@chippyplay.bsky.social
Politics - Science - Religion
Raised in a world that told me character and goodness mattered, then changed its mind.
Denver
Raised in a world that told me character and goodness mattered, then changed its mind.
Denver
Elsewhere Trump’s whiny spokesperson Davari, complaining about Redd’s choice to skip, pulled out the “great art transcends politics” line.
By which she means that great art is subservient and inert in the face of politics.
So very gross.
By which she means that great art is subservient and inert in the face of politics.
So very gross.
Are we really surprised that they are threatening to sue? That is, after all, Trump’s modus operandi. No performer with any self respect is going to appear here.
Kennedy Center criticizes musician who canceled performance after Trump name added to building #usnews
December 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Elsewhere Trump’s whiny spokesperson Davari, complaining about Redd’s choice to skip, pulled out the “great art transcends politics” line.
By which she means that great art is subservient and inert in the face of politics.
So very gross.
By which she means that great art is subservient and inert in the face of politics.
So very gross.
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1 - the exec branch can't decline to spend $ Congress appropriated
2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements
3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program
4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states
2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements
3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program
4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states
Sean Duffy on blue states: "What I can do is I can pull their money. That's the leverage I do have ... I guarantee you that the federal taxpayer is not going to fund their roads and bridges and their systems when they are putting illegals on the roads."
December 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
1 - the exec branch can't decline to spend $ Congress appropriated
2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements
3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program
4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states
2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements
3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program
4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states
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Windmill impact on radar has been studied by the DoE for over a decade, including how to mitigate the effects.
So yes, bogus. And stupid, too.
windexchange.energy.gov/projects/rad...
So yes, bogus. And stupid, too.
windexchange.energy.gov/projects/rad...
December 23, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Windmill impact on radar has been studied by the DoE for over a decade, including how to mitigate the effects.
So yes, bogus. And stupid, too.
windexchange.energy.gov/projects/rad...
So yes, bogus. And stupid, too.
windexchange.energy.gov/projects/rad...
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We were told that voting for Trump’s appointees would protect CO. But Trump’s administration still turned its back on our state after a disaster. That’s what caution and concession gets us: nothing. CO doesn’t need a senator who hopes for the best. We need one who fights for us.
Trump denies disaster declarations for Colorado fires, flooding: ‘We won’t stop fighting’ trib.al/wfmTdLL
Trump denies disaster declarations for Colorado fires, flooding: ‘We won’t stop fighting’
President Donald Trump denied two disaster declaration requests from Colorado that would have allowed the state to receive federal assistance — a move the state’s members of Congress plan to …
trib.al
December 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
We were told that voting for Trump’s appointees would protect CO. But Trump’s administration still turned its back on our state after a disaster. That’s what caution and concession gets us: nothing. CO doesn’t need a senator who hopes for the best. We need one who fights for us.
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If you missed seeing 60 Minutes' CECOT segment, try watching this segment instead. @60minutes.bsky.social @cbsnews.com
FRONTLINE | Status: Venezuelan/Surviving CECOT | Season 2025 | Episode 16
Amid Trump’s immigration crackdown, a Venezuelan family struggles to keep its legal status.
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December 22, 2025 at 5:13 AM
If you missed seeing 60 Minutes' CECOT segment, try watching this segment instead. @60minutes.bsky.social @cbsnews.com
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Vought is one of the top three or four enemies of the Constitution & American democracy. His removal from power is one of the highest priorities for any project of checking the dictatorship's lawless wielding of the vast powers of the state
Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances:
“I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.”
(Published October w/ @newyorker.com)
“I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.”
(Published October w/ @newyorker.com)
Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President
From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...
www.propublica.org
December 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Vought is one of the top three or four enemies of the Constitution & American democracy. His removal from power is one of the highest priorities for any project of checking the dictatorship's lawless wielding of the vast powers of the state
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Local man who doesn't understand how percentages work seeks to appoint chair of the Federal Reserve.
LOLLL Trump claims he’s cutting drug prices by 600 percent, which is not possible
December 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Local man who doesn't understand how percentages work seeks to appoint chair of the Federal Reserve.
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Read the story by @annamaria.bsky.social and Brett Murphy with photos by Peter DeCampo.
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Read the story by @annamaria.bsky.social and Brett Murphy with photos by Peter DeCampo.
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NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
December 17, 2025 at 4:14 AM
NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
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It is hard to overstate how critical @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is to climate science in the US and around the world. It's the beating heart of our field. Generations of scientists have trained there, and almost everyone I know relies on deep collaborations with NCAR scientists. It's end is unthinkable.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 2:50 AM
It is hard to overstate how critical @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is to climate science in the US and around the world. It's the beating heart of our field. Generations of scientists have trained there, and almost everyone I know relies on deep collaborations with NCAR scientists. It's end is unthinkable.
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Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
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NEW: 9 ex-DOJ lawyers who resigned from antisemitism investigations into UCLA and other UC campuses say they were pressured to find UC guilty of violations in a rushed and politically motivated process.
One called it a "fraudulent and sham investigation."
www.latimes.com/california/s...
One called it a "fraudulent and sham investigation."
