John Bordeaux
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Grandfather, veteran, retired. More of me at
https://jbordeaux.substack.com/
Saw this plate in the wild today. How offensive is it to pretend farming in Virginia began with Europeans planting tobacco?
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Custom Virginia Farming Since 1614 License Plate
This unique Virginia license plate features a red barn and silos set against a background of green mountains and blue sky. To the right of the barn graphic is your custom blue text and up top the word...
https://signsandtagsonline.com/products/custom-virginia-farming-since-1614-license-plate
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To a Happy New Year of accidents.
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The Flukes that Matter
History as a series of accidents.
https://jbordeaux.substack.com/p/the-flukes-that-matter
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60 Minutes oddly not censored in Canada.
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From the interestingasfuck community on Reddit: 60 Minutes CECOT Video pulled in US, aired in Canada
Explore this post and more from the interestingasfuck community
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1ptgfzc/60_minutes_cecot_video_pulled_in_us_aired_in/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
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Anthony Michael Kreis
10 days ago
Willful sauntering in an airport should be a federal felony punishable by 15-20 years.
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Office of Public Works
12 days ago
Wondering how to watch the Winter Solstice livestream from Newgrange? Our short how-to video guides you step by step. 📅 21 Dec ⏰ 8.40am 🌅 Live from inside the chamber Save the link and tune in:
gov.ie/solstice
#WinterSolstice
#Newgrange
#ShareTheSolstice
#OPW
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Adam Kinzinger
13 days ago
Just to be clear. It’s the John F Kennedy center legally. Just like it’s still the department of defense
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Pam Herd
14 days ago
I have been loathe to suggest any impacts of political pressure on federal statistical agencies, but this is worrying to me.
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Notes from my former career.
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Knowledge Management
Notes from my former career
https://jbordeaux.substack.com/p/knowledge-management?r=117b
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Jon Cooper
22 days ago
The Trump administration plans to require all foreign tourists to provide their social media histories from the last five years to enter the country. Yes, I said TOURISTS — not immigrants. This is insane. It will DECIMATE the U.S. tourism industry.
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Foreign tourists could be required to disclose 5 years of social media histories under Trump administration plan
The Customs and Border Protection proposal would apply even to countries that don't require visas to enter.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/foreign-tourists-five-years-social-media-history-customs-border-protec-rcna248337?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&taid=69396ee46ae6e70001e709e1&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
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Lawfare
22 days ago
Today, with
@situ-research.bsky.social
, Lawfare released the first videos in our new investigative video series “Deportation, Inc.: The Rise of the Immigration Enforcement Economy." Watch the first two videos at
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Sherrilyn Ifill
26 days ago
It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
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Major Findings 86% say changes in the workplace since January have affected their ability to advance U.S. diplomatic priorities. 98% report poor morale. Nearly 1 in 3 are considering leaving the Service.
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At the Breaking Point: The State of the U.S. Foreign Service in 2025 — A Report by the American Foreign Service Association
America’s global leadership depends on a strong, professional diplomatic workforce. But in 2025, the U.S. Foreign Service faces an unprecedented crisis. Personnel losses, political interference, and t...
https://afsa.org/at-the-breaking-point
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And it’s got a spectacular price at $1,850.
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30 days ago
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Harry Wallop
30 days ago
Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s
@thetimes.com
about Tom Stoppard
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JJ in DC
about 1 month ago
⚖️ DoD Law of War Manual, page 1075: "For example, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal."
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Tom Nichols
about 1 month ago
Posting stupid memes after being accused of murder is the response of a sneering, spoiled punk who has been caught doing wrong and is now daring the local fuzz to take him in and risk the anger of his rich dad—a role fulfilled by Donald Trump, in this case.
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Pete Hegseth Needs to Go—Now
A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/pete-hegseth-pentagon-department-defense/685098/?gift=_IXYI0Wrwnxuvm7JZ0fMfHJAtOT66Hqvl6fCXTgAWvc&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H.
about 1 month ago
I REMEMBER. In 1981, nearly 100% of people with AIDS died, often rapidly. I remember weeping. I remember Ronald Reagan's refusal to say "AIDS". I remember the brave patients, loving caregivers, and the defiant power of ACT-UP. And finally the miracle of modern therapy. Rise up for World AIDS day.
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Randall Munroe
about 1 month ago
Fifteen Years
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Yes, Apple Watch. I can still “do it.” But, and do hear me: I don’t want to.
about 1 month ago
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Tom Nichols
about 1 month ago
This is a new and dire development in the ongoing American constitutional crisis. The voters, Congress, and, yes, the U.S. military must all now be more vigilant than at any time in our modern history.
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The President Is Losing Control of Himself
Donald Trump’s outbursts on social media this week were different than usual.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/11/trump-truth-social-control/685019/?gift=_IXYI0Wrwnxuvm7JZ0fMfGknd5_CJNITCw8HG7eM_1k&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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The word “testing,” as the kids say, is doing a ton of work here.
