📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦
@phidipdbq.bsky.social
Richer than Zuckerberg, Bezos, and Musk: unlike them, I have enough.
Slava Ukraini! F*ck Putin.
What is being done to the immigrants we have rounded up? Anyone curious?
I write stuff: https://johnjmcandrew.substack.com
Slava Ukraini! F*ck Putin.
What is being done to the immigrants we have rounded up? Anyone curious?
I write stuff: https://johnjmcandrew.substack.com
Pinned
The Precedent is Dead: We have to recognize the realities of our situation.
Bottom Line Up Front: You can't bring a strongly worded letter to a knife fight.
cmarmitage.substack.com
As Epstein resurfaces and hopes reappear that This Will DO It, this article by @carmitage.bsky.social feels like Charlie Brown *skeptically* contemplating Lucy and the football. We have to acknowledge that Trump has overthrown America. And act accordingly. cmarmitage.substack.com/p/the-preced...
Whether you are inclined to love or hate humans, you will find support for your inclination in this article article.
Congrats to @phoebesaid.bsky.social, who's working on a film project inspired by her reporting on a beagle rescue effort:
phoebewallhoward.substack.com/p/beagles-re...
She talked about that and more with @douglaswburns.bsky.social and Nik Heftman today: theiowamercury.substack.com/p/detroit-jo...
phoebewallhoward.substack.com/p/beagles-re...
She talked about that and more with @douglaswburns.bsky.social and Nik Heftman today: theiowamercury.substack.com/p/detroit-jo...
Beagles rescued by auto reporters in cross-country run
Puppy mills and hunters abandon beagles, purebreds fill shelters
phoebewallhoward.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Whether you are inclined to love or hate humans, you will find support for your inclination in this article article.
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Would be a bit awkward given that the Trump administration has condemned millions of people with AIDS to death through their USAID cuts
The State Department has warned employees not to use government funds to mark Dec. 1 as World AIDS Day and to “refrain from publicly promoting World AIDS Day through any communication channels.” nyti.ms/3KhPDrA
Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day
The State Department warned employees not to use government funds for the occasion and to “refrain from publicly promoting World AIDS Day through any communication channels.”
nyti.ms
November 30, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Would be a bit awkward given that the Trump administration has condemned millions of people with AIDS to death through their USAID cuts
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don't miss Lauren's big story from right before Thanksgiving:
After Biden commuted the sentences of 37 men on federal death row last year, the Trump administration is retaliating by sending them to the supermax. Prisoners are locked in cells smaller than a parking space 22-24 hours a day.
One prisoner told me he fears he won't make it out alive.
My latest:
One prisoner told me he fears he won't make it out alive.
My latest:
Death Row Prisoners Granted Clemency by Biden Brace for "Living Hell" Under Trump - Bolts
Trump officials are retaliating by imposing the harshest conditions in the entire federal prison system, including near total isolation.
boltsmag.org
November 30, 2025 at 3:23 AM
don't miss Lauren's big story from right before Thanksgiving:
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The house and senate have both expressed interest in investigating the strike on survivors of the first boat strike.
Both Hegseth and adm Bradley will need to answer some questions.
This is why a reminder to not follow illegal orders is important
Both Hegseth and adm Bradley will need to answer some questions.
This is why a reminder to not follow illegal orders is important
November 30, 2025 at 3:57 AM
The house and senate have both expressed interest in investigating the strike on survivors of the first boat strike.
Both Hegseth and adm Bradley will need to answer some questions.
This is why a reminder to not follow illegal orders is important
Both Hegseth and adm Bradley will need to answer some questions.
This is why a reminder to not follow illegal orders is important
"Iowans want clean air and water. They voted in 2010 by more than 60% to amend the state constitution so a permanent stream of revenue would flow to natural resource protection and enhancement. The legislature has ignored it for 15 years."
open.substack.com/pub/artculle...
open.substack.com/pub/artculle...
Can we talk about how Iowa reeks like a pig sty?
Chris Jones wants to have that conversation
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:30 AM
"Iowans want clean air and water. They voted in 2010 by more than 60% to amend the state constitution so a permanent stream of revenue would flow to natural resource protection and enhancement. The legislature has ignored it for 15 years."
open.substack.com/pub/artculle...
open.substack.com/pub/artculle...
If the Stanford Experiment became Secretary of Defense...
There is no doubt that Hegseth has ordered our troops to commit war crimes. He fired all the TJAGs his first week for a reason. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...
Ordering our troops to commit murder is a crime. Period.
The Washington Post story on the 'take no prisoners' order from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is clear evidence that the Trump Administration is giving illegal orders to our troops
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:16 AM
If the Stanford Experiment became Secretary of Defense...
