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jeremystahl.bsky.social
Fun one from today that nobody seems to be clocking amidst all the more substantive chaos. The White House comms department is now declaring that Trump can now "sign [an] executive order into law" without a bill passing Congress. Have never seen this language from a prior White House.
February 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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snowden.st
Gonna make this an ongoing thread for cataloguing purposes. Roughly here, the three factions would fall into White Supremacists, Thiel Boys, and Wildcat Oil Christianity in the OMB (Vought is a Wheaton kid)
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Feb 1
There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.
February 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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crampell.bsky.social
Any news outlet reporting Mexico conceded anything to Trump to get him to delay tariffs has not done its homework.
Trump boasts he got Mexico to commit to stationing 10K troops at our border. Apparently he didn't realize Mexico already has 15K troops deployed there
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February 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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crampell.bsky.social
It seems like the trick to negotiating with Trump is to realize he doesn’t have any idea what the current facts are.
"Oh you want 10,000 troops?" says world leader who already deployed 15K. "Great 10k it is"
February 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.
X post: Elon Musk @elonmusk We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could gone to some great parties. Did that instead. U.S. policy was to help bring an end to apartheid and establish a nonracial, democratic government. In response to this policy and the Act, USAID/South Africa was responsible for financing projects that apartheid victims viewed as critical in promoting social, political, and economic change through peaceful means. The mission enabled community consultation and ensured that the United States did not impose foreign-defined solutions to local problems. USAID created projects and activities to respond to the priorities of the black community and its leaders, maximized black participation and leadership, and ensured activities had a linkage to the general objectives of U.S. policy. First-year funding for the program was $25 million, which was raised to $50 million the second year. The main project areas were community outreach and leadership development to redress the repression of black-led institutions; educational support and training to address the educational crisis in South Africa; black private enterprise development to combat the inhibiting effects of apartheid–induced discrimination in private enterprise; university grants to help create a new generation of economic and political leaders; human rights; legal assistance; labor union training; and health and nutrition
February 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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rincewind.run
Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!
Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no.
February 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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rincewind.run
“does Elon Musk personally think you should get paid” is, apparently, how the entire federal budget works now

we don’t really have a government anymore, the coup worked and the media is so broken that they can’t even tell us it’s happened
bubbaprog.xyz Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · Feb 2
Lutheran Social Services is one of the largest employers in South Dakota, operating senior living facilities across the state. Republicans are shutting it down

Perhaps more concerning is Mike Flynn, known foreign asset, having access to this data?
Musk saying he’s shutting down illegal money launderers and it’s Lutheran Social Services
February 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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cara.city
🚄🚄🚄 CHOO CHOO MOTHERFUCKER 🚈🚈🚈
samd.bsky.social Sam @samd.bsky.social · Jan 15
kinda funny that all it took to defeat traffic in the most crowded city in the country was only a simple $9 congestion relief zone
Elon Musk @elonmusk Follow Defeating traffic is the ultimate boss battle. Even the most powerful humans in the world cannot defeat traffic. 9:06 AM • Mar 6, 2022
January 15, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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missionlocal.org
The California Academy of Sciences this year abruptly ended a climate action youth program after its teenage members expressed solidarity w/the museum's union.

Cal Academy fired their staff coordinator, & told the teens to stop coming in.

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Cal Academy of Sciences cuts youth program after teens show solidarity with union
The Cal Academy of Sciences dissolved a youth group for climate change after teens supported the museum workers' union with flyers.
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November 21, 2024 at 9:51 PM