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Walter IV
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Walter IV @walteriv.bsky.social · Jun 9
Keep ya head up, Lil Man.
My son says everyone else has such cool names, better than his, so I ask what name does he think is cooler, he said WALTER
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njdoc.bsky.social
“...senior national security officials, who were shocked by the contents: Inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the Trump administration had been pursuing with Russia, including jointly mining rare earths in the Arctic.”

www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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 12:32 PM
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jeffjarvis.bsky.social
Good Journal reporting on amoral corruption. Gift link:
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/world/russia...
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 12:06 PM
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mollymckew.bsky.social
As I wrote about the “peace” deal, it was a plan for Russia & the US to divide up resources that should go to Ukraine in a sweeping attempt to comprise American security

Today’s WSJ has the goods on how people who only believe in money are the most dangerous people:

www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Dmitriev was pushing a plan for U.S. companies to tap the roughly $300 billion of Russian central bank assets, frozen in Europe, for U.S.-Russian investment projects and a U.S.-led reconstruction of Ukraine. U.S. and Russian companies could join to exploit the vast mineral wealth in the Arctic. There were no limits to what two longtime adversaries could achieve, Dmitriev had argued for months: Their rival space industries, which raced one another during the Cold War, could even pursue a joint mission to Mars with Elon Musk's SpaceX. For the Kremlin, the Miami talks were the culmination of a strategy, hatched before Trump's inauguration, to bypass the traditional U.S. national security apparatus and convince the administration to view Russia not as a military threat but as a land of bountiful opportunity, according to Western security officials. By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe —while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies.
November 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.

🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
WSJ Gentry Beach, a college friend of Donald Trump Jr. and campaign donor to his father, has been in talks to acquire a stake in a Russian Arctic gas project if it is released from sanctions. Another Trump donor, Stephen P. Lynch, paid $600,000 this year to a lobbyist close to Trump Jr. who is helping him seek a Treasury Department license to buy the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from a Russian state-owned company. One sign that he may be serious is that some of his most-trusted friends, sanctioned billionaires from his St. Petersburg hometown-Gennady Timchenko, Yuri Kovalchuk and the Rotenberg brothers, Boris and Arkady-have sent representatives to quietly meet American companies to explore rare-earth mining and energy deals, according to people familiar with the meetings and European security officials. That includes reviving the giant Nord Stream pipeline, sabotaged by Ukrainian tactical divers, and under European Union sanctions. Earlier this year, Exxon Mobil met with Russia's biggest state energy company, Rosneft, to discuss returning to the massive Sakhalin gas project if Moscow and Washington gave the green light.
November 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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melissagiragrant.com
one of the first books I read when working on the proposal for my (almost done) new book made me look at every white woman with political power in the suffrage and prohibition eras of women’s rights far more critically
Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s
Racism and Gender in the 1920s
bookshop.org
November 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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whstancil.bsky.social
The crisis isn’t refugees. It’s not that one person committed one tragic crime and killed one other person. The crisis isn’t that America’s 250-year old history of hosting immigrants turned out to be a mistake.

The crisis is that STEPHEN MILLER, a hateful little maggot, controls the government.
November 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
publius24.bsky.social John Q. Public @publius24.bsky.social · 1d
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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philinvestigates.com
I really want to get to 100,000 followers by Christmas! Can you please help me? Thank you!
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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albumism.com
Prince released "Dirty Mind" as the second single from his album of the same name 45 years ago on November 26, 1980

album.ink/PrinceDrtyMnd
November 27, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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thedailybeast.bsky.social
Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."
FBI’s Frantic Scramble to Redact Epstein Files Revealed
A trove of emails shows all-nighters and almost $1 million in overtime as Trumpworld debated releasing the Epstein files.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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justinwolfers.bsky.social
“When the economy slows, the folks that are hurt most are almost always vulnerable groups.” And that context leads me to be doubly worried by the recent sharp rise in Black women's unemployment.
November 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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tsohinvesting.bsky.social
"Vacations rentals were exciting for the obvious reasons: a huge industry, mostly in the dark / opaque inventory, globally distributed, no marketplace. It was very difficult to get inventory, pricing, availability... Lots of unmet demand and lots of fallow supplies."

skift.com/oral-history...
The Definitive Oral History of Short-Term Rentals, Part 1
This is a history of short-term rentals, as told through the reminisces, anecdotes and insights of key people who made it all happen.
skift.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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tedmcclelland.bsky.social
Stevie Wonder mural, Detroit, Michigan
November 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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dannyderaney.bsky.social
47 years ago today, dozens of turkeys met their unfortunate demise in a Cincinnati parking lot.
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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jeffjarvis.bsky.social
It's time for Chuck to go (and take Kirsten and Hakeem with him). Fight, Fight Club, fight.
Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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victinibcn.bsky.social
Good trouble, a young lady starts reading some Charlie Kirk’s quotes to MAGA Congressmen who had his pictures outside of their office.

“I saw you guys had a Charlie Kirk picture outside so I thought I’d read you some of his quotes ….”
November 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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timgalsworthy.bsky.social
This is momentous news. Congratulations to the whole team at @tillcenter.bsky.social and beyond who has made this happen. Your work is vital and will continue to be so 🗃️
tillcenter.bsky.social Emmett Till Interpretive Center @tillcenter.bsky.social · 4d
The Emmett Till Interpretive Center has purchased and protected the barn near Drew, MS, where Emmett Till was brutally beaten and murdered. It will be preserved not merely as a structure, but as sacred ground. Read our open letter here: www.emmett-till.org/barn
November 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Myha’la in ‘Industry’ Season 4.

📺: HBO & HBO Max | January 11th
November 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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dmandl.bsky.social
Weeksville garage.
November 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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justinwolfers.bsky.social
My MVP for this week: I've discovered some folks who could do a much better job running American trade policy. #Econ101 #GoBlue #TeachEcon
November 24, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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www.simonandschuster.com/books/Save-a...
November 23, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 23 Nov 1887 the Thibodaux massacre occurred when Louisiana militia shot and killed at least 50 unarmed Black sugar workers in the Knights of Labor striking for a wage in cash (not company scrip) and lynched two strike leaders stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9593...
November 23, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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albumism.com
Prince released ‘The Black Album’ 31 years ago on November 22, 1994

album.ink/PrinceTBA
Rediscover Prince’s ‘The Black Album’ (1994) | Tribute
When all is said and done, ‘The Black Album’ is a mixed bag, a less consistent Prince than we had become accustomed to.
album.ink
November 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM