@phillyphan9208.bsky.social
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me, an american, watching yet another country hold a criminal leader accountable
March 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
me, an american, watching yet another country hold a criminal leader accountable
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Musk's leadership losing Tesla nearly $1 trillion in half a day is insane work. They're losing more than Medicaid costs the American taxpayers. Have they considered asking their leadership for a list of 5 things he did last week?
March 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Musk's leadership losing Tesla nearly $1 trillion in half a day is insane work. They're losing more than Medicaid costs the American taxpayers. Have they considered asking their leadership for a list of 5 things he did last week?
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This is awful… We should be doing better and making it fall even faster.
March 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
This is awful… We should be doing better and making it fall even faster.
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Elon, with rockets exploding, Tesla tanking and Twitter no longer working it’s time. Pack it in.
March 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Elon, with rockets exploding, Tesla tanking and Twitter no longer working it’s time. Pack it in.
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When I say they hope to overturn the Civil Rights Act I get looked at like I’ve lost my critical faculties.
But here is Rufo, in the New York Times, saying they want to overturn the Civil Rights Act (and use anti-discrimination law to protect white people).
But here is Rufo, in the New York Times, saying they want to overturn the Civil Rights Act (and use anti-discrimination law to protect white people).
And so here it is all laid out. The intention to overturn the Civil
Rights Act,to dismantle the Dept of Education, to bankrupt leading universities, to replace liberal arts education w/something that conservatives haven’t created & don’t have the educators to create. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/o...
Rights Act,to dismantle the Dept of Education, to bankrupt leading universities, to replace liberal arts education w/something that conservatives haven’t created & don’t have the educators to create. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/o...
Opinion | The Anti-D.E.I. Crusader Who Wants to Dismantle the Department of Education (Gift Article)
Christopher Rufo’s mission to make universities feel “existential terror.”
www.nytimes.com
March 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
When I say they hope to overturn the Civil Rights Act I get looked at like I’ve lost my critical faculties.
But here is Rufo, in the New York Times, saying they want to overturn the Civil Rights Act (and use anti-discrimination law to protect white people).
But here is Rufo, in the New York Times, saying they want to overturn the Civil Rights Act (and use anti-discrimination law to protect white people).
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Voodoo economics --> Unicorn economics
New in PN: MAGA's Big Lie budget
"Trump has said he wants to do three things:
1. Balance the budget
2. Extend tax cuts
3. Keep Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid fully funded
But doing all these simply isn’t possible. And Republicans know it."
"Trump has said he wants to do three things:
1. Balance the budget
2. Extend tax cuts
3. Keep Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid fully funded
But doing all these simply isn’t possible. And Republicans know it."
MAGA's Big Lie budget
Trump’s economic agenda is about fooling the American people.
www.publicnotice.co
March 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Voodoo economics --> Unicorn economics
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In an effort to get ahead of the Eagles, the Commanders (team that the Eagles blew out in the NFC Championship Game this year) are trying to recreate the 49ers (team that the Eagles blew out in the NFC Championship Game two years ago).
March 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
In an effort to get ahead of the Eagles, the Commanders (team that the Eagles blew out in the NFC Championship Game this year) are trying to recreate the 49ers (team that the Eagles blew out in the NFC Championship Game two years ago).
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When you're having a normal one.
Musk has tweeted more than 220 times in last 24 hrs.
That's not counting the replies.
That's not counting the replies.
February 23, 2025 at 5:20 AM
When you're having a normal one.
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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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The Gilded Age is Trump's ideal--let's check the stats, shall we?
--most Americans disenfranchised
--most Americans in extreme poverty
--most Americans worked 12 hour workdays, 6-7 days a week
--most Americans consumed unsafe food, water, medicine
The Gilded Age was great only for the rich folks
--most Americans disenfranchised
--most Americans in extreme poverty
--most Americans worked 12 hour workdays, 6-7 days a week
--most Americans consumed unsafe food, water, medicine
The Gilded Age was great only for the rich folks
Trump: "We were the richest relatively -- think of this -- from 1870 to 1913. That was our richest. Because we collected tariffs ... we had so much wealth. Of course, now we give it away to transgender ... everybody gets a transgender operation."
February 23, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The Gilded Age is Trump's ideal--let's check the stats, shall we?
--most Americans disenfranchised
--most Americans in extreme poverty
--most Americans worked 12 hour workdays, 6-7 days a week
--most Americans consumed unsafe food, water, medicine
The Gilded Age was great only for the rich folks
--most Americans disenfranchised
--most Americans in extreme poverty
--most Americans worked 12 hour workdays, 6-7 days a week
--most Americans consumed unsafe food, water, medicine
The Gilded Age was great only for the rich folks
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You have paid Ross Douthat to write this crap continuously since the year of our lord 2009.
"Already, in the attempted shock and awe of the second Trump administration, you can see ways that the vibe shift of 2025 could be squandered," our columnist Ross Douthat writes. Here are some lessons from the Bush era he says are worth drawing upon.
Opinion | What Trump Can Learn From the Last G.O.P. Disaster
How the vibe shift of 2025 could be squandered.
www.nytimes.com
February 23, 2025 at 4:02 AM
You have paid Ross Douthat to write this crap continuously since the year of our lord 2009.
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Mad king watch - calls for a ban on opposition media, then gets distracted www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
February 22, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Mad king watch - calls for a ban on opposition media, then gets distracted www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
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Tune in next month for Netflix's next generation gap boxing match as Ryan Day fights Lou Holtz.
November 16, 2024 at 5:39 AM
Tune in next month for Netflix's next generation gap boxing match as Ryan Day fights Lou Holtz.
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As @rooster.info often points out with respect to Ohio, when Republicans have total control they will inevitable start to go after one another because they HATE one another. Gaetz is singularly hated, to be sure, but expect more of this kind of leaking/backstabbing. abcnews.go.com/US/woman-tes...
Woman testified to House Ethics Committee that Gaetz had sex with her when she was 17: Sources
The woman at the center of the DOJ's probe of Matt Gaetz testified to the House Ethics Committee that he had sex with her when she was 17 years old, sources say.
abcnews.go.com
November 14, 2024 at 9:24 PM
As @rooster.info often points out with respect to Ohio, when Republicans have total control they will inevitable start to go after one another because they HATE one another. Gaetz is singularly hated, to be sure, but expect more of this kind of leaking/backstabbing. abcnews.go.com/US/woman-tes...
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Tulsi Gabbard for DNI, Matt Gaetz for Attorney General, and Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense is reality and not some insane fever dream I can can wake up from, apparently.
November 13, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Tulsi Gabbard for DNI, Matt Gaetz for Attorney General, and Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense is reality and not some insane fever dream I can can wake up from, apparently.
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“They were careless people . . . they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
November 13, 2024 at 8:57 PM
“They were careless people . . . they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
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Quite understandably, because he grew up in Pretoria and didn’t start working as an illegal immigrant in the United States until the mid- or late 1990s, Elon never got to watch that Schoolhouse Rock episode on bills and laws and stuff.
November 13, 2024 at 1:56 PM
Quite understandably, because he grew up in Pretoria and didn’t start working as an illegal immigrant in the United States until the mid- or late 1990s, Elon never got to watch that Schoolhouse Rock episode on bills and laws and stuff.
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This is true of almost everything in the last two years. You may laugh at the idea of permission structures but all most guys, especially guys with power, worry about is getting away with “it.” Elon showed them they can.
Yes, I am seeing and hearing the R-word like 100x more than I did a year ago.
Not the only cause but Elon buying Twitter and saying “you won’t be banned anymore for slurs” had a downstream effect
Not the only cause but Elon buying Twitter and saying “you won’t be banned anymore for slurs” had a downstream effect
the r word is experiencing something of a revival, i've seen lately
November 13, 2024 at 2:02 PM
This is true of almost everything in the last two years. You may laugh at the idea of permission structures but all most guys, especially guys with power, worry about is getting away with “it.” Elon showed them they can.
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Disturbing prediction from @pkrugman.bsky.social: If Trump's deportations really happen, inflation will spike, then MAGA loyalists will corrupt government info to mask it.
For autocrats, he says, "among their first targets are statistical agencies."
Our exchange:
newrepublic.com/article/1883...
For autocrats, he says, "among their first targets are statistical agencies."
Our exchange:
newrepublic.com/article/1883...
November 13, 2024 at 1:51 PM
Disturbing prediction from @pkrugman.bsky.social: If Trump's deportations really happen, inflation will spike, then MAGA loyalists will corrupt government info to mask it.
For autocrats, he says, "among their first targets are statistical agencies."
Our exchange:
newrepublic.com/article/1883...
For autocrats, he says, "among their first targets are statistical agencies."
Our exchange:
newrepublic.com/article/1883...
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Just to clarify, a President cannot set up a real Department. This requires an Act of Congress. He can set up an office, or commission, but this will not be a real Department, and should not reported as such.
But with Schedule F, they could fire a lot of career civil servants.
But with Schedule F, they could fire a lot of career civil servants.
November 13, 2024 at 1:06 AM
Just to clarify, a President cannot set up a real Department. This requires an Act of Congress. He can set up an office, or commission, but this will not be a real Department, and should not reported as such.
But with Schedule F, they could fire a lot of career civil servants.
But with Schedule F, they could fire a lot of career civil servants.
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This is something that my therapist was telling me about today. That the feeling of nothing mattering, of the joy being taken away from what used to give us joy, is an essential activity of fascism.
“fascists want you to think things are hopeless precisely because things can get better. This is why they need us to feel hopeless. Because there is hope… Because, at every moment, we are close to transforming all this if we can open our eyes and hearts. And, most importantly, our imaginations.”
November 13, 2024 at 6:40 AM
This is something that my therapist was telling me about today. That the feeling of nothing mattering, of the joy being taken away from what used to give us joy, is an essential activity of fascism.
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Elon Musk endorses plan for Trump to politicize the Fed.
As I keep saying: this should be a five-alarm fire for anyone who says they care about inflation. Putting the money supply in hands of politicians has not ended well in Venezuela, Argentina, Turkey, etc
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
As I keep saying: this should be a five-alarm fire for anyone who says they care about inflation. Putting the money supply in hands of politicians has not ended well in Venezuela, Argentina, Turkey, etc
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
November 12, 2024 at 10:07 PM
Elon Musk endorses plan for Trump to politicize the Fed.
As I keep saying: this should be a five-alarm fire for anyone who says they care about inflation. Putting the money supply in hands of politicians has not ended well in Venezuela, Argentina, Turkey, etc
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
As I keep saying: this should be a five-alarm fire for anyone who says they care about inflation. Putting the money supply in hands of politicians has not ended well in Venezuela, Argentina, Turkey, etc
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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It's just a fact that if a Dem president nominated a guy with this background to be Sec Def it would be a major scandal and controversy. But because GOP immorality is completely normalized at this point I would be shocked if it makes any difference. (The article is from 2018.)
November 13, 2024 at 2:43 AM
It's just a fact that if a Dem president nominated a guy with this background to be Sec Def it would be a major scandal and controversy. But because GOP immorality is completely normalized at this point I would be shocked if it makes any difference. (The article is from 2018.)
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I'm rooting for as many Trump factions to feel totally owned as possible, so in a sense this is a good thing...
It’s cool how he picked a TV anchor with no govt experience at all who is *also* a huge Iran hawk, so no matter whether you believed the “Trump the dove” or the “Trump the normal Republican that libs are hysterical over” you’re a fucking moron.
November 13, 2024 at 12:41 AM
I'm rooting for as many Trump factions to feel totally owned as possible, so in a sense this is a good thing...