Tucker Jones
@tuckerjones.bsky.social
Formerly in international development and in local government. Now in Bonn, Germany. Learning German, also following news from Europe and especially the Balkans in BCMS, Turkish, English.
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Tucker Jones
@tuckerjones.bsky.social
· Sep 4
I'm moving to Bonn, Germany in a few weeks! My wife got into a master's program there, and I'll focus on intensive study of the German language for the first year. If you are in the area or know anyone I should meet there, please let me know!
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The Washington Post's Editorial Board shows its contempt for renters - about 60% of DC households - and car-free families - about 35% of DC households.
Because we aren't rich enough to own homes or to pay $10k/year for a car, and because of this, they think we aren't worthy to govern ourselves.
Because we aren't rich enough to own homes or to pay $10k/year for a car, and because of this, they think we aren't worthy to govern ourselves.
Everyone has lost their minds
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
November 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The Washington Post's Editorial Board shows its contempt for renters - about 60% of DC households - and car-free families - about 35% of DC households.
Because we aren't rich enough to own homes or to pay $10k/year for a car, and because of this, they think we aren't worthy to govern ourselves.
Because we aren't rich enough to own homes or to pay $10k/year for a car, and because of this, they think we aren't worthy to govern ourselves.
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Wild. We always say on the podcast that owning a car is required for effective full enfranchisement in most places of the USA because we are such a car-dependent society, but this is...next level. They say it like it's disqualifying for office.
WaPo editorial board launches a disgusting car-brained attack on Seattle's new mayor Katie Wilson.
"Who is Wilson? She does not own a car"
It's so bad you need to read it, so a gift link: wapo.st/4r2peP3
"Who is Wilson? She does not own a car"
It's so bad you need to read it, so a gift link: wapo.st/4r2peP3
November 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Wild. We always say on the podcast that owning a car is required for effective full enfranchisement in most places of the USA because we are such a car-dependent society, but this is...next level. They say it like it's disqualifying for office.
The Washington Post's Editorial Board shows its contempt for renters - about 60% of DC households - and car-free families - about 35% of DC households.
Because we aren't rich enough to own homes or to pay $10k/year for a car, and because of this, they think we aren't worthy to govern ourselves.
Because we aren't rich enough to own homes or to pay $10k/year for a car, and because of this, they think we aren't worthy to govern ourselves.
Everyone has lost their minds
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
November 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The Washington Post's Editorial Board shows its contempt for renters - about 60% of DC households - and car-free families - about 35% of DC households.
Because we aren't rich enough to own homes or to pay $10k/year for a car, and because of this, they think we aren't worthy to govern ourselves.
Because we aren't rich enough to own homes or to pay $10k/year for a car, and because of this, they think we aren't worthy to govern ourselves.
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So… A BP agent filmed in LA in June kidnapping someone from a Walmart got arrested by Long Beach cops after drunkenly flashing his service pistol in a women’s restroom. He demanded they call BP Commander Bovino. After making bail he died of a drug OD at his parents house. lbpost.com/news/isaiah-...
A viral arrest, a drunken brawl and an overdose: the last days of a notorious Border Patrol agent
We obtained hours of body-camera video that give the fullest — and perhaps last — glimpse of Agent Isaiah Hodgson’s mindset when he became a flashpoint in the fight over immigration raids.
lbpost.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
So… A BP agent filmed in LA in June kidnapping someone from a Walmart got arrested by Long Beach cops after drunkenly flashing his service pistol in a women’s restroom. He demanded they call BP Commander Bovino. After making bail he died of a drug OD at his parents house. lbpost.com/news/isaiah-...
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I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
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Also in here: DHS responded to the faith-led protest yesterday, calling participants “violent rioters” and “imbecilic morons” who need to “get a job.”
Asked about the statement, one UMC pastor who participated in the protest told me: "This is our job." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
Asked about the statement, one UMC pastor who participated in the protest told me: "This is our job." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
November 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Also in here: DHS responded to the faith-led protest yesterday, calling participants “violent rioters” and “imbecilic morons” who need to “get a job.”
Asked about the statement, one UMC pastor who participated in the protest told me: "This is our job." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
Asked about the statement, one UMC pastor who participated in the protest told me: "This is our job." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
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All I have to say about the Nuzzi profile is that at the end of it she jokes about how she destroyed her life. In fact she did not do that. She has a book, a magazine job, this lovely profile. People’s lives are being destroyed by this administration, however, including by -well, you know.
November 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
All I have to say about the Nuzzi profile is that at the end of it she jokes about how she destroyed her life. In fact she did not do that. She has a book, a magazine job, this lovely profile. People’s lives are being destroyed by this administration, however, including by -well, you know.
The conflict between law enforcement and Christian ministry goes back two thousand years. The Cook County Sheriff's Office seeks to continue persecuting those who practice what Jesus preached.
at one point, i watched a cook county sheriff’s officer (who appears to be in charge) point out a priest in the crowd.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
November 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The conflict between law enforcement and Christian ministry goes back two thousand years. The Cook County Sheriff's Office seeks to continue persecuting those who practice what Jesus preached.
