@devouringdavid.bsky.social
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It's baffling to me because, to me, the absolute best part of becoming very very rich would be never having to care what anyone else thinks of you ever again! But the social instinct to Impress The Older Boys is very strong in the former-nerd rich kid demographic our billionaire class is drawn from
I think "scared the boys will judge" explains so much shitty rich man behavior
February 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
It's baffling to me because, to me, the absolute best part of becoming very very rich would be never having to care what anyone else thinks of you ever again! But the social instinct to Impress The Older Boys is very strong in the former-nerd rich kid demographic our billionaire class is drawn from
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There it is. Good.
Jeffries: "Let me be clear -- House Democrats will not provide a single vote to this reckless Republican budget. Not one. Not one."
February 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
There it is. Good.
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"There's so much fraud, waste, and abuse."
"Can you give us an example?"
"Oh ho ... trust us, there's so much fraud, waste and abuse, you wouldn't believe it."
"Try me! Just one."
"Sorry, there's too much fraud, waste, and abuse. I can't pick out just one instance of fraud, waste, and abuse."
"Can you give us an example?"
"Oh ho ... trust us, there's so much fraud, waste and abuse, you wouldn't believe it."
"Try me! Just one."
"Sorry, there's too much fraud, waste, and abuse. I can't pick out just one instance of fraud, waste, and abuse."
REPORTER: Can you say unequivocally that down the line, there won't be cuts to Medicaid programs?
MIKE JOHNSON: Medicaid is hugely problematic because it has a lot of fraud, waste, and abuse.
MIKE JOHNSON: Medicaid is hugely problematic because it has a lot of fraud, waste, and abuse.
February 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
"There's so much fraud, waste, and abuse."
"Can you give us an example?"
"Oh ho ... trust us, there's so much fraud, waste and abuse, you wouldn't believe it."
"Try me! Just one."
"Sorry, there's too much fraud, waste, and abuse. I can't pick out just one instance of fraud, waste, and abuse."
"Can you give us an example?"
"Oh ho ... trust us, there's so much fraud, waste and abuse, you wouldn't believe it."
"Try me! Just one."
"Sorry, there's too much fraud, waste, and abuse. I can't pick out just one instance of fraud, waste, and abuse."
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Jeffries: "Let me be clear -- House Democrats will not provide a single vote to this reckless Republican budget. Not one. Not one."
February 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Jeffries: "Let me be clear -- House Democrats will not provide a single vote to this reckless Republican budget. Not one. Not one."
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You know what type of people a $5 million "Gold Card" for US citizenship will attract? Successful criminals and state-sponsored spies.
Well done, Donald, after years of accusing Democrats of using immigration to bring unsavory people to the US, you prove that you were, once again, just projecting.
Well done, Donald, after years of accusing Democrats of using immigration to bring unsavory people to the US, you prove that you were, once again, just projecting.
February 26, 2025 at 1:31 AM
You know what type of people a $5 million "Gold Card" for US citizenship will attract? Successful criminals and state-sponsored spies.
Well done, Donald, after years of accusing Democrats of using immigration to bring unsavory people to the US, you prove that you were, once again, just projecting.
Well done, Donald, after years of accusing Democrats of using immigration to bring unsavory people to the US, you prove that you were, once again, just projecting.
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Pritzker: "We're talking about the death of a constitutional republic. That's what happened in Germany in 1933, 1934. And we're seeing today that we've got an administration in Washington that's ignoring court orders."
February 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Pritzker: "We're talking about the death of a constitutional republic. That's what happened in Germany in 1933, 1934. And we're seeing today that we've got an administration in Washington that's ignoring court orders."
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NEW: Google used to warn you when you were seeing low-quality search results. Then, in the weeks leading up to the 2024 election, the company quietly turned that warning off www.platformer.news/google-data-...
February 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
NEW: Google used to warn you when you were seeing low-quality search results. Then, in the weeks leading up to the 2024 election, the company quietly turned that warning off www.platformer.news/google-data-...
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Here is your daily required* reading of me blithering on assorted topics
*not really required
*not really required
Former UCLA, NFL punter arrested at Huntington Beach City Council meeting
Chris Kluwe arrested at Huntington Beach City Council meeting
spectrumnews1.com
February 25, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Here is your daily required* reading of me blithering on assorted topics
*not really required
*not really required
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"We all know it intuitively." COME ON.
REPORTER: Can you say unequivocally that down the line, there won't be cuts to Medicaid programs?
MIKE JOHNSON: Medicaid is hugely problematic because it has a lot of fraud, waste, and abuse.
MIKE JOHNSON: Medicaid is hugely problematic because it has a lot of fraud, waste, and abuse.
February 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"We all know it intuitively." COME ON.
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I wrote a bit about this yesterday for Wonkette, because it's driving me nuts. If there's so much gov't fraud - not just Medicaid, but everywhere - it should be trivially easy to give examples. Instead they just keep repeating this as if saying it will make it true.
bsky.app/profile/kevi...
bsky.app/profile/kevi...
"There's so much fraud, waste, and abuse."
"Can you give us an example?"
"Oh ho ... trust us, there's so much fraud, waste and abuse, you wouldn't believe it."
"Try me! Just one."
"Sorry, there's too much fraud, waste, and abuse. I can't pick out just one instance of fraud, waste, and abuse."
"Can you give us an example?"
"Oh ho ... trust us, there's so much fraud, waste and abuse, you wouldn't believe it."
"Try me! Just one."
"Sorry, there's too much fraud, waste, and abuse. I can't pick out just one instance of fraud, waste, and abuse."
REPORTER: Can you say unequivocally that down the line, there won't be cuts to Medicaid programs?
MIKE JOHNSON: Medicaid is hugely problematic because it has a lot of fraud, waste, and abuse.
MIKE JOHNSON: Medicaid is hugely problematic because it has a lot of fraud, waste, and abuse.
February 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I wrote a bit about this yesterday for Wonkette, because it's driving me nuts. If there's so much gov't fraud - not just Medicaid, but everywhere - it should be trivially easy to give examples. Instead they just keep repeating this as if saying it will make it true.
bsky.app/profile/kevi...
bsky.app/profile/kevi...
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It's wild that one of the things that was intended to radicalize people towards the right was years of reporting on a manufactured shoplifting epidemic only for us to be where we are now, witnessing the biggest and most materially deadly smash and grab in US history.
February 26, 2025 at 2:58 AM
It's wild that one of the things that was intended to radicalize people towards the right was years of reporting on a manufactured shoplifting epidemic only for us to be where we are now, witnessing the biggest and most materially deadly smash and grab in US history.
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When Musk’s role in govt or in FAA oversight was under consideration, perhaps it was fair to say “raising concerns about conflicts.” When he announced SpaceX would redesign the ATC system, that was at least a clear conflict. Now they’re buying SpaceX products to do it, it is just plain corruption.
The FAA has agreed to use SpaceX's Starlink internet system to upgrade the IT networks it uses to manage US airspace, raising new concerns about conflicts of interest for CEO Elon Musk in one of his other roles, that of recommending funding cuts at federal agencies, including the FAA. cnn.it/436qirE
February 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
When Musk’s role in govt or in FAA oversight was under consideration, perhaps it was fair to say “raising concerns about conflicts.” When he announced SpaceX would redesign the ATC system, that was at least a clear conflict. Now they’re buying SpaceX products to do it, it is just plain corruption.
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Imagine being on vacay in Mexico and getting a call informing you that while you were out of town your asshole bosses wrote your name in as the head of their Doing Crimes Department.
February 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Imagine being on vacay in Mexico and getting a call informing you that while you were out of town your asshole bosses wrote your name in as the head of their Doing Crimes Department.
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Pretty much every DOGE employee and Trump cabinet member has committed worse crimes than just about anyone currently incarcerated.
Justice Department tells judges it can't comply with court-ordered deadline to release frozen aid funding
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Justice Department tells judges it can't comply with court-ordered deadline to release frozen aid funding
In court filings, the DOJ contends it will take "weeks" to free the funding that a federal judge ordered to be released almost two weeks ago.
www.nbcnews.com
February 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Pretty much every DOGE employee and Trump cabinet member has committed worse crimes than just about anyone currently incarcerated.
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The deranged DOGE rats have fired Yosemite National Park’s *locksmith*.
www.instagram.com/p/DGLxMKbyKw...
www.instagram.com/p/DGLxMKbyKw...
![I need to immediately move out of housing, I have lost my career and I have NO PLAN. This was my dream! All of my eggs were in this basket and I planned to stay till retirement. I had an appointment to meet a realtor today, but canceled, everything has been flipped upside down. I'm scared I?????????????????????!!!!!!??????????????????] I was terminated at 1:15pm 2/14/2025 via email.
Yosemite National Park the size of Rhode Island and has more locks than a small city, and without a locksmith I'm deeply concerned for the safety and security of the park and people in it. This is not right!
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@nytimes @nationalparkservice @yosemitenps @outsidemagazine @nationalparkfoundation @natgeo @sfchronicle @meidastouch @washingtonpost #iwantmyjobback #iloveyosemite #nps #unemployed](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qiknc4t5rq7yngvz7g4aezq7/bafkreier6lr53jmooiuybpux7w4a3asmwb4lmtvouugyekszf4s66ri2yu@jpeg)
February 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
The deranged DOGE rats have fired Yosemite National Park’s *locksmith*.
www.instagram.com/p/DGLxMKbyKw...
www.instagram.com/p/DGLxMKbyKw...
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Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy
February 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy
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Secretary of Defense Hegseth says he doesn’t know if Russia invaded Ukraine.
This you?
This you?
February 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Secretary of Defense Hegseth says he doesn’t know if Russia invaded Ukraine.
This you?
This you?
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The language, as described, is superfluous. It is already constitutional and federal statutory law that the administration must spend the money that Congress appropriates. Congress’s power of the purse fundamental to our system of government. And yet, it’s a red line for Republicans to include it.
NEW: Trump and Musk's slash-and-burn tactics to remake the government have become the key sticking point in talks to prevent a shutdown
Dems are demanding language to make admin spend Congress-directed money.
Republicans say that’s a red line.
Deadline: March 14
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Dems are demanding language to make admin spend Congress-directed money.
Republicans say that’s a red line.
Deadline: March 14
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Trump and Musk's slash-and-burn tactics are a sticking point in talks to prevent a shutdown
Sen. Patty Murray, the top Democratic appropriator, urged Republicans to help stop Trump from usurping Congress’ spending powers and not to “follow Elon towards a shutdown.”
www.nbcnews.com
February 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The language, as described, is superfluous. It is already constitutional and federal statutory law that the administration must spend the money that Congress appropriates. Congress’s power of the purse fundamental to our system of government. And yet, it’s a red line for Republicans to include it.
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Finally.
A major media outlet has finally reported on Trump’s total travel ban for transgender visa applicants seeking the United States.
I had to scream for two days to get someone else to report on it.
It is NOT just for athletes.
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
A major media outlet has finally reported on Trump’s total travel ban for transgender visa applicants seeking the United States.
I had to scream for two days to get someone else to report on it.
It is NOT just for athletes.
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
State Department visa policy could bar trans people from traveling to U.S.
Violations could result in travel bans beyond just athletes
www.the-independent.com
February 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Finally.
A major media outlet has finally reported on Trump’s total travel ban for transgender visa applicants seeking the United States.
I had to scream for two days to get someone else to report on it.
It is NOT just for athletes.
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
A major media outlet has finally reported on Trump’s total travel ban for transgender visa applicants seeking the United States.
I had to scream for two days to get someone else to report on it.
It is NOT just for athletes.
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
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feel like one problem of Trump is that describing him objectively sounds like you're insulting him
February 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
feel like one problem of Trump is that describing him objectively sounds like you're insulting him
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I think about this a lot
February 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I think about this a lot
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I'm convinced this is a genuine problem. The reality of Trump is so cartoonishly, comically awful that an absolutely neutral description sounds like a hit piece, even to me. So if you're at all predisposed to think of press as biased, factual reporting looks like some relentless vendetta.
feel like one problem of Trump is that describing him objectively sounds like you're insulting him
February 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I'm convinced this is a genuine problem. The reality of Trump is so cartoonishly, comically awful that an absolutely neutral description sounds like a hit piece, even to me. So if you're at all predisposed to think of press as biased, factual reporting looks like some relentless vendetta.
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I'd wager a nontrivial cause of declining trust in press is precisely that people are accustomed to an era of politics where objective coverage generally sounded somewhat even-handed. And suddenly one party is constantly talked about like inept comic book supervillains.
February 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I'd wager a nontrivial cause of declining trust in press is precisely that people are accustomed to an era of politics where objective coverage generally sounded somewhat even-handed. And suddenly one party is constantly talked about like inept comic book supervillains.
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And this is, of course, because one party has been taken over by a buffoonish comic book supervillain. But because this seems incredible to people—surely the American public wouldn't elect someone THAT terrible—they instead decide press are getting more biased.
February 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
And this is, of course, because one party has been taken over by a buffoonish comic book supervillain. But because this seems incredible to people—surely the American public wouldn't elect someone THAT terrible—they instead decide press are getting more biased.