A perfect summation
A perfect summation
The Afghan withdrawal gave the media permission to tear into the Biden administration because they claimed to care about these allies. This story isn't even on CNN's front page.
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Youāre certainly a saint for enabling fascism which has led to untold thousands of people being spirited away to concentration camps when it couldāve been prevented (easily).
Iām sure you thought not vigorously supporting Kamala was the moral thing to do, too.
Earlier in the year the # floated was always $50 mil, now itās $40m loss. Meanwhile all aspects are booming from tickets, merch, viewership & valuations. The Aces franchise is valued in the hundreds of millions when in 2021 it was bought for $2 million. Yes Iām saying the math isnāt mathing.
šØ BREAKING: new video shows ICE is operating a detention facility on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, where people are being held for days or weeks at a time without showers, medication or a change of clothes, sleeping on the floor, and with minimal food and outside contact.
You didn't need a video of an otter chilling on the back of a capybara... But, here you go #bluesky šš š¤£
Are you 13?
Not your enemy but you want her personally charged for war crimes LOL OKAY
It seems to be repeated a lot and taken as fact but Iād be really interested to see more on how this breaks down exactly. I think the majority owners (NBA) like to keep the financials murky for their own benefit.
So many CC fans try to be āgood onesā by trashing other fans lol this is the first time Iām searching WBB content here on Bluesky, surprised to see itās not really like threads š threads is awful
Maybe her experiences have simply given her a different perspective.
Couldnāt possibly care less what Tomi Lahren thinks about anything, especially this.
Can you cite your source - everyone repeats this loss number but Iāve yet to see it substantiated.
We are governed by a lunatic
What is this supposed to mean
The IRS unit that audits ultrawealthy earners has lost 38% of its employees this year. This will starve the government of revenue by making it easier for the rich to evade taxes ā which the top 1% already do to the tune of $163B a year. See what DOGE is really about?
Serious question: what would he be doing differently if he were aggressively trying to destroy the USA?
We all know he just cut snap, meals on wheels and so many other programs that are economic stabilizers in economic downturns, right?
This is one I'm bookmarking. So much good messaging in one post.
Elon fired hundreds of āunnecessaryā Twitter employees and the platform has been down for hours today. Now heās firing hundreds of āunnecessaryā FAA employees. What could go wrong?
Call it by its name: Trumpcession
In āWay of the Kingsā thereās a cursed king who doesnāt know whether he will wake up a genius or an idiot each morning. Thatās how I am now with anger. Today I am very angry.
Having served as a Moscow correspondent in the early days of Putin's reign, this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given access.
āBecause the key insight is this: The tech sector operates as a winner-take-all economy. But our political economy is based on perpetual competition.ā @jvl.bsky.social
i think this is basically what has happened a big chunk of the american pundit class
California educators: CalSTRS invests in Tesla. It's YOUR pension fund, and you have the right to demand that we divest from a co. led by a man that is trying to kill public education. The next board meeting is on March 12, and you can submit a public comment, here: www.calstrs.com/public-comment
The Secretary of Defense goes on tv to explain he is preparing to have the military break the law.
It's never good when the richest person in the world and the worst person in the world are the same person.
One thing DOGE has gutted is an effort to REFORM how the US divvies up donated organs. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times. āIn the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.ā
DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.
WSJ: āDOGE touts $55 billion in cuts - WSJ counts $2 billion if spending levels remain constant, and only 2% were DEI-relatedā¦ majority of cuts were research, including Alzheimerās & traumatic brain injury and educationā¦ā www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
This is how I would respond to the email Musk has had sent to government employees (not legal advice). 1. Refused to violate the law. 2. Refused to violate the Constitution. 3. Refused to bow or scrape. 4. Refused to bend a knee. 5. Deleted this stupid email.
I love crossover episodes!
Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.
I am grateful that so many people found my open letter to Elon Musk moving and want to share it. Some well meaning people are just cutting and pasting it on their social media feeds. I would appreciate it if people would link to the version posted on @democracydocket.com instead. Thanks. Marc
The French also have walkable cities. Makes disruption much, much easier.
No one knows Medicaid politics better than Jonathan. I think what he's saying here Trump is going to back giant cuts to Medicaid that will uninsure millions, then lie and say he's just cutting waste and count on his ability to sell that lie while Democrats scramble.
I think thereās this tendency to assume Musk enters each agency with some kind of plan. But his office is 30 people, largely children, and the federal government employs millions. He spends half his time on drugs, tweeting, doing interviews. Itās all random noise www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
NEW PIECE: On the shorter side for my recent writings, I take a chance to step back and return to the big picture. Why should we care if the Trump administration, and Musk's DOGE, are acting unconstitutionally? The answer is not as simple as it might seem. www.crisesnotes.com/why-should-w...
š good point. I also saw some bruins tik toks of him with his mother. After his presser last night, what can I say? He is growing on me š
I said what I said.
