Cass
@caveatofcass.bsky.social
Grishaverse and Dodgers fan. Democrat. Central Valley girl.
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i can't imagine getting to the peak of my professional career only to spend it being berated and yelled at all day by this rambling, elderly piece of shit who barely knows what day it is, though there are many other reasons why i would never have taken the job to begin with
My transcription of the "joking" threat Trump just made at the Saudi Investment Forum to fire Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who was sitting in front of him at the time
![Interest rates are down despite the Fed, I mean, [Secretary of the Treasury] Scott [Bessent] you gotta work on this guy [Fed Chair Jerome Powell], he’s got some real mental problems, he’s- something wrong with him, it’s just ridiculous.
I – be honest – I’d love to fire his ass, he should be fired. Guy’s grossly incompetent, and he should be sued for spending four billion dollars to build a little building. I’m building a ballroom that’s gonna cost a tiny fraction of that and it’s bigger than the whole thing put together. You gotta work on him Scott.
The only thing Scott’s blowing it on, because the Fed – the rates are too high Scott. And if you don’t get it fixed fast, I’m gonna fire your ass, ok?
I can’t tell you – Scott: “Sir, don’t fire him [Powell]. Please don’t fire him. He’s got three months to go, don’t fire him.”
“I wanna get him out, Scott!”
“Please” – he’s [Bessent] the voice of reason, you’re very lucky to have him, I’ll tell ya that.
I think [Secretary of Commerce] Howard [Lutnick]’s a little bit more for firing him. Right Howard? I think Howard would say “get him the hell out of there.” Anyway.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:k7eezr2ybq7cxtptak2q4uhp/bafkreihhdrf7fwr3jmcq6icjznxqo3rgaqfovdf7wc674bbbc3dsmqzw44@jpeg)
November 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
i can't imagine getting to the peak of my professional career only to spend it being berated and yelled at all day by this rambling, elderly piece of shit who barely knows what day it is, though there are many other reasons why i would never have taken the job to begin with
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this might be the sloppiest lawyering that i, a non-lawyer, have ever read about
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
this might be the sloppiest lawyering that i, a non-lawyer, have ever read about
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imagine any other US president in american history calling the american people a bunch of unemployed, uneducated, ignorant boobs who don't even know what a computer chip is, and insisting that they'll need to be educated by the taiwanese to work in US-based, taiwanese-owned factories
Trump: "You can't come in, open up a massive computer chip factory…and think you're going to hire people off an unemployment line to run it. They're going to have to bring thousands of people with them, and I'm going to welcome those people."
November 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
imagine any other US president in american history calling the american people a bunch of unemployed, uneducated, ignorant boobs who don't even know what a computer chip is, and insisting that they'll need to be educated by the taiwanese to work in US-based, taiwanese-owned factories
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We've gone to from "Trump 2028" to "The Trump is going to get to finish his term, yes?, we're all agreed? 3 more years!"
Trump: "We will be here for three and a quarter years. For the Trump, that's like an eternity. For somebody else that doesn't sound long."
November 19, 2025 at 1:39 AM
We've gone to from "Trump 2028" to "The Trump is going to get to finish his term, yes?, we're all agreed? 3 more years!"
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My mom moved from a diverse city to a white small town in the south as a teenager. She had a last name that is frequently found among black people.
Small town, so word got around fast. My mom found out the locals were planning on burning a cross in her yard because they thought she was black.
Small town, so word got around fast. My mom found out the locals were planning on burning a cross in her yard because they thought she was black.
as a white liberal with Southern roots, quite frankly, I think other white liberals from the South need to get the fuck over their oddly defensive attitude about what should be pretty blindingly obvious.
I understand why some white liberals from the Deep South want to insist that there isn't something distinct (and bad) about Southern political culture but the problem with this is that we wouldn't even have this idea of "The South" as distinct from the rest of the US if there wasn't a there there
November 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
My mom moved from a diverse city to a white small town in the south as a teenager. She had a last name that is frequently found among black people.
Small town, so word got around fast. My mom found out the locals were planning on burning a cross in her yard because they thought she was black.
Small town, so word got around fast. My mom found out the locals were planning on burning a cross in her yard because they thought she was black.
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Look, I'm just a French Canadian with no real skin in the game, but all I will say is that I have travelled all over the USA, both costs, the middle, etc.
The ONLY place I've been told completely out of nowhere to "go back to Mexico, you f'ing wetback" for speaking FRENCH in public was IN THE SOUTH
The ONLY place I've been told completely out of nowhere to "go back to Mexico, you f'ing wetback" for speaking FRENCH in public was IN THE SOUTH
as a white liberal with Southern roots, quite frankly, I think other white liberals from the South need to get the fuck over their oddly defensive attitude about what should be pretty blindingly obvious.
I understand why some white liberals from the Deep South want to insist that there isn't something distinct (and bad) about Southern political culture but the problem with this is that we wouldn't even have this idea of "The South" as distinct from the rest of the US if there wasn't a there there
November 17, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Look, I'm just a French Canadian with no real skin in the game, but all I will say is that I have travelled all over the USA, both costs, the middle, etc.
The ONLY place I've been told completely out of nowhere to "go back to Mexico, you f'ing wetback" for speaking FRENCH in public was IN THE SOUTH
The ONLY place I've been told completely out of nowhere to "go back to Mexico, you f'ing wetback" for speaking FRENCH in public was IN THE SOUTH
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Importantly, this was published 6 months before October 7! It's what Hurwitz is saying, and being reinterpreted as a defense of Palestinian slaughter because people are incapable of listening to Jews talk about Jews.
November 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Importantly, this was published 6 months before October 7! It's what Hurwitz is saying, and being reinterpreted as a defense of Palestinian slaughter because people are incapable of listening to Jews talk about Jews.
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If your understanding of the Holocaust is "the strong oppressing the weak," your view of antisemism is tortured beyond utility.
November 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
If your understanding of the Holocaust is "the strong oppressing the weak," your view of antisemism is tortured beyond utility.
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Specifically she says Holocaust education has backfired in the popular understanding antisemism, and she's not wrong. If the people sharing this spin on her words are not antisemites themselves, they are certainly proving her right.
I'm struck by this clip of former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz saying Holocaust education has backfired in part because people Palestinians as victims: "They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people."
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November 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Specifically she says Holocaust education has backfired in the popular understanding antisemism, and she's not wrong. If the people sharing this spin on her words are not antisemites themselves, they are certainly proving her right.
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The dumbest, stupidest, funniest part of this administration is that Kimmel getting to come back after a massive public pressure campaign folded Disney like a lawn chair is basically the exact moment Trump's authoritarian project failed.
I'd go as far as to say they mistook the (rightfully) notorious complacency of American institutions for an early total victory.
November 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The dumbest, stupidest, funniest part of this administration is that Kimmel getting to come back after a massive public pressure campaign folded Disney like a lawn chair is basically the exact moment Trump's authoritarian project failed.
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watch every single ratfucker that bitched at kamala harris bc liz cheney get out here and say this is actually so based of him bc he’s so skilled and good at politics. watch
Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, said on Monday that his team had reached out to White House officials to set up a meeting with President Trump, saying he hoped to press Trump to help ease the affordability crisis.
Mamdani Reaches Out to White House to Arrange Meeting With Trump
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said he hoped to press President Trump to help ease the affordability crisis. His remarks came a day after Mr. Trump said he wanted to “see everything work out well for New York.”
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November 17, 2025 at 9:44 PM
watch every single ratfucker that bitched at kamala harris bc liz cheney get out here and say this is actually so based of him bc he’s so skilled and good at politics. watch
I hope everyone who screamed at Vice President Harris for doing like, two events with Liz Cheney keeps the same energy here
Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, said on Monday that his team had reached out to White House officials to set up a meeting with President Trump, saying he hoped to press Trump to help ease the affordability crisis.
Mamdani Reaches Out to White House to Arrange Meeting With Trump
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said he hoped to press President Trump to help ease the affordability crisis. His remarks came a day after Mr. Trump said he wanted to “see everything work out well for New York.”
nyti.ms
November 19, 2025 at 5:08 AM
I hope everyone who screamed at Vice President Harris for doing like, two events with Liz Cheney keeps the same energy here
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It is ironically the same POV of the ultra-nationalist far-right in Israel! "If you disagree with our policies, well, you're anti-Zionist!"
But that's bullshit. You can fervently dissent against any policy by Israel's current government without opposing democratic self-determination.
But that's bullshit. You can fervently dissent against any policy by Israel's current government without opposing democratic self-determination.
November 19, 2025 at 12:25 AM
It is ironically the same POV of the ultra-nationalist far-right in Israel! "If you disagree with our policies, well, you're anti-Zionist!"
But that's bullshit. You can fervently dissent against any policy by Israel's current government without opposing democratic self-determination.
But that's bullshit. You can fervently dissent against any policy by Israel's current government without opposing democratic self-determination.
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And the thing is, Zionism is the belief in the right of the Jewish people to democratic self-determination in their ancestral homeland.
