shrouded.bsky.social
@shrouded.bsky.social
Dad. Husband. He/him.

Passions: Truth. Science. Justice. Human rights. Standing vs facism.

Interests: Healthcare IT. SciFi & horror. Van camping. Riding bikes on dirt.
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Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.

Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
January 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
After a lifetime of paying into the system, they plan to increase taxes & gut the safety net as soon as my family is going to need it. Horrible.
NEW: My staff just got ahold of this memo from House Budget Committee Republicans. It's lengthy and hard to digest but it tells us exactly how Republicans plan to sell out the American people for another round of tax cuts to the rich. We're breaking down the highlights as we go:
www.finance.senate.gov
January 17, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This matches what I’ve been observing for years. Interacting with people who live in a different reality used seem amusing, like a dedicated flat earther. Now it’s pervasive, an existential crisis. It’s inescapable, & exhausting.
Dems are still operating in a political paradigm where the public has a set of concerns, roughly reflecting the reality of life in America, and elections are about who addresses them better.

But that is not the political paradigm we’ve lived in, for a long time, and we’re getting further from it.
January 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM