Or feeding their families … but sure, let’s just keep going with the purity tests. They alienate huge groups of people that might actually agree with us and make a bunch of people in the middle feel politically homeless but - judging is fun, right? Who cares if it loses elections.

Yeah, the spectacle of that killing in Minnesota hasn’t done anything to motivate the public against this admin, has it? 👀
Expecting enlisted people who have children and spouses and homes to support to leave because they don’t like Trump is ridiculous. I should’ve just said that.

“Big trouble,” yes, not the same trouble. There’s a legal procedure for justifying refusing an illegal order - and the benefit of public spectacle when you do. Going AWOL is procedure in itself - volunteering to lose your pension and family’s healthcare and military housing and paycheck.

Not the same thing. Refusing an illegal order isn’t equal to leaving mid-enlistment because you disagree with the commander in chief.

You don’t get to just leave the military when you feel like it, unfortunately.

She bet on the wrong lame horse.

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Since there seems to be files getting deleted from the Epstein release, I've made all four dataset zip files available for download. These are the files as they were originally released. (Downloaded within minutes of them being made public)

~3GB in size

drive.proton.me/urls/P0XVG30...

Need the dogs in antlers now, man, so thank you.
(And the Santa hat)

The S.E.C. Was Tough on Crypto. It Pulled Back After Trump Returned to Office.

Under Trump, the SEC has eased up on more than 60% of the crypto cases that were ongoing when he took office in January.

Many of the firms that benefited from the leniency had financial ties to the Trump family.

The SEC is no longer pursuing any cases against crypto firms with Trump ties.

Does anyone know who or what he’s talking about?

Email with billionaire = high importance.
Apparently.

I thought it might be like his health care plan coming in two weeks.

Brilliant. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson #KBJ shifts the focus of universal injunction to restraining the defendants behavior. Disputes Sauer — Trump lawyer’s characterization that nonparty plaintiffs get relief without going through the process. Those folks are just beneficiaries, she says.

That feels like the whole thing to me, as a layperson.

They Were Waiting for Flights. Then Trump Closed a Door for Afghan Allies. An executive order has halted refugee flights for Afghans who supported the American mission in Afghanistan and had been approved to resettle in the U.S.

@jaketapper.bsky.social I remember how upset you were when the Afghanistan pullout went badly - largely thanks to 5K Taliban Trump loosed - esp. for these people who helped the US there. I’ve left Xitter, but I’d love to see something from you. Nothing new on CNNdot
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/w...

Thanks!

Yeah, and the blame part has been driving me nuts. No one wants to say, apparently, that’s lots of voters are uninformed, and/or have short memories, and/or like to be on the mean and dirty side. “Blinded by party loyalty” fits in there somewhere, too.

She has a name that could be very useful for misinformation.

How do you lock it down? The only instruction I found on that was to change your user name (I think) before deactivating. But I don’t see how that accomplished the goal.

I haven’t subscribed to anything yet, and it showed blocked for me.

I’m one of them. Pulling the Xplug as soon as I’ve got most of my follows done.

Done 😉

Welcome to Bluesky.. 🦋

#bluesky

Talk about extremes 😆

Same! I just migrated here but haven’t bit the bullet there. I want to know what they’re saying but also I’d rather it not kill me.

Even when they won they’re violent. Weren’t they supposedly worried Dems would take up arms against them if they won?

I’m one. You’ll lose one on Xitter in a day or two when I’m done with housekeeping.

What would those things be?

I’ve just jumped on here. About to kill my Xitter account and then take a long hot shower to get rid of the residue. Glad there’s somewhere to get info and chat with likeminds without getting sucked into black holes 🤞