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Shawn "Smith" Peirce
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Co-Host & Co-Producer at The Politics Bar thepoliticsbar.com | Fmr. Exec. Producer The Randi Rhodes Show | Longtime Producer, Host, Editor, Writer, Journalist. | Born In Neb | Also at Mastodon, Threads, & Twitter
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silversmith1.bsky.social
What Pete Kegbreath did is a war crime, making him a war criminal, by our own laws.

Now force our Congresspeople to do their jobs, & remove Kegbreath the war criminal.
kvconner.bsky.social kvconner.bsky.social @kvconner.bsky.social · 14h
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Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
As two men clung to a stricken, burning ship targeted by SEAL Team 6, the Joint Special Ops commander followed the SEC Defense's order to leave no survivors.
By Alex Horton Ellen Nakashima 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.
wapo.st
November 29, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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simonwdc.bsky.social
Trump drops 11 points - 11 points! - in the past month in Gallup. Just a staggering decline. 1/
polltracker.bsky.social Poll Tracker 📊 @polltracker.bsky.social · 18h
Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25

President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)

news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
November 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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polltracker.bsky.social
Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25

President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)

news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
November 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
We need to start calling him this #SecretaryofWarCrimes
November 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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gtconway.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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gtconway.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Police in California evacuated a shopping mall on one of the busiest shopping days of the year after a shooting left two people with gunshot wounds.
A shopping mall shooting wounds 2 and prompts a Black Friday evacuation in the Bay Area
Police in California evacuated a shopping mall on one of the busiest shopping days of the year after a shooting left two people with gunshot wounds.
bit.ly
November 29, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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reuters.com
U.S. Olympic medal hope Macuga out for season with knee injury reut.rs/4ivxDGT
U.S. Olympic medal hope Macuga out for season with knee injury
Lauren Macuga, an American medal hopeful for next year's Milano-Cortina Olympics, will miss the remainder of the season after suffering a knee injury during training in Copper Mountain, Colorado, the U.S. Ski Team said on Friday.
reut.rs
November 29, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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jeffstorobinsky.bsky.social
One has to believe that nothing bad lasts forever and that there is indeed light at the end of the tunnel
November 29, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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baddestmamajama.bsky.social
A twelve year old can make AI porn of his teacher but cannot see the movie Before Sunrise in theaters. Does that not feel completely insane.
November 29, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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baddestmamajama.bsky.social
Does it strike anyone as weird that we have a ratings board that counts the number of times a movie says fuck or shows a boob and decides who is allowed to see it, and yet GenAI was dropped on the entire with no restrictions, no age verification, no checks, no regulation whatsoever?
November 29, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
Any person who claims to be an academic leader and signs a document like this is neither.
November 29, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
Paragraphs 21-26 are incredibly invasive diversity-related changes.
November 29, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
Among the provisions are ones agreeing to the Trump administration's definition of sex as "biological sex" and agreeing "not perform hormonal interventions and transgender surgeries ... on any individual under the age of 18 years old, effective immediately."
28. Northwestern will uphold its commitment to Title IX by providing safe and fair opportunities for women, including single-sex housing for any woman, defined on the basis of sex, who requests such accommodations and all-female sports, locker rooms, and showering facilities. 29. Northwestern and its Feinberg School of Medicine shall not perform hormonal interventions and transgender surgeries, including but not limited to mastectomies, phalloplasties, vaginoplasties, and/or any other procedure intended to alter an individual's sex characteristics, on any individual under the age of 18 years old, effective immediately upon the Effective Date of this Agreement. a. Northwestern shall revise all policies, protocols, and public-facing materials at Feinberg School of Medicine to reflect the commitment set forth in this paragraph on hormonal interventions and transgender surgeries to individuals under the age of 18 years old and ensure compliance with federal laws. b. Northwestern shall notify all faculty and administrators of the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern's commitments set forth above regarding transgender surgeries on minors within thirty (30) days of the Effective Date. 30. Together with its first quarterly certification as set out in Paragraph 49, Northwestern shall submit a report to the Assistant Attorney General, confirming compliance with the preceding paragraph. The report shall include documentation of compliance, such as revised policy documents and copies of notifications sent. "Sex," "female," "male," "women," and "men" are defined in Executive Order 14168, Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government (Jan. 20, 2025), and related executive orders.
November 29, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
This is an incredibly invasive settlement — similar in several parts to the Columbia settlement. It is signed by Northwestern University interim president Henry Bienen. www.northwestern.edu/president/do...
For Northwestern University Signed by: 1594 08989499FAF4490... Henry S. Bienen Interim President, Northwestern University 633 Clark Street Evanston, IL 60208 For the United States: Lams Tall The Honorable Harmeet K. Dhillon Assistant Attorney General U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20530 For the Department of Health and Human Services: Paula M. Stannard Director, Office for Civil Rights U.S. Department of Health & Human Services 200 Independence Avenue, S. W. Washington, D.C. 20201 Dated: 11/28,2025
November 29, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
mattheweadie.bsky.social Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 10h
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university

Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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michaelsderby.bsky.social
Trump pardons foreign cocaine trafficker convicted by a U.S. jury last year. Via NYT
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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ashtonpittman.bsky.social
We are blowing up foreign boats and extrajudicially killing people in the name of stopping drugs, but Trump is happy to pardon a corrupt ex-president charged with drug trafficking.
November 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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thedailybeast.bsky.social
Republican Indiana State Senator Mike Bohacek signaled he would vote “No” on the state GOP’s redistricting effort due to Trump’s use of a slur.
GOP Rep. Vows to Oppose Trump’s Wishes After Vile Slur
Indiana Republican Mike Bohacek said he would oppose GOP redistricting efforts after Trump called Tim Walz “ret---ed.”
trib.al
November 29, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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asharangappa.bsky.social
Reposting my @cafedotcom.bsky.social piece from October ICYMI open.substack.com/pub/asharang...
So You've Decided to Target Random People with Military Force
Here's why it's illegal.
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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ryanjreilly.com
Sarah Beckstrom's ex-boyfriend told NBC News she dreamed of becoming an FBI special agent.

She didn't want to deploy to D.C.

"She hated it. She cried about it."

But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it.

May she rest in peace.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
National Guard member killed in D.C. shooting remembered for 'heart of gold'
The slain soldier’s former boyfriend recalled her empathy and generosity. “She doesn’t even have to know you and she’ll do anything for you,” he said.
www.nbcnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
silversmith1.bsky.social
The Capitulation Kitties of
Northwestern
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 9h
Northwestern University has agreed to pay $75 million as a part of a deal with the Trump administration to restore hundreds of millions in federal funding www.justice.gov/opa/pr/unite...
As part of the agreement, Northwestern University will pay $75 million to the United States through 2028. Northwestern agrees to adhere to federal anti-discrimination laws, ensuring that the university does not preference individuals based on race, color, or national origin in admissions, scholarships, hiring, or promotion. Northwestern shall maintain clear policies and procedures relating to demonstrations, protests, displays, and other expressive activities, as well as implement mandatory antisemitism training for all students, faculty, and staff. Northwestern’s President and Chair of the Board of Trustees shall each certify under penalty of perjury each quarter the university’s full compliance with the agreement. The United States shall close pending investigations and treat Northwestern as eligible for future grants, contracts, and awards.
November 29, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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daralind.bsky.social
I’ve really been on a “remember why we like the rule of law??” tip lately and hoo boy
November 29, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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daralind.bsky.social
I’d really love someone to explain to me how the admin’s Latin America policy is consistent regarding narcotrafficking.

(Please don’t reply to this saying it’s consistent because he supports right-wingers. That’s not what I’m asking!) open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
Trump Bribing Honduran Voters To Restore Narcotrafficking Government to Power
Trump endorsed the nominee of the right-wing party, while pledging to pardon its most recent president, who sits in U.S. federal prison for drug trafficking.
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM