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Voice of Reason @voceofreason.bsky.social · 2h

Exactly. The "don't worry about voter suppression" brigade (the "reasonable" people) don't seem to get that this will be a multifaceted attack, their actions will be amplified by a compliant media, and they only need to achieve a small effect to swing the election.

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Voice of Reason @voceofreason.bsky.social · 19h

🤷‍♂️

Voice of Reason @voceofreason.bsky.social · 19h

#Murica

George Pearkes @peark.es · 19h

Lol this rules (note: no public URL yet, will thread below with it when there is)

(Bloomberg) -- Wall Street banks are arranging bets on President Donald Trump’s tariffs being struck down by the Supreme Court — long-shot trades that could pay off handsomely for hedge funds betting against the legality of the administration’s flagship policy.
Jefferies Financial Group Inc. and Oppenheimer & Co. are among firms brokering the deals, matching investors with companies that have paid tariffs to import goods into the US, according to people with knowledge of the matter and correspondence seen by Bloomberg News.
Representatives for Jefferies and Oppenheimer declined to comment.
In the trades, the importing companies essentially sell to investors any future rights to claim refunds on their tariff bills, which could come if the nation’s top court sides with an ongoing legal challenge to Trump’s tariffs. The companies sell at a discount to their expected refunds, meaning investors would reap the upside in a ruling favorable to them. The banks arranging the deals take a cut.

Voice of Reason @voceofreason.bsky.social · 19h

Not an argument.
Would still need to get a conviction.
Also, apart from that PoS Hunter Biden, who?

Voice of Reason @voceofreason.bsky.social · 1d

Giving the president the right to pardon criminals is just weird. Has been abused over and over.
Needs to be abolished.

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Voice of Reason @voceofreason.bsky.social · 1d

Before he goes, if he goes, he will preemptively pardon everyone in his administration. The fraud, the extortion, the perjury, the extra judicial killings, the violations of the constitution, the lot.
And FA will be done about it.

Voice of Reason @voceofreason.bsky.social · 1d

One of the many horrible things about trump is that the worship of money, not exactly foreign to the american soul, has now reached new levels of depravity. Fraud, scams, extortion, gambling, all officially encouraged.

Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 1d

Sure, why not.

Nicole Auerbach @nauerbach.com · 2d

Now official: College athletes and school staff can bet on pro sports, beginning on Nov. 1.

All three Divisions have voted to approve the change, per the NCAA.

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Voice of Reason @voceofreason.bsky.social · 2d

At the very least he should apologize on behalf of the company. Also stop calling coders "engineers".

Voice of Reason @voceofreason.bsky.social · 2d

Clearly the govt shouldn't subsidize ICE cars. But there is a big difference between "not subsidizing" and "banning".

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Voice of Reason @voceofreason.bsky.social · 2d

I'm talking ICE models here, or mild hybrids. Same for Lexus btw, long delivery timelines (though that was an PHEV)

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Voice of Reason @voceofreason.bsky.social · 2d

That is so far from being in any way analogous I just don't know where to begin.

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Voice of Reason @voceofreason.bsky.social · 2d

Dumb question: I know several people currently trying to buy new european cars in europe (Audi, BMW, Cupra, Renault are four I have recent info on). There is extremely limited choice of available cars, and order times are 4-6 months.
Why is that given supposedly low demand/overcapacity?

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Voice of Reason @voceofreason.bsky.social · 2d

Right. So no one will want an internal combustion engine, yet we desperately need regulation to prohibit something that nobody will want.

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Voice of Reason @voceofreason.bsky.social · 2d

They will get a blanket pardon from Trump. Obviously.

Voice of Reason @voceofreason.bsky.social · 4d

At the risk of stating the obvious, this is not going to end well.

Voice of Reason @voceofreason.bsky.social · 4d

Missing the wood for the trees. Criticism of this administration should not be about left vs right, progressive vs conservative.
It should be about authoritarian vs democratic, lawlessness vs rule of law, constitutional rights vs government arbitrariness.

Micah @rincewind.run · 4d

this is accurate along multiple dimensions

they’re getting dumber and more right wing but they are now smarter and more left wing in comparison to the people they see on twitter all day (stupid nazis) which also leads them to be even more prone to dismissing criticism from the left

spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 4d

twitter is making mainstream reporters dumber, and because they're all getting dumber together, none of them can recognize it and they actually think they're getting smarter

Voice of Reason @voceofreason.bsky.social · 4d

The problem with being an unserious administration is that no one takes you seriously.

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Voice of Reason @voceofreason.bsky.social · 5d

surely you walk the moving sidewalk?

Voice of Reason @voceofreason.bsky.social · 5d

Evidence mounting that repeatedly hitting your thumb with a hammer causes pain, but more research needed.

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Voice of Reason @voceofreason.bsky.social · 5d

How banning phones from schools can be in any way controversial is one of life's great mysteries

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Voice of Reason @voceofreason.bsky.social · 5d

Once again, people need to go to prison over this and all the similar shit. Or we are fucked.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 5d

DoD has adopted this position wholesale now and frankly every commander who has done so needs to face an Article 32 hearing when this is over with, and any JAG who has gone along with it needs to be disbarred

Big boy crimes need big boy consequences, at all levels of the chain

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 5d

This is well-stated, and most welcome

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

Voice of Reason @voceofreason.bsky.social · 5d

Netanyahu is a corrupt war criminal, but blaming him for AMC really does go too far.

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Voice of Reason @voceofreason.bsky.social · 5d

always add rand()*scale.

Voice of Reason @voceofreason.bsky.social · 5d

This is willful ignorance elevated to an art form — blithely indifferent to evidence and staggering in its stupidity.

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Voice of Reason @voceofreason.bsky.social · 5d

Harvard has a gazillion dollar endowment, they should fight this shit, not fold like a cheap suit.

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