Paul
@pmbutler.bsky.social
Husband, dad, ex-redneck, wine drinker. Old-school tech guy. Pro-Ukraine, proud lib, 12/4 drummer, shiba owner.
Daily reminder that @schumer.senate.gov should resign, and, barring resignation, he should step down from his leadership position and allow someone who is up to the challenge of fighting for democracy, and not just the next election, to step in.
March 20, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Daily reminder that @schumer.senate.gov should resign, and, barring resignation, he should step down from his leadership position and allow someone who is up to the challenge of fighting for democracy, and not just the next election, to step in.
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What is to be done, I ask you, with all of these shitty Democrats www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
Hey Democrats, wake the f—k up
The Democrats have neither the ability nor the will to fight back against President Donald Trump, SFGATE columnist Drew Magary writes.
www.sfgate.com
March 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
What is to be done, I ask you, with all of these shitty Democrats www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
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I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
March 14, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
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Only takes 23 Senate Democrats to remove Chuck Schumer from leadership and replace him with someone willing to fight
March 14, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Only takes 23 Senate Democrats to remove Chuck Schumer from leadership and replace him with someone willing to fight
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I was on Senate Floor in October 1991 when Congresswomen marched over to protest the handling of the Thomas nomination. In the next cycle, incumbents lost primaries and women Senators were elected. I encourage House Democrats to make a similar protest tomorrow. @aoc.bsky.social @raskin.house.gov
March 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I was on Senate Floor in October 1991 when Congresswomen marched over to protest the handling of the Thomas nomination. In the next cycle, incumbents lost primaries and women Senators were elected. I encourage House Democrats to make a similar protest tomorrow. @aoc.bsky.social @raskin.house.gov
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Not only is this a bad statement, but it's repeating what others have already said. By definition, Schumer is a follower, not a leader. He should resign.
Chuck Schumer finally released a statement on Mahmoud Khalil, beginning with a condemnation not of his arrest, but of him
March 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Not only is this a bad statement, but it's repeating what others have already said. By definition, Schumer is a follower, not a leader. He should resign.
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South African car salesman tells U.S. Senator, American astronaut and U.S. Navy captain: "You are a traitor"
March 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
South African car salesman tells U.S. Senator, American astronaut and U.S. Navy captain: "You are a traitor"
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I’m most galled by the up-is-down chutzpah. In Jeffries’s world, swaddling chickenshit frontliners by making the party captive to Trump’s abuse is a power move, while taking unprecedented steps to express contempt is getting “run off the block” like cowards. That’s piss on your leg, not rain.
Jeffries sends a letter to Democrats saying "The decision to attend the Joint Session is a personal one and we understand that members will come to different conclusions. However, it is important to have a strong, determined and dignified Democratic presence in the chamber."
March 4, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I’m most galled by the up-is-down chutzpah. In Jeffries’s world, swaddling chickenshit frontliners by making the party captive to Trump’s abuse is a power move, while taking unprecedented steps to express contempt is getting “run off the block” like cowards. That’s piss on your leg, not rain.
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Everyone who is a political appointee in defense that still works for the Trump admin is, as of today, morally bankrupt
March 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Everyone who is a political appointee in defense that still works for the Trump admin is, as of today, morally bankrupt
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The Democratic Party has no idea how angry its base is. Lead, right now, or get out of the way.
March 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The Democratic Party has no idea how angry its base is. Lead, right now, or get out of the way.
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I cannot repeat this often enough: Linda McMahon literally covered up the sexual abuse of children while she was running WWF (now WWE). She knew Mel Phillips abused boys, and protected him. She repeatedly rehired Pat Patterson and Terry Garvin, despite patterns of harassment and abuse.
Politico is reporting they may ban schools receiving federal funding from allowing kids to be trans as soon as today. Also opens door to investigations into schools that disregard the directive
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
Trump to issue orders on K-12 ‘indoctrination,’ school choice and campus protests
The order will also reinstate the 1776 Commission that Trump created during his first term in office to promote patriotic education.
www.politico.com
January 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I cannot repeat this often enough: Linda McMahon literally covered up the sexual abuse of children while she was running WWF (now WWE). She knew Mel Phillips abused boys, and protected him. She repeatedly rehired Pat Patterson and Terry Garvin, despite patterns of harassment and abuse.
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Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
January 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
The democrats have an incredibly talented bench. Let’s break the gerontocracy that is holding the party down.
January 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM
The democrats have an incredibly talented bench. Let’s break the gerontocracy that is holding the party down.
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Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
January 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
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Easiest layup question in media today: ask Republican elected officials if Trump should have pardoned the January 6th folks who violently attacked cops that day.
January 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Easiest layup question in media today: ask Republican elected officials if Trump should have pardoned the January 6th folks who violently attacked cops that day.
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Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus is offering free transport for people from Palisades and Santa Monica to the Westwood Rec Center
Pick-up locations:
Ocean Ave @ San Vicente Blvd
7th St @ San Vicente Blvd
Pick-up locations:
Ocean Ave @ San Vicente Blvd
7th St @ San Vicente Blvd
www.santamonica.gov
January 8, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus is offering free transport for people from Palisades and Santa Monica to the Westwood Rec Center
Pick-up locations:
Ocean Ave @ San Vicente Blvd
7th St @ San Vicente Blvd
Pick-up locations:
Ocean Ave @ San Vicente Blvd
7th St @ San Vicente Blvd
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Donations to Biden's inaugural fund in 2021:
Meta = $0
Tim Cook = $0
Sam Altman = $0
Google = $200,000
Amazon = $200,000
Donations to Trump's inaugural fund in 2025:
Meta = $1,000,000
Tim Cook = $1,000,000
Sam Altman = $1,000,000
Google = $1,000,000
Amazon = $1,000,000
The oligarchy is here.
Meta = $0
Tim Cook = $0
Sam Altman = $0
Google = $200,000
Amazon = $200,000
Donations to Trump's inaugural fund in 2025:
Meta = $1,000,000
Tim Cook = $1,000,000
Sam Altman = $1,000,000
Google = $1,000,000
Amazon = $1,000,000
The oligarchy is here.
January 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Donations to Biden's inaugural fund in 2021:
Meta = $0
Tim Cook = $0
Sam Altman = $0
Google = $200,000
Amazon = $200,000
Donations to Trump's inaugural fund in 2025:
Meta = $1,000,000
Tim Cook = $1,000,000
Sam Altman = $1,000,000
Google = $1,000,000
Amazon = $1,000,000
The oligarchy is here.
Meta = $0
Tim Cook = $0
Sam Altman = $0
Google = $200,000
Amazon = $200,000
Donations to Trump's inaugural fund in 2025:
Meta = $1,000,000
Tim Cook = $1,000,000
Sam Altman = $1,000,000
Google = $1,000,000
Amazon = $1,000,000
The oligarchy is here.
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"A Triple Threat to Humanity: Climate Change, Pandemics, and Anti-Science" | My new article with Peter Hotez in #SkepticalInquirer: skepticalinquirer.org/2024/12/a-tr...
A Triple Threat to Humanity: Climate Change, Pandemics, and Anti-Science | Skeptical Inquirer
Over the past decade, many of us in the scientific community have come to appreciate the existential threat we face today—a threat unlike any we’ve witnesse ...
skepticalinquirer.org
December 31, 2024 at 3:20 PM
"A Triple Threat to Humanity: Climate Change, Pandemics, and Anti-Science" | My new article with Peter Hotez in #SkepticalInquirer: skepticalinquirer.org/2024/12/a-tr...
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