Doug
@ex-fso.bsky.social
🇯🇵🇹🇼🇻🇳🇱🇺🇬🇾🇧🇳🇫🇷🇨🇦Former Foreign Service (30 years), Civil Service (12 years), and Uniformed (4 years). FDR on Republicans- https://youtu.be/S3RHnKYNvx8?si=DjzN5NfIjfSPxOf7
Photo: @Art Shay
Photo: @Art Shay
I think many business travelers have had similar dog and shot experiences in some genuinely unfamiliar locations. This thread is the best description of business travel I've ever read!
So Greg Bovino is back to his post at USBP in El Centro. There are many lovely hardworking Americans in El Centro but at a place to be it is not to everyone’s taste. I had a hearing in El Centro and drove there the night before because you can’t get there in the morning…../1
January 27, 2026 at 2:22 PM
I think many business travelers have had similar dog and shot experiences in some genuinely unfamiliar locations. This thread is the best description of business travel I've ever read!
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We're used to seeing images like this of Nazi Germany. This is what an execution looks like. It's an image that will haunt America for years to come. Alex Pretti was a nurse whose life was dedicated to saving lives. In the eyes of the world, America has become the monster it used to fight against.
January 25, 2026 at 2:10 PM
We're used to seeing images like this of Nazi Germany. This is what an execution looks like. It's an image that will haunt America for years to come. Alex Pretti was a nurse whose life was dedicated to saving lives. In the eyes of the world, America has become the monster it used to fight against.
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If they are yelling “he’s got a gun!” after they’ve pinned him to the ground, when he’s unable to move, then it’s clear they didn’t know he had a gun until that moment, so he couldn’t have approached them brandishing it--and couldn’t use it because they’d pinned him down.
Once again, the government is trying to get you to believe your own eyes are lying to you. This was another murder by ICE, an agency that proves day after day it has no business policing on America’s streets.
DHS (once again) announces conclusion (within 3 hours) without any investigation.
- Conclusion about federal agent's intent
- Conclusion about individual's intent
- Implicit conclusion about timing of disarming the individual and shooting him
- Conclusion about federal agent's intent
- Conclusion about individual's intent
- Implicit conclusion about timing of disarming the individual and shooting him
January 24, 2026 at 9:30 PM
If they are yelling “he’s got a gun!” after they’ve pinned him to the ground, when he’s unable to move, then it’s clear they didn’t know he had a gun until that moment, so he couldn’t have approached them brandishing it--and couldn’t use it because they’d pinned him down.
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things are bad! (gift link)
Opinion | Trump’s ‘Dear Jonas’ Letter Is No Prize
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:25 PM
things are bad! (gift link)
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For far too long, the federal government has operated immigration flights without full transparency. These ghost flights are tearing families apart, leaving loved ones in the dark, and giving immigration agencies free rein to act without oversight, transparency, and justice.
January 21, 2026 at 9:02 PM
For far too long, the federal government has operated immigration flights without full transparency. These ghost flights are tearing families apart, leaving loved ones in the dark, and giving immigration agencies free rein to act without oversight, transparency, and justice.
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We all think he thinks this, don’t we?
This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.
January 20, 2026 at 12:58 AM
We all think he thinks this, don’t we?
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"License plate readers and personal data from car registrations are only supposed to be accessed for an active criminal investigation...
“Following or observing or reporting on federal agencies is not a criminal activity — it's protected 1st Amendment activity...”
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
“Following or observing or reporting on federal agencies is not a criminal activity — it's protected 1st Amendment activity...”
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Privacy advocates: ICE using private data to intimidate observers and activists
MPR News has looked into reports that federal agents have accessed private data to track and intimidate anti-ICE activists since the immigration crackdown surged in Minnesota in December. Privacy advo...
www.mprnews.org
January 17, 2026 at 11:00 PM
"License plate readers and personal data from car registrations are only supposed to be accessed for an active criminal investigation...
“Following or observing or reporting on federal agencies is not a criminal activity — it's protected 1st Amendment activity...”
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
“Following or observing or reporting on federal agencies is not a criminal activity — it's protected 1st Amendment activity...”
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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My NYT obit on Aldrich Ames, CIA turncoat for the Russians. I interviewed him in the county lockup after his arrest in 1994, then by telephone for eight hours. Deluded, deeply alcoholic, he thought he could lift up the hood of history and tinker with the engine.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/o...
Aldrich Ames, C.I.A. Turncoat Who Helped the Soviets, Dies at 84
www.nytimes.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:56 AM
My NYT obit on Aldrich Ames, CIA turncoat for the Russians. I interviewed him in the county lockup after his arrest in 1994, then by telephone for eight hours. Deluded, deeply alcoholic, he thought he could lift up the hood of history and tinker with the engine.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/o...
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me every single day
January 3, 2026 at 5:29 PM
me every single day
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With inequality at Gilded Age levels and more billionaires than ever, the Republican message is poor people have it too good
January 3, 2026 at 2:59 AM
With inequality at Gilded Age levels and more billionaires than ever, the Republican message is poor people have it too good
This ("people with delusions...") describes most senior political appointees in DC up to and including Cabinet Secretaries.
One underrated thing Mamdani has going for him is that he has always known he is ineligible for the presidency
The profession of elected official attracts a lot of people with delusions of grandeur and an agenda built around getting to the job they want rather than doing the job they actually have
The profession of elected official attracts a lot of people with delusions of grandeur and an agenda built around getting to the job they want rather than doing the job they actually have
January 1, 2026 at 9:29 PM
This ("people with delusions...") describes most senior political appointees in DC up to and including Cabinet Secretaries.
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December 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
This +1000
Being able to "park the car without a camera system" is the new version of "knowing how to drive stick."
December 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
This +1000
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BREAKING: Judge James Boasberg rules for those deported under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15 — certifying a class, finding the U.S. maintained constructive custody over them at CECOT, finding they were not given due process, and ordering return or that such process be given by Jan. 5, 2026.
![ORDER
For the reasons stated in the accompanying Memorandum Opinion, the Court ORDERS
that:
1. Plaintiffs' [177] Motion for Summary Judgment is GRANTED;
2. Plaintiffs' [178] Motion for Class Certification is GRANTED;
3. Defendants' [182] Motion for Summary Judgment is DENIED; and
4. The Government shall submit its proposal either to facilitate the return
of Plaintiffs to the United States or to otherwise provide them with
hearings that satisfy the requirements of due process by January 5,
2026.
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Case 1:25-cv-00766-JEB
Document 214
Filed 12/22/25
Page 2 of 2
/s/ James E. Boasberg
JAMES E. BOASBERG
United States District Judge](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreieca4ukx2h54wbcpvlobarhijo2py237ojy3y7q7pgdpbffmalsoy@jpeg)
December 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
BREAKING: Judge James Boasberg rules for those deported under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15 — certifying a class, finding the U.S. maintained constructive custody over them at CECOT, finding they were not given due process, and ordering return or that such process be given by Jan. 5, 2026.
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The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
December 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
@pbsnews.org @pbs I live in LA and am so sorry to lose Newshour West.
December 20, 2025 at 3:11 AM
@pbsnews.org @pbs I live in LA and am so sorry to lose Newshour West.
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Bye CBS...
This entire article is positive about Trump Gold Cards. It contains positive quotes about it from Trump, Lutnick and a CEO. It contains no quotes from the many critics of the program. This is sandwiched between 6 posts about Erika Kirk. CBS is lost.
December 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Bye CBS...
Some families fracture over questions of politics or family finance. Even child rearing. But the central divide in my family is - Ocean Spray jellied, or something else.
November 26, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Some families fracture over questions of politics or family finance. Even child rearing. But the central divide in my family is - Ocean Spray jellied, or something else.
@aliroginpbs.bsky.social Great interview tonight aired on @pbsnews.org .
November 11, 2025 at 5:22 AM
@aliroginpbs.bsky.social Great interview tonight aired on @pbsnews.org .
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Thanks, New Yorker
October 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Thanks, New Yorker
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Since the recalls, I've seen a lot of takes that the results are rebukes to the Lai administration from society as a whole. But that seems very wrong to me, these were constituencies that voted pan-Blue last time, hence why recalls could be organized there
"Recalls Indicate Failure to Flip Pan-Blue Territory, Not Public Opinion Siding with the KMT" by @brianhioe.bsky.social
Recalls Indicate Failure to Flip Pan-Blue Territory, Not Public Opinion Siding with the KMT | New Bloom Magazine
With the defeat of the “Great Recall Movement” over the weekend, it is notable to observe that some claims in media discourse have sought to frame the results as a rebuke to the DPP…
newbloommag.net
July 27, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Since the recalls, I've seen a lot of takes that the results are rebukes to the Lai administration from society as a whole. But that seems very wrong to me, these were constituencies that voted pan-Blue last time, hence why recalls could be organized there
@pbsnews.org For a while I thought Stephanie Sy was interviewing Larry Wilmore about Steven Colbert.
July 19, 2025 at 2:21 AM
@pbsnews.org For a while I thought Stephanie Sy was interviewing Larry Wilmore about Steven Colbert.
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One of the most important cartoons for the AI era. From: marketoonist.com
July 16, 2025 at 10:44 PM
One of the most important cartoons for the AI era. From: marketoonist.com