Funny thing about covert CIA activities:
They stop being covert the minute you โannounceโ theyโve been authorized**
**putting aside the merits (or lack thereof) of any given action
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
@general-sarcasm22.bsky.social
It's not "Captain" -- I was promoted ---- Misanthropic mutant ex-investment banker; liberal Xennial with Keynesian inclinations; childless Jew-ish cat father (with like religious affiliation); and heteropessimist demisexual with attachment issuesโฆ ๐๐บ๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ๐๏ธ๐ต๐ธ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐
Funny thing about covert CIA activities:
They stop being covert the minute you โannounceโ theyโve been authorized**
**putting aside the merits (or lack thereof) of any given action
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days.
Epstein Shutdown.
The French Revolution proved that when life gives you monarchs, you make lemonade headless.
14.10.2025 01:57 โ ๐ 938 ๐ 154 ๐ฌ 36 ๐ 13The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.
14.10.2025 01:50 โ ๐ 27557 ๐ 6178 ๐ฌ 425 ๐ 183Solidarity is the only way
14.10.2025 02:46 โ ๐ 22621 ๐ 5551 ๐ฌ 796 ๐ 373Big roar for AG Letitia James at the ZOHRAN rally๐๐ฝ
14.10.2025 02:27 โ ๐ 17680 ๐ 4045 ๐ฌ 211 ๐ 114ICE Boasts Zero Murders Committed By 5-Year-Olds Since Child Detainments Began
12.10.2025 18:00 โ ๐ 2472 ๐ 481 ๐ฌ 32 ๐ 15Breaking the law so he can endanger the nation, Russ Vought arches an eyebrow as he strokes a white Persian cat on his lap.
11.10.2025 03:00 โ ๐ 2223 ๐ 626 ๐ฌ 68 ๐ 18If an entire large city was on fire Iโd think the president would be expected to go there to tour the damage.
11.10.2025 02:02 โ ๐ 2478 ๐ 374 ๐ฌ 112 ๐ 15If you are a member of the National Guard and aren't called on duty on October 18, can I encourage you to join the No Kings protest?
11.10.2025 02:02 โ ๐ 425 ๐ 116 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 2The Trump Regime laid off exactly who you would expect robber barons to lay off. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
11.10.2025 02:02 โ ๐ 512 ๐ 180 ๐ฌ 40 ๐ 9BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
11.10.2025 02:10 โ ๐ 15401 ๐ 8478 ๐ฌ 859 ๐ 1122Imagine dressing like a Temu Richard Petty and criticizing anyoneโs appearance
11.10.2025 02:21 โ ๐ 6560 ๐ 1010 ๐ฌ 517 ๐ 77I saw this, laughed, changed screens and now I can't find it again or I would credit it fully: Someone described Kid Rock, who was apparently attempting to opine on something tonight, as being "the human equivalent of an above-ground pool."
Perfect.
There are more of us than there are of themโand we know our right to assemble peacefully and protest. Iโm counting on my fellow Americans to prove that at the No Kings protest on Oct. 18.
11.10.2025 02:52 โ ๐ 1914 ๐ 501 ๐ฌ 56 ๐ 18Peaceful assembly isnโt an insurrection.
Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.
Release the Epstein Files.
11.10.2025 00:15 โ ๐ 18975 ๐ 4556 ๐ฌ 265 ๐ 151Not today, Satanโผ๏ธ
11.10.2025 01:22 โ ๐ 10173 ๐ 2268 ๐ฌ 329 ๐ 131Nothing says โAmerica Firstโ like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho
10.10.2025 14:57 โ ๐ 19272 ๐ 7618 ๐ฌ 3465 ๐ 1754Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity
11.10.2025 01:03 โ ๐ 29274 ๐ 7328 ๐ฌ 786 ๐ 228"It looked like a bloody idol waiting for his ration of death" - Robert Badinter
"the mise-en-scรจne and meaning" notwithstanding, I can think of one good (orange) reason to borrow this from France...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/a...
Woe is me,
I already got my COVID vax and I didn't consult a health professional!!!
www.npr.org/2025/10/06/n...
Thanks, New Yorker
07.10.2025 17:40 โ ๐ 21813 ๐ 6760 ๐ฌ 219 ๐ 217In all the chaos, I would urge folks to remember that a lot of folks now donโt know when their next check will come.
The vast majority are good people who love this nation deeply, and many of them are still working despite not knowing when theyโll be paid
Have compassion.
Even easier than a decade, yet somehow even harder for Republicans to hear:
actual words that Trump has said over the past 48 hoursโฆ.
In a decision issued October 1, 2025, Reagan-appointed U.S. District Judge William Young includes a postcard sent to him saying โTrump has pardons and tanks ... what do you have?" He responds "Alone, I have nothing but my sense of duty. Together, We the People ... have our magnificent Constitution."
01.10.2025 14:46 โ ๐ 1344 ๐ 398 ๐ฌ 42 ๐ 20Are we winning yet?
01.10.2025 15:26 โ ๐ 7449 ๐ 2127 ๐ฌ 275 ๐ 61Trump is bankrupting farmers, raising prices on everything, and killing jobs with his tariff mania. Republicans in Congress own all of it. bsky.app/profile/atru...
01.10.2025 15:26 โ ๐ 2294 ๐ 751 ๐ฌ 109 ๐ 24Enjoy some truth about the #TrumpShutdown @markwarner.bsky.social
01.10.2025 15:32 โ ๐ 22560 ๐ 9482 ๐ฌ 636 ๐ 549