<~Khoni~>
@khoni0.bsky.social
🕎 Pro-Democracy, anti-autocracy; not particularly talkative; mostly retweet whatever I find interesting
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this is extraordinary. too many people in my profession have circled the wagons around someone who lacks the moral sense of a child
@timmiller.bsky.social: "He's being nominated to HHS Secretary…You had information that you could have shared…and you didn't share anything about him. Why? Did you still love him?"
Olivia Nuzzi: "I don't know how to responsibly handle this on camera." lnk.thebulwark.com/4ozkaz8?utm_...
Olivia Nuzzi: "I don't know how to responsibly handle this on camera." lnk.thebulwark.com/4ozkaz8?utm_...
December 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
this is extraordinary. too many people in my profession have circled the wagons around someone who lacks the moral sense of a child
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"Russia would never attack Ireland" -people in my mentions four days ago
Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
"Russia would never attack Ireland" -people in my mentions four days ago
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it rules that every day now is just watching everything in your life get more expensive and worse and then also constantly being told that nothing is more expensive or worse
Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post are at it again.
December 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
it rules that every day now is just watching everything in your life get more expensive and worse and then also constantly being told that nothing is more expensive or worse
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Unless proven otherwise, every Republican in Congress supports this image:
December 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Unless proven otherwise, every Republican in Congress supports this image:
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Drew Gooden: "You have to wonder if we've finally reached a point now where the greed has gone too far ... no amount of gaslighting about how the economy is good will convince people who are dying because they can't afford to go to the doctor."
December 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Drew Gooden: "You have to wonder if we've finally reached a point now where the greed has gone too far ... no amount of gaslighting about how the economy is good will convince people who are dying because they can't afford to go to the doctor."
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Trump on his boat strikes: "We're gonna start very soon on land, and I'm sure you're thrilled to hear that."
December 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Trump on his boat strikes: "We're gonna start very soon on land, and I'm sure you're thrilled to hear that."
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I've been saying for the better part of a year that Trump is on a mission to decriminalize corruption. To make it the legal equivalent of jaywalking.
I feel that more strongly now than I ever had.
I feel that more strongly now than I ever had.
Trump announces a pardon of Henry Cuellar: "I am hereby announcing my full and unconditional PARDON of beloved Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar, and Imelda. Henry, I don’t know you, but you can sleep well tonight — Your nightmare is finally over!"
December 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I've been saying for the better part of a year that Trump is on a mission to decriminalize corruption. To make it the legal equivalent of jaywalking.
I feel that more strongly now than I ever had.
I feel that more strongly now than I ever had.
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I wrote about Benjamin Netanyahu's attempt to call off his own corruption trial, which is really the story of how one incredibly compromised man has repeatedly sacrificed his country's national interest and its people's preferences rather than cede power. Gift link:
Netanyahu Just Admitted He’s Unfit to Lead Israel
In attempting to call off his corruption trial, Netanyahu didn’t incriminate himself, but he did something just as damning.
www.theatlantic.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I wrote about Benjamin Netanyahu's attempt to call off his own corruption trial, which is really the story of how one incredibly compromised man has repeatedly sacrificed his country's national interest and its people's preferences rather than cede power. Gift link:
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Congressman Henry Cuellar was indicted for money laundering, bribery, and conspiracy, allegedly taking about $600,000, mostly from Azerbaijan, to influence U.S. policy.
President Donald Trump pardoned Cuellar, because Trump supports money laundering, bribery, and conspiracy.
President Donald Trump pardoned Cuellar, because Trump supports money laundering, bribery, and conspiracy.
Trump announces a pardon of Henry Cuellar: "I am hereby announcing my full and unconditional PARDON of beloved Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar, and Imelda. Henry, I don’t know you, but you can sleep well tonight — Your nightmare is finally over!"
December 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Congressman Henry Cuellar was indicted for money laundering, bribery, and conspiracy, allegedly taking about $600,000, mostly from Azerbaijan, to influence U.S. policy.
President Donald Trump pardoned Cuellar, because Trump supports money laundering, bribery, and conspiracy.
President Donald Trump pardoned Cuellar, because Trump supports money laundering, bribery, and conspiracy.
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1. BREAKING
President Trump says he is granting a pardon to Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar and his wife Imelda.
Federal prosecutors said they accepted around $600,000 from an oil-and-gas company wholly owned and controlled by the government of Azerbaijan and a bank in Mexico.
President Trump says he is granting a pardon to Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar and his wife Imelda.
Federal prosecutors said they accepted around $600,000 from an oil-and-gas company wholly owned and controlled by the government of Azerbaijan and a bank in Mexico.
December 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
1. BREAKING
President Trump says he is granting a pardon to Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar and his wife Imelda.
Federal prosecutors said they accepted around $600,000 from an oil-and-gas company wholly owned and controlled by the government of Azerbaijan and a bank in Mexico.
President Trump says he is granting a pardon to Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar and his wife Imelda.
