Steven Lohrenz
@stevenlohrenz.bsky.social
“You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end -- which you can never afford to lose -- with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.”
― Jim Stockdale
― Jim Stockdale
His career just got a bump, he's now qualified to be in the Trump admin. Deputy Sec of something? Ambassador to France????
February 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
His career just got a bump, he's now qualified to be in the Trump admin. Deputy Sec of something? Ambassador to France????
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Where are all the armchair Constitutionalists?
February 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Where are all the armchair Constitutionalists?
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“Stop protecting consumers RIGHT NOW”
Email sent to all CFPB staff this morning: "Please do not perform any work tasks."
February 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“Stop protecting consumers RIGHT NOW”
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How embarrassing.
February 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
How embarrassing.
People electing someone like this is what happens when those people believe complex geopolitical problems can be solved in a 30 second soundbyte.
February 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
People electing someone like this is what happens when those people believe complex geopolitical problems can be solved in a 30 second soundbyte.
This makes no sense for deportees. Why put them on a plane or boat to Cuba, when you could just send them to their home countries? This isn't for foreign nationals, it's for First Peoples, Hispanic Americans and political undesirables. People ICE sweeps up and then wants to save face.
Trump plans to build mass detention camp for deportees at Guantánamo Bay
President Donald Trump ordered construction of a deportee detention camp with room for 30,000 migrants on the U.S. naval base in Cuba.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 30, 2025 at 12:11 PM
This makes no sense for deportees. Why put them on a plane or boat to Cuba, when you could just send them to their home countries? This isn't for foreign nationals, it's for First Peoples, Hispanic Americans and political undesirables. People ICE sweeps up and then wants to save face.
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It’s time to fight.
To every Senate Dem: Shut it the fuck down. Trump’s unconstitutional chaos will kill people.
1️⃣ Oppose all nominees until OMB reverses the freeze.
2️⃣ Deny Unanimous Consent to slow Senate proceedings.
3️⃣ Vote no on all Cloture.
4️⃣ Force Quorum Calls at every opportunity.
It's time to fight.
1️⃣ Oppose all nominees until OMB reverses the freeze.
2️⃣ Deny Unanimous Consent to slow Senate proceedings.
3️⃣ Vote no on all Cloture.
4️⃣ Force Quorum Calls at every opportunity.
It's time to fight.
Asked how organizations that rely on federal funding should make payroll, Trump Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says they should call Russ Vought and make a case
January 29, 2025 at 5:52 AM
It’s time to fight.
JHC, the only way Dems are going to win big in the mids is if they are seen to be opposing Trump. This Kumbaya BS only feeds into the R winning narrative that the parties are the same.
22 Democrats flip to no on Trump Transportation pick after OMB pauses funding
Twenty-two members of the Senate Democratic caucus flipped their votes on former Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.), President Trump’s pick to head the Transportation Department, after the White House budget…
thehill.com
January 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
JHC, the only way Dems are going to win big in the mids is if they are seen to be opposing Trump. This Kumbaya BS only feeds into the R winning narrative that the parties are the same.
1. Deport undocumented workers.
2. Farms fail from lack of workers
3. Food prices rise.
4. Bigger ag companies buy the failed farms.
5. Reduce the patrolling by ICE.
6. Un-doc return.
7. Food prices stay the same.
8. Get kickbacks.
2. Farms fail from lack of workers
3. Food prices rise.
4. Bigger ag companies buy the failed farms.
5. Reduce the patrolling by ICE.
6. Un-doc return.
7. Food prices stay the same.
8. Get kickbacks.
January 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
1. Deport undocumented workers.
2. Farms fail from lack of workers
3. Food prices rise.
4. Bigger ag companies buy the failed farms.
5. Reduce the patrolling by ICE.
6. Un-doc return.
7. Food prices stay the same.
8. Get kickbacks.
2. Farms fail from lack of workers
3. Food prices rise.
4. Bigger ag companies buy the failed farms.
5. Reduce the patrolling by ICE.
6. Un-doc return.
7. Food prices stay the same.
8. Get kickbacks.
Only people with fuck you money are going to profit from economic chaos. It happened during the pandemic, it's going to happen again.
January 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Only people with fuck you money are going to profit from economic chaos. It happened during the pandemic, it's going to happen again.
On cue. My brother is at risk as are my nephews. I wonder how long until my parents regret their vote?
At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citizenship during immigration raids since Wednesday, according to Navajo Nation officials.
Navajo Nation leaders raise alarm over reports of Indigenous people being questioned and detained during immigration sweeps | CNN
At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citiz...
www.cnn.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:41 PM
On cue. My brother is at risk as are my nephews. I wonder how long until my parents regret their vote?
@hcrichardson.bsky.social Are we in the 1840s, maintaining the rule of law phase, or the 1770s era of burn it all down and start over? It's not clear to me.
January 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
@hcrichardson.bsky.social Are we in the 1840s, maintaining the rule of law phase, or the 1770s era of burn it all down and start over? It's not clear to me.
“THOSE WHO STUDY the rise and fall of civilizations learn that no shortcoming has been as surely fatal to republics as a dearth of public virtue, the unwillingness of those who govern to place the value of their society above personal interest.” - James Stockdale
January 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
“THOSE WHO STUDY the rise and fall of civilizations learn that no shortcoming has been as surely fatal to republics as a dearth of public virtue, the unwillingness of those who govern to place the value of their society above personal interest.” - James Stockdale
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I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...
Readings - Civil Resistance How It Works Fall 2022.pdf
drive.google.com
January 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...
Step 1. Put all DEI Hires on leave.
Step 2. Complain the DEI hires aren't effective at their jobs.
Step 3. Fire DEI hires.
Step 4. Complain that (shortstaffed) government agencies aren't performing.
Step 5. Give fat outsourcing contracts to your tech bros to pick up the slack.
Step 6. Get kickbacks.
Step 2. Complain the DEI hires aren't effective at their jobs.
Step 3. Fire DEI hires.
Step 4. Complain that (shortstaffed) government agencies aren't performing.
Step 5. Give fat outsourcing contracts to your tech bros to pick up the slack.
Step 6. Get kickbacks.
January 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Step 1. Put all DEI Hires on leave.
Step 2. Complain the DEI hires aren't effective at their jobs.
Step 3. Fire DEI hires.
Step 4. Complain that (shortstaffed) government agencies aren't performing.
Step 5. Give fat outsourcing contracts to your tech bros to pick up the slack.
Step 6. Get kickbacks.
Step 2. Complain the DEI hires aren't effective at their jobs.
Step 3. Fire DEI hires.
Step 4. Complain that (shortstaffed) government agencies aren't performing.
Step 5. Give fat outsourcing contracts to your tech bros to pick up the slack.
Step 6. Get kickbacks.