If you told me before 2025 Iād love team Canada and HATE USA Hockey & prefer the Rat & McDavid to the tkachuk brothers I would have never believed you.. but here we are! Thank you canada for finishing strong ššš
This would be completely illegal. But you wouldnāt know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.
Wow. DOGE is far more expensive than the USDS that it pretends to be. www.propublica.org/article/doge...
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This is why nobody feared Project 2025 enough because everybody is like, "Who's going to do it? Jared?" Nope, Silicon Valley.
Spineless, yellow-bellied, lily-livered, weak-kneed, pusillanimous chickenshits.
Russia is a terrorist state.
Shapiro, Pritzker, Big Gretch are all doing well. I think AOC, Mayor Pete, Jasmine Raskin, & Bernie are doing the best tho. Only ones in DC even remotely rising to the occasion!
These pathetic scumbags. Us regular folks get threats too and none of us have FBI agents giving us tips or security details.
So, pin my previous post that Muskrat figured out that he and all his little shits can be personally sued.
Correct. Heās not capable of playing multidimensional chess. Or chess. Or checkers. Or tic-tac-toe. As one of his aides put it during Shit Show I, āheās just eating the piecesā on the board. Nothing he does is strategic. Heās purely guided by narcissistic, sociopathic impulses at all times.
About 50 years ago, I was reading political thrillers, including several by Fletcher Knebel. His 1966 novel, NIGHT OF CAMP DAVID, centers on a U.S. president who has gone insane. Signs of insanity include: desire for (a) an alliance with the USSR, and (b) annexation of Canada.
Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.
NEW: Two weeks ago gov't IT experts warned us that the worst case scenario would be if DOGE got full admin access to agency systems. We can report at at least one agency DOGE has unfettered "god mode" access. Our latest: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Itās cute they think their guidance means anything to anyone anymore. Maybe they can direct their warnings to the traitor in charge of the U.S.
Dem base: "Oh my god, Trump is acting like a king! Please raise the alarm!" Democrats: "Too complicated. No way to explain this to normie voters." Dem base: "OH MY GOD HE LITERALLY JUST CALLED HIMSELF A KING" Democrats: "A distraction. We should talk about the complicated policy stuff."
This was just 233 days ago:
It also makes you sound VERY VERY ONLINE. But if you were on Twitter, it was obvious that Elon had been soaking in these memes like Palmolive, it explains as much as biography or ideology
One problem with the evilness in the news is that it makes you sound crazy if you try describe some of whatās going onā¦ things like Elon Musk posting 14 American flags at 2:14 as code, mentioning it sounds freaking nutty but itās clearly intentional
"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov
With all due respect, Congressman, heās not trying to distract from anything here. Heās a grandiose pathological narcissist. A narcissistic sociopath. A malignant narcissist. A psychopath. A megalomaniac. This is what he thinks of himself. And what he wants others to think of him.
Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.
In case you needed a running daily list. www.afge.org/article/chao...
Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.
History: āEventually the incompetent fascists invariably lose power and then society recovers in a new and stronger wayā Me: āOh, cool, so what has to happen for the spell to be broken??ā History: āmmmmā¦well, that part is less encouraging.ā
Trump: I order that the sky is orange MAGA: sky is orange, libs Musk: sky is orange š¤£š¤£ Executive branch: sky is orange now DOJ: sky is orange Judge Reyes: sky is blue actually DOJ: oh no
Russia has the same favorables as Hamas. But Democrats are convinced talking about anything but cost of living is a dead end
Guys, Muskrat finally figured out that he can be liable, personally, for the wrongful terminations. So now he's not responsible for DOGE. THAT, is the reason for the WH nonsense thst came out last night.
Why would we abandon the prosperous, democratic nations of Europe, our allies for one hundred years, to "partner" with weak, poor Russia, a longtime adversary and dictatorship currently in the middle of an unprovoked invasion of a neighboring state? Treason. It's treason
If you want to know why French street protests are more effective than American street protests, it's because the French live in walkable cities - especially Paris! - that can be disrupted with disorder credibly threatened to elites by huge crowds.
This is so clearly fake. He is bad enough already, we donāt have photoshop fake tweets.
They don't see the parks as valuable national treasures. They see them as treasures to plunder. If they're not stopped we can kiss our gorgeous national parks goodbye.
Weak men cannot compromise. Weak men cannot build consensus. Weak men think that leadership means force. Weak men build nothing that lasts.
People need to understand that the effective governing process in the US for a long time has been "politicians react to whatever blows up on Twitter." And then the extreme, neo-Nazi right took over Twitter, and the Twitter owner took over government, and all process was essentially nullified.
Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work
The gestapo trolls really donāt like you. Badge of honor!
What Iām reading on the plane. We all need to do what we can, when we can. If all you can do today to contribute is learn something about authoritarianism that you didnāt know before, thatās good enough. A little is better than none. Keep going.
They print lies in the newspaper to help Musk and Trump
