Qallaloo
@chinidadian.bsky.social
Change agent. Musician. Trekkie.
Infinite diversity in infinite combinations.
Infinite diversity in infinite combinations.
Is he campaigning for the Dems?
Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "
October 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Is he campaigning for the Dems?
Hey Michelle…
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September 29, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Hey Michelle…
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Translation: we’re going to share made up numbers to campaign on.
Lutnick: "I would say the first quarter of next year will be the best quarter of construction jobs this country has ever seen, and that's gonna roll all the way through '26. So I think you're gonna see GDP growth next year over 4%."
September 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Translation: we’re going to share made up numbers to campaign on.
These people don’t believe that they need to hide in the shadows anymore. They’re, at most, one degree of separation from the Administration.
Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon says white Christian parents need to have "the talk" with their children about avoiding black people: "It is actually a failure of your parental duty ... if you lie to them and you say all people and all races of people in our country are the same."
September 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
These people don’t believe that they need to hide in the shadows anymore. They’re, at most, one degree of separation from the Administration.
This is known as State-Owned Media
CBS News says that it is changing its interview policy for the Sunday public affairs show Face the Nation, after edits to an interview with Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem drew pushback from the administration and from media critics.
CBS News Changes Interview Policy for ‘Face the Nation’ After Backlash for Edit to Kristi Noem Segment
CBS News says that it is changing its interview policy for the Sunday public affairs show Face the Nation, after edits to an interview with Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem drew pushback from the administration and from media critics.
bit.ly
September 6, 2025 at 1:20 AM
This is known as State-Owned Media
Is Mike now one of those ‘Democrat Hoax’ people I keep hearing about? 🙄
in which Mike Johnson claims that Donald Trump was an FBI informant to take down Epstein
September 6, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Is Mike now one of those ‘Democrat Hoax’ people I keep hearing about? 🙄
Make Gilead Non-fiction apparently 🤮
Doug Wilson—who spoke during NatCon 5—has “floated…fundamental changes to America’s political system,” including “restricting office holding to practicing Christians & changing voting practices to award votes by household, with the default vote-holder being the male head of the household.” … 1/
Doug Wilson Has Spent Decades Pushing for a Christian Theocracy. In Trump’s DC, the New Right Is Listening.
Doug Wilson has built a theocratic regime in Moscow, Idaho, where men rule and biblical teachings guide everything. Now he’s taking the model national, with a receptive crowd in the GOP.
www.politico.com
September 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Make Gilead Non-fiction apparently 🤮
Are bone spurs PC / woke?
Trump: "We could've won every war, but we really chose to be very politically correct, or wokey."
September 6, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Are bone spurs PC / woke?
Now who do you suppose will benefit from disruption to an EV battery facility?
U.S. immigration authorities detained around 450 people from a Hyundai EV battery plant in Georgia, including more than 300 South Korean nationals.
South Korea Raises Concern After Hundreds Are Detained In Immigration Raid At Hyundai Battery Plant In Georgia
U.S. immigration authorities detained around 450 people from a Hyundai EV battery plant in Georgia, including more than 300 South Korean nationals.
www.forbes.com
September 5, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Now who do you suppose will benefit from disruption to an EV battery facility?
“Did I do a good poopy, daddy?”
Zuckerberg saying Meta intends to spend at least 600 billion in the US
Zuckerberg at the end caught on a hot mic
Zuckerberg at the end caught on a hot mic
September 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
“Did I do a good poopy, daddy?”
Politically clever perhaps but it’s disingenuous self-preservation as always. Also the mRNA platform was in development decades before 2016-2020. The researchers deserve the Nobel Prize.
Bill Cassidy's line of questioning was clever -- he pressed Kennedy on how he can praise Trump for Operation Warp Speed while at the same time denigrating vaccines.
Here's the beginning of the exchange.
Here's the beginning of the exchange.
September 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Politically clever perhaps but it’s disingenuous self-preservation as always. Also the mRNA platform was in development decades before 2016-2020. The researchers deserve the Nobel Prize.
I’m weighing whether this is fascistically alarming or just blatantly and shortsightedly stupid. I mean… Who is this change in direction meant to appeal to? Seems the likely target audience are already committed to another right wing news source that they aren’t likely to switch away from.
Lord save us:
"Paramount is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told."
"Paramount is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told."
The Bari Market
With Paramount securely in his pocket, David Ellison is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told.
puck.news
September 4, 2025 at 7:20 AM
I’m weighing whether this is fascistically alarming or just blatantly and shortsightedly stupid. I mean… Who is this change in direction meant to appeal to? Seems the likely target audience are already committed to another right wing news source that they aren’t likely to switch away from.
The embarrassment is that “embarrassment” is your feeble attempt at a legal argument. Again I will say that no one should do business or employ any of these people ever again but they will get to comfortably go back to their normal private sector lives after this debacle.
Trump cabinet officials told a federal appeals court that ruling president’s global tariffs illegal would seriously harm US foreign policy, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warning of “dangerous diplomatic embarrassment.”
Bessent Warns of US ‘Embarrassment’ If Tariffs Ruled Illegal
Trump cabinet officials told a federal appeals court that ruling president’s global tariffs illegal would seriously harm US foreign policy, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warning of “dangerous diplomatic embarrassment.”
bloom.bg
August 30, 2025 at 12:26 AM
The embarrassment is that “embarrassment” is your feeble attempt at a legal argument. Again I will say that no one should do business or employ any of these people ever again but they will get to comfortably go back to their normal private sector lives after this debacle.
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You can't teach U.S. history without "divisive" narratives. Slavery wasn't "unifying." The Japanese incarceration wasn't "unifying." The anti-immigrant Operation Wetback (real name) wasn't "unifying."
