As the economic news keeps coming out over the coming weeks keep one thing in mind: this is the fault of one man and didn’t need to happen.

If you were really looking for fraud at SSA, you wouldn’t need write access. You WOULD need write access if you wanted to CREATE fraud where none existed as a pretext to shut down Social Security.

He’s betraying Ukraine, siding with Putin and declaring himself a king. Just like we told them he would. Fascism tells you you’re hysterical. Until it unmasks itself

We’re in for weeks of this on end. One of Musk’s tween haxx0rz stumbles into a complicated system they don’t understand, thinks they’ve discovered something earthshattering the veteran dunces never noticed, relays to Musk who also doesn’t understand, and broadcasts it to millions of followers.

I wrote about how Doge is involved in cutting cancer research www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...

The most surreal and maddening feature of the campaign was that everyone agreed that high prices were the main issue but the guy explicitly, consistently running on a platform of raising everyone’s prices won voters most concerned about high prices. We hammered this time and time again and yet.

The unelected neo nazi ketamine freak muscling out treasury officials and taking control of government payment systems is the kind of thing that should be a bigger story in American media. Maybe. Perhaps.

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

Won’t be easy to top the body count of the body count of the first Trump presidency, but they’re gonna give it their best shot.

JP@jpbrammer.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'm obviously worried about the evil things Trump and Elon have said they will do, but the crash reminds me to be worried of what I think of "death by jank." these people are far from being as smart as they think they are and their incompetence is going to kill people

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

‘We’re watching mass delusion happen’: Trump’s return to White House brings cascade of lies

‘We’re watching mass delusion happen’: Trump’s return to White House brings cascade of lies

In first week in office, president has made false claims on topics from immigration and economy to Panama canal Donald Trump had been US president again for less than 15 minutes when he made his first factually dubious claim. “The vicious, violent and…

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it's like AOC is the only person who is expressing an actual emotion here

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2y ago

Four examples of Democratic messaging since yesterday. I know which one I'm supporting. And voting for.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

Me: Oh no that trolley is going to run us over! Guy tied up on the track next to me who somehow thinks he's actually the guy holding the lever: Lol cry more 😂

The past several days have proven without a shadow of a doubt that Project 2025 is real and underway. And those who warned America about it were right.

Elon Musk is a Nazi Do not let people tell you you did not see what you saw.

David Lynch gave us the language we needed to better articulate the indescribable strangeness of our shared reality. “Lynchian” is so overused because it’s a viscerally understandable word without any known synonyms. I can’t imagine a more beautiful artistic legacy than that.

‘The high point of TV as a medium’: David Lynch’s Twin Peaks may never be bettered

‘The high point of TV as a medium’: David Lynch’s Twin Peaks may never be bettered

The surreal murder mystery’s impact is so profound that its fingerprints are on every show made during TV’s golden age. What a legacy In the coming days and weeks, much will be made about David Lynch’s gargantuan contribution to cinema. This will be…

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I will miss David Lynch more than words can express. A dreamer tethered to a roiling ocean of creativity, who made us confront the darkness while somehow feeling less alone. Thank you David, rest well.

(living in a country where the most successful people are obscenely rich and shameless perverts and psychopaths) Time to teach my children to be honest and study hard in school

Once again my political enemies are smearing me by presenting evidence of my crimes

We are speededrunning Oligarchy and collapse. The worlds richest man is hell bent on destroying liberal democracies for his own (and Russia’s) gain. This is far worse than just Trump.

I think right-wingers learned a lot from the War on Christmas. In '05, when a couple of Fox personalities started pushing that nonsense, they were universally mocked. But Fox stuck with it and soon it infuriated RWers, who acted out when store clerks wished them a happy holiday, and eventually...

Hank is right, and what’s most fascinating to me is testing the idea at the centre of this: Can we build something for ourselves that can’t be corrupted by the influence of the wealthy and powerful?

Hank Green@hankgreen.bsky.social · 2y ago

The deep goal of bluesky is to decentralize the social internet so that every individual controls their experience of it rather than having it be controlled by 5 random billionaires. Everyone thinks they signed up for a demuskified twitter...we actually signed an exciting and bizarre experiment.

Even the smallest positive interaction can change your perspective and turn your day around Be that for someone, you have no idea what it might mean to them

After successfully electing Trump, everyone should prepare for Elon and the fascists to run the “divide and conquer” playbook on the UK over the next 5 years. Farage and Reform winning a GE seems ridiculous now, but so did Trumps reelection after Jan 6 ‘21.

So a reminder: It’s not ‘liberals’ saying Hegseth abuses women. It’s his mom. It’s not ‘liberals’ comparing Trump to Hitler. It’s his vice-president. It’s not ‘liberals’ calling Musk a liar and a racist. It’s his own child. For the record.

Nature abhors a vacuum. It hides under the bed and hisses as soon as the vacuuming starts.