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💻Tech 📈Econ 📰Journalism ⚖️Law 🏢 Beltway politics 🗳️ Harris-Walz campaign 🏒 Panthers - Red Wings 🏈 Commanders 📍Washington, D.C. (I’ve seen some stuff) https://www.threads.net/@bashowicks
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Mind blowing!🤯 ~$2500 in tariffs on ~$3500 aluminum ordered from China by a small biz. Since tariffs are cumulative, the 73% tax currently charged on this order would balloon to 90-140% once Trump’s further increases kick in. Who do you think is ultimately paying for this madness? #TrumpTariffs

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Massive #TeslaTakedown protest at the Tesla dealership in Fort Lauderdale Florida on Saturday. 300-400 people. Media courtesy of my parents, whom I thought bought a place there to regroup and take a break from politics, but been spending Saturday's at the Tesla dealership. Will post video later.

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

🧵 I’m still in Florida since we escaped the inauguration. My parents bought a house here early last year, and it’s our first time here together. I’ve been working remote and spending free time helping with construction. My gov adjacent employer asked us to lay low through the chaos, however… 1/2

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

I’m going to miss David Lynch 🪦😔 In memoriam I watched Inland Empire last night while working late. It was the only Lynch film I hadn’t seen, but I don’t think you can watch a Lynch film without your full attention.

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

😳 Only 0.3% of Bluesky users have crossed 1000 followers & only 0.01% have crossed 10K followers. 50% of all Bluesky users have only 1 follower. Male users make up 63.7%, while female users only make up 36.2%. 37.7% of BS’s 26M users are from Brazil—25.62% are from the USA Per Hype Fury.

submitted 130 days ago • 2 comments

Hagseth: look at where we’ve gotten w/past secdefs. It’s time for someone with dirt on their boots. Meanwhile “Mad dog” Mattis: guess I got my nickname catching rabies from a loose dog at a tea party.

submitted 130 days ago • 0 comments

Pete Hagseth will get confirmed. What Tim Kaine, Gary Peters, Tammy Duckworth, Mark Kelly so pointedly demonstrated is he is deeply flawed, incredibly unqualified, and entirely unprepared for the job. Secdef is one of those positions that you don’t want a leader failing upwards w/dire consequences.

submitted 131 days ago • 0 comments

Checked Threads and seems we’re taking the leap to Bluesky. Anyone got starter packs broken down into groups like tech, law, natsec, indie/investigative journo, etc? 🙏

submitted 137 days ago • 3 comments

He's also wearing a gold and ruby necklace that probably cost ~$15k — I'm estimating here but a similar design by the same designer is listed for $9,500 (with 3 instead of 4 rubies) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 138 days ago • 24 comments

Genuinely baffled by the unempirical assertion that Community Notes “works.” Does it? How do Meta know? The best available research is pretty mixed on this point. And as they go all-in on an unproven concept, will Meta commit to publicly releasing data so people can actually study this?

submitted 138 days ago • 109 comments

BREAKING: Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have cast decisive votes against Biden's NLRB nominee. This means the Democrats will not secure control of the national labor regulator through 2026. These two Senators effectively handed Trump control of the board when his term begins.

submitted 165 days ago • 472 comments

Bluesky filling the space where we used to go to complain about our other social being down 🙃 Threads and IG are down.

submitted 165 days ago • 0 comments

Assad rn 💀

submitted 168 days ago • 0 comments

Twitter blue legacy accounts posting starter packs, and it’s all the same blue Twitter legacy accounts on repeat def gives peak Twitter vibes. A true clone in the making 😁

submitted 183 days ago • 0 comments

I’m just gonna post through my trauma by immersing myself in turkey content for the next week 😋😭

submitted 184 days ago • 0 comments

Having watched politics unfold on social media for a decade now, I can tell you one of the failures of the left has been relying on a handful of influencers(for lack of a better term) with a million followers instead of building an army of 100k of us to to do the heavy lifting.

submitted 189 days ago • 730 comments

It's up!!!! My Explainer video for BlueSky beginners. I cover how to find your Twitter followers, Starter Packs, Feeds, Lists, some handy-dandy tools, and BlueSky etiquette. Please watch and/or share with any newbies you know. I think it's helpful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_V2...

submitted 192 days ago • 2933 comments

I’m traveling to NC today. It’s strange leaving my blue bubble since I returned home from the campaign. People don’t seem to want to make eye contact. Maybe I’m overthinking it, but I sense there’s a question mark hanging over all of us.

submitted 191 days ago • 0 comments

Bluesky UI on iPad is truly wild. It cycles through screen sizes and random crazy behavior in a single sesh like it was abandoned halfway through build.

submitted 193 days ago • 0 comments

That was tough to watch. It really hit where I hoped I was becoming numb 🫤

submitted 193 days ago • 0 comments

Also trying out buffer to cross post between Bluesky and Threads. If anyone has a preference between Buffer and Openvibe, please share.

submitted 193 days ago • 0 comments

I’m starting to use Openvibe to cross post to Bluesky and Threads for now. I’d like to be more active on bsky and hope this is the solution.

submitted 193 days ago • 0 comments