Spencer’s Butte’s Shadow
@brienmcmullen.bsky.social
Teaching reading skills to K-5. Dad. History, Folklore, Jazz, Bass Player, Conjugal, Organic gardening, Hiking, Politics, Finance, Deadhead, Tree Hugging Dirt Worshipper. Incapable of stopping before reaching the character limit.
America has trying to think. Trump doesn't buy gas or care about the price. apnews.com/article/trum...
Oil prices are high but could be much worse. Trump has China's Xi to thank for that
President Donald Trump’s conflict with Iran has not led to the doomsday oil price spike many feared at the start of the war.
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Are they hiring? coloradotimesrecorder.com/2026/09/comp...
Complaint Filed With House Ethics Committee Alleges Boebert Slept With Three of Her Congressional Staffers
A sworn ethics complaint filed yesterday with the U.S. House Committee on Ethics alleges that Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) engaged in sexual relationships with three House employees under her direct...
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I make a mundane insightful comment. Somebody who doesn't really know what they're talking about comes along to disagree.
Stork@eightxeroxedbutts.bsky.social · 16h agoPalantir doesn't do anything anybody else can't do. Heck, word is that their software is VisualBasic-level garbage.
The wokest rapper? What do words mean?
David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social · 10h agoThis week's spectacular blowback on Ed Sheeran for dropping Macklemore from his tour began as a show of power from a public spaces monopoly, composed of NFL owners & entities of & around Live Nation. But at the end of the day, the fans fill the seats, & they've rejected this modern McCarthyism.
We really do need to talk about how the courts take 2 years to do something that was obvious at the beginning.
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 16h agoThe Trump administration unlawfully terminated a $7 billion grant program for solar energy, a federal judge in Rhode Island ruled on Friday.
This is what an authoritarian regime would do in America. You will not be able to travel. The US passport is the most coveted passport in the world because you can go anywhere. But Trump is screwing that up.
The Economist@economist.com · 21h agoChina is not shutting its citizens behind its gates. But it is watching the gates a lot more closely
2 weeks ago in the best health of my life, 49 years old, not overweight, quit smoking 15 years ago, exercise, diet, hiking all summer. Today I'm going in for a procedure on my heart telling my mother and wife I love them. WTF.
Reading about Confucius, I realize that I live by much of thesez ideas. This wonderful passage paraphrasing his philosophy captures how I parent and how I help kids at the school where I work. "Let (us/ them) seek impartial knowledge, and their thinking will become sincere; let their thoughts...
And then the newscopter covering the story crashed killing the people on board and a person on the ground. LA is like that.
NPR@npr.org · 2d agoAn SUV driver was under the influence of drugs when she swerved into the wrong lane, blew a red light and slammed into a Los Angeles city bus, killing two riders, prosecutors said as they charged her with murder. n.pr/4hf31t6
I feel this. I stepped away from social scenes in 2015. When I tried again after COVID, everything has changed.
wayne@rodinal.bsky.social · 2d agoLike from the fucking 1600s until ~2010 if you were bored (the further back you to the more privilege you need but I'm a cishet middle class white American property owning male so I get all of it) you could just go to a fucking bar and jump into the middle of a conversation that was happening.
Rough day at the cardiologist today. Pray for me.
This is why the Constitution doesn't allow Presidents to declare wars; "It’s a big decision. Anything could happen with me.” www.axios.com/2026/09/17/t...
Trump tells Axios he's approaching major crossroads in Iran war
The U.S. has settled into a familiar pattern in the war that some officials say is not sustainable.
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People can't imagine what happens in California. It's like your state times a million.
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 2d agoThe US’s busiest container port for global trade foiled more than 120 million cyberattack attempts in August.
I am so over the military porn and forced patriotism at sporting events.
Bloomberg analyst today all agreed the FED has good reason to increase rates five or six times to force a recession in order to get inflation under control. They said the only reason we're not all penciling that in right now is because of the political pressure against letting that happen.
Tacoma drivers are crazy. It's the only place I ever lived where you have to check the car directly behind you before changing lanes. It's a coin flip that he's going to punch it to 80 on your right at any given moment.
Maybe Charles II is a good analogy for Trump. He sided with the enemy, spent time in exile, solved his financial problems by giving away state assets, love the Louis 14th architectural style, bad hair, philandering. A plague, devastating fire. Hated in Scotland.
Don't worry, leftists love developers, who must liberals and environmentalists see as the root of all evil.
The Economist@economist.com · 3d agoFor the Democratic “affordability” agenda’s most vexing problem, Zohran Mamdani has a simple formula: squeeze landlords and woo developers bit.ly/4cLCBh2 Photo: Lloyd Mitchell
Somehow Republicans make us the bad guys against the worst countries.
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 3d agoIran’s surprise win over the US at the UN atomic watchdog's meeting raises further hurdles for diplomacy on nuclear power
Regarding the interest rates, thank goodness they got rid of all those crazy adjustable rate mortgages that existed 20 years ago. Can you imagine if all the people with 3% rates had house payment double right now? W Was that Dodd-Frank?
Face it. Smart phones are everything we ever wanted. AI probably will seal the deal. (I was very late on this tech, 2017. In fact I never reallyhad a cell phone, only a prepaid phone for road trips until 2017.)
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3d agoIn @nytopinion.nytimes.com Stephanie Murray suspected that ditching her smartphone would make her more reliant on other people. “But I think it’s more accurate to say that I’ve become more reliant on other people’s smartphones,” she writes.
Republicans seem to be negotiating and horse trading within their caucus, but not with Democrats. This concerns me. In the USSR, they made all their decisions behind closed doors and party meetings and then came out unified. It's circumventing democracy. www.washingtonsun.com/congress/hou...
House Republican Meeting Turns Into Shouting Match: ‘This Is Fucking War!’
Speaker Mike Johnson summoned top GOP members to discuss suspending the gas tax, but the session got ugly and personal.
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Jerome Powell presided over a legal and successful building renovation. Trump, who doesn't seem capable of doing this, got jealous and demanded his arrest. www.npr.org/2026/04/24/n...
Justice Department drops probe into Fed Chair Jerome Powell
The move paves the way for the Senate to confirm Kevin Warsh, the president's nominee to head the central bank.
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This is the fallback position just about every time, usually within the first couple tweets.
Spencer’s Butte’s Shadow@brienmcmullen.bsky.social · 3d agoSo there you go. You're justifying a terrorist attack.
That's really sad. People who don't live in LA can't imagine how much helicopters are used for the local news. Ellie in the Heli. Legend. www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/h...
Helicopter providing coverage for NBCLA, Telemundo 52 crashes in Los Angeles
Several news helicopters were in the San Fernando Valley community covering a deadly bus crash at a nearby intersection.
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I'd hate to see how we respond to actual difficulty.
Spencer’s Butte’s Shadow@brienmcmullen.bsky.social · 3d agoEveryone keeps saying that we're living through a difficult time, but actually this past 15 years has been an incredible boom, with low unemployment and increasing American dominance. The only thing wrong is that America's conservatives and elites have turned against their own country.
Booker looked stronger than ever. Senate Majority will blow the lid off this admin. Without it, it's business as usual.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d agoBooker eviscerates Patel: "He's like an 18 year old kid who wants to join a fraternity that he could never be a member of, doing keg stands and chugging with friends. He's an embarrassment. He is a disgrace. This is a mockery and a sham. What's bad are the people enabling him."
