Dextrosity
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Boston living. CT native. GW alumnus. I’d rather be traveling.
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Dextrosity
@dextrosity.bsky.social
· Feb 3
Jonathan Turley will have an op-ed by the end of the day claiming this is actually what the Constitution demands.
Pinning this for anything Trump does over the next four years.
Going from NATO to whatever this is makes me feel like Lucille Bluth did when she got downgraded to a *pool* membership.
Trump's "Board of Peace": Belarus, Morocco, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Hungary, Armenia, Egypt, Kosovo, Pakistan, Paraguay, Albania, Uzbekistan, Bahrain, Qatar, Indonesia.
The US’s new sphere of influence.
The US’s new sphere of influence.
January 22, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Going from NATO to whatever this is makes me feel like Lucille Bluth did when she got downgraded to a *pool* membership.
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(5c) If you can afford it, now is the time to buy a very cheap smartphone on an inexpensive data plan and only go out with that. That way you don't lose an expensive phone and all the photos of your kids when ICE dumps it. Or worse, give them lots of your personal data.
January 22, 2026 at 2:58 AM
(5c) If you can afford it, now is the time to buy a very cheap smartphone on an inexpensive data plan and only go out with that. That way you don't lose an expensive phone and all the photos of your kids when ICE dumps it. Or worse, give them lots of your personal data.
God forbid the Democrats have a leader who actually leads.
NEWS: While Hakeem Jeffries has announced he's opposing the DHS/ICE funding bill tomorrow, his team is not whipping the vote. Several frontliners are expected to vote yes. There's a difference in leadership between personal vote decisions & unifying the caucus.
From me:
prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
From me:
prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
Jeffries Won’t Whip Vote Against ICE Funding - The American Prospect
While the House Democratic leader announced personal opposition to a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, he won’t pressure his colleagues to do the same.
prospect.org
January 22, 2026 at 2:20 AM
God forbid the Democrats have a leader who actually leads.
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If you’re a grown ass man in full tactical gear asking a child to show you ID or proof of citizenship you failed at life. Utterly & completely failed. Loser.
January 21, 2026 at 9:20 PM
If you’re a grown ass man in full tactical gear asking a child to show you ID or proof of citizenship you failed at life. Utterly & completely failed. Loser.
Dante needs to come back and invent new levels of Hell for these scum.
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
January 22, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Dante needs to come back and invent new levels of Hell for these scum.
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A handful of Republicans growing a conscience (or a spine) could end this at any time. I don't think we should ever let them off the hook for enabling these horrors.
January 21, 2026 at 11:27 PM
A handful of Republicans growing a conscience (or a spine) could end this at any time. I don't think we should ever let them off the hook for enabling these horrors.
An underrated, but extremely cool nonetheless, aspect of living in America is how we got rid of actual pensions and instead made everyone’s retirement savings dependent on the economic & geopolitical whims of a mad king.
January 21, 2026 at 8:45 PM
An underrated, but extremely cool nonetheless, aspect of living in America is how we got rid of actual pensions and instead made everyone’s retirement savings dependent on the economic & geopolitical whims of a mad king.
What fucking right does NATO have to ‘give’ Greenland to the US?
January 21, 2026 at 8:33 PM
What fucking right does NATO have to ‘give’ Greenland to the US?
Whether patrolling Fallujah or Minneapolis, the threats are exactly the same and it’s smart to make sure you wear your blood type on your vest. 🙄
January 21, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Whether patrolling Fallujah or Minneapolis, the threats are exactly the same and it’s smart to make sure you wear your blood type on your vest. 🙄
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Now that it’s been a couple of days:
I’m glad Miami fans can get back to their regular passion - making Kalshi bets about the outcome of HR complaints leveled against them
I’m glad Miami fans can get back to their regular passion - making Kalshi bets about the outcome of HR complaints leveled against them
January 21, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Now that it’s been a couple of days:
I’m glad Miami fans can get back to their regular passion - making Kalshi bets about the outcome of HR complaints leveled against them
I’m glad Miami fans can get back to their regular passion - making Kalshi bets about the outcome of HR complaints leveled against them
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When Trump dies we get Vance. Thiel’s pet.
They'll blame a lot of stuff on Trump AND try to fast-track an even uglier white supremacist techno-Christofascism.
We must prept for this now & organize accordingly.
Grassroots activism, coalitions. Dissent. Sand in gears. Strikes.
Every angle.
They'll blame a lot of stuff on Trump AND try to fast-track an even uglier white supremacist techno-Christofascism.
We must prept for this now & organize accordingly.
Grassroots activism, coalitions. Dissent. Sand in gears. Strikes.
Every angle.
January 21, 2026 at 1:10 PM
When Trump dies we get Vance. Thiel’s pet.
They'll blame a lot of stuff on Trump AND try to fast-track an even uglier white supremacist techno-Christofascism.
We must prept for this now & organize accordingly.
Grassroots activism, coalitions. Dissent. Sand in gears. Strikes.
Every angle.
They'll blame a lot of stuff on Trump AND try to fast-track an even uglier white supremacist techno-Christofascism.
We must prept for this now & organize accordingly.
Grassroots activism, coalitions. Dissent. Sand in gears. Strikes.
Every angle.
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Giving Greg Bovino a juice box and sending him to The Hague to answer for his crimes
3 toddlers in an SS coat
January 20, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Giving Greg Bovino a juice box and sending him to The Hague to answer for his crimes
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donate to the greg bovino bitch fund benefiting immigrant rights in minnesota here: venmo.com/u/Marisa-Kabas
January 20, 2026 at 10:26 PM
donate to the greg bovino bitch fund benefiting immigrant rights in minnesota here: venmo.com/u/Marisa-Kabas
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I can't tell you how many times in my old job I warned that a change in technology would not result in a change in productivity because the technology was implemented not in response to identifying a business problem and finding a well-matched solution but because some guy wanted it.
"More than half of CEOs report seeing neither increased revenue nor decreased costs from AI, despite massive investments in the technology, according to a PwC survey of 4,454 business leaders."
Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge
: PwC survey finds more than half of 4,500+ biz leaders see no revenue growth nor cost savings
www.theregister.com
January 20, 2026 at 7:47 PM
I can't tell you how many times in my old job I warned that a change in technology would not result in a change in productivity because the technology was implemented not in response to identifying a business problem and finding a well-matched solution but because some guy wanted it.
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Sanction and travel ban everyone in the administration, congressional republicans, and their billionaire backers and this is over by eod
US Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent:
What I am urging everyone here to do is sit back, take a deep breath, and let things play out. The worst thing countries can do is escalate against the United States.
What I am urging everyone here to do is sit back, take a deep breath, and let things play out. The worst thing countries can do is escalate against the United States.
January 20, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Sanction and travel ban everyone in the administration, congressional republicans, and their billionaire backers and this is over by eod
If Trump is getting “bad advice” about Greenland, does that mean he has multiple personalities?
January 20, 2026 at 3:39 PM
If Trump is getting “bad advice” about Greenland, does that mean he has multiple personalities?
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I got a NYT push notification about exhuming Hunter S Thompson or something, but nothing at all today about Minnesota. Guess everything is quiet up there 🙄
January 20, 2026 at 6:53 AM
I got a NYT push notification about exhuming Hunter S Thompson or something, but nothing at all today about Minnesota. Guess everything is quiet up there 🙄
Was that the @sickoscommittee.org “in this house” flag I saw outside of where the giant PopTart lives???
January 20, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Was that the @sickoscommittee.org “in this house” flag I saw outside of where the giant PopTart lives???
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the U.S. politics and polling punditry press simply acts as if propaganda doesn't exist when discussing electoral voting habits. This country's entire information system is an open sewer, agitprop saturates everything, informed consensus is under assault -- yet this just doesn't get a mention.
January 20, 2026 at 12:22 PM
the U.S. politics and polling punditry press simply acts as if propaganda doesn't exist when discussing electoral voting habits. This country's entire information system is an open sewer, agitprop saturates everything, informed consensus is under assault -- yet this just doesn't get a mention.
At this point I don’t know which is worse: three more years of his shit or having to deal with President J.D. Vance.
January 20, 2026 at 2:24 PM
At this point I don’t know which is worse: three more years of his shit or having to deal with President J.D. Vance.
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This dynamic is basically unchanged in the decades I've followed US politics. The right raises a bullshit bad-faith objection, Dems try to change policy to address it, the right just repeats the bad-faith objection, Dems try again ... forever.
So in the end, what does this article amount to? Republicans are telling the same lie about welfare that they've told for 40 years despite consistent efforts — including many led by Democrats — to restrict and police it.
And in response, Democrats should restrict and police it even more.
And in response, Democrats should restrict and police it even more.
January 19, 2026 at 7:04 PM
This dynamic is basically unchanged in the decades I've followed US politics. The right raises a bullshit bad-faith objection, Dems try to change policy to address it, the right just repeats the bad-faith objection, Dems try again ... forever.
Help us, Michelle Obama. You’re our only hope.
barack obama is sitting in a chair with his feet up and looking at his phone .
Alt: Barack Obama is sitting in a chair in the Oval Office with his feet up and looking at his phone, when Michelle Obama comes in and grabs the phone from him.
media.tenor.com
January 20, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Help us, Michelle Obama. You’re our only hope.
Chat, is war with NATO bad?
January 20, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Chat, is war with NATO bad?
Absolutely rooting for an Indiana blowout now.
I am currently standing five feet from Tim Tebow, who is chatting with Marco Rubio, and to my other side it’s Michael Irvin chatting with Stephen A. Smith.
A lot going on at the moment on the Miami sideline.
A lot going on at the moment on the Miami sideline.
January 20, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Absolutely rooting for an Indiana blowout now.