Raymond Dickey

I don’t know, I just don’t think we should be making decisions with geopolitical implications that could result in millions of deaths and catastrophic damage based on a passage in Genesis.

"In our federal system, the National Gov. possesses only limited powers; the States and the people retain the remainder. The States have broad authority to enact legislation for the public good—what we have often called a 'police power.' The Fed. Gov., by contrast, has no such authority."-SCOTUS '14

Pritzker: It’s time for us to be done with optimism about their motives. Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research… Autistic kids and adults who are loving contributors to our society don’t deserve to be stigmatized by a weird nepo baby who once stashed a dead bear in his car. Our military service members don’t deserve to be told by a washed-up Fox TV commentator, who drank too much before being appointed Secretary of Defense, that they can’t serve their country simply because they are Black, gay, or a woman.

Dear god let this man cook.

Walz: "This is how government is supposed to work. It's not supposed to be one old man in the Oval Office sending out middle of the night tweets that shock markets into free fall. It's not supposed to be a bunch of 20 somethings unelected and firing everyone. It's not supposed to be chaos."

Senator Van Hollen is a hero.

We traded Europe for a guy that builds concentration camps for profit.

April 5, 2025 It’s been quite a week.

April 5, 2025

I wonder is SpaceX is upto the challenge.

America is Trapped in a Burning Tesla Surprise! The madman stuff wasn’t an act

I borrowed this metaphor, but I don't know from where paulkrugman.substack.com/p/america-is...

It’s a garbage brand in Europe now

Behind Trump's unprecedented actions is the unitary executive theory, a once-fringe legal idea that asserts that the president has unlimited power to control the actions of the four million people who make up the executive branch.

@marcelias.bsky.social explains:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=61DX...

Apparently making a bid for the record for the largest number of illegal and unconstitutional declarations to be fit inside just one short social media post

“We have to consider the possibility that President Trump is a Russian asset."

- UK Tory MP Graham Stuart, this morning

No shit, Graham.

Trump was on Putin's side all along. It's sad that more Americans couldn't see that until now.

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

Is anyone really surprised by Trump's behaviour? He's been a Russian asset for a long time.

So, actually, it always was Russia.

In 2013, Trump tweeted that he wanted to be best friends with Putin. Nothing that happened today is a surprise. Trump has been looking to be Putin‘s wing man for a dozen years. This afternoon, he demonstrated his love for that tyrannical thug.

They are already dying.
The question is 'how many deaths are too many?'
We know that answer regarding gun violence: it doesn't matter how many kids die.

Where do the people of Gaza fit into all this?
I think we know: concentration camps

In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

Trump blames Ukraine for starting the war the way a rapist blames his victim for looking too sexy.

The most unpatriotic members of any society are the far right. They will always align with foreign interests against the interests of their own nations. They will always undermine national institutions and national values in pursuit of their own interests. When they pose as patriots, they lie.

Ukrainians are fearful any Trump-brokered ceasefire will be full of concessions and false promises | CNN Iryna Danilovich disappeared while returning from work in April 2022. It would be two weeks before Russian authorities admitted she was in their custody. The human rights activist and nurse was detain...

I've no idea why Trump is being treated as an appropriate broker at all.

If this peace negotiation were serious, it would treat Trump as an intermediary of Putin and allow the EU to act as the intermediary for Ukraine.

It's a farce that anyone in the international community treats Trump otherwise.

This negotiation between the US and Russia, and cutting out Ukraine, is just like when Trump cut out Afghanistan and negotiated with Taliban.

We see how that “good deal” turned out. Afghanistan was on Trump

Every Trump deal fails

He is a mob boss

Correct. This is a President of the United States declaring himself a dictator.

And instead of Americans understanding that we’re now under imminent threat of martial law and tyranny, we’ll get a month of think pieces about what the President of the United States meant by his UNAMBIGUOUS statement.

I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going