Bob Ungs
@bobungs.bsky.social
Retired educator, old hippie, California dreamin' wanna be world traveler
Trump is some combination of stupid, disingenous, and really poorly informed. Insists he wants to give money "to the people" so they can buy their own health care. Not the big evil insurance companies.
Where does he think people will spend health care money if he gives it to them? 1/2
Where does he think people will spend health care money if he gives it to them? 1/2
December 10, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Trump is some combination of stupid, disingenous, and really poorly informed. Insists he wants to give money "to the people" so they can buy their own health care. Not the big evil insurance companies.
Where does he think people will spend health care money if he gives it to them? 1/2
Where does he think people will spend health care money if he gives it to them? 1/2
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“When a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…”
-AOC, FOUR months ago
She knew that THEY knew.
The Democratic base knew.
Notice the empty chamber. 👇🏽
How was there no contingency plan in the works LAST SUMMER??
Y’all know exactly when.
We need Dems willing to fight and lead.
#ChuckChuck
-AOC, FOUR months ago
She knew that THEY knew.
The Democratic base knew.
Notice the empty chamber. 👇🏽
How was there no contingency plan in the works LAST SUMMER??
Y’all know exactly when.
We need Dems willing to fight and lead.
#ChuckChuck
June 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
“When a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…”
-AOC, FOUR months ago
She knew that THEY knew.
The Democratic base knew.
Notice the empty chamber. 👇🏽
How was there no contingency plan in the works LAST SUMMER??
Y’all know exactly when.
We need Dems willing to fight and lead.
#ChuckChuck
-AOC, FOUR months ago
She knew that THEY knew.
The Democratic base knew.
Notice the empty chamber. 👇🏽
How was there no contingency plan in the works LAST SUMMER??
Y’all know exactly when.
We need Dems willing to fight and lead.
#ChuckChuck
Thom Hartmann is always spot on. We absolutely cannot survive another episode of the Trump Show, much less an entire season.
www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
Everything Trump is doing makes perfect sense if you understand one simple fact
Everything Donald Trump is doing and will do makes perfect and sudden sense if you understand one simple fact: For him, it’s all a show.He views the White House as a sound stage, like the set made to ...
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April 16, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Thom Hartmann is always spot on. We absolutely cannot survive another episode of the Trump Show, much less an entire season.
www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
We're definitely in trouble. (Not to mention this looks like Trump pretending to read his own pretend book for the first time, while Xi is likely just looking for a particular reference he already knows by heart.)
April 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
We're definitely in trouble. (Not to mention this looks like Trump pretending to read his own pretend book for the first time, while Xi is likely just looking for a particular reference he already knows by heart.)
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These guys inherited one of the most functional state apparatus in the history of the world and they are inhabiting it like a crack house.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
These guys inherited one of the most functional state apparatus in the history of the world and they are inhabiting it like a crack house.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.
Elon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House Complex
Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office.
www.nytimes.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.
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As chilling a meme as I have seen. But I agree.
January 28, 2025 at 11:09 PM
As chilling a meme as I have seen. But I agree.
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I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world.
This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
December 5, 2024 at 3:47 PM
I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world.
This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
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Last week we broke down the "offer" that the Trump administration made to millions of federal employees to induce them to resign voluntarily.
On Monday, OPM released a memo providing more specificity about the terms of the deferred resignation agreement. It is even worse than it initially appeared.
On Monday, OPM released a memo providing more specificity about the terms of the deferred resignation agreement. It is even worse than it initially appeared.
UPDATE: The "deferred resignation" scam
Last week, Popular Information broke down the "offer" that the Trump administration was making to millions of federal employees to induce them to resign voluntarily.
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February 5, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Last week we broke down the "offer" that the Trump administration made to millions of federal employees to induce them to resign voluntarily.
On Monday, OPM released a memo providing more specificity about the terms of the deferred resignation agreement. It is even worse than it initially appeared.
On Monday, OPM released a memo providing more specificity about the terms of the deferred resignation agreement. It is even worse than it initially appeared.
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“I think the strategy here is: ‘Well, we’re just going to do it and dare somebody to stop us, and by the time they stop us, we’ll have destroyed it.’”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats
Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
“I think the strategy here is: ‘Well, we’re just going to do it and dare somebody to stop us, and by the time they stop us, we’ll have destroyed it.’”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Musk’s Status in Government May Violate Criminal Law ... from a top ethics guru. Here's the legal thicket Musk has walked into: open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Musk’s Status in Government May Violate Criminal Law
His wealth should not be able to buy a conflict of interest waiver
open.substack.com
February 5, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Musk’s Status in Government May Violate Criminal Law ... from a top ethics guru. Here's the legal thicket Musk has walked into: open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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an important column. This won't revert back to normal by acting like its normal.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
Opinion | There Is No Going Back (Gift Article)
The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
an important column. This won't revert back to normal by acting like its normal.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
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Canadians feel 'disrespected and betrayed' by Trump's #tariffs, and 'are resolutely pushing back by keeping whatever personal cash they can spare away from the U.S.':
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#Canada #CDNPoli #BuyCanadian #USPoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#Canada #CDNPoli #BuyCanadian #USPoli
'Flagrant disrespect' of U.S tariff threat has some Canadians taking their money elsewhere | CBC News
Some Canadians who said they feel disrespected and betrayed by Donald Trump's threat of tariffs are pushing back by keeping whatever personal cash they can spare away from the U.S.
www.cbc.ca
February 5, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Canadians feel 'disrespected and betrayed' by Trump's #tariffs, and 'are resolutely pushing back by keeping whatever personal cash they can spare away from the U.S.':
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#Canada #CDNPoli #BuyCanadian #USPoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#Canada #CDNPoli #BuyCanadian #USPoli