There’s got to be a statute of limitations on “they rigged it against Bernie twice.” Candidates are allowed to drop out and consolidate the vote against you; the 2020 “rigged” claim does is basically that Dems did politics to him and that’s not fair.
If, as I expect, Hamas releases the remaining hostages and agrees to a cease-fire with Israel AFTER January 20th, 12:00pm EST, I think the people of Israel should ask their PM why their loved ones had to suffer for an extended period so that he could suck up to Trump.
News from the German Ministry of Defence: As of today, they will stop posting on X. Same is true of our official armed forces accounts.
Thomas Wiegold@wiegold.de · 2y agoFrisch aus dem BMVg: "Das Verteidigungsministerium wird den BMVg-Kanal auf der Plattform „X" ab dem 15. Januar 2025 ruhen lassen und auf absehbare Zeit nicht mehr proaktiv auf dem Kanal posten." Gilt auch für Bundeswehr, GI, Inspekteure etc
Yep. Biden, wanting to Uphold the Norms, agreed to keep on a Trump-appointed prosecutor who was probing his son. Created a special counsel to probe his own post-VP document retention. Kept on Durham so he could finish a Trump-ordered probe of 2016. What did he get? Nothing. So here he goes.
The Mexican govt has invested more resources in guarding its own southern border, and intercepting migrants before they reach ours. Illegal crossings into the US are down ~75% bsky.app/profile/cram...
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 2y agoIn the past year, Mexico has invested huge resources (military patrols, highway checkpoints, busing migrants en masse from northern Mexico to south etc) to prevent them from ever reaching the US border. Key reason why illegal border crossings into US are ⬇️ 75% www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/0...
Among other silliness, it's yet another argument predicated upon "people who support Trumpism are blameless, they do not have any agency, they're forced to do it by others hurting their feelings." Andreessen's a billionaire, nothing forces him to be a crybaby right-wing reactionary.
Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 2y agoclearly the big lesson from the last election was that people were too mean to giant amoral technology corporations
Musk’s harassment of federal employees is despicable. He named the Chief Climate Officer from the DOE Loan Programs Office as unnecessary— the same DOE office that gave Tesla, Tesla! a half a nearly billion dollar lifeline loan to keep it operating in the 2010 recession. www.cnn.com/2024/11/27/b...
Elon Musk publicized the names of government employees he wants to cut. It’s terrifying federal workers | CNN Business
When President-elect Donald Trump said Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would recommend major cuts to the federal government in his administration, many public employees knew that their jobs could be on ...
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For the first time in a while overdose deaths are declining - seven straight months of declines. The cause is complicated but appears to be the culmination of a number of different Biden admin policy initiatives coming to fruition. And yet it meant absolutely nothing politically.
Publius@josey76.bsky.social · 2y agoWhat’s the TLDR?
PRESIDENT BIDEN: “I hope Trump re-thinks the tariffs, I think it’s a counterproductive thing to do— we’re surrounded by 2 oceans and 2 allies: Mexico and Canada. The last thing we need to do is screw up those relationships.”
Even if you're not moved by the argument that Twitter is a rightwing cesspool thanks to its redpilled owner, the fact that foreign enemies are expressing concern that they won't be able to use Twitter to manipulate Americans anymore should be enough to warrant the exodus.
Brian Tyler Cohen@briantylercohen.bsky.social · 2y agoIf you needed even MORE of a reason to switch to Bluesky, China is "troubled" by the fact that they've invested so much time on Twitter buying ads, bots, and influencers... only to see the people they're seeking to manipulate (us) flee the site. www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
Putin has no real options for nuclear use, no matter how hard he thumps his chest. And the history of nuclear crises - and there aren't many - is not that they happen because one side has decided on war, but because of miscalculations that have to be walked back. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Nuclear attack unlikely despite Putin's warnings, US intelligence says
The U.S. decision to allow Ukraine to fire American weapons deeper into Russia has not increased the risk of a nuclear attack, which is unlikely, despite Russian President Vladimir Putin's increasingly bellicose statements, five sources familiar with U.S. intelligence told Reuters.
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“Claudia Sheinbaum, Justin Trudeau: Only You Can Save Us from Donald Trump” — my plea in @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social washingtonmonthly.com/2024/11/28/c...
Claudia Sheinbaum, Justin Trudeau: Only You Can Save Us from Donald Trump | Washington Monthly
Claudia Sheinbaum, Justin Trudeau: Only You Can Save Us from Donald TrumpThe incoming president does not have a mandate for high tariffs. The leaders of Canada and Mexico should exploit Trump’s impetu...
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Musk is such a pathetic shit. The jerk went ballistic when someone shared public information about where his jet was flying, but he thinks its cool to publicize the names of ordinary working people who don't have money to hire teams of bodyguards.
