Ushi
@ushims.bsky.social
I am a left-of-center Democrat with a German husband and two tweenagers. Glutton for punishment. Here for Carl Sagan quotes and keen observations.
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Trump White House chief of staff Susie Wiles says Elon is on drugs (as he downplays Hitler’s cruelty) and “no rational person” could think how he slashed USAID (letting many people die across the globe and diminishing 🇺🇸 influence) was good. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
December 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Trump White House chief of staff Susie Wiles says Elon is on drugs (as he downplays Hitler’s cruelty) and “no rational person” could think how he slashed USAID (letting many people die across the globe and diminishing 🇺🇸 influence) was good. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
Gift link to a fantastic article about what the left doesn’t understand about populism.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
I wish Joseph Heath was on Bluesky.
@theatlantic.com
#Democrats #DNC
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
I wish Joseph Heath was on Bluesky.
@theatlantic.com
#Democrats #DNC
The Specific Thing That Left-Wing Populists Don’t Get
The problem with fixating on inequality, oligarchy, and other abstractions
www.theatlantic.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Gift link to a fantastic article about what the left doesn’t understand about populism.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
I wish Joseph Heath was on Bluesky.
@theatlantic.com
#Democrats #DNC
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
I wish Joseph Heath was on Bluesky.
@theatlantic.com
#Democrats #DNC
Worry makes me feel alive.
December 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Worry makes me feel alive.
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congratulations to Rand Paul on inventing
*checks notes*
single payer healthcare
*checks notes*
single payer healthcare
Rand Paul on his healthcare plan: "What if you could join Costco? Costco has 44m members and if one person negotiated for all 44 and they bought a group plan like Toyota or General Motors does, they would be the largest collective entity in the country. They would drive prices down by sheer might."
December 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
congratulations to Rand Paul on inventing
*checks notes*
single payer healthcare
*checks notes*
single payer healthcare
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Unfuckingbelievable.
Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
December 6, 2025 at 4:26 AM
🤮
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Much is being made, including by me, of how these mooks stood there grinning as Trump spewed a steady stream of vile racism appalling even for him. But watch Antonio Filosa, the Italian CEO of Stellantis (formerly Chrysler)
For sanity, mute the sound, then scroll to 1:40 and watch him.
For sanity, mute the sound, then scroll to 1:40 and watch him.
December 4, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Much is being made, including by me, of how these mooks stood there grinning as Trump spewed a steady stream of vile racism appalling even for him. But watch Antonio Filosa, the Italian CEO of Stellantis (formerly Chrysler)
For sanity, mute the sound, then scroll to 1:40 and watch him.
For sanity, mute the sound, then scroll to 1:40 and watch him.
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It was auto industry execs.
So far I have:
Ford CEO Jim Farley
General Motors Co. plant manager at the Orion Assembly site, John Urbanic.
Michigan U.S. Rep. Lisa McClain
Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa
So far I have:
Ford CEO Jim Farley
General Motors Co. plant manager at the Orion Assembly site, John Urbanic.
Michigan U.S. Rep. Lisa McClain
Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa
December 3, 2025 at 10:46 PM
It was auto industry execs.
So far I have:
Ford CEO Jim Farley
General Motors Co. plant manager at the Orion Assembly site, John Urbanic.
Michigan U.S. Rep. Lisa McClain
Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa
So far I have:
Ford CEO Jim Farley
General Motors Co. plant manager at the Orion Assembly site, John Urbanic.
Michigan U.S. Rep. Lisa McClain
Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa
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the pardon power was a mistake and needs to be removed
December 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
the pardon power was a mistake and needs to be removed
How terrible to be an educator in a land where education isn't understood or valued.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
How terrible to be an educator in a land where education isn't understood or valued.
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I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gold. I get something new out of it every time I listen.
And now I realize I used “in the can” there — hope we get plenty of those calls
m.youtube.com/watch?v=nR_m...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=nR_m...
LBJ Orders Pants
YouTube video by pthiso
m.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Gold. I get something new out of it every time I listen.
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And now I realize I used “in the can” there — hope we get plenty of those calls
m.youtube.com/watch?v=nR_m...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=nR_m...
LBJ Orders Pants
YouTube video by pthiso
m.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:03 AM
And now I realize I used “in the can” there — hope we get plenty of those calls
m.youtube.com/watch?v=nR_m...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=nR_m...
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The CDC website has been lobotomized. Where it once presented the decades of evidence debunking the false claims of a link between vaccines and autism, that has now been replaced with junk science.
November 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The CDC website has been lobotomized. Where it once presented the decades of evidence debunking the false claims of a link between vaccines and autism, that has now been replaced with junk science.
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“Things happen.”
I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
November 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
“Things happen.”
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
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Hey Pam Bondi. This is John Mitchell. Gird your loins because you actually work for the people and not the president and you will eventually find out what that means.
November 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Hey Pam Bondi. This is John Mitchell. Gird your loins because you actually work for the people and not the president and you will eventually find out what that means.
You can't tell who's a child by the size of their vaginas.
November 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
You can't tell who's a child by the size of their vaginas.
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
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I have said this before, and I’ll say it again here: We are at most a few years away from the mainstream media becoming controlled top to bottom, with a few very exceptions, by ultrarich conservatives and their hirelings. trib.al/ARRddzG
The Washington Post Has Become
Right-Wing Even Faster Than I Thought
It’s not going to happen. It’s happening: The mainstream media is becoming right-wing. What are wealthy liberals going to do about it?
trib.al
November 3, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I have said this before, and I’ll say it again here: We are at most a few years away from the mainstream media becoming controlled top to bottom, with a few very exceptions, by ultrarich conservatives and their hirelings. trib.al/ARRddzG
It’s shocking to hear a Harvard Professor call Trump a “master negotiator.” Also shocking to hear that many of them weren’t concerned about a 2nd Trump term. I guess scientists don’t study history much? www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm... #onthemedia
S2 - Episode 1: The Harvard Plan | On the Media | WNYC Studios
The Harvard Plan - our collaboration with the Boston Globe, is back! In episode one, we hear what unfolded at Harvard from Donald Trump’s inauguration to convocation 2025. Three main ...
www.wnycstudios.org
November 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM
It’s shocking to hear a Harvard Professor call Trump a “master negotiator.” Also shocking to hear that many of them weren’t concerned about a 2nd Trump term. I guess scientists don’t study history much? www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm... #onthemedia
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My parents tiny rural community got fiber bc of it.
Maybe like 200 people across miles.
I doubt a single person knows what paid for it bc no one told them except for me mentioning it.
Every single Dem win should come with a "Dems did this" postcard and billboard campaign in the area.
Maybe like 200 people across miles.
I doubt a single person knows what paid for it bc no one told them except for me mentioning it.
Every single Dem win should come with a "Dems did this" postcard and billboard campaign in the area.
November 3, 2025 at 2:27 AM
My parents tiny rural community got fiber bc of it.
Maybe like 200 people across miles.
I doubt a single person knows what paid for it bc no one told them except for me mentioning it.
Every single Dem win should come with a "Dems did this" postcard and billboard campaign in the area.
Maybe like 200 people across miles.
I doubt a single person knows what paid for it bc no one told them except for me mentioning it.
Every single Dem win should come with a "Dems did this" postcard and billboard campaign in the area.
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ICE shot an American citizen and food bank worker who tried to block them arresting an immigrant by pulling his car in front of them.
After being released from hospital: "He is now facing charges for assault on a federal officer."
www.calonews.com/featured-top...
After being released from hospital: "He is now facing charges for assault on a federal officer."
www.calonews.com/featured-top...
November 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
ICE shot an American citizen and food bank worker who tried to block them arresting an immigrant by pulling his car in front of them.
After being released from hospital: "He is now facing charges for assault on a federal officer."
www.calonews.com/featured-top...
After being released from hospital: "He is now facing charges for assault on a federal officer."
www.calonews.com/featured-top...