justcheckin.bsky.social
@justcheckin.bsky.social
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one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
March 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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In a perfect world, you don’t put the guy who got away with stealing our national security secrets back in the office where he’ll get unfettered access to our national security secrets.

Me and my pesky high standards.
November 25, 2024 at 9:48 PM
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This needs to be said, loud, and often.
November 25, 2024 at 5:20 PM
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Last time around, Canada targeted some weirdly-specific products made in (then-Speaker) Paul Ryan's district in order to inflict maximum pain. Pickles and lawnmowers were on the list, if I recall.

So what is made in Mike Johnson and John Thune's neck of the woods?
November 26, 2024 at 3:11 AM
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Tfw you forget you’re the one who signed the USMCA (oops!)

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Trump promises a 25% tariff on products from Mexico, Canada
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Monday he would sign an executive order imposing a 25% tariff on all products coming in to the United States from Mexico and Canada.
www.reuters.com
November 26, 2024 at 12:18 AM
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So, in this country, if you’re charged with illegally interfering with a presidential election, the way to have all charges dropped is to win a presidential election?

Got it.
November 25, 2024 at 7:28 PM
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If corporations are people, as our corrupt Supreme Court has decided, they should pay taxes at the same rate REAL people do.

You want reform? Start right there.
November 25, 2024 at 10:47 PM
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IN 1956 NIKITA KHRUSCHEV
SAID

"We do not have to invade the USA we will destroy you from within"
November 24, 2024 at 8:25 PM
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Still true…
November 24, 2024 at 10:04 PM
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A government run by billionaires will never be for the people.
November 23, 2024 at 2:44 PM
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It’s really something to watch the Party whose supporters poop on the floor in the Capitol and wipe their feces on the wall tell us which bathrooms to use.
November 20, 2024 at 6:31 PM
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#Xodus: Bluesky Hits 20M Users as People Continue to Flee X
Bluesky is currently adding nearly one million users per day.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
#Xodus: Bluesky Hits 20M Users as People Continue to Flee X
Bluesky is currently adding nearly one million users per day.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 19, 2024 at 6:05 PM
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Trump's first step to "protect women" is to appoint a child sex trafficker and pedophile to run the department that enforces the laws protecting women.
November 19, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Where's Vance?
November 18, 2024 at 4:44 PM