Outspoken™️@out5p0ken.bsky.social · 2y agoWow. When CNN reached out to multiple experts in doxxing, cyber bullying, and online abuse they refused to speak on the record for fear of themselves becoming a target of Elon Musk. Wow. This is where we’re @ ?! /1 www.cnn.com/2024/11/27/b...
Can we please stop suggesting that Elon Musk is going to have any actual power to do anything? He's part of a non-governmental advisory committee. Congress created CFPB and only Congress can get rid of it. Framing like this gives them more power than they actually have.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2y agoElon Musk called Wednesday for the elimination of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, one of the nation’s most powerful watchdog agencies, signaling it could be scrapped as part of a planned review of government spending ordered by President-elect Donald Trump.
This is getting overlooked, but the whole premise of Trump's threat of tariffs is based on a lie. He's claiming Mexico must be bullied into stopping migrants. But Mexico is *already* doing this. That's a big reason crossings have dropped. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1888...
Mexican President’s Harsh Takedown of Trump Exposes an Ugly MAGA Scam
Claudia Sheinbaum’s response to Trump’s threat of tariffs revealed truths that the president-elect doesn’t want Americans to know.
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I think this is the thing that the "Bernie would've won" people almost never seriously grapple with. The right-wing attack machine spins up derogatory narratives about everyone. You cannot imagine a counterfactual in which that isn't happening to your or another candidate. It's inevitable.
I will be pissed at so many people for the rest of my fucking life about the way the Afghan withdrawl was covered. Congratulations, the next dozen presidents were watching and you have made the incentives very clear: we will never end a war again
Sam (ABeardedPanda)@abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 2y agoThere's a hypothesis that the backlash to the Afghanistan withdrawal led to the Biden admin becoming deathly afraid of alterations to the status quo even when the new status quo was fundamentally untenable for ideological or moral reasons
Trump's pick to lead the country's top medical research agency ...
The actual “Democrats” did not “lack empathy.” They did not forget to “reach out to the working class.” They didn’t adopt the rhetoric of “the faculty lounge.” They didn’t focus on Identity Politics at the expense of Kitchen Table concerns. And the way you know this is by opening your eyes & reading
Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 2y ago🧵 The other part of this that is so deeply frustrating is that it fails basic tests of "Does this match empirical reality?" The actual "Democrats" who "lack empathy" for working folks have an actual party platform. You can even actually still read it: www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/20...
Kamala Harris talked about Project 2025 in literally every campaign speech she gave. I’m all for searching for constructive solutions but this is just insisting Democrats do something they already did in a losing effort.
Max Berger@maxberger.bsky.social · 2y agoI am once again asking The Democrats to make Project 2025 a topic of national conversation.
The time to do this was late 2022, before Rs took over the House
Kate Riga@kateriga.bsky.social · 2y agoScoop: Wyden is teeing up a federal anti-SLAPP bill to introduce by the end of the year, a last-ditch attempt to pass protections for journalists + other critics before Trump takes over. Trump + those in his orbit have used these lawsuits to chill criticism/try to bury critics in legal costs
Trump tariffs are going to raise the price of lots of stuff regular people buy. Republicans are going to raise the price of your Walmart or Costco trip and use the extra money you pay for tax cuts for multinational corporations.
dress it up however you like, this is a complete failure - in incompetence, in delay, in deliberate sabotage - by the entire legal apparatus of the United States
southpaw@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2y agoA sickening abdication of the rule of law. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
A good time to point out that the Dept of Justice policy of not indicting sitting presidents is not in the Constitution anywhere. Search for those words and you will not find it. Nor obviously will you find any words saying former presidents are immune. It's all extra-constitutional.
Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2y agoBREAKING: Jack Smith moves to dismiss case against Trump in Washington, D.C. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The tax fight next year is going to be an absolute barn burner and it gives our side a perfect opportunity for moral and strategic clarity. They want to raise the price of stuff you buy and use your money to give more to corporations. Let’s keep it simple and let’s fight, after the holidays.
unless the Democrats are even more incompetent than they seem, every person that misses a Social Security check, every hospital that gets a late reimbursement, every person whose tax refund is delayed is Elon Musk's fault: Full stop. You KNOW the Republicans would do this.
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 2y agoagain, why are we treating this like it has any legal authority?
Grosser than 80 million Americans voting for Donald Trump is the sheer speed with which most of the corporate media ecosystem has moved to obey in advance and to reposition itself to be viewed favorably by those in power
Brendan Carr, Trump's FCC chair pick, is signaling his intention to punish broadcasters that the incoming administration believes has been unfair to them. He's doing something else here, too: he's discouraging broadcasters from critically covering Trump moving forward.
If I go all in on Tesla stock it will tank. A small sacrifice to shrink Elon’s net worth.
