Ken né Calder
@nogginhead.bsky.social
smartass, cishet white guy, games enthusiast, kayaks, bicycles, statistics, recovering news junkie
The Trump economy brings us the conditions for... anyone? Anyone?
February 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The Trump economy brings us the conditions for... anyone? Anyone?
It would be a terrible shame if what all these newly unemployed former federal workers did was to protest in DC.
February 19, 2025 at 4:24 AM
It would be a terrible shame if what all these newly unemployed former federal workers did was to protest in DC.
Russia ha always been our ally
February 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Russia ha always been our ally
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Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore
February 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore
Therefore, anyone targeting Trump and/or Musk does not violate the law.
February 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Therefore, anyone targeting Trump and/or Musk does not violate the law.
The more US Attorneys who clerked for sitting GOP-appointed Supremes who resign over this, the worse it looks for Herr Drumpf.
Hagan Scotten’s resignation letter says it all.
Dropping the charges against Eric Adams to turn the Mayor of New York into a lackey of the President is a staggeringly corrupt perversion of justice and democracy.
Dropping the charges against Eric Adams to turn the Mayor of New York into a lackey of the President is a staggeringly corrupt perversion of justice and democracy.
February 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The more US Attorneys who clerked for sitting GOP-appointed Supremes who resign over this, the worse it looks for Herr Drumpf.
For when chocolate threatens your paper-thin masculinity
February 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
For when chocolate threatens your paper-thin masculinity
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i really like @johnpfaff.bsky.social's idea that the council should pass a resolution calling on Hochul to remove Adams and she should defer to it. it'd set a limited precedent which respects local democracy.
On MSNBC, Gov. Hochul does not commit to removing Mayor Adams, but implies she may consider it. "I'm consulting with other leaders in government at this time. We've got to have one sane person in the state who can cut through all the crap (and) say, 'What (does) my responsibility guide me to do?'"
February 14, 2025 at 3:52 AM
i really like @johnpfaff.bsky.social's idea that the council should pass a resolution calling on Hochul to remove Adams and she should defer to it. it'd set a limited precedent which respects local democracy.
This would be a scandal, if we weren't in the midst of a #constitutionalcrisis
news.va.gov/press-room/v...
news.va.gov/press-room/v...
VA dismisses more than 1,000 employees - VA News
WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs today announced the dismissal of more than 1,000 employees.
news.va.gov
February 14, 2025 at 5:09 AM
This would be a scandal, if we weren't in the midst of a #constitutionalcrisis
news.va.gov/press-room/v...
news.va.gov/press-room/v...
The Attorney General, Pam Bondi, sent a letter to Google and Apple, giving them permission to break the law. A law that he Supreme Court had just upheld. Does that seem right? Or does it seem like maybe another symptom of a constitutional crisis?
TikTok is back on the App Store and the Play Store in the U.S.
TikTok is back on the App Store and the Play Store in the U.S.
After more than 25 days, Apple and Google restored TikTok in the U.S Thrusday evening. Both companies removed the app from the App Store and the Play Store on January 18 in response to a national security law. Other ByteDance apps such as video editor…
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February 14, 2025 at 3:42 AM
The Attorney General, Pam Bondi, sent a letter to Google and Apple, giving them permission to break the law. A law that he Supreme Court had just upheld. Does that seem right? Or does it seem like maybe another symptom of a constitutional crisis?
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There’s a place where you can rate the page as “helpful” or “unhelpful” and if you select “unhelpful,” it will ask you for comment. You know what to do, folks.
NPS [Feb 12] -- Natl Park Service scrubs "TQ+" from Stonewall National LGBTQ+ Monument in Christopher Park & the accompanying text. Monument to a riot launched by trans women of color like Sylvia Rivera & Marsha P Johnson reads "LGB."
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Stonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights a...
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February 14, 2025 at 1:37 AM
There’s a place where you can rate the page as “helpful” or “unhelpful” and if you select “unhelpful,” it will ask you for comment. You know what to do, folks.
