brdiller.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

submitted 10 days ago • 87 comments

Susan Rice on Pete Hegseth attacking DEI while betraying his own incompetence: "If you're a white, Christian, cisgender, macho MAGA man, you can be as dumb as a rock and be deemed qualified to serve as Secretary of Defense. That's apparently what we've learned from this episode."

submitted 10 days ago • 166 comments

It's funny how when you ask them why they think Pope Francis was "too woke" and request specific examples, they always wound up describing Christ's teachings without a hint of self-awareness.

submitted 11 days ago • 123 comments

This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...

submitted 10 days ago • 600 comments

The Trump regime keeps upping its Big Lie about wrongly deported Maryland dad Kilmar Abrego Garcia because their entire dictatorial enterprise hinges on proving their ability to crush this one human Until Kilmar is free, no one in America is free. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/kilm...

submitted 16 days ago • 43 comments

In a horrific Newsmax interview, Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka says that anyone advocating for Kilmar Abrego Garcia to be returned to the U.S. could be viewed as "technically aiding and abetting" terrorists. "Do you love America, or do you hate America? It’s really quite that simple."

submitted 16 days ago • 13 comments

JUST IN: Deputy Assistant to the President and "Counterterrorism Czar" Sebastian Gorka says anyone advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be viewed as "aiding and abetting a terrorist" and be federally charged. (h/t Philip Germain)

submitted 16 days ago • 7001 comments

A beautiful song from 1993, referring to the Rodney King beating, but perfectly applicable to the situation now. It ends with a wonderful guitar solo from Tom Morello, followed by a delightful sing-along. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWXa...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 20 days ago • 66 comments

Ideas

submitted 23 days ago • 569 comments

Here’s the best way to understand what’s happening. Trump genuinely wants to impose a 19th century mercantilist model that would crash the economy and destroy the global trading order but the idea is just so colossally stupid and destructive, he can’t actually do it. So we get this.

submitted 24 days ago • 233 comments

submitted 25 days ago • 11 comments

Free trade is terrible because it killed the middle class so we need to use tariffs to destroy the economy so we can remake it but tariffs are bad which is why we instituted them because we want other countries to remove theirs so we can have free trade which is great, actually.

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

🤷‍♂️

submitted 24 days ago • 38 comments

I'm not understanding why the stock market is so exuberant about the 90-day "postponement" of tariffs. 1. Trump added another 10% to the tariffs on Canada and Mexico 2. The tariff on China is now 125% 3. We'll have to go through all of this again in 3 months This is still a disaster.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line

submitted 24 days ago • 434 comments

Even though the market rises because of the tariffs pause, the cost associated with the rest of the world realizing they can’t count on us not to be nuts will be immeasurable and far-reaching. 🇺🇸

submitted 24 days ago • 240 comments

submitted 24 days ago • 74 comments

You’d think when you’re claiming the richest country in the world can’t afford childhood cancer research you might wait a year before throwing yourself a 100 million dollar birthday parade. But carpe diem, suckers.

submitted 25 days ago • 282 comments

FYI, China is currently dunking on the U.S. SO hard and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Peep how everyone’s fat and depressed..

submitted 24 days ago • 165 comments

104% tariffs on Chinese goods go into effect tomorrow. Let's see how Fox News is covering the story.

submitted 25 days ago • 409 comments

I dig this meme. I have been thinking about these same historical references for some time.

submitted 26 days ago • 29 comments

From Nov 7:

submitted 26 days ago • 188 comments

6 months ago

submitted 26 days ago • 479 comments

DEMENTIA WORD SALAD......

submitted 27 days ago • 284 comments

you, a rube: “i want my kid to grow up to be a doctor or an engineer or a teacher” lutnick, a genius: “to make america great again your child will make iphones that they will not be able to afford”

submitted 27 days ago • 1692 comments

The face of racism and ignorance

submitted 27 days ago • 58 comments

Accurate

submitted 27 days ago • 74 comments

Miss me yet? #TrumpRecession #TrumpTariffs

submitted 30 days ago • 162 comments

BREAKING - Trump abandons fallen soldiers, goes golfing instead Trump was supposed to meet coffins of 4 fallen US soldiers who died in an accident in Lithuania — meeting them at Dover Air Force Base as presidents traditionally do Instead he’s going to Florida — so he can golf

submitted 30 days ago • 322 comments

I'll be going to the store to buy "groceries" in a bit. I know, I know, "groceries" is an old-fashioned word that nobody uses anymore. But I am told that it means “A bag with different things in it.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NKB...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

I wonder if the utilities and other companies that send me invoices via email know that they all end up - by default - in my Spam folder, right next to the invoice for Norton 360 that I supposedly bought for $530.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Whoever came up with these supposed tariff rates is like Kramer from Seinfeld when he pretended to work at that job "in business"

submitted 30 days ago • 403 comments

Welcome to Idiocracy.

submitted 31 days ago • 1251 comments

So good. 🤡 @brendanvduke.bsky.social

submitted 30 days ago • 589 comments

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

submitted 30 days ago • 1035 comments

Trump is just playing out a new version of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) from the Cold War. We launch our missiles, they launch theirs, we both are destroyed, and nobody wins. Now, we impose high tariffs, they impose reciprocal tariffs, we both are destroyed... and, again, nobody wins.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Trade war on—recession coming. He slaughtered our economy. These price hikes on goods from... Cambodia: +49% Vietnam: +46% Bangladesh: +37% Thailand: +36% China: +34% Taiwan: +32% Indonesia: +32% Switzerland: +31% South Africa: +30% India: +26% South Korea: +25% Japan: +24% Malaysia: +24% EU: +20%

submitted 31 days ago • 480 comments

U.S. Food Banks Struggle Under Funding Cuts theonion.com/u-s-foo...

submitted 31 days ago • 49 comments

This is a United States Senator MACK: I was laid off from HHS and now people aren’t getting social services, especially people with disabilities BANKS: You probably deserved it MACK: Why did I deserve it? BANKS: Because you look like a clown

submitted 31 days ago • 3964 comments

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 38 days ago • 2086 comments

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

submitted 38 days ago • 1917 comments

it is BUCK WILD that they are just texting this shit to each other

submitted 38 days ago • 1603 comments

If you put Elon Musk in charge of something, it breaks. Plain and simple.

submitted 39 days ago • 8 comments

🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:

submitted 39 days ago • 1506 comments

Who made this? 😂🥴😂

submitted 40 days ago • 319 comments

#ProLifeMyAss

submitted 40 days ago • 41 comments

1. EXCLUSIVE An internal Social Security Administration memo, dated March 13 and obtained by Popular Information, lays out a plan to sabotage the agency. The memo itself predicts "service disruption," "operational strain," and "budget shortfalls" will result. Follow this thread for details. 🧵

submitted 47 days ago • 227 comments