Kirklin (he/him)
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Kirklin (he/him)
@kirklins.bsky.social
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No, I'm not Spartacus. I'm Antifa(scist).
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Well of course it was, because only Democrats have agency (he scoffs).
Oh dear god.
~55 Dems wanted it stronger.
~5 Dems wanted it weaker.
40 Republicans DIDN'T WANT IT AT ALL.

Smith: "Dems weakened it!"
The ACA was gutted by Democrats. you can argue those key democrats could've been siding with what many see as the more liberal/patient centered options. or you could say it was unfortunate that Dems didnt have 60+ more liberal senators.

but it was Democrats.
In addition to antisemitism by habit, I've come to believe it's projection.

"Our billionaires and multimillionaires do this, so we're going to call out those on your side. With a little coding for our masses."
"The evil Jew is funding the entire US left" is a piece of rank, obvious antisemitism that we have just collectively decided to accept in public, because IOKYR.
Ernst: "I think it is extremely important that we look at who is funding these protests. We have to get to the bottom of this. It could be the usual suspect -- George Soros."
Sorry, Meg. I typed Men and missed that autocorrect.
The consequences might trigger one of @johnrogers.bsky.social crime rules: Noting changes until Rich White Meg go to jail.
I've snidely suggested that the reason they're fighting so hard to suppress the Epstein files is filled with dead girls and live boys.

Reality is simpler. There will be a lot of rich powerful people named if/when it releases. Many names will be a surprise to most people.
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This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.
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I have never seen such a perfect image
Anybody else keep wondering when Planetes's Space Debris Section becomes reality for some agency/company?
You know that scene in Gravity were some debris destroys the Hubble Space Telescope and severely damages the ISS? 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

If things keep going the way they are with unregulated use of LEO, that won’t be scifi for long 🙃
Because it's still October and that means they'd have to release the files.

November 4th. Maybe the 3d.
Why wouldn't you? What possible reason do you have not to do so?
KARL: I mean, you could swear in Adelita Grijalva tomorrow, right?

MIKE JOHNSON: No, not tomorrow. We couldn't. We wouldn't.
There is no realistic way to identify most of the ICE personnel committing criminal assault and battery.

That's fine, there's an easy alternative. Abolish ICE, fire all federal employees and contractors thereof. Prosecute those that can be identified.

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.
Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.
Trump's federal agents shot Marimar Martinez, a US citizen, multiple times for allegedly menacing them with her car in Chicago. Only hours later, Kristi Noem and DHS started spreading disinformation about the shooting.

Now the official line is crumbling. 1/

(link)
newrepublic.com/article/2019...
Trump’s Secret Police Shot a Citizen. Then Damning New Info Emerged.
As the official Trump administration line about the shooting of a Chicago woman crumbles, Senator Chris Murphy is asking pointed questions about what really happened here. Will we ever get answers?
newrepublic.com
The Chief of Police of Dallas rejected the ICE $25 million cooperation offer.

The mayor of the city said, basically, "Now just hold on a minute there, that's a lot of money to walk away from. Let's look at this a bit."

Mayor Johnson just lost my future votes.

www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/d...
Dallas mayor calls for review after police chief rejects $25 million ICE offer for immigration enforcement
The mayor says Dallas could be forfeiting millions in federal reimbursements and missing a chance to expand police staffing by rejecting ICE's 287(g) partnership offer.
www.cbsnews.com
I thought government was shut down except for essential functions. Since when is registering and posting to social media (Bluesky) an essential function?

Who's doing this, really?
tapping the sign - the Epstein clock is still ticking. If Mike Johnson can keep from seating Grijalva in October, he won't have to release the file.

It's the way the Congressional rules work, even if it doesn't make since.

Make that, "That's why it doesn't make sense."
The Epstein clock.

After Grijalva votes (day 0) 7 legislative days must lapse before a member can inform the speaker they'll move to hear the discharge (day 8). The speaker schedules in the next two days (9-10). During the last 10 days of session the motion is out of order.

Nov 4 is too late.
2025 House Calendar
Today's Votes:Next Recorded Votes: TBA
pressgallery.house.gov
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A main organizer of VC Defensa in Ventura County was rammed in his vehicle by federal agents and taken into custody this morning. This video is from VC Defensa IG and shows the ramming. Organizers are thinking he’ll be taken to LA MDC—headed there now
So, when we restore control of the government we're going to have a problem.

The people who are left in government positions. For which side are they burrowers? Did they manage to stay in place and apply brakes to the insanity? Or are they Trump True Believers setting in to keep the insanity there?
For non-ED players but who delve in computer games, a really quick explanation.

You could build the pre-requisite logistic setup (chain of systems) for a starbase and someone could snatch actual ownership while you were getting from last setup to new base. Now there is a delay timer. FDev listened.
If you're an Elite Dangerous player, you should know that FDev's last patch alleviated the colonization claim sniping problem.

There are still possible abuses and maybe holes but the big one is closed.

See recent news on any relevant site.
So Secretary Bessent said, "No Kings means no paychecks."

And my first thought was "Yep, you WOULD be out of a job, wouldn't you."
I am picturing a fairly normal conference meeting where all the people have their laptops open and some have extra tabs open.

Or the fairly normal open office with 10-50 staff all working on computers.

All those computers hearing and responding to everyone.

Chaos. Glee. Oh, the humanity.
This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...
Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it
Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.
www.theverge.com
The youngest person in the Young Republicans chat that's making news was 24 at the time. Vance is defending them by calling them kids.

But the children Epstein abused were all young men and women.
I'm looking at how blithely Trump/Hegseth/Vought etc. are redistributing and restricting money and remembering the joys of teaching new board members about restricted donations.

The fines for using the donation restricted to manga on children's books (for example) can ruin a library. And yet ...
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For everyone's "correlation is not causation" needs.
i feel like you dont' see this talked about enough
It's a start. It's not Abolish/Fire/Prosecute, but it's a start.
This is good: Rep Eric Swalwell tells me House Dems are now discussing making an end to mask-wearing a precondition for ICE funding.

"When we are in the majority, the masks are coming off," he says.

This is the next frontier in anti-Trump resistance.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2018...
Trump ICE Raids Take Horrific Turn in Chicago, Handing Dems an Opening
There’s one simple pledge Democrats can make to voters about ICE that’s easy to understand and will have broad support.
newrepublic.com