@riftmaster.bsky.social
Confused, concerned, and yet still lazy.
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@fetterman.senate.gov
Senator Fetterman,
I am contacting you through this medium because www.fetterman.senate.gov/contact/ has a 1200 character limit.
Senator Fetterman,
I am contacting you through this medium because www.fetterman.senate.gov/contact/ has a 1200 character limit.
Contact - U.S. Senator John Fetterman
Hearing from Pennsylvanians is a priority. Whether you have a comment on legislation, an issue you want Senator Fetterman to know about, need help navigating a federal agency, or are planning a trip t...
www.fetterman.senate.gov
April 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
@fetterman.senate.gov
Senator Fetterman,
I am contacting you through this medium because www.fetterman.senate.gov/contact/ has a 1200 character limit.
Senator Fetterman,
I am contacting you through this medium because www.fetterman.senate.gov/contact/ has a 1200 character limit.
I feel like we need to have a really solid way to weed out confidant idiocy from gaining power.
April 7, 2025 at 7:47 AM
I feel like we need to have a really solid way to weed out confidant idiocy from gaining power.
I found this video useful and refreshing.
Reminded me that I've been checking out of the ever shorter news cycle more often because it's so exhausting, and that's not optimal.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyco...
Reminded me that I've been checking out of the ever shorter news cycle more often because it's so exhausting, and that's not optimal.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyco...
Murphy: Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. History
YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy
www.youtube.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I found this video useful and refreshing.
Reminded me that I've been checking out of the ever shorter news cycle more often because it's so exhausting, and that's not optimal.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyco...
Reminded me that I've been checking out of the ever shorter news cycle more often because it's so exhausting, and that's not optimal.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyco...
Do our laws and regulations ensure that any fine levied on an individual or organization by default will be at least 100% of any direct or indirect profit gained by the fined actions?
March 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Do our laws and regulations ensure that any fine levied on an individual or organization by default will be at least 100% of any direct or indirect profit gained by the fined actions?
We need to seriously consider whether allowing persons with billionaire money to influence politics to the degree Musk and others have is acceptable.
Purely from the perspective of having any form of democracy, it is dangerous to allow.
Block the influence and remove the money.
Purely from the perspective of having any form of democracy, it is dangerous to allow.
Block the influence and remove the money.
March 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
We need to seriously consider whether allowing persons with billionaire money to influence politics to the degree Musk and others have is acceptable.
Purely from the perspective of having any form of democracy, it is dangerous to allow.
Block the influence and remove the money.
Purely from the perspective of having any form of democracy, it is dangerous to allow.
Block the influence and remove the money.
Efficiency at the expense of reliability is inefficient for mission critical systems, such as the payment system Musk/Doge is looming over right now.
February 3, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Efficiency at the expense of reliability is inefficient for mission critical systems, such as the payment system Musk/Doge is looming over right now.
If this 47th Admin is going to be doing all they can to destroy the institutional memory of our government, is there any way to preserve that in some kind of support network until we can wrangle things back on track?
January 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
If this 47th Admin is going to be doing all they can to destroy the institutional memory of our government, is there any way to preserve that in some kind of support network until we can wrangle things back on track?
I chuckled audibly at this title:
apnews.com/article/musk...
Because of course that was going to happen.
apnews.com/article/musk...
Because of course that was going to happen.
Musk's straight-arm gesture embraced by right-wing extremists regardless of what he meant
Many social media users noticed that the gesture looked like a Nazi salute. Musk has only fanned the flames of suspicion by not explicitly denying those claims.
apnews.com
January 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I chuckled audibly at this title:
apnews.com/article/musk...
Because of course that was going to happen.
apnews.com/article/musk...
Because of course that was going to happen.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZtZ...
I found this interesting.
Essentially, it's saying that the ERA has been law since Virginia ratified it in 2020.
The reasoning: The constitutional does not allow a time limit on ratification, nor any rescinding of ratification.
I think?
I found this interesting.
Essentially, it's saying that the ERA has been law since Virginia ratified it in 2020.
The reasoning: The constitutional does not allow a time limit on ratification, nor any rescinding of ratification.
I think?
