Kris Stoever
@krisstoever.bsky.social
Rene's daughter. Coauthor, with my dad, of "For Spacious Skies: The Uncommon Journey of a Mercury Astronaut" (Harcourt 2003), bestseller, LAT and NYT nonfiction lists.
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You are citing the guy who has repeatedly lamented that Ukraine's continued resistance to Russian imperialism is trampling on the legacy of the Soviet Union
One can support either progressivism or east Europeanism - but not both. branko2f7.substack.com/p/freedom-by...
December 9, 2025 at 9:40 AM
You are citing the guy who has repeatedly lamented that Ukraine's continued resistance to Russian imperialism is trampling on the legacy of the Soviet Union
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"This post is about an evergreen but newly urgent topic: How mainstream media in general, and the New York Times in particular, ‘frame’ the political news." —@jfallows.bsky.social
Read the rest here: fallows.substack.com/p/here-today...
Read the rest here: fallows.substack.com/p/here-today...
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow.
Saturday's NYT shows what its editors can do, when they want to. Why not do this every day?
fallows.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
"This post is about an evergreen but newly urgent topic: How mainstream media in general, and the New York Times in particular, ‘frame’ the political news." —@jfallows.bsky.social
Read the rest here: fallows.substack.com/p/here-today...
Read the rest here: fallows.substack.com/p/here-today...
Thread. interesting question
Periodically I ask if anyone has seen MAGA portrayed in fictional Hollywood movies and shows. Or maybe even a new play you've seen.
Unlike Nazi Germany's film industry, America's so far seems very shy about portraying the regime and its cult as they are.
Unlike Nazi Germany's film industry, America's so far seems very shy about portraying the regime and its cult as they are.
December 9, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Thread. interesting question
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was trying to remember why I knew this guy's name and oh yeah
December 9, 2025 at 4:02 AM
was trying to remember why I knew this guy's name and oh yeah
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National hero here:
On Tuesday morning I am arguing an important campaign finance case in the Supreme Court. I will be off line until that is over. In the meantime, stay informed about what else is happening to democracy in court by following @democracydocket.com and visiting www.democracydocket.com
Be back soon!
Be back soon!
December 9, 2025 at 4:10 AM
National hero here:
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Periodically I ask if anyone has seen MAGA portrayed in fictional Hollywood movies and shows. Or maybe even a new play you've seen.
Unlike Nazi Germany's film industry, America's so far seems very shy about portraying the regime and its cult as they are.
Unlike Nazi Germany's film industry, America's so far seems very shy about portraying the regime and its cult as they are.
December 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Periodically I ask if anyone has seen MAGA portrayed in fictional Hollywood movies and shows. Or maybe even a new play you've seen.
Unlike Nazi Germany's film industry, America's so far seems very shy about portraying the regime and its cult as they are.
Unlike Nazi Germany's film industry, America's so far seems very shy about portraying the regime and its cult as they are.
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*after hauling a few 45lb checked bags, a rollaway carry on, and a personal item off the airport shuttle, over the curb, and onto the various checkin/security counters, scales, and belts, and finding my gate* You what this place really needs? Preflight workout equipment.
Duffy on what he's doing to improve the airport experience for travelers: "Maybe I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing doing some pull ups or step ups in the airport."
December 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM
*after hauling a few 45lb checked bags, a rollaway carry on, and a personal item off the airport shuttle, over the curb, and onto the various checkin/security counters, scales, and belts, and finding my gate* You what this place really needs? Preflight workout equipment.
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if you try to serve me a ‘woman-sized dinner’ i’m going to bury one of my ‘woman-sized fists’ in your eye socket
December 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
if you try to serve me a ‘woman-sized dinner’ i’m going to bury one of my ‘woman-sized fists’ in your eye socket
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This lady hangs outside bathrooms as a stunt, no one made her do that.
“Noble intentions” is just being on TV and looking good in this case, her legacy is the hatred she stitches into the country that the rest of us will spend our lives cutting out.
“Noble intentions” is just being on TV and looking good in this case, her legacy is the hatred she stitches into the country that the rest of us will spend our lives cutting out.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“The obstacles to achieving almost anything are enough to make any member who came to Washington with noble intentions ask: Why am I even here?,” Rep. Nancy Mace writes.
“The obstacles to achieving almost anything are enough to make any member who came to Washington with noble intentions ask: Why am I even here?,” Rep. Nancy Mace writes.
