Dave C- 86 47 Time to get in #GoodTrouble

This is a good sign, and it puts me in mind of the time I got booed off Twitter for saying that Matt Gaetz was happy to pay $500 to play a golf tournament because he knows $500 for 18 holes is a great deal

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If you watch one thing today, make it this. These workers are risking their lives to build our cities and getting paid like their time, safety, and dignity don’t matter. They deserve fair pay. They deserve respect.

Peter Greene: A Major For-Profit Chain Implodes Peter Greene writes in Forbes, where he is a columnist, about the failure of a major for-profit chain, the kind that will enjoy the benefit of voucher programs. Ray Girn graduated from the Universi…

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Umm, worse than useless. Pathological parasites

Bad idea:

Trump supports The Lost Cause.

Of course he does.

🤣

Hopefully the pace of change increases rapidly!

@neguse.house.gov its time, please sign on:

Same

Dean Cain is prepping to be the Emil Jannings of MAGA. Jennings is the Nazi sympathizer actor that was featured in Nazi propaganda films and was labeled by Goebbells as the "Artist of the State". Which reminds me, when does Kid Rock become the official MAGA "State Rocker"?

Why did Comer issue a subpoena to Hillary Clinton, who has never been mentioned in anything related to Jeffrey Epstein, but not Alex Acosta who gave Epstein the sweetheart deal in FL where he could leave prison everyday & got rewarded with a Cabinet position? She should tell Comer to go pound sand.

NEWS: Annie Farmer, an Epstein survivor who testified against Ghislaine Maxwell, just revealed on CNN that she wrote a letter with her concerns to Deputy AG Blanche — and received no response.

She says neither she nor other survivors have heard a word from the DOJ.

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Pay to play is now the way.

Source(s)?

My takeaway from former Fox News heads and commentators now in government is that they are lazy as shit and have no idea that normal people work for many consecutive hours in a day

“Women are the kind of people that people come out of.”

The first guy in this @PamelaBrownCNN video is Doug Wilson — whose church Hegseth is tied to. (He doesn’t think women should vote)

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Ford Reports Second Quarter 2025 Financial Results • Second-quarter revenue reached a record $50.2 billion; incurred a net loss of $36 million as a result of special items • Adjusted EBIT was $2.1 billion, including $0.8 billion of adverse net tariff-related impacts; operating cash flow was $6.3 billion, adjusted free cash flow was $2.8 billion • Company declares a third quarter regular dividend of 15 cents per share • Reinstated full-year 2025 guidance includes adjusted EBIT of $6.5 billion to $7.5 billion, adjusted free cash flow of $3.5 billion to $4.5 billion, capital spending of about $9 billion, and a net tariff-related headwind of about $2 billion DEARBORN, Mich., July 30, 2025 – Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) today announced its second- quarter 2025 financial results.

so ford is operated at a loss last quarter despite record revenues because they took $800m in tariff charges in q2 (when tariffs were lower than now) - and ford is just one company.

this is getting quite bad now.
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This is *Very Literally* the guy who wrote the “first the came for” poem. A self-described antisemite who supported Hitler until the regime took over the church. He got thrown into a camp because he objected. And then he wrote a poem that said “oh shit I never thought the leopards would eat my face”

I am so fucking sick of this vile argument that fighting anti-trans hate is making perfect the enemy of good.

Forcing trans people out of society isn’t “good”!! It’s fucking evil!

“Once that is done” means “let a bunch of people that I deem less important die in the meantime”. No! Fuck you!

Jared Wise.

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Exclusive: The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

Another TLDR version (/quoting @brianrwasik.bsky.social ) "Its a classic fascist AND. Vought and his fellow travelers see this as aligning grant making with a conservative mission. Trump ok'ed it cause its a great way to shake down institutions for cash." (And it will severely damage US science)

A good explainer on the EO. @kgandersen.bsky.social takes apart the key points.

His main point is exactly right. And we’ll add: politicizing science grants like this will — flatly — kill American science. Science, like business, is choked off by corruption.

They are trying to get on the same page for the Blanche - Maxwell transcript release. They apparently recognize that contradicting each other would damage their political / social standing

OMG, thx for the reply. So any prediction on where this will go? Do you think TX will redistrict? To me the TX thing is sort of R's spaghetti thrown at the wall to distract from the #EpsteinFiles

Gag me with a spoon if I choke on the absurdity of this. I guess this plays to some mythical base?

I did, probably more a testament to a bit of Bluesky addiction & being 3 beers in than anything else. Also partner stepped away for chores, so I didn't have to explain it to her