The greatest con antisemites ever pulled was convincing so many people that if they have any criticism of the Israeli government, they're anti-Zionist.
The greatest con antisemites ever pulled was convincing so many people that if they have any criticism of the Israeli government, they're anti-Zionist.
It's not even that it's too hard, it's that antizionism is actually an extremely powerful and popular presence within leftist and cultural spaces (despite their claims of being an abominably persecuted ideology) and they don't want to risk their social standing within the movement by challenging it.
Certain Leftists have decided that it's too hard to figure out what is actually antisemitic anymore.
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
And the thing is, Zionism is the belief in the right of the Jewish people to democratic self-determination in their ancestral homeland.
The greatest con antisemites ever pulled was convincing so many people that if they have any criticism of the Israeli government, they're anti-Zionist.
The greatest con antisemites ever pulled was convincing so many people that if they have any criticism of the Israeli government, they're anti-Zionist.
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it is frankly a *scathing* indictment of the White House press corps
I’ve been thinking and it’s kind of exceptional that not a single person said “Hey now” after the piggy comment.
November 19, 2025 at 1:56 AM
it is frankly a *scathing* indictment of the White House press corps
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he’ll put on a tux for the saudis, not so much for americans
Trump on MBS: "He's investing $1 trillion into the United States." (The entire GDP of Saudi Arabia is $1.1 trillion, so yeah, this isn't happening)
November 19, 2025 at 1:05 AM
he’ll put on a tux for the saudis, not so much for americans
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ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say.
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say
According to Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges, officers started the three-day sting on Nov. 5. They used several methods to find people who were attempting to solicit a 17-year-old girl for sex.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say.
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
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The reason why Trump "flipped" on this (while still bitching a ton about it) is bc the vote to release these files was gonna happen anyways and it was either look weak via your party deserting you en mass or look weak by giving up ahead of time
THUNE SAYS EPSTEIN BILL COULD PASS US SENATE BY UNANIMOUS CONSENT, POSSIBLY LATER ON TUESDAY
November 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The reason why Trump "flipped" on this (while still bitching a ton about it) is bc the vote to release these files was gonna happen anyways and it was either look weak via your party deserting you en mass or look weak by giving up ahead of time
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I was!
"noam chomsky was more involved with jeffrey epstein than bill clinton" is not an outcome i was expecting
November 19, 2025 at 12:39 AM
I was!
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Great news that the Senate has passed the bill forcing the DOJ to release its Epstein file. Now Bondi must comply. But our work cannot stop there. We need to force the Treasury to release the Epstein bank records too. I have a bill to make that happen. FOLLOW THE MONEY.
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Great news that the Senate has passed the bill forcing the DOJ to release its Epstein file. Now Bondi must comply. But our work cannot stop there. We need to force the Treasury to release the Epstein bank records too. I have a bill to make that happen. FOLLOW THE MONEY.
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Bessent's not only hiding these docs, he bizarrely claimed Treasury has no role investigating them at all. It’s a lie. It's impossible someone with his background doesn’t know about Treasury's extensive role investigating the kinds of financial crimes Epstein must have been committing.
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Bessent's not only hiding these docs, he bizarrely claimed Treasury has no role investigating them at all. It’s a lie. It's impossible someone with his background doesn’t know about Treasury's extensive role investigating the kinds of financial crimes Epstein must have been committing.
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What would those records help reveal? Where Epstein got his money. How he acquired and controlled his victims. Who he trafficked them to. What individuals and banks enabled the trafficking. Who else had control of Epstein’s accounts, and what crimes they committed.
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
What would those records help reveal? Where Epstein got his money. How he acquired and controlled his victims. Who he trafficked them to. What individuals and banks enabled the trafficking. Who else had control of Epstein’s accounts, and what crimes they committed.
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The Treasury Department has its own Epstein file containing thousands of bank records. My investigators reviewed a portion of those records last year. I've demanded the Secretary Bessent produce the file for further investigation. He has refused repeatedly.
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
The Treasury Department has its own Epstein file containing thousands of bank records. My investigators reviewed a portion of those records last year. I've demanded the Secretary Bessent produce the file for further investigation. He has refused repeatedly.
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Let me tell you about the other Epstein files the Trump administration is STILL HIDING — records that aren’t affected by the bill Congress passed today.
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Let me tell you about the other Epstein files the Trump administration is STILL HIDING — records that aren’t affected by the bill Congress passed today.
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release the long form Epstein files
Let me tell you about the other Epstein files the Trump administration is STILL HIDING — records that aren’t affected by the bill Congress passed today.
November 19, 2025 at 12:41 AM
release the long form Epstein files