JoBoese
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JoBoese
@jaboese.bsky.social
retired Broadway stage manager (among many other things)
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OMG! We are really doing direct energy weapons, but for real this time?

Not Biden!

Not the Jewwwws!

Kegseth!

Make it stop.
Wait. What?

They are just borrowing the lasers to use on American soil? From the institution that is supposed to fight foreign wars?
February 12, 2026 at 5:45 AM
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A Trumpkin stealth candidate for governor in California lists himself as a Democrat and is being funded by the tech bros behind Trump.
Conservative heads San Jose mayor's governor campaign - San José Spotlight
San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan has bristled at being labeled right-leaning while stressing he's a lifelong Democrat. His hiring of a self-described conservative to run his California governor campaign coul...
sanjosespotlight.com
February 12, 2026 at 4:46 AM
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BONDI will go after anyone as long as they are Not in the Epstein files -

Bondi Yelled out HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF "Chase Mulligan" 🙄 Yeh she didn't arrest him he was arrested

Dec 20, 2023. During the raid, he plead guilty and sentenced 2025
a cartoon of alice from alice in wonderland saying i don t care
ALT: a cartoon of alice from alice in wonderland saying i don t care
media.tenor.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:34 AM
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So the DOD started laser testing because they believed party balloons were drones, shut down all of El Paso airspace, and blamed it on Mexican cartels?
February 11, 2026 at 6:06 PM
real Alexander Haig vibe going on here
"I'm in control"
So the DOD started laser testing because they believed party balloons were drones, shut down all of El Paso airspace, and blamed it on Mexican cartels?
February 12, 2026 at 5:53 AM
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Bondi confronted by protester while arriving at Capitol: "Bondi you are a disgrace to the American people! You protect pedophiles who systematically rape children!"
February 11, 2026 at 3:20 PM
so CBP were given not-yet approved laser weapons by Hegseth. al-righty-then.
According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.
February 12, 2026 at 3:42 AM
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Throwback to Pam Bondi’s campaign ad for Florida AG:

“I’ll fight to put human trafficking monsters where they belong. Behind bars.”

The ad aged. The internet remembers.
February 12, 2026 at 3:26 AM
note there is one male in this group of victims
👇👇👇👇
February 12, 2026 at 3:38 AM
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I and millions of Americans believe exactly the same thing Kasparov does.

Too many troops, too many new prisons, too much money not under Congressional supervision.

We're not just witnessing a mass deportation scheme anymore.

This is something significantly bigger and scarier.
February 11, 2026 at 9:37 AM
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Impeach her now!
SHE HAS BEEN COVERING FOR TRUMP+++++ SINCE SHE WAS THE AG FOR FLA YEARS AGO! YOU ARE A VERY STUPID HUMAN IF YOU CANNOT RECOGNIZE THIS! DO THE RESEARCH, THERE IS A TON OF IT! 😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈
February 12, 2026 at 1:28 AM
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Weren't GOP senators demanding $500k because the DOJ researched their call records on January 6th?
"It is totally inappropriate and against the separations of powers for the DOJ to surveil us as we search the Epstein files. (US Attorney General) Bondi showed up today with a burn book that held a printed search history of exactly what emails I searched." - Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA).
February 12, 2026 at 1:07 AM
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Would be a valuable study

I think it needs to go beyond just the direct quackery of Trump/RFK/Oz/Bhattacharya/Makary/Høeg/Prasad/Kulldorff

I think it needs to include deaths they caused by pushing people off health insurance, defunding food stamps, & worsening air pollution & the climate crisis
Some doctoral student needs to do a major study calculating how many Americans are being killed by the health quackery of Trump, RFK Jr., Dr. Oz and their co-conspirators.
February 12, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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This is an interesting piece about how NYT is using AI in its newsroom. (tl;dr: they generate transcripts of the podcasts they're tracking, those transcripts gets summarized, those summaries get delivered in a report to journalists)
When actress Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad became a culture war flashpoint last summer, Times journalists noticed, in part through the reports, that right-wing podcast figures were shaping the backlash. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/how-...
How The New York Times uses a custom AI tool to track the “manosphere”
The daily podcast round-up is just one way the Times is adopting in-house AI transcription and summarization tools.
www.niemanlab.org
February 12, 2026 at 1:25 AM
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I know this isn't the biggest takeaway, but Pam Bondi claiming that Dow is at "over 50,000 dollars" is pretty funny, as it shows how ignorant she is. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is indexed. The 50,000 doesn't represent dollars. And if I did, the entire Dow couldn't afford a single Land Rover.
Bondi crashes out over Epstein: "The Dow is over 50,000 dollars! I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about."
February 12, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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“Congressional Democrats introduced legislation on Tuesday that they said would eliminate the statute of limitations that has shielded sex traffickers such as the late financier Jeffrey Epstein.”

The proposal—Virginia's Law—is named after the late Virginia Giuffre: www.reuters.com/world/us/dem...
Democrats introduce 'Virginia's Law' alongside Epstein victims
Congressional Democrats introduced legislation that they said would eliminate the statute of limitations that has shielded sex traffickers.
www.reuters.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:28 AM
sadly, this is not going to happen during this configuration of gov't. but keep trying. set a marker.
Gotta love it: "The Stop Presidential Embezzlement Act would impose a 100 percent tax on any settlement a president, vice president, cabinet member, or member of Congress receives from the government as a result of a lawsuit filed while in office."
February 12, 2026 at 1:39 AM
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‘A good way of dealing with overpopulation’: Epstein files reveal how the rich fuel climate denialism | Article by @ktoussaint.bsky.social for @fastcompany.com: www.fastcompany.com/91490280/eps...
'A good way of dealing with overpopulation': Epstein files reveal how the rich fuel climate denialism
Jeffrey Epstein and his vast network of elite figures routinely traded in myths that undermine climate progress. Experts say it's not an accident.
www.fastcompany.com
February 11, 2026 at 11:04 PM
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Pam Bondi couldn’t even come prepared for her own staged temper tantrum. this is the nation’s “top law enforcement” official btw 🤡

maybe she became a lawyer because the acting career didn’t work out!!
February 11, 2026 at 9:12 PM
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Pam Bondi sounded a little different before she started doing Trump's bidding.
February 11, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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This is the US that we are fighting like hell to get back.

Where integrity, honor, decency, kindness, and the truth matter.

I'm going to fight like hell because this is the country I want to live in, not one where people grift, steal, are cruel and rape/traffic kids with 0 accountability.
This made me ugly cry 😭

I will never claim that he was perfect…every president in my lifetime has pissed me off for one reason or another.
But…dammit, I’m so tired of the constant feeling of uneasiness and uncertainty 😔
February 11, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation.

It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discrimination ... don’t matter,” one attorney said.

(Published Dec. 2025)
Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump
Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discriminat...
www.propublica.org
February 11, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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A billionaire family that owns a bridge crossing between Michigan and Canada has wanted Trump to stop a new bridge — and Trump is now threatening to block its opening (with authority he doesn’t have). www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...
Trump Threatens to Block Opening of New Bridge to Canada
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:08 AM