My question is: what are people keeping their powder dry for?

Liberal society — free people, individual rights, government by the consent of the governed, equality under the law, free markets, peace, and prosperity — is an accomplishment.

It can be lost.

Serious people do not take it for granted.

Putin is rolling in the floor laughing !!

Don’t patriot and proletariat sound eerily alike ?

Inspectors General are key public servants tasked with holding our government accountable. They’re independent, nonpartisan whose work is identifying fraud, waste, & importantly, abuse. Trump just fired them all. Make no mistake: he's purging those who will protect the rule of law.

Are we capable of surviving the avalanche of corruption that drumpf is unleashing ?

very excited to see what happens when you make a deeply compromised addict the leader of the department of defense and subordinate to a madman

Krugman confirming what I reported back in early December: www.status.news/p/paul-krugm...

His contemptuous, loyalty-testing Cabinet nominations are you need to know about how Trump plans to "govern"--performative politics, revenge instead of policies, division instead of uniting--4 years (if not many more) of spectacle, symbolic actions & rhetoric instead of solving America's problems.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social Axios reports Trump’s decision to pardon/commute sentences of all Jan 6 rioters convicted of crimes, incl those who attacked police officers, was spur of the moment decision to get issue behind him quickly. “Trump just said: ‘F*ck it: Release ‘em all,’” an advisor recalled.

"The only country that opened [its] prisons and sent crazy murderous criminals to prey upon innocent American citizens, was us.”
Let's stop studying bird flu, freeze civil rights cases, ask federal workers turn in their peers and stop infrastructure projects.

Mississippi politician files ‘Contraception Begins at Erection Act’ "People can get up in arms and call it absurd but I can’t say that bothers me.”

Ope! The bill would make it “unlawful for a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo.” www.wlbt.com/2025/01/22/m...

Join the movement!

Today is a sad day for our country. Convicted felon will lead America. Let God help us all 🙏

Last night Donald Trump was fêted by billionaires on bended knee while those of us in the pro-democracy movement did the hard work and stand tall.

We may not have their wealth, but we have our dignity and resolve. Our work continues.

The "find out" phase begins Voters effed around. And now ...

New in PN: The "find out" phase begins

"Trump’s campaign was ugly, dystopian, and authoritarian. His first presidency was a disaster. A near majority of voters pulled the lever to put him back in charge anyway. Put bluntly, we, as a country, fucked around. And now ..."

Exactly why @bsky.app is so important. Engaging on this platform is important. As is growing this platform.

Which one of these men joins Tom Anderson and MySoace in the annals of history first ?

Their greed is our opportunity.

Today, "shock and awe" strategy—and it's our job to be neither shocked nor awed.

We know what's coming. And it's our job to get ready to fight back.

They are literally the party of hypocrisy, chaos, lies and desperation. 😒

Tomorrow will mark the beginning of the “Ultimate Grift” of the American people. I’m ashamed that we’ve allowed this to happen.

January 18, 2025 Shortly before midnight last night, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published its initial findings from a study it undertook last July when it asked eight large companies to turn over information a...

“TRUMP OWNING 80 % AND TIMING LAUNCH HOURS BEFORE INAUGURATION IS PREDATORY AND MANY WILL LIKELY GET HURT BY IT.”
#FelonTrump
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So very strange that there is so little major news media coverage of collusion and price fixing at scale.

FTC Surveillance Pricing Study Indicates Wide Range of Personal Data Used to Set Individualized Consumer Prices The Federal Trade Commission’s initial findings from its surveillance pricing market study revealed that details like a person’s precise location or browser history can be frequently used to target

Just in case you are not sufficiently realizing that EVERYTHING is political:

www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

h/t @hcrichardson.bsky.social

Trump gets in bed with the Chinese owners, and suddenly Tik Tok isn’t “evil CCP compromised” anymore. These people believe in nothing. What Trump decides today is what they believe in today. Which changes tomorrow if Trump makes a deal with someone else to enrich himself.

As I’ve predicted every day for the last two weeks. A prearranged scam between Trump and the CCP to deceive the American people, enrich himself, and fool users. And it will work because there are plenty of rubes & suckers in this country and Trump has had their number for years.

The TikTok ban (soon to be lifted) is a gift to Trump. It allows him to signal to businesses that he controls their on-off switch. That’s the message of dictators.