Alex Murphy

As of today, a new term has entered our language. A “rubio” is a spineless lump of nothing. Example: Don’t be such a rubio.

Trump has canceled Biden's ethics rules. Critics call it the opposite of 'drain the swamp' Donald Trump took office eight years ago pledging to “drain the swamp” of the dominance of Washington influence peddlers.

Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees.

Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law

Time to do things that make him react to you.
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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.

Democracy requires your courage.

Hacked, probably not.

Given to someone to shit post your account ... much more likely.

President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.

JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Just think what this allows you to do for those companies you advise ...

Just the ones that investigate why planes keep crashing

From the dark place.

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Keep reading and doing your homework ... you know, for your country!
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Sorry Chris, the correct handle is kellblog.bsky.social

lol ... I do.

I feel like someone called these people deplorable ...

The funny thing is, 8+ years later and that description still feels like the most apt way to describe this group. Maybe we have three parties, Democrats, Republicans, and Deplorables.

BlueSky for the win, I first learned of this terrific word* this week, and here it is again, placed with perfect context.

* enshitification, fyi, you need to add this to your local dictionary

No chance.

they should issue an arrest warrant.

I was very happy to have learned such a word exists.

Just remember, it was Billy Bush that got fired for Trump's comment about grabbing.

The fonz is calling

Love this.

in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?

More likely hell is turning over.

Kellblog Predictions for 2025 In this post, I present my predictions for 2025 in the areas of Silicon Valley, startups, SaaS, enterprise software, and marketing.

First post, here we go.
Dave Kellogg's @davekellogg.bsky.social predictions for 2025 are on the record.

In prediction 1, he touches on a more divided country.

It is critical to realize that those that voted for T are happy about the burn it down approach.

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