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Michael P. Scott

@empeescott.bsky.social

retired CA attorney, living in Olympia WA Mundus Sine Caesaribus Only "shithole countries" immunize their Presidents I "cloud nine" when I want to We still haven't walked in the glow of each other's majestic presence Let a hundred Luigis bloom

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U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China

This is insane. This is an actual vig. This is completely off the charts, you've got to be kidding JFC what are we even doing anymore? And for anyone who says this is a "deal" it's the same deal you make with the guy who is holding your children hostage www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...

11.08.2025 05:11 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China

"This is an own goal...incentivize the Chinese to...pressure the administration for more concessions,” said Liza Tobin, previous China director at the NSC during Trump & Biden β€œThis is the Trump playbook applied in exactly the wrong domain. You’re selling our national security for corporate profits”

11.08.2025 05:29 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fuck that and fuck him, that weasely little quisling

11.08.2025 05:34 β€” πŸ‘ 623    πŸ” 62    πŸ’¬ 48    πŸ“Œ 0

Extraordinary. The deal does NOT give a "golden share" to the US govt but gives direct authorities to Donald Trump, personally, while he's President. If Trump died tomorrow, it appears US Steel would be free of the obligations and no authorities pass on to Vance. Personalism, not law.

11.08.2025 05:20 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

Deleting a post about Israel β€œaccidentally” killing international journalists because I missed that they had declared them terrorists.

Everyone involved in this genocide needs to be sent to The Hague

bsky.app/profile/yasm...

10.08.2025 23:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2791    πŸ” 692    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 11

Reboot Anthony Bourdain’s β€œNo Reservations” but with Alan Dershowitz and the whole show is just enjoying him never getting food because he’s a querulous, joyless douche and he’s constantly demanding that the Laotian street vendor or whoever denounce Hamas before he’ll try the khao jee

11.08.2025 03:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2420    πŸ” 283    πŸ’¬ 67    πŸ“Œ 22

The ICE recruits are getting a ton of money, yet the feel the need to rob the restaurants that they are raiding.

They are nothing more than a bunch of shitty ass punks & criminals.

Go πŸ–•yourself Trump, Noem, & ICE.
#ProudBlue #OneV1 #Pinks

11.08.2025 00:06 β€” πŸ‘ 185    πŸ” 120    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 2
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How NASA Engineered Its Own Decline The agency once projected America’s loftiest ideals. Then it ceded its ambitions to Elon Musk.

"With the flick of a switch, he [Musk] now has the power to shut down constellations of satellites, to isolate a nation, to hobble the operations of an entire army."
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

10.08.2025 18:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The Trump team is out there trying to normalize an utterly immoral sellout of UKR

10.08.2025 18:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1640    πŸ” 381    πŸ’¬ 68    πŸ“Œ 15

"5 tips to fix your attention span"
*29 minute video*

At that point just send me a text list. At any point, just send me a text list!

10.08.2025 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also, until further notice, Texas will be referred to as "The Lone Tsar State"

10.08.2025 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Let’s be very clear about what’s happening: Trump is going to surrender to Russia this week because he is the pussy that Putin grabbed.

10.08.2025 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1778    πŸ” 418    πŸ’¬ 103    πŸ“Œ 19

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like β€œoh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

10.08.2025 03:36 β€” πŸ‘ 26187    πŸ” 5086    πŸ’¬ 413    πŸ“Œ 212
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CALONews.com Accompanied by embedded Fox News video reporters, ICE & Border Patrol agents surprised at least 16 criminal mastermind gang leaders- just kidding- they were day laborers in the parking lot of a Westlake Home Depot by leaping out of a Penske rental truck to arrest these migrant workers.

09.08.2025 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 270    πŸ” 89    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 2

Quick question: what in the sweet feathery fuck

05.03.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 219    πŸ” 56    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 2
Aretha Franklin - Rock Steady (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Aretha Franklin Aretha Franklin - Rock Steady (Official Lyric Video)

Let's call this song exactly what it is

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGav...

10.08.2025 04:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You come to ask me a favor on the day of my pet hamster’s quinceaΓ±era

10.08.2025 04:15 β€” πŸ‘ 166    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œWhat Trump is doing is reversing the American Revolution to reestablish this nation as a kingdom, with mad King Donald as the broligarchy’s monarch.
To top it off, he may be protecting the largest child sex trafficking ring in modern history?” @malcolmnance.bsky.social

substack.com/@malcolmnanc...

08.08.2025 18:11 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œHe was using the modeling company as a cover in part for the sex trafficking… They would send the youngest girls down to Epstein’s place in Palm Beach… When Epstein formed that company, he said to her, I want it to be set up just like Donald Trump’s modeling agency.”
Julie K Brown

@meidastouch.com

04.08.2025 18:11 β€” πŸ‘ 134    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Write down your memories and pass them to your children. Bind them up and digitize them. Create archives at your local libraries.

10.08.2025 02:48 β€” πŸ‘ 57    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

"De planes! De planes, boss!"

10.08.2025 01:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features Amendment to law will strengthen protection against digital imitations of people’s identities, government says

Denmark is giving its citizens copyright on their own face and voice in an effort to resist AI. They’re the first country in the world to do so. Go Denmark!

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

09.08.2025 06:41 β€” πŸ‘ 215    πŸ” 98    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 16
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Sounds like this survivor of Epstein and Maxwell is saying she'd take Trump pardoning Maxwell as an admission of guilt, which sounds like a smart message.

10.08.2025 00:56 β€” πŸ‘ 4445    πŸ” 1125    πŸ’¬ 70    πŸ“Œ 38
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A deadly shooting at the CDC shook its scientists. Now they want answers from RFK Jr. CDC Director Susan Monarez convened an online all-hands meeting of the agency division that focuses on vaccines, and employees called out Kennedy’s rhetoric specifically.

Exclusive: CDC Director Susan Monarez met with its vaccine-focused center to talk about yesterday’s shooting. I listened to a recording. Scientists and officials are shaken & pointing fingers at RFK Jr. Many said his vilification and misinfo turned them into targets. www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...

09.08.2025 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 9951    πŸ” 3699    πŸ’¬ 269    πŸ“Œ 232

And for those who are not aware of history, the reason why the White House was not gilt in gold is because it was a statement that it is not a palace and presidents are not kings.

08.08.2025 17:44 β€” πŸ‘ 517    πŸ” 59    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
detail from above photo, showing the doorway to the Oval Office festooned with decadent gold leaf

detail from above photo, showing the doorway to the Oval Office festooned with decadent gold leaf

I'm sorry, but this is the kind of doorway you might see in an outtake from the movie Caligula

08.08.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 634    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 2
before and after of the Oval Office covered in tacky gold

before and after of the Oval Office covered in tacky gold

no but this is crazy

08.08.2025 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 4776    πŸ” 1097    πŸ’¬ 1275    πŸ“Œ 905
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Trump shows off to the Azerbaijan dictator a section in the White House dedicated to Trump 2028 merch, as they discuss Trump unlawfully pursuing another term

09.08.2025 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 4704    πŸ” 1924    πŸ’¬ 1396    πŸ“Œ 559
The Oval Office

The Oval Office

A screenshot from Alibaba

A screenshot from Alibaba

A comparison of the photo from the Oval Office and an item on Alibaba.

A comparison of the photo from the Oval Office and an item on Alibaba.

The Oval Office

The Oval Office

Noticed a bunch of these ornate gold medallions slapped all over the Oval Office. We found em on Alibaba. β€œHigh-density Home Decoration Polyurethane Appliques Ornament PU Foam Veneer Accessories” from seller Guangzhou Homemax Decorative Material Limited.

sherwood.news/power/shop-t...

15.04.2025 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 7171    πŸ” 2352    πŸ’¬ 640    πŸ“Œ 736

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