Ned Ludd Appreciator
@cyclismo37.bsky.social
Cyclist. Irritated. Queer.
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JD Vance is such an erudite theologian he lets Hitler Simpson handle the low-stakes stuff for him
February 12, 2025 at 11:55 PM
JD Vance is such an erudite theologian he lets Hitler Simpson handle the low-stakes stuff for him
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God fucking help us if everyone finds out that money doesn't even exist and is just a bunch of numbers in a database. And the only ones with any actual control are no longer by-the-book accountants but morally bankrupt villains who don't believe in laws.
February 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
God fucking help us if everyone finds out that money doesn't even exist and is just a bunch of numbers in a database. And the only ones with any actual control are no longer by-the-book accountants but morally bankrupt villains who don't believe in laws.
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This is literally all of Medicaid btw
BREAKING: House Republicans have released their budget resolution. They are aiming to cut Medicaid by at least $880 billion, and cut SNAP by at least 20%.
February 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This is literally all of Medicaid btw
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Given developments at the Kennedy Center, effective today I am resigning as artistic advisor to the NSO.
Not for me.
It’s been a wonderful 8 years working with Kennedy Center President Deb Rutter, fellow artistic advisor Renee Fleming, NSO artistic administrator Justin Ellis, and the entire NSO
Not for me.
It’s been a wonderful 8 years working with Kennedy Center President Deb Rutter, fellow artistic advisor Renee Fleming, NSO artistic administrator Justin Ellis, and the entire NSO
February 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Given developments at the Kennedy Center, effective today I am resigning as artistic advisor to the NSO.
Not for me.
It’s been a wonderful 8 years working with Kennedy Center President Deb Rutter, fellow artistic advisor Renee Fleming, NSO artistic administrator Justin Ellis, and the entire NSO
Not for me.
It’s been a wonderful 8 years working with Kennedy Center President Deb Rutter, fellow artistic advisor Renee Fleming, NSO artistic administrator Justin Ellis, and the entire NSO
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All the Russiagate stuff was basically true and Trump just fired the investigators and successfully covered it up
So far in the last 24 hours, Russia's gotten:
- a sympathetic ear/voice installed as DNI
- the release of a crime boss
- Hegseth ceding Crimea to them
- Trump offering a WH visit
- The US acting as middleman rather than Ukraine ally
- a sympathetic ear/voice installed as DNI
- the release of a crime boss
- Hegseth ceding Crimea to them
- Trump offering a WH visit
- The US acting as middleman rather than Ukraine ally
February 12, 2025 at 6:17 PM
All the Russiagate stuff was basically true and Trump just fired the investigators and successfully covered it up
Cleave! Cleave, you bastards, cleave!
February 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Cleave! Cleave, you bastards, cleave!
“Threatened” = “Women laugh at me”
This car looks like if Bumblebee from Transformers undertook a reckless, self-directed anabolic steroid regimen and started watching nine hours of YouTube per day. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...
Tesla Cybertruck owner in Massachusetts says he's been threatened and harassed
A Tesla owner in Massachusetts says he's been threatened because he drives a Cybertruck made by Elon Musk's company.
www.cbsnews.com
February 12, 2025 at 8:49 PM
“Threatened” = “Women laugh at me”
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In general it is always funny when people go “the government is LYING to you about the economic data, here’s the TRUTH they don’t want you to know about” and then link to a different government dataset
February 12, 2025 at 8:21 PM
In general it is always funny when people go “the government is LYING to you about the economic data, here’s the TRUTH they don’t want you to know about” and then link to a different government dataset
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One thing I find interesting is the way people seem to think people like Musk or Trump being psychopaths/narcissists means they don't genuinely believe their white nationalist/neo-Nazis ideologies.
I'd say the opposite: nothing aligns better with narcissism than an inherently narcissistic ideology.
I'd say the opposite: nothing aligns better with narcissism than an inherently narcissistic ideology.
February 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
One thing I find interesting is the way people seem to think people like Musk or Trump being psychopaths/narcissists means they don't genuinely believe their white nationalist/neo-Nazis ideologies.
I'd say the opposite: nothing aligns better with narcissism than an inherently narcissistic ideology.
I'd say the opposite: nothing aligns better with narcissism than an inherently narcissistic ideology.
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i think it's cool that the president is functionally a drug-addled billionaire nazi
Musk power grab: the EO Trump signed today puts Musk's DOGE mostly in charge of developing massive downsizing plans for federal agencies, and explicitly gives DOGE approval authority over "all" hiring into career civil service positions
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Implementing The President's "Department of Government Efficiency" Workforce Optimization Initiative
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
February 12, 2025 at 2:15 AM
i think it's cool that the president is functionally a drug-addled billionaire nazi
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Lord knows I’m not a constitutional scholar not even a lawyer (and I’ve yet to check in with @kateshaw.bsky.social) but a legal regime in which “you can do crimes if you’re buddies with the president or praise him publicly” is *on its face* a violation the equal protection of the laws.
