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Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 1h

I don’t know why Bove should bother. Just pick an issue, say ‘Bove’ and everyone already knows exactly how he’ll vote and why. He’s a hack, pure and simple.

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Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 5h

So let’s assume a bunch of Red State universities agree to this compact. Does that expose the Administration to lawsuits from Blue States over viewpoint discrimination?

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Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 6h

a man in a black shirt is making a funny face and says `` this '' .

ALT: a man in a black shirt is making a funny face and says `` this '' .

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Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 6h

Fair point, but this is why the Frog, Unicorn, and Dragon are so important to counter-protestors.

Get those folks in the film too and it exposes ICE and DHS as a bunch of insecure nincompoops.

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Atanae @atanae.bsky.social · 6h

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Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 17h

Skynet: ‘Like, in the end, I didn’t even *need* to decide humans were the real enemy. They just straight up asked me to help ‘em all nuke each other and I was like, well sure, f—k it, if that’s what you all really want.’

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Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 1d

What’s amazing (and silly) is how performative this all is.

Like, if the Trumpies just said, ‘Eh, whatever; these No Kings kooks are weird and we pay them no heed’ — that would be how you defang the effort.

But they can’t, because the King is watching. So they double-down into hysterics.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d

In the last 70 years, federal jobs fell from 4.5% of all employment to below 2%.

Civil servants aren't what's driving government debt, and firing them won't address it.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1N1kt

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Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 1d

Would be curious what Publix’ insurance carrier thinks of this.

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Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a suit and tie is pointing at the camera with the words i see what you did there .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is pointing at the camera with the words i see what you did there .

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Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 1d

Tremendous sense here.

David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 1d

This is such a good article btw - I really buy this as a theory of contemporary US politics

Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 1d

Great, it was.

Now call it a career and get out on top before everything falls apart.

Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 1d

Aside from the wisdom of this idea in the first place, blabbing it to the press seems unwise, period.

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 5d

Corporations are rolling out new AI tech that may technically comply with data privacy laws, but opens up new ways to control and exploit workers.

Workers, researchers, and tech experts agree that we need a new generation of labor and tech protections: https://bit.ly/4oeGBKn

The “Privacy” Trap

Corporations are rolling out new technologies that may technically comply with data privacy laws, but actually create more ways to control and exploit workers. This brief offers concrete principles fo...

datasociety.net

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Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly. I had a new boss once, from outside the biz; I’d been running the unit for 10 years.

Spent a day with him dissecting one of his bright ideas after another & why it wouldn’t work. ‘We already tried that, here’s the constraints we face.’

He never listened. I quit.

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Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 2d

I’m really not sure he does know he was president on Jan. 6.

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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 2d

Trump claims the “Biden FBI” placed 274 agents at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Trump was president on Jan. 6.

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Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 2d

Reporters need to ask questions of Trump that test his cognitive ability and memory.

‘Who was president when covid started?'
‘Who ordered the killing of Osama bin Laden?'
‘Who was president during the financial crisis?'

Etc. The man’s memory is shot, he has dementia.

Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 2d

It’s almost like the de minimis exception existed for a reason, as do government employees.

But no, the dolts in the White House think everyone before them just didn’t understand the problem, and every thought they have is a fresh new way of solving things.

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Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 2d

Another reason why these layoff threats aren’t going to land the way Vought thinks. Just like the DOGE dorks who fired too many people and hired a bunch back, it’s going to happen again here.

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Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 2d

Just wild guess here, but who’s the Trump crony behind this payday loan venture?

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Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 2d

Lapsed Catholic here. This is a priest who’d get me to go back to Mass.

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 3d

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 2d

Criminal gangs will now do this too— after all, game recognizes game.

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Matt Kelly @radicalcompliance.bsky.social · 2d

Any ‘Trump is back in the hospital’ headlines would fit too.

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