@bweekspt.bsky.social
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wait, are you telling me the guy who failed at running a real estate empire and failed at running casinos and failed at running an airline and failed at running a football team and failed at fighting a pandemic has failed at destroying Iran's nuke program? how the fuck did we Nazi this coming
June 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
wait, are you telling me the guy who failed at running a real estate empire and failed at running casinos and failed at running an airline and failed at running a football team and failed at fighting a pandemic has failed at destroying Iran's nuke program? how the fuck did we Nazi this coming
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Even if you (wrongly) believe that some immigrants lack due process rights, what’s to stop the government from claiming that *you* are an undocumented immigrant; removing you to El Salvador; citing an “administrative error”; and refusing to do anything to bring you back?
The answer is due process.
The answer is due process.
April 15, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Even if you (wrongly) believe that some immigrants lack due process rights, what’s to stop the government from claiming that *you* are an undocumented immigrant; removing you to El Salvador; citing an “administrative error”; and refusing to do anything to bring you back?
The answer is due process.
The answer is due process.
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Elon Musk writing a check for $1 million is like 60 cents to him — when comparing his wealth to the average American’s.
(via @rollingstone.com)
@martinbauman.com
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
(via @rollingstone.com)
@martinbauman.com
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
April 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Elon Musk writing a check for $1 million is like 60 cents to him — when comparing his wealth to the average American’s.
(via @rollingstone.com)
@martinbauman.com
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
(via @rollingstone.com)
@martinbauman.com
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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One thing I unironically love about Bluesky is that I'm confident I could assemble, from the folks I follow, a top-notch team of experts in ridiculously unrelated fields to solve a major crime. Need a microbiologist, an art historian, a database expert, & someone who can do 73 pull-ups? No problem!
April 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
One thing I unironically love about Bluesky is that I'm confident I could assemble, from the folks I follow, a top-notch team of experts in ridiculously unrelated fields to solve a major crime. Need a microbiologist, an art historian, a database expert, & someone who can do 73 pull-ups? No problem!
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The Department of Government Efficiency, for example
April 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The Department of Government Efficiency, for example
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The Midwestern dilemma:
It's warm enough today and that it might be nice to run the air conditioner for a spell. That would test that it's working, you see, and also it's not going to cool off much tonight.
But it's not even April yet and it may snow on Monday. This decision is pain.
It's warm enough today and that it might be nice to run the air conditioner for a spell. That would test that it's working, you see, and also it's not going to cool off much tonight.
But it's not even April yet and it may snow on Monday. This decision is pain.
March 28, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The Midwestern dilemma:
It's warm enough today and that it might be nice to run the air conditioner for a spell. That would test that it's working, you see, and also it's not going to cool off much tonight.
But it's not even April yet and it may snow on Monday. This decision is pain.
It's warm enough today and that it might be nice to run the air conditioner for a spell. That would test that it's working, you see, and also it's not going to cool off much tonight.
But it's not even April yet and it may snow on Monday. This decision is pain.
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Have the DOGE boys cancelled a single Elon government contract yet? Still no?
March 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Have the DOGE boys cancelled a single Elon government contract yet? Still no?
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A big reason people don't understand what's going on is that there wasn't a Schoolhouse Rock song about cloture.
March 13, 2025 at 3:55 AM
A big reason people don't understand what's going on is that there wasn't a Schoolhouse Rock song about cloture.
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One sentence perfectly encapsulating Donald Trump and the economy
March 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
One sentence perfectly encapsulating Donald Trump and the economy
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For the record
Rachel Maddow sets the record straight on Trump address falsehoods
@maddow.msnbc.com runs through an exhausting list of false statements made by Donald Trump in his first address to a joint session of Congress of his new term.
WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GanW...
@maddow.msnbc.com runs through an exhausting list of false statements made by Donald Trump in his first address to a joint session of Congress of his new term.
WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GanW...
'For the record...': Rachel Maddow sets the record straight on Trump address falsehoods
YouTube video by MSNBC
www.youtube.com
March 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
For the record
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If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company.
It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.
They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.
I’m happy to invest and/or help
It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.
They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.
I’m happy to invest and/or help
March 2, 2025 at 12:34 AM
If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company.
It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.
They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.
I’m happy to invest and/or help
It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.
They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.
I’m happy to invest and/or help
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BREAKING: Foreign-born leader comes to Oval Office, dressed down in a disrespectful manner, having already received billions from America, asking for American taxpayers to keep paying him more billions, subsidizing him for years to come:
March 3, 2025 at 12:02 AM
BREAKING: Foreign-born leader comes to Oval Office, dressed down in a disrespectful manner, having already received billions from America, asking for American taxpayers to keep paying him more billions, subsidizing him for years to come:
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Pro tip - when the Kremlin is praising your foreign policy, you have the WRONG foreign policy.
March 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Pro tip - when the Kremlin is praising your foreign policy, you have the WRONG foreign policy.
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How it started/How it's going
February 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
How it started/How it's going
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Day 1 on the left. Day 2 on the right.
Don't let anyone tell you that pushback is pointless.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Don't let anyone tell you that pushback is pointless.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
February 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Day 1 on the left. Day 2 on the right.
Don't let anyone tell you that pushback is pointless.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Don't let anyone tell you that pushback is pointless.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Besides the personal cost to those losing their jobs, this WILL NOT SAVE MONEY.
Every $1 IRS spends on audits brings in >$1 in additional revenue. This is especially true for audits of the very rich: $6.29 returned for each dollar spent auditing top 0.1%.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
Every $1 IRS spends on audits brings in >$1 in additional revenue. This is especially true for audits of the very rich: $6.29 returned for each dollar spent auditing top 0.1%.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
Opinion | How much did Congress lose by defunding the IRS? Way more than we thought.
New research finds that for each extra dollar the IRS spends auditing wealthy taxpayers, it can collect more than $12 in return.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Besides the personal cost to those losing their jobs, this WILL NOT SAVE MONEY.
Every $1 IRS spends on audits brings in >$1 in additional revenue. This is especially true for audits of the very rich: $6.29 returned for each dollar spent auditing top 0.1%.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
Every $1 IRS spends on audits brings in >$1 in additional revenue. This is especially true for audits of the very rich: $6.29 returned for each dollar spent auditing top 0.1%.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...