@john612.bsky.social
FBI: Man, woman drive to police station with Homeland Security agent trapped in vehicle www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
FBI: Man, woman drive to police station with Homeland Security agent trapped in vehicle
A man and a woman are facing charges of assaulting a federal officer after Homeland Security Investigations agents tried to arrest the man Wednesday for overstaying his student visa. The pair drove to...
www.mprnews.org
December 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
FBI: Man, woman drive to police station with Homeland Security agent trapped in vehicle www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Reposted
2010: My source of existential dread is climate change
2016: ... climate change! and fascism
2020: ... climate change!! and fascism and pandemics
2024: ... climate change!! and fascism!! and pandemics and AI
really not enjoying the direction this is going to be quite honest
2016: ... climate change! and fascism
2020: ... climate change!! and fascism and pandemics
2024: ... climate change!! and fascism!! and pandemics and AI
really not enjoying the direction this is going to be quite honest
June 7, 2025 at 12:48 PM
2010: My source of existential dread is climate change
2016: ... climate change! and fascism
2020: ... climate change!! and fascism and pandemics
2024: ... climate change!! and fascism!! and pandemics and AI
really not enjoying the direction this is going to be quite honest
2016: ... climate change! and fascism
2020: ... climate change!! and fascism and pandemics
2024: ... climate change!! and fascism!! and pandemics and AI
really not enjoying the direction this is going to be quite honest
Reposted
pulling a critique of the bell curve from a university library but not the bell curve is as concise a way i can think of to describe the goal of the speech discourse in the past 15 years
You’re allowed to argue that black people and women are genetically inferior. But you’re NOT allowed to argue they are NOT inferior because that’s divisive. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
May 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
pulling a critique of the bell curve from a university library but not the bell curve is as concise a way i can think of to describe the goal of the speech discourse in the past 15 years
Reposted
The base commander will likely be fired for it, but it highlights the tension between our military's appreciation of our reliance on allies and the Trump administration's squandering on the goodwill our military generates. www.military.com/daily-news/2...
Space Force Commander in Greenland Sent Out Email Breaking with Vance After His Visit
The emailed remarks, confirmed as accurate to Military.com by the Space Force, mark a rare pushback within the ranks of the Trump administration's repeated criticism and critiques of NATO members and ...
www.military.com
April 11, 2025 at 3:40 AM
The base commander will likely be fired for it, but it highlights the tension between our military's appreciation of our reliance on allies and the Trump administration's squandering on the goodwill our military generates. www.military.com/daily-news/2...
Reposted
And people still think we’re having the World Cup here next year, and the Olympics in 2028.😳 There’s no way.
April 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
And people still think we’re having the World Cup here next year, and the Olympics in 2028.😳 There’s no way.
Reposted
never in history has the stock market rallied so hard because the president said he was going to reverse his own policy decision
April 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
never in history has the stock market rallied so hard because the president said he was going to reverse his own policy decision
Reposted
At face value, this would appear to be most serious potential compromise of US national interest, for private gain, on record.
Any clearer example? Actual question.
(To spell out the conflict: Musk's private businesses depend *crucially* on (a) connections/good will in China (b) same inside DOD)
Any clearer example? Actual question.
(To spell out the conflict: Musk's private businesses depend *crucially* on (a) connections/good will in China (b) same inside DOD)
March 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
At face value, this would appear to be most serious potential compromise of US national interest, for private gain, on record.
Any clearer example? Actual question.
(To spell out the conflict: Musk's private businesses depend *crucially* on (a) connections/good will in China (b) same inside DOD)
Any clearer example? Actual question.
(To spell out the conflict: Musk's private businesses depend *crucially* on (a) connections/good will in China (b) same inside DOD)
Again, elon shows math is hard!
I'm not a rocket scientist, but then neither is he.
I'm not a rocket scientist, but then neither is he.
Two-thirds vote to convict. 100 Senators. 60 is not two-thirds.
March 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Again, elon shows math is hard!
I'm not a rocket scientist, but then neither is he.
I'm not a rocket scientist, but then neither is he.
Reposted
"Well, you see, Your Honor, when we said they were all 'criminals' we meant that to be taken seriously but not literally."
1/ Quite the admission in a government Declaration submitted late last night in the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) case:
"It is true that many of the TdA members removed under the AEA do not have criminal records in the United States."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"It is true that many of the TdA members removed under the AEA do not have criminal records in the United States."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
March 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
"Well, you see, Your Honor, when we said they were all 'criminals' we meant that to be taken seriously but not literally."
Reposted
Trump (idiotically) objects to maps w "artificial lines drawn through them."
Bad news for 49 US states plus DC. All except Hawaii (plus other islands) have straight-lines as some part of their border.
And spare a thought for Colorado and Wyoming!
Bonus: would you hire someone who said this?
Bad news for 49 US states plus DC. All except Hawaii (plus other islands) have straight-lines as some part of their border.
And spare a thought for Colorado and Wyoming!
Bonus: would you hire someone who said this?
March 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Trump (idiotically) objects to maps w "artificial lines drawn through them."
Bad news for 49 US states plus DC. All except Hawaii (plus other islands) have straight-lines as some part of their border.
And spare a thought for Colorado and Wyoming!
Bonus: would you hire someone who said this?
Bad news for 49 US states plus DC. All except Hawaii (plus other islands) have straight-lines as some part of their border.
And spare a thought for Colorado and Wyoming!
Bonus: would you hire someone who said this?
Reposted
The essence of Trumpism is inventing an imagined world in which everything is worse.
Sen. Bernie Moreno: "We have to remember that if Kamala Harris had won on November 5, the stock market would be down 50 percent ... this country would be on a path to ruin. What President Trump inherited is a disaster from Biden."
March 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The essence of Trumpism is inventing an imagined world in which everything is worse.
Reposted
The funniest thing about all this is Joe Biden built a "bring back US manufacturing" button and Trump could have just kept pressing it but instead he insisted on smashing the "crash the stock market" button
March 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
The funniest thing about all this is Joe Biden built a "bring back US manufacturing" button and Trump could have just kept pressing it but instead he insisted on smashing the "crash the stock market" button
Reposted
Can’t even keep his hellscape of a social platform online… yet Republicans trust him with the keys to all of our data?
X Briefly Down for Second Time as Thousands of Users Report Outage on Elon Musk’s Social Media Platform
On Monday morning, Elon Musk's social media platform X reportedly went down for thousands of users
variety.com
March 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Can’t even keep his hellscape of a social platform online… yet Republicans trust him with the keys to all of our data?
Reposted
They could have just voted for Harris and given the money to charity and taken the tax deduction 🤷♀️
March 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
They could have just voted for Harris and given the money to charity and taken the tax deduction 🤷♀️
Reposted
So Musk’s people, who misread $8 million as $8 billion, who counted the same contracts multiple times and counted as savings programs that ended last year, claim that their AI is finding lots of Social Security fraud.
Why should anyone worry?
Why should anyone worry?
March 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
So Musk’s people, who misread $8 million as $8 billion, who counted the same contracts multiple times and counted as savings programs that ended last year, claim that their AI is finding lots of Social Security fraud.
Why should anyone worry?
Why should anyone worry?
Reposted
Doesn't it seem like this is actually a search for blackmail material against their enemies? In fact, this search for "fraud" looks more and more like a massive extortion racket.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
DOGE presses to check federal benefits payments against IRS tax records
Officials with Elon Musk’s group say they want to search for fraud. Privacy law bars the IRS from disclosing tax information to other parts of the government.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 2, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Doesn't it seem like this is actually a search for blackmail material against their enemies? In fact, this search for "fraud" looks more and more like a massive extortion racket.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Reposted
One neat thing about all this is Trump got really mad when people would accuse him during his first term of secretly trying to do a quid pro quo with Zelensky and now this term he’s just openly telling everyone who will listen: I’m doing a quid pro quo, I want my minerals
March 2, 2025 at 3:40 AM
One neat thing about all this is Trump got really mad when people would accuse him during his first term of secretly trying to do a quid pro quo with Zelensky and now this term he’s just openly telling everyone who will listen: I’m doing a quid pro quo, I want my minerals
Reposted
NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky
It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...
kyivindependent.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
Reposted
Reposted
In any other era, the Secretary of Defense threatening to invade an ally and one of our largest trade partners would be front page news for days.
It’s not even the stupidest, most reckless thing this administration has done this afternoon.
apple.news/AG-YEzrFtQlG...
It’s not even the stupidest, most reckless thing this administration has done this afternoon.
apple.news/AG-YEzrFtQlG...
Hegseth Warned of Military Action if Mexico Fails to Meet Trump’s Border Demands — The Wall Street Journal
The defense secretary’s told Mexican security officials the U.S. was ready to take unilateral action against drug cartels
apple.news
February 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
In any other era, the Secretary of Defense threatening to invade an ally and one of our largest trade partners would be front page news for days.
It’s not even the stupidest, most reckless thing this administration has done this afternoon.
apple.news/AG-YEzrFtQlG...
It’s not even the stupidest, most reckless thing this administration has done this afternoon.
apple.news/AG-YEzrFtQlG...
Reposted
I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner
February 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner
Reposted
Feds: if directed by your agency heads to reply, respond with this:
Bullet 1:
I supported and defended the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;
Bullet 2:
I bore true faith and allegiance to the same
Bullet 1:
I supported and defended the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;
Bullet 2:
I bore true faith and allegiance to the same
February 23, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Feds: if directed by your agency heads to reply, respond with this:
Bullet 1:
I supported and defended the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;
Bullet 2:
I bore true faith and allegiance to the same
Bullet 1:
I supported and defended the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;
Bullet 2:
I bore true faith and allegiance to the same
Reposted
This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick.
February 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick.