inkwrat
@inkwrat.bsky.social
Recovering journo, Champion of the Apostrophe
Former: Your favorite neighborhood bartender
Current: Librocubicularist Laureate
Still pretty good at listening & libations
Dogs are welcome here. Humans will be vetted.
Former: Your favorite neighborhood bartender
Current: Librocubicularist Laureate
Still pretty good at listening & libations
Dogs are welcome here. Humans will be vetted.
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inkwrat
@inkwrat.bsky.social
· Jan 26
A Party, and Nation, in Crisis
The GOP’s leaders are attempting to destroy the foundations of American democracy.
www.theatlantic.com
" ... the soul-blighted Donald Trump and the satraps and lackeys who abet his nefarious behavior—are attempting to destroy the foundations of American democracy. This must be stated clearly, and repeatedly."
Sadly, unbelievably, it must be stated again.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Sadly, unbelievably, it must be stated again.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate.
ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs.
Here’s what we found.
(Published Nov. 2024)
ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs.
Here’s what we found.
(Published Nov. 2024)
How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk
United used an algorithm system to identify patients who it determined were getting too much therapy and then limited coverage. It was deemed illegal in three states, but similar practices persist due...
www.propublica.org
December 16, 2025 at 4:00 AM
UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate.
ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs.
Here’s what we found.
(Published Nov. 2024)
ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs.
Here’s what we found.
(Published Nov. 2024)
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Wow, this 🔥
“Corporations that have paid to help him demolish the East Wing … Law firms that capitulated are now doing work for the Donald Trump Commerce Department… Bezos, who stood shoulder to shoulder with Donald Trump… No one has said anything about the character of this person today.”
“Corporations that have paid to help him demolish the East Wing … Law firms that capitulated are now doing work for the Donald Trump Commerce Department… Bezos, who stood shoulder to shoulder with Donald Trump… No one has said anything about the character of this person today.”
December 16, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Wow, this 🔥
“Corporations that have paid to help him demolish the East Wing … Law firms that capitulated are now doing work for the Donald Trump Commerce Department… Bezos, who stood shoulder to shoulder with Donald Trump… No one has said anything about the character of this person today.”
“Corporations that have paid to help him demolish the East Wing … Law firms that capitulated are now doing work for the Donald Trump Commerce Department… Bezos, who stood shoulder to shoulder with Donald Trump… No one has said anything about the character of this person today.”
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The absence of decency in a moment where we need it: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
The Absence of Decency
Obama: Trump:
open.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The absence of decency in a moment where we need it: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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A Go Fund Me has been set up in memory of Brown University victim Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov
www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-...
www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-...
Donate to In Memory of MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, organized by Samira Umurzokova
On December 13, MukhammadAziz Umurzokov was tragically taken from us in the Br… Samira Umurzokova needs your support for In Memory of MukhammadAziz Umurzokov
www.gofundme.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:06 AM
A Go Fund Me has been set up in memory of Brown University victim Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov
www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-...
www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-...
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Because it’s a smash and grab.
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects last year.
(Published July 2024)
(Published July 2024)
School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...
www.propublica.org
December 16, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Because it’s a smash and grab.
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Dear Bluesky hammer&sickle crowd:
That new dude in your group? He’s an FBI agent.
That new dude in your group? He’s an FBI agent.
December 16, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Dear Bluesky hammer&sickle crowd:
That new dude in your group? He’s an FBI agent.
That new dude in your group? He’s an FBI agent.
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Border Protection officer to be held in custody while awaiting trial on sexual assault claims
From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet...
From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet...
Border Protection officer to be held in custody while awaiting trial on sexual assault claims
U.S. Magistrate Judge Keri Holleb Hotaling peppered a defense attorney for Officer Luis Uribe with questions, telling her, “It seems that the evidence is strong."
chicago.suntimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Border Protection officer to be held in custody while awaiting trial on sexual assault claims
From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet...
From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet...
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Like any bully, Trump is fundamentally a coward. When he feels humiliated, he lashes out. Every authoritarian action he is taking must be understood against the backdrop of his declining popularity. He feigns strength, but he's operating from a place of weakness.
December 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Like any bully, Trump is fundamentally a coward. When he feels humiliated, he lashes out. Every authoritarian action he is taking must be understood against the backdrop of his declining popularity. He feigns strength, but he's operating from a place of weakness.
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The victims at Brown University?
Ella, a white Christian student, and Mukhammad, a Muslim student who originally came from Uzbekistan.
We're all in this together. Be wary of the hatemongers who are demonizing an entire faith for the sins of the few and love guns more than our kids.
Ella, a white Christian student, and Mukhammad, a Muslim student who originally came from Uzbekistan.
We're all in this together. Be wary of the hatemongers who are demonizing an entire faith for the sins of the few and love guns more than our kids.
December 15, 2025 at 11:07 PM
The victims at Brown University?
Ella, a white Christian student, and Mukhammad, a Muslim student who originally came from Uzbekistan.
We're all in this together. Be wary of the hatemongers who are demonizing an entire faith for the sins of the few and love guns more than our kids.
Ella, a white Christian student, and Mukhammad, a Muslim student who originally came from Uzbekistan.
We're all in this together. Be wary of the hatemongers who are demonizing an entire faith for the sins of the few and love guns more than our kids.
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Q 1 is if this happened. it would not be a typical emoluments clause style ripoff the taxpayers. Far worse, it would be collusion w/ the DOJ which is supposed to vigorously defend against such lawsuit and that taxpayer's interests, and an amount untethered to any law.
We’re suing to expose records related to President Trump’s stunning effort to pocket $230 million in taxpayer dollars as a payout for investigations into his own misconduct.
The public deserves answers about this self-enrichment scheme. We’ll get them in court.
The public deserves answers about this self-enrichment scheme. We’ll get them in court.
December 15, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Q 1 is if this happened. it would not be a typical emoluments clause style ripoff the taxpayers. Far worse, it would be collusion w/ the DOJ which is supposed to vigorously defend against such lawsuit and that taxpayer's interests, and an amount untethered to any law.
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Maybe Gen X will see the error of its ways?
It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
this is such a painful loss. my heart is broken.
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that,...
wilwheaton.net
December 15, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Maybe Gen X will see the error of its ways?
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While searching for something else I stumbled upon this fascinating op-ed from Dec. 2015--ten years ago. It appeared in the Greenville, SC Index-Journal. It matter-of-factly pointed out that Trump was beloved by white nationalists like Jared Taylor. This was BEFORE the first GOP primary was held.
![Trump brings bigots out of hiding
WASHINGTON Once you notice it, you can't unsee it."
A
about a Trump rally near Phoenix where
couple of weeks ago, I wrote:
The Twitterverse, and social media a young man shouted "mother-f—.
"Let's not mince words, Donald generally, can be dark places, as can the ing tacos — go back to Mexico" at two Trump is a bigot and a racist." comments section of Washington Post
Latino protesters — and a 70-year-old
I cited a long list of incidents in which articles, and my email inbox. This is
retiree sucker-punched a demonstrator.
he targeted women, Latinos, African-
the seventh presidential campaign I've
And where is the condemnation of
Americans, Muslims, Asians and the covered in some form over 25 years, and this behavior? At the Las Vegas debate, disabled. Here's what I heard back from harsh criticism comes with the terri-
Trump's rivals all but ignored the front-
Trump's defenders:
tory. But the Trump backers venom is runner, who previously said of a black
"Let's not mince
without precedent. His supporters surely protestor at his event: "Maybe he should
words," somebody
aren't all bigots — but he is bringing the have been roughed up." Trump is burn-
tweeted under the name
bigoted in from the cold.
ing down the Republican house, and the
Helios Megistos. "Mil-
There is an obvious truth to what
American house, yet his rivals are on a
bank is an anti-white
white nationalist publisher Jared Tay-
march of the narcissists.
parasite and a bigoted
lor told The New Yorker this summer:
If Marco Rubio, Chris Christie, Jeb
kike supremacist."
Trump's "support comes from people
Bush, John Kasich and other sensible
"[Trump] may well
who are more like me than he might like
candidates were to unite behind any one
be a bigot and a racist,"
to admit."
of them, that person could likely beat
DANA
one Michael Banfield
I write this not out of any hope of
Trump, and Ted Cruz. Instead, enabled
MILBANK
wrote me via email. "But changing the minds of Trump back-
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December 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
While searching for something else I stumbled upon this fascinating op-ed from Dec. 2015--ten years ago. It appeared in the Greenville, SC Index-Journal. It matter-of-factly pointed out that Trump was beloved by white nationalists like Jared Taylor. This was BEFORE the first GOP primary was held.
Truth? Facts? Evidence? Reality?
Or even just plain old-fashioned compassion?
Nope. Just another opportunity to flood the zone with shit.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Or even just plain old-fashioned compassion?
Nope. Just another opportunity to flood the zone with shit.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Conservative influencers blame Brown University shooting on a “leftist activist”
Nothing is known yet about the shooter's motive or political beliefs.
www.motherjones.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Truth? Facts? Evidence? Reality?
Or even just plain old-fashioned compassion?
Nope. Just another opportunity to flood the zone with shit.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Or even just plain old-fashioned compassion?
Nope. Just another opportunity to flood the zone with shit.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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A student from Alabama, and an Uzbekistani student inspired by the struggles he had to overcome, but from Trump, Leavitt, Tuberville, only words for her. Two died. One counts.
Brown University: What we know about the victims of the deadly attack - BBC News share.google/u8sVGtvj9WeQ...
Brown University: What we know about the victims of the deadly attack - BBC News share.google/u8sVGtvj9WeQ...
Brown University: What we know about the victims of the deadly attack
A gunman entered Brown University on Saturday, killing two students and injuring nine others.
share.google
December 15, 2025 at 8:21 PM
A student from Alabama, and an Uzbekistani student inspired by the struggles he had to overcome, but from Trump, Leavitt, Tuberville, only words for her. Two died. One counts.
Brown University: What we know about the victims of the deadly attack - BBC News share.google/u8sVGtvj9WeQ...
Brown University: What we know about the victims of the deadly attack - BBC News share.google/u8sVGtvj9WeQ...
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One citizen said that federal agents in Idaho pointed guns at her children, ages 6 and 8, and dragged her 14-year-old daughter out of a truck and zip-tied her.
The mother told investigators that an agent threatened to “fucking blow your head off.”
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
The mother told investigators that an agent threatened to “fucking blow your head off.”
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
Immigration Agents Have Often Grabbed and Mistreated Citizens, Congressional Investigators Find
Prompted by ProPublica’s reporting, an investigation by Senate Democrats documented the experiences of nearly two dozen citizens wrongly detained by immigration agents, contradicting the Trump adminis...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 2:30 AM
One citizen said that federal agents in Idaho pointed guns at her children, ages 6 and 8, and dragged her 14-year-old daughter out of a truck and zip-tied her.
The mother told investigators that an agent threatened to “fucking blow your head off.”
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
The mother told investigators that an agent threatened to “fucking blow your head off.”
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
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I truly feel for everyone dealing with the Brown investigation. We have capable and transparent police and investigators in Rhode Island who are clearly working their asses off to get answers. They have to deal with a clown show of an FBI.
December 15, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I truly feel for everyone dealing with the Brown investigation. We have capable and transparent police and investigators in Rhode Island who are clearly working their asses off to get answers. They have to deal with a clown show of an FBI.
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This is what happens when the FBI is run by two right-wing conspiracy theorist podcasters who spent the last 11 months purging almost anyone with institutional knowledge from the bureau. They're going to keep fucking this kind of thing up.
BREAKING: Authorities will release the person of interest in the Brown University shooting, officials said, as the investigation continues.
