Jane
@crankyold.bsky.social
Cranky and old Retired from local government in Florida, old enough to remember when Florida invented good government practices.
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Democrats have had a mandate for over a decade now to just vote against everything Trump does and they can’t manage that. It’s a serious problem.
December 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Democrats have had a mandate for over a decade now to just vote against everything Trump does and they can’t manage that. It’s a serious problem.
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And if you really want to indulge in fantasy, think about First Lady Britainy Beshear (or your First Lady of choice) christening the first of these as… the USS Joseph R. Biden (BBG-1).
It would be worth Trump still having his wits just to see that.
It would be worth Trump still having his wits just to see that.
There is almost no chance that Trump will be President when and if one of these ships is commissioned. And there is a good chance that Trump will no longer be alive when the first hull hits the water.
December 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
And if you really want to indulge in fantasy, think about First Lady Britainy Beshear (or your First Lady of choice) christening the first of these as… the USS Joseph R. Biden (BBG-1).
It would be worth Trump still having his wits just to see that.
It would be worth Trump still having his wits just to see that.
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The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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December 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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This story is local for me, there is large and loud support for the targeted eateries like the Taco Shack. But mainly there is resentment that this person and her lawyer are degrading everyone's trust in the laws with no benefit to the community, just dollars for themselves.
“Since May, Wagner has typically filed at least seven federal ADA lawsuits a month, with the last batch of eight civil complaints coming in late November. She has not filed a new lawsuit since Court Watch began making inquiries in the course of reporting”
www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...
www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...
The Rabbit Hole: A Persistent Plaintiff
Tavia Wagner has filed 350 lawsuits in Florida over Americans with Disabilities Act violations. Our reporter Gabrielle Russon attempts to figure out why.
www.courtwatch.news
December 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This story is local for me, there is large and loud support for the targeted eateries like the Taco Shack. But mainly there is resentment that this person and her lawyer are degrading everyone's trust in the laws with no benefit to the community, just dollars for themselves.
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So fascists love brutality, not because it creates safety & security & plenty, but because it creates danger & uncertainty & lack.
Creating something of value is a threat to those who create nothing and deliver only theft.
But if you hold power despite creating nothing but pain, you dominate.
Creating something of value is a threat to those who create nothing and deliver only theft.
But if you hold power despite creating nothing but pain, you dominate.
December 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
So fascists love brutality, not because it creates safety & security & plenty, but because it creates danger & uncertainty & lack.
Creating something of value is a threat to those who create nothing and deliver only theft.
But if you hold power despite creating nothing but pain, you dominate.
Creating something of value is a threat to those who create nothing and deliver only theft.
But if you hold power despite creating nothing but pain, you dominate.
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The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of
🚨 "The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials. "
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
Epstein files explode open as DOJ details discovery of powerful figures and more than 1,200 victims
EXCLUSIVE: More than a dozen people and government officials' names appear in the hundreds of thousands of pages of Jeffrey Epstein files made public Friday, sources said.
www.foxnews.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of
This is a terrible truth, and I hate it.
There's a series of things (like the ballroom, Gulf of America) that we're going to have to *undo* the moment this guy is out of office.
And yet I can already hear future Democrat presidents saying "I'm focused on the people's work, not the knucklehead stuff" and just leave this man's shit up.
And yet I can already hear future Democrat presidents saying "I'm focused on the people's work, not the knucklehead stuff" and just leave this man's shit up.
The president's name was added to the sign outside the performing arts center.
December 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
This is a terrible truth, and I hate it.
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I have been saying these things for many years and have typically been called a polarizing extremist for saying it, so it is satisfying in a grim sort of way to start seeing mainstream publications come to these regrettable but unavoidable conclusions.
December 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I have been saying these things for many years and have typically been called a polarizing extremist for saying it, so it is satisfying in a grim sort of way to start seeing mainstream publications come to these regrettable but unavoidable conclusions.
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people are tremendously, indescribably bad at identifying their own motivations and beliefs. this is why you can't chase polls. you have to
and bear with me
*do the work of politics by convincing people your ideas are the right ones*
something Dems like Jeffries and Schumer refuse to do.
and bear with me
*do the work of politics by convincing people your ideas are the right ones*
something Dems like Jeffries and Schumer refuse to do.
December 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
people are tremendously, indescribably bad at identifying their own motivations and beliefs. this is why you can't chase polls. you have to
and bear with me
*do the work of politics by convincing people your ideas are the right ones*
something Dems like Jeffries and Schumer refuse to do.
and bear with me
*do the work of politics by convincing people your ideas are the right ones*
something Dems like Jeffries and Schumer refuse to do.
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I should just add, for the record: Reiner was worth 1000 Kirks. He was a creative dynamo, a deeply decent human being, a force for philanthropy & pro-social values. Kirk was a small-minded, resentful, thumb-faced grifter who made the world worse by spreading his resentments.
December 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I should just add, for the record: Reiner was worth 1000 Kirks. He was a creative dynamo, a deeply decent human being, a force for philanthropy & pro-social values. Kirk was a small-minded, resentful, thumb-faced grifter who made the world worse by spreading his resentments.
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Archie Bunker, also a reactionary bigot from Queens, would have displayed 1000 times more grace and compassion than his spiritual descendant who currently occupies the White House.
December 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Archie Bunker, also a reactionary bigot from Queens, would have displayed 1000 times more grace and compassion than his spiritual descendant who currently occupies the White House.
I bet heaven heard me laughing
December 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I bet heaven heard me laughing
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Grand juries have shown more resistance to Trump than the Democratic Party and other institutions abcnews.go.com/amp/US/2nd-t...
2nd grand jury refuses to indict New York AG Letitia James: Sources
For a second time in a week, a federal grand jury in Virginia has refused to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James for alleged mortgage fraud, sources say.
abcnews.go.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Grand juries have shown more resistance to Trump than the Democratic Party and other institutions abcnews.go.com/amp/US/2nd-t...
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*uses index finger to push glasses back up the bridge of nose* if it's trained off of the stolen creative output of humankind then technically, we are *all* the architects of AI...
December 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
*uses index finger to push glasses back up the bridge of nose* if it's trained off of the stolen creative output of humankind then technically, we are *all* the architects of AI...
I assume that dictates like this are because right wing leadership has never held any position outside of politician (including think tank sinecures as political). No experience in a world where some type of accomplishment is normal. All posturing all the time gets attention and promotion.
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I assume that dictates like this are because right wing leadership has never held any position outside of politician (including think tank sinecures as political). No experience in a world where some type of accomplishment is normal. All posturing all the time gets attention and promotion.
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After declining for 25 years, child mortality rates from preventable diseases are projected to increase next year. I wonder what has changed.
December 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
After declining for 25 years, child mortality rates from preventable diseases are projected to increase next year. I wonder what has changed.
Indiana fans at the championship game in basketball jerseys is just perfection.
December 7, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Indiana fans at the championship game in basketball jerseys is just perfection.
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I’m in favor of this but only for financial crimes
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I’m in favor of this but only for financial crimes
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The “garbage” destroying America isn’t in Minnesota’s Somalian community. It’s in the Oval Office. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The “garbage” destroying America isn’t in Minnesota’s Somalian community. It’s in the Oval Office. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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They think they look tough. They look like losers. Imagine wearing tactical gear and a facemask in the city famous for people walking the streets all but naked and drunk
Commander Greg Bovino led a group of Border Patrol agents on walk around the French Quarter in New Orleans this afternoon.
December 4, 2025 at 2:07 AM
They think they look tough. They look like losers. Imagine wearing tactical gear and a facemask in the city famous for people walking the streets all but naked and drunk
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Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED. www.wired.com/story/what-i...
DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now
Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED. www.wired.com/story/what-i...
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Biden & Harris were already speeding up permitting -- not by slashing regulations or imposing arbitrary timelines, but by fully funding & staffing the offices involved.
New Data Shows Biden-Harris Administration Improved Speed of Federal Permitting and Environmental Reviews | CEQ | The White House
Updated analysis shows that the most complex form of environmental reviews has been completed eight months faster during the Biden-Harris Administration WASHINGTON — As part of the Biden-Harris Admini...
bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov
December 3, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Biden & Harris were already speeding up permitting -- not by slashing regulations or imposing arbitrary timelines, but by fully funding & staffing the offices involved.
There is something deeply wrong in the SEAL selection, training and development system that it keeps throwing out such flawed service members.
Hegseth is scum for throwing Bradley under the bust. But if he was willing to interpret any ambiguity in Hegseth's instructions in the direction of maximum war criminality, then he deserves to be maximally "scrutinized" and maximally punished. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
After Decades in Combat, a SEAL Suddenly Comes Under Scrutiny
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
There is something deeply wrong in the SEAL selection, training and development system that it keeps throwing out such flawed service members.
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It’s true. We shouldn’t pretend that. Trumpist culture is not the same as American culture and not equal. Trumpist culture is proudly ignorant, defiantly against America’s founding values and subsequently developed values, venomously bigoted, and generally despicable.
Fox News' Will Cain: "I’m sure there are very honorable law-abiding upstanding citizens and contributors from the Somali community here in the United States, BUT..."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
December 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
It’s true. We shouldn’t pretend that. Trumpist culture is not the same as American culture and not equal. Trumpist culture is proudly ignorant, defiantly against America’s founding values and subsequently developed values, venomously bigoted, and generally despicable.
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People still default too often to the fact that Trumps base won’t care about one revelation or another. But as elections keep showing us, the universe of people other than his base is much bigger and we do care. So exposing shit does matter and it’s worth sharing those things so others oppose him.
November 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
People still default too often to the fact that Trumps base won’t care about one revelation or another. But as elections keep showing us, the universe of people other than his base is much bigger and we do care. So exposing shit does matter and it’s worth sharing those things so others oppose him.