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chkvee.bsky.social
Father, husband, tech professional, chef, raconteur, bon vivant, defender of democracy, education, reason, logic & science. Founder of the Sanity Oasis. #resist
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Hey there Scott Walker. I noticed you deleted this after learning that in fact the shooter was from the right. I don’t think it matters either way, violence is violence, so I’m waiting for you to tweet the same thing with corrected facts? Cuz you’re uh, to use your words, “being silent.”

Don Jr blatantly lies about Vance Boelter: "I have a feeling that leftist Tim Walz isn't exactly appointing conservatives. Apparently he had the No Kings flyer in his thing. But he went after someone that didn't just blindly follow Democrat, radical leftist dogma."

Nice to call Enrique Tarrio a traitor to his face today 👊🏼✊🏼 #Miami #NoKings

Miami #NoKings ✊🏼👊🏼

BREAKING: Judge Breyer orders Trump to return control of the National Guard back to California, saying the call-up was illegal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Lighten up Francis 🖕🏻

The judges, once again, doing their dang jobs.

ALERT: Former Jan 6 prosecutors and Capitol Police blast Trump “hypocrisy” over rhetoric about Los Angeles Officer: “Trump still calls January 6 a 'day of love' and it's total bulls***” www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-o...

Don’t presume the outcome or reason for Trump’s terrorizing efforts. “This weekend’s actions also come in the wake of a mounting collection of humiliating failures for Trump, surely exacerbating his reckless desire for spectacular distraction.” www.americaamerica.news/p/trump-want...

“Thousands of newly obtained documents show” that the founders of Clearview AI—which is backed by Peter Thiel—“always intended to target immigrants & the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump admin.” This is incredible reporting by @lukeobrien.bsky.social, 4/2025 1/

Frost: Tonight the people stealing are not folks with tattoos and hoodies but people wearing suits and ties and congressional pins sitting in the capitol now, not in some alley wrapped in darkness but the United States congress wrapped in the flag. It is disgusting and we will never forget this.

Sure, let’s dissect the mental and physical acuity of the former president who sought to make lives in America better while minimizing the reality of a deranged arsonist dismantling the country we’ve known and loved. What a failure to meet this moment.

For "One First," I took a deeper dive into Friday afternoon's *very* significant #SCOTUS Alien Enemies Act ruling—including why it effectively freezes AEA removals for the foreseeable future and its (much) broader potential impact on *all* attempts to bring nationwide challenges to Trump policies:

It’s 2 am and we’re still marking up massive cuts to Medicaid. While their constituents are asleep, Republicans are trying to take away health care from 13.7 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. They want you to tune out. Don’t ⬇️ x.com/i/broadcasts...

President Biden and Democrats engineered the free market American AI economy by helping chip fabrication plant construction all over the country, in addition to huge infrastructure investment needed to support more servers using more, cleaner power. Trump OWNS erasing all of that with his tariffs.

New in PN: Arresting judges is a 5-alarm escalation "It’s not just that Dugan was arrested, but how she was arrested. The whole point was to cause a scene. There’s no allegation she was attempting to evade arrest, but the FBI still forced a sitting judge to do a perp walk at her place of work."

More evidence of an alliance between the “Tech Bros” & the “Catholic Right”. On 7/1/24, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale used his blog to thank Catholic hardliner Leonard Leo for his “advice & support” re: a SCOTUS brief that Lonsdale’s Cicero Institute had filed to help criminalize homelessness. 1/

I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you. The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

Sure, Kamala Harris would have have preserved our global power and domestic prosperity. But she would have done so as a Black woman. by Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller

A play in two acts.

List of Republican Senators Who Voted to Thwart Trump's Canada Tariffs https://twp.ai/4imA77

Wisconsin voters won't be bought!

The tariffs are a shiv to the heart of the economy. What's worse is why the Trump Regime is pushing them. They promised more tax cuts to the Broligarchs. Firing federal employees doesn't come close to covering the cost. So, they implement tariffs....

'Corruption, plain and simple': Trump to replace FTC with 'lapdog for his golfing buddies'

Welcome to autocracy. The Republic we have known for the last 240 years is gone. This is going to keep getting worse. Much worse. The courts mean nothing, the law means nothing, Congress is irrelevant. He is a malignant psychopath.

🚨BREAKING: It seems very clear that the Administration decided not to abide by the court's order. The question now is what will the judge do. Does he proceed with contempt or something short of that to defuse. Upping the stakes is the fact that the AG and her senior staff signed this notice.

I can’t think of anything that would hurt MAGA more. Especially their political pastors.

One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ? They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses. That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue. The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff

Schiff: "If as a result of his actions Ukraine should lose this war, it will be Donald Trump who lost the war in Ukraine. And he will go down in history as the one who lost the war for one of our allies."

Trump loves the farmers who he's about to tariff into oblivion. Big applause from Republicans. FAFO is gonna really hurt.

Without Congressional action, the World Trade Center Health Program will begin denying care for 9/11 survivors & first responders. Unacceptable. I joined NY colleagues in introducing a bill to secure permanent funding for WTCHP, so those impacted get the help they deserve.

How to lose friends and make enemies, the Trump way. First, raise the shit out of taxes. Second, violate your own trade agreements. Third, raise prices of everything for Americans and get them fired from their jobs by killing export markets. America last, baby!

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

So: Trump took further steps to ally w/Russia. He did grave damage to US economy with tariffs. The economy was already spiraling into a recession. & SCOTUS is on day five of letting US corporations go under bc the Trump Administration insists it can unilaterally renege on contracts after the fact.

It’s been a long day, but in short, bullies ain’t shit! I don’t care what title you hold! This isn’t some long gone reality tv show or failed casino; it is war! How dare a draft dodging dumb dupe humiliate an ally & berate a brave man who has actually been on a battlefield for his people?!

Tesla’s shareholders just lost another $38,640,000,000 today — a total $TSLA loss of $600 billion since December. Tesla’s CEO was not in the office. In literally any other public company ever, this would be the point where the CEO gets fired.

Rep. Suozzi: 26% of the federal workforce are veterans—26%. What about their service to this country? We encouraged them to apply for these jobs, and now we’re just taking away their livelihoods? It’s not just chaotic, it’s not just cruel—it’s unconstitutional.

MUST-WATCH: House GOP leadership refused to allow Rep. Brittany Peterson, who's on maternity leave, to vote remotely, but that didn't stop her. She showed up, not only voted but also spoke out against the GOP budget proposal with Sam, who turned 1 month old today, in her hands.

When FAA employees are telling us it’s not safe to fly, we should probably listen.

I second this.

More of this resistance ✊🏼👊🏼

Why does a 38-year old U.S. Attorney in SDNY, who is also a die hard conservative, have more guts and integrity than the entirety of the GOP Senate Conference combined?! Shame on the shameless sycophants and enablers there, who can’t find the spine to stand up to common MAGA bullies.