Trump picks climate change denier, Chris Wright, CEO of Liberty Energy (oil company) as Energy Secretary.

Maybe he’ll just use Trump’s sharpie to redirect hurricanes.

In The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, after hearing about a massive & deadly scapegoating, the narrator asks why the peasants didn't attack the landlords, their true enemies, & is told, "When your real enemies are too strong, you get weaker enemies," & every day I think about this & also see it

About as good as can be hoped for

thehill.com/policy/energ...

'This process includes the replacement of all first-rate talents, regardless of their political loyalties, with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is the best guarantee of their loyalty.' (The Origins of Totalitarianism, renewed version, A Harvest Book New York, 1976, 339)

Waiting for the next cabinet appointment like

Not evil enough for Twitter, not stupid enough for Threads, and so we find ourselves here at the ass end of the internet together

Every time I read "Department of Government Efficiency," it makes me think of when the Death Eaters took over the Ministry of Magic.

A committee for government efficiency. With two co-chairs.

lol great job, everyone

Here's some of the 1,000 reasons:

1. Destroys independence of Generals to give best advice, lowering military effectiveness
2. Creates factions
3. Lowers barriers to use of force at home
4. Increases risk of coup by disgruntled officers
5. Creates groupthink by silencing diverse perspectives

My god...that's the king's sigil

putting the social back in to social media

I think The Boys summed it up well

@skywatch.blue has a label and a block list for MAGA accounts:

bsky.app/profile/did:...