This is incredibly stupid and short-sighted. apnews.com/article/offs...
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This is incredibly stupid and short-sighted. apnews.com/article/offs...
I keep shouting this to my project management folks, and they always say "Sorry, I'm having trouble understanding you right now. Please try again later."
If Kamala were POTUS none of this would be happening. We wouldn’t be in dumb ass trade wars and suffering under the weight of insane tariffs. Our universities wouldn’t be imploding. Our tourism industry wouldn’t be devastated. ICE wouldn’t be terrorizing our communities. We wouldn’t have
If you don’t like the numbers, fire the accountant. This reminds me so much of the Soviet Union’s harvest reports showing more wheat every year while the bread lines grew longer and longer.
Just more proof that we need distributed power. Solar+storage in every home.
"Nothing is taken off the table for us to be able to deal with the deficits that we have." Except for making the rich pay taxes.
Via John Colbert.
Just make sure to do it right the first time...
This really is the stupidest timeline
Breaking from the Office of Pres. Obama: "Our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response. But these claims are outrageous enough to merit one. These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.
It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent.
EXCLUSIVE: Fired DOJ prosecutor Maurene Comey sends message to former colleagues, warning that ‘Fear is the tool of the tyrant.’
Corporations aren’t people, money isn’t free speech, and we need to End Citizens United. Repost if you agree.
@ericidle.bsky.social was a major influence in my younger days. I will alway appreciate his method of truth-telling in ways that make me laugh hysterically. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...
Teach your children well
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
Call them out by name
This is the future of power everywhere and it’s really exciting.
New “millennials killed the ___” just dropped
Amazing if true. "Glambush ICE" indeed
I was just thinking about this. The tanks may never leave Washington DC
Please read, this is important. Sorry it’s long. Trump’s move to have Elon Musk step aside wasn’t a retreat. It was a distraction. With Musk’s name out of the headlines, many assumed the controversial Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had quietly ended. It hasn’t. It’s just changed hands.
This is a disgusting waste of taxpayer dollars.
These two psychos have access to all your personal data, by the way.
Gonna say something obvious to most: real masculinity defends the defenseless, punches up not down, has compassion, and fights only on behalf of others to battle injustice or evil. It doesn’t just lift weights and tweet in all caps and listen to Rogan and grow a beard to feel accepted by other men
The reality that masked men without proper identification are confronting and arresting and taking away people should be intolerable to anyone who calls themselves American.
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Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
CBS reporter Scott Pelley: This is a warning that I fear many will look back on in five or six years and think “he was so right”. If you haven’t already shared this, please do.
Accelerating GDP growth does nothing to fix the deficit if you don’t collect taxes. How about a radical change in the amount of tax we collect from billionaires?
America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
This is a view from the surface of Comet 67P. The busy particles in the foreground are cosmic rays or bits of dust and ice. The dots moving in the background are stars.
Whoa! New polling shows that a majority of voters in EVERY SINGLE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT oppose cuts to Medicaid. Members of Congress should take note. ☎️ Flood the Capitol switchboard to voice your opposition to the bill from hell. 202-224-3121. Defend Medicaid! Defeat Cancer!
Sure, let’s dissect the mental and physical acuity of the former president who sought to make lives in America better while minimizing the reality of a deranged arsonist dismantling the country we’ve known and loved. What a failure to meet this moment.
Scary stuff
This is BONKERS and kinda scary as well
Could you imagine the response if a democratic president said they didn’t know if they had to uphold the Constitution? How fast would the articles of impeachment be drawn ? 20 minutes at the most
It's official. Satire is dead.
oh no
I know your goal is to try to make life as hard as possible for immigrants.
MERKLEY: Are you gonna launch an investigation of the reported violation of the due process of several hundred people? P: It is not for me to call the balls & strikes M: You haven't read the Constitution? It says 'all persons'...it concerns me you're not familiar w/the core concept of due process
So we're saying tariffs are not beautiful?
No container ships at Port of Seattle
Crypto is the vehicle for the worst corruption in government in U.S. history.
I know from experience: When we fight, we win. This week, we stopped the GOP from stealing a North Carolina Supreme Court seat. Democracy Docket reported every update on this case. Subscribe to its free newsletters for the latest on all the lawsuits to come: hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
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Traffic at the ports is drastically lower now. This is the canary in the coal mine for the coming self-inflicted economic hardship. www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/p...
Tariffs are taxation without representation. We wrote a whole Declaration of Independence about it. Threw tea in the harbor and everything.
This database will also be used to go after "enemies of the state". www.wired.com/story/doge-c...
Great set of starter packs from @alansmitheedga.bsky.social
Truth. This is why they are so threatened by universities where critical thinking is mandatory for success.
I think the challenge “today” is a little more my speed.
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
Robert Wolf on Fox News: "I've been in finance for 40 years. This is probably the biggest manufactured crisis I've seen with a bunch of unforced errors. The execution of 'liberation day' was pathetic."
Rinse and repeat for the foreseeable future.
Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.
Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
“You can’t say people are our most important product and then treat them like shit.” - Jim Sinegal, co-founder of Costco
This from @jdcivicscience.bsky.social nails why small town, red America is not turning on Trump.
Happy 72nd Birthday to Rick Moranis. Thank you for being the Canadian treasure that you are.
We apologize for the length of this post, but we felt it was important to share the full details with you.
How long before the Supreme Court finds that criminal contempt is an "official act" of the presidency and, therefore, shielded from legal reprisals?
If I disappear, I’ll probably be in the El Salvador gulag. People laughed at me when I said they would have concentration camps.
i am fascinated by the outright refusal of people in the professional political commentary class to just consider the possibility that there is no plan and that trump really is a braying idiot with the more acute case of narcissistic personality disorder on record
I just want to tip my hat to the crack team of White House economists who were able to discover--in just a few short days--that the U.S. is dependent on China for smartphones, computers and semiconductors.
“It’s the most extraordinary attack on voting rights in American history,” Wilentz said. “This is an attempt to destroy American democracy as we know it. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...
NEWS: The House narrowly voted to approve the GOP budget blueprint by a vote of 216-214, which aims to make massive cuts to Medicaid and give massive tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans.
It's long past time to ban insider trading in Congress.
A psychopath, a con man and a rapist walk into a bar. The barman says "Good evening Mr Trump".
okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line
Today's stock market crash was the worst since the Spring of 2020. Can you guess who was president during *both* crashes? I bet you can!
Welcome, Madam Secretary. bsky.app/profile/hill...
🚨BREAKING: Federal court rules that the Pennsylvania date requirement for mail-in ballot violates the First and 14th Amendments. Counties cannot reject ballots from counting undated and wrongly dated mail-in ballots. A HUGE victory for my law firm, our clients DSCC and DCCC and the voters of PA!
Since January, SpaceX has received over $560 million in government contracts—an amount projected to surpass $2 billion in taxpayer funding by year’s end, averaging roughly $6.1 million per day. Follow the money and see where it goes.
Cost of GOP tax giveaways to corporations and the rich: Extending the Trump tax cuts — $4.2 trillion/10 yrs Restoring expired corporate tax breaks — more than $1 trillion Additional Trump-proposed tax breaks — up to $5 trillion “The party of fiscal responsibility” is full of it.
There is no moral equivalence between bullies and the bullied, between tyranny and democracy, or between brutality and decency. No individual can be free in a society devoid of justice. There can be no liberty where brutality reigns.
That looks like the unipiper. He’s from Portland, Oregon, USA. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unipiper
The incompetence of this administration is staggering.
The view from across the pond… 😕
But her emails...
Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
The Trump regime's repeated attacks on "DEI," "wokeness," and the trans community have one clear purpose: If we are angry at each other, we don't look up to see how big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.
French nuclear reactor WEST has sustained nuclear fusion for 22 minutes at approximatley 50 million degrees interestingengineering.com/energy/franc... #energy #power #electricity #science #technology #electric #electrical #nuclearfusion #tokamak #nuclear #fusion #history #france
Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folks… “The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government. 🧵
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More consequences of hiring the worst people possible to run our country.
Thank you!!
Thanks @cassadagabella.bsky.social for including me!
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The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where
Not only is it ugly as sin, but it's a flop to boot.
'Howdy' is an alteration of "how do ye."
This aged like fine wine
Americans: We’d like to afford basic necessities, keep vital programs, and not lose our retirement savings. Trump: Best I can do is a car commercial for the richest man on Earth.
