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celery.bsky.social
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what I can’t work out is how you even had a 2020 tweet stuck in your Bluesky drafts to send

If I was willing to let myself doom, "the majority of online leftists consider the idea that America has ever been involved in good things as a challenge" is probably something that would give me a significant spiral

Trump can in fact be blamed for this because: a) The underlying cause is HPAI, and Trump's freezes and directives have worsened that by wrecking the federal response, including detection and research. b) He hasn't proposed any solutions; he hasn't even said he'll stop wrecking the fed response.

This is not a U.S. Marshal, Federal Protective Service, or any other federal law enforcement officer. This is a private security guard from Triple Canopy. He has no authority to block members of Congress who have oversight of the EPA from entering the building.

DEI serves two purposes: it insulates you from litigation and, if it’s good, it opens up difficult-to-tap talent streams not available to your competitors. the point isn’t the first token guy, it’s the next six

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alt headline: enemy of constitutional government installed in white house www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

you literally could not have done less to fight fascism than if you had joined Patriot Front

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

this would be a great time for reporters to start asking republicans if they will commit to ensuring feds who took the resignation offer will be given what they were promised

everyone in american society is convincing each other that if they just give up and let trump and musk get whatever they want, they'll be rewarded for their pragmatic savvy. but their actual reward is going to be death and suffering and collapse and authoritarianism

We are going to win. But not immediately.

I sort of hate that I know exactly what this means

IF YOU DO NOT RISE UP, AMERICA, YOU LOSE EVERYTHING! And this isn't even counting what Project 2025 wants to get rid of. This is the apocalypse.

DOGE does not exist it is not a real department created by an act of congress

the crux of feldman's argument is this and it reads like a brief for why we should trust the wallet inspector

here in the beating blue heart of the District of Columbia, for what it’s worth, we reopened spring 2021 as soon as vax rollout started (think it was late January, might have been early February). I get the desire to blame it on school closures but I am going to have to insist on reality

Very dangerous for public health

actually really important to preserve Costco’s DEI efforts because they might wind up being the United States Government

I agree, but we are already seeing it happen. There are currently: 84 voting and election cases pending in 39 states. 19 redistricting lawsuits. 19 lawsuits challenging Trump's illegal actions. Anyone interested, should check out Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com

here is the thing: using Signal with disappearing messages with somebody you trust is ABOUT as good as talking to that person face to face in a location that you haven't exhaustively swept for bugs. Like yeah there are ways for information to leak but that's the right way to think about it.

Yeah obviously Signal will not help you with someone who physically has access to your phone but for the love of christ do not use Telegram or Whatsapp instead Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Trump could say “I am bombing Kiribati so we can destroy the moon elves who live there” and there would be DC think tank morons who went “I think there’s a p=30% chance we are instead witnessing a brilliant geostrategic move to counter Chinese hegemony”

Get everyone you care about on Signal. Do not hesitate. This is deadly serious.

I want a world where everyone is able to live a life of dignity. I want a world where it is expected that people work hard to the best of their abilities, and where we guarantee that no one will live with less than they need

Here's a post to piss everyone off: it's actually a big problem that online liberals and leftists are both convinced that the other is obviously, self-evidently sympathetic to fascism

on the lib side here, i have become increasingly irritable about the left-punching, not even because i think it is counter-productive, but because i do not think it is intended to be productive at all

the other thing about these moves is that the union becomes untenable if your access to the good faith and protection of the national government is contingent on whether you renounce your co-sovereignty as a state and submit to the whims of a president who has claimed sovereign authority

What the hell. Annie Duke won the World Series of Poker. I have no doubt she can assess risks, perhaps she's even a "decision expert." But the first person to talk to is A LAWYER WHO KNOWS ABOUT FEDERAL EMPLOYMENT AND THUS THE VALIDITY OF THE DUBIOUS OFFER. Talk to one before literally anyone else.

you know what works great when people are trying to do good and difficult things, is being an absolute dipshit about the logistics of how they’re trying to do it

"We believe the tariffs will be short lived" is fancy wall street words for "he is flying the economy into a cliff, and that would not be economically rational"

The trouble here is people assume tariffs are means to an end. They are the end themselves. Trump thinks he found a free money button and he’s going to push it as many times as he wants.

Hard to think of any precedent for a government being taken over by people this clueless and disinterested in how it actually works.

She is right, you say "welcome in" to their faces and you curse them private with close friends.

Asked about criticism that Democratic Senators are rolling over for Trump, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand gave a lengthy response, saying folks should criticize Trump rather than "eating our own." She then followed up with a second interesting answer touching on Dems' messaging struggles.

The federal government *regularly* spends money to encourage behavior it couldn’t compel directly. Like paying states to build roads or fund healthcare for those who can’t afford it. It’s called the Spending Clause—and it’s the very first enumerated power that the Constitution gives to Congress. 🤦🏻‍♂️

some people are like “do you really think the general public just forgot what Trump was like the first time” and I’m like, there people who mainline this shit on their phones 18 hours a day who forgot what Trump was like the first time

It's not just USAID. We're monitoring thousands of US government websites, and are tracking the ones that have gone offline so far today www.wired.com/story/us-gov...

🚨ATTENTION civilized people of the world: Trump has all but declared he will mimic 🇷🇺by attempting to annex 🇨🇦. This is not a drill. These are the actions of a demented psychopath. One who’s clearly getting his ideas from war criminal, Putin. Musk is also in regular contact with Putin. This is madness

The one and only reason Musk would want this confidential personnel data is to forward it to hostile foreign powers so they can kill, kidnap, extort, or otherwise leverage Americans working abroad for the U.S. government.