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Political scientist. Democracy fan. Europhile. Midwesterner. Friend to both cats and dogs. Big nerd.
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Not the main story, but Trump has chosen a recently retired three-star General, John Caine, to replace Brown. Going back a very long time, Chiefs of Staff have had four stars -the highest rank- and related command experience before they became C.O.S.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

There are threats to our liberty that come from the private sector.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

With the Trump regime selling out Ukraine, Poland should develop nuclear weapons ASAP

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

This is sort of the skeleton key to understanding a lot of shit: there 100% is a non-trivial amount of inefficiency and waste in the federal bureaucracy, and most of it is a *direct result* of ‘reforms’ that are meant to assuage the people who complain about “waste and inefficiency in govt”

submitted 14 days ago • 43 comments

Top Trump administration officials are openly questioning the judiciary’s authority to serve as a check on executive power as the new president’s sweeping agenda faces growing pushback from the courts.

submitted 15 days ago • 67 comments

Congress controls the power of the purse, but Republicans on Capitol Hill have put up little resistance to efforts by the administration to suspend spending that they've already approved.

submitted 20 days ago • 145 comments

Jesus fucking Christ

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Trump's immediate agenda is to destroy institutions (designed to overcome collective action problems surrounding our security and health). We will be less secure, weaker, and sicker for it.

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

TOMORROW: We’re rallying at the Treasury building with @moveon.org to stop Elon Musk’s hostile takeover and tell this unelected billionaire to get his hands off our money. We hope you can join us if you’re in the D.C. area.

submitted 21 days ago • 344 comments

Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

submitted 21 days ago • 927 comments

"Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup." nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 22 days ago • 271 comments

From my friend @davidkarol.bsky.social

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Absolute Mad King bullshit

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

Saw on @kenmiller4.bsky.social that we are supposed to post cute animal pics so here is our deceased dog, Nacho tangled up in Amy’s undies.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I seriously doubt that most independent voters who votes for Trump wanted him to end government oversight, liberate violent extremist and threaten to devastate the American higher education system.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

As Trump considers eliminating FEMA, I’m reminded of an exchange between a state assembly rep from north eastern and a rep from the Las Vegas area. The northern rep said he was going to propose a bill that all taxes raised in a county had to be spent in that same county. The Las Vegas rep agreed!

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

And another thing…Trump is trying to bully Denmark with tariffs. But little does he know that my wife gave me several Lego kits for Christmas so we beat the tariff rush.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Trump is messing with Denmark. Time to read up on how senile narcissists react to passive aggression.

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Just joined bluesky. I’m a Poli sci prof at UNLV.

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments