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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
pretty worrying how predictive Peacemaker turned out to be.
October 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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stano.bsky.social
Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.
September 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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September 12, 2025 at 2:56 AM
riosmith.bsky.social
There are no serious people in charge of the FBI.
September 12, 2025 at 2:17 AM
riosmith.bsky.social
How close are we to a tyrannical government?
April 8, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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April 3, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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March 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
riosmith.bsky.social
Someone should start putting together a “leopards ate my face” book
aterkel.bsky.social Amanda Terkel @aterkel.bsky.social · Feb 21
Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason."

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February 21, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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adambonica.bsky.social
The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️
Scatterplot titled “Empirical Evidence of Ideological Targeting in Federal Layoffs: Agencies seen as liberal are significantly more likely to face DOGE layoffs.” • The x-axis represents Perceived Ideological Leaning of federal agencies, ranging from -2 (Most Liberal) to +2 (Most Conservative), based on survey responses from over 1,500 federal executives. • The y-axis shows Agency Size (Number of Staff) on a logarithmic scale from 1,000 to 1,000,000. Each point represents a federal agency: • Red dots indicate agencies that experienced DOGE layoffs. • Gray dots indicate agencies with no layoffs. Key Observations: • Liberal-leaning agencies (left side of the plot) are disproportionately represented among red dots, indicating higher layoff rates. • Notable targeted agencies include: • HHS (Health & Human Services) • EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) • NIH (National Institutes of Health) • CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) • Dept. of Education • USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development) • The National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE), despite its conservative leaning (+1 on the scale), is an exception among targeted agencies. • A notable outlier: the Department of Veterans Affairs (moderately conservative) also faced layoffs despite its size. Takeaway: The figure visually demonstrates that DOGE layoffs disproportionately targeted liberal-leaning agencies, supporting claims of ideological bias. The pattern reveals that layoffs were not driven by agency size or budget alone but were strongly associated with perceived ideology. Source: Richardson, Clinton, & Lewis (2018). Elite Perceptions of Agency Ideology and Workforce Skill. The Journal of Politics, 80(1).
February 20, 2025 at 2:18 AM
riosmith.bsky.social
The MTV Jackass crew would be a more competent administration than the current.
February 19, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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angrystaffer.bsky.social
Stealing the Oval Office spotlight while your 4 year old tells the President to shut up is nasty work 🤣🤣🤣
February 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
riosmith.bsky.social
I feel like a private equity firm has just purchased the federal government, and we are being set up for failure and stripped of parts.
February 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM