Andrew Burton
@burtonad.bsky.social
Sometime TennisWorld contributor, Sylvia’s husband, Cathleen’s dad. Known to cook. New here (joined July 2023).
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Caroline Kennedy’s daughter. This family. So much devastation. All the more gutting that it’s her cousin now inflicting it—in ways deeply personal to her family, and profoundly catastrophic for the rest of us too.
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Caroline Kennedy’s daughter. This family. So much devastation. All the more gutting that it’s her cousin now inflicting it—in ways deeply personal to her family, and profoundly catastrophic for the rest of us too.
Thread. Literally, a lawless administration.
On the patently unlawful boat strikes
It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
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It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
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White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Thread. Literally, a lawless administration.
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The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation seems to be throwing some shade at ICE.
November 22, 2025 at 2:15 AM
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation seems to be throwing some shade at ICE.
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In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
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The partisan divide has grown, too. The wealthiest 100 tended to give more to Republicans than to Democrats before last year. But giving to the GOP spiked in 2024, with *84%* of donations going to back Republicans or conservative PACs.
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The partisan divide has grown, too. The wealthiest 100 tended to give more to Republicans than to Democrats before last year. But giving to the GOP spiked in 2024, with *84%* of donations going to back Republicans or conservative PACs.
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Re-upping my prediction that she ends up at the Free Press. Or as the “flattering interviews with tech billionaires and the MAGA adjacent” correspondent for 60 Minutes.
November 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Re-upping my prediction that she ends up at the Free Press. Or as the “flattering interviews with tech billionaires and the MAGA adjacent” correspondent for 60 Minutes.
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Loomer having a sad
November 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Loomer having a sad
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Here is my read of the "peace plan" and how Kirill Dmitriev played the American media to force this thing into being -- with an incompetent White House scrambling to make it seem like this was somehow coordinated and well-planned. open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
“He Must Have Got This From K.”
How a Russian operative used the American media to force a risible “peace deal” into existence
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Here is my read of the "peace plan" and how Kirill Dmitriev played the American media to force this thing into being -- with an incompetent White House scrambling to make it seem like this was somehow coordinated and well-planned. open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
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new euphemism for "fact" dropped, today's is "scientific orthodoxy"
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
new euphemism for "fact" dropped, today's is "scientific orthodoxy"
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1) @washingtonpost.com reported Thursday on a controversial policy downgrading how nooses and swastikas are labeled in the Coast Guard.
2) Admin officials attacked The Post, falsely alleging the reporting of "fake crap."
3) The CG said it would review policy language.
4) The CG reversed course.
2) Admin officials attacked The Post, falsely alleging the reporting of "fake crap."
3) The CG said it would review policy language.
4) The CG reversed course.
November 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
1) @washingtonpost.com reported Thursday on a controversial policy downgrading how nooses and swastikas are labeled in the Coast Guard.
2) Admin officials attacked The Post, falsely alleging the reporting of "fake crap."
3) The CG said it would review policy language.
4) The CG reversed course.
2) Admin officials attacked The Post, falsely alleging the reporting of "fake crap."
3) The CG said it would review policy language.
4) The CG reversed course.
smh at the thought of @davidallengreen.bsky.social seeing bullet point 16 “Russia will enshrine in law its policy of non-aggression towards Europe and Ukraine.”
This is not a plan. It is maybe a concept of a plan.
It would take a year or more to develop it into a plan.
The summaries of meetings I had with Russians that everyone had to sign were more tightly written than this.
The agreement with my realtor was tighter than this.
It would take a year or more to develop it into a plan.
The summaries of meetings I had with Russians that everyone had to sign were more tightly written than this.
The agreement with my realtor was tighter than this.
Read the full text of Trump’s 28-point Ukraine-Russia peace plan
Proposed deal would limit size of Ukrainian forces and calls on Kyiv to withdraw troops from eastern Donetsk
www.ft.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:13 AM
smh at the thought of @davidallengreen.bsky.social seeing bullet point 16 “Russia will enshrine in law its policy of non-aggression towards Europe and Ukraine.”
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The Trump family has made more from
crypto bribes this year than all their other business holdings combined. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
crypto bribes this year than all their other business holdings combined. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Trump family’s cryptocurrency ties raise concerns as administration loosens regulations
As President Trump’s administration has moved to loosen regulations on cryptocurrency and pledged to make the U.S. the “crypto capital of the world,” his family’s ties to the industry are raising ethi...
www.pbs.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Trump family has made more from
crypto bribes this year than all their other business holdings combined. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
crypto bribes this year than all their other business holdings combined. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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Glorious! Glorious!
I literally could not stop myself from inappropriately laughing out loud for real
November 21, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Glorious! Glorious!
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Kash Patel's personal firing of the Pride flag-displaying employee was always absurd and unconstitutional, so I'm glad David Maltinsky is suing, but, wait.
It was a flag FLOWN BY THE FBI that was given to him BY THE FBI?! Come on.
Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
It was a flag FLOWN BY THE FBI that was given to him BY THE FBI?! Come on.
Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![On October 1, 2025, after successfully completing 16 weeks of the FBI Academy's
19-week training program, Maltinsky was handed a letter terminating his employment with the
FBI. The letter was signed by Defendant Patel ("Patel"). In the letter, Patel wrote that he had
"determined that [Maltinsky] exercised poor judgment with an inappropriate display of political signage in [his] work area during [his] previous assignment at the Los Angeles Field Office." In short, Patel fired Maltinsky for displaying a pride flag at his workstation that had been flown by the FBI at the LAFO and then given by the FBI to Maltinsky.
The Defendants' discrimination against Maltinsky for engaging in protected speech
was a clear and brazen violation of federal law and the Constitution.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreid5rog4gjpv3qeneunmoyqxoesnuxac2srp3u6ppnjdxphfv7jcoe@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Kash Patel's personal firing of the Pride flag-displaying employee was always absurd and unconstitutional, so I'm glad David Maltinsky is suing, but, wait.
It was a flag FLOWN BY THE FBI that was given to him BY THE FBI?! Come on.
Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
It was a flag FLOWN BY THE FBI that was given to him BY THE FBI?! Come on.
Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Thread.
It’s hilarious that Halligan is freaking out about Judge Nachmanoff asking if she was a “puppet” and acting like it was a personal insult.
1/7
1/7
November 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Thread.
Thread. Ross Douthat’s latest bit of laundering far right views into the mainstream via the New York Times’s imprimatur.
This is a wild thing for someone who calls themselves an intellectual to say with a straight face to the New York Times. This is not a historical account based on an understanding of the history--this is just pure far right, Christian Nationalist propaganda/conspiracy theory ca. 1962-1980s.
November 21, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Thread. Ross Douthat’s latest bit of laundering far right views into the mainstream via the New York Times’s imprimatur.
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good things are still possible online
Musk's ego was mortally wounded by Joyce Carol Oates and he's been on a narcissistic supply bender since
November 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
good things are still possible online
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Shabana Mahmood's proposal to stop being told to "go back home" is to send people "home". Her proposal to stop black and brown people from feeling like they don't belong, is to bake in to the immigration system that they will never belong.
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Shabana Mahmood's proposal to stop being told to "go back home" is to send people "home". Her proposal to stop black and brown people from feeling like they don't belong, is to bake in to the immigration system that they will never belong.
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can't believe the BBC edited Donald Trump's posts to make it seem like he threatened violence against members of Congress
November 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
can't believe the BBC edited Donald Trump's posts to make it seem like he threatened violence against members of Congress
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Just gonna re-up this again, as it becomes ever clearer that "People don't care about unemployment, only inflation" was a deeply unserious, highly convenient, only-for-Biden position:
A reminder that you heard it here first in re: whether people care about jobs and unemployment:
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bsky.app/profile/mcop...
WSJ reports >> UPS Cuts 48,000 Jobs in Management and Operations. www.wsj.com/business/log...
November 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Just gonna re-up this again, as it becomes ever clearer that "People don't care about unemployment, only inflation" was a deeply unserious, highly convenient, only-for-Biden position:
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My “Trump does not want to execute members of Congress” statement has a lot of people asking questions already answered by the statement.
*LEAVITT: TRUMP DOES NOT WANT TO EXECUTE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
November 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
My “Trump does not want to execute members of Congress” statement has a lot of people asking questions already answered by the statement.
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We would do well to remember the Russian operation on Trump has long used the ME as a bypass (and I still wouldn't be surprised if the Egypian bribe was a pass-through), especially w/Witkoff and Dmitriev at its center.
November 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
We would do well to remember the Russian operation on Trump has long used the ME as a bypass (and I still wouldn't be surprised if the Egypian bribe was a pass-through), especially w/Witkoff and Dmitriev at its center.
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Scott Bessent saying that beef prices were high because migrants brought screwworm to the US by bringing cows with them all the way up from South America may take the cake for the most ridiculous statement by any Trump admin official yet.
this defies parody. also helps explain why Sec Bessent bizarrely blamed immigrants when confronted with a question about high beef prices
November 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Scott Bessent saying that beef prices were high because migrants brought screwworm to the US by bringing cows with them all the way up from South America may take the cake for the most ridiculous statement by any Trump admin official yet.
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Schumer: "I've never seen a president who has gone this low. I've never seen a president who has done more to encourage political violence. I've asked the Capitol Police to give special protection to Slotkin and Kelly as well because you gotta worry after the president says these things."
November 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Schumer: "I've never seen a president who has gone this low. I've never seen a president who has done more to encourage political violence. I've asked the Capitol Police to give special protection to Slotkin and Kelly as well because you gotta worry after the president says these things."