@leroyplock.bsky.social
Breaking News: The Trump administration said it would conduct a review of Smithsonian exhibitions to assess their “alignment with American ideals” giving museums 120 days to replace “divisive or ideologically driven language with unifying, historically accurate and constructive descriptions.”
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60 minutes is only the start apparently www.status.news/p/skydance-c...
09.07.2025 03:40 — 👍 1806 🔁 734 💬 140 📌 94
I highly recommend this dark comedy pointed squarely at techbro hubris and the consequences for NPCs, i.e. the rest of humanity.
youtu.be/27cN2_k0JF0?...
At the root of all the crazy, there is a fundamental disagreement about what America is. Is it an idea, an aspiration? Or is it land and ethnicity? (“Blood and Soil”) David Brooks does an excellent job of zeroing in on the fundamental rot at the core of trumpism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/o...
All he had to do was keep building stuff and enjoy being the world’s richest person. Instead he set out to prove beyond any doubt that he’s a horrid ignorant piece of shite.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
If Barack Obama or Joe Biden had proposed this, the GOP would be in the streets with pitchforks and
torches.
I guess the new "conservative" position is, "I want the state to know everything about me at all times."
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...
“Privacy advocates, student unions and labor rights organizations have filed lawsuits to block data access, questioning whether the government could weaponize people’s personal information.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...
WSJ received a Pulitzer for documenting how Musk turned himself into an oligarch above the law.
www.wsj.com/articles/mus...
The people in ICE detention are not just poor field workers, they’re also brilliant scientists. The ignorant but brutal exerting control over the educated is a classic feature of authoritarian regimes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
Some people still don't seem to get it. 🤔 This isn't some complex 4-dimensional chess game he's playing.
More background & links here:
markfiore.substack.com
A great read. The system of checks and balances has been breaking down for a long time, setting the stage for an immoral buffoon with insanely poor judgment to come along and destroy us.
www.vox.com/politics/407...
“It turns out that there’s a price for taking all the soft power America has accrued since World War II and setting it on fire. Who knew.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...
With friends like these…
www.newsweek.com/full-list-de...
@rexhuppke.bsky.social: Not helping the general panic is the fact that Trump continues to utter quotes like this on live TV: “I said we're gonna try to get groceries down. Right? An old-fashioned down but a beautiful term. Eggs.”
OK. Have we tried giving him a nap? www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq
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I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
31.03.2025 23:00 — 👍 51316 🔁 10580 💬 10897 📌 3246“The 5 things Pete Hegseth did last week”
- Shared classified attack plans on an unsecured commercial chat application.
- Denied doing it.
- Denied the plans were classified.
- Denied the plans were plans.
- Attacked the journalist who proved he was lying.
🚨 🚨
More details are coming out that many of those whisked away to El Salvador did not have criminal records, and do not appear to have been part of a gang of any sort:
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Look past the headline and listen to what this guy is saying. We should applaud not attack politicians of any party who will talk honestly about the looming Social Security crisis. We need a deal to fix it, not demagoguery.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
We tend to assume that trump’s threat to the Constitutional order is obvious. But for the less well informed this article lays it out clearly and simply. Call it Constitutional Crisis 101.
apple.news/AqxizEPmQRdS...
Good. Economic pain is the only thing that will wake the low-information voters up.
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Breaking News: The Trump administration fired nearly the entire civil rights branch of the Department of Homeland Security. The move guts the office responsible for oversight of President Trump’s immigration crackdown.
21.03.2025 20:09 — 👍 1234 🔁 604 💬 127 📌 63You know what I despise most about MAGA hate mail?
It's just incoherent. 99.99% of MAGA complaints are a farrago of terrible grammar, lurid recountings of utterly fictional sins against the Umber Demon, and pointless rage.
They read like a kind of Mad Libs for window-lickers.
At a packed town hall Democratic Rep. Jim McGovern proposed a general strike to combat the Trump administration's assault on the federal government.
20.03.2025 17:11 — 👍 3915 🔁 893 💬 97 📌 236So much for “free speech absolutism.”
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Redouble the attack on Tesla, it’s working.
“But sometimes, you find a strategic weak point in the authoritarian vertical — like Tesla—where a single, well-placed shot shakes the entire edifice.”
open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
Sadly, discussions of executive overreach are too abstract for a lot of voters. The argument that trump is not doing what he was elected for, that he is betraying their trust by pursuing an agenda they didn’t ask for, may be more potent.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...
If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.
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#Canadian Captain Nichola Goddard of the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery
She was killed at age 26 while serving - in support of the #USA - the only time NATO's Article 5 was invoked.
#WeHadYourBack America
#NATO #uspoli #cdnpoli #Canada
