Russ Newell
@mrfreeze-ak.bsky.social
Retired Alaskan. Worked in IT.
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It’s such a sublime example of the epic stupidity of CBS’s nepo baby owner that he banned a 60 Minutes segment and somehow forgot that Canada could still air it
December 24, 2025 at 1:02 AM
It’s such a sublime example of the epic stupidity of CBS’s nepo baby owner that he banned a 60 Minutes segment and somehow forgot that Canada could still air it
Uber Cleared Violent Felons to Drive. Passengers Accused Them of Rape.
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Grateful to @elpais.com for translating my article on Surrealism Against Fascism into Spanish and illustrating it with the most magnificent works of art. elpais.com/ideas/2025-1...
Contra el fascismo, surrealismo: de las trincheras de la Primera Guerra Mundial al genocidio de Gaza
¿Cuál debería ser la respuesta ante el avance de las ultraderechas? Hay mucho que aprender del antifascismo de los surrealistas, un movimiento artístico que supo reflejar los horrores de la guerra. De...
elpais.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Grateful to @elpais.com for translating my article on Surrealism Against Fascism into Spanish and illustrating it with the most magnificent works of art. elpais.com/ideas/2025-1...
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#Gift With #Gangster-Capitalism, the Great Leader can decide to shutter businesses he dislikes, just like that. Profitability has nothing to do with it.
Americans actually voted to re-elect Trump. Without these chumps, this would not be happening.
www.wsj.com/business/ene...
Americans actually voted to re-elect Trump. Without these chumps, this would not be happening.
www.wsj.com/business/ene...
Trump Administration Halts All Offshore Wind Projects
The Interior Department cited “national security risks” as it paused the federal leases for five projects in the works from Massachusetts to Virginia.
www.wsj.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
#Gift With #Gangster-Capitalism, the Great Leader can decide to shutter businesses he dislikes, just like that. Profitability has nothing to do with it.
Americans actually voted to re-elect Trump. Without these chumps, this would not be happening.
www.wsj.com/business/ene...
Americans actually voted to re-elect Trump. Without these chumps, this would not be happening.
www.wsj.com/business/ene...
#Gift CBS becomes fully Trump land news. The CBS News head pulled a 60 Minutes story 2 hours ahead of broadcast time.
Our media are becoming mechanisms to support the Trump autocracy.
Americans actually voted for this by re-electing Trump.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
Our media are becoming mechanisms to support the Trump autocracy.
Americans actually voted for this by re-electing Trump.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
#Gift CBS becomes fully Trump land news. The CBS News head pulled a 60 Minutes story 2 hours ahead of broadcast time.
Our media are becoming mechanisms to support the Trump autocracy.
Americans actually voted for this by re-electing Trump.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
Our media are becoming mechanisms to support the Trump autocracy.
Americans actually voted for this by re-electing Trump.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
#Gift On Trump's destruction of the federal government. Without functioning federal agencies, the prior functions of government are crippled.
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The year Trump broke the federal government
How DOGE and the White House carried out a once-unthinkable transformation of the nation’s sprawling bureaucracy.
wapo.st
December 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
#Gift On Trump's destruction of the federal government. Without functioning federal agencies, the prior functions of government are crippled.
wapo.st/4b14KAy
wapo.st/4b14KAy
#Gift On Putin aiding Trump's selection of Witkoff as the envoy to Russia. Trump does Putin's bidding with the "peace" plan giveaway to Russia.
www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
How Putin Got His Preferred U.S. Envoy: Come Alone, No CIA
The Kremlin fueled the rise of Trump’s friend Steve Witkoff with a prisoner release, sidelining career diplomats.
www.wsj.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
#Gift On Putin aiding Trump's selection of Witkoff as the envoy to Russia. Trump does Putin's bidding with the "peace" plan giveaway to Russia.
www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
#Gift Being an honest stock market analyst can get you fired.
#Enron
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/b...
#Enron
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/b...
John E. Olson, Analyst Fired for Enron Skepticism, Dies at 83
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
#Gift Being an honest stock market analyst can get you fired.
