Chuck Staples
@cjstaples.bsky.social
Software / tech / gaming geek. Generally what you see is what you get.
Federal prosecutors just dropped charges against 3 MORE defendants who were falsely accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool www.cbsnews.com/news/lincoln...
Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
They subpoenaed an 85-year-old man who has testified before Congress 250 times. They published his private diary first. Then screamed profanity at him for not talking. Six years of investigation. Zero charges. This is what having nothing looks like. www.JackHopkinsNow.com
What the US government is doing to Dr. Fauci is the embodiment of what they are doing to scientific infrastructure overall.
Jeanine Pirro should be disbarred. It is absolutely indefensible and gross misconduct to rush through a criminal indictment for political reasons before an investigation has been completed, which resulted in false evidence being presented to a grand jury.
So many sneering elitist journalists with snarky posts over the past months that the Reflecting Pool story was trivial. It was so trivial that the DC US Attny presented false evidence to a grand jury to indict an innocent man to please the President while they both lied about it.
Todd Blanche quite obviously lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee when he told them this was dead. It was never dead. It was just on hold until he was confirmed.
I bet Jeanine Pirro was eager to drop the case before the judge asked to see grand jury transcripts, which would probably contain evidence to disbar her.
Let’s not forget that this illegal Reflecting Pool indictment was also overseen by Todd Blanche. He could have stopped this at any time, but he was a corrupt and willing accomplice to this fraud upon the court. How can any decent person possibly vote for this man as AG?
My mom would have had to update her voter registration and prove her citizenship 8 times under the SAVE Act, counting all her moves and name changes. That's just one tiny part of Trump's project to make govt exhausting, punitive and (for him) profitable. My latest www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-m...
Trump Is Making Government Worse on Purpose
Instead of seeking to simplify and improve citizens’ lives, this administration keeps creating new obstacles and burdens.
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Kamala Harris: We have a president taking America into a war the people did not ask for, spending billions of dollars without paying attention to the people right here in America who are losing their health coverage because of policies they are pushing to pay for a tax cut for the rich…
Well shit. I don't know who to believe. An infectious disease expert or some shill spewing bullshit on a fake news channel.
Yul Brynner in The King And I: Is a Puzzlement
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“Tow the line” Their unpleasant entitlement is only exceeded by their stupidity.
The Trump administration has governed by silencing or ignoring facts and information they believe doesn’t line up with their extreme rhetoric, and that has damaging implications, so it’s no surprise career officials whose job is transparency are unable to do those jobs.
Homeland Security Official Rips Trump’s ‘War On Immigrants’ In Resignation Announcement
Marc Rosenblum said he’s “thrilled to end my relationship with the current administration.”
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Couldn’t agree more. Dr. Fauci is an American hero.
1. This New York Post cover: “Thousands of 9/11 families demand Mamdani be banned from 25th-Anniversary” is a brazen lie. How do I know? I interviewed the organizer of the petition.
The legacy media is reconsidering the White House Correspondence dinner because Trump insulted them. What they don't get is that they insulted their viewers and readers by attending in the first place. Support independent media that doesn't suck up to Trump whether he is nice to them or not.
Weirdness with #AppleTV authentication tonight. Apple and the Apple One subscription provider pointing fingers at each other but not letting me sign in. Took fully signing out on phone and resetting AppleTV app on smart tv to resolve completely, but recovered in stages, all set now.
Message From Alex Pretti's Mom... 6 Months of Inaction House Judiciary Democrats @balint.house.gov @danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co @jayapal.house.gov @kamlager-dove.house.gov @neguse.house.gov @repcohen.bsky.social @scanlon.house.gov @democrats-judiciary.house.gov #Rule9 #Impeach #Convict #Remove #Blues
I wouldn't eat dinner with Donald Trump if he paid me. Sadly, that is not true of much of the corporate-owned legacy media. Tonight, hundreds of journalists will attend a dinner honoring him. If you support pro-democracy independent media, subscribe to Democracy Docket now. demdock.com/4w6emld
🚨BREAKING: Alaska recently removed thousands of people from its active voter lists after they were flagged as noncitizens. But a state news outlet found that some were in fact eligible to vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Alaska wrongly removed eligible voters from active voter lists
Alaska removed thousands from voter lists after they were flagged as noncitizens. But a state news outlet found some were eligible to vote.
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Donald Trump is nearly incoherent as he addresses an adoring White House press corp. This is an embarrassment for the White House and a humiliating display by the legacy media in the room. Support independent media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket. demdock.com/4w6emld
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) announced Thursday that she has no plans to supply the Department of Justice (DOJ) with data on thousands of noncitizens who were erroneously registered to vote due to a software malfunction. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
New Jersey won’t give DOJ data on noncitizens erroneously registered to vote
“It is not a surprise to me that the federal government, that the Trump administration, wants to immediately weaponize this against people as opposed to focusing on making sure that we’re running free...
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Can’t overstate this: “Software development has never been only about writing code." Part of a good quote from Atlassian recently: www.atlassian.com/blog/company...
How we’re evolving Jira for AI-native software development - Inside Atlassian
New Jira and Teamwork Graph capabilities help teams plan, delegate, and govern agentic work across the software development lifecycle.
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I try not to overdo this bit but ... my man is begging for it. Let's go.
PEIPolitical 🇨🇦@peipolitical.bsky.social · 3w agoMiller: "It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism." #cdnpoli