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

Pussy Riot warns America to 'wake up!' at Washington Square Park protest in NYC

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

New poll of NY Democrats: AOC 55% Schumer 36% www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Elie Honig: “Bigger picture, for a federal judge to make a contempt finding against the Justice Department and the administration is a remarkable event. I think it says something about where the credibility of DOJ stands right now with the federal courts.”

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

Economists are waking up to the fact that today's job numbers are bogus. The Musk/Trump admin excluded the 275,000 laid off federal employees from the report, claiming they're not unemployed because they got a severance package.

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

Obama's talk at Hamilton College got heavy coverage in European and UK media, but hardly a mention in US media. This is very, very weird.

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

Netanyahu very clearly wants yet another war in the Middle East, this one against the new government in Damascus... which is still going out of its way to accommodate Israel. But accommodating Netanyahu is an impossible undertaking. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Worst two-day stock market crashes in the U.S. by percentage loss: 1. 1929 (the Great Depression) 2. 1987 (Black Monday) 3. 2008 (the Great Recession) 4. YESTERDAY AND TODAY And while this happened, the man responsible for it was golfing and dining with enemies of America.

submitted 6 hours ago • 389 comments

The White House admits they sent an innocent father of three to the prison in El Salvador but they are still fighting to make sure he doesn’t come home. The definition of evil.

submitted 6 hours ago • 281 comments

Chicken shit

submitted 6 hours ago • 123 comments

The Shining City on a Hill has turned into a steaming pile of shit.

submitted 6 hours ago • 237 comments

Mark Kelly: "This is not surprising. Here's a guy who told Americans to inject bleach into their bodies, who sent a mob to Capitol Hill. And now I think it's fair to say he stands out as singlehandedly destroying more wealth with his bad decisions than anybody else who has ever lived on this planet"

submitted 6 hours ago • 499 comments

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

Justin Wolfers: These tariffs are going to hurt. A lot. By my calculations, this round of tariffs may be 50 times as painful as the ones Donald Trump instituted in his first term. That means they are going to reshape your life in much more fundamental ways.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

Ukrainian refugees were mistakenly sent intimidating emails on Friday telling them it was time to leave the United States. Ukrainian constituents reported receiving emails informing them that their parole status under the Uniting for Ukraine (U4U) program had been terminated.

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

Who's the leaker? Suzy Wiles? Mike Waltz? Nope. It's Donald J Trump.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

We warned you they wouldn’t just go after the “criminals.” They have quotas to fill so scooping up the people who tried to do it right by paying taxes and filing for green cards are right there in the system. Box checked. Great chat with @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social tonight on @M at 11pm ET.

submitted 6 hours ago • 17 comments

This story got no coverage in the US. Erdoğan pulled off a coup and then asked Elon Musk to shut down the Twitter accounts of all opposition figures. Musk gleefully agreed. And this tells you what he's all about. Dictatorship is his thing. www.politico.eu/article/musk...

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

“No member of the leadership team or the board of trustees has ever notified ICE about any members of our community, and we’re watching these cases very carefully. We’re committed to supporting our international community in any way possible for us.” There is very good reason to disbelieve Shipman.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

While golfing

submitted 7 hours ago • 82 comments

Liar Greg Abbott says he has refused to set a special election to fill the seat of recently diseased Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner because he says Harris County doesn’t do their elections properly.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1404 comments

This dude is currently live on Tik Tok protesting. I’m telling yall, the waters are churning more and more out there.

submitted 7 hours ago • 87 comments

Andy Kim: "If you want to know why there is so much chaos and confusion about what happened with regard to tariffs, I can say it's because of the absolute dysfunction of this national security council as demonstrated by what just happened with Laura Loomer."

submitted 7 hours ago • 104 comments

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

Good God, this man is the secretary of transportation. He's also a complete imbecile, and since he came to the helm, the DOT has amassed the worst safety record in its history—entirely the result of imprudent firing of personnel responsible for air transportation safety (starting with Air Traffic).

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

Murphy: "It's not designed as economic policy. It's designed as political policy. Because Trump gets really excited when people have to come to him, petition the king for relief. That's what he's doing with law firms, doing with universities. That may be what he's doing with businesses."

submitted 7 hours ago • 87 comments

Murphy: "The vast majority of Republicans, their number one priority is Trump seizing power, and the Trump family and the MAGA universe holding power forever ... with the exception of maybe 20 Republicans in the Senate, the GOP inside Congress is done with democracy."

submitted 7 hours ago • 312 comments

theonion.com/conservative...

submitted 7 hours ago • 131 comments

You expected something different from a guy who inherited $400 million and went bankrupt?

submitted 7 hours ago • 263 comments

The Ministry of Propaganda and Popular Enlightenment issues its summary of what happened this week.

submitted 9 hours ago • 9 comments

Justin Wolters: I don't really care much about what happens to the market. (Well, my 401k cares, but still...) But it's what this signals that worries me: It suggests investors believe there are dark days ahead.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Today in both Izvestia and Kommersant, Trump's tariff policies received high praise. It was noted that no tariffs were imposed on Russia, so that Russian-US trade was now privileged. The decisions were cast as great news for Russia in every respect.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Ain't that the truth?

submitted 8 hours ago • 55 comments

"I know people who voted for Trump, in Florida, and they keep saying, 'This isn’t really aimed at you. We’re sorry. We didn’t know this was going to happen.' I’ll say, 'It’s not about you. It’s your president, but I encourage you to speak out, because that’s the only way things will change.'"

submitted 8 hours ago • 56 comments

Columbia becomes the first university with a fully militarized secret police force, sworn to serve the will of Fearless Leader. www.reuters.com/world/us/col...

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers. Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

submitted 17 hours ago • 2981 comments

As Orin Kerr notes, comparing Fox News and NYT, Fox consistently prints headlines that are actually opinions or pitches about what you should think about news; NYT headlines attempt to actually summarize news, usually with a pro-GOP twist.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Once solidly Republican DuPage Co, IL, has now elected Democrats to 49 of 49 contested races in a total rout of the GOP.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

An accomplishment that no other president can compete with. The US stock market has officially erased $10 trillion in value since Donald J Trump was inaugurated as president on Jan 20.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

For MAGA, reading in general is a bad thing. Reading literature is awful. And reading foreign literature in translation is an abomination. kyivindependent.com/publishing-h...

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

US markets lost over $3T in wealth yesterday, with the S&P dropping 4.8%. The loss today has been still greater. Markets around the world fared better than the US, though, showing that we’re hurting ourselves — not other countries — the most.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

This is part of what’s so insane. As they talk about re-shoring and manufacturing they are actively trying to destroy an entire us manufacturing industry that already exists.

submitted 9 hours ago • 478 comments

Biggest self-own ever to go from that to whatever this is today.

submitted 9 hours ago • 127 comments

“Are you worried?” That is always the first question. “Of course I am worried,” I respond. “The president of the United States considers me an enemy and has promised retribution. I would be an idiot not to be worried. But I am not going to give in. I will continue to fight.”

submitted 9 hours ago • 152 comments

i have been joking that their plan is for your kids to grow up to work in a textile mill but they are serious

submitted 9 hours ago • 719 comments

Judge orders US to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home from El Salvador, immediately.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Conservative macroeconomist Greg Mankiw says "Welcome to the kakistocracy" (rule by the worst).

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

The way the most anti-Semitic administration in US history uses the charge of anti-Semitism to attack Jews and others has been obvious for a very long time. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Nothing surprising in this outcome, but look at the insane arguments offered by AG Pam Bondi in response, including that locking their father/husband up in a concentration camp in El Salvador constitutes no harm whatsoever to his family. This is the family-values GOP reduced to its depraved essence.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

As of 3 pm this afternoon we have a judicial determination by a federal judge in Maryland that JD Vance's statements below are all lies. Will Vance acknowledge he lied to us?

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment