@skepticicist.bsky.social
retired architect, secular humanist.
I try laughing to keep from crying, works sometimes. Occasionally vulgar, sorry.
I don’t suffer fools well.
The definition of a pessimist is a well informed optimist
I try laughing to keep from crying, works sometimes. Occasionally vulgar, sorry.
I don’t suffer fools well.
The definition of a pessimist is a well informed optimist
$50 million to Flynn is despicable. He sold out our country and was rightfully imprisoned. Criminals.
November 18, 2025 at 1:47 AM
$50 million to Flynn is despicable. He sold out our country and was rightfully imprisoned. Criminals.
Let’s assume SCOTUS will rule against Trump’s tariff ploy b/c (Pick your reason, a) Stupid, b) Article 1 power, c) he’s a common criminal) unraveling this Mazola Rola will Not Be Easy.
No IG oversight. No budget records (except maybe Telegram). Probably no written procurement trail.
No IG oversight. No budget records (except maybe Telegram). Probably no written procurement trail.
November 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Let’s assume SCOTUS will rule against Trump’s tariff ploy b/c (Pick your reason, a) Stupid, b) Article 1 power, c) he’s a common criminal) unraveling this Mazola Rola will Not Be Easy.
No IG oversight. No budget records (except maybe Telegram). Probably no written procurement trail.
No IG oversight. No budget records (except maybe Telegram). Probably no written procurement trail.
Looks like some overpriced Air BnB listing.
November 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Looks like some overpriced Air BnB listing.
If he’s so tough, he can show up at Kegseth’s Booty Camp. Let sugar tits show how many Pull-ups he uses.
There’s an essay to be written about how maga patriotism is just shitty fandom. Anyone who follows sports knows fans like this, it’s always the ref’s fault, the other team doesn’t exist, there’s some plot/player/coach holding the team back otherwise they’d always win easy bsky.app/profile/atru...
Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."
October 6, 2025 at 1:46 AM
If he’s so tough, he can show up at Kegseth’s Booty Camp. Let sugar tits show how many Pull-ups he uses.
Or perhaps Queen Kristi wants to see Corey sweat a little?
So at the same time the Trump regime claims it's fighting antisemitism (which was always a lie) it's now saying it will deny citizenship (or visas?) to "globalists" which is mostly used in their crowd as a barely coded euphemism for "Jews"
DHS appears to suggest that it will deny citizenship to "globalists"
October 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Or perhaps Queen Kristi wants to see Corey sweat a little?
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Maybe Trump and at least some Trumpettes lack a fully operational “reality signal” in their neural networks. Not kidding!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/newf...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/newf...
Your Brain Has a Reality Check System—Here’s How It Works
Seeing and imagining use similar brain machinery. New research reveals the brain circuit that identifies what is real, which may help scientists understand conditions such as schizophrenia
www.scientificamerican.com
September 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Maybe Trump and at least some Trumpettes lack a fully operational “reality signal” in their neural networks. Not kidding!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/newf...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/newf...
Of all the efforts from the Oval Office to distract us from our president’s sexual deviance, this is the worst.
“Cigarette Boat diplomacy” is not the sign of a healthy democracy.
“Cigarette Boat diplomacy” is not the sign of a healthy democracy.
Striking piece by a former U.S. Navy captain on Trump’s lethal attack in the Caribbean.
www.defenseone.com/ideas/2025/0...
www.defenseone.com/ideas/2025/0...
A killing at sea marks America’s descent into lawless power
The peremptory strike on a speedboat is a warning to all who serve. Remember your oath.
www.defenseone.com
September 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Of all the efforts from the Oval Office to distract us from our president’s sexual deviance, this is the worst.
“Cigarette Boat diplomacy” is not the sign of a healthy democracy.
“Cigarette Boat diplomacy” is not the sign of a healthy democracy.
Nice George Armstrong Custer cosplay?
I don’t think this would itself be actionable, but it sure as hell will be Exhibit 1 when anything does happen.
The president of the United States, a Vietnam draft dodger, declaring war on an American city (with AI slop implying that he will burn it with napalm)
September 7, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Nice George Armstrong Custer cosplay?
If ever minimum wage could be justified, it’s these otherwise unemployable pardon recipients.
ICE will be(come) the textbook example of overpaid mediocre white men.
ICE entices new recruits with patriotism pitch and promise of $50,000 signing bonuses
The agency is promising up to $50,000 in signing bonuses, the potential for lots of overtime and other benefits like student loan forgiveness.
www.wthr.com
August 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
If ever minimum wage could be justified, it’s these otherwise unemployable pardon recipients.
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1. I think @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social is right. In a piece for Arc Digital, the University of Illinois political scientist wrote that Wall Street is now learning the hard way what happens when you insist on looking Trump thru the lens of “misplaced faith.”
www.arcdigital.media/p/tariffs-ex...
www.arcdigital.media/p/tariffs-ex...
Tariffs Expose Wall Street's Misplaced Faith in Trump
Bankers and business leaders imagine a more reliable, less protectionist version of the president than the one that actually exists. Now they're finding out the hard way.
www.arcdigital.media
April 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM
1. I think @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social is right. In a piece for Arc Digital, the University of Illinois political scientist wrote that Wall Street is now learning the hard way what happens when you insist on looking Trump thru the lens of “misplaced faith.”
www.arcdigital.media/p/tariffs-ex...
www.arcdigital.media/p/tariffs-ex...
Real America.
Ignore the ugly troll. Just me and a few thousand close acquaintances enjoying freedom and liberty at the DC Cherry Blossom Festival.
Not a red cap in sight, nice group of Honor Flight bikers put a good touch on the day.
Ignore the ugly troll. Just me and a few thousand close acquaintances enjoying freedom and liberty at the DC Cherry Blossom Festival.
Not a red cap in sight, nice group of Honor Flight bikers put a good touch on the day.
March 29, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Real America.
Ignore the ugly troll. Just me and a few thousand close acquaintances enjoying freedom and liberty at the DC Cherry Blossom Festival.
Not a red cap in sight, nice group of Honor Flight bikers put a good touch on the day.
Ignore the ugly troll. Just me and a few thousand close acquaintances enjoying freedom and liberty at the DC Cherry Blossom Festival.
Not a red cap in sight, nice group of Honor Flight bikers put a good touch on the day.
Lutnick, Trump and Musk are criminals.
Judge Hollander Tells DOGE to Stop Hitting Flies with Sledgehammers at Social Security www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/21/j...
Judge Hollander Tells DOGE to Stop Hitting Flies with Sledgehammers at Social Security www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/21/j...
March 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Lutnick, Trump and Musk are criminals.
Judge Hollander Tells DOGE to Stop Hitting Flies with Sledgehammers at Social Security www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/21/j...
Judge Hollander Tells DOGE to Stop Hitting Flies with Sledgehammers at Social Security www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/21/j...
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After unloading some of its cargo in Saleef, Russian flag bulker Zafar carried the rest of the stolen Ukrainian wheat from occupied Sevastopol to Al Hudaydah, Yemen for the first time on this route. (Image: courtesy of PlanetScope)
February 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
After unloading some of its cargo in Saleef, Russian flag bulker Zafar carried the rest of the stolen Ukrainian wheat from occupied Sevastopol to Al Hudaydah, Yemen for the first time on this route. (Image: courtesy of PlanetScope)
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How long before people realize we’re seeing the horse race between the collapse of Russia and their hostile takeover/merger with Musk’s USA ?
Why hold secret peace negotiations in Riyadh to divy up Ukraine without their participation?
Do we need any further proof of their goal to end democracy?
Why hold secret peace negotiations in Riyadh to divy up Ukraine without their participation?
Do we need any further proof of their goal to end democracy?
February 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
How long before people realize we’re seeing the horse race between the collapse of Russia and their hostile takeover/merger with Musk’s USA ?
Why hold secret peace negotiations in Riyadh to divy up Ukraine without their participation?
Do we need any further proof of their goal to end democracy?
Why hold secret peace negotiations in Riyadh to divy up Ukraine without their participation?
Do we need any further proof of their goal to end democracy?
There is a potential upside to the least qualified president in our history farming out all his non-ceremonial duties to a drug fueled massive vessel of hubris.
He may have found the only person on this planet capable of uniting our dysfunctional population around a common hatred of a single fool
He may have found the only person on this planet capable of uniting our dysfunctional population around a common hatred of a single fool
February 18, 2025 at 3:46 AM
There is a potential upside to the least qualified president in our history farming out all his non-ceremonial duties to a drug fueled massive vessel of hubris.
He may have found the only person on this planet capable of uniting our dysfunctional population around a common hatred of a single fool
He may have found the only person on this planet capable of uniting our dysfunctional population around a common hatred of a single fool
If Bondi isn’t going to assess the strength of the evidence or legal theories of the case then sit down and STFU
This is an absurd breach of her legal responsibilities
This is an absurd breach of her legal responsibilities
“You are directed … to dismiss the pending charges in United States v. Adams, No. 24 Cr. 556 (SDNY)…. The Justice Department has reached this conclusion without assessing the strength of the evidence or the legal theories on which the case is based”
![Memorandum from the Acting Deputy Attorney General
Dismissal Without Prejudice of Prosecution of Mayor Eric Adams
Page 2
Of The Federal Government. These actions and the underlying case have also improperly interfered with Mayor Adams' campaign in the 2025 mayoral election. See Justice Manual § 9-
85.500, entitled Actions that May Have an Impact on an Election.
