Tom BunchOfNumbers
@tombunchofnumbers.bsky.social
Amateur epistemologist. Change my mind. Come for the bad jokes, stay for the lukewarm takes. REPOST ≈ endorsement. 📍𝙎𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚, 𝙒𝘼
Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "
Dana Bash showed in this interview exactly how to handle a gaslighting sociopath. This is precisely how journalists should deal with all of them, including Trump.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoRFK Jr yelling at Dana Bash sounds like a rabid dog barking
Grocery prices are out of control – Trump tariffs and the war in Iran are driving costs up even more. This isn’t right. I’m working alongside my @usprogressives.bsky.social colleagues to ban surveillance pricing and go after the private equity firms that are raising your grocery bills.
BREAKING: DOJ drops felony charges against former Olympian after concluding Reflecting Pool damage was caused by "botched" installation, not vandalism.
Justice Department moves to drop Reflecting Pool case against former Olympic canoeist
The Justice Department moved to dismiss charges against David Hearn, concluding that the pool on the National Mall was damaged by a “botched” installation.
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Reuters: US JUSTICE DEPARTMENT MOVES TO DROP CASE AGAINST FORMER OLYMPIAN ACCUSED OF VANDALIZING WASHINGTON REFLECTING POOL -COURT FILING
This is Ken Paxton's mugshot. He was indicted on 3 felony counts for investment fraud. He was reported to the FBI by his own staff for bribery. He was impeached by his own party for corruption. Now he’s the Republican nominee for US Senate in Texas. Together we will stop him.
ICE agents threatened to beat up a Seattle small business owner, married to a citizen, with NO criminal record unless he signed a "voluntary" departure. I'm told there were cameras in the room. I'm demanding any video and that Eduardo be brought home immediately.
Senator Patty Murray@murray.senate.gov · last wk.On Thursday, ICE needlessly detained Eduardo Aguirre Esparza, a local Seattle small business owner with no criminal history. This is a man who is married to an American citizen and with deep ties to our local community who was working hard to pursue a legal pathway to lawful permanent residence.
In June, when we debuted the first official portrait of President and Mrs. Obama at the Obama Presidential Center Museum, the world went wild for the story of how Michelle Obama had long hoped to collaborate with renowned artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby, and how deeply the experience moved Crosby.
What happened at the Seattle Center today was an act of horrific violence. Please visit SPDBlotter.Seattle.Gov for updates on the investigation.
being a billionaire and on the internet all day is crazy to me. if i had even five million dollars, you would not find me online whatsoever.
One good way to confirm that the president is, in fact, a narcissist is if a top military official is sacked for calling him a narcissist.
@cliffdubya.bsky.social · 2w agoIt’s like living in Nazi Germany.
All of America has fallen in love with Seattle's most famous raccoon—a weird little guy named Jimothy. But Jimothy's friends shouldn't have to lose their homes. We can all speak up to protect their habitats.
watched the odyssey last night. film ruined by everyone speaking english instead of ancient greek.
They died serving our country. They should be honored, not erased. Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Hawaii Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Texas Sgt. Angel Rampersad, 28, of New York Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, 30, of North Carolina
Next up: the Kitten Protection Act, mandating voter ID and subsidizing kitten eating
Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 2w agoHouse Republicans and 13 House Democrats today voted to pass the Stop Insider Trading Act, which (1) Does not ban insider trading among members of Congress or the President (2) Imposes a stringent photo ID law and basically eviscerates mail voting
I blocked Senate Republicans' petty and offensive resolution that implied Canada is letting their own forests burn just to spite us. I know my Republican colleagues want to show the President how much they agree with him, but please. What a waste of everyone's time.
Russian strike destroyed UNICEF children's humanitarian aid depot in Ukraine "Over 106,000 items of humanitarian supplies worth nearly $3.9 million were destroyed, including generators, drinking water, hygiene kits, and other critical supplies" - Ukrainian Human Rights Commissioner Dmytro Lubinets
Talarico: "It's funny because I'm the eighth-generation Texan in the race. I think California transplants like Ken Paxton can become Texans. That's what great about our state."
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
yeah we’re gonna have to ban prediction markets
People are making wildfire bets on prediction markets. Experts say it could lead to disaster | CNN
As the catastrophic Los Angeles wildfires raged last year, people placed bets on how how many acres the fires would consume, which locations they would reach and when they would be contained.
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