kramp47
@kramp47.bsky.social
Thoroughbred racing, Economics, Cybersecurity
But withholding money from the tunnel over the names of Penn Station, the busiest train station in the country, would be a significant escalation of the effort to ensure Mr. Trump’s legacy, tying it to a project that would have massive ripple effects across the East Coast. (NYT, M. Gold)
Really?
Really?
February 7, 2026 at 3:17 AM
But withholding money from the tunnel over the names of Penn Station, the busiest train station in the country, would be a significant escalation of the effort to ensure Mr. Trump’s legacy, tying it to a project that would have massive ripple effects across the East Coast. (NYT, M. Gold)
Really?
Really?
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More than 40K people submitted comments.
By OPM's own count, 94% of commenters opposed the new rule. Never mind, they say the objectors simply “misunderstand the law.”
They understand it all too well. It is the administration that is lying about the law, and how they are operating.
By OPM's own count, 94% of commenters opposed the new rule. Never mind, they say the objectors simply “misunderstand the law.”
They understand it all too well. It is the administration that is lying about the law, and how they are operating.
February 6, 2026 at 2:03 PM
More than 40K people submitted comments.
By OPM's own count, 94% of commenters opposed the new rule. Never mind, they say the objectors simply “misunderstand the law.”
They understand it all too well. It is the administration that is lying about the law, and how they are operating.
By OPM's own count, 94% of commenters opposed the new rule. Never mind, they say the objectors simply “misunderstand the law.”
They understand it all too well. It is the administration that is lying about the law, and how they are operating.
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the thing is the Gateway funding is just not something that can be negotiated on. it's our money. it's appropriated. attempting to trade it for something after it's been appropriated is merely acknowledging that the grounds for freezing it are wholly fictitious. in a sane world, it's impeachable.
February 6, 2026 at 1:51 PM
the thing is the Gateway funding is just not something that can be negotiated on. it's our money. it's appropriated. attempting to trade it for something after it's been appropriated is merely acknowledging that the grounds for freezing it are wholly fictitious. in a sane world, it's impeachable.
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BREAKING: An Arizona state court permanently blocked several abortion restrictions, including a law forcing patients to make two trips to a provider and a ban on telemedicine abortion.
This is a big win for reproductive freedom in the state.
This is a big win for reproductive freedom in the state.
February 6, 2026 at 3:44 PM
BREAKING: An Arizona state court permanently blocked several abortion restrictions, including a law forcing patients to make two trips to a provider and a ban on telemedicine abortion.
This is a big win for reproductive freedom in the state.
This is a big win for reproductive freedom in the state.
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I hope lawyers, secretaries of state, and state attorneys general are preparing for what’s coming.
February 6, 2026 at 1:36 AM
I hope lawyers, secretaries of state, and state attorneys general are preparing for what’s coming.
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The beacon on the hill for those striving towards democracy - NOT SO MUCH ANYMORE!
The day when I'll get arrested at the border as a Euro-American for some post in Bluesky is getting closer, it's like the transfer to Moscow these days, a xenophobic,obsessed, anti-freedom USA, it reminds me of when I visited Communist East-Berlin in 1987.
This is not America.
This is not America.
February 6, 2026 at 4:02 PM
The beacon on the hill for those striving towards democracy - NOT SO MUCH ANYMORE!
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NEW: A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.
Federal judge rules DOJ can ‘no longer’ be trusted in voter roll crusade
The judge pointed to a letter from Bondi to Minnesota that tied federal immigration enforcement to demands for voter data as the smoking gun.
www.democracydocket.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:35 PM
NEW: A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.
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📌It's my birthday today, so here's what I want: The people who are fighting the grotesque, racist Trump GOP with everything they got to puff their chests out and be proud.
We've been kicking their asses in one election after another, and are going to destroy them in Nov.
AND THEY KNOW IT
-Cheers
We've been kicking their asses in one election after another, and are going to destroy them in Nov.
AND THEY KNOW IT
-Cheers
February 6, 2026 at 4:09 PM
📌It's my birthday today, so here's what I want: The people who are fighting the grotesque, racist Trump GOP with everything they got to puff their chests out and be proud.
We've been kicking their asses in one election after another, and are going to destroy them in Nov.
AND THEY KNOW IT
-Cheers
We've been kicking their asses in one election after another, and are going to destroy them in Nov.
AND THEY KNOW IT
-Cheers
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In 2024, voters in Arizona voted to enshrine the right to abortion in their state’s constitution.
Today’s victory is a result of the hard work of advocates, organizers, and voters who fought to protect reproductive freedom for everyone in the state.
Today’s victory is a result of the hard work of advocates, organizers, and voters who fought to protect reproductive freedom for everyone in the state.
February 6, 2026 at 4:10 PM
In 2024, voters in Arizona voted to enshrine the right to abortion in their state’s constitution.
Today’s victory is a result of the hard work of advocates, organizers, and voters who fought to protect reproductive freedom for everyone in the state.
Today’s victory is a result of the hard work of advocates, organizers, and voters who fought to protect reproductive freedom for everyone in the state.
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Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
February 6, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
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February 6, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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How do we get this message across to the majority of Americans?
They didn’t come here for your welfare or your benefits.
America has the WORST welfare & benefit system in the Western World.
If all they wanted were benefits, they’d have continued on to Norway!
They didn’t come here for your welfare or your benefits.
America has the WORST welfare & benefit system in the Western World.
If all they wanted were benefits, they’d have continued on to Norway!
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.
The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
www.cato.org/white-paper/...
The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
www.cato.org/white-paper/...
February 6, 2026 at 4:07 PM
How do we get this message across to the majority of Americans?
They didn’t come here for your welfare or your benefits.
America has the WORST welfare & benefit system in the Western World.
If all they wanted were benefits, they’d have continued on to Norway!
They didn’t come here for your welfare or your benefits.
America has the WORST welfare & benefit system in the Western World.
If all they wanted were benefits, they’d have continued on to Norway!
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Here's an excerpt -- I hope you'll reward me for getting off the couch and doing some reporting by reading the whole column and telling me what you think
February 5, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Here's an excerpt -- I hope you'll reward me for getting off the couch and doing some reporting by reading the whole column and telling me what you think
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Sorry, but Ukrainian humor has no competitors😅
February 5, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Sorry, but Ukrainian humor has no competitors😅
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Low-cost wind would displace high-cost fossil, so by delaying it and raising your rates, they steer money to Trump’s big fossil fuel donors. Payback to cronies, with your dollars.
February 5, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Low-cost wind would displace high-cost fossil, so by delaying it and raising your rates, they steer money to Trump’s big fossil fuel donors. Payback to cronies, with your dollars.
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⚡ President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on February 5 that 157 Ukrainians have returned home as part of the latest prisoner exchange with Russia.
February 5, 2026 at 1:37 PM
⚡ President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on February 5 that 157 Ukrainians have returned home as part of the latest prisoner exchange with Russia.
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If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
February 5, 2026 at 12:16 AM
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
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‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
![…
25. This Cibola jail was horrible. It was cramped. I was chained up again.
The officers mocked
me and called me their enemy. They laughed at me. I was kept at the jail for what felt like around three hours. I wasn't given an explanation for why I was there.
26. Security
guards then put me on a bus. I think it was around January 27.
No one said
anything about where I was going. I was handcuffed. It felt like the middle of the night. It was freezing cold in the bus because the driver had the AC on. We had no jackets. The bus eventually took me back to El Paso in the carly morning of Tuesday, January 27th.
27. I was put in a cold cell where I had to sleep on the bare cement floor. Around 10 in the morning my cellmate asked to speak to an ICE officer. Three officers came into the cell so I had a chance to speak to them too. One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." She told me that if I fought my case, I would spend two to three more months here in El Paso. She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota. If I hadn't managed to talk to my attorney who told me a while back that I was ordered released. I might have given up at this point and signed the self-deportation forms because the conditions were so unbearable.
