@forphxsake.bsky.social
Uber driver in the Valley, ex-teacher, music listener and maker. Liking Bluesky after bailing on Twitter when it was only moderately infested with vile idiocy. Sex phishers and trolls blocked, reported, and advised to return to X.
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Within one hour of declaring an “Easter Ceasefire” Putin launched a drone strike - targeting a civilian building in Kherson.
Putin is not merely a liar - he is the embodiment of authority sustained through moral vacancy, where truth is ornamental and atrocity is policy.
Putin is not merely a liar - he is the embodiment of authority sustained through moral vacancy, where truth is ornamental and atrocity is policy.
April 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Within one hour of declaring an “Easter Ceasefire” Putin launched a drone strike - targeting a civilian building in Kherson.
Putin is not merely a liar - he is the embodiment of authority sustained through moral vacancy, where truth is ornamental and atrocity is policy.
Putin is not merely a liar - he is the embodiment of authority sustained through moral vacancy, where truth is ornamental and atrocity is policy.
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Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."
April 19, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Ain’t it funny that none of these companies that hire undocumented workers never get in trouble?
March 20, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Ain’t it funny that none of these companies that hire undocumented workers never get in trouble?
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Paul Weiss: "Fight for you? Oh, honey, we don't even fight for ourselves!"
March 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Paul Weiss: "Fight for you? Oh, honey, we don't even fight for ourselves!"
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Atul Gawande, who worked for U.S.A.I.D. during the last Administration, calls the agency “America at its best.” But with Donald Trump and Elon Musk, “there’s a different world view at play here,” he says. “Power is what matters, not impact.” Listen here.
Atul Gawande on Elon Musk’s “Surgery with a Chainsaw”
Gawande, until recently a senior leader at U.S.A.I.D., explains the agency’s importance to America and to the world, and what its undoing by DOGE will bring.
www.newyorker.com
March 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Atul Gawande, who worked for U.S.A.I.D. during the last Administration, calls the agency “America at its best.” But with Donald Trump and Elon Musk, “there’s a different world view at play here,” he says. “Power is what matters, not impact.” Listen here.
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“It’s just the beginning of the playbook. This was the soft target.” Atul Gawande, a former senior leader at U.S.A.I.D., talks about watching Donald Trump and Elon Musk make the agency a guinea pig for the government-wide purge now under way.
Hundreds of Thousands Will Die
The writer, surgeon, and former U.S.A.I.D. administrator Atul Gawande on the Trump Administration’s decimation of foreign aid and the consequences around the world.
www.newyorker.com
March 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
“It’s just the beginning of the playbook. This was the soft target.” Atul Gawande, a former senior leader at U.S.A.I.D., talks about watching Donald Trump and Elon Musk make the agency a guinea pig for the government-wide purge now under way.
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This is worth 2.5 minutes of your time. DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar unwittingly makes the case that they have nothing on Mahmoud Khalil.
And — perhaps wittingly — he leaves the impression that if they can come for Khalil they can come for *any* noncitizen who opens their mouth.
And — perhaps wittingly — he leaves the impression that if they can come for Khalil they can come for *any* noncitizen who opens their mouth.
In which the Department of Homeland Security struggles to answer a very simple question: "Is any criticism of the United States government a deportable offense?"
(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
March 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This is worth 2.5 minutes of your time. DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar unwittingly makes the case that they have nothing on Mahmoud Khalil.
And — perhaps wittingly — he leaves the impression that if they can come for Khalil they can come for *any* noncitizen who opens their mouth.
And — perhaps wittingly — he leaves the impression that if they can come for Khalil they can come for *any* noncitizen who opens their mouth.
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Goes to show that when people get riled up enough, somebody will always go to the point of damaging probably to make that point clear. I might feel sorry for the people who bought these over-priced fire bombs, but not for Tesla or the Muskrat.
March 13, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Goes to show that when people get riled up enough, somebody will always go to the point of damaging probably to make that point clear. I might feel sorry for the people who bought these over-priced fire bombs, but not for Tesla or the Muskrat.
