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cornucpoian.bsky.social
Hawaiian-style steel guitar enthusiast. Humanities major masquerading as an industrial mechanic. All of my problems are of my own making….
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[looking into the oval office which is now filled with nazis] "hey fellas, i'm getting some real nazi vibes from what's happening here"

A year from now money may be worthless and we may be fighting in something called “The Egg War”.

Listen, I know every Black person's head turned when they heard that line

This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II. Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.

The origins of the one-day boycott are dubious to say the least, but as a society we need to start exercising the organized boycott muscle, so I’m in. I’ll keep interrogating the motivations of the “leaders” of organized protest. We should get used to experimenting and coordinating on a larger scale

Sullivan collects all his toys and sits on them like a dragon hoarding his treasure.

We could have had high speed rail and instead we got wars in the Middle East and useless AI. Every day lately I think about the fact that China has built 28,000 miles of rail since the mid-2000s, with trains that go 150-250 mph. We should have devoted resources to building real stuff.

NEWS: The FDA abruptly canceled its upcoming advisory committee meeting to select the strains for next year's flu shot. by @berkeleyjr.bsky.social

Trump’s new acting CFPB director in charge of reigning in predatory financial institutions is literally promoting a predatory payday lender. Because something something working class champions.

If you told me "an extremely senile Trump was re elected after being convicted of a felony but the real president is Elon Musk, who's a Nazi now, and he's employing his drug dealer and nazi child pornographers to tear down the entire US government" in 2020 I'd have thought you were on crack

incredible exchange, @marisakabas.bsky.social

Philip K. Dick on seeing Meat Loaf on TV (from What If Our World is Their Heaven?: The Final Conversations of Philip K. Dick)

William Pester, the Hermit of Palm Springs ca. 1917. He is playing a Knutsen Hawaiian-style guitar. An early hippie. There are some potential problematic details if you dig into his biography but the photo is striking. This is the vibe I’m going for if I survive the apocalypse.

I’m learning all these old Hawaiian tunes from Alan Akaka, and the Newman name keeps coming up. I checked and these are Randy Newman’s uncles. The history of Hawaiian music in the US is endlessly fascinating and full of surprises.

He can jump into and out of a shopping bag without touching the sides. It’s pretty impressive.

Let’s see what motivates this guy to join DOG…oh

reading the Declaration of Independence and it is so fucking wild to me how Trump is literally doing like 75% of this

This reads like the opening paragraph of a novel so bleakly dystopian you'd put it down after five pages

We're celebrating, as ever, the start of Super Bowl 2025 with this Superb Owl. 🦉

And just like that, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau homepage, consumerfinance.gov, is being erased. As of January 30, 2025, CFPB enforcement actions resulted in $19.7 billion in consumer relief.

U.S. Navy has paused all Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (SAPR) training, per Navy memo leaked to me

This guy started his life as a feral kitten (tipped ear). He seems to know he hit the jackpot.

Over at @lawfare.bsky.social, I analyze what happens to federal employees if the government fails to uphold its end of the deferred resignation agreement. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/will...

So… if a government employee takes the Elon “Deferred Resignation” agreement and congress doesn’t appropriate the funds to uphold the terms of the agreement, the employee has no legal remedy to sue and get paid what was promised by the executive branch. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

My staff is hearing reports from Head Start programs in Oregon that they're still locked out of federal funds. My office is doing everything it can to get more info and get funds flowing before providers have to start closing their doors.

HAPPY FIFTH ANNIVERSARY to Susan Collins saying Trump learned a “pretty big lesson” from his first impeachment. thehill.com/homenews/sen...

Someone tell Schumer that the OPM is being taken over by college students protesting a genocide so we can actually see some urgency from the opposition party