Chris
@ckndestroy.bsky.social
New Jersey. Politics. History. Comics. Movies. Pro Wrestling. USMNT. USWNT. MLS (RBNY). NWSL (Gotham). Chelsea (men & women). NJ Devils. Self-hating NY Jets fan.
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The president of the United States and the president of El Salvador have conspired to kidnap a man and hold him hostage in an El Salvador prison. This criminality ignores the rule of law and thumbs its nose at a Supreme Court ruling to facilitate his return.
April 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The president of the United States and the president of El Salvador have conspired to kidnap a man and hold him hostage in an El Salvador prison. This criminality ignores the rule of law and thumbs its nose at a Supreme Court ruling to facilitate his return.
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i am fascinated by the outright refusal of people in the professional political commentary class to just consider the possibility that there is no plan and that trump really is a braying idiot with the more acute case of narcissistic personality disorder on record
April 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
i am fascinated by the outright refusal of people in the professional political commentary class to just consider the possibility that there is no plan and that trump really is a braying idiot with the more acute case of narcissistic personality disorder on record
@sonnybunch.bsky.social Is it just me, or is Dark Winds wildly under discussed in the discourse considering how great a show it is?
April 6, 2025 at 3:56 AM
@sonnybunch.bsky.social Is it just me, or is Dark Winds wildly under discussed in the discourse considering how great a show it is?
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Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.
February 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.
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Dusting off my old Oxford English Dictionary and consulting carefully, I could not find "attack friends and submit to enemies" as a definition of the word "strength."
March 1, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Dusting off my old Oxford English Dictionary and consulting carefully, I could not find "attack friends and submit to enemies" as a definition of the word "strength."
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I’m so ashamed for my country right now. We should be so much better than this. Being an American used to mean more than “cutting deals” and berating victims of aggression to feel tough. We are losing what so many patriots before us have built and defended in blood and treasure. Very sad.
February 28, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I’m so ashamed for my country right now. We should be so much better than this. Being an American used to mean more than “cutting deals” and berating victims of aggression to feel tough. We are losing what so many patriots before us have built and defended in blood and treasure. Very sad.
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"There's so much fraud, waste, and abuse."
"Can you give us an example?"
"Oh ho ... trust us, there's so much fraud, waste and abuse, you wouldn't believe it."
"Try me! Just one."
"Sorry, there's too much fraud, waste, and abuse. I can't pick out just one instance of fraud, waste, and abuse."
"Can you give us an example?"
"Oh ho ... trust us, there's so much fraud, waste and abuse, you wouldn't believe it."
"Try me! Just one."
"Sorry, there's too much fraud, waste, and abuse. I can't pick out just one instance of fraud, waste, and abuse."
REPORTER: Can you say unequivocally that down the line, there won't be cuts to Medicaid programs?
MIKE JOHNSON: Medicaid is hugely problematic because it has a lot of fraud, waste, and abuse.
MIKE JOHNSON: Medicaid is hugely problematic because it has a lot of fraud, waste, and abuse.
February 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
"There's so much fraud, waste, and abuse."
"Can you give us an example?"
"Oh ho ... trust us, there's so much fraud, waste and abuse, you wouldn't believe it."
"Try me! Just one."
"Sorry, there's too much fraud, waste, and abuse. I can't pick out just one instance of fraud, waste, and abuse."
"Can you give us an example?"
"Oh ho ... trust us, there's so much fraud, waste and abuse, you wouldn't believe it."
"Try me! Just one."
"Sorry, there's too much fraud, waste, and abuse. I can't pick out just one instance of fraud, waste, and abuse."
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I don't know who needs to hear this but the thing where you decide that somebody acting like a huge asshole is evidence that they're neurodivergent and then decide to defend their behavior on that basis is not actually allyship
February 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I don't know who needs to hear this but the thing where you decide that somebody acting like a huge asshole is evidence that they're neurodivergent and then decide to defend their behavior on that basis is not actually allyship
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When asked what happened to the town’s money, the mayor said, “The traveling salesman who sold us the monorail is working very hard. I have seen the big machines myself and they are currently digging a very large hole. I am sure everyone will be very impressed when the project is finished.”
Johnson: "Elon's cracked the code. He's now inside these agencies. He's created these algorithms that are constantly crawling through the data & as he told me in his office, data doesn't lie. We're gonna be able to get the information. We're gonna be able to transform the way federal govt works."
February 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
When asked what happened to the town’s money, the mayor said, “The traveling salesman who sold us the monorail is working very hard. I have seen the big machines myself and they are currently digging a very large hole. I am sure everyone will be very impressed when the project is finished.”
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Macron, with Trump scowling next to him, says "the aggressor is Russia"
February 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Macron, with Trump scowling next to him, says "the aggressor is Russia"
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The U.S. is the story, of course, but the abomination of Israel voting against a Jewish-led nation, with a fascist regime that seeks to restore the imperial Russia of the pogrom, mainly as cover for its own genocidal campaign...
Russia, Belarus, Eritrea, Nicaragua and....the US. And Israel.
All on the losing side
All on the losing side
Breaking news: U.S. sides with Russia to vote against a U.N. resolution condemning Moscow for the Ukraine war.
Washington’s dramatic shift on the conflict marks a major break with its European allies and coincides with the Trump administration’s bid to repair relations with the Kremlin.
Washington’s dramatic shift on the conflict marks a major break with its European allies and coincides with the Trump administration’s bid to repair relations with the Kremlin.
February 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The U.S. is the story, of course, but the abomination of Israel voting against a Jewish-led nation, with a fascist regime that seeks to restore the imperial Russia of the pogrom, mainly as cover for its own genocidal campaign...
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Your regular reminder that the US air & water pollution laws passed in the 60s & 70s -- and the elaborate federal bureaucracy created to administer them -- constitute one of the most successful gov't interventions in history. WILDLY successful. The envy of the world.
February 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Your regular reminder that the US air & water pollution laws passed in the 60s & 70s -- and the elaborate federal bureaucracy created to administer them -- constitute one of the most successful gov't interventions in history. WILDLY successful. The envy of the world.
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Trump and Trumpism summed up in a single statement.
Trump: I'm hearing so much about eggs, figure something out fast. We inherited all of the problems. A few months down the road, we won’t be able to say it’s so much us. But the big things we can blame other people for
February 22, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Trump and Trumpism summed up in a single statement.
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This is in fact a real picture and it will work nicely in the ads next year about the military families devastated by Elon's illegal firings.
February 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This is in fact a real picture and it will work nicely in the ads next year about the military families devastated by Elon's illegal firings.
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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.
https://propub.li/43487Tj
https://propub.li/43487Tj
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
propub.li
February 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.
https://propub.li/43487Tj
https://propub.li/43487Tj
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This is the intersection point between Muskian arrogance and idiot populism: The conviction that there’s an extremely simple solution for everything that, somehow, nobody else has ever noticed & that you via either genius or “common sense” have uniquely hit upon.
Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick says President Trump’s goal is to abolish the IRS and “let all the outsiders pay.”
February 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
This is the intersection point between Muskian arrogance and idiot populism: The conviction that there’s an extremely simple solution for everything that, somehow, nobody else has ever noticed & that you via either genius or “common sense” have uniquely hit upon.
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It’s incredible that Trump’s people say the answer to bird flu is supposedly “better biosecurity” while they’re firing the biosecurity people.
February 20, 2025 at 2:14 AM
It’s incredible that Trump’s people say the answer to bird flu is supposedly “better biosecurity” while they’re firing the biosecurity people.
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It's not in spite of these indicators, it's *because* of them. Affluence and ennui are powerful drivers of modern authoritatianism.
Still hard to believe we voted for fascism with unemployment at 4.2%, the strongest performing economy in the rich world, & inflation, at 2.4% PCE in Nov 2024, closer to target than 85% of the months since we established it in 2012: bsky.app/profile/mcop.... Verily, a marvel of political economy.
Here's each G7 country's cumulative increase in real GDP per capita, since just before the pandemic:
🇺🇸 +9.4%
🇮🇹 +6.5% (thru Q3)
🇯🇵 +3.1%
🇫🇷 +1.8% (thru Q3)
🇬🇧 -1.1%
🇩🇪 -1.9% (thru Q3)
🇨🇦 -2.0% (thru Q3)
🇺🇸 +9.4%
🇮🇹 +6.5% (thru Q3)
🇯🇵 +3.1%
🇫🇷 +1.8% (thru Q3)
🇬🇧 -1.1%
🇩🇪 -1.9% (thru Q3)
🇨🇦 -2.0% (thru Q3)
February 19, 2025 at 4:39 AM
It's not in spite of these indicators, it's *because* of them. Affluence and ennui are powerful drivers of modern authoritatianism.
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So far, Trump’s art of the deal is to give Russia whatever it wants in advance while asking for nothing from Putin. At the same time, he has tried to extort Ukraine for mineral rights. Once again, he seems not to know or care who America’s allies and enemies are.
February 17, 2025 at 2:32 AM
So far, Trump’s art of the deal is to give Russia whatever it wants in advance while asking for nothing from Putin. At the same time, he has tried to extort Ukraine for mineral rights. Once again, he seems not to know or care who America’s allies and enemies are.
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A curious thing about American life: Some "free-speech absolutists" regularly say that journalists ought to be imprisoned.
February 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
A curious thing about American life: Some "free-speech absolutists" regularly say that journalists ought to be imprisoned.
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Actual headlines in the past week.
February 19, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Actual headlines in the past week.
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Let me speak to the DOGE audit language. Many people who work in both the Treasury and specifically the IRS are CPAs. Most audit firms hire CPAs. A 19yo coder has absolutely no idea how to accurately identify waste or fraud. Calling what DOGE is doing as a audit, is a flat out lie.
February 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Let me speak to the DOGE audit language. Many people who work in both the Treasury and specifically the IRS are CPAs. Most audit firms hire CPAs. A 19yo coder has absolutely no idea how to accurately identify waste or fraud. Calling what DOGE is doing as a audit, is a flat out lie.
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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
February 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
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The United States of America is coercing the Mayor of a major city to follow policies by threat of criminal prosecution for unrelated corruption.
Total tin ear by Homan--just announcing a quid pro quo
“If he doesn’t come through, I’ll be back in New York City,” Mr. Homan said. “And we won’t be sitting on a couch. I’ll be in his office, up his butt, saying where the hell is the agreement we came to?”
“If he doesn’t come through, I’ll be back in New York City,” Mr. Homan said. “And we won’t be sitting on a couch. I’ll be in his office, up his butt, saying where the hell is the agreement we came to?”
February 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The United States of America is coercing the Mayor of a major city to follow policies by threat of criminal prosecution for unrelated corruption.