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Some restrained thoughts on last night’s Presidential address to the joint session of Congress: ⬇️
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I CAN CERTAINLY THINK OF ONE GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL WHO IS NOT FIT TO HAVE A JOB AT THIS MOMENT, AND HE SPENT NEARLY TWO HOURS LAST NIGHT TOSSING BATSHIT RIGHT-WING NONSENSE TO HIS SLACK-JAWED BASE OF FOX NEWS CHUNDERFUCKS AND DEMONSTRATING EXACTLY WHY
Alina Habba on veterans who have been fired from government jobs: "Perhaps they're not fit to have a job at this moment."
March 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Some restrained thoughts on last night’s Presidential address to the joint session of Congress: ⬇️
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The only minority destroying America is the billionaires.
Here in Texas, a group of billionaires are trying to dismantle our public schools with a private school voucher scam.
If they want to close our schools, Texans have 4 words for them:
Come and Take It.
Here in Texas, a group of billionaires are trying to dismantle our public schools with a private school voucher scam.
If they want to close our schools, Texans have 4 words for them:
Come and Take It.
February 24, 2025 at 11:29 PM
The only minority destroying America is the billionaires.
Here in Texas, a group of billionaires are trying to dismantle our public schools with a private school voucher scam.
If they want to close our schools, Texans have 4 words for them:
Come and Take It.
Here in Texas, a group of billionaires are trying to dismantle our public schools with a private school voucher scam.
If they want to close our schools, Texans have 4 words for them:
Come and Take It.
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I love it. Germany knows a Nazi when they see one!
March 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I love it. Germany knows a Nazi when they see one!
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Trump loves parades.
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Can’t quite put my finger on it but I’m getting a feeling that they don’t really care for Trump or Elon in Germany….this was at the street carnival in Düsseldorf today 🤣
March 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Trump loves parades.
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I was there. My highlights:
March 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I was there. My highlights:
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Reporter: Do you still think Zelenskyy is a dictator?
Trump: Umm did I say that? I can’t believe I said that. Next question
Trump: Umm did I say that? I can’t believe I said that. Next question
February 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Reporter: Do you still think Zelenskyy is a dictator?
Trump: Umm did I say that? I can’t believe I said that. Next question
Trump: Umm did I say that? I can’t believe I said that. Next question
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"Trump Gaza" looks like Hell on Earth
February 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"Trump Gaza" looks like Hell on Earth
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Since we're renaming places ...
February 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Since we're renaming places ...
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Sad when France has to be the one to tell the U.S. to not surrender to tyrants.
February 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Sad when France has to be the one to tell the U.S. to not surrender to tyrants.
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PLEASE: Watch what happened in Coeur d'Alene Idaho today. This is fascism. Unmarked cops. 1A violations. RESIST.
February 24, 2025 at 3:26 AM
PLEASE: Watch what happened in Coeur d'Alene Idaho today. This is fascism. Unmarked cops. 1A violations. RESIST.
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The US government is now nonstop performative idiocracy.
February 23, 2025 at 3:06 AM
The US government is now nonstop performative idiocracy.
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Three times this week, Trump said that the US had given Ukraine “$350 billion,” about double the actual amount of US aid for the country. And he wrongly said the U.S. gave “$200 billion more than Europe.” Here are the actual numbers.
Robert Scott Horton
Robert Scott Horton
February 23, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Three times this week, Trump said that the US had given Ukraine “$350 billion,” about double the actual amount of US aid for the country. And he wrongly said the U.S. gave “$200 billion more than Europe.” Here are the actual numbers.
Robert Scott Horton
Robert Scott Horton
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If members of Congress—like Rep. Grothman —are this clueless about what the man who is dismantling our government is saying and promising, they don’t deserve to keep their jobs!
This woman is in his face, begging him to wake TF up—and he just walks off. Pathetic.
This woman is in his face, begging him to wake TF up—and he just walks off. Pathetic.
February 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
If members of Congress—like Rep. Grothman —are this clueless about what the man who is dismantling our government is saying and promising, they don’t deserve to keep their jobs!
This woman is in his face, begging him to wake TF up—and he just walks off. Pathetic.
This woman is in his face, begging him to wake TF up—and he just walks off. Pathetic.