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"I want people to be safe and protected. I want to live on the right side of history. I am an immigrant. My parents are refugees from Chile. We fled a dictatorship and I was privileged enough to grow up in the United States after asylum in Denmark. I stand by those protections, always."
May 18, 2025 at 2:14 AM
"I want people to be safe and protected. I want to live on the right side of history. I am an immigrant. My parents are refugees from Chile. We fled a dictatorship and I was privileged enough to grow up in the United States after asylum in Denmark. I stand by those protections, always."
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I'm a one-issue voter and it's "we absolutely need to let banks do mortgage fraud again, it's important." So this is a pretty big day for me.
Russell Vought, the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and one of the authors of Project 2025, just ordered the agency's staff to effectively cease all operations in an org wide email.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...
Federal Financial Watchdog Ordered to Cease Activity
In an email to staff of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency’s acting director ordered workers to cease “all supervision and examination activity.”
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I'm a one-issue voter and it's "we absolutely need to let banks do mortgage fraud again, it's important." So this is a pretty big day for me.
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this type of smug cynicism is corrosive to the very core of democracy
February 8, 2025 at 12:28 PM
this type of smug cynicism is corrosive to the very core of democracy
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Here's what's maddening about this:
TRUMP GOT ELECTED ON A FICTION. And not on details, like "If you like your insurance you can keep it." He claimed to have one agenda, but then whipped out an incredibly radical secret agenda once sworn in. Nobody voted for this!
And yet crickets from the press.
TRUMP GOT ELECTED ON A FICTION. And not on details, like "If you like your insurance you can keep it." He claimed to have one agenda, but then whipped out an incredibly radical secret agenda once sworn in. Nobody voted for this!
And yet crickets from the press.
This Politico story from last October shows how easy it is to launder lies through the press. It claimed Trump would ban anyone tied to Project 2025 from a job in a second Trump administration.
“Clearly people working on Project 2025 are blacklisted,” said an unidentified Trump insider. 1/4🧵
“Clearly people working on Project 2025 are blacklisted,” said an unidentified Trump insider. 1/4🧵
Trump team preps list of banned staffers
The names include conservatives linked to Project 2025 and Republicans viewed as disloyal to the former president.
www.politico.com
February 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Here's what's maddening about this:
TRUMP GOT ELECTED ON A FICTION. And not on details, like "If you like your insurance you can keep it." He claimed to have one agenda, but then whipped out an incredibly radical secret agenda once sworn in. Nobody voted for this!
And yet crickets from the press.
TRUMP GOT ELECTED ON A FICTION. And not on details, like "If you like your insurance you can keep it." He claimed to have one agenda, but then whipped out an incredibly radical secret agenda once sworn in. Nobody voted for this!
And yet crickets from the press.
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The executive branch does not have the legal right to cancel appropriated spending or eliminate agencies created by Congress.
Trump and Musk are doing both. Entirely lawless and unconstitutional.
The world's largest provider of food assistance shut down.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump and Musk are doing both. Entirely lawless and unconstitutional.
The world's largest provider of food assistance shut down.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
![“I went over it with him in detail, and he agreed that we should shut it down,” Musk said. “And I actually checked with him a few times [and] said ‘are you sure?’”
The answer was yes, he said.
“And so we’re shutting it down,” Musk said.
USAID staffers were told that the agency’s headquarters in Washington will be closed Monday amid the turmoil.
In an email to staff early Monday, the agency’s leadership said: “Agency personnel normally assigned to work at USAID headquarters will work remotely … with the exception of personnel with essential on-site and building maintenance functions individually contacted by senior leadership.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2rrp7amblhg3xoly5n5huiqv/bafkreihfrxbqqzx6xoeoudgfglj52il2ts26n2dkmxhq6ulwdbt7thegzy@jpeg)
February 3, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The executive branch does not have the legal right to cancel appropriated spending or eliminate agencies created by Congress.
Trump and Musk are doing both. Entirely lawless and unconstitutional.
The world's largest provider of food assistance shut down.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump and Musk are doing both. Entirely lawless and unconstitutional.
The world's largest provider of food assistance shut down.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump is so goddamn dumb.
Folks I know it seems too obvious to bother saying but we should say it anyway; this guy is out of his fucking mind.
February 2, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Trump is so goddamn dumb.
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This is insane but for Democrats it is AN OPPORTUNITY: There's been a horrifying plane crash after Trump disrupted the entire federal bureaucracy and instead of getting to the bottom of it Trump is just signing absurd executive orders assigning blame to black people and women.
Insanity — Trump signs an order blaming Biden and DEI for flight dangers
January 30, 2025 at 10:05 PM
This is insane but for Democrats it is AN OPPORTUNITY: There's been a horrifying plane crash after Trump disrupted the entire federal bureaucracy and instead of getting to the bottom of it Trump is just signing absurd executive orders assigning blame to black people and women.
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![Witness said a bus driver told an ICE agent to "gargle [his] balls" when the latter requested to enter the bus.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jky6uuetr73nlbaml6ytlzbi/bafkreibjh2gbp75z5bojibdoefdpfdwlclxwspai2i7qfjotajpraru3zm@jpeg)
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That’s my fucking Khan
The US Constitution does not grant the President this unilateral authority.
In Illinois, we will stand against unlawful actions that would harm millions of working families, children, and seniors.
In Illinois, we will stand against unlawful actions that would harm millions of working families, children, and seniors.
