@elengul.bsky.social
"Corruption requires explicit quid pro quo" no it fucking doesn't
12.05.2025 14:30 — 👍 314 🔁 30 💬 9 📌 1The primary driver of homelessness is high rents, but high rents are also a problem for housed people who are paying 45% of their income for housing. The market is not going to end all homelessness but building more houses in tight markets to drive down rents certainly prevents some amount of it.
12.05.2025 20:28 — 👍 36 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.
OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
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The Leaky Pete Hegseth Whiskeyleaks scandal is worse than you think.
06.05.2025 22:14 — 👍 284 🔁 79 💬 4 📌 0congress should consider stopping the stupidest person who has ever lived from destroying the economy
04.05.2025 15:14 — 👍 8619 🔁 1412 💬 213 📌 48May the 4th be with you.
Happy Star Wars Day!!!
crazy that an influx of dense infill housing can lower prices and make homeownership more attainable
03.05.2025 00:04 — 👍 10523 🔁 1768 💬 150 📌 57This is why you don’t let people push to the main branch of your repo …
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Thomas L. Friedman How I Describe Myself Politically These Days
So, then, what’s the right answer? I admire the fiery protest campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. I love their ability to get people out to push back on Trump’s destroy-America-in-100-days campaign. God bless them for that. But when I listen to A.O.C. and Sanders, I don’t hear them solving for the future. So much of what they are about is lazily bashing billionaires, along with defending Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid from the Trump-Elon Musk chain saw. Please, save all of that.
Why is this 'lazy'? Billionaires are looting the country right now
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/o...
FLEXPORT: “.. In the 3 weeks since the tariffs took effect, ocean container bookings from China to the United States are down over 60% industry wide.”
#SummerOfScarcity 🇺🇸
"Fuck you, make me."
23.04.2025 02:47 — 👍 1058 🔁 276 💬 6 📌 0Right on, brother. And we can go back even further, to before 2015 and Trump emerging on the scene. If only people had listened to the ACLU about executive overreach and limits on state power starting in September 2001…
23.04.2025 11:57 — 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.
20.04.2025 23:46 — 👍 27037 🔁 10466 💬 191 📌 142
21.04.2025 11:49 — 👍 892 🔁 87 💬 21 📌 5
They should be in jail, and a whole battalion of coders and ops experts should be in there dismantling everything they've built and reinforcing the security infrastructure.
Who has standing to sue them and the detail to prove harm? or standing/sufficient legal precedent to convict them of crimes?
it's easy to observe this in the increasingly homogenous "rural" culture and identity becoming unmoored from region or geography. regions that were once totally distinct, applachia, the lowland south, the great plains, the interior west, now all have a shared faux-redneck culture
19.04.2025 18:57 — 👍 2303 🔁 421 💬 73 📌 53This is an enormous theft—not just privatizing a government function with a worse and more expensive for-profit substitute, but also a massive government financial data heist—and on the other side of it everyone needs to end up broke and imprisoned to deter them and others from doing it again.
19.04.2025 20:58 — 👍 3951 🔁 1572 💬 84 📌 60Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me
19.04.2025 23:35 — 👍 52339 🔁 11438 💬 789 📌 349
In addition to giving the contract to himself and so stealing public money the very concept of this thing is a crazy level boondoggle www.reuters.com/business/aer...
19.04.2025 23:21 — 👍 3306 🔁 1287 💬 251 📌 134* people whose wealth depends on there being no regulations, but whose lives and livelihoods depend on regulations they don't bother to understand (some of those being the same regulations)
20.04.2025 00:16 — 👍 78 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 1Dear senators who think you can’t do anything,
Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT.
~ All of Us
it's hard to find a motivation for DOGE other than 'hatred of the good.' these are bad people fundamentally envious or un-understanding of the idea that you might work or give for others, and attempting to punish it.
16.04.2025 21:24 — 👍 2632 🔁 677 💬 51 📌 11Hi, I’m autistic and I’m the mayor of my city.
17.04.2025 01:54 — 👍 24170 🔁 4653 💬 624 📌 164Literally “if you ask us to prove he’s a terrorist, then maybe YOU are a terrorist!”
17.04.2025 02:16 — 👍 3135 🔁 669 💬 164 📌 30AOC: Some of the Republicans whose districts we visited just warned their leadership that they’re not sure they can vote for Medicaid cuts now.
We’ve got them on their back foot. But our job is not done.
We will rally every corner of the U.S.
We will not stop until they actually vote no.