Second, the pending prosecution has unduly restricted Mayor Adams' ability to devote full attention and resources to the illegal immigration and violent crime that escalated under the policies of the prior Administration. We are particularly concerned about the impact of the prosecution on Mayor Adams' ability to support critical, ongoing federal efforts "to protect the American people from the disastrous effects of unlawful mass migration and resettlement," as described in Executive Order 14165.' Accomplishing the immigration objectives established by President Trump and the Attorney General is every bit as important—if not more so as the objectives that the prior Administration pursued by releasing violent criminals such as Viktor Bout, the "Merchant of Death."? Accordingly, based on these additional concerns that are distinct from the weaponization problems, dismissal without prejudice is also necessary at this time.
' Your Office correctly noted in a February 3, 2025 memorandum, *as Mr. Bove clearly stated to defense counsel during our meeting [on January 31, 2025], the Government is not offering to exchange dismissal of a criminal case for Adams's assistance on immigration enforcement."
2 According to an October 2024 Wall Street Journal article, Bout has already started to participate in arms deals again, including negotiations with representatives of Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis. https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/putins-merchant-of-death-is-back-in-](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreidtbdebawe7yluohx6ktbosdjqfdcf7ukryaemdjtgcpygzklaefe@jpeg)
February 11, 2025 at 9:46 AM
If Bondi isn’t going to assess the strength of the evidence or legal theories of the case then sit down and STFU
This is an absurd breach of her legal responsibilities
This is an absurd breach of her legal responsibilities
“The increasingly unrestrained struggle for power among elites, not populism, represents the greatest threat to democracy in the United States and elsewhere.”
This is the best analysis of the difference between opportunistic political rhetoric and actual popular sentiment I have read in years
This is the best analysis of the difference between opportunistic political rhetoric and actual popular sentiment I have read in years
Please read the piece before you give in to your compulsion to comment. 🙏
January 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
“The increasingly unrestrained struggle for power among elites, not populism, represents the greatest threat to democracy in the United States and elsewhere.”
This is the best analysis of the difference between opportunistic political rhetoric and actual popular sentiment I have read in years
This is the best analysis of the difference between opportunistic political rhetoric and actual popular sentiment I have read in years
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SCOOP: Insiders at a RFK Jr.-led nonprofit questioned why & how he funneled $67 million to a small environmental group he & a hedge-fund billionaire helped set up in the Bahamas. One board member resigned over this, noting he couldn't get RFK to explain it.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
At RFK Jr.-led environmental group, insiders questioned how he spent $67 million
Kennedy sent millions to the Bahamas. Did it help a billionaire pal?
www.motherjones.com
January 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
SCOOP: Insiders at a RFK Jr.-led nonprofit questioned why & how he funneled $67 million to a small environmental group he & a hedge-fund billionaire helped set up in the Bahamas. One board member resigned over this, noting he couldn't get RFK to explain it.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
@bobsyerunclesf.bsky.social
is this Bob or Ray?
is this Bob or Ray?
January 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
@bobsyerunclesf.bsky.social
is this Bob or Ray?
is this Bob or Ray?
So Biden quietly persists to achieve a ceasefire in Lebanon against massive odds. Response so far has been muted at best.
Meanwhile, the newly elected leader of the Retribution Party is giving the absolute worst idiots free reign to terrorize the public.
And I’m still reading shit about Dems?
Meanwhile, the newly elected leader of the Retribution Party is giving the absolute worst idiots free reign to terrorize the public.
And I’m still reading shit about Dems?
November 27, 2024 at 1:41 PM
So Biden quietly persists to achieve a ceasefire in Lebanon against massive odds. Response so far has been muted at best.
Meanwhile, the newly elected leader of the Retribution Party is giving the absolute worst idiots free reign to terrorize the public.
And I’m still reading shit about Dems?
Meanwhile, the newly elected leader of the Retribution Party is giving the absolute worst idiots free reign to terrorize the public.
And I’m still reading shit about Dems?
Lutnick is possibly the spookiest cabinet nominee yet. He wants to setup a “Bitcoin Strategic Reserve” using his own fund as a model. The advantages?
No taxes
No Regulation
Classic Ponzi scheme with value determined not by underlying assets but exponential growth. Totally nuts.
No taxes
No Regulation
Classic Ponzi scheme with value determined not by underlying assets but exponential growth. Totally nuts.
November 19, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Lutnick is possibly the spookiest cabinet nominee yet. He wants to setup a “Bitcoin Strategic Reserve” using his own fund as a model. The advantages?
No taxes
No Regulation
Classic Ponzi scheme with value determined not by underlying assets but exponential growth. Totally nuts.
No taxes
No Regulation
Classic Ponzi scheme with value determined not by underlying assets but exponential growth. Totally nuts.