Steve Struemph

This is insane. Trump supporters, you know this is bad right?

Video is here: www.reddit.com/r/law/s/B7y0...

More than 100 Texans active in the Jan. 6 insurrection among those pardoned A Texan was the first to breach the Capitol and many others joined the assault. The presidential pardon helps cast all of them as folk heroes.

“We just released the leaders of two terrorist organizations,” a counterterrorism expert and senior Trump DHS official told me. “In the name of politics, we have just released violent criminals out onto our streets.”

Enshitification

Trump offers long-promised pardons to some 1,500 January 6 rioters On the campaign trail, Trump regularly featured the stories of Jan. 6 defendants he labeled "hostages" and "patriots."

Violent angry rednecks. 1500 Jan 6 rioters.

This is a tragedy. I feel for the Capital police, investigators, everyone involved who worked to put these idiots away.

www.npr.org/2025/01/20/g...

It's quite surreal.

How much time have people had to prepare? That's a very sloooooow "poof"

Having never used tiktok, things look different from this side of the fence.

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Tbh the reaction TT users are having to the ban (now that fewer are in denial about it happening) is one of the more interesting things I've ever seen.

a group of people are standing in the snow and one of them is wearing a shirt that says ' slayer ' on it ALT: a group of people are standing in the snow and one of them is wearing a shirt that says ' slayer ' on it

I'm listening to only black metal until this ice and snow melts.

Another episode of "man, wtf is happening". Today we see young people who've been addicted to tiktok waking up and saying that only because of tiktok do they now know the ugly truths about the world. And therefore it's a govt conspiracy to keep them in the dark. Wait until they learn about books.

#stl #snow

Also, maybe Elon could donate some of his 500 billion dollars?

It's wild out here.

How could someone be up in arms and not want Mexicans to take their job but are totally cool with making Mexico part of the United States?

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Book cover for 'The Broken Heart of America: St Louis and the Violent History of the United States' by Walter Johnson, with an image of the Gateway Arch during construction

I can't recommend this book strongly enough - a powerful, eye-opening, compelling critique of racial capitalism, which brilliantly combines individual stories and detailed financial analysis (you'll be fascinated and appalled by TIFs and tax abatements) ...

www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/walte...

The consequences ripple across the economy, affecting everyone—including those of us who might be jeering. In the end, shared frustration might be the only thing we can all agree on.

It feels like there’s potential for some big "lesson" to be learned here, but the reality is more complicated.

However, realistically, the impact of tariffs rarely plays out so neatly.

There’s a certain immediate satisfaction in seeing some Trump supporters come to realize that his tariffs will likely raise the cost of goods—especially when many voted for him expecting relief from inflation.

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And Threads is ok, but FB/IG have really become cesspools.

I got this account and haven't used it till now. I remember when people jumped ship from MySpace and this feels like a migration time with some momentum. I ended up reopening a Twitter account only to follow WordPress drama over the last two months. Otherwise it's trash.

@stevep.bsky.social welp *slaps top of legs*

So, is this an app where people interact with other people?