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Trying to avoid X, but it's hard to do if your main interest is MENA issues.
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I think anyone who flies the US skies should be concerned about #airsafety. Maybe some industrious journalist should highlight which airports are short-staffed because of #FAA firings. www.fox5dc.com/news/concern...

She knows what she's reporting and explained it precisely tonight on @PBS Washington Week with @theatlantic.com. @sbg1.bsky.social calls what's happening here #PutinizationofAmerica. www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

I stand with James Taylor on #Ukraine and @zelenskyua.bsky.social.

Not only has @shiraovide.bsky.social informed me of an upcoming #California data broker law that seems to have teeth, but she's also given tips on ways to protect my data b4 law goes into effect here. s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...

If you think yr small potatoes @djrothkopf.bsky.social but worry you could end up on #EnemiesList, you aren't the only one apprehensive about simply exercising 1st Amendment rights these days. davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/will-this-...

Cambridge Analytica is back in news. This time it's in conjuction w National Shooting Sports Foundation. Pretty outrageous to read what the collaboration consisted of and its results. We're an easily manipulatable citizenry - even more now so with DOGE snooping. www.propublica.org/article/guns...

Solidarity Network-#MontereyCounty - Rapid Response looks like "beginning of a real movement, with people of diverse backgrounds gathered together to learn about specific steps they could take to help protect our neighbors’ rights." www.montereycountynow.com/opinion/loca...

Even with >230 global NGOs calling F-35 exports to 🇮🇱 unlawful, if decisions are by consensus & overseen by 🇺🇸steering board, you can forget these killers will disappear under #TrumpRegime. But admiration to these true believers. www.middleeasteye.net/news/over-23...

Parson Weems's description of our 1st POTUS: generous,reverent, studious,athletic, martial,hardworking, & beloved by his comrades. Trump is just the opposite in every regard. @hcrichardson.bsky.social keeps giving us historical context. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-1...

"Not at liberty to give us a reason"? Jeff Bezos continues to bend over to placate Musk and Trump, despite many WAPO journalists producing stellar work these days. @ourcommoncause.bsky.social @splcenter.org

I'm calling it a #coup, just like @carolecadwalla.bsky.social who further describes what's happening as a "collision of technology with democracy." open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Good information here about @5calls.org and how to use it. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Is @5calls.org the UberEats during the Trump regime? @shiraovide.bsky.social at WAPO thinks so. #MakeYourVoiceHeard

Pass it on...

I respect every word that comes out of @chrismurphyct.bsky.social's mouth. Thank you, Senator.

So, that's three separate measles outbreaks - in Georgia, Texas and New Mexico. Any more? What a time to gut and paralyze the CDC.

Wicker is a Republican and voted to confirm Hegseth.

GOP Senator Roger Wicker on Pete Hegseth’s NATO speech: “I don’t know who wrote the speech — it is the kind of thing Tucker Carlson could have written, and Carlson is a fool.” Wicker (who voted to confirm Hegseth) told Politico, adding that he was “puzzled” and “disturbed” by Hegseth’s comments.

All you need to know is that #ketamine is involved in this mysterious group of people who form #DOGE. wapo.st/3Qpc7pP

On Valentine's Day, I ❤️ @connieschultz.bsky.social's latest, especially for her introducing me to artists Ed Gifford and Gwen Van Knippenberg, the latter who can be found Etsy. connieschultz.substack.com/p/romantic-l...

Jordan's King Abdullah avoids contradicting Trump's claim to authority over Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jordan-king-abdullah-avoids-contradciting-trump-claim-authority-gaza

Who's POTUS these days: Musk or Trump?

Well, it's Friday and this is a must-read from @timothysnyder.bsky.social. Munich 1938 v Munich 2025. Major takeaways: Incompetence/toadyism, appeasement, 1939 snyder.substack.com/p/appeasemen...

"Anyone who says, 'But they wouldn’t do that [cook the books]!' has clearly been living under a rock the past few weeks." @pkrugman.bsky.social wonders if we're headed for even darker days with Trump proclivity to lie.

"USAID workers and their families abroad had no agency help in fleeing after looters overran their homes in Kinshasa..." apnews.com/article/trum...

We can learn a lot from Abe Lincoln & @hcrichardson.bsky.social. We used to have a #liberalconsensus aimed at doing "the people what needs to be done, but which they can not, by individual effort, do at all, or do so well, for themselves". heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-1...

Today's must read for me: @joycewhitevance.bsky.social Who voted for a #coup? If we don’t start calling it what it is and putting a stop to it, it stands a fair chance of succeeding. joycevance.substack.com/p/call-it-wh...

Opening his piece describing Trump as "leader of a failed coup back in the White House," Steven Levitsky describes what we're seeing unfold: #CompetitiveAuthoritarianism: digging in, cementing power, and weakening rivals. Opposition needs to stay in game. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Glad to see status of #MossLandingfire receiving wider press. What was unleashed by the plumes of smoke from thousands of burning lithium-ion batteries? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

Only the finest receive a Trump pardon.

Thanks @briantylercohen.bsky.social for pointing out Elon’s 1st target happened to be agency inspecting his own business practices. #USAID inspector general was investigating SpaceX Starlink/Ukraine. Conflict of interest? plus.briantylercohen.com/p/elons-frau...

Thanks Chief Justice Roberts for making mockery of foundation to our Constitution & Government: #NoManAbovetheLaw. Now FOIA request is maybe only way for American public to “know what its government is up to. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-1...

Having talked to a lot of folks close to this on all sides, ignore all the performative bromindes about safety or even open source, what Musk wants is to turn back time and to get a stake in the new entity www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/t...

I read/listen to @steveinskeep.bsky.social because he's directness and optimistic. I hope his analysis that Trump support is waning and might affect 2026 midterms. I'm not so sanguine: #CivilDisobedience may be needed much sooner. steveinskeep.substack.com/p/five-of-li...

This is a fascinating piece from @brianklaas.bsky.social about how studying nature helps humans. It's a shame to think US scientific researchers will be blocked by #DOGE #MAGA idiocy. www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-superb...

The Supreme Court adjunct office

“According to one Trump ally, Musk is not fully briefing White House chief of staff Susie Wiles about his plans and the White House is effectively in the dark.” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/i...

"If you have tips about the remaking of the federal government, you can contact Charlie and Ian on Signal at @cwarzel.92 and @ibogost.47." www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Some terrifying news out. Yes this is a real post.

Once again thnx to @hcrichardson.bsky.social for this gem of an explanation of just how complex CA's water system is AND just how twistedly crazy is Trump's political #faucetstunt. We're in deep 💩 when vested interests can't/don't acknowledge they've been conned. digbysblog.net/2025/02/06/d...

Funny how that works

Another reminder of the power of rightwing propaganda and the failure of mainstream media coverage: more people probably have heard about USAID ‘funding’ Politico (it isn’t) than about USAID funding anti-malaria programs which were just cut off and frozen by Musk and Trump.

Boy, do we need #TimetoTalk in the US right now!

This is whom Trump desperately wants to partner with as he insanely starts his #reignofterror. Good analysis by Oscar Rickett @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social. www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-a...

Sen. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social: "If you were to start speaking ill of Elon Musk on social media, Elon Musk might be able to stop or delay your tax refund, or your mom's Social Security benefit, in part because we have no window into what's happening inside the Department of Treasury right now."

You can’t spell FELON without ELON.