Opinion | Nancy Mace: Why The Republican House Isn’t Working
The system in the House promotes control by party leaders over accountability and achievement.
nyti.ms
December 9, 2025 at 1:09 AM
This lady hangs outside bathrooms as a stunt, no one made her do that.
“Noble intentions” is just being on TV and looking good in this case, her legacy is the hatred she stitches into the country that the rest of us will spend our lives cutting out.
“Noble intentions” is just being on TV and looking good in this case, her legacy is the hatred she stitches into the country that the rest of us will spend our lives cutting out.
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OK, seriously. This is wild.
Judge Jay Bybee (1) raises a new issue — the Domestic Violence Clause of the Constitution — to consider in the troop deployment cases; (2) extensively details its historical application;
Judge Jay Bybee (1) raises a new issue — the Domestic Violence Clause of the Constitution — to consider in the troop deployment cases; (2) extensively details its historical application;
December 9, 2025 at 3:37 AM
OK, seriously. This is wild.
Judge Jay Bybee (1) raises a new issue — the Domestic Violence Clause of the Constitution — to consider in the troop deployment cases; (2) extensively details its historical application;
Judge Jay Bybee (1) raises a new issue — the Domestic Violence Clause of the Constitution — to consider in the troop deployment cases; (2) extensively details its historical application;
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Bwahahaha!😂
Honduran Authorities Issue Arrest Warrant for Ex-President Pardoned by Trump
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Bwahahaha!😂
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Breaking NYT:
The Honduran attorney general just announced that he issued an international arrest warrant for the country's former president, Juan Orlando Hernández, who was pardoned by Trump and released from a federal prison in the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/w...
The Honduran attorney general just announced that he issued an international arrest warrant for the country's former president, Juan Orlando Hernández, who was pardoned by Trump and released from a federal prison in the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/w...
Honduran Authorities Issue Arrest Warrant for Ex-President Pardoned by Trump
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Breaking NYT:
The Honduran attorney general just announced that he issued an international arrest warrant for the country's former president, Juan Orlando Hernández, who was pardoned by Trump and released from a federal prison in the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/w...
The Honduran attorney general just announced that he issued an international arrest warrant for the country's former president, Juan Orlando Hernández, who was pardoned by Trump and released from a federal prison in the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/w...
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“wherever you get your podcasts.”
Hey we managed to get King on board with the web, even though the wonderful HCR comes to us from a silo.
Hey we managed to get King on board with the web, even though the wonderful HCR comes to us from a silo.
Heather Cox Richardson offers the most lucid explanation(s) of the way Trump and his cronies are taking a hammer to our beautiful America. Get her daily letter wherever you get your podcasts.
December 9, 2025 at 2:45 AM
“wherever you get your podcasts.”
Hey we managed to get King on board with the web, even though the wonderful HCR comes to us from a silo.
Hey we managed to get King on board with the web, even though the wonderful HCR comes to us from a silo.
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This is a win.
Alina Habba, acting U.S. attorney for the district of New Jersey, announced Monday that she has resigned and blamed the "politicized left" for the move.
Top Trump prosecutor resigns after court rules she was serving unlawfully
Alina Habba, acting U.S. attorney for the district of New Jersey, announced Monday that she has resigned and blamed the "politicized left" for the move.Habba, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, stepped down after an appeals court ruling found that she was serving in her position unla...
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December 9, 2025 at 2:05 AM
This is a win.
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Bringing an actual pull-up bar to the airport press conference to demonstrate your pull-up form on TV without being 1000% sure you can do a bunch of really cool pull-ups first is the perfect demonstration of the Trump administration's approach to literally everything
December 9, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Bringing an actual pull-up bar to the airport press conference to demonstrate your pull-up form on TV without being 1000% sure you can do a bunch of really cool pull-ups first is the perfect demonstration of the Trump administration's approach to literally everything
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Right. If you take a blinkered view or quote selectively, you can construct a case that the GOP exercised great message discipline on “affordability.” In reality, Trump would ramble on about the supposedly “old fashioned” term “groceries” then offer observations on Arnold Palmer’s hog.
Trump did not run on a concrete affordability platform. If anything Harris focused on the issue far more. I know this has become a thing people say, but it’s a retcon to paper over the uncomfortable reality that 2024 makes no sense according to conventional wisdom about how to win elections.