The Equal Rights Amendment is already law, says Biden and the ABA (#28thAmendment)
YouTube video by Lawful Masses with Leonard French
www.youtube.com
January 22, 2025 at 4:23 AM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZtZ...
I found this interesting.
Essentially, it's saying that the ERA has been law since Virginia ratified it in 2020.
The reasoning: The constitutional does not allow a time limit on ratification, nor any rescinding of ratification.
I think?
I found this interesting.
Essentially, it's saying that the ERA has been law since Virginia ratified it in 2020.
The reasoning: The constitutional does not allow a time limit on ratification, nor any rescinding of ratification.
I think?
Does anyone else have accounts follow them that have between 0 and 10 posts or replies?
You aren't sure if they're bots or just new users, but you wonder if you should keep and eye on them in case they need blocked.
I could probably just make a list and put them in it so I remember to check.
Nah.
You aren't sure if they're bots or just new users, but you wonder if you should keep and eye on them in case they need blocked.
I could probably just make a list and put them in it so I remember to check.
Nah.
January 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Does anyone else have accounts follow them that have between 0 and 10 posts or replies?
You aren't sure if they're bots or just new users, but you wonder if you should keep and eye on them in case they need blocked.
I could probably just make a list and put them in it so I remember to check.
Nah.
You aren't sure if they're bots or just new users, but you wonder if you should keep and eye on them in case they need blocked.
I could probably just make a list and put them in it so I remember to check.
Nah.
Recently (about 3 days ago) I saw commentary or discussion where a Democrat was pleased at how smoothly and without issue the normal procedures for counting the EC had gone.
Perhaps even congratulatory towards each other?
I find myself wondering if we will not look fondly upon that, in future.
Perhaps even congratulatory towards each other?
I find myself wondering if we will not look fondly upon that, in future.
January 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Recently (about 3 days ago) I saw commentary or discussion where a Democrat was pleased at how smoothly and without issue the normal procedures for counting the EC had gone.
Perhaps even congratulatory towards each other?
I find myself wondering if we will not look fondly upon that, in future.
Perhaps even congratulatory towards each other?
I find myself wondering if we will not look fondly upon that, in future.
I found this useful, entertaining, informative, and perhaps a little motivating.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKgN...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKgN...
The Secret Reason the Dems Keep Losing
YouTube video by Adam Conover
www.youtube.com
December 31, 2024 at 11:30 AM
I found this useful, entertaining, informative, and perhaps a little motivating.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKgN...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKgN...
Found this article from 2018 when I was responding to someone who brought up the (infamous?) "Stanford Prison Experiment" (which is now known to be fraudulent).
www.vox.com/2018/6/13/17...
www.vox.com/2018/6/13/17...
The Stanford Prison Experiment was massively influential. We just learned it was a fraud.
The most famous psychological studies are often wrong, fraudulent, or outdated. Textbooks need to catch up.
www.vox.com
December 28, 2024 at 6:19 AM
Found this article from 2018 when I was responding to someone who brought up the (infamous?) "Stanford Prison Experiment" (which is now known to be fraudulent).
www.vox.com/2018/6/13/17...
www.vox.com/2018/6/13/17...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
The fruitless search for nonexistent common ground instantaneously normalizes Trump. Democrats should not propound the dubious assertion that Trump can operate rationally and in good faith.
The fruitless search for nonexistent common ground instantaneously normalizes Trump. Democrats should not propound the dubious assertion that Trump can operate rationally and in good faith.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 28, 2024 at 12:32 AM
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
The fruitless search for nonexistent common ground instantaneously normalizes Trump. Democrats should not propound the dubious assertion that Trump can operate rationally and in good faith.
The fruitless search for nonexistent common ground instantaneously normalizes Trump. Democrats should not propound the dubious assertion that Trump can operate rationally and in good faith.
@godlyblue.bsky.social
Your profile:
I dislike billionaires and multimillionaires and I won't stop complaining about them until I become one. So if you want to silence me, it's going to cost you a couple of million.
My first thought: "Why should becoming one stop you from disliking them?"
Your profile:
I dislike billionaires and multimillionaires and I won't stop complaining about them until I become one. So if you want to silence me, it's going to cost you a couple of million.
My first thought: "Why should becoming one stop you from disliking them?"
December 26, 2024 at 11:17 PM
@godlyblue.bsky.social
Your profile:
I dislike billionaires and multimillionaires and I won't stop complaining about them until I become one. So if you want to silence me, it's going to cost you a couple of million.
My first thought: "Why should becoming one stop you from disliking them?"
Your profile:
I dislike billionaires and multimillionaires and I won't stop complaining about them until I become one. So if you want to silence me, it's going to cost you a couple of million.
My first thought: "Why should becoming one stop you from disliking them?"
www.politifact.com/factchecks/2...
The proposed continuing resolution would raise most senators’ and representatives’ salaries by about $6,600, not by more than $60,000 as the incoming Department of Government Efficiency claimed on X.
1/3
The proposed continuing resolution would raise most senators’ and representatives’ salaries by about $6,600, not by more than $60,000 as the incoming Department of Government Efficiency claimed on X.
1/3
Lawmakers didn’t propose raising their salaries to $243,000
Business executives Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, co-leaders of the Department of Government Efficiency, an incoming ad
www.politifact.com
December 19, 2024 at 10:02 PM
www.politifact.com/factchecks/2...
The proposed continuing resolution would raise most senators’ and representatives’ salaries by about $6,600, not by more than $60,000 as the incoming Department of Government Efficiency claimed on X.
1/3
The proposed continuing resolution would raise most senators’ and representatives’ salaries by about $6,600, not by more than $60,000 as the incoming Department of Government Efficiency claimed on X.
1/3
Apparently going outside and looking up at the night sky has been a revelation for many lately, only they didn't understand what they were looking at and thought it revealed something else.
December 18, 2024 at 7:42 AM
Apparently going outside and looking up at the night sky has been a revelation for many lately, only they didn't understand what they were looking at and thought it revealed something else.
Very interesting, and I did not know some of these details before.
Opinion of Musk somehow dropping lower.
Opinion of Musk somehow dropping lower.
With Elon Musk, an unelected plutocrat, six weeks from becoming co-President of the United States, many people are just starting to research who he really is—that is, beyond the basics most already know.
Or, rather, think they know—as most of those basics are untrue.
This thread reveals the truth.
Or, rather, think they know—as most of those basics are untrue.
This thread reveals the truth.
December 10, 2024 at 11:19 PM
Very interesting, and I did not know some of these details before.
Opinion of Musk somehow dropping lower.
Opinion of Musk somehow dropping lower.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_up...
I found this informative - I knew some of it before, but not all.
I found this informative - I knew some of it before, but not all.
Why America Is LITERALLY Falling Apart
YouTube video by History of Everything Podcast
www.youtube.com
December 10, 2024 at 9:27 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_up...
I found this informative - I knew some of it before, but not all.
I found this informative - I knew some of it before, but not all.
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i think it is important to clarify that this — the exclusionary distribution of benefits on some sort of ethnic or national basis — isn’t socialism. it’s, you know, something else.
After years of talking to Trump supporters my view of them has become very simple: They want socialist, even sometimes progressive reforms but they want them from someone who makes those reforms feel powerful and masculine and they want to make sure the people they don't like don't benefit from them
we're cooked
December 10, 2024 at 8:56 PM
i think it is important to clarify that this — the exclusionary distribution of benefits on some sort of ethnic or national basis — isn’t socialism. it’s, you know, something else.
Am I way off on this feeling I have, that it's unreasonable for us to be expected to navigate an intentionally overly complex system in order to get necessary health care without going into debt?
It doesn't need to be this complex and unnecessarily stressful.
It doesn't need to be this complex and unnecessarily stressful.
December 10, 2024 at 5:03 AM
Am I way off on this feeling I have, that it's unreasonable for us to be expected to navigate an intentionally overly complex system in order to get necessary health care without going into debt?
It doesn't need to be this complex and unnecessarily stressful.
It doesn't need to be this complex and unnecessarily stressful.
Possibly odd thought...
Is there some reason we aren't charging various health providers with multiple murders when they deny necessary care?
Is there some reason we aren't charging various health providers with multiple murders when they deny necessary care?
December 10, 2024 at 4:24 AM
Possibly odd thought...
Is there some reason we aren't charging various health providers with multiple murders when they deny necessary care?
Is there some reason we aren't charging various health providers with multiple murders when they deny necessary care?