Call me Ishmabill
@billjank.bsky.social
Embracing dad vibes. Vet. Recovering submariner. Richard Scarry Solutioneer. Still in love with the idea of America. He/him/his My opinions are my own
Our best president in the last half century was named Barack Hussein Obama. You damn right we could have a President El-Sayed. If someone with middle eastern heritage is born here, has citizenship, and knows how to fix shit, you damn right he's got my vote.
This requires active and deep messaging from democrats and others on the left starting now.
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 25m agoIt seems really clear that by 2028, we're going to have an empty SPR, substantial munitions shortages, greater strategic challenges, a larger national debt and substantially higher bond rates which will massively constrain future administrations.
I meant to post this last night but if you’re mad about any of the primary results you got 24 hours to bleed, try not to say anything you’ll regret in 48, and then it’s Blue No Matter Who.
Thread. A billion dollars in the hands of an individual is as threatening to a free society as a loose nuke.
The Editorial Board@editorialboard.bsky.social · 5h ago7. We are talking about billionaires who are trying to turn themselves into a permanent ruling class, presiding over naked structures of exploitation.
Palantir hoovering up European defence and NHS contracts whilst funnelling earnings back to the US to pay negligible corporate tax is a complete failure of digital sovereignty. European states must stop enriching tech firms that drain public coffers. Is it time to ban them? #FBPE
Palantir funnels earnings to US to avoid European taxes, report finds
A new study finds that Palantir, which boasts of high profit margins in the U.S., barely scrapes a margin in Europe, which helps slash its tax bill.
politico.eu
On the same week it's revealed Capital One shut down hundreds of Trump accounts for money laundering, he gets his IRS immunity deal finalized. This reality is so cartoonishly evil and corrupt I don't know where to begin. Reason #12634631 to impeach.
A European capital city, in a country that's an ally of NATO, spent this morning retrieving bodies, saving the wounded, grieving, & despairing at the US in particular for giving Russia the green light to murder when it wishes. Day 1624. Is the fight for good vs evil abandoned?
𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚🚨 "While he was detained, he lost 30 lbs. He had high blood pressure-he had diabetes. They refused him his medication...& I'm going to grow up without a father.. #ICE tried to cover up the fact that they killed him...They're just Heartless monsters." —preteen daughter of Edwin Lopez-Cornejo
Talrico needs to clip this, follow it up with the voiceover that Paxton will be even more of a rubber stamp than Cornyn was, and say that he will work to make sure the Senate is the check on presidential power that the founders intended.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
YES YES YES DEM JULIAN BEAUDION DROPS OUT OF THE SOUTH DAKOTA SENATE RACE www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Democrat exits Senate race in South Dakota, clearing way for independent
Julian Beaudion withdrew after resisting pressure to step aside, making South Dakota’s contest the third Senate race without a Democratic candidate.
washingtonpost.com
Just a reminder that the Architect in chief has no formal training, and is so bad at property management he bankrupted casinos.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21h agoAnother disaster from our incompetent Builder-in-Chief.
My description of Mrs. Jank “a marvelous scent rose from her… and beauty wafted from her eyes” I’ve been the happiest man in the world for decades.
Chat, is this good for a company down almost halfway from its peak?
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 19h agoSPACEX HAS FILED A PROSPECTUS RELATED TO AN OFFERING OF 136.95 MLN SHARES OF CLASS A COMMON STOCK REOFFERED BY CERTAIN STOCKHOLDERS - SEC FILING
gonna use one of those SETI radio telescopes to beam a fart with reverb into the universe
Nolan’s Odyssey is not Homer’s Odyssey, and that’s cool, IMO. I think it’s interesting to dig into what the storyteller is trying to say by telling *this* story in *this* way at *this* time.
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social @blumenthal.senate.gov - why are you letting your colleagues give such a cheap win to Trump, to Susan Collins, to Lisa Murkowski?
Brian Beutler@brianbeutler.bsky.social · 23h agoThis behavior makes me understand why Dem primary voters are looking left for new leaders. I wish I could say they have their eyes on the ball here. But they don’t either. www.offmessage.net/p/senate-dem...
Hey, Senator Moreno - I’d like to tell you about what happened to some kids that met Don after his buddy Jeff introduced them to
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayMoreno on Max Miller: "My daughter lives in constant fear of this man ... you can't fathom what that makes me feel like when the dad's number one job is to protect your kids... if there's any minimum standard for being an elected official, he feels to meet it. I don't care about the politics at all"
Well, at least he was a journalism major, not poly sci, so I don’t have to ask serious questions about Trinity’s accreditation. I do have to ask serious questions about St. Mary’s law tho.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
I like the idea that every citizen should get to use one thing their tax dollars pay for that otherwise they wouldn’t have access to I’ve done most of the military stuff I’d like to do; I think that my request would be to go change batteries at a weather monitoring station somewhere deep in Glaicer
Ken Tremendous@kentremendous.bsky.social · 2d agoThat's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?
Discovery will be a ton of fun. TACO in about a week.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · yesterdayCapital One has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit from the Trump Org. over the closure of hundreds of bank accounts in 2021, arguing that the shutdowns were the product of a monthslong anti-money-laundering review — not retaliation for the Capitol riot, as the Trump businesses have claimed.
every time you hit a flock camera with your head a gold coin pops out and sometimes a mushroom or a fire flower
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2d agoIt would be irresponsible of us not to further investigate if each Flock camera does in fact contain a focusing crystal that is actually a diamond
lucky for these people you can say shit like “a deal with iran is 95% of the way there” or “trickle down economics works” and no one will remember or even bring up how wrong they are. thakn you for being wrong, here is $300k/year
These signs should be on every hiking trail in Oregon and across the US .
Flock cameras, but the only thing each one does is turns everyone in view into Tom Bombadil with big naturals.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2d agoIt would be irresponsible of us not to further investigate if each Flock camera does in fact contain a focusing crystal that is actually a diamond
The poors were dragging her down. What tiny fraction of her wealth could endow a school in perpetuity?
justicetoall.bsky.social ⚖️️😻💙@justicetoall.bsky.social · yesterday☑️ A school for low-income students cofounded by Mark Zuckerberg’s wife, Priscilla Chan, has officially shut its doors. ⏬ futurism.com/future-socie...
Can confirm, copper wires were in the camera making surveillance and I saw 2 grams of gold and the gold looked at me
