Rusty D. Pickens
@rusty.digital
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Rusty D. Pickens
@rusty.digital
· Nov 2
It’s been FIFTEEN YEARS and the media is still letting Republicans pretend they have some super-secret concept of a hidden plan to maybe consider a covert proposal that could theoretically be implemented in a hypothetical simulation of a Congress run by people who are not actually clowns.
Mike Johnson talks about the Republican "healthcare plan" like it's highly classified information: "We're not gonna be on a conference call explaining all our plans and strategies for healthcare reform, because they're leaked in real time."
One of the primary reasons the Republicans can’t produce a healthcare plan is because the ACA *is* their plan. Obama literally took their plan as the starting point in a—now quaint— stately attempt to court bipartisanship. And they still rail against it as if the core didn’t originate with them.
*raises hand* Walked about a half a mile and rode the X2 bus from H Street NE to downtown for four years while working at the White House.
Liar.
Liar.
Trump on DC homicides: "We were losing on average a person a week. More. Now we haven't lost anybody in a long time. I consider the two people that got badly hurt, the National Guard -- that's a different -- that was terrorism."
December 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
*raises hand* Walked about a half a mile and rode the X2 bus from H Street NE to downtown for four years while working at the White House.
Liar.
Liar.
Is Palantir involved? 🙄🤦🏼♂️🥵😖
The agency plans to renew a sweeping cybersecurity contract that includes expanded employee monitoring as the government escalates leak investigations and casts internal dissent as a threat. www.wired.com/story/ice-se...
ICE Seeks Cyber Upgrade to Better Surveil and Investigate Its Employees
The agency plans to renew a sweeping cybersecurity contract that includes expanded employee monitoring as the government escalates leak investigations and casts internal dissent as a threat.
www.wired.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Is Palantir involved? 🙄🤦🏼♂️🥵😖
This is how it’s done👇🏼 Good work @katiephang.bsky.social! 💪🏼🇺🇸
Convicted Felon Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles, spills the beans on the insanity & incompetence of the Trump Administration.
The details of her confessions & my take on if you’re in this Administration, you’re complicit in its atrocities.
youtu.be/ePZQRmEaBiY?...
The details of her confessions & my take on if you’re in this Administration, you’re complicit in its atrocities.
youtu.be/ePZQRmEaBiY?...
Trump World IMPLODES After Chief of Staff GOES ROGUE and FLIPS
YouTube video by Katie Phang
youtu.be
December 17, 2025 at 12:13 PM
This is how it’s done👇🏼 Good work @katiephang.bsky.social! 💪🏼🇺🇸
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If we can't even identify our enemies then how can we fight them?
Trump's National Security Strategy is the longest suicide note in American history
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump's National Security Strategy is the longest suicide note in American history
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Longest Suicide Note in American History
The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy targets liberal democracy itself.
www.theatlantic.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
If we can't even identify our enemies then how can we fight them?
Trump's National Security Strategy is the longest suicide note in American history
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump's National Security Strategy is the longest suicide note in American history
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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VOTE VETS: “OUTRAGEOUS… It is abundantly clear Republicans and Trump want to strangle the VA til it all gets privatized”
Trump plans to eliminate 35,000 healthcare jobs at the chronically understaffed VA that already lost tens of thousands of employees. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-c...
Trump plans to eliminate 35,000 healthcare jobs at the chronically understaffed VA that already lost tens of thousands of employees. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-c...
December 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
VOTE VETS: “OUTRAGEOUS… It is abundantly clear Republicans and Trump want to strangle the VA til it all gets privatized”
Trump plans to eliminate 35,000 healthcare jobs at the chronically understaffed VA that already lost tens of thousands of employees. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-c...
Trump plans to eliminate 35,000 healthcare jobs at the chronically understaffed VA that already lost tens of thousands of employees. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-c...
He works for the general public. That video belongs to us.
I, for one, would like to know what the largest fighting force in the world is up to in my name.
I, for one, would like to know what the largest fighting force in the world is up to in my name.
Hegseth on the second Sept 2 strike: "Of course we're not going to release a top secret full unedited of that to the general public"
December 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
He works for the general public. That video belongs to us.