Sure! Putting lots of workers on the job market all at once makes salaries go down and makes workers more willing to accept lower salaries and worse working conditions. This is good for the owners and stockholders who drive the economy. /sob
can someone smarter than I am explain in small words how dumping hundreds of thousands of newly unemployed federal workers into the job market all at once won’t absolutely wreck the economy
February 14, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Sure! Putting lots of workers on the job market all at once makes salaries go down and makes workers more willing to accept lower salaries and worse working conditions. This is good for the owners and stockholders who drive the economy. /sob
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I would suggest actively boycotting the companies who are the biggest advertisers on X. Elon has a big debt held by several big banks that he is paying 11% on. If he loses advertisers the banks will get the jitters. Rich people need credit to get richer. Stop buying from these and write to their CEO
February 14, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I would suggest actively boycotting the companies who are the biggest advertisers on X. Elon has a big debt held by several big banks that he is paying 11% on. If he loses advertisers the banks will get the jitters. Rich people need credit to get richer. Stop buying from these and write to their CEO
As if they cared about their voters.
I thought they were all self-made rugged individualists who didn’t rely on socialism.
February 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
As if they cared about their voters.
It would be ironic if not prosecuting a black man turns out to be the crisis that sinks the Trump/Musk coup. #EricAdams #Sassoon
February 14, 2025 at 1:39 AM
It would be ironic if not prosecuting a black man turns out to be the crisis that sinks the Trump/Musk coup. #EricAdams #Sassoon
Oh, goody. A constitutional crisis. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...
February 11, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Oh, goody. A constitutional crisis. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...
When someone replies to you, is there an easy way of seeing what they replied to?
February 10, 2025 at 11:47 PM
When someone replies to you, is there an easy way of seeing what they replied to?
I for one, am ready for a new era of officially sanctioned patriotic art
I think he should rename it, too. I want to see the heroin/steroid, anti-vax nutjob's reaction.
It might even get JFK Jr to finally come out of hiding!
It might even get JFK Jr to finally come out of hiding!
Trump says he’s fired the chairman of the Kennedy Center and named himself chairman.
February 8, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I for one, am ready for a new era of officially sanctioned patriotic art
@mikeduncan.bsky.social I can hear your voice in the not-too distant future, talking about how Elon Musk's minions were able to take over essential US government functions, and no one in any position of authority did anything meaningful to try to stop them.
February 3, 2025 at 10:32 PM
@mikeduncan.bsky.social I can hear your voice in the not-too distant future, talking about how Elon Musk's minions were able to take over essential US government functions, and no one in any position of authority did anything meaningful to try to stop them.
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This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/pa...
Pass the Abolition Amendment and End Legalized Slavery
The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution is celebrated for abolishing slavery, but what if we told you slavery is still legal?
There’s actually an exception clause in the Thirteenth Amendment ...
sign.moveon.org
February 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/pa...
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Honest suggestion for @thedemocraticparty.bsky.social #dncchair meeting - tear up the agenda tomorrow. Don't cancel the vote but hold a press conference on the shit that's going down. Don't wait on Jeffries and Schumer. The media isn't going to cover it until someone treats it like an emergency.
February 1, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Honest suggestion for @thedemocraticparty.bsky.social #dncchair meeting - tear up the agenda tomorrow. Don't cancel the vote but hold a press conference on the shit that's going down. Don't wait on Jeffries and Schumer. The media isn't going to cover it until someone treats it like an emergency.
Motherfuckers
Department of Education dismisses book ban investigations, ends guidance - ABC News search.app/UajnDxAcUr2D...
Department of Education dismisses book ban investigations, ends guidance - ABC News search.app/UajnDxAcUr2D...
Department of Education dismisses book ban investigations, ends guidance
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has announced that it is rescinding all past guidance issued against the removal of books.
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January 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Motherfuckers
Department of Education dismisses book ban investigations, ends guidance - ABC News search.app/UajnDxAcUr2D...
Department of Education dismisses book ban investigations, ends guidance - ABC News search.app/UajnDxAcUr2D...
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I coped with yesterday by bugling with lovelies @zaltzcricket.bsky.social and @tiffstevenson.bsky.social . I needed the jokes.
Just 1460 Days To Go!
Podcast Episode · The Bugle · 01/21/2025 · 44m
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January 21, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I coped with yesterday by bugling with lovelies @zaltzcricket.bsky.social and @tiffstevenson.bsky.social . I needed the jokes.
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"Nice Nazi car, Nazi"
~me, when I see your Tesla
~me, when I see your Tesla
January 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
"Nice Nazi car, Nazi"
~me, when I see your Tesla
~me, when I see your Tesla