K Cooney
@kc2z.bsky.social
Parent, software engineering leader (ex-Google, ex-Verily, ex-eBay), West Coast Swing dancer, mentor, somewhat consistent meditator (zen, kaizen, gPause).
April 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Reposted by K Cooney
They’ll never accept it, but everyone who cast a vote for Donald Trump did real, generations-long damage to the United States and the west in exchange for essentially nothing of value.
Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."
March 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
They’ll never accept it, but everyone who cast a vote for Donald Trump did real, generations-long damage to the United States and the west in exchange for essentially nothing of value.
The decree [to rename the Gulf of Mexico] and its enforcement were indeed sinister—an effort to bend reality to one man’s whim. But they were also pathetic, a revelation of inner weakness, not national strength.
The ‘Gulf of America’ Is an Admission of Defeat
Trump’s renaming of the Gulf of Mexico is not triumphant but pathetic.
www.theatlantic.com
February 14, 2025 at 5:37 AM
The decree [to rename the Gulf of Mexico] and its enforcement were indeed sinister—an effort to bend reality to one man’s whim. But they were also pathetic, a revelation of inner weakness, not national strength.
"Clearly, there is no hope of good-faith negotiation with Trump, or with Johnson... Let them pass a 2025 spending bill on their own... enact Trump’s entire agenda on their own. They have the votes. Democrats ought not give them a single one."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
February 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
"Clearly, there is no hope of good-faith negotiation with Trump, or with Johnson... Let them pass a 2025 spending bill on their own... enact Trump’s entire agenda on their own. They have the votes. Democrats ought not give them a single one."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...