…
30. When I was taken back to the detention center from the airport, after missing the flight, I overheard an ICE officer saying in English, "the judge in Minnesota wants this one back." I was put in a cold jail cell again until early next morning (January 28). But again no one had told me directly that a judge had ordered my release
…
32. When I arrived in Minneapolis, I was handed off to ICE
… I had to sign lots of papers saying that I wasn't going to be a part of any "groups." I didn't know what they meant by "groups." They never told me why I was detained](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5cn3kbi4g5blrtahon34xbu4/bafkreiccqxmfncofjqinoveiqscwale2ox5xpiqt46veqjdh3jmimkrxhq@jpeg)
February 5, 2026 at 6:04 AM
‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
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What should alarm us about the Epstein files isn’t just the appalling details, which are horrific and criminal.
It’s that here is a growing sense that there is small number of elite who see themselves as above the law.
It’s that here is a growing sense that there is small number of elite who see themselves as above the law.
February 4, 2026 at 6:35 PM
What should alarm us about the Epstein files isn’t just the appalling details, which are horrific and criminal.
It’s that here is a growing sense that there is small number of elite who see themselves as above the law.
It’s that here is a growing sense that there is small number of elite who see themselves as above the law.
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This was me when I got hired by Harvard to join their Office of General Counsel; encountered a wide swath of clients, brilliant minds, running departments or centers around campus—some brilliant, some very average, even mediocre.
This conversation about Imposter Syndrome is one of my favorite examples of the Linguistics phenomenon of code-switching. I reckon Black people, maybe most people(?!) recognize President Obama is talking to a Black person, before the interviewers are shown. Fantastic.
February 4, 2026 at 1:30 PM
This was me when I got hired by Harvard to join their Office of General Counsel; encountered a wide swath of clients, brilliant minds, running departments or centers around campus—some brilliant, some very average, even mediocre.
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Millions of Americans can’t afford healthcare
Yet Donald Trump wants Congress to give more to ICE
For what
So they can kill more people like Alex Pretti or Renee Good
Or detain more kids like Liam Ramos
HELL NO
Call your representatives
Tell them to
#FundHealthcareOverICE
202-224-3121
Yet Donald Trump wants Congress to give more to ICE
For what
So they can kill more people like Alex Pretti or Renee Good
Or detain more kids like Liam Ramos
HELL NO
Call your representatives
Tell them to
#FundHealthcareOverICE
202-224-3121
February 3, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Millions of Americans can’t afford healthcare
Yet Donald Trump wants Congress to give more to ICE
For what
So they can kill more people like Alex Pretti or Renee Good
Or detain more kids like Liam Ramos
HELL NO
Call your representatives
Tell them to
#FundHealthcareOverICE
202-224-3121
Yet Donald Trump wants Congress to give more to ICE
For what
So they can kill more people like Alex Pretti or Renee Good
Or detain more kids like Liam Ramos
HELL NO
Call your representatives
Tell them to
#FundHealthcareOverICE
202-224-3121
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ICE's budget could fund the ACA (healthcare) extension and expand Medicaid to millions. Instead, it funds home invasions, family separation, and killing protesters. Republicans made this choice for you. Remember in November... #FundHealthcareOverICE
February 3, 2026 at 9:52 PM
ICE's budget could fund the ACA (healthcare) extension and expand Medicaid to millions. Instead, it funds home invasions, family separation, and killing protesters. Republicans made this choice for you. Remember in November... #FundHealthcareOverICE
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Correct. Even before 2014 there have been people documenting and publishing about this. NO ONE WOULD ACT, because SO MANY were part of it. "Lift the pedosadist / trafficking networks and the entire global oligarchy will be in the net. - Heather Marsh, 2014" #OpDeathEaters #Anonymous
February 3, 2026 at 2:52 AM
Correct. Even before 2014 there have been people documenting and publishing about this. NO ONE WOULD ACT, because SO MANY were part of it. "Lift the pedosadist / trafficking networks and the entire global oligarchy will be in the net. - Heather Marsh, 2014" #OpDeathEaters #Anonymous
It's so weird that the global 'pedophile/money elite' that Qanon warned about is NOT led by George Soros and Democrats.
February 3, 2026 at 2:51 PM
It's so weird that the global 'pedophile/money elite' that Qanon warned about is NOT led by George Soros and Democrats.