markesmithbrown.bsky.social
@markesmithbrown.bsky.social
I'm me.
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February 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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The only remedy to the current government’s situation unfortunately is a bloody one. The don’t recognize existing laws.
February 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Gadamnit
February 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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If they demolish Medicare it will be catastrophic. Utterly vile, these people. It's almost as if they don't care if the elderly and disabled die.
February 6, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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February 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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February 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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February 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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WHO the fuck elected this moron? Oh yeah, the American voters. Still hold the title "dumbest electorate ever". Do better!
February 7, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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And that's the real problem. Large numbers of educated people too afraid to speak out about his lunacy. Seem to recall that history doesn't speak kindly of such people. How did it ever get to this in a supposedly strong democracy? Why don't the press confront Repubs & ask them to explain his words?
February 7, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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The man baby is hallucinating in public. Nobody will tell him the truth that he has jeopardized the summer crops in central California - not anywhere near the wildfires. In their lust for money and power; Nobody has the guts to tell him the truth. Disgusting.
February 7, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Stupidest president of all time
February 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Talk to the farmers that needed the water to grow the food Americans eat. Such a liar about everything
February 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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The Mad King has entered the chat
Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast: "The water comes down from the northwest parts of Canada, I guess, but the Pacific Northwest. And it comes down by millions and millions of barrels a day and uh, I opened it up. It wasn't that easy to do. But I opened it up and it's pouring down."
February 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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DOGE operative Marko Elez got the ability to alter US Treasury payment system code on Feb 1, WIRED's sources say.

For days, Trump officials fed members of Congress and the press a different story.

Elez is out now for posts reading "I was racist before it was cool" and "normalize Indian hate."
The US Treasury Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually Did
Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE's Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn't exist.
www.wired.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Something I’ve always wanted from the NYT, but that I can’t remember it ever doing, is for the newspaper to show some professional indignation about being grandiosely lied to.
February 7, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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DOGE "Fork in the Road" emails went out to federal judges, who have lifetime appointments www.newsweek.com/doge-emails-...
DOGE emails went out to federal judges by mistake
U.S. District Judge Randolph Daniel Moss said judges across the country received emails from Elon Musk's DOGE.
www.newsweek.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Trump’s tax agenda outlined by the White House today will add at least $5 trillion to the debt, potentially much more. Per new analysis by nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. www.crfb.org/blogs/trump-...
February 7, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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For what it’s worth, Democrats did refuse consent on Vought. They tried to filibuster him, forced Republicans to jump through hoops and used up all 30 hours of allowed debate time, with an all-nighter on the Senate floor, and all 47 Dems voted NO each time. That’s about all they can do procedurally.
What the hell happened to refusing any and all consent to any votes on anything?
Senate Republicans confirm Project 2025 co-author Russell Vought as White House budget director

Party line vote of 53-47

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
February 7, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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NEW: The US Treasury claimed DOGE's Marko Elez didn't have the ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending when he actually did. From @timmarchman.bsky.social @leahfeiger.bsky.social and me.

@wired.com

www.wired.com/story/treasu...
The US Treasury Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually Did
Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE's Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn't exist.
www.wired.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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I wish every D would read this @joshtpm.bsky.social piece. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/where...
February 6, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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If only experts existed who could warn Americans repeatedly that foreign aid is money spent to pay Americans and buy things from Americans but no one's ever said it out loud so who can blame people for not understanding
February 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Just last week someone told me Trump would never shut down USAID because it buys so much US grain and I said, "I wonder if he knows that"
If only experts existed who could warn Americans repeatedly that foreign aid is money spent to pay Americans and buy things from Americans but no one's ever said it out loud so who can blame people for not understanding
U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans purchased as food aid.
February 7, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Important reminder: they are always lying.

Media who treat the first answer the admin/Musk give as true or credible have not learned the lesson: “The emails viewed by The Times undercut the Treasury’s explanation for why Mr. Krause and his team were given access to the payment system last week.”
NYT story detailing how the Bessent Treasury sought to block payments: nytimes.com/2025/02/06/u...

Letter from Treasury to Wyden where they said they weren't blocking payments: punchbowl.news/wp-content/u...
February 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Are there people who actually believed Trump when he said he didn't know anything about Project 2025? Genuinely surprised
February 7, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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"give me the man and I will find the crime" was a Stalinist thing
Breaking from me and @mjsdc.bsky.social : Newly installed AG Pam Bondi sent out more than a dozen memos in a 15 minute period on Wednesday. One of them told staffers to come up with "proposals for criminal investigations" of large companies that have DEIA initiatives. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Pam Bondi Instructs Trump DOJ to Criminally Investigate Companies That Do DEI
Civil rights advocates may well file suit immediately against the Justice Department to secure an injunction.
slate.com
February 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM