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brian-goldstone.bsky.social
"What we see on the street is just the tip of the iceberg. There's an entire world of homelessness that has been rendered invisible."

Here's the YouTube link to my PBS News Weekend interview:
Millions of full-time workers are struggling to afford a place to live. Here’s why
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
www.youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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brainnotonyet.bsky.social
The silence from national level Democrats on the murder being committed in our name by the US military is getting more and more deafening by the minute
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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hilzoy.bsky.social
Your periodic Baltimore homicides update: Baltimore continues to be on track for 150 homicides this year. If you look at the graph you can see how amazing this is, although, of course, that's still 150 too many.
Graph showing a bit under 350 homicides a year before 2022, then steadily declining lines until this year it's around 125 so far, and thus will presumably come in under 150 barring unexpected catastrophe.
November 29, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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roncross.bsky.social
Can a reporter please ask Trump, "So if a drug costs $100 and the price drives 500%, what does the drug cost now?"

Please, can one of you ask him, he's begging to be asked and give the answer.
November 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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katz.theracket.news
ANALYSIS As Trump Threatens Cartels, He Vows to Free a Convicted Cocaine Trafficker President Trump's posts on Venezuela and a former Honduran president less than 24 hours apart showed dissonance in his campaign against drug trafficking. 4 MIN READ INTRODUCING Your newspaper's staff BORN YESTERDAY AT 4:15PM NEWS Congratulations!
November 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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jacklgoldsmith.bsky.social
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder

www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org
November 29, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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rgoodlaw.bsky.social
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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• If the U.S. military operation to interdict and destroy suspected narcotraFicking vessels is a “non-international armed conflict,” as the Trump Administration suggests, orders to “kill everybody,” which can reasonably be regarded as an order to give “no quarter,” and to “double-tap” a target in order to kill survivors, are clearly illegal under international law. In short, they are war crimes. • If the U.S. military operation is not an armed conflict of any kind, these orders to kill helpless civilians clinging to the wreckage of a vessel our military destroyed would subject everyone from SECDEF down to the individual who pulled the trigger to prosecution under U.S. law for murder. Highlighted sentence at the end of the document reads: Again, the bottom line is that, since orders to kill survivors of an attack at sea are “patently illegal,” anyone who issues or follows such orders can and should be prosecuted for war crimes, murder, or both.
November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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ddayen.bsky.social
The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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doritreiss.bsky.social
Dr. Prasad send an email to CBER suggesting changes to the approval for respiratory vaccines based, apparently, on the conclusion of an unpublished investigation into VAERS report by unknown people. A few thoughts beyond what was already reported, based on the full email: 1/n
November 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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rtodkelly.bsky.social
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.

And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
It is tragic that this person was put in a position where she lost her life for no reason other than to serve the vanity of a man determined to establish dominance over a city that hates him
November 28, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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johnpfaff.bsky.social
Ok, I promise this account isn’t going to turn into just a @ifbookspod.bsky.social fan account (probably), but just finished the 7-part, 12-hr takedown of Pinker’s “Better Angels of Our Nature,” and (💯 sincere) am probably going to assign it to my Data for Lawyers students next semester.
November 28, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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darrigomelanie.bsky.social
Trump not knowing who he pardoned, if he pardoned them, or that they are a crypto CEO who just gave his family a $2 billion deal and then received a pardon, is a way bigger controversy than Biden and an autopen.
November 28, 2025 at 10:53 PM
bruffles.bsky.social
Of much less significance than the murder described here is the surety that Hegseth is in an absolute mania trying to figure out how he can water board his subordinates to find out who ratted him out.
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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rgoodlaw.bsky.social
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing

"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."

Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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gravelinfluencer.bsky.social
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.

She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken directive, according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation. "The order was to kill everybody," one of them said. A missile screamed off the Trinidad coast, striking the vessel and igniting a blaze from bow to stern. For minutes, commanders watched the boat burning on a live drone feed. As the smoke cleared, they got a jolt: Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack - the opening salvo in the Trump administration's war on suspected drug traffickers in the Western Hemisphere — ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth's instructions, two people familiar with the matter said. The two men were blown apart in the water.
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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nstenhouse.bsky.social
The Trump DOJ played down the risk of deploying the National Guard to DC, despite warnings, and now one of them is dead. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
bruffles.bsky.social
Stephen Miller's racism is the through line of the Trump administrations.

Consider all of the administration officials who have come and gone, been fired, etc. Stephen Miller survived that entire 9 years with Trump.

Because his racism and bigotry is the fundamental selling point of MAGA.
publius24.bsky.social John Q. Public @publius24.bsky.social · 2d
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
This is so deeply at odds with the vision and history of America. Take pretty much any ethnic or racial group that are part of the American mosaic America today - they have all faced the same accusation. The moment these accusations are turned into policy are some of the most shameful in US history
publius24.bsky.social John Q. Public @publius24.bsky.social · 2d
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
This rhetoric is indistinguishable from the stuff you hear coming out of white nationalists. Completely identical language.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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atrupar.com
Trump calls Tim Walz “seriously retarded”
migrant earning $30,000 with a green card will get roughly $50,000 in yearly benefits for their family. The real migrant population is much higher. This refugee burden is the leading cause of social dysfunction in America, something that did not exist after World War II (Failed schools, high crime, urban decay, overcrowded hospitals, housing shortages, and large deficits, etc.). As an example, hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia are completely taking over the once great State of Minnesota. Somalian gangs are roving the streets looking for “prey” as our wonderful people stay locked in their apartments and houses hoping against hope that they will be left alone. The seriously retarded Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing, either through fear, incompetence, or both, while the worst “Congressman/woman” in our Country, Ilhan Omar, always wrapped in her swaddling hijab, and who probably came into the U.S.A. illegally in that you are not allowed to marry your brother, does nothing but hatefully complain about our Country, its Constitution, and how “badly” she is treated, when her place of origin is a decadent, backward, and crime ridden nation…
November 28, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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grudgie.bsky.social
The people that run these accounts are psychopaths
markjacob.bsky.social Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2d
Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
Homeland Security tweet says “there us no room at the table for invaders.”
November 28, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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ericcolumbus.bsky.social
This is the latest incident of Trump turning tragedy into self-love. Off the top of my head, prior examples include his 2017 visit to the National Museum of African American History and Culture and of course 9/11:
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
www.businessinsider.com/trump-septem....
"The president paused in front of the exhibit that discussed the role of the Dutch in the slave trade," Bunch writes. "As he pondered the label I felt that maybe he was paying attention to the work of the museum. He quickly proved me wrong. As he turned from the display he said to me, 'You know, they love me in the Netherlands.’ All I could say was let's continue walking.” • On September 11, 2001, just hours after terrorists brought down the World Trade Center, Donald Trump seemed to brag that one of his buildings was now the tallest in downtown Manhattan. • "I mean, 40 Wall Street actually was the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan, and it was actually before the World Trade Center the tallest, and then when they built the World Trade Center it became known as the second-tallest, and now it's the tallest," he said on local TV station WWOR. • The interview came under scrutiny during Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. • Trump's claim that his building was then the tallest in downtown Manhattan wasn't accurate - the nearby 70 Pine Street building is 25 feet taller than Trump's 40 Wall Street, though Trump's building has four more stories.
November 28, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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internethippo.bsky.social
They'll build a statue to the first reporter who tells this old dumbass to eat shit on camera
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 1:50 AM