It's history's job to tell the truth, not cover up past racism to pave the way for future racism.
It's history's job to tell the truth, not cover up past racism to pave the way for future racism.
White House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions
www.nytimes.com
August 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
You can't teach U.S. history without "divisive" narratives. Slavery wasn't "unifying." The Japanese incarceration wasn't "unifying." The anti-immigrant Operation Wetback (real name) wasn't "unifying."
It's history's job to tell the truth, not cover up past racism to pave the way for future racism.
It's history's job to tell the truth, not cover up past racism to pave the way for future racism.
The ‘pump’ has now be publicised. Next comes the ‘dump’.
Nearly 73% of Trump’s wealth — $11.6 billion of an estimated $15.9 billion — comes from crypto holdings that he built at record pace by misusing his office, the group claims. bit.ly/3JegGmF
August 11, 2025 at 7:23 AM
The ‘pump’ has now be publicised. Next comes the ‘dump’.
Guy that fled the state big mad other people have done it with more media attention than him
🚨BREAKING: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) is asking an Illinois court to force the arrest and return of House Democrats who left the state to block a mid-decade GOP congressional map redrawing. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Texas Demands Illinois Arrest Democrats Who Fled to Block GOP Redistricting Scheme
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
August 8, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Guy that fled the state big mad other people have done it with more media attention than him
Accurate!
In the abstract there's no inherent connection between crypto and being a malevolent, transgressive asshole. But the two things run together with remarkable consistency.
Sex toys are being hurled on the court at WNBA games. A cryptocurrency group says they're behind it – and planning for more.
The group says the acts are "pranks" intended to draw attention to their crypto meme coin and not meant to disrespect women athletes.
The group says the acts are "pranks" intended to draw attention to their crypto meme coin and not meant to disrespect women athletes.
August 8, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Accurate!
Look at their faces. They all know he’s an incoherent mess. But Vance is clearly having the most trouble maintaining his poker face. He’s counting down the days.
Dementia doesn’t arrive suddenly—it creeps, then floods. It’s never a surprise, only a shock to those who pretend not to see or hear what’s plainly there.
August 3, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Look at their faces. They all know he’s an incoherent mess. But Vance is clearly having the most trouble maintaining his poker face. He’s counting down the days.
People vote because of their morals and beliefs, or lack thereof. If money is the only thing that you care about then you’ll vote for whomever makes you more money. So as usual with these folks, cosplaying as liberal/progressive as long as they can get richer.
LinkedIn cofounder and Democratic megadonor Reid Hoffman has some harsh words for his party.
Reid Hoffman says the Democratic Party 'really did alienate' parts of Silicon Valley — and blue states could learn from red states
LinkedIn cofounder and Democratic megadonor Reid Hoffman has some harsh words for his party.
www.businessinsider.com
July 31, 2025 at 6:51 PM
People vote because of their morals and beliefs, or lack thereof. If money is the only thing that you care about then you’ll vote for whomever makes you more money. So as usual with these folks, cosplaying as liberal/progressive as long as they can get richer.
The most annoying part of having to listen to these people is there random use of jargon. This is also why people think LLMs are intelligent.
Burgum: "When the sun goes down, you have a catastrophic failure called sunset and there's no solar energy produced, and yet we're subsidizing these things that are intermittent, unreliable, and expensive. We've gotta get back to base load."
July 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The most annoying part of having to listen to these people is there random use of jargon. This is also why people think LLMs are intelligent.
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There are people in this administration who are truly morons and others who believe they need to act like morons to stay in the leader's good favor, and at a certain point it doesn't matter which group they're in
July 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM
There are people in this administration who are truly morons and others who believe they need to act like morons to stay in the leader's good favor, and at a certain point it doesn't matter which group they're in
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Rufo went to Georgetown. To a person, these jackasses trying to destroy higher ed benefited from it and now want to pull the ladder up so the people who experience the most class mobility from it—women and minorities—can’t anymore
July 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Rufo went to Georgetown. To a person, these jackasses trying to destroy higher ed benefited from it and now want to pull the ladder up so the people who experience the most class mobility from it—women and minorities—can’t anymore
Compounding disasters
A reminder: FEMA is no longer going door-to-door to assist disaster victims
[From our Climate Desk partner @wired.com]
[From our Climate Desk partner @wired.com]
FEMA will no longer go door-to-door to assist disaster victims
The move, says one agency worker, will “severely hamper our ability to reach vulnerable people.”
www.motherjones.com
July 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Compounding disasters
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McMorrow: What Trump has done is weaponize us against each other, when everybody needs hospitals, good schools, and health care.
It has become this battle for scarcity, when we’re the wealthiest country in the world. We should not be fighting each other for our basic needs.
It has become this battle for scarcity, when we’re the wealthiest country in the world. We should not be fighting each other for our basic needs.
July 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
McMorrow: What Trump has done is weaponize us against each other, when everybody needs hospitals, good schools, and health care.
It has become this battle for scarcity, when we’re the wealthiest country in the world. We should not be fighting each other for our basic needs.
It has become this battle for scarcity, when we’re the wealthiest country in the world. We should not be fighting each other for our basic needs.
The fact that this dude is also a medical doctor just adds to how detestable his opinion on this is
Rep. Rich McCormick defended the White House's, now rescinded, federal aid freeze on school lunch programs by suggesting that some children should be working instead of receiving free lunch.
Republican congressman suggests some children receiving free school lunches should work at McDonald’s instead
Rep. Rich McCormick of Georgia said the freeze on federal aid would allow the government to review all programs, including ones that provide free school lunches to low-income children.
nbcnews.to
July 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The fact that this dude is also a medical doctor just adds to how detestable his opinion on this is