Federal prosecutors said they accepted around $600,000 from an oil-and-gas company wholly owned and controlled by the government of Azerbaijan and a bank in Mexico.
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It's funny how all these manly-man militaries that put out sizzle reels of how manly they are keeping getting their asses kicked. I call it Sparta Syndrome: the belief that brash macho displays are a substitute for actual military skill.
While Trump fuels and uses the online right, Vance is actually one of them.
The online right loves Russia, seeing Putin as a culture war champion. To them, Russia’s “manly” military must defeat Ukraine’s “they/them” military backed by the “woke” West to advance their cause and validate their views.
The online right loves Russia, seeing Putin as a culture war champion. To them, Russia’s “manly” military must defeat Ukraine’s “they/them” military backed by the “woke” West to advance their cause and validate their views.
Opinion | Why JD Vance keeps trying to help Russia win the war with Ukraine
The vice president pushed a Russia-friendly peace plan — which tracks with his far-right worldview that sees Putin as an “anti-woke” culture war ally, says Nicholas Grossman.
www.ms.now
December 2, 2025 at 10:11 PM
It's funny how all these manly-man militaries that put out sizzle reels of how manly they are keeping getting their asses kicked. I call it Sparta Syndrome: the belief that brash macho displays are a substitute for actual military skill.
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Trump's popular vote plurality was catastrophic for the United States and also the future prospects of the Republican party
Cosmically funny that, the American public has had less than a year of uncut republican governance, and they’ve decided that they absolutely hate this shit, spit it out
December 3, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Trump's popular vote plurality was catastrophic for the United States and also the future prospects of the Republican party
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Cosmically funny that, the American public has had less than a year of uncut republican governance, and they’ve decided that they absolutely hate this shit, spit it out
December 3, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Cosmically funny that, the American public has had less than a year of uncut republican governance, and they’ve decided that they absolutely hate this shit, spit it out
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a thing to ask yourself re: the GOP's electoral position is what could happen over the next year that could *improve* its position? and what could trump do, plausibly, that might *boost* his numbers with the public?
December 3, 2025 at 2:44 AM
a thing to ask yourself re: the GOP's electoral position is what could happen over the next year that could *improve* its position? and what could trump do, plausibly, that might *boost* his numbers with the public?
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Trump has been trying to go full dictator this entire time, if he could just do it he already would have. His public support plummeting isn’t going to make the task easier
Reality Time:
If Trump truly intends to go full dictator, it'll happen in the next 11 months. The way he's destroying the country, there is a full on GOP bloodbath coming next Nov, and when that happens and Dems take ALL of Congress, he knows he's going to be impeached, removed, and jailed.
If Trump truly intends to go full dictator, it'll happen in the next 11 months. The way he's destroying the country, there is a full on GOP bloodbath coming next Nov, and when that happens and Dems take ALL of Congress, he knows he's going to be impeached, removed, and jailed.
December 3, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Trump has been trying to go full dictator this entire time, if he could just do it he already would have. His public support plummeting isn’t going to make the task easier
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Our office has clients caught up in this. Hearing from colleagues nationwide about people having their naturalization oath ceremonies canceled. Some of the affected people aren't even subject to the travel ban due to other acquired citizenship, but they are still being caught up.
The Trump admin has paused all immigration and naturalization processes for people from one of the 19 travel ban countries; including Cuba and Venezuela.
Even people who fully passed the citizenship exam are having their cases put on hold, just inches from the finish line.
Even people who fully passed the citizenship exam are having their cases put on hold, just inches from the finish line.
Scoop: The Trump administration has paused all immigration applications filed by people from 19 countries banned from travel to the United States earlier this year, halting green card and U.S. citizenship processing for broad swaths of people.
More coming soon.
More coming soon.
December 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Our office has clients caught up in this. Hearing from colleagues nationwide about people having their naturalization oath ceremonies canceled. Some of the affected people aren't even subject to the travel ban due to other acquired citizenship, but they are still being caught up.
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there is just absolutely no inkling that someday we might want the LOAC to protect our guys too
Fox’s Greg Gutfeld on double tap boat strike: “It's just better for us to kill them in the ocean, make them shark feed, be done with it”
December 3, 2025 at 12:49 AM
there is just absolutely no inkling that someday we might want the LOAC to protect our guys too
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Gotta say he's got a point, but I'll go further.
Overreliance on NGOs is a symptom of American civil service dysfunction and the deliberate effort to simultaneously silo off government jobs from all other jobs and to make them significantly more miserable, precarious, highly regimented workplaces.
Overreliance on NGOs is a symptom of American civil service dysfunction and the deliberate effort to simultaneously silo off government jobs from all other jobs and to make them significantly more miserable, precarious, highly regimented workplaces.
I would argue pretty strenuously that overreliance on nonprofits for social services is, in fact, a centrist position at best. NGO world cloaks itself in progressivism by adhering to cultural signifiers of social justice. Endless land acknowledgements as they take public jobs from union workers.
December 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Gotta say he's got a point, but I'll go further.