February 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Lord knows I’m not a constitutional scholar not even a lawyer (and I’ve yet to check in with @kateshaw.bsky.social) but a legal regime in which “you can do crimes if you’re buddies with the president or praise him publicly” is *on its face* a violation the equal protection of the laws.
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Wikipedia's "Your teacher tells you not to cite it because you can't trust it" to "The last remaining bastion of consistently good information on the internet" arc remains unbeaten.
February 12, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Wikipedia's "Your teacher tells you not to cite it because you can't trust it" to "The last remaining bastion of consistently good information on the internet" arc remains unbeaten.
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Simple as this. foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/11/d...
DOGE Is Hacking America
The U.S. government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history.
foreignpolicy.com
February 12, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Simple as this. foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/11/d...
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i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.
i mean, the president's executive order isn't a goddamn law! as far as this doctor is concerned, who cares what the president says!
A New York City doctor said he will continue providing gender-affirming treatments to his patients younger than 19 despite President Donald Trump’s executive order aiming to ban such care.
February 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.
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like, this isn't cocaine high, that teeth grit, neck twitch thing he does is classic amphetamine/methamphetamine shit
February 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
like, this isn't cocaine high, that teeth grit, neck twitch thing he does is classic amphetamine/methamphetamine shit
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The greatest super power the globe has ever known is going implement austerity so a bunch of rich bros can cash out and shoot its military in the foot bc some dudes thought women and queer folks weren’t macho enough.
This is isn’t even a noble collapse. We’re doing Britain, 2008-present
This is isn’t even a noble collapse. We’re doing Britain, 2008-present
During WW2 the US army needed over 750,000 typewriters to keep things functioning across all theatres.
The need was so great they requisitioned civilian typewriters and created a national shortage. Typewriter repair units were seen as critical army personel.
I'll do a thread on it at some point.
The need was so great they requisitioned civilian typewriters and created a national shortage. Typewriter repair units were seen as critical army personel.
I'll do a thread on it at some point.
Bureaucracy, famously not important in war
February 12, 2025 at 12:34 AM
The greatest super power the globe has ever known is going implement austerity so a bunch of rich bros can cash out and shoot its military in the foot bc some dudes thought women and queer folks weren’t macho enough.
This is isn’t even a noble collapse. We’re doing Britain, 2008-present
This is isn’t even a noble collapse. We’re doing Britain, 2008-present
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One of Musk's defining qualities is that he is a conspiracy theorist when it comes to government. He will see some ambiguous information or be presented with an easily debunked tale and he immediately believes the worst.
February 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
One of Musk's defining qualities is that he is a conspiracy theorist when it comes to government. He will see some ambiguous information or be presented with an easily debunked tale and he immediately believes the worst.
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All this. Dirtbag left overgrown adolescents condescending to "shitlibs" and "wine moms" can fuck themselves all over. They're the ones who are leading.
www.facebook.com/share/v/1BHT...
www.facebook.com/share/v/1BHT...
Redirecting...
www.facebook.com
February 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
All this. Dirtbag left overgrown adolescents condescending to "shitlibs" and "wine moms" can fuck themselves all over. They're the ones who are leading.
www.facebook.com/share/v/1BHT...
www.facebook.com/share/v/1BHT...
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look, i am not qualified for, frankly, much, but i am absolutely well qualified to tell you that this is a man is who under the influence of a staggering amount of amphetamines
Asked to respond to people who say he's orchestrating a hostile takeover of government, Elon Musk lies that "a majority of the public voted for President Trump"
February 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
look, i am not qualified for, frankly, much, but i am absolutely well qualified to tell you that this is a man is who under the influence of a staggering amount of amphetamines
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my view is that as soon as the administration froze disbursement of congressional appropriations we entered constitutional crisis territory
February 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
my view is that as soon as the administration froze disbursement of congressional appropriations we entered constitutional crisis territory
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I think it's worth repeating plainly that a federal judge halted Musk's federal funding freeze nearly two weeks ago but funds are still very much being frozen in violation of the court order.
February 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I think it's worth repeating plainly that a federal judge halted Musk's federal funding freeze nearly two weeks ago but funds are still very much being frozen in violation of the court order.
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complain about jefferies, sure, primary him, i don't care, but hochul's the one with agency she refuses to use
Earlier today, Gov. Hochul was asked whether she's considering using her power to remove Eric Adams as mayor.
" That does not feel like something that's very democratic," she said. "That's why I'm not going to go there."
" That does not feel like something that's very democratic," she said. "That's why I'm not going to go there."
February 11, 2025 at 8:52 PM
complain about jefferies, sure, primary him, i don't care, but hochul's the one with agency she refuses to use
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Bumping the only good idea I've had about what should be done about All This so far
free hint to blue state govs: automatically offer jobs in your own state's security services to the various cops, prosecutors and armed forces members that trump is unfairly drumming out. you will need people with guns who hate trump for what is coming next, and... there they are
February 5, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Bumping the only good idea I've had about what should be done about All This so far