Benj

This disgusting shit doesn’t belong in American society.

And Republicans who support it don’t belong in Congress.

"We reject the US Constitution and any democracy we don't control."

—Republicanism

Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.

This is so fucked up...

We need your drone interceptors for our war, but we won’t thank you and our propaganda will claim that we made them.

It’s fine for Russia to use drones to freeze out your population — by the way, can you give us your drone defenses? This is the actual US position.

The Pentagon is swimming in cash after the last GOP budget. They can’t even pass an audit for their spending. The bill was loaded up with so many earmarks the Pentagon doesn’t even know how to spend it all. But now Trump wants more. No amount of military spending for the war machine is enough.

remembering when Trump had that press conference announcing Google had built them a Covid tracking tool at the start of the pandemic and the market shot up 10% (!) on the news and it turned out to be a total fabrication they just made up

So you can become the securities head at a major bank with zero capacity for critical thinking.

US energy chief defends waiver on Russian oil sanctions, blames fear for higher gas prices Trump administration ​officials on Sunday defended a decision to temporarily lift some sanctions on Russian oil and predicted that a sharp increase in ‌gasoline prices resulting from the Iran war woul...

I see Trump is lifting sanctions on Russia because of Trump's war on Iran

www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Homeland Security @DHSgov Democrats must end this DHS shutdown NOW.

it is not normal for official government social media channels to behave like arms of the Republican Party

You should see my dad's VA emails, just shocking

War is a tragedy for some Americans but an exciting business opportunity for others.

At least some Americans are benefiting from Trump’s Iran War.

I’m briefly in India. This is a facile observation, but Americans have barely scratched the surface in understanding how the rest of the world is reacting to this war. It’s already an Iraq War-style disaster in the global imagination, underscored by the thuggishness and caprice of the Trump approach

Lindsey’s diplomacy working wonders in UAE.

True redemption doesn’t usually involve an increase in power and influence for those redeemed, and we should be wary of those who try to gain those privileges from a pose of repentance.

Rabobank on the unfolding worst case scenario:

The truth that never stops hurting...

25 Republicans in Congress:

bsky.app/profile/mcop...

She was a known quantities man...

*shakes head

*points and laughs gif

...hahahaha...hahahaha...hahaha, this fuckin guy has the instincts of a cardboard mascot cutout.

Holy shit: the guy who cut millions in grants because they were DEI cannot form a coherent explanation of what DEI is bsky.app/profile/lmrh...

In short, the Trump NEA engaged in exactly the type of partisan ideological grants they accused the previous version of the organization of doing. No DEI! We must maintain merit! By removing competitive processes, and handpicking aligned cronies for public money.

Before joining the endowment in 2003 as its general counsel, Mr. McDonald was the chief legal strategist at the Center for Individual Rights, a conservative policy group best known for its opposition to affirmative action. In his deposition, he said that during the Biden administration the humanities agency had become “bloated” and overly focused on diversity. He also criticized new initiatives relating to climate change, calling it a “very controversial issue.”

In his deposition, Mr. McDonald, echoing a widespread critique, reiterated his dismay at “the uniformity of progressive ideology that courses throughout the veins of the humanities these days.” He said he supported the Trump administration’s approach, which he described as “America First” with “a concentration on American civilization, Western civilization, Judeo-Christian civilization, things of that nature.” Over the past year, Mr. McDonald has guided the agency in that direction. In January, it announced $75 million in new grants, including more than $40 million in large awards to conservative-backed civic thought centers and classical humanities institutes that have been established at or near some campuses, to combat the liberal tilt of academia.

Trump promoted the General Counsel of the National Endowment of the Arts into the Chair position. Michael MacDonald (no, not that one) was a former member of conservative group, and has used the NEA to give money to handpicked similar groups, avoiding peer review or competition.

We are governed by idiots, dependent on idiot boxes to function:
"A documentary about Jewish women’s slave labor during the Holocaust? The focus on gender risked “contributing to D.E.I. by amplifying marginalized voices.”"

you know its a weird coincidence but it seems like we never really get those helpful explainers about how the stock market circuit breaker works when a democrat is president

Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

"A woman who claims she was abused as a minor by both Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump has given the FBI vivid accounts that include aspects of her life corroborated by the The Post and Courier through public records."

Once again, I am begging the TV/movie industry to stop only ever bothering to write shows about colleges/universities & professors that only ever involve inappropriate sexual relationships with students on campus.