Jake Lahut
@jakelahut.bsky.social
Reporter covering the Trump White House & 2026 midterms. Emergency backup hockey writer. FR/EN 🇫🇷
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What was that Arizona State coach / grad assistant / random dude doing on the field there??
November 29, 2025 at 3:17 AM
What was that Arizona State coach / grad assistant / random dude doing on the field there??
This intra-party redistricting fight is getting ugly. From Trump’s 2024 co-campaign manager:
November 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
This intra-party redistricting fight is getting ugly. From Trump’s 2024 co-campaign manager:
This is the first time I’ve genuinely wondered if Trump entered a prompt himself
November 28, 2025 at 8:03 PM
This is the first time I’ve genuinely wondered if Trump entered a prompt himself
The autopen thing is bigtime comfort territory for Trump, but this is crazy for a number of reasons — one of those being that he’s super old, another being that he’s letting Stephen Miller run vast swaths of the federal govt
November 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The autopen thing is bigtime comfort territory for Trump, but this is crazy for a number of reasons — one of those being that he’s super old, another being that he’s letting Stephen Miller run vast swaths of the federal govt
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If the U.S. was at war, Pete Hegseth's order would be a war crime, a military lawyer said. Instead, it might just be murder. wapo.st/49KbUJ1
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 6:07 PM
If the U.S. was at war, Pete Hegseth's order would be a war crime, a military lawyer said. Instead, it might just be murder. wapo.st/49KbUJ1
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Incredible, damning reporting by @ellenwapo.bsky.social and @alexhorton.bsky.social
SCOOP: For the Trump admin's Sept. 2 strike targeting 11 men on a boat suspected of ferrying drugs, SecDef Hegseth gave an order, officials say, to kill them all. When two men were still alive, orders were given to strike again, finishing them off.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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 6:41 PM
Incredible, damning reporting by @ellenwapo.bsky.social and @alexhorton.bsky.social
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Estimated FY2026 tariff revenue: $207 billion.
Estimated FY2026 individual income tax revenue: $2.6 trillion.
Estimated FY2026 individual income tax revenue: $2.6 trillion.
Trump says he may cut income tax 'completely' because of tariff income reut.rs/4p65j0l
Trump says he may cut income tax 'completely' because of tariff income
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday his administration may slash income tax completely over the next couple of years because of government revenue generated from tariffs.
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November 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Estimated FY2026 tariff revenue: $207 billion.
Estimated FY2026 individual income tax revenue: $2.6 trillion.
Estimated FY2026 individual income tax revenue: $2.6 trillion.
You’re really gonna scroll Bsky when you’re the one person in the household who has the app, aren’t ya?
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
You’re really gonna scroll Bsky when you’re the one person in the household who has the app, aren’t ya?
Tom Brady’s commentary is somehow about as insufferable as it was when he started doing this
November 27, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Tom Brady’s commentary is somehow about as insufferable as it was when he started doing this
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thinking of her today
November 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
thinking of her today
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On the eve of the holiday, a Trump family-linked crypto company disclosed in a securities filing that it had removed its senior leadership. The company's stock is down 72% since Eric and Don Jr rang the Nasdaq bell to launch the partnership.
We're covering it here. Happy Thanksgiving.
We're covering it here. Happy Thanksgiving.
Crypto Firm Tied to Trump Family Dismisses Its Top Executive
ALT5 Sigma dismissed two of its top leaders, according to a government filing.
www.barrons.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
On the eve of the holiday, a Trump family-linked crypto company disclosed in a securities filing that it had removed its senior leadership. The company's stock is down 72% since Eric and Don Jr rang the Nasdaq bell to launch the partnership.
We're covering it here. Happy Thanksgiving.
We're covering it here. Happy Thanksgiving.
TIL you have to have a college degree to be on the other end of the Butterball turkey hotline?
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
TIL you have to have a college degree to be on the other end of the Butterball turkey hotline?
