Ted Hogbin
@tedomega.bsky.social
Husband, Dad and proud West Virginian. Steel structures for over 20 years. Part of the design teams for some of NYC’s signature skyline.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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If the President hasn't issued any illegal orders, and has no intention of doing so, then he has no reason at all to be concerned when members of Congress correctly tell our servicemembers they have a constitutional and legal duty to disobey illegal orders.
November 24, 2025 at 1:14 AM
If the President hasn't issued any illegal orders, and has no intention of doing so, then he has no reason at all to be concerned when members of Congress correctly tell our servicemembers they have a constitutional and legal duty to disobey illegal orders.
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President insists his word is the one and only law in this land.
November 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
President insists his word is the one and only law in this land.
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I said this in my most recent @theatlantic.com article: The lawmakers had to make that video because it's so likely that Trump is, in fact, giving illegal orders, as @gregsargent.bsky.social discusses here.
What's weirdly missing from coverage of the Dem video is any discussion of this Q: Is it reasonable to fear Trump is giving illegal orders, or not? The answer is, yes, of course it is.
On the boat bombings, for instance, evidence is extensive. Here's a look at it:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
On the boat bombings, for instance, evidence is extensive. Here's a look at it:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
November 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I said this in my most recent @theatlantic.com article: The lawmakers had to make that video because it's so likely that Trump is, in fact, giving illegal orders, as @gregsargent.bsky.social discusses here.
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"Ukraine is fighting for the values we claim as our own: freedom, sovereignty, human dignity, democratic self-determination....If we fail to support that, we are not merely abandoning Ukraine. We are abandoning ourselves." lnk.thebulwark.com/4ihTiSP
November 22, 2025 at 12:30 AM
"Ukraine is fighting for the values we claim as our own: freedom, sovereignty, human dignity, democratic self-determination....If we fail to support that, we are not merely abandoning Ukraine. We are abandoning ourselves." lnk.thebulwark.com/4ihTiSP
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NEW: "The real threat to our understanding of the U.S. economy" is that "the Trump administration has been quietly snuffing out thousands of other data series, particularly those that might produce politically inconvenient results."
From our @crampell.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-one...
From our @crampell.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-one...
Trump’s One Weird Trick for Eliminating Bad News: Delete It
The disappearance of inconvenient facts and the remaking of reality.
www.thebulwark.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:52 AM
NEW: "The real threat to our understanding of the U.S. economy" is that "the Trump administration has been quietly snuffing out thousands of other data series, particularly those that might produce politically inconvenient results."
From our @crampell.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-one...
From our @crampell.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-one...
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Anyone who says "machines can't have a bias" can be safely ignored. They have terminal TechBrain. Machines are programmed by people and people ... have biases!
Saving this for whenever anyone tells me that AI is impartial because "machines can't have a bias"
oh my god i take it back, grok is amazing
November 20, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Anyone who says "machines can't have a bias" can be safely ignored. They have terminal TechBrain. Machines are programmed by people and people ... have biases!
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Of course one of these morons used ChatGPT to write a use of force report. Of. Course.
November 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Of course one of these morons used ChatGPT to write a use of force report. Of. Course.
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I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
November 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
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Howard Lutnick has reportedly promoted projects as commerce secretary that his kids are benefitting from in business.
Strong story by @ericlipton.nytimes.com, @mrothfeld.bsky.social, David Yaffe-Bellany and @anaswanson.bsky.social.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Strong story by @ericlipton.nytimes.com, @mrothfeld.bsky.social, David Yaffe-Bellany and @anaswanson.bsky.social.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Family Affair: Commerce Secretary’s Sons Cash In on A.I. Frenzy
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Howard Lutnick has reportedly promoted projects as commerce secretary that his kids are benefitting from in business.
Strong story by @ericlipton.nytimes.com, @mrothfeld.bsky.social, David Yaffe-Bellany and @anaswanson.bsky.social.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Strong story by @ericlipton.nytimes.com, @mrothfeld.bsky.social, David Yaffe-Bellany and @anaswanson.bsky.social.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
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It should be easy for educated, rational citizens to hold these two thoughts in mind: drug traffickers are the bad guys but due process of law protects us all.
