The Pines
@thepines.bsky.social
minneapolis born and raised
livin in bozeman since ‘04
always have a big sky pass
Bozeman, Montana
livin in bozeman since ‘04
always have a big sky pass
Bozeman, Montana
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Community notes don’t get much more brutal than this
December 1, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Community notes don’t get much more brutal than this
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Also, this tweet should be a scandal in its own right! The Secretary of Defense, currently under bipartisan scrutiny for potentially committing cold-blooded murder of shipwrecked men, is cracking public jokes about what he did - essentially spitting in the face of his victims AND Congress.
December 1, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Also, this tweet should be a scandal in its own right! The Secretary of Defense, currently under bipartisan scrutiny for potentially committing cold-blooded murder of shipwrecked men, is cracking public jokes about what he did - essentially spitting in the face of his victims AND Congress.
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Oh hey, it looks like you can get my book for 50% off for another handful of hours! (I think my book is worth $28, but it's definitely worth $14! And if you really want a hardback, well, a few more hours to get it for $55 rather than $110!)
December 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Oh hey, it looks like you can get my book for 50% off for another handful of hours! (I think my book is worth $28, but it's definitely worth $14! And if you really want a hardback, well, a few more hours to get it for $55 rather than $110!)
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DONALD TRUMP REPORTEDLY CONFIRMED HAVING A PHONE CALL WITH NICOLAS MADURO, THE VENEZUELAN LEADER.📞🇻🇪
December 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
DONALD TRUMP REPORTEDLY CONFIRMED HAVING A PHONE CALL WITH NICOLAS MADURO, THE VENEZUELAN LEADER.📞🇻🇪
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PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS WITKOFF WILL HAVE A MEETING WITH PUTIN NEXT WEEK 🇺🇸🤝
December 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS WITKOFF WILL HAVE A MEETING WITH PUTIN NEXT WEEK 🇺🇸🤝
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PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS HE KNOWS WHO HE WILL PICK AS FED CHAIR BUT WON'T CONFIRM HASSETT. 🇺🇸📉
December 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS HE KNOWS WHO HE WILL PICK AS FED CHAIR BUT WON'T CONFIRM HASSETT. 🇺🇸📉
My time in Mexico has been bueno as usual.
December 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
My time in Mexico has been bueno as usual.
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The first strike was also murder. You can’t just up and kill civilians on the high seas and then claim you were at war with them.
Reporter: If there were a second strike that killed wounded people, would that be legal?
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
November 30, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The first strike was also murder. You can’t just up and kill civilians on the high seas and then claim you were at war with them.
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While this usually isn't the intent, "no one will ever be held accountable for this" doomerism is an excuse not to try.
There'll be at least some accountability if enough Americans work for it. And this time really is different. Doesn't guarantee the aftermath will be, but it increases the chances.
There'll be at least some accountability if enough Americans work for it. And this time really is different. Doesn't guarantee the aftermath will be, but it increases the chances.
November 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
While this usually isn't the intent, "no one will ever be held accountable for this" doomerism is an excuse not to try.
There'll be at least some accountability if enough Americans work for it. And this time really is different. Doesn't guarantee the aftermath will be, but it increases the chances.
There'll be at least some accountability if enough Americans work for it. And this time really is different. Doesn't guarantee the aftermath will be, but it increases the chances.
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It has been painfully obvious for *decades* that far-right wanted force US to listen to far-right speech while making other speech illegal, but our insanely stupid & short-sighted & hateful Elite joined them in pretending their anti-free-speech agenda was actually free-speech.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:57 PM
It has been painfully obvious for *decades* that far-right wanted force US to listen to far-right speech while making other speech illegal, but our insanely stupid & short-sighted & hateful Elite joined them in pretending their anti-free-speech agenda was actually free-speech.
No idea how much worse the wealth and income inequality has to get out there but apparently a lot worse.
Switzerland voted to reject a 50% inheritance tax on super-rich residents after wealthy entrepreneurs threatened to leave the country
Swiss Reject Millionaire Inheritance Tax Fearing Wealth Exodus
Switzerland voted to reject a 50% inheritance tax on super-rich residents after wealthy entrepreneurs threatened to leave the country.
bloom.bg
November 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
No idea how much worse the wealth and income inequality has to get out there but apparently a lot worse.
Im sorry just don't buy the trope that "this isnt true conservatism" which is more like Reagan and McCain, ect. Deference is always given to conservatism, that it's not a bad philosophy or politics it's just perverted. McCain was better than his contemporaries because he was more liberal.
November 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Im sorry just don't buy the trope that "this isnt true conservatism" which is more like Reagan and McCain, ect. Deference is always given to conservatism, that it's not a bad philosophy or politics it's just perverted. McCain was better than his contemporaries because he was more liberal.
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Cops are great
“In nearly all of the examples Judge Ellis cited in her 200-plus page opinion, she says the Department of Homeland Security narrative contradicts the reality of what can be seen on agents' body-worn cameras.”
