@cgnierman.bsky.social
Trumpeter, techie, and general all-around nerd.
"America’s slide into authoritarianism is reversible. But no one has ever defeated autocracy from the sidelines." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
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"...the chatbot was showering them with praise regardless of what they said."
Sound familiar, Rethuglicans? Dangerously sycophantic, indeed.
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Liz Cheney didn't write letter urging Democratic Party to fight Trump's 'authoritarian machine' | Snopes.com
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So: Russia flatly rejected one Trump envoy (Kellogg), made the next one (Witkoff) wait for eight hours, rejected the ceasefire, and instructed Trump that his job is to give Russia what it wants. That’s what Trump means by "respect" I guess.
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“As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
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DOGE Has ‘God Mode’ Access to Government Data - The Atlantic
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Donald Trump promised to lower costs, in his own words, “on day one.”
Now, Trump and Elon Musk are gutting the consumer agency, which will increase costs on working people.
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Trump administration set to purchase $400 million worth of armored Teslas : NPR
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OPINION | Snap out of it America. All the warning lights are flashing, writes @djrothkopf.bsky.social.
04.02.2025 16:33 — 👍 5999 🔁 2236 💬 141 📌 107if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
The first two weeks into President Trump's second tour in the White House "have seen so many lines crossed in the pursuit of his agenda that anyone who believes in the Constitution and honest governance should be worried," the editorial board writes.
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Sunday musings…
I miss the days when George W was the dumbest President in my lifetime… that we also elected twice…
Of course, Reagan was no picnic either, by all accounts…
Maybe I miss the naïveté of youth when I believed that American citizens were actually interested in democracy…
Came online to vent about how absolutely backward GoDaddy's customer interfaces have become, and how ineffectual their "help" staff has been. Seems that they have other issues as well...
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Truly terrifying.
“The NAR is supplying the ground troops to dismantle the secular state.”
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"'This never happened..' So it will be with the first attempt by a serving president to overthrow the government he was sworn to protect.
"Not all of us, however, have to live in the world of Washington transactions... It did happen. It should still shock us how much it did happen."
I'd always been secretly impressed with the riskiness of the "malaise" speech, and just got my chance to say so.
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