jzack.bsky.social

Water Lilies - 1916/1919
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/11203

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

The Escape Ladder

The Escape Ladder https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/the-escape-ladder-1940

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

Protester in frog costume stands in front of tank (meme of Tiananmen Square “Tank Man”)

Portland, OR, 2025

About a week ago, the New York Times’ “The Daily” podcast portrayed Russell Vought as a devout Christian, a true “small government” conservative who loves the free market, and a man with a great work ethic. A remarkable combination of credulousness and deliberate whitewashing.

What Trump Means for John Roberts's Legacy | Harvard Magazine Executive power is on the docket at the Supreme Court.

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“Legal Insurrection?” How Stephen Miller's Rhetoric Undermines the Rule of Law Featuring listener questions from this week’s Stay Tuned

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How Democracies Fall Apart - Dissent Magazine An interview with Adam Przeworski.

www.dissentmagazine.org/article/how-...

Amy Poehler as Pam Bondi and Tina Fey as Kristi Noem. 😂👍

Le Moulin de la Galette, 1886 by Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853 - 1890).
Private Collection.
Oil on canvas | 55 x 38.5 cm.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

Hill and Houses, Cape Elizabeth, Maine - 1927
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104431

Why Trump Lost the Podcast Bros It's cool to support the Rebellion. It's not cool to support the Empire.

What's important here is that it's the ICE raids that are capturing their attention.

This is why the reliance on focus groups and polls and the inevitable claim that voters only care about "kitchen table" issues misses the mark.

paulwaldman.substack.com/p/why-trump-...

View of the Voorzaan

View of the Voorzaan
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/7368

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

And this:
92% of the growth in the entire country this year has been data centers. And some of that is "circular deals" that dont involve actual money

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

A Ridiculous Attorney General Bondi’s smug evasions revealed volumes about the Administration

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NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

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Roberts Is Just As Responsible For Chump As Chump Is ! Both Have
Failed This Country.......

Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissents state things pretty clearly.

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

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These are the names and faces of the 254 Journalists Killed in Gaza

They were Silenced for Exposing Israel's Crimes

Starting a new career as a Life Coach….😂🤣😂

This arrest appears to be in direct violation of a temporary restraining order prohibiting DHS officers from arresting journalists. The officers here may well be subject to contempt of court. protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...

Today, the EU’s Regulation on the Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising enters into force. From now on, political ads – notably both online and offline – will have to carry a transparency label with key information about why people are seeing the ad, who paid for it and how much. 1/

Hey @jbpritzker.bsky.social don't you have a degree of authority over the Illinois State Police?

When the Supreme Court struck down Biden's policies, it was tempting to think: "At least these limits on executive authority will bind Trump if he comes back into office." But no—the court's skepticism of executive power vanished on Jan. 20, 2025. This dynamic is obvious to anyone paying attention!

Thawing out ‘Arctic Frost’ and the new Biden-was-worse argument A recent American presidency, you may be alarmed to hear, engaged in an action that was "arguably worse than Watergate" — an event still positioned in some circles as the gold-standard of presidential...

If you’d like a more realistic assessment; I wrote about it today. www.pbump.net/o/dethawing-...

BOC’s Rogers Says Banking ‘Oligopoly’ Proof of Competitive Woes The Bank of Canada’s second in command called the country’s banking system an “oligopoly,” using the sector as a key example of how limited competition is restricting growth.

The Bank of Canada’s second in command called the country’s banking system an “oligopoly,” using the sector as a key example of how limited competition is restricting growth.

Federal judge in Chicago finds ICE repeatedly violated consent decree over ‘warrantless arrests’ A Chicago federal judge has extended a nationwide consent decree requiring ICE to better document and report probable cause for immigration arrests and found the agency repeatedly violated the 2022…

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/08/f...

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.