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
Federal agents engaged in widespread misrepresentations to justify use of force: Judge
The ABC7 I-Team is taking a closer look at a trove of videos ordered released by a federal judge in her explanation of the preliminary injunction she issued earlier this month restricting use of force...
abc7chicago.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Cops are great
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Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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The Krugman blog today on affordability gets at exactly what I think is happening, and what's missed in the vibecession debates
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/affordabil...
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/affordabil...
November 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The Krugman blog today on affordability gets at exactly what I think is happening, and what's missed in the vibecession debates
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/affordabil...
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/affordabil...
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It's funny I don't remember this being the take during the Biden presidency
Snappy take from the Washington Post.
tl;dr: inflation bad.
tl;dr: inflation bad.
November 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
It's funny I don't remember this being the take during the Biden presidency
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Trump Approval Among 2024 Trump Voters:
Approve: 83% (-9)
Disapprove: 15% (+10)
YouGov / Nov 24, 2025
(% Change With Feb 2025)
Approve: 83% (-9)
Disapprove: 15% (+10)
YouGov / Nov 24, 2025
(% Change With Feb 2025)
November 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Trump Approval Among 2024 Trump Voters:
Approve: 83% (-9)
Disapprove: 15% (+10)
YouGov / Nov 24, 2025
(% Change With Feb 2025)
Approve: 83% (-9)
Disapprove: 15% (+10)
YouGov / Nov 24, 2025
(% Change With Feb 2025)
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The reactionary worldview is shot through with a deep-seated disdain for America.
In this post, for example, the underlying assumption is that there is nothing special about America's institutions and laws, its civil services, its patterns of life and social norms, its historical developments.
In this post, for example, the underlying assumption is that there is nothing special about America's institutions and laws, its civil services, its patterns of life and social norms, its historical developments.
November 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The reactionary worldview is shot through with a deep-seated disdain for America.
In this post, for example, the underlying assumption is that there is nothing special about America's institutions and laws, its civil services, its patterns of life and social norms, its historical developments.
In this post, for example, the underlying assumption is that there is nothing special about America's institutions and laws, its civil services, its patterns of life and social norms, its historical developments.
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It's easy shorthand -- just as "bureaucrat" is. And we've seen how that fucked things up.
"I am a huge fan of the classic TV series 'Law & Order.' And yet I cannot think of a single episode — among hundreds — in which a journalist is depicted as honorable." www.poynter.org/commentary/2...
Why I’m begging TV showrunners to stop writing journalists as villains - Poynter
I will stop shouting at the TV screen when journalists are portrayed with all their virtues and vices — not as caricatures
www.poynter.org
November 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
It's easy shorthand -- just as "bureaucrat" is. And we've seen how that fucked things up.
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"No ceiling" results in what we have: a couple dozen psychopaths control several trillion dollars and the power has made them go stark raving mad. They are obsessed with using their concentrated wealth to punish the population and remake the country into a failed state and international pariah.
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"No ceiling" results in what we have: a couple dozen psychopaths control several trillion dollars and the power has made them go stark raving mad. They are obsessed with using their concentrated wealth to punish the population and remake the country into a failed state and international pariah.
Modern American conservatism is 100% evil with exactly zero redeeming qualities whatsoever.
Welker: "DHS posted 'Remigration now!'…How, specifically, does the Trump administration define 'remigration'?"
Kristi Noem: *refuses to answer the question*
Kristi Noem: *refuses to answer the question*
November 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Modern American conservatism is 100% evil with exactly zero redeeming qualities whatsoever.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel formally requested a pardon from the president on Sunday in his long-running corruption trial. Here’s what to know about the trial.
The Netanyahu Corruption Trial, Explained
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked Israel’s president to pardon him preemptively, before any verdicts were reached in his corruption cases. Here’s what to know about his trial.
nyti.ms
November 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel formally requested a pardon from the president on Sunday in his long-running corruption trial. Here’s what to know about the trial.
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It’s absurd and obscene. And it’s not just LSU. My alma mater has a long history of huge payouts to football coaches they fire. And if UT were ever give up on Sark, his payout is a hold my beer to LSU.
November 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
It’s absurd and obscene. And it’s not just LSU. My alma mater has a long history of huge payouts to football coaches they fire. And if UT were ever give up on Sark, his payout is a hold my beer to LSU.
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LSU is paying its previous football coach over $50 million NOT to coach there while likely guaranteeing Kiffin something approaching double that, all while having an academic hiring freeze and budget cuts across the board. What is the purpose of a university (rhetorical)?
SOURCES: Lane Kiffin is expected to accept LSU's offer to become the Tigers next head coach. Kiffin is set to meet with his Ole Miss team this morning at 9 AM CT. As we reported yesterday morning, LSU has been very confident it was going to land Kiffin. www.nytimes.com/athletic/684...
Lane Kiffin expected to take LSU job as Ole Miss sets team meeting: Source
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM
LSU is paying its previous football coach over $50 million NOT to coach there while likely guaranteeing Kiffin something approaching double that, all while having an academic hiring freeze and budget cuts across the board. What is the purpose of a university (rhetorical)?