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about 1 month ago
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Dr. Mar 💙
about 1 month ago
“‘Affordability is overrated.’ – Larry Kudlow This is what happens when the people running the economy never have to live in it.
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Mike Masnick
about 1 month ago
This is, of course, a fascinating thread from Kate asking why Google is effectively cannibalizing its own market for both digital ads on third party properties and search ads, by effectively taking away the incentive to click through to third party sites. I have a theory as to why they're doing it.
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www.dvidshub.net/news/551341/...
For my NCR friends; get some earplugs tonight.
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NORAD AIR DEFENSE EXERCISE PLANNED FOR NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) will conduct Exercise FALCON VIRGO, a live-fly air defense exercise, on Nov. 19, 2025, between midnight and 2 a.m. EST in the National Capital Regi...
https://www.dvidshub.net/news/551341/norad-air-defense-exercise-planned-national-capital-region
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Alyssa Long
about 2 months ago
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
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Charlotte Clymer
about 2 months ago
I'm thinking today of all my fellow veterans but especially the more than 5,000 trans service members and their families who were kicked out of the military this year despite being highly qualified and serving honorably. This injustice will be a stain on our nation's history.
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@benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org
This needs more exposure.
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about 2 months ago
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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽
about 2 months ago
Remember the time Obama personally caught a fainting woman during his speech — rather than just blankly staring like a sociopath? Character isn't something you tell people about. It's something you live.
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Chimps Can Weigh Evidence and Update Their Beliefs Like Humans Do - Scientific American The jokes write themselves.
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Jay Rosen
2 months ago
New York Times editorial board has compiled "a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This is what "not the odds, but the stakes" was all about. During the 2024 campaign, those 12 markers could have been in place and operating to guide news coverage everywhere.
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There are children on the White House payroll spending their days creating these cartoons - while career professionals petition food banks to feed THEIR children as the White House wants them to starve and lose health care. We had a good run, America. Mostly.
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I’m not saying I’m imagining the future of the White House “ballroom” is as a giant garden and arboretum run by the Smithsonian and open to the public - I’m just saying that helps me sleep at night right now.
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Dream for America
3 months ago
Jane Goodall's final message from her last interview:
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Shout out to the Cubbies, the only Major League Baseball team with a urinal in the dugout.
@cubsbot.bsky.social
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Trans rights are kitchen table issues for all of us.
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As I enter my last trimester, a brief message.
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Retyred.
“Put it in the books.” - Howie Rose
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Christopher Mims
4 months ago
I dunno who needs this, but Dwayne Gretsky recently covered Paul Simon's "You Can Call Me Al" and it's the most fun you will ever see a group of friends having with each other
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You Can Call Me Al (Paul Simon Cover) | Dwayne Gretzky
YouTube video by Dwayne Gretzky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ER2-WBNzo4
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[COPY] The Unsettling
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[COPY] The Unsettling
Personal reflections on 9/11 attacks, reposting here.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jbordeaux/p/copy-the-unsettling?r=117b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
4 months ago
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4 months ago
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southpaw
4 months ago
settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off
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The correct response.
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I do wish the media would stop showing the snuff film of 11 deaths at sea.
@msnbc.com
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Jon Phillips
4 months ago
The thing about RFK that gets me is that there really isn't a historical analog. Even among genocidaires and mass murderers, I don't think there's ever been anyone as generally anti-life and anti-human as Kennedy, and I'm not sure anyone ever has or will match his ultimate death toll
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For some reason, I’m reminded of this odd saying today. “Il Duce ha sempre ragione”
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Lawfare
4 months ago
Lawfare provides sophisticated analysis to the most pressing national security issues of the day–and always without a paywall. Support our work today:
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Lawfare's Nonpartisan Journalism and Expert Analysis
Support the impactful and trustworthy coverage of Lawfare
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RAND
4 months ago
"Ensuring the U.S. can fill the jobs of the future is not just an economic issue, but also a matter of national security." RAND experts highlight the states that are already leading the way in building future advanced manufacturing workforces:
https://bit.ly/45qClRq
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Leading States Offer a Roadmap to Jobs of the Future
It's hard to plan for jobs of the future that promise to be vastly different. But the future is rapidly approaching in advanced manufacturing. How can state governments, education and training organizations, and employers start to collaborate now to cre...
https://bit.ly/4m7EkzO
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Ask yourselves what purpose this serves. What was the motivation? Who was this harming? Who was offended? Refuse to give hate a home.
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Told ya.
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The new ChatGPT has some AI fans rethinking when to expect ‘superintelligence’
OpenAI’s GPT-5 release fell short of expectations for some in tech, raising questions about whether AI would advance as rapidly as executives have claimed.
https://wapo.st/45UETav
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Carl T. Bergstrom
5 months ago
Just in case there was any doubt, ChatGPT 5.0 still makes up completely random citations that don't exist and should not be used for literature search.
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As Trump pushes a federal takeover of D.C. police, these are your rights
With federal and local officers on D.C.’s streets, here’s what to know about what law enforcement agencies can legally order you to do — and what they can’t.
https://wapo.st/45BT2YT
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