@buckylaser.bsky.social
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Reminder! Derrick Van Orden's priorities are:
✅ Try to overthrow the U.S Government
✅ Raise health care costs for working families
✅ Make health care less acceptable for rural communities
✅ Tariff the hell out of Wisconsin farmers
✅ Try to overthrow the U.S Government
✅ Raise health care costs for working families
✅ Make health care less acceptable for rural communities
✅ Tariff the hell out of Wisconsin farmers
January 6, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Reminder! Derrick Van Orden's priorities are:
✅ Try to overthrow the U.S Government
✅ Raise health care costs for working families
✅ Make health care less acceptable for rural communities
✅ Tariff the hell out of Wisconsin farmers
✅ Try to overthrow the U.S Government
✅ Raise health care costs for working families
✅ Make health care less acceptable for rural communities
✅ Tariff the hell out of Wisconsin farmers
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Whenever people discuss if ChatGPT should be used in education, it should be noted that OpenAI's board includes a a professor who sought advice from a pedophile on how to manipulate one of his mentees into having sex with him, and in those conversations they substituted her name with a racial slur.
OpenAI is among the handful of the most powerful non-governmental institutions in the world.
Larry Summers could get fully jettisoned from Harvard (hasn't yet happened!) and yet still be fine so long as he is helping determine the future of AI.
Larry Summers could get fully jettisoned from Harvard (hasn't yet happened!) and yet still be fine so long as he is helping determine the future of AI.
November 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Whenever people discuss if ChatGPT should be used in education, it should be noted that OpenAI's board includes a a professor who sought advice from a pedophile on how to manipulate one of his mentees into having sex with him, and in those conversations they substituted her name with a racial slur.
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Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.
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might as well just rename it the Saddam Hussein bathroom, since Trump decided to completely bite my man's style
October 31, 2025 at 6:52 PM
might as well just rename it the Saddam Hussein bathroom, since Trump decided to completely bite my man's style
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Donald Trump's sick fixation on people's personal body parts means that the PACT Act has now been rolled back, and many male veterans who get breast cancer will no longer be allowed treatment at the VA. Should they die of it, their death is on Trump and the GOP's hands. #PACTAct
October 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Donald Trump's sick fixation on people's personal body parts means that the PACT Act has now been rolled back, and many male veterans who get breast cancer will no longer be allowed treatment at the VA. Should they die of it, their death is on Trump and the GOP's hands. #PACTAct
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“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”
Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.
Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.
Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’
Musk demands US troops be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs
www.independent.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”
Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.
Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.
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Republicans shut down the government because they refused to cancel cuts to health care. Now millions of troops, veterans, and military families are paying the price. #shutdown #gop #republicans #veterans #militaryfamilies
October 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Republicans shut down the government because they refused to cancel cuts to health care. Now millions of troops, veterans, and military families are paying the price. #shutdown #gop #republicans #veterans #militaryfamilies
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Speaker Mike Johnson is the one person holding US troops hostage — using them as bargaining chips — knowing that they won’t get paid if the Trump shutdown goes beyond October 15. Military families are about to lose childcare, veterans to lose transition assistance. All to cut Americans’ healthcare.
Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "
October 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Speaker Mike Johnson is the one person holding US troops hostage — using them as bargaining chips — knowing that they won’t get paid if the Trump shutdown goes beyond October 15. Military families are about to lose childcare, veterans to lose transition assistance. All to cut Americans’ healthcare.
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DERRICK VAN ORDEN DECRIES CLOSING OF A VETERAN SHELTER HE DID NOTHING TO PRESERVE
U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R) is trying to blame the shutdown of a veterans housing shelter in his district on Democrats, even as he personally balked at opportunities to save it.
Full story: https://bit.ly/4h76EAI
U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R) is trying to blame the shutdown of a veterans housing shelter in his district on Democrats, even as he personally balked at opportunities to save it.
Full story: https://bit.ly/4h76EAI
October 10, 2025 at 12:08 AM
DERRICK VAN ORDEN DECRIES CLOSING OF A VETERAN SHELTER HE DID NOTHING TO PRESERVE
U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R) is trying to blame the shutdown of a veterans housing shelter in his district on Democrats, even as he personally balked at opportunities to save it.
Full story: https://bit.ly/4h76EAI
U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R) is trying to blame the shutdown of a veterans housing shelter in his district on Democrats, even as he personally balked at opportunities to save it.
Full story: https://bit.ly/4h76EAI
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The government is shooting priests in the head with pepper balls. I feel like this is a kitchen table issue.
October 8, 2025 at 2:20 AM
The government is shooting priests in the head with pepper balls. I feel like this is a kitchen table issue.
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No shit I'm furious. I spent eleven years learning to write well about complex topics in ethical ways, often for criminally low rates, because I believe that work's important. It's deeply insulting to see a total dipshit get fabulously wealthy for telling the rich what they want to hear!
October 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
No shit I'm furious. I spent eleven years learning to write well about complex topics in ethical ways, often for criminally low rates, because I believe that work's important. It's deeply insulting to see a total dipshit get fabulously wealthy for telling the rich what they want to hear!
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I think it's starting to be forgotten that joining the National Guard was originally a commitment to to serve in unforeseen emergencies, almost always natural disasters. You might get called up every second or third hurricane season. The second Gulf War changed all that and now... now, what is this?
How the national guard call-ups are screwing students who joined in hopes of.l being able to afford college.
I hate it here. From the college where I’m still technically faculty:
I hate it here and I don’t know what to do.
I hate it here and I don’t know what to do.
October 7, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I think it's starting to be forgotten that joining the National Guard was originally a commitment to to serve in unforeseen emergencies, almost always natural disasters. You might get called up every second or third hurricane season. The second Gulf War changed all that and now... now, what is this?
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I argued the other day that butt cracks & beer bellies of ICE men rolling violently in the street is a negative spectacle that has drowned out the staged spectacles Stephen Miller has tried to set up.
I think today's Generals speech ended up being another.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/29/b...
I think today's Generals speech ended up being another.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/29/b...
Butt Cracks and Beer Bellies: Is Trump Failing on Immigration because ICE Creates Negative Spectacle? - emptywheel
I suspect that a big reason Stephen Miller has turned immigration into a losing issue for Donald Trump is because Miller's goons create an endless supply of negative spectacle that goes viral and seed...
www.emptywheel.net
September 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I argued the other day that butt cracks & beer bellies of ICE men rolling violently in the street is a negative spectacle that has drowned out the staged spectacles Stephen Miller has tried to set up.
I think today's Generals speech ended up being another.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/29/b...
I think today's Generals speech ended up being another.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/29/b...
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This story has some absolutely brutal quotes and lines.
September 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
This story has some absolutely brutal quotes and lines.
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Pete Hegseth wasted millions on a meeting that could have been an email. He's focused on trivial issues like grooming and wiping "diversity" from websites. Meanwhile, he diverted funds from military housing and allowed the deportation of troops' families. He is unfit to lead.
September 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Pete Hegseth wasted millions on a meeting that could have been an email. He's focused on trivial issues like grooming and wiping "diversity" from websites. Meanwhile, he diverted funds from military housing and allowed the deportation of troops' families. He is unfit to lead.
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the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!
September 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!
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Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
September 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
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Tl;dr: 🤷♂️🤦♂️
You People Made Me Give Up My Peanut Farm Before I Got To Be President
For generations, U.S. presidents have gone to great lengths to avoid potential conflicts of interest. When I was elected, I followed suit by placing my small business in a blind trust to assure our ci...
theonion.com
September 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Tl;dr: 🤷♂️🤦♂️
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"my kids are defective!" is the battlecry of nearly every reactionary movement
September 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
"my kids are defective!" is the battlecry of nearly every reactionary movement
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No one has been more vindicated than normie resistance Dems, women’s marchers and never-Trump Republicans. They were right all along about the threat. The anti-anti-Trump Republicans and reactionary centrists, and the far left “it’s always been this bad” folks have been proved wrong over and over.
September 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
No one has been more vindicated than normie resistance Dems, women’s marchers and never-Trump Republicans. They were right all along about the threat. The anti-anti-Trump Republicans and reactionary centrists, and the far left “it’s always been this bad” folks have been proved wrong over and over.
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No bailouts.
American soybean farmers don’t have a single order from China as they head into harvest season. China usually buys 25% of the entire crop.
Crisis looms for the farmers and there’s only one man responsible.
Crisis looms for the farmers and there’s only one man responsible.
Farmer says 'we're in a very dire situation' ahead of harvest—with zero soybean orders from China, historically the largest buyer | Fortune
Caleb Ragland says his pleas to the Trump administration have fallen on deaf ears.
fortune.com
September 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
No bailouts.
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Charlie Kirk's body gets a personal escort home from the vice president.
Meanwhile, back in April, neither President Trump nor anyone else from the White House bothered traveling to Dover Air Force Base to greet the bodies of four fallen soldiers.
Meanwhile, back in April, neither President Trump nor anyone else from the White House bothered traveling to Dover Air Force Base to greet the bodies of four fallen soldiers.
September 12, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Charlie Kirk's body gets a personal escort home from the vice president.
Meanwhile, back in April, neither President Trump nor anyone else from the White House bothered traveling to Dover Air Force Base to greet the bodies of four fallen soldiers.
Meanwhile, back in April, neither President Trump nor anyone else from the White House bothered traveling to Dover Air Force Base to greet the bodies of four fallen soldiers.
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Hey @kristinbrey.bsky.social - your co-host is having Rick Esenberg on to talk about "politically violent speech" and
"tribalism".
The same Rick Esenberg who heads up WILL, whose rhetoric led to anti-trans bomb threats in small-town Wisconsin? wisconsinexaminer.com/2022/06/03/b...
@pocan.house.gov
"tribalism".
The same Rick Esenberg who heads up WILL, whose rhetoric led to anti-trans bomb threats in small-town Wisconsin? wisconsinexaminer.com/2022/06/03/b...
@pocan.house.gov
Bomb threats end harassment investigation into student’s misgendering, WILL celebrates win • Wisconsin Examiner
A right-wing law firm celebrated after bomb threats ended a harassment investigation at the middle school in the Kiel Area School District.
wisconsinexaminer.com
September 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Hey @kristinbrey.bsky.social - your co-host is having Rick Esenberg on to talk about "politically violent speech" and
"tribalism".
The same Rick Esenberg who heads up WILL, whose rhetoric led to anti-trans bomb threats in small-town Wisconsin? wisconsinexaminer.com/2022/06/03/b...
@pocan.house.gov
"tribalism".
The same Rick Esenberg who heads up WILL, whose rhetoric led to anti-trans bomb threats in small-town Wisconsin? wisconsinexaminer.com/2022/06/03/b...
@pocan.house.gov
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Imagine bragging about ripping health care from fellow Veterans — just so billionaires like Elon Musk can pocket another tax break.
Disgraceful doesn’t even begin to cover it.
Disgraceful doesn’t even begin to cover it.
July 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Imagine bragging about ripping health care from fellow Veterans — just so billionaires like Elon Musk can pocket another tax break.
Disgraceful doesn’t even begin to cover it.
Disgraceful doesn’t even begin to cover it.