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andygradel.bsky.social
Jersey lifer who spends too much time thinking about #DigitalMarketing, #Springsteen, #FantasySports, #RetroGaming, #Pinball and #Plex while doing my best to rail against the #FoxNews and right-wing propaganda machine.
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Will gladly take a temporary win at this point. "...bars portions of #Trump orders to cancel federal contracts with DEI components and... prohibits enforcement against publicly traded companies and large universities..." wapo.st/436OM44

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This is a great point and I'm betting #Trump backs off on his mineral demands as soon as he gets out his sharpie, looks at the map of #Ujraine and realizes he's inadvertently asking #Putin to take a loss.

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While @govmurphy.bsky.social is thanking #Trump for his "help" with NYC congestion pricing, @govpritzker.illinois.gov is sounding the alarm every #Democratic leader should be screaming at the top of their lungs. This is what leadership looks like - saying what needs to be said.

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The #DOGE team is up to 100 people and a budget of $40M, yet there are no public records of employees, spending or ops. Odd for a self-described "maximally transparent" department. I bet DOGE2 would "delete" original DOGE for savings in some alternate timeline. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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Just wrote my congressman about #Trump and #Ukraine. #JeffVanDrew is a hard-core #MAGA supporter, so probably won't move the needle, but hoping he proves me wrong. Couldn't have been more honest: "There are two things I'd hope every American can agree on: Nazis are bad and Russia is not an ally."

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#IRS is one of the few places in government where you can easily draw a direct line between expenses and revenue. This is where a real audit (ie: not #DOGE) would be followed by a clear goal, such as increasing amount of rev per employee or some KPI, instead of random top-line cuts without a plan.

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Not a single mention of any of the weather-related deaths or destruction in deep red #Kentucky, but please share your fake AI generated "king" portrait. #Trump

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Sure, it's been a decade or two since we've last met, but way to pull me back in @mapquest.com... :)

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Still find it amazing that 78 countries around the world have universal health care, but we not only can't find a way to make that happen - we're also going to gut #Medicaid to provide tax breaks for the wealthiest of our citizens.

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Our journey to the bizzaro world is complete, as #Zelenskyy - who history will remember as a heroic leader - is being called a "dictator" by the #POTUS and admonished for choosing to defend his country against Russia. BTW, #Trump, how did that "big, beautiful ocean" work out for FDR in WWII? Sigh

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Words matter... This is what happens when our leaders casually say they're more concerned with "threats" from our #European #NATO allies than #Putin. apnews.com/article/roma...

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It's such a shame that the people of #Ukraine have spent three years fighting Russian aggression, only to be upended by a wannabe dictator (well beyond "day one") who is now blaming them for #Putin invading their country. They deserve so much better. www.the-express.com/news/world-n...

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Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

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Alex, I'll take rampant corruption for $100, please.

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Wonder why they didn't start by negotiating the #SpaceX contract down... Hmm... Why could that be.

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So, #Trump's "day one plan" to bring down egg prices was to fire #USDA team dealing with #birdflu so he could... hire them back? This is why #DOGE having access to any data - let alone sensitive data - is worrying. They're just flailing around, not worrying about consequences of their actions.

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Great read for a Tuesday morning. #WhiteHouse is trying to retcon what role #ElonMusk is playing in #DOGE, but you can't say he falls under the Appointments Clause and then continue to argue that Jack Smith had to be confirmed by the Senate before he could indict #Trump.

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Sounds about right and the kind of thing #FoxNews would have dedicated 36 hours of non-stop talking heads to if it had been #Biden doing the same thing, let alone wasting millions of taxpayer dollars to drive around a race track in his armored car.

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This will be a big indicator of how screwed our democracy is. Will the Supremes enforce guardrails OR allow #Trump to continue slashing and burning unchecked? Don't care if you're a #Republican or #Democrat, you can't make a case for removing whistleblower protections with a straight face.

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Hmm... So #Musk and #DOGE want access to my bank account info? As a US citizen and private sector employee, this feels like we're crossing a major line where I never provided any permission for them to have access to my data. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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This is what a real leader looks like. After 3 years fighting for their country, #Ukraine deserves so much better than to be backed into a corner by #Putin and the wannabe deal maker dictator #Trump.

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Not sure how long this will be in place, but fun addition to #LovePark in #Philly. #FlyEaglesFly

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

This is #FoxNews in a nutshell. Only thing that'd make this better is if the book spines were all #loremipsum.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

It really is quite the Jedi mind trick...

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You know, you never wish for a pandemic, but sometimes people need to learn that the stove is hot. *Sigh*

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Best I'm hoping for is a scenario where some players go and a bunch decline with heads held high. If the whole team declines? Wow... Will never root for any other team to win, even if they're not playing against the @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Hands down, dumbest move ever. The #IRS is one of the few agencies where you can say how much each and every employee contributes in revenue. Nothing more than a move to reduce their ability to audit the rich, which is essentially another back door tax cut. #Trump

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If you like throngs of people, getting out of #Philly was fun. Good job keeping trains flowing #Patco, but getting down the steps at the lone station open at 9th and Locust was a crazy bottleneck.

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Chilly #Philly morning celebrating the #SuperBowl champion @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social on Broad Street! Should be able to feel my toes again in an hour or two. :)

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There's a line and this definitely crosses it... #DigitalMarketing

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The fact that the headline says "likely to raise" is exactly the problem. This should be scrutinized and run through the ringer, but will just get rubber stamped because every #Republican is just looking out for themselves and the next election cycle.

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Feel mildly better after leaving a scathing messaging for my turncoat Congressman #JeffVanDrew. He's claiming #Democrats are "spreading misinformation" and #Biden was "diverting funds from virtually every part of the gov." Force #DOGE to share a running log of everything they're doing + receipts!

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Severe lack of self awareness for the White House to block the @apnews.com for "lying" deadline.com/2025/02/trum...

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Under his eye, indeed...

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This is an IT security nightmare. The assumption, at this point, has to be that every system #DOGE has touched is compromised and will need to be wiped and rebuilt, costing more time and money than I can imagine.

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Interesting how #Russia releases #MarcFogel on Tuesday then, one day later, #Hegseth draws a hard line with #Ukraine that aligns with everything #Putin could expect at this point.

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