“Deep State” Diaries

Are what’s giving me daily hope right now. Us oldies always put the weight of changing the world on younger generations. But for the sake of my kids and yours, I believe in you, young Americans. LFG.

YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder Gen Z MSNBC Guest Absolutely Crushes Answer On Platner

And this: youtu.be/oCCkwL87GpY?...

This: Many young voters say the American Dream feels impossible

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YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News Graham Platner Holds Town Hall Amid Controversies Around Alleged 'Nazi' Tattoo And Past Online Posts

Spooling out of their minds over un-PC posts and symbol wars is exactly why Dems will truly struggle to get out of their own way.
I don’t care if he even wins, this is the way. Be real. And talk to EVERYONE - which inevitably means you will piss off some.
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YouTube video by The Bulwark Trump Doesn’t Give a Damn About Workers (w/ Dan Osborn) | The Bulwark Podcast

Gonna need a lot more of this kinda guy if we’re ever going to change anything around here: youtu.be/KDasII8os-s?...

Feels like another plug for “Vets for Public Service” too.

YouTube video by Interesting Times with Ross Douthat A.I., Mars and Immortality: Are We Dreaming Big Enough? | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

Not sure if I’m mortified or grateful that this tech bro who has been so influential in our modern politics came online to reveal to the world what an absolute freak he is…

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth June 26 Pentagon Press Conference YouTube video by WBFF FOX45 Baltimore

I’m not saying I want the military in charge or anything — but I will say Caine’s deft navigating through this forced politicized performance gave me a shred of hope that there’s at least SOME adults in the room…

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I assume this is his official Juneteenth celebration message…?

Live screen grab.

Live updates: Marines have been deployed to LA in response to immigration protests The Pentagon is expected to formally deploy about 700 Marines to Los Angeles in the coming hours to help National Guard members respond to immigration protests.

Where did all the self-proclaimed Second Amendment defenders vanish to now that martial law’s come knocking?

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DOGE employees are 'being pushed out' without Musk to protect them: report Now that billionaire Elon Musk has stepped away from his White House job as a "special government employee," the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers he brought on board are exiting too...

Much schadenfreude.

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Live Update: Trump and Musk Attack Each Other in Remarkable Break

💯 just a matter of time.

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How to Surf the Bureaucrato-techno-organism Ethnographic Tales from the Bureaucratic Frontlines (Part 4)

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YouTube video by Face the Nation Hegseth's focus on DEI in the military is "a distraction," Ret. Gen. Stanley McChrystal says #shorts

I f’in love that the GEN (ret.) with 700 tons more real world macho shit to stand on says attacking DEI in the Force is for chumps:
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All that chaos just to learn what the OG USDS and @alt18f.bsky.social already knew? Geezus.

The DOGE debacle, part 1 A former USDS engineer on why government systems can’t be updated with a “full rewrite”

DOGE hasn’t delivered on its promise of greater efficiency in part because the gov is nothing like a social media company. We discuss how *actual* gov efficiency operates with someone who had been steeped in the work, former gov software engineer, Greg Novick.

Oh my gawd - that’s friggin hilarious.

What are we DOGE-ing them the old fashioned way now? Jeezus Christ.

Holy merde.

& dear wee little Big Balls - just cuz the IT guy you’re talking to doesn’t know what’s in the specific budget PE, I guarantee you someone does (hint: ask the Comptroller). Go ahead and cut the line and you’ll find out real quick.
Classic case of just bc you don’t know doesn’t mean no one does…

YouTube video by Fox News Elon Musk introduces DOGE team's 'Big Balls'

Thanks, Donald P, for the shout out that the vast majority of Feds you’ve met are hard working true believers in public service. Curious how many of the supposed alternative you’ve encountered 🤨

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Elon Musk finally meets the press and compares himself to Buddha | CNN Business After dodging interviews with outlets he perceived as unfriendly, Musk sat down with about a dozen mainstream news reporters in the West Wing’s Roosevelt Room to reflect on his time in the Trump admin...

“It’s sort of, how much pain is the Cabinet and the Congress willing to take?” Musk said... “It can be done, but it requires dealing with a lot of complaints.”

Gee - Who would have thunk— except EVERY Fed suffering Congressional grift in their budgets for decades.

www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/b...

Marco Rubio, Secretary of Everything The former senator from Florida is now the head of four government bodies. He has outdone Henry Kissinger and even Xi Jinping, China’s leader, who has only three titles.

O m f-ing GAWD.
Why does it feel like Rubio’s grabbing crap out of the “liberal democratic world order” yard sale just before it gets tossed into the trash bin of whatever hellscape they’re driving us toward..?

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These two headlines back to back in my news feed - by AP FFS…
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I had to read the whole thread to answer “wait, we’re blocking Mark Cuban…?” I love Bluesky and Lefties and all, but lawd almighty we can be some ideological puritans.
It’s gonna be 🤢 if Bluesky just becomes the extreme Left version of X/Twitter’s toxic right echo chamber. No thank you.

Can we imagine a progressive version of DOGE? Almost: Here's how it would work We can recover from Elon's chainsaw tactics — by making government more responsive, effective and democratic

"The place to start ... is with what already works—or at least used to work, until Musk and DOGE destroyed it: the technology problem-solvers with more than decade of experience at the U.S. Digital Service and 18F."

Freak sell-off of ‘safe haven’ US bonds raises fear that confidence in America is fading The upheaval in stocks has been grabbing all the headlines, but there is a bigger problem looming in another corner of the financial markets that rarely gets headlines: Investors are dumping U.S. gove...

Ooo quelle surprise. Act like an anti-democratic kleptocratic developing country, bond market treats you like one.

apnews.com/article/trea... Freak sell-off of ‘safe haven’ US bonds raises fear that confidence in America is fading

My team and I used to call him “Pocket Square” bc he was by far the most polished of the goons Trump Show Season 1 brought out to beat us into policy submission.

But he definitely doesn’t deserve this.

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