Jess
@lochjessmonster.bsky.social
Daughter, sister, lady professional, fangirl, vengeful ancient god (she/her)
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It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.
October 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.
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The thought behind this is basically, "how can we let Trump get away with committing any crime he wants as long as possible?" Which is the motivating factor behind virtually every Roberts Court ruling related to Trump bsky.app/profile/elie...
The main upshot of today's birthright citizenship ruling (that I'm still making way through) seems to be that each person victimized by an unconstitutional Trump order has to pretty much sue individually.
Trump is free to act unconstitutionally to everybody individually.
Trump is free to act unconstitutionally to everybody individually.
June 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The thought behind this is basically, "how can we let Trump get away with committing any crime he wants as long as possible?" Which is the motivating factor behind virtually every Roberts Court ruling related to Trump bsky.app/profile/elie...
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wow a concentration camp with showers?
Ron DeSantis on his new camp for migrants: "We've got showers. There you see the shower and bath facilities."
June 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
wow a concentration camp with showers?
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The son of an abusive drug addict telling the nation that “this time it’s different.”
We live in a nightmare metaphor.
We live in a nightmare metaphor.
Vance: I empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East. I understand the concern, but the difference is that back then we had dumb presidents
June 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The son of an abusive drug addict telling the nation that “this time it’s different.”
We live in a nightmare metaphor.
We live in a nightmare metaphor.
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Donald Trump just unilaterally bombed Iran. A masked gang is terrorizing our streets. America has rapidly devolved into an authoritarian state.
That's why, today, The Onion has purchased a full page ad in today's New York Times with a simple plea to Congress:
Sit back and do absolutely nothing.
That's why, today, The Onion has purchased a full page ad in today's New York Times with a simple plea to Congress:
Sit back and do absolutely nothing.
June 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Donald Trump just unilaterally bombed Iran. A masked gang is terrorizing our streets. America has rapidly devolved into an authoritarian state.
That's why, today, The Onion has purchased a full page ad in today's New York Times with a simple plea to Congress:
Sit back and do absolutely nothing.
That's why, today, The Onion has purchased a full page ad in today's New York Times with a simple plea to Congress:
Sit back and do absolutely nothing.
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this entire paragraph is Stephen Pinker openly saying, "I think race science is real and correct."
amazingly fucked up that the NYT is uncritically publishing the claim, “Race has some biological reality.”
that is, definitionally, racism. textbook.
that is, definitionally, racism. textbook.
May 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
this entire paragraph is Stephen Pinker openly saying, "I think race science is real and correct."
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Some days it feels like our country's humiliations are endless.
RAMAPHOSA: I am sorry I don't have a plane to give you
TRUMP: I wish you did. I'd take it. If your country offered the US Air Force a plane, I would take it
RAMAPHOSA: Okay
TRUMP: I wish you did. I'd take it. If your country offered the US Air Force a plane, I would take it
RAMAPHOSA: Okay
May 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Some days it feels like our country's humiliations are endless.
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Don't look away, don't normalize: this is the virtually unconstrained leader of the world's most powerful country ambushing the president of South Africa with conspiracy-fueled racist propaganda promoted by his unelected billionaire maybe-appointee who has caused the deaths of children through DOGE.
Trump is now giving the South African president the full Zelenskyy treatment
May 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Don't look away, don't normalize: this is the virtually unconstrained leader of the world's most powerful country ambushing the president of South Africa with conspiracy-fueled racist propaganda promoted by his unelected billionaire maybe-appointee who has caused the deaths of children through DOGE.
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some interesting historical context re: stories of "chatGPT-induced psychosis" is that when the radio and telephone were invented, there were similar reactions — some people believed they could tune their radio to the frequencies of heaven or received instructions from the dead via the telephone
May 7, 2025 at 9:27 AM
some interesting historical context re: stories of "chatGPT-induced psychosis" is that when the radio and telephone were invented, there were similar reactions — some people believed they could tune their radio to the frequencies of heaven or received instructions from the dead via the telephone
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The appeasing behavior of elite Democrats like Schumer, universities like Columbia and Yale, and many people with influence is a catastrophic error. We have a small window to prevent the worst from happening through unrelenting refusal in every corner of society to accept this.
March 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The appeasing behavior of elite Democrats like Schumer, universities like Columbia and Yale, and many people with influence is a catastrophic error. We have a small window to prevent the worst from happening through unrelenting refusal in every corner of society to accept this.
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Last night’s article in the Washington Post about D.C. police responding to a 911 call by illegally letting DOGE onto private property is unlike any news story I have ever read. Every single person should read this article and think about where our society is going.
March 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Last night’s article in the Washington Post about D.C. police responding to a 911 call by illegally letting DOGE onto private property is unlike any news story I have ever read. Every single person should read this article and think about where our society is going.
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These are (among) the stories that need to be told, by the people who are experiencing them, in ways that their families and communities can understand. If the sound is these attacks on science is silence… then clawing back what we’ve lost will be even harder, possibly impossible.
God, that was hard to bear. Students told a physics town hall that grad schools have rescinded admission. NSF proposals are censored for words like “bias,” even when the meaning is technical. Physics curricula are being banned by school districts for encouraging girls. #APSGlobalSummit2025 #APSMarch
March 17, 2025 at 12:42 AM
These are (among) the stories that need to be told, by the people who are experiencing them, in ways that their families and communities can understand. If the sound is these attacks on science is silence… then clawing back what we’ve lost will be even harder, possibly impossible.
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Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.
Elon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House Complex
Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office.
www.nytimes.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.
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Luke Farritor and Gavin Kliger murdered this kid on Musk’s orders.
Meet Evan Anzoo, a five-year-old boy in South Sudan who died when Elon Musk shut down USAID and the boy lost access to his HIV meds. Musk says no one has died because of the aid shutdown, but that's because he didn't look. RIP, Evan, you deserved better. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
March 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Luke Farritor and Gavin Kliger murdered this kid on Musk’s orders.
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Also, DOGE's existential cuts to USAID will end lives not just now, but rippling out across generations.
Counterpoints:
- Tesla has the highest fatality crash rates of any car
- Tesla busts unions
- He pushes for dangerous safety deregulations that’ll result in people being killed
- His DOGE is taking away the healthcare of millions and fired over 250k people over the last 56 days.
- Tesla has the highest fatality crash rates of any car
- Tesla busts unions
- He pushes for dangerous safety deregulations that’ll result in people being killed
- His DOGE is taking away the healthcare of millions and fired over 250k people over the last 56 days.
March 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Also, DOGE's existential cuts to USAID will end lives not just now, but rippling out across generations.
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They voted for it to happen to someone else though bsky.app/profile/carl...
“.. We’re just in such a state of shock. We just don’t really even know how to respond,” Gilkerson said. “Everyone thinks all farmers voted for this, but we did not vote for this.”
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March 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
They voted for it to happen to someone else though bsky.app/profile/carl...
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The people who said “wokeness” was totalitarian are applauding as dhs sends agents to college campus to apprehend students for thoughtcrime
March 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The people who said “wokeness” was totalitarian are applauding as dhs sends agents to college campus to apprehend students for thoughtcrime
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I don't want to say the Schumer optics are bad but Gavin Newsom just invited him on his podcast.
a man in a suit and tie is standing with his hands in his pockets .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing with his hands in his pockets .
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March 14, 2025 at 4:12 AM
I don't want to say the Schumer optics are bad but Gavin Newsom just invited him on his podcast.
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This is also known as invading Panama.
EXCLUSIVE: The Trump White House has directed the U.S. military to draw up options for increasing the American troop presence in Panama to achieve President Trump’s goal of “reclaiming” the Panama Canal, officials say.
Trump White House has asked U.S. military to develop options for the Panama Canal, officials say
Potential plans range from partnering more closely with the Panamanian military to a less likely option of U.S. troops seizing the canal by force, U.S. officials told NBC News
nbcnews.to
March 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
This is also known as invading Panama.
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Finally some good news
NEW: Five of the billionaires who attended Donald Trump's inauguration have lost a combined $210 billion in wealth since then, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index
Billionaires at Trump’s Swearing-In Have Since Lost $210 Billion
As Donald Trump took the oath of office on Jan. 20, he was flanked by some of the world’s wealthiest people. The billionaires present that day — including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg — h...
www.bloomberg.com
March 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Finally some good news