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
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Whoever decided to put the Düsseldorf Airport check in lines for the flights to Belgrade and Prishtina next to each other has a good sense of humor
November 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Whoever decided to put the Düsseldorf Airport check in lines for the flights to Belgrade and Prishtina next to each other has a good sense of humor
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“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”
"They tried to shut me up by deporting me."
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
Dozens Of Women Allege Unwanted Surgeries And Medical Abuse In ICE Custody
More women are coming forward to say they were pressured to have reproductive surgeries they did not want or understand, offering a glimpse into alleged medical abuses at an ICE detention center.
www.npr.org
November 15, 2025 at 3:11 AM
“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
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i'd also say there is a real sense in which for the people who were her patrons and backers nuzzi cannot be allowed to fail
November 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
i'd also say there is a real sense in which for the people who were her patrons and backers nuzzi cannot be allowed to fail
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Oligarchy is corrosive, it is undemocratic and it is ruinous to a nation's prosperity.
But most of all, oligarchy is very stupid.
But most of all, oligarchy is very stupid.
November 14, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Oligarchy is corrosive, it is undemocratic and it is ruinous to a nation's prosperity.
But most of all, oligarchy is very stupid.
But most of all, oligarchy is very stupid.
Whoever decided to put the Düsseldorf Airport check in lines for the flights to Belgrade and Prishtina next to each other has a good sense of humor
November 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Whoever decided to put the Düsseldorf Airport check in lines for the flights to Belgrade and Prishtina next to each other has a good sense of humor
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“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
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zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
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Clearly, Bowser thinks this inside look at how she handled Trump vindicates her approach...but if we get new videos every day of ICE patrolling with MPD to deport people, is it having the effect she hoped?
Not helping that she gets defensive about it at every turn:
Not helping that she gets defensive about it at every turn:
November 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Clearly, Bowser thinks this inside look at how she handled Trump vindicates her approach...but if we get new videos every day of ICE patrolling with MPD to deport people, is it having the effect she hoped?
Not helping that she gets defensive about it at every turn:
Not helping that she gets defensive about it at every turn:
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"she needed money for braces"
it's really hard to overstate how fucking evil these people are
it's really hard to overstate how fucking evil these people are
The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
"she needed money for braces"
it's really hard to overstate how fucking evil these people are
it's really hard to overstate how fucking evil these people are
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Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.
November 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.
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"Larry Summers believed he was oppressed by the American elite" is both ridiculous and deeply revealing about how these men see the world
You have to be astonishingly full of yourself to think that INSIGHT is the word you were looking for here
November 12, 2025 at 6:17 PM
"Larry Summers believed he was oppressed by the American elite" is both ridiculous and deeply revealing about how these men see the world
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The first and last lines of Joni Ernst’s legacy as a human on earth will be that she was instrumental in the confirmation of the Sec of Defense most hostile to women serving in military, and she knew that when she voted for him.
November 12, 2025 at 12:55 AM
The first and last lines of Joni Ernst’s legacy as a human on earth will be that she was instrumental in the confirmation of the Sec of Defense most hostile to women serving in military, and she knew that when she voted for him.
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The Zeiten, they are wending.
61% of Germans say their country invested too little in its military capabilities.
66% say we relied too much on the US for our security.
61% of Germans say their country invested too little in its military capabilities.
66% say we relied too much on the US for our security.
November 11, 2025 at 6:47 AM
The Zeiten, they are wending.
61% of Germans say their country invested too little in its military capabilities.
66% say we relied too much on the US for our security.
61% of Germans say their country invested too little in its military capabilities.
66% say we relied too much on the US for our security.
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Nothing like a proposal for a modest amount of lower-income housing nearby to find out who your neighbors are.
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Nothing like a proposal for a modest amount of lower-income housing nearby to find out who your neighbors are.
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It's hard to imagine just 10 years later how much 2015 was a high-water mark of post-Cold War liberal internationalism: the SDGs, Paris Agreement, JCPOA, Cuba and TPP (technically Feb 2016).
But all were achieved even as the foundation upholding that global order were corroded beyond repair.
But all were achieved even as the foundation upholding that global order were corroded beyond repair.
November 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
It's hard to imagine just 10 years later how much 2015 was a high-water mark of post-Cold War liberal internationalism: the SDGs, Paris Agreement, JCPOA, Cuba and TPP (technically Feb 2016).
But all were achieved even as the foundation upholding that global order were corroded beyond repair.
But all were achieved even as the foundation upholding that global order were corroded beyond repair.
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Today I’m announcing a new non-profit that I co-founded - the Moldova Resilience Fund. This US based 501c3 will support independent media, civil society and civic activism groups in Moldova. Read this announcement to find out more - and how you can get involved.
open.substack.com/pub/moldovam...
open.substack.com/pub/moldovam...
November 10, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Today I’m announcing a new non-profit that I co-founded - the Moldova Resilience Fund. This US based 501c3 will support independent media, civil society and civic activism groups in Moldova. Read this announcement to find out more - and how you can get involved.
open.substack.com/pub/moldovam...
open.substack.com/pub/moldovam...