Overreliance on NGOs is a symptom of American civil service dysfunction and the deliberate effort to simultaneously silo off government jobs from all other jobs and to make them significantly more miserable, precarious, highly regimented workplaces.
Overreliance on NGOs is a symptom of American civil service dysfunction and the deliberate effort to simultaneously silo off government jobs from all other jobs and to make them significantly more miserable, precarious, highly regimented workplaces.
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The Secretary of Transportation is terrified of the subway. He canceled the maglev train. He's after truck driving schools. He hates most transportation.
But air travel? He pines for its glory days. He's probably going to require airlines to call them "stewardesses" again. "And no uggos, either!"
But air travel? He pines for its glory days. He's probably going to require airlines to call them "stewardesses" again. "And no uggos, either!"
Duffy: "We've asked Americans to bring their better selves, to bring the civility back to travel. To say please and thank you ... maybe not wear pajamas or slippers on the airplane."
December 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The Secretary of Transportation is terrified of the subway. He canceled the maglev train. He's after truck driving schools. He hates most transportation.
But air travel? He pines for its glory days. He's probably going to require airlines to call them "stewardesses" again. "And no uggos, either!"
But air travel? He pines for its glory days. He's probably going to require airlines to call them "stewardesses" again. "And no uggos, either!"
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This is in fact normal right-wing thinking, but previous generations have usually had the good grace to be slightly embarrassed to say it aloud
The head of the Border Patrol racial profiling operation calls the US citizen BABIES of immigrants criminals
December 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
This is in fact normal right-wing thinking, but previous generations have usually had the good grace to be slightly embarrassed to say it aloud
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I genuinely do not understand why ‘RFK Jr wants to kill thousands of American kids and make millions sick’ isn’t in the news basically every day. Also, why are Republicans OK with killing kids? Is it because they’re so busy covering for pedophiles that they’ve given up on kids entirely?
Breaking news: Federal vaccine advisers selected by Health Secretary RFK Jr. are planning to vote on ending the practice of vaccinating all newborns for hepatitis B and to examine whether shots are behind the rise of allergies and autoimmune disorders.
RFK Jr.'s vaccine advisers plan biggest change yet to childhood schedule
The new chair of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices said the panel plans to vote to end universal hepatitis B vaccination at birth and to scrutinize if childhood shots cause allergies.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I genuinely do not understand why ‘RFK Jr wants to kill thousands of American kids and make millions sick’ isn’t in the news basically every day. Also, why are Republicans OK with killing kids? Is it because they’re so busy covering for pedophiles that they’ve given up on kids entirely?
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Very Louis XVI-coded. Wants all the respect, grandeur and riches of the office, does not want any of the responsibility, more obsessed with golf and watching TV (Trump's version of what hunting and locksmithing was for Louis) and extremely susceptible to manipulation by any given advisor in the room
trump is the president in the sense that he holds the office but he very clearly isn't the president in the sense that he has basically relieved himself of its duties
Trump’s echo chamber:
Very little U.S travel
No rallies or contact with supporters
Right-wing media
Dinners with rich donors and billionaires
Truth Social
Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Very little U.S travel
No rallies or contact with supporters
Right-wing media
Dinners with rich donors and billionaires
Truth Social
Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Very Louis XVI-coded. Wants all the respect, grandeur and riches of the office, does not want any of the responsibility, more obsessed with golf and watching TV (Trump's version of what hunting and locksmithing was for Louis) and extremely susceptible to manipulation by any given advisor in the room
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"Unitary executive" is really "24 year olds in the West Wing tell everyone in the federal government with experience and knowledge what to do at their jobs."
thinking more about this: it is highly ironic that at the same time that it serves as a test case for the "unitary executive," this administration is all but being led by two subordinate officials with no immediate political accountability.
December 1, 2025 at 5:48 PM
"Unitary executive" is really "24 year olds in the West Wing tell everyone in the federal government with experience and knowledge what to do at their jobs."
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trump is the president in the sense that he holds the office but he very clearly isn't the president in the sense that he has basically relieved himself of its duties
Trump’s echo chamber:
Very little U.S travel
No rallies or contact with supporters
Right-wing media
Dinners with rich donors and billionaires
Truth Social
Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Very little U.S travel
No rallies or contact with supporters
Right-wing media
Dinners with rich donors and billionaires
Truth Social
Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Bubble-Wrapped President
Trump surrounds himself with those who flatter him in places where he is comfortable.
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
trump is the president in the sense that he holds the office but he very clearly isn't the president in the sense that he has basically relieved himself of its duties
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In college, I had to read the Department of Defense’s Law of War manual.
I kid you not when I tell you that firing at the shipwrecked is quite literally provided as an example of an illegal order.
I kid you not when I tell you that firing at the shipwrecked is quite literally provided as an example of an illegal order.
December 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
In college, I had to read the Department of Defense’s Law of War manual.
I kid you not when I tell you that firing at the shipwrecked is quite literally provided as an example of an illegal order.
I kid you not when I tell you that firing at the shipwrecked is quite literally provided as an example of an illegal order.