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Clowncar

@clowncar.bsky.social

Writer, reader, Dad, husband. I spend a little too much time watching baseball, and way too much time watching the night sky.

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Micah@rincewind.run · 7mo ago

shoving someone's face directly in unfairness and telling them the rules they have built their lives around don't matter because you're in charge and they aren't triggers fury on the lizard brain level and it's a huge contributor to how autocracies fail

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · last yr.

60% of American households can’t afford a minimal quality of life. Meanwhile, the 19 richest households saw their wealth increase by $1 trillion in 2024 — the biggest one-year increase ever. Our problem isn't a lack of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

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Marco Foster@marcofoster.bsky.social · last yr.

JUST NOW: Robert Garcia asks Kristi Noem if she will check if Andry Hernández Romero is alive (she won’t): “It is shameful that you won’t even request to see if this young man is alive”

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · last yr.

Our allies for a century all hate us, but at least the rulers of Saudi Arabia and Qatar appreciate how easy it is to get what they want from our govt, and appear to enjoy our president’s willingness to trade US govt policy for personal enrichment. So we have some friends.

David Noll@david.noll.org · last yr.

could someone check with John Roberts whether accepting a $400 million plane for your personal use is a core executive power that congress may not constitutionally regulate or merely an action for which the president is presumptively immune from any accountability?

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · last yr.

It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.

Dana Stevens@thehighsign.bsky.social · last yr.

Seeking someone with a Ph.D. in ethical philosophy and a lifetime of service at the Ethical Bureau of Ethics who can explain whether it's wrong for the US president to accept a luxury private jet as a gift from a foreign government.

Astronomy 🔭@astronomy.bsky.social · last yr.

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff. - Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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