Chris Kruell
@chriskruell.bsky.social
Technology marketing guy. Fractional CMO and consultant. Have lived in the worlds of HPC/supercomputing, servers, client storage hardware, and other fun things. Board member, photographer, climber, xc skier on the side.
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We are all living in @dziblatt.bsky.social & Levitsky & @lucanway.bsky.social’s world now.
The question is just which people & institutions notice and respond accordingly, and which choose to act as though this were NOT competitive authoritarianism because they don’t see it or don’t want to see it.
The question is just which people & institutions notice and respond accordingly, and which choose to act as though this were NOT competitive authoritarianism because they don’t see it or don’t want to see it.
Opinion | No One Has Ever Defeated Autocracy From the Sidelines
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May 8, 2025 at 12:41 PM
We are all living in @dziblatt.bsky.social & Levitsky & @lucanway.bsky.social’s world now.
The question is just which people & institutions notice and respond accordingly, and which choose to act as though this were NOT competitive authoritarianism because they don’t see it or don’t want to see it.
The question is just which people & institutions notice and respond accordingly, and which choose to act as though this were NOT competitive authoritarianism because they don’t see it or don’t want to see it.
Republicans Are Already Plotting to Steal the Midterms newrepublic.com/article/1946... via @newrepublic.com
Republicans Are Already Plotting to Steal the Midterms
With Trump’s help, Republicans across the country are sowing doubt about next year’s congressional elections—and gearing up for 2028.
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May 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Republicans Are Already Plotting to Steal the Midterms newrepublic.com/article/1946... via @newrepublic.com
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March 27, 2025
March 27, 2025
Today, Wired reported that it had found four more Venmo accounts associated with the Trump administration officials who participated in the now-infamous Signal chat about a planned military attack on ...
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March 28, 2025 at 7:50 AM
March 27, 2025
@karaswisher.bsky.social I listened to your Elizabeth Warren interview. LOVE her, but meh. Dems need to combine @petebuttigieg.bsky.social, @repjasmine.bsky.social , @aoc.bsky.social, and @sanders.senate.gov into messaging platform for now and get @mcuban.bsky.social to lead Project 2026/7/8/9.
March 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
@karaswisher.bsky.social I listened to your Elizabeth Warren interview. LOVE her, but meh. Dems need to combine @petebuttigieg.bsky.social, @repjasmine.bsky.social , @aoc.bsky.social, and @sanders.senate.gov into messaging platform for now and get @mcuban.bsky.social to lead Project 2026/7/8/9.
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He is admitting that he doesn’t want lawyers to stop him from breaking the law. No one would stop him from issuing lawful orders, so this has to be about unlawful ones.
Hegseth says firing of top military lawyers was about making sure "they don't exist to be roadblocks to anything that happens."
February 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
He is admitting that he doesn’t want lawyers to stop him from breaking the law. No one would stop him from issuing lawful orders, so this has to be about unlawful ones.
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Just offered an amendment that would block all cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and the ACA. Not a single one of you will be surprised to hear that Republicans blocked it.
February 21, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Just offered an amendment that would block all cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and the ACA. Not a single one of you will be surprised to hear that Republicans blocked it.
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This is happening because Elon Musk tweeted to kill the December funding bill & all the bipartisan health policies Congress negotiated fell apart.
Expanding telehealth brings DOWN costs. It makes health care MORE efficient, and it’s SO important for rural patients.
Expanding telehealth brings DOWN costs. It makes health care MORE efficient, and it’s SO important for rural patients.
February 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This is happening because Elon Musk tweeted to kill the December funding bill & all the bipartisan health policies Congress negotiated fell apart.
Expanding telehealth brings DOWN costs. It makes health care MORE efficient, and it’s SO important for rural patients.
Expanding telehealth brings DOWN costs. It makes health care MORE efficient, and it’s SO important for rural patients.
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Elon, I hate to break it to you but you aren’t my boss. I answer to the people of Minnesota.
But since you bring it up, I spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for billionaires like you, paid for by defunding health care for moms and babies
But since you bring it up, I spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for billionaires like you, paid for by defunding health care for moms and babies
February 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Elon, I hate to break it to you but you aren’t my boss. I answer to the people of Minnesota.
But since you bring it up, I spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for billionaires like you, paid for by defunding health care for moms and babies
But since you bring it up, I spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for billionaires like you, paid for by defunding health care for moms and babies
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Newsflash: Bloodletting, leeches, and wringing of hands to return to fashion as premier forms of health care.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...
Senate Confirms RFK Jr., a Prominent Vaccine Skeptic, as Health Secretary
The vote capped a remarkable rise for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was confirmed by a Republican Senate in a chamber where his father and uncles once served as Democrats.
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Newsflash: Bloodletting, leeches, and wringing of hands to return to fashion as premier forms of health care.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...
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@sanders.senate.gov and Sen Hawley are co-sponsoring a bill to cap credit card interest rates at 10%. Jevons effect? Debt is cheaper, so it's used more, total interest payments are higher than before? Wonder if credit card companies would want to back this bill. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/b...
Trump Promised a Cap on Credit Card Interest Rates. Here’s His Chance.
Senators Bernie Sanders and Josh Hawley say they will propose a 10 percent limit on credit card interest rates.
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February 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
@sanders.senate.gov and Sen Hawley are co-sponsoring a bill to cap credit card interest rates at 10%. Jevons effect? Debt is cheaper, so it's used more, total interest payments are higher than before? Wonder if credit card companies would want to back this bill. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/b...
@wyden.senate.gov @amyklobuchar.com Why haven't the Capitol Police arrested Elon and the Muskrats for using unsecured systems for stealing our data? For unconstitutionally stopping Treasury payments? For unconstitutionally shutting down congressionally-approved foreign aid?
February 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
@wyden.senate.gov @amyklobuchar.com Why haven't the Capitol Police arrested Elon and the Muskrats for using unsecured systems for stealing our data? For unconstitutionally stopping Treasury payments? For unconstitutionally shutting down congressionally-approved foreign aid?
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Trump got 5000 less Mexican troops on the border than Biden had last year.
February 4, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Trump got 5000 less Mexican troops on the border than Biden had last year.
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“DEI is not a threat. It’s a gift.” Alicia Keys
February 3, 2025 at 4:26 AM
“DEI is not a threat. It’s a gift.” Alicia Keys
“…Brendan Carr is a dummy. He's a moron. He is a total political hack job with no conviction and no morals.” Nilay on 1/31/25 Vergecast.
A coffee-snorting moment. BTW, my cat uses a shit, er, pee ton of litter. He drinks so much water I swear he carries around a Stanley cup
@reckless.bsky.social
A coffee-snorting moment. BTW, my cat uses a shit, er, pee ton of litter. He drinks so much water I swear he carries around a Stanley cup
@reckless.bsky.social
February 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
“…Brendan Carr is a dummy. He's a moron. He is a total political hack job with no conviction and no morals.” Nilay on 1/31/25 Vergecast.
A coffee-snorting moment. BTW, my cat uses a shit, er, pee ton of litter. He drinks so much water I swear he carries around a Stanley cup
@reckless.bsky.social
A coffee-snorting moment. BTW, my cat uses a shit, er, pee ton of litter. He drinks so much water I swear he carries around a Stanley cup
@reckless.bsky.social
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NEW: My staff just got ahold of this memo from House Budget Committee Republicans. It's lengthy and hard to digest but it tells us exactly how Republicans plan to sell out the American people for another round of tax cuts to the rich. We're breaking down the highlights as we go:
www.finance.senate.gov
January 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
NEW: My staff just got ahold of this memo from House Budget Committee Republicans. It's lengthy and hard to digest but it tells us exactly how Republicans plan to sell out the American people for another round of tax cuts to the rich. We're breaking down the highlights as we go:
December 12, 2024 at 12:53 AM
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Superb by newly free @pkrugman.bsky.social
And the new era begins. My Substack is alive again, and here's my first post paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-fraudu...
The Fraudulence of “Waste, Fraud and Abuse”
History repeats itself, the first time as farce, the second as clown show
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December 11, 2024 at 1:10 PM
Superb by newly free @pkrugman.bsky.social
Love it. Caitlin Clark is Time's Athlete of the Year. (Her discussion of being left off the Olympic team is 100% class act.)
Caitlin Clark named Time’s Athlete of the Year, shares reaction to Olympics roster omission
Making the 2028 U.S. Olympic team is a "huge, huge goal" for Clark, she said in the interview.
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2024 at 12:09 AM
Love it. Caitlin Clark is Time's Athlete of the Year. (Her discussion of being left off the Olympic team is 100% class act.)