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 28, 2025 at 5:34 AM
That’s my fucking Khan
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What you need to understand is that, just like Democrats spent years taking policy instructions from the loud online base on social media, the Republicans are now doing the same. The problem is that their loud online base aren't "people who want Medicare for All" but fascists.
January 28, 2025 at 6:02 AM
What you need to understand is that, just like Democrats spent years taking policy instructions from the loud online base on social media, the Republicans are now doing the same. The problem is that their loud online base aren't "people who want Medicare for All" but fascists.
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It's good that there's a 25% tarriff on imported coffee now. This will incentivize people to purchase American coffee, grown in the New Jersey coffee forests
January 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
It's good that there's a 25% tarriff on imported coffee now. This will incentivize people to purchase American coffee, grown in the New Jersey coffee forests
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Biden spent his entire term shoveling money at rural areas. These people don’t want help, they want to be at the top of a hierarchy and they’ll happily be kings of the ashes if that’s what it takes.
I disagree. Dems need to look in the mirror when it comes to the plight of poor people, especially in rural areas. Yes the Dems throw out some crumbs now and then, but the economy has not been kind to these people for decades. Turning to someone like Trump, of all people, was an act of desperation.
January 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Biden spent his entire term shoveling money at rural areas. These people don’t want help, they want to be at the top of a hierarchy and they’ll happily be kings of the ashes if that’s what it takes.
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How it started. How it’s going.
January 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
How it started. How it’s going.
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My grandparents and great-grandparents were Irish immigrants. They came to America in search of a better life, and now their grandson is a United States Senator from Malden. America is a nation of immigrants, and we are going to stay that way.
January 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
My grandparents and great-grandparents were Irish immigrants. They came to America in search of a better life, and now their grandson is a United States Senator from Malden. America is a nation of immigrants, and we are going to stay that way.
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Transit *does* have fiscal benefits that we might conceive of as government revenue, but it shows up on *other budgets*--property tax rolls, lower highway budgets, lower public health costs, the ability of many places to exist at all, agglomeration economies, etc
January 24, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Transit *does* have fiscal benefits that we might conceive of as government revenue, but it shows up on *other budgets*--property tax rolls, lower highway budgets, lower public health costs, the ability of many places to exist at all, agglomeration economies, etc
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On the one hand, it's a useful thought exercise. On the other, transit agencies don't control the most important inputs to demand, which are land use and roadway competition. So there has to be a decisive political directive across multiple jurisdictions to make it even remotely feasible.
This post by @andrewmilleryyz.bsky.social, shared by @yfreemark.bsky.social earlier today, makes for stimulating reading. Can transit agencies avoid the "endless emergency" by moving to self-sufficiency? How would that look for NJ Transit? (1/_) www.changinglanesnewsletter.com/p/progress-a...
Progress and Public Transit: an End to Subsidy
Transit should cover its costs with fares
www.changinglanesnewsletter.com
January 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
On the one hand, it's a useful thought exercise. On the other, transit agencies don't control the most important inputs to demand, which are land use and roadway competition. So there has to be a decisive political directive across multiple jurisdictions to make it even remotely feasible.
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The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.
January 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.
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Guys when Chris Rufo and Trump say "We're destroying DEI, we're salting the earth underneath it" and they're talking about regulations that reach back to 1965, they're not talking about corporate diversity trainings.
They are talking about civil rights
They are talking about civil rights
January 23, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Guys when Chris Rufo and Trump say "We're destroying DEI, we're salting the earth underneath it" and they're talking about regulations that reach back to 1965, they're not talking about corporate diversity trainings.
They are talking about civil rights
They are talking about civil rights
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Gritty continues to be a real one
January 22, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Gritty continues to be a real one
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I’m an avid driver and I think cities should remove highways, pedestrianize streets and get rid of parking minimums
January 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I’m an avid driver and I think cities should remove highways, pedestrianize streets and get rid of parking minimums
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People who think the government should be allowed to punish political speech it feels false often fail to realize that this is exactly how that power would be used.
October 6, 2024 at 4:58 AM
People who think the government should be allowed to punish political speech it feels false often fail to realize that this is exactly how that power would be used.
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Since I'm joining BlueSky to gain better visibility, might as well make the first post relevant
September 23, 2024 at 9:29 PM
Since I'm joining BlueSky to gain better visibility, might as well make the first post relevant
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It's not for everyone, it's not a perfect game... but it's a pretty darn solid SF outlaw fantasy
And it's a shame this game of all games had to pay the price for Ubisoft's past mistakes
Hopefully Shadows' delay proves worthwile. In the mean time, I'm glad I have Outlaws to fill the coming void...
And it's a shame this game of all games had to pay the price for Ubisoft's past mistakes
Hopefully Shadows' delay proves worthwile. In the mean time, I'm glad I have Outlaws to fill the coming void...
September 26, 2024 at 8:39 PM
It's not for everyone, it's not a perfect game... but it's a pretty darn solid SF outlaw fantasy
And it's a shame this game of all games had to pay the price for Ubisoft's past mistakes
Hopefully Shadows' delay proves worthwile. In the mean time, I'm glad I have Outlaws to fill the coming void...
And it's a shame this game of all games had to pay the price for Ubisoft's past mistakes
Hopefully Shadows' delay proves worthwile. In the mean time, I'm glad I have Outlaws to fill the coming void...