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Robert Hubbell

@rbhubbell.bsky.social

Author, Today’s Edition Newsletter on Substack. Https://roberthubbell.substack.com

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Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Trump family and administration's embrace of the Tate brothers and intervention on their behalf shows that whatever Donald Trump doesn't want us to know about his association with Jeffrey Epstein, the same vicious misogyny persists. The Tates are the new Epstein.

According to Heidi Blake’s thorough investigation of Tate in the New Yorker earlier this month, the Trump administration intervened last year to buffer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan from the consequences of their criminal charges in Romania. The Tate and Trump circles, she also reports, have overlapped at Mar-a-Lago. ‘Petro-masculinity’ is destroying the planet. Can eco-masculinity help save it? Read more She’s not the only one digging into the connections. A December New York Times report by Megan Twohey and Isabella Kwai quotes a text message by Tate, reviewed by the outlet, from January 2025: “I had word from The Trump admin that theyre on top of things. Ive been told ill be free soon but Trump needs to see me in Miami.” Two Trump sons, Don Jr and Barron, have reportedly cultivated friendships with Andrew, though the White House told the Times that it was not involved in the Tates’ legal matters, and the Tates’ lawyer said the outlet’s findings about Andrew and Barron were “fake news”. It’s pointless to debate who’s worse, Epstein or Tate. Their monstrous misogyny echoes their respective eras. Epstein seemed a relic of the 1980s obsessed with clawing his way into elite circles and obsessed with recruiting and abusing pubescent to young adult women. Tate on the other hand, came up through the 21st-century machinery of the manosphere, which is in turn largely a part of the internet and the powerful men who run it. But both seem to define masculinity through the dehumanization of women and girls.
Robert Hubbell@rbhubbell.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Trump's “presidential memo” [not an executive order] to pay TSA is here: bit.ly/4vbrDZU. It authorizes DHS head Markwayne Mullin to use funds with "a reasonable and logical nexus to TSA operations." That test is a legal fiction for which Trump offers no authority.

Paying Our Great Transportation Security Administration Officers and Employees

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET SUBJECT:       Paying

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Rebecca E ❌👑@spoutiblegirl.bsky.social · 4mo ago

@rbhubbell.bsky.social referred to this analysis in Today's Edition.  It is spot on and led me to unsubscribe from several substacks that I had pretty much stopped reading because their repetitive messaging was more doom and gloom than I need in any day.  open.substack.com/pub/theconne...

The Bad News Echo-Chamber of Pro-Democracy Substack

Or, who talks to whom about what. How many pro-democracy Substack authors over-focus on gloom and doom and ignore organizing, and who's bucking that trend.

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Robert Hubbell@rbhubbell.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Anderson Cooper quit CBS’s 60 Minutes with a gracious note explaining that he wanted to spend more time with his kids—when we all know he quit because he could not abide the editorial control over 60 Minutes by Trump's financial backers and Bari Weiss. bit.ly/46RYyb6

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