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Tennessee people, vote for this lady this week. She's cool and she puts the country perilously close to having a single check and/or balance.
November 30, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Tennessee people, vote for this lady this week. She's cool and she puts the country perilously close to having a single check and/or balance.
We're subsidizing the creation of billionaires. Thanks, @bostonglobe.com, for the reportage.
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 9:12 PM
We're subsidizing the creation of billionaires. Thanks, @bostonglobe.com, for the reportage.
Whoa!
Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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November 29, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Whoa!
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This is also true about RFK Junior
Remember, too, that Hegseth would have been rejected if a single additional Republican senator — or, JD Vance — had joined Sen. Collins, McConnell, and Murkowski in voting no with the Democrats. See: www.senate.gov/legislative/...
November 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
This is also true about RFK Junior
Wassail. I like recipes where it’s basically, “here are the ingredients. Put them all in a pot together, turn on the heat, come back in an hour, add bourbon, and drink it down.“
November 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Wassail. I like recipes where it’s basically, “here are the ingredients. Put them all in a pot together, turn on the heat, come back in an hour, add bourbon, and drink it down.“
THIS is the article that I have been waiting for.
DISAPPEARED: The Trump administration’s deportation scheme
DISAPPEARED: The Trump administration’s deportation scheme
The New Yorker obtained memorandums that revealed that the U.S. had agreed to pay Eswatini more than $5 million, and Rwanda $7.5 million, in exchange for accepting foreign-national deportees. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/P__NVj
Disappeared to a Foreign Prison
The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled. Sarah Stillman reports.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
THIS is the article that I have been waiting for.
DISAPPEARED: The Trump administration’s deportation scheme
DISAPPEARED: The Trump administration’s deportation scheme
I just called the offices of Senators Ernst and Grassley, and Congresswoman Hinson, and stated my unequivocal opposition to an unprovoked and unjust war against the people of Venezuela.
Time to call your members of Congress, people...NO war with Venezuela!
The deranged madman now threatens to blow up commercial airliners flying in and out of Venezuela.
November 29, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I just called the offices of Senators Ernst and Grassley, and Congresswoman Hinson, and stated my unequivocal opposition to an unprovoked and unjust war against the people of Venezuela.
We need to be lighting up Senate and congressional switchboards right now, in addition to anything we might post on social media.
Wouldn’t hurt to contact media companies as well.
It would be nice if we could get 1 million people surrounding Congress and the White House like a flash mob.
Wouldn’t hurt to contact media companies as well.
It would be nice if we could get 1 million people surrounding Congress and the White House like a flash mob.
The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.
Lots of people are going to die.
Lots of people are going to die.
November 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
We need to be lighting up Senate and congressional switchboards right now, in addition to anything we might post on social media.
Wouldn’t hurt to contact media companies as well.
It would be nice if we could get 1 million people surrounding Congress and the White House like a flash mob.
Wouldn’t hurt to contact media companies as well.
It would be nice if we could get 1 million people surrounding Congress and the White House like a flash mob.
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Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
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We are 3/4 of the way there. Please help if you can.
When Ukrainian soldiers are wounded in action, Russian drones target both them and the people who come to rescue them.
Join me in a fundraising campaign for vehicles with drone-jamming equipment.
snyder.substack.com/p/freedom-is...
Join me in a fundraising campaign for vehicles with drone-jamming equipment.
snyder.substack.com/p/freedom-is...
Freedom is Action -- Finishing the Job
Help save the lives of the courageous
snyder.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
We are 3/4 of the way there. Please help if you can.
It's the Christmas season, so remember what Santa has ALWAYS thought about coal. End fossil fuels, for goodness' sake!
November 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
It's the Christmas season, so remember what Santa has ALWAYS thought about coal. End fossil fuels, for goodness' sake!
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We are VERY close to not being able to trust anything on the Internet. One friend sent me, in all good faith, a video of Jasmine Crockett. Another sent me one of an Alan Watts speech on aging. Both were AI-generated. With e-books, digital content can be altered by the seller after download.
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We are VERY close to not being able to trust anything on the Internet. One friend sent me, in all good faith, a video of Jasmine Crockett. Another sent me one of an Alan Watts speech on aging. Both were AI-generated. With e-books, digital content can be altered by the seller after download.
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November 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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We are VERY close to not being able to trust anything on the Internet. One friend sent me, in all good faith, a video of Jasmine Crockett. Another sent me one of an Alan Watts speech on aging. Both were AI-generated. With e-books, digital content can be altered by the seller after download.
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We are VERY close to not being able to trust anything on the Internet. One friend sent me, in all good faith, a video of Jasmine Crockett. Another sent me one of an Alan Watts speech on aging. Both were AI-generated. With e-books, digital content can be altered by the seller after download.
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Russia is pure evil. Georgia, Ukraine, always destroying places and people.
Europe needs to take the money instead of obsessing about it.
Take it out of Trumps hands
Europe needs to take the money instead of obsessing about it.
Take it out of Trumps hands
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Russia is pure evil. Georgia, Ukraine, always destroying places and people.
Europe needs to take the money instead of obsessing about it.
Take it out of Trumps hands
Europe needs to take the money instead of obsessing about it.
Take it out of Trumps hands
In < 1 year, Trump, Musk, Hegseth, Miller, et al, have obliterated decades of fragile respect. We used to save lives, advance science, mediate conflicts, offer safe harbor.
Now we compete with Putin and bin Salman for reprehensible behavior. Pardoning drug lords, killing sailors at sea. And USAID.
Now we compete with Putin and bin Salman for reprehensible behavior. Pardoning drug lords, killing sailors at sea. And USAID.
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case, “running his Central American country like a narco state.”
Pete Hegseth, meanwhile, ordered murders of people on a boat in the Caribbean.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
Pete Hegseth, meanwhile, ordered murders of people on a boat in the Caribbean.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
In < 1 year, Trump, Musk, Hegseth, Miller, et al, have obliterated decades of fragile respect. We used to save lives, advance science, mediate conflicts, offer safe harbor.
Now we compete with Putin and bin Salman for reprehensible behavior. Pardoning drug lords, killing sailors at sea. And USAID.
Now we compete with Putin and bin Salman for reprehensible behavior. Pardoning drug lords, killing sailors at sea. And USAID.
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Exactly. The operator isn't getting an order to "kill these drowning men," they're being told "strike grid coordinates XYZ"
The people who *know* need to be held accountable, and that's pretty senior.
The people who *know* need to be held accountable, and that's pretty senior.
Someone made the point - I think Adam Kinzinger - that the problem is it’s one thing to refuse to murder someone if ordered. It’s another to refuse an order where you yourself don’t have the full context and couldn’t possibly - but someone above you does/did
November 29, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Exactly. The operator isn't getting an order to "kill these drowning men," they're being told "strike grid coordinates XYZ"
The people who *know* need to be held accountable, and that's pretty senior.
The people who *know* need to be held accountable, and that's pretty senior.
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The problem for military personnel is that by the time an operational order reaches them, they assume that someone higher up must have signed off on it. (Which is correct.)
Instead of carping about "the military," ask where General Caine and the joint chiefs are.
Instead of carping about "the military," ask where General Caine and the joint chiefs are.
Spare us all the "few bad apples" line when no member of the armed forces has been accused of refusing to murder civilians. Not. One.
Honor and dishonor are about what people actually do.
Honor and dishonor are about what people actually do.
November 29, 2025 at 4:12 AM
The problem for military personnel is that by the time an operational order reaches them, they assume that someone higher up must have signed off on it. (Which is correct.)
Instead of carping about "the military," ask where General Caine and the joint chiefs are.
Instead of carping about "the military," ask where General Caine and the joint chiefs are.
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WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.
November 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM
WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.
Do other cities do this, too? Big snow storm coming tonight: 10-15" to kick off winter.
Dubuque makes its parking garages free so we can get our cars off the streets. Makes it easier for the plows to work, safer for drivers, and we don't have to dig our cars out of the fallen and plowed snow.
Dubuque makes its parking garages free so we can get our cars off the streets. Makes it easier for the plows to work, safer for drivers, and we don't have to dig our cars out of the fallen and plowed snow.
a snow plow drives down a snowy street in front of a building that says " banque nationale "
ALT: a snow plow drives down a snowy street in front of a building that says " banque nationale "
media.tenor.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Do other cities do this, too? Big snow storm coming tonight: 10-15" to kick off winter.
Dubuque makes its parking garages free so we can get our cars off the streets. Makes it easier for the plows to work, safer for drivers, and we don't have to dig our cars out of the fallen and plowed snow.
Dubuque makes its parking garages free so we can get our cars off the streets. Makes it easier for the plows to work, safer for drivers, and we don't have to dig our cars out of the fallen and plowed snow.
This is what can happen if we elect young people who will be alive to see the worst effects of the climate change that my generation refused to forestall.
The climate crisis won’t wait and neither will we. With this team, we’ll meet it head-on.
November 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM
This is what can happen if we elect young people who will be alive to see the worst effects of the climate change that my generation refused to forestall.