Live updates: Person of interest identified after 2 killed and 9 injured at Brown University
Live updates: 2 dead, 9 wounded in Brown University shooting; person of interest in custody
nbcnews.to
December 15, 2025 at 5:45 AM
This is what happens when the FBI is run by two right-wing conspiracy theorist podcasters who spent the last 11 months purging almost anyone with institutional knowledge from the bureau. They're going to keep fucking this kind of thing up.
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It’s the first night of Hanukkah and the world seems like a very dark place. But we can bring light to the darkness. We can fight for each other and make goodness, love, and community shine through.
Show me your menorahs and let’s light up the timeline!
Show me your menorahs and let’s light up the timeline!
December 14, 2025 at 11:39 PM
It’s the first night of Hanukkah and the world seems like a very dark place. But we can bring light to the darkness. We can fight for each other and make goodness, love, and community shine through.
Show me your menorahs and let’s light up the timeline!
Show me your menorahs and let’s light up the timeline!
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May the lights of Hannukah drive out the darkness. Chag Hannukah Sameach to all who celebrate 🕎
Image: courtesy of Yad Vashem, Berlin, Germany, 1930s.
Image: courtesy of Yad Vashem, Berlin, Germany, 1930s.
December 14, 2025 at 11:46 PM
May the lights of Hannukah drive out the darkness. Chag Hannukah Sameach to all who celebrate 🕎
Image: courtesy of Yad Vashem, Berlin, Germany, 1930s.
Image: courtesy of Yad Vashem, Berlin, Germany, 1930s.
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Stephen Miller shares worth $50,000 to $100,000 in the mining company MP Materials following a lucrative deal between the company and the Trump admin.
The sale came just one month after the admin announced measures to support MP Materials. The deal led MP Materials' share price to skyrocket.
The sale came just one month after the admin announced measures to support MP Materials. The deal led MP Materials' share price to skyrocket.
Stephen Miller’s Stock Sale Raises Questions, Ethics Experts Say
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Stephen Miller shares worth $50,000 to $100,000 in the mining company MP Materials following a lucrative deal between the company and the Trump admin.
The sale came just one month after the admin announced measures to support MP Materials. The deal led MP Materials' share price to skyrocket.
The sale came just one month after the admin announced measures to support MP Materials. The deal led MP Materials' share price to skyrocket.
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Very good @nytimes.com investigation of crypto deregulation and who benefits.
The next wave of stories will be about the consumers who were ripped off
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
The next wave of stories will be about the consumers who were ripped off
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
The S.E.C. Was Tough on Crypto. It Pulled Back After Trump Returned to Office.
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Very good @nytimes.com investigation of crypto deregulation and who benefits.
The next wave of stories will be about the consumers who were ripped off
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
The next wave of stories will be about the consumers who were ripped off
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
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NEW: The government admitted in text messages that Rep. LaMonica McIver didn't assault a federal agent in Signal chat messages that DOJ failed to hand over until this past week. That story and more on today's Breakdown. Free to subscribe: www.muellershewrote.com/p/doj-admitt...
DOJ Admitted LaMonica McIver Didn't Assault ICE in Withheld Signal Chat
Plus, DOJ's ridiculous response to my Epstein FOIA, Trump's corrupt collusion with a hand-picked immigration judge to re-arrest Kilmar Abrego, and more embarrassing DOJ losses!
www.muellershewrote.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
NEW: The government admitted in text messages that Rep. LaMonica McIver didn't assault a federal agent in Signal chat messages that DOJ failed to hand over until this past week. That story and more on today's Breakdown. Free to subscribe: www.muellershewrote.com/p/doj-admitt...
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"Every lockdown drill is a confession of failure. Every barricaded classroom is an indictment. Every child taught to hide is proof that the adults in charge have surrendered."
What Are We Doing to Our Children?
We taught kids to read, write, and dream; then trained them to hide, barricade, and bleed quietly while adults chose guns, cowardice, and silence over their future.
www.meidasplus.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
"Every lockdown drill is a confession of failure. Every barricaded classroom is an indictment. Every child taught to hide is proof that the adults in charge have surrendered."
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This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.