#Enron
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/b...
#Enron
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/b...
#Alaska #ANWR This opinion piece describes the hurdles oil companies would face in ANWR that would threaten or eliminate profitability.
"Polar bears depend on the “critical habitat” of the coastal plain where they den and give birth to their cubs in January"
www.adn.com/opinions/202...
"Polar bears depend on the “critical habitat” of the coastal plain where they den and give birth to their cubs in January"
www.adn.com/opinions/202...
Opinion: Exploiting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge makes no sense
Industrializing our most pristine wildlife refuge would be an irreversible mistake that Alaska would regret for generations.
www.adn.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
#Alaska #ANWR This opinion piece describes the hurdles oil companies would face in ANWR that would threaten or eliminate profitability.
"Polar bears depend on the “critical habitat” of the coastal plain where they den and give birth to their cubs in January"
www.adn.com/opinions/202...
"Polar bears depend on the “critical habitat” of the coastal plain where they den and give birth to their cubs in January"
www.adn.com/opinions/202...
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Are you now or ever been a radical leftist antifascist? Now, let's see if having a BlueSky page or sending $ to Indivisible, et al will be sufficient to put millions of us on the regime lists.
Gift article (from Bezos's WaPo)
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Gift article (from Bezos's WaPo)
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Trump administration prepares sweeping crackdown on leftist networks
The Justice Department’s program to root out violent “Antifa” extremism is raising First Amendment concerns.
wapo.st
December 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Are you now or ever been a radical leftist antifascist? Now, let's see if having a BlueSky page or sending $ to Indivisible, et al will be sufficient to put millions of us on the regime lists.
Gift article (from Bezos's WaPo)
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Gift article (from Bezos's WaPo)
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Trump might execute "domestic terrorists" like he is blowing up boats today. Note he has been
"creating a secret list of domestic terrorist organizations, established under National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, or NSPM-7"
theintercept.com/2025/12/12/t...
"creating a secret list of domestic terrorist organizations, established under National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, or NSPM-7"
theintercept.com/2025/12/12/t...
White House Refuses to Rule Out Summary Executions of People on Its Secret Domestic Terrorist List
The Trump administration ignored questions about whether it would order the killings of those on its NSPM-7 list — even while answering our other queries.
theintercept.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Trump might execute "domestic terrorists" like he is blowing up boats today. Note he has been
"creating a secret list of domestic terrorist organizations, established under National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, or NSPM-7"
theintercept.com/2025/12/12/t...
"creating a secret list of domestic terrorist organizations, established under National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, or NSPM-7"
theintercept.com/2025/12/12/t...
Clearly psychotic.
Trump appears to think that Venezuela's oil was "stolen" from the US? The return of Gunboat Diplomacy.
Trump appears to think that Venezuela's oil was "stolen" from the US? The return of Gunboat Diplomacy.
Good morning everyone
#WagTheDog
The Armada ...!!
Now it's about the oil..
Stolen land ?
And no Congressional Approval to stage his war
Oh do not forget those nasty #EpsteinFiles
#Epstein
WAG THE DOG
#WagTheDog
The Armada ...!!
Now it's about the oil..
Stolen land ?
And no Congressional Approval to stage his war
Oh do not forget those nasty #EpsteinFiles
#Epstein
WAG THE DOG
December 17, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Clearly psychotic.
Trump appears to think that Venezuela's oil was "stolen" from the US? The return of Gunboat Diplomacy.
Trump appears to think that Venezuela's oil was "stolen" from the US? The return of Gunboat Diplomacy.
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Day 17 of #ArtAdventCalendar: "A Fresh Perspective"
It's always a good idea to look at things from a new perspective from time to time! #birds #owls
It's always a good idea to look at things from a new perspective from time to time! #birds #owls
December 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Day 17 of #ArtAdventCalendar: "A Fresh Perspective"
It's always a good idea to look at things from a new perspective from time to time! #birds #owls
It's always a good idea to look at things from a new perspective from time to time! #birds #owls
Are CBS, ABC, & NBC on their way to becoming Fox propaganda? With Trump free to extort them (as he has criminal immunity from #SCOTUS), you can bet on it.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Suck-Up TV Bosses Give Trump Free Rein to Rant in Primetime
Major television networks are set to clear schedules for a live presidential address, pre-empting popular programs to let President Donald Trump talk himself up amid sinking approval numbers. The Whit...
www.yahoo.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Are CBS, ABC, & NBC on their way to becoming Fox propaganda? With Trump free to extort them (as he has criminal immunity from #SCOTUS), you can bet on it.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Trump wants ex FBI head Wray & Biden AG Garland arrested. We have 3 more years of Trump solidifying his autocracy. The Roberts #SCOTUS gave Trump immunity from any criminal actions. Expect much worse as Trump jails his critics.
Americans actually voted for this.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Americans actually voted for this.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Trump Issues Late-Night Threat to Arrest His Enemies
President Donald Trump issued an unhinged call to arrest his political enemies in a late-night Truth Social post. The 79-year-old boosted a message from a pro-MAGA account late Tuesday calling for the...
www.yahoo.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Trump wants ex FBI head Wray & Biden AG Garland arrested. We have 3 more years of Trump solidifying his autocracy. The Roberts #SCOTUS gave Trump immunity from any criminal actions. Expect much worse as Trump jails his critics.
Americans actually voted for this.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Americans actually voted for this.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
#Gift Without scientific research, we are back to the Dark Ages where the Church or whomever can insist that whatever they say is God's truth.
Americans actually voted for this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...
Americans actually voted for this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...
Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:53 PM
#Gift Without scientific research, we are back to the Dark Ages where the Church or whomever can insist that whatever they say is God's truth.
Americans actually voted for this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...
Americans actually voted for this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...
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Does everyone know about Project Gutenberg? E-books for free. The world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for free. Digitized and diligently proofread by thousands of volunteers.
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November 29, 2024 at 4:57 PM
Does everyone know about Project Gutenberg? E-books for free. The world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for free. Digitized and diligently proofread by thousands of volunteers.
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Crime pays in the US. You can commit the highest crimes & the people will still elect you President.
The Jan 6th Committee reports remain available on YouTube for all to see.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
The Jan 6th Committee reports remain available on YouTube for all to see.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Jack Smith tells lawmakers his team developed 'proof beyond a reasonable doubt' against Trump
Former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith told lawmakers in a closed-door interview Wednesday that his team of investigators “developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt” that President Donal...
www.yahoo.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Crime pays in the US. You can commit the highest crimes & the people will still elect you President.
The Jan 6th Committee reports remain available on YouTube for all to see.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
The Jan 6th Committee reports remain available on YouTube for all to see.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
#Gift "State capitalism" is a neutered word for #Gangster-Capitalism where the Great Leader gets his cut.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
CEOs Are Learning to Live With Trump’s Turn to State Capitalism
Some businesses have figured out how to take advantage of an expanded government presence in their boardrooms.
www.wsj.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:17 PM
#Gift "State capitalism" is a neutered word for #Gangster-Capitalism where the Great Leader gets his cut.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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With Trump, unemployment increased.
Americans actually voted to re-elect Trump. How many more will become unemployed as the tariff effects continue?
finance.yahoo.com/news/unemplo...
Americans actually voted to re-elect Trump. How many more will become unemployed as the tariff effects continue?
finance.yahoo.com/news/unemplo...
Unemployment rate hit 4-year high in November even as economy added jobs
The US economy added 64,000 jobs in November as the unemployment rate crept up to 4.6%, according to Labor Department data published Tuesday.
finance.yahoo.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
With Trump, unemployment increased.
Americans actually voted to re-elect Trump. How many more will become unemployed as the tariff effects continue?
finance.yahoo.com/news/unemplo...
Americans actually voted to re-elect Trump. How many more will become unemployed as the tariff effects continue?
finance.yahoo.com/news/unemplo...