your people under the bus. He turned away and ran from this as fast as he could."
December 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Mark Kelly on Hegseth: "He doesn't look out for anybody. When you see what happened with this boat strike, it's not leadership to throw your people under the bus. He turned away and ran from this as fast as he could."
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Duckworth: "It is a war crime. It's illegal. No matter how you put it, it's all illegal. I've been shot down behind enemy lines. Under the laws of war, you are supposed to help render aid to that individual ... you're not allowed to go back in and kill them."
December 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Duckworth: "It is a war crime. It's illegal. No matter how you put it, it's all illegal. I've been shot down behind enemy lines. Under the laws of war, you are supposed to help render aid to that individual ... you're not allowed to go back in and kill them."
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These authoritarians want 🇺🇸 to be able to do whatever it wants whenever it wants in IR, while other actors exercise no sovereignty or agency of their own. The unbelievable narcissism of the One Special Boy projected onto national security & foreign policy. Naive & destructive beyond belief.
From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent
December 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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All of this could have been prevented but since this is the route voters chose perhaps the consequences are starting to wake people up
There are glimmers of a post-Trump world. JP Morgan CEO saying he wasn't going to bribe Trump was a big deal cepr.net/publications...
Trump Crazy #54,278 and Glimmers of a Post-Trump World
Trump’s latest abuses, collapsing conspiracies, GOP defections, and signs of a post-Trump political landscape.
cepr.net
December 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
All of this could have been prevented but since this is the route voters chose perhaps the consequences are starting to wake people up
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WELKER: You're talking about Trump protecting Arkansas from drugs, yet he pardoned the former president of Honduras who trafficked more than 500 tons of cocaine into the US. How does that make us safer?
COTTON: I haven't spoken to POTUS about that pardon. I have to know more about the circumstances
COTTON: I haven't spoken to POTUS about that pardon. I have to know more about the circumstances
December 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
WELKER: You're talking about Trump protecting Arkansas from drugs, yet he pardoned the former president of Honduras who trafficked more than 500 tons of cocaine into the US. How does that make us safer?
COTTON: I haven't spoken to POTUS about that pardon. I have to know more about the circumstances
COTTON: I haven't spoken to POTUS about that pardon. I have to know more about the circumstances