So the money launderer is getting his own national bank. I’m sure that’s all on the up and up. Nothing to worry about.
Marya
@maryapetry.bsky.social
Reader, writer, quilter, sewist, maker, nana, mom, political junkie, occasional Cassandra, forever student, Jersey girl in NoVa. The opposite of fear isn’t courage; the opposite of fear is hope. “It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah.” Cohen
Remember when a mere rise in the price of eggs was a huge political talking point? Now we have deadly eggs but no time to talk about it amidst the million other crisis issues.
Karly Kingsley@karlykingsley.bsky.social · 3d agoAgain?
The implications are astounding. You have to sit with this one for a while and think through shocking possible scenarios.
Garrett M. Graff@vermontgmg.bsky.social · 6d agoThe Air Force One catering truck scandal is deeper and darker than the media is portraying it — it’s a Russian nesting doll of corruption and national security threats: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-five-s...
Today's Republican Party is almost completely defined by its willingness to pretend Donald Trump isn't doing shit he is obviously doing.
Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
Not every day in the sewing room is pure joy. Today was frustration and walking on, putting one foot, one thread change, in front of the other. Sometimes the places where we turn for respite have other lessons to teach. #Quiltsky
The news and resulting conversations seem particularly bleak today. I’m going to really strive for some whimsy and joy as antidote. There will be color! We can’t resist if we are flat, gray, and hopeless.
No ammunition, no petroleum reserves, weakened alliances, weakened economy, strengthened enemies, reduced funding for science and research...hmmm, sounds like Putin's perfect formula for a "successful" Trump presidency.
Rima I Anabtawi@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · last wk.The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve has now fallen below 300 million barrels for the first time since it was filled. share.google/8ULpDPZpmfph...
Iran is now publicly talking about what I’ve been saying since this war started: They’re trying to Jimmy Carter him, and he’s letting it happen while telling everyone he’s winning.
Thinking out loud (on BlueSky): He’s building a fortress because he does not plan to leave but he’s also actively dying. So what’s the plan? He certainly doesn’t intend to pass the mantle to JD. An awful lot of people are enabling this intended coup but who will be their standard bearer?
Interesting take on a controversial figure as well as thoughts on both historical and religious perspectives. I’ve often wrestled with Paul because he is in many ways contradictory. @nancyterhune.bsky.social you might find this worth reading.
St. Paul Remade Human History. How Did He Do It?
New scholarship reconsiders the apostle who turned a Jewish sect into a world religion—and whose legacy remains contested two millennia later.
newyorker.com
So let me get this straight, the GOP is trying to smear Muslim Americans holding office in NYC or running for office in MI with 9/11 innuendo but allow the Saudi government with its deep connections to the actual 9/11 hijackers to obtain nuclear fuel? I’m sure this is just fine.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 4w agoPresident Trump has reached an agreement with Saudi Arabia that gives that country a pathway to enrich nuclear fuel and commits it to using U.S. firms to supply its reactors. Here’s what’s in the agreement:
Beware of the fat old man who builds a ballroom but can’t dance
others have said it better than me, but among other things “nah, impulsively tearing down a Chesterton’s Fence that was built over multiple generations will have no serious long-term consequences” is an especially stupid take coming from a self-professed “conservative”
Mark Histed@markhisted.org · last wk.Trump 2.0 has blown up US scientific research in a way that will take decades to roll back. Labs that took years to build have closed, young people have left science. NYT Mag published a long report on Dismantling Cancer Research. Why does Ross Douthat lie like this?
“We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half.” — Emmeline Pankhurst
The only thing “explosive” as a result of this administration is diarrhea.
Nissim@nissimss.bsky.social · 2w ago"Contrary to what Trump administration officials say, we are not experiencing explosive economic growth. We are, however, experiencing an explosion in misery — and Donald Trump deserves full credit." Paul Krugman
Biden was replenishing our stockpiles with US manufacturers using US union steel. Trump has sent tens of thousands of those jobs overseas and has crippled our supply chain with tariffs and none of our allies want to help us. Maybe we can buy our arms back from Saudi Arabia.
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2w agoIn case you’re wondering who’s really “begging for a deal”
This! They genuinely want a tiered citizenship, a caste system, feudal lords with serfs, etc. All the conversation about who is a “real American” is based in this twisted belief.
Mike Boylan-Kolchin@mbkplus.bsky.social · 2w agoA lot of the MAGA crowd wants the US to essentially become like the UAE, where there’s an enormous foreign workforce who have substantially fewer rights than citizens and are subject to awful working conditions. It’s a fever dream, but it’s their fever dream.
The crimes must be unfathomable to necessitate this vast international coverup.
Jason Leopold@jasonleopold.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW/EXCLUSIVE: Deutsche Bank failed to promptly report to US authorities more than $250M in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein, including funds used to pay women in Russia & other Eastern European countries, according to a new report from @wyden.senate.gov 🎁 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NO ONE wants Data Centers. NO ONE wants their cars tracking your every movements. NO ONE wants Flock camera's. So who the fuck is installing them? And why are we just taking it???
And hundreds of billions in debt issued to bankroll construction of massive infrastructure (data centers) to support an experimental product that so far only has marginal usefulness at extremely high costs and seems very vulnerable to any kind of step change improvement in efficiency.
The Economist@economist.com · 2w agoAn enigmatic Fed faces the risk of AI stocks falling and the oil price soaring
It will always be this for me. How do they not break their own necks trying to look the other way?
August J. Pollak@augustjpollak.bsky.social · 2w agoI wish the Max Miller story was less framed as “look at how Republicans are hypocrites” and more “once again powerful people clearly knew of a horrific level of abuse being performed to somebody and obviously chose not to care about until it became a political liability.”
Do you think Kierkegaard had a "cheat day" for existential despair? Like, a day where he would just go around and enjoy his life.
Everything Trump does weakens America & America's allies and/or benefits our enemies. This is not a coincidence. This is treasonous corruption. We are living under what is in essence a hostile occupation government.