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nelsonoftrafalgar.bsky.social
Moderately curious, moderately intelligent, dog lover, was at the Battle of Trafalgar. The team fared well there; me not so much.
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Smooth operator

submitted 18 hours ago • 10 comments

“…a comprehensive turn away from US assets…” Gosh, I wonder why? FFS

submitted 10 hours ago • 22 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

True, true, true and true

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submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

This felon paid 1 Billion to stay out of prison and now he's a US Senator who keeps getting elected, its no wonder this country has gone to 💩. Google it!

submitted 2 days ago • 69 comments

#TrumpParade 🤣🤣

submitted 1 day ago • 326 comments

And graft

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

THREAD: Some folks have asked why Donald doesn’t just pick up the phone and bring Abrego Garcia back. Besides the cruelty, what’s the point of defying the lower court’s order? Basically, he wants to see if he can get away with it. 1/

submitted 1 day ago • 350 comments

When Trump changed sides in Russia’s war against Ukraine, Republicans acted as if nothing had changed. It takes a special talent to betray an entire worldview without missing a beat:

submitted 1 day ago • 81 comments

When Rubio announced the agreement with El Salvador in February he touted it as a way to outsourcing the federal prison system by allowing the US to send American citizen inmates there to serve their . This undercuts the Trump administration’s claim to the courts that it can’t get people back.

submitted 1 day ago • 377 comments

Do not obey

submitted 1 day ago • 370 comments

The first step in policy analysis is figuring out what's going wrong. And by my view, we're facing two crises: A tariff crisis, and a crisis of confidence built upon fears incompetence. Let me lay it out, wonk it out and math it out. (I get a bit testy because I think this stuff really matters.)

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

"The bond market is not like the Supreme Court, or Paul Weiss, or Columbia University, or any of the other institutions Trump has conquered, co-opted, or corrupted." "He cannot scare it into submission. He cannot bribe it." from @jvl.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-fina...

submitted 2 days ago • 64 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This seems right, and all of this is WRONG.

submitted 2 days ago • 1131 comments

I think it's bad that the country is led by people who haven't had a real problem in their entire lives and couldn't get a regular job due to being too weird

submitted 2 days ago • 184 comments

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Another major transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks. We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.

submitted 3 days ago • 2012 comments

Can Justice Samuel Alito’s neighbors please start hanging upside down American flags? It’s ok to put signs up that so “Fuck You Alito” too so that the point of the message is clear.

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submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

If the agent of an embittered KGB officer somehow won the US presidency and entered into the office bent on destroying the USA in its national influence, network of alliances, and the American people’s quality of life, what would he be doing differently?

submitted 5 days ago • 618 comments

Democracy dies in dumb

submitted 5 days ago • 716 comments

As the author of a history of concentration camps, I would like to emphasize that this is a very bad idea, and we should definitely not do it.

submitted 5 days ago • 396 comments

I am also the author of a history of concentration camps in the Soviet Union, and I concur

submitted 5 days ago • 67 comments