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Times Investigation: Ex-Trump DOJ lawyers say 'fraudulent' UC antisemitism probes led them to quit
The Times spoke to nine former Department of Justice civil rights attorneys tasked with investigating antisemitism complaints at the University of California. They all resigned during their invetigati...
www.latimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
NEW: 9 ex-DOJ lawyers who resigned from antisemitism investigations into UCLA and other UC campuses say they were pressured to find UC guilty of violations in a rushed and politically motivated process.
One called it a "fraudulent and sham investigation."
www.latimes.com/california/s...
One called it a "fraudulent and sham investigation."
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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This entire article is positive about Trump Gold Cards. It contains positive quotes about it from Trump, Lutnick and a CEO. It contains no quotes from the many critics of the program. This is sandwiched between 6 posts about Erika Kirk. CBS is lost.
December 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM
This entire article is positive about Trump Gold Cards. It contains positive quotes about it from Trump, Lutnick and a CEO. It contains no quotes from the many critics of the program. This is sandwiched between 6 posts about Erika Kirk. CBS is lost.
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Lazyass screenwriting
Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
U.S. Moves to Drop Charges in International Soccer Corruption Case
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Lazyass screenwriting
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Birthright citizenship is a policy choice so central to our values and identity as a nation that we chose to amend the Constitution to protect it against the passions and prejudices of temporary majorities.
December 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Birthright citizenship is a policy choice so central to our values and identity as a nation that we chose to amend the Constitution to protect it against the passions and prejudices of temporary majorities.
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Donald Trump has unilaterally decided that one of America's largest media companies must be sold to one of his cronies. Here's why America has a liberal media bias problem.
December 9, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Donald Trump has unilaterally decided that one of America's largest media companies must be sold to one of his cronies. Here's why America has a liberal media bias problem.
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bad actors like wurman are why i think it is important to place the birthright clause in the full context of section 1 and section 1 in the context of both dred scott and the two decades of antislavery and abolitionist agitation and political thinking that proceeded it
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
bad actors like wurman are why i think it is important to place the birthright clause in the full context of section 1 and section 1 in the context of both dred scott and the two decades of antislavery and abolitionist agitation and political thinking that proceeded it
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"A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission targeted at Venezuela."
Chinese Hospital Ship Visits Jamaica as US Gunboats Ply Caribbean
A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission ...
www.bloomberg.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
"A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission targeted at Venezuela."
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Straight up murder!
December 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Straight up murder!
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Cyber Monday is here and deals are going fast! These deals are diaphanous. They are receding even as we speak, becoming mere memories of deals, prices longed for but lost, hints at what could have been had for less. A golden slant of sun through window falls on an empty countertop. Act now.
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Cyber Monday is here and deals are going fast! These deals are diaphanous. They are receding even as we speak, becoming mere memories of deals, prices longed for but lost, hints at what could have been had for less. A golden slant of sun through window falls on an empty countertop. Act now.
I have fond memories of doing research at Northwestern during my undergrad summers.
But I am currently working though college options with my prep school HS junior son, and NW is now off our list. We’re just one family, I guess, so what do they care.
But I am currently working though college options with my prep school HS junior son, and NW is now off our list. We’re just one family, I guess, so what do they care.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I have fond memories of doing research at Northwestern during my undergrad summers.
But I am currently working though college options with my prep school HS junior son, and NW is now off our list. We’re just one family, I guess, so what do they care.
But I am currently working though college options with my prep school HS junior son, and NW is now off our list. We’re just one family, I guess, so what do they care.
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This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
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Everyone in politics, everyone in media knows what’s happening here: the White House is controlled by a repellant white supremacist who waits with bated breath for any opportunity to run nonwhite people out of America. They know who it is, what he’s doing. But they won’t SAY it.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Everyone in politics, everyone in media knows what’s happening here: the White House is controlled by a repellant white supremacist who waits with bated breath for any opportunity to run nonwhite people out of America. They know who it is, what he’s doing. But they won’t SAY it.
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Again, as with all the other federal budget cuts that are incinerating 20-25% of the funding & the entire budget model of every R1 university in 🇺🇸, this is a five-alarm emergency that requires immediate, loud, collective condemnation by our university presidents. Total 🦗 as it’s all being gutted.
November 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Again, as with all the other federal budget cuts that are incinerating 20-25% of the funding & the entire budget model of every R1 university in 🇺🇸, this is a five-alarm emergency that requires immediate, loud, collective condemnation by our university presidents. Total 🦗 as it’s all being gutted.
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REUTERS tries to quantify Trump’s “sweeping campaign of retaliation against perceived enemies ..”
The number of targets? “At least 470 people, organizations and institutions ..”
@reuters.com @bradheath.bsky.social
www.reuters.com/investigates...
The number of targets? “At least 470 people, organizations and institutions ..”
@reuters.com @bradheath.bsky.social
www.reuters.com/investigates...
November 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
REUTERS tries to quantify Trump’s “sweeping campaign of retaliation against perceived enemies ..”
The number of targets? “At least 470 people, organizations and institutions ..”
@reuters.com @bradheath.bsky.social
www.reuters.com/investigates...
The number of targets? “At least 470 people, organizations and institutions ..”
@reuters.com @bradheath.bsky.social
www.reuters.com/investigates...