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Bicycle touring europe two weeks at a time. Also enjoys reading, disc golf, telemark skiing, walkable neighborhoods. WeHa CT
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“We fired all the guards at the bank so they’re not roadblocks to anything that happens.”

This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick.

Classic westfarms parkjobs

They arrived at the United States border from around the world, hoping to seek asylum. Instead, they were detained, shackled and flown by the U.S. military to a faraway country, Panama. Our exclusive look at a new front in Pres. Trump’s immigration crackdown:

Congress should hold hearings on this but it’s hard when you can only ask him five questions

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

“If you filter the statistic to include as unemployed people who can’t find anything but part-time work or who make a poverty wage (roughly $25,000), the percentage is actually 23.7 percent. In other words, nearly one of every four workers is functionally unemployed in America today”

The reason there are a lot of court orders telling Trump he can't do things is because he's been doing a crazy huge amount of illegal shit in his first three weeks in office. This isn't rocket science. It's basic physics - action and reaction.

Another banger of an article from one of the finest contemporary thinkers and writers ive run into

Mr. Patel has been directly involved in secretly orchestrating a purge of career officials at the FBI. Emil Bove, then acting No. 2 at the Justice Department, fired career civil servants solely at the request of a private citizen.

I'm holding a citizen meeting in West Hartford to talk about what I'm doing and what people can do to fight back against Trump's seizure of government for the billionaire class. 1/ Unfortunately, we've maxed out the space, so here's a 🧵 on what you can do.

Do you think wolves are ever ribbing each other like "haha inside of you there are two monkeys and neither of them can hunt 🤣" "shut UP Fenrir"

Aaron rodgers punching air because all those Puppy Bowl dogs are vaxxed

Friday mood

SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Whats depressing about this is thinking about how congress created DHS and people were like oh hey thats kinda fasch are you sure? and now the executive branch is using DHS to do actual fascism and everybody is pikachu face

“Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience…

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social tried to leave a message thanking you for your efforts over the last few days but both Hartford and Dc voice mailboxes are full! Very proud to see you out front of usaid and naming trump’s unconstitutional eo’s what they are

Thank you @chrismurphyct.bsky.social i appreciate seeing you out there

REP. OMAR: “This is what the beginning of dictatorship looks like.” SEN. MURPHY: “Let’s call it what it is - a constitutional crisis.”

I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x

Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive): 1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment* 2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything 3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can 4. Citizens march en mass

You know why these guys are so willing to flagrantly and openly break the law? Because they’ve been doing it for years, testing the waters, seeing what they could get away with—and they got away with all of it. This is the consequence of no consequences and an injustice system.

This is a hair-on-fire situation (gift link) Musk allies (not official government employees, apparently) seek access to "the sensitive systems control the flow of more than $6 trillion annually to households, businesses and more nationwide." wapo.st/4jH7XYa

My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

I called all my representatives today and you can too! Its easy to find their numbers! It takes only a few minutes!

Great day skiing around the WeHa reservoir on monday since we finally got some good snow!

I was told the eggs would be cheaper

Getting that vehicle purchase done before the tariffs start

I don’t want to make a fuckin account to use my toaster. I don’t want to fuckin subscribe to software. I don’t want to create a fuckin profile to watch TV. I don’t want to fuckin register my whatever to unlock whatever. I don’t want to download a fuckin app to access anything. Death to new logins

Continuing the venture capital practice of buying healthcare facilities, borrowing 1 billion dollars! (Not an exaggeration!) from taxpayers to pay dividends, then folding up shop.