The most transparent administration in history!

Seth Abramson@sethabramson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

BREAKING: NYT Confirms Trump Is Supervising Kennedy Center Tarp Removal As His Agents Appear to Be Indicating It May Stay Up Indefinitely—Effectively Taking *Kennedy's* Name Off the Center As Well As Trump's in One of the Most Petty and Vindictive Acts Ever Taken By Any President

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

Miller@milleryoho.bsky.social · 6mo ago

What a moment.

No context or original post needed.

Amanda Delcambre@amandadelc.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The fact that we are numb to an almost 80 year told President talking like this on social media shows how far removed we are from normalcy. We’ve lost so much under Trump, but decorum, class, and dignity are some of the things I miss most.

Wanting people to have access to affordable food and health care should not be considered radical ideology.

Gosh, Mom, I can't wait to go to the Chick-fil-A® White House™ Easter™ (©325AD) Egg℠ Hunt and buy a Hobby Lobby® branded TrumpEgg™! #eggroll #Easter #sponsorship

I just watched a story about a teacher in Idaho fighting back after being forced to take down a sign that said, "Everyone is Welcome Here." This kind of stuff is beyond STUPID. If someone is offended by a "Everyone is Welcome Here" sign, they have psychological issues that need to be dealt with.

Please tell me how the attempted murder of American citizen children makes America great again. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents

The Texas family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup, they said, when they were detained at an immigration checkpoint.

nbcnews.com

I'll just leave this here. From www.epa.gov/aboutepa/our... .

What in the actual

a man in a blue turtleneck is sitting at a messy desk with senorgif.com written on the bottom

Alt: a man in a blue turtleneck flips his very messy, full desk right the F over.

media.tenor.com

We are so, so screwed. Here's a gift link for you. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/c...

U.S. Energy Secretary Pledges to Reverse Focus on Climate Change (Gift Article)

To applause from oil and gas executives, Chris Wright said natural gas was preferable to renewable energy and climate change was a “side effect of building the modern world.”

nytimes.com

While it is entirely plausible that Velveeta Voldemort would say such a thing, that wasn't actually a real tweet. www.yahoo.com/news/fact-ch...

Fact Check: Trump post saying US president should be impeached if Dow drops 1,000 points in 2 days isn't real

The tweet screenshot read, "If the Dow drops 1,000 points in two days the President should be impeached immediately!"

yahoo.com

Ah, so this is how we'll justify further ring-kissing, then?

Democrats want party to move right, poll finds

A new Gallup poll shows that Democrats are eager for the party to move more moderate than four years ago.

newsweek.com

Apple, Amazon, Disney, Comcast, Warner Bros. Discovery and IBM have all started advertising on Elon Musk's hate platform again since he became shadow President of the US. They all originally suspended ads in 2023 due to hate content. The platform hosts more hate today than it did then.

The Verge@theverge.com · last yr.

Apple has started advertising on X again

But her emails.

Thank you, Canada!

The next phase of "Find Out" is upon us. Congratulations to MAGA on starting a trade war with our longest, closest ally. www.canada.ca/en/departmen...

"I want to extend my tremendous gratitude to black Americans for all they have done to bring us to this moment, and for the many future contributions they will make as we advance into a future of limitless possibility under my Administration." So, capitalize "administration" but not "Black"?

National Black History Month, 2025 – The White House

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION  Today, I am very honored to recognize February 2025 as National Black History Month.

whitehouse.gov

Just in case anyone was wondering if this photo is real, it is. Source: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

Why the purge of the inspectors general matters so much. Transcript and podcast so you can process this in your best way. Pay attention, though, because this is relevant to us all.

Transcript: Trump’s Late-Night Purge Suddenly Becomes Bigger Scandal

An interview with Jennifer Rubin, co-founder of The Contrarian, about Trump's illegal firing of inspectors general, how Trump's rationale makes it much worse, and how Democrats can fight back.

newrepublic.com

I'm not sure I follow this talk of"unity" and "coming together as a county" when the political conversation has been nothing but division and hate and spiteful self-satisfied rage coming from the right since their election win. But bow before the King, I guess?

Carrie Underwood, Village People to perform at Trump's inauguration events

Country music star Carrie Underwood will perform “America the Beautiful” at Donald Trump’s inauguration next week and the 1970s hitmakers Village People will perform at two inaugural events.

apnews.com

"As we unite our country and usher in this new era of leadership...", the party of unity (and law and order) will raise the flags to full staff in an act of direct disrespect toward both past and current presidents. So, what else is new?

Governor Abbott Orders Flags To Full-Staff In Honor Of Inauguration Day

gov.texas.gov

Brilliant cartoonist Ann Telnaes is quitting the Washington Post because the paper killed her cartoon about billionaires in tech and media kowtowing to Trump. Sadly, the Jeff Bezos-owned Post proved her point. Support the media truth-tellers. Reject the media cowards.

Why I'm quitting the Washington Post

Democracy can't function without a free press

anntelnaes.substack.com

Denali. Tahoma. This should not be up for debate.

Here's backup, in case anyone wants to see it: itep.org/a-distributi...

A Distributional Analysis of Donald Trump’s Tax Plan

Former President Donald Trump has proposed a wide variety of tax policy changes. Taken together, these proposals would, on average, lead to a tax cut for the richest 5 percent of Americans and a tax i...

itep.org

Charles 😈🏴@againstfascism.bsky.social · 2y ago

Trump's new tax plan increases taxes for everyone making under $360k per year. Thanks maga morons.

Individual sleighs are an inherently inefficient and irresponsible way to deliver presents. Santa should use high-speed rail, public transit, and an e-bike.

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2y ago

If you add more lanes for Santas, it doesn’t solve Santa congestion. It just induces more Santas. It’s a thoroughly documented fact. It’s called Induced Santas, or the Irrefutable Law of Santa Congestion. Wait, did I say Santas? I meant cars. #InducedDemand #LawOfCongestion #MerryChristmas #Santa

The pain, not high quality government services, is the point. The people who are willing to sacrifice time, money, and resources to feed the machine get to stay; the people who value quality of life over commute times and waste get to find another job. Quality of work is an afterthought here.

Vivek Ramaswamy's 'jackhammer and chain saw' plan to force federal workers back into the office

Eighteen months after the pandemic ended, nearly two-thirds of the country's 2.2 million federal workers are still approved to work from home.

nbcnews.com

Welcome to the American horror movie. (h/t @soozysuze.bsky.social, assuming this is actually her account.)

McMoxie@mcmoxie.bsky.social · 2y ago

Irish newspaper headline from last week sums things up in the most perfect Irish way.