Being against blowing up alleged drug traffickers at sea on the president's word does NOT make one a supporter of drug traffickers.
Being against blowing up alleged drug traffickers at sea on the president's word does NOT make one a supporter of drug traffickers.
November 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
It should be easy for educated, rational citizens to hold these two thoughts in mind: drug traffickers are the bad guys but due process of law protects us all.
Being against blowing up alleged drug traffickers at sea on the president's word does NOT make one a supporter of drug traffickers.
Being against blowing up alleged drug traffickers at sea on the president's word does NOT make one a supporter of drug traffickers.
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NEW: As Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick drives billions of dollars in foreign payments to help build AI data centers in the US, his sons help run a company earning tens of millions in fees helping finance AI data centers. A NYT investigation. (Free link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Family Affair: Commerce Secretary’s Sons Cash In on A.I. Frenzy
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
NEW: As Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick drives billions of dollars in foreign payments to help build AI data centers in the US, his sons help run a company earning tens of millions in fees helping finance AI data centers. A NYT investigation. (Free link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
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"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has financially benefited from vaccine-related litigation and advocacy, particularly through lawsuits and nonprofit fundraising tied to his anti-vaccine stance.
Here’s a breakdown of how Kennedy’s vaccine skepticism has intersected with financial gain: ..."
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Here’s a breakdown of how Kennedy’s vaccine skepticism has intersected with financial gain: ..."
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November 20, 2025 at 5:41 AM
"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has financially benefited from vaccine-related litigation and advocacy, particularly through lawsuits and nonprofit fundraising tied to his anti-vaccine stance.
Here’s a breakdown of how Kennedy’s vaccine skepticism has intersected with financial gain: ..."
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Here’s a breakdown of how Kennedy’s vaccine skepticism has intersected with financial gain: ..."
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A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
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If this picture was of Obama, you know @FoxNews would do three weeks solid on why the flag was on the ground.
At least three weeks
At least three weeks
November 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
If this picture was of Obama, you know @FoxNews would do three weeks solid on why the flag was on the ground.
At least three weeks
At least three weeks
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The cost of Trump's immigration surge: Stalled investigations into child sexual abuse, Iranian oil smuggling and human trafficking, among others. My latest piece is a big team effort on how DHS has been transformed into the Department of Deportation.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
Homeland Security Missions Falter Amid Focus on Deportations
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The cost of Trump's immigration surge: Stalled investigations into child sexual abuse, Iranian oil smuggling and human trafficking, among others. My latest piece is a big team effort on how DHS has been transformed into the Department of Deportation.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
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Openly corrupt. And Congress won’t even bother to investigate. This is what America looks like without a Congress.👇
NEW:
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
w @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
w @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Openly corrupt. And Congress won’t even bother to investigate. This is what America looks like without a Congress.👇
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Horrifying from the WSJ on the sloppy, dangerous, self-indulgent reign of Trump’s FBI director
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Kash Patel’s ‘Effin Wild’ Ride as FBI Director
In just one week in October, he ticked off his bosses with premature comments about a terror investigation and squeezed in a trip to the ‘Boondoggle Ranch’ on the bureau jet.
www.wsj.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Horrifying from the WSJ on the sloppy, dangerous, self-indulgent reign of Trump’s FBI director
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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100% this. The idea that our "great Founders" intended for the President to be able to raise taxes on Americans because someone in Canada ran an ad he didn't like is legitimately insane. It's the epitomization of arbitrary power.
I can help with this!
Yes, it makes perfect sense that in an *emergency*, e.g. a pandemic, you might need to do something like stop all trade while the same provision cannot be invoked punitively for non-emergencies, e.g. Canada quoting Ronald Reagan in an ad you don’t like
Yes, it makes perfect sense that in an *emergency*, e.g. a pandemic, you might need to do something like stop all trade while the same provision cannot be invoked punitively for non-emergencies, e.g. Canada quoting Ronald Reagan in an ad you don’t like
November 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
100% this. The idea that our "great Founders" intended for the President to be able to raise taxes on Americans because someone in Canada ran an ad he didn't like is legitimately insane. It's the epitomization of arbitrary power.