I don’t understand why this guy thinks we want to read about any of this. The Politico Playbook fall-off needs to be studied
November 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I don’t understand why this guy thinks we want to read about any of this. The Politico Playbook fall-off needs to be studied
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In today’s Times Union print edition: a boatload of special section, including a gift guide, holiday recipes and a winter recreation tab that celebrates our five-year partnership with the Adirondack Explorer!
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
In today’s Times Union print edition: a boatload of special section, including a gift guide, holiday recipes and a winter recreation tab that celebrates our five-year partnership with the Adirondack Explorer!
This is what Trump is posting about as of 5 mins ago
November 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
This is what Trump is posting about as of 5 mins ago
The way this Catturd dude has started to fancy himself an all-purpose GOP strategist is quite something. Especially because he owes much of his following to Elon taking over Twitter, *and* the dude still thinks the algorithm is trash
November 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The way this Catturd dude has started to fancy himself an all-purpose GOP strategist is quite something. Especially because he owes much of his following to Elon taking over Twitter, *and* the dude still thinks the algorithm is trash
This might constitute a full-blown brand crisis/spiral www.wsj.com/business/cam...
Campbell’s Fires Executive Behind Recording That Disparaged Its Food
The IT executive allegedly caught on audio disparaged the company’s products, saying aid Campbell’s made “highly processed food” for “poor people.”
www.wsj.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
This might constitute a full-blown brand crisis/spiral www.wsj.com/business/cam...
Nah dude, we got it after you listed off those specific countries:
“To put it more bluntly, they are killing white people…”
“To put it more bluntly, they are killing white people…”
November 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Nah dude, we got it after you listed off those specific countries:
“To put it more bluntly, they are killing white people…”
“To put it more bluntly, they are killing white people…”
Nope, and no public events scheduled with Trump posted up at MAL through the weekend
November 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Nope, and no public events scheduled with Trump posted up at MAL through the weekend
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Elon Musk claims Grok's "epic vulgar roasts" can "make people really laugh at a party" so I took him up on it and used my coworkers as guinea pigs: www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Elon Musk Said Grok’s Roasts Would Be ‘Epic’ at Parties—So I Tried It on My Coworkers
It went about as well as you’d expect.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Elon Musk claims Grok's "epic vulgar roasts" can "make people really laugh at a party" so I took him up on it and used my coworkers as guinea pigs: www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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The Boston Globe on the strange case of the mother of Ms Leavitt’s nephew being deported. Apparently, from the quote below, his father — Ms Leavitt’s brother — wants her gone.
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The Boston Globe on the strange case of the mother of Ms Leavitt’s nephew being deported. Apparently, from the quote below, his father — Ms Leavitt’s brother — wants her gone.
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Sorry to sound like Ezra Klein but there is one person who does politics (celebrity politics) the right way in this country and that’s Sabrina carpenter
November 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Sorry to sound like Ezra Klein but there is one person who does politics (celebrity politics) the right way in this country and that’s Sabrina carpenter
Even by Pete Hegseth standards, I find it pretty wild that his best response to Mark Kelly being in that video about refusing illegal orders was to… threaten to write him up for a uniform violation?
November 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Even by Pete Hegseth standards, I find it pretty wild that his best response to Mark Kelly being in that video about refusing illegal orders was to… threaten to write him up for a uniform violation?
Okay so clearly there isn’t a new word, and he’s just workshopping it
November 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Okay so clearly there isn’t a new word, and he’s just workshopping it
Parts of Trumpworld have long thought this guy was out of his depth, but jeez oh man
A private call between Trump-appointed envoy Steve Witkoff and Putin advisor Yuri Ushakov was just leaked — and it shows the American envoy effectively acting as a strategist for Moscow.
NEWSFLASH: Witkoff was secretly giving Russians advice
A secret transcript reveals that the Trump envoy was helping a Putin advisor formulate a plan.
www.counteroffensive.news
November 25, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Parts of Trumpworld have long thought this guy was out of his depth, but jeez oh man