Bob Ivry

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

You can boil it down to one moment in time, @davidsirota.com: when Obama chose Tim Geithner to be his Treasury secretary. That was an explicit guarantee that nothing fundamental would change.

Very much enjoying the inflatable frog segment of the civil war.

Thank you, New York #Mets for allowing my autumn evenings to be filled with the study of philosophy, fine art, and music.

‘Hot Wasps’ Found at Nuclear Facility in South Carolina

‘Hot Wasps’ Found at Nuclear Facility in South Carolina www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/s...

- #CHRISKREIDER time to make sad edits in fear of the summer? yes. sorry. (that glitch at the end was tiktoks fault 😖) #fyp #fypシ #foryou #chriskreider #chriskreideredit #kreider #mikazibanejad #nyr #... TikTok video by liv ⋆𐙚₊˚⊹♡

So long, Chris Kreider. Thanks for being so easy to root for. Miss you already. #LGR

Check out liv ⋆𐙚₊˚⊹♡'s video! #TikTok www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjsw5uAn/

No Celtics player has ever committed a foul, according to Celtics players.

Unbridled: How Massive Pentagon Spending Happens by Design Like the weather, everyone complains about Pentagon spending and mismanagement, but no one does anything about it. Leaders of the world’s most expensive military have refused to c

How Pentagon overspending is a feature not a bug www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/202...

Horrible news about the death of @jillsobule, a witty and heartfelt songwriter and imaginative musician. Her songs stick in your head and so do her ideas. In a better world, she would’ve been a huge star. music.apple.com/us/album/i-don…

"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." - John Burroughs

Trump’s newest grift: Building a cryptocurrency empire while destroying its regulators Inside the Trump family’s sprawling crypto empire — from memecoins to mining — and how Trump is using presidential power to dismantle the regulators who could stop it

www.citationneeded.news/trump-crypto...

Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be.

A color portrait of James Baldwin. Light & shadow make stripes across his face, and hands folded beneath his chin. In concert with the green stripes in the background.

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."

—James Baldwin
#blackhistorymonth

Code Monkey by Jonathan Coulton on Apple Music Song · 2006 · Duration 3:09

This one goes out to bigballs

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He died as he lived, clicking “Forgot password,” then checking his inbox for a code, then putting in that code, then setting up two-step verification, and then waiting for the text message that doesn’t come, and then calling the 800 number, and then downloading an authenticator app, and dying.

prejudice is weird, everyone loves the idea of someone stealing millions and millions from a failson pharma billionaire under false pretenses until that someone is aaron rodgers

This is like the 1930s, when criminals like Dillinger and Bonnie & Clyde were folk heroes.

David Lynch describes going to to Bob’s Big Boy to drink vast sums of coffee and chocolate milkshakes

Picked up this little book of writers’ writing rituals, & I think most of em are liars — “up at dawn, 6 hours at my desk, followed by calisthenics, liquor, & reading edifying works.” But David Lynch delivers the goods.

When Pam Bondi Protected Foreclosure Fraudsters The new attorney general nominee, while serving as AG of Florida, fired the first two prosecutors to investigate the use of false evidence to kick people out of their homes.

For Pam Bondi, Justice turns a blind eye to donors’ misdeeds. Valuable recap from David Dayen. prospect.org/justice/2024...

I waited a year for Treasury to respond to a FOIA request for emails. Finally got a box with 1,000 pages of messages — every one of them blotted out by gray boxes. Except one wasn’t redacted. I couldn’t see who’d sent it or who received it, but I could see the message: “Happy birthday.”

FOIA humor is the best humor!

Exclusive | Boeing CEO to Employees: We Can’t Afford Another Mistake The jet maker will overhaul employee incentive plan and delay R&D spending.

Anyone who ignores the importance of organizational culture and ethical behavior does so at their peril, risking millions or billions and jeopardizing lives and jobs. www.wsj.com/business/air... #corporateculture #organizationalculture #ethics #ethicalbehavior #values

I dont mean no harm... and i'm not trying to be in no body business... but "do" congress got an HR??????

Truth Social investors hoped to get ‘very rich’ after Trump’s win. Not quite. Trump Media’s revenue and share price have sagged as its losses have piled up. The president-elect’s return to the White House could complicate things even more.

Only a matter of time before they start blaming those pesky naked short sellers

thehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/11/19/truth-social-trump-media-stock-djt-election/

This would be the perfect time for the Jets to get rid of Aaron Rodgers. Just in time for the aloof coach/GM killer who can’t move much less run, throws to nobody then blames his teammates to secure a place in the incoming president’s Cabinet.

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

- James Baldwin

Opinion | End the Criminal Cases Against Trump Democracy’s ultimate verdict has been delivered.

This guy wrote these words…

“A central pillar of American democracy is that no man is above the law. But Mr. Trump isn’t an ordinary man.”

…and multiple editors signed off on it.

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...

this is like something a character in Animal Farm would say, and every 6th grader in the classroom would understand why it's wrong www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...

A central pillar of American democracy is that no man is above the law. But Mr. Trump isn't an ordinary man.

Heck of a passage for the New York Times to publish without requiring the author to explain how the fluck “no man is above the law” can be a “central pillar of American democracy” if there are extraordinary men to whom it does not apply.