I, for one, would like to know what the largest fighting force in the world is up to in my name.
I, for one, would like to know what the largest fighting force in the world is up to in my name.
Ah yes, those super restrictive policies that we implemented AFTER guys like Bessent broke the entire housing market and broad swaths of the economy.
We were hemorrhaging 800k jobs a month when #44 took office. It took years to recover.
And the rules weren’t tight enough even after all that.
We were hemorrhaging 800k jobs a month when #44 took office. It took years to recover.
And the rules weren’t tight enough even after all that.
Bessent: "These 2008, 2009, 2010 financial rules were too tight. They hamstrung the American financial system. It was time for a change ... we have to take the financial system out of this straitjacket ... the regulated system is too constrained."
December 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Ah yes, those super restrictive policies that we implemented AFTER guys like Bessent broke the entire housing market and broad swaths of the economy.
We were hemorrhaging 800k jobs a month when #44 took office. It took years to recover.
And the rules weren’t tight enough even after all that.
We were hemorrhaging 800k jobs a month when #44 took office. It took years to recover.
And the rules weren’t tight enough even after all that.
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Looks like Gregory Bovino's ancestors, or people like them, were also hit with the same kind of bigotry that Stephen Miller and Trump are now leveling at today's immigrants. People like Miller's ancestors were as well.
December 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Looks like Gregory Bovino's ancestors, or people like them, were also hit with the same kind of bigotry that Stephen Miller and Trump are now leveling at today's immigrants. People like Miller's ancestors were as well.
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god bless rob reiner for spinal tap
December 15, 2025 at 3:43 AM
god bless rob reiner for spinal tap
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In her order to release Mr. Abrego, Judge Xinis notes that she will be using the preferred term "noncitizen" in her opinion rather than "alien," and cites an interesting source in doing so.
December 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
In her order to release Mr. Abrego, Judge Xinis notes that she will be using the preferred term "noncitizen" in her opinion rather than "alien," and cites an interesting source in doing so.
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Text from (almost certainly) Steve Bannon to Jeffrey Epstein on 8/30/2018
December 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Text from (almost certainly) Steve Bannon to Jeffrey Epstein on 8/30/2018
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People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
December 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
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This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
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Elon Musk shares the Russian govt’s goals in Europe, and uses his platform to advance them, with Musk’s motive anti-democracy white nationalism.
The current US govt shares Russia’s goals in Europe, and published a National Security Strategy explaining the reason is anti-democracy white nationalism.
The current US govt shares Russia’s goals in Europe, and published a National Security Strategy explaining the reason is anti-democracy white nationalism.
This is so perfect. No one have any doubts at this point about what Elon Musk really represents.
December 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Elon Musk shares the Russian govt’s goals in Europe, and uses his platform to advance them, with Musk’s motive anti-democracy white nationalism.
The current US govt shares Russia’s goals in Europe, and published a National Security Strategy explaining the reason is anti-democracy white nationalism.
The current US govt shares Russia’s goals in Europe, and published a National Security Strategy explaining the reason is anti-democracy white nationalism.
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From September: How the 2016 Russian Election Attack Led Donald Trump to Destroy US Hegemony
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RXJ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RXJ...
How the 2016 Russian Election Attack Led Donald Trump to Destroy US Hegemony
YouTube video by emptywheel
www.youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:22 PM
From September: How the 2016 Russian Election Attack Led Donald Trump to Destroy US Hegemony
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RXJ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RXJ...
Whattttt…you mean the perpetually bad faith actors that have taken over an entire political party have proven once again they are liars and never intended to negotiate in the first place?
Looking at those dem Senators who could not have possibly seen this coming for comment. 🤬🙄
Looking at those dem Senators who could not have possibly seen this coming for comment. 🤬🙄
December 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Whattttt…you mean the perpetually bad faith actors that have taken over an entire political party have proven once again they are liars and never intended to negotiate in the first place?
Looking at those dem Senators who could not have possibly seen this coming for comment. 🤬🙄
Looking at those dem Senators who could not have possibly seen this coming for comment. 🤬🙄
Among other issues with this situation: why is Matt Gaetz not at least under indictment? What are we even doing as a country when pedophiles are covering the frat party at the Pentagon?
Look at this dog's breakfast of nincompoops and malcontents showing up at today's sanitized-for-your-protection Pentagon press conference.
Via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social
www.status.news/p/pentagon-m...
Via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social
www.status.news/p/pentagon-m...
December 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Among other issues with this situation: why is Matt Gaetz not at least under indictment? What are we even doing as a country when pedophiles are covering the frat party at the Pentagon?
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Matt Gaetz, James O’Keefe, and Laura Loomer have replaced the Pentagon press corps.
I am not kidding. Look at the thread below.
One of the military’s most critical lines of accountability is now a closed-circuit conspiracy carousel.
I am not kidding. Look at the thread below.
One of the military’s most critical lines of accountability is now a closed-circuit conspiracy carousel.
moments after Matt Gaetz asks a question at the Pentagon press briefing, Laura Loomer gets her turn
December 2, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Matt Gaetz, James O’Keefe, and Laura Loomer have replaced the Pentagon press corps.
I am not kidding. Look at the thread below.
One of the military’s most critical lines of accountability is now a closed-circuit conspiracy carousel.
I am not kidding. Look at the thread below.
One of the military’s most critical lines of accountability is now a closed-circuit conspiracy carousel.
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Some of you may recall that I've often used this graph showing households in West Virginia as the poster child for how insane the net #ACA premium hikes could be for some enrollees starting a month from now...
acasignups.net/ira-subsidy-...
acasignups.net/ira-subsidy-...
December 1, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Some of you may recall that I've often used this graph showing households in West Virginia as the poster child for how insane the net #ACA premium hikes could be for some enrollees starting a month from now...
acasignups.net/ira-subsidy-...
acasignups.net/ira-subsidy-...
Moderated a strong panel on AI and Data Sovereignty at ECU’s Tribal Education Summit. Leaders from Cherokee Nation, Chickasaw Nation, and the Navajo Nation/University of Oregon offered clear perspectives on how Tribes can protect identity while engaging with new AI systems.
Our founder @rusty.digital moderated a panel on AI and Data Sovereignty at East Central University's Tribal Education Summit. Leaders from Cherokee Nation, Chickasaw Nation, and the University of Oregon discussed how Tribes can approach AI while protecting identity and sovereignty.
December 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Moderated a strong panel on AI and Data Sovereignty at ECU’s Tribal Education Summit. Leaders from Cherokee Nation, Chickasaw Nation, and the Navajo Nation/University of Oregon offered clear perspectives on how Tribes can protect identity while engaging with new AI systems.
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Until he starts calling for immediate resignations & impeachments, it's all sort of meaningless words. Shift the Overton window by calling it all what it is & demanding Congressional Republicans who also swore oaths to uphold the Constitution & control both houses fulfill them.
Sen. Kelly: “President Trump is trying to silence me. Threatening to kill me for saying what is true. And he sent his Secretary of Defense after me. And it's not going to work.”
December 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Until he starts calling for immediate resignations & impeachments, it's all sort of meaningless words. Shift the Overton window by calling it all what it is & demanding Congressional Republicans who also swore oaths to uphold the Constitution & control both houses fulfill them.
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So, DOGE, What Would You Say You Did Here?
An exit interview
www.theatlantic.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Ukraine's president continued in his video address:
"Our work continues. Our struggle continues. We have no right not to push through, no right to retreat or quarrel. If we lose unity, we risk losing everything: ourselves, Ukraine, our future. We must come together. We must hold on. Slava Ukraini!"
"Our work continues. Our struggle continues. We have no right not to push through, no right to retreat or quarrel. If we lose unity, we risk losing everything: ourselves, Ukraine, our future. We must come together. We must hold on. Slava Ukraini!"
November 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Ukraine's president continued in his video address:
"Our work continues. Our struggle continues. We have no right not to push through, no right to retreat or quarrel. If we lose unity, we risk losing everything: ourselves, Ukraine, our future. We must come together. We must hold on. Slava Ukraini!"
"Our work continues. Our struggle continues. We have no right not to push through, no right to retreat or quarrel. If we lose unity, we risk losing everything: ourselves, Ukraine, our future. We must come together. We must hold on. Slava Ukraini!"