A lot of the 2024 postmortem brought out how democrats ran on an abstract "democracy" arguments while trump ran on a concrete affordability platform.
Affordability got Trump's party voted in, and it's what's going to get him voted out, and if Ds lean in on it too hard, will get them voted out too.
Affordability got Trump's party voted in, and it's what's going to get him voted out, and if Ds lean in on it too hard, will get them voted out too.
December 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Right. If you take a blinkered view or quote selectively, you can construct a case that the GOP exercised great message discipline on “affordability.” In reality, Trump would ramble on about the supposedly “old fashioned” term “groceries” then offer observations on Arnold Palmer’s hog.
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Trump is trying to shield more than 4,100 documents from police officers and lawmakers suing him over Jan 6, claiming executive privilege even as a former president. The move delays the cases and blocks access to records about his actions before and during the riot.
December 8, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Trump is trying to shield more than 4,100 documents from police officers and lawmakers suing him over Jan 6, claiming executive privilege even as a former president. The move delays the cases and blocks access to records about his actions before and during the riot.
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France built exquisite tanks in 1937-1940, probably the best in Europe in terms of mechanical resilience, armor protection, and firepower. They outnumbered their adversaries with the latest tech.
They scaled innovation and obviously won the war.
They scaled innovation and obviously won the war.
The French military in 1940 is the worst possible example of this. They did adapt. They built a conventional military force based on lessons of WWI. They incorporated new technologies. They built new doctrines.
They just learned all the wrong lessons and as a result they fucking sucked.
They just learned all the wrong lessons and as a result they fucking sucked.
That’s not what happened in 1940 lol, the French army did not sit behind the maginot line
December 8, 2025 at 11:10 PM
France built exquisite tanks in 1937-1940, probably the best in Europe in terms of mechanical resilience, armor protection, and firepower. They outnumbered their adversaries with the latest tech.
They scaled innovation and obviously won the war.
They scaled innovation and obviously won the war.
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The Nazi regime encouraged citizens to turn in Jews and political opponents, and the Gestapo relied heavily on public denunciations. Informants were often rewarded with social favors, seized property, or better standing in the party, which helped reinforce Hitler's rule.
December 8, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The Nazi regime encouraged citizens to turn in Jews and political opponents, and the Gestapo relied heavily on public denunciations. Informants were often rewarded with social favors, seized property, or better standing in the party, which helped reinforce Hitler's rule.
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I did Nazi that coming.
No, I did.
Every phony claim of ignorance is an indictment of the whole, diseased party.
www.mediaite.com/media/news/w...
No, I did.
Every phony claim of ignorance is an indictment of the whole, diseased party.
www.mediaite.com/media/news/w...
George Stephanopoulos Grills Eric Schmitt on Trump Pardon
Stephanopoulos confronted a GOP Senator who ducked questions on Trump's pardon of convicted drug trafficker Juan Orlando Hernandez — ex-president of Honduras.
www.mediaite.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I did Nazi that coming.
No, I did.
Every phony claim of ignorance is an indictment of the whole, diseased party.
www.mediaite.com/media/news/w...
No, I did.
Every phony claim of ignorance is an indictment of the whole, diseased party.
www.mediaite.com/media/news/w...
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The ruling is pretty much as most observers anticipated. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump Ban on Wind Energy Projects Ruled Illegal by US Judge
President Donald Trump’s executive order directing government agencies to halt approving new wind energy projects was ruled illegal by a federal judge.
www.bloomberg.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:12 PM
The ruling is pretty much as most observers anticipated. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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ICYMI: For the first time in 84 years, no survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack were present for the annual remembrance ceremony Sunday, marking a poignant shift for the living memory of Dec. 7, 1941. (from @wyattwolson.bsky.social)
Living memory of Pearl Harbor attack absent from annual Dec. 7 commemoration
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December 8, 2025 at 11:16 PM
ICYMI: For the first time in 84 years, no survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack were present for the annual remembrance ceremony Sunday, marking a poignant shift for the living memory of Dec. 7, 1941. (from @wyattwolson.bsky.social)
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Obamacare approval tops 57%.
December 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Obamacare approval tops 57%.
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Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel has signed a one-year contract extension with ABC and will continue to host his show through May 2027, Reuters reports.
December 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel has signed a one-year contract extension with ABC and will continue to host his show through May 2027, Reuters reports.