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Kristina Newhouse

@askingwhynow.bsky.social

Contemporary art curator and writer. Artist legacy consultant. I shout at the wind daily about the state of our union.

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Kristina Newhouse@askingwhynow.bsky.social · 7h ago

As someone pointed out elsewhere, this may explain Trump's resurgent animosity towards Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The bot spigot is being turned off just before the US midterms. 😆 #vote

Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.social · 19h ago

And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

Kristina Newhouse@askingwhynow.bsky.social · yesterday

“The generational harm caused by allowing troops in uniform to stand in front of a man in a wheelchair and watch him get shot to death is irreparable.” #hegseth

Army caught off guard by Hegseth’s order to make firing squad execution public | CNN Politics

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s announcement that the execution of the convicted Fort Hood mass shooter would be shown in public caught people across the Pentagon and the Army off guard, three sou...

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Michael McFaul@mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 3d ago

What is going on with our president? Calling people "THE ENEMY" for exercising their First Amendment rights is deeply disturbing. That's what autocratic leaders do, not American leaders. Doing so for such a trivial, vain matter is just nutty.

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ProPublica@propublica.org · 3d ago

NEW: Records show Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to state business. with @texastribune.org

Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.

Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...

propublica.org

Chris Murphy@chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 5d ago

How do I know Hegseth’s order to deny access to bases to members of Congress is about a cover up, not about safety? Because I asked for a military briefing at the embassy as a substitute and was told the policy prohibited military leaders in the region from even talking to me.

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 5d ago

Lafayette Square isn't "a historic protest site." It's a fucking park. And it's packed on nice days. Calling it a protest site is White House framing. They're closing a popular public park to create a presidential palace Saddam Hussein would love.

Inside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (Gift Article)

The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations.

nytimes.com

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 5d ago

Thank you for coming forward. We need more voices from inside the uniform standing shoulder-to-shoulder with us to reject this extremism, protect our democratic norms, and demand accountability.

David Corn@davidcorn.bsky.social · last wk.

This is sad news. Simon was a big help with this story that showed Howard Lutnick apparently lied about his business entanglement with Jeffrey Epstein—a story that deserves more attention. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

New details from Epstein files reveal Lutnick had years-long business tie with sex offender

The commerce secretary apparently still hasn't come clean on his connection with Epstein.

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Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last wk.

“Former British banker and whistleblower Simon Andriesz, who outed Howard Lutnick’s links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has died by suicide.”

Democracy Docket@democracydocket.com · last wk.

NEW: Georgia's election board asked the DOJ to investigate a leading nonpartisan voter roll maintenance program, potentially adding another hyper-partisan probe to the department's portfolio. The state has been central to Trump's allegations that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

Georgia’s GOP-controlled election board wants DOJ to investigate nonpartisan voter roll maintenance program

Despite his request for a federal investigation into ERIC, the board's executive director appeared to know very little about the organization during a meeting earlier this week.

democracydocket.com

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2w ago

His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings

SometimesPDX@sometimespdx.bsky.social · 2w ago

Here's an older Christine Drazan campaign sign, mounted to the stage owned by the Proud Boys at a rally with a ton of Proud Boys and an official Proud Boy booth. Drazan is not a centrist, Drazan is a fascist-supported MAGA.

Image of crowd of people in front of the Oregon Capitol building with a bunch of Proud Boys. Christine Drazan sign mounted to a stage with large US flag.