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jharsin.bsky.social
Professor of History, dog lover; my opinions are my own.
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Bernie gets it.

Lol Trump wants a new Say No To Drugs campaign? I have an idea...

This is the guy rooting through our personal information.

Most of DOGE’s money has come in the form of payments from other federal agencies made possible by a nearly century-old law called the Economy Act. To steer funds to the new department, the Trump administration has treated DOGE as if it were a federal agency. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

Elon Musk, champion of free speech.

The Russians are ecstatic, expecting new ties with the US. They fully agree that the war must come to an end, though they could have stopped their aggression at any time during the past three years.

"This is a humiliating month to be an American," our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes.

Trump said he wouldn’t touch Medicaid. He lied. (Shocking, I know.) Today, Trump fully endorsed House Republicans’ proposal to cut federal Medicaid funds by $2.5 trillion. Here’s what that could mean for you:

I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

First nuclear weapons management, now this. No one - Democrat or Republican - voted for this kind of incompetence.

the “make america healthy again” agenda appears to be an elaborate op conjured up by sentient strains of listeria and salmonella www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

Interesting read - 'Conspiracists are about to get a dose of reality' www.thetimes.com/article/b3bb...

Murphy: "Let me say that again. The man that my Republican colleagues are about to vote to lead the FBI believes there is irrefutable proof that the agency he is about to lead secretly organized the violent assault on the Capitol. That is bananas. My Republican colleagues know that."

Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

European Parliament member 👇🏽

And a small crash today outside Tucson.

Dark Pence is back.

This refers to the mystic Dugin, whose daughter was killed by a car bomb a couple of years ago. Crazier than Rasputin.

Whether it’s Joe Biden accepting a presidential salary or Elon Musk restructuring the federal government to benefit his private companies, presidents of both parties have used the office to financially enrich themselves.

According to Musk and most of tech: No conflict, no interest

Homan was dumb enough to announce on Fox and Friends that he and Adams had made a deal in return for dropping the charges. I hope Hochul makes the right decision, and removes him.

Ya think?

Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

As @petebuttigieg.bsky.social wrote on another platform: “The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?”

Gutting the CDC right as we’re on the cusp of major outbreaks of transmissible diseases is a very bad idea.

Yes, making Trump unimportant means making America unimportant to the world. A hefty price but it must be paid to stop the spread of our cancer.

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

And Napoleon was eventually banished.

Very good idea!

Trump's America.

New: Elon Musk relied on undocumented workers to help build Tesla's gigafactory in Texas. He later propagated anti-immigrant sentiment to vault himself into political power alongside President Trump. Great reporting from @julialove.bsky.social (gift link 👇) www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Someone should ask him what the C stands for.

Blatant admission of the quid pro quo.

Yes. But they are missing that much of this has to be performative. That’s what Trump is great at and Dems are awful at. You can’t just tell voters , you have to know how to sell voters. Trump gives sales pitches, Dems show charts. One goes viral. The other is ignored and forgotten

Starting with scientists.

We are going to need a LOT of people to stand up this way. I’m glad people are doing it.

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BREAKING NEWS: Al Franken’s old Senate Seat will be OPEN in 2026! Who else agrees he should run again? 💙

I mean, Jesus Christ, can you people even *hear* yourself? I'm about to die of secondhand embarrassment just reading this crap.

Trump was just "made" Chair of the Kennedy Center. How soon before we see a name change? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

Pence takes issue with Trump saying Ukraine 'may be Russian someday': Former Vice President Pence took issue Tuesday with President Trump saying Ukraine “may be Russian someday.” “Mr. President, Ukraine will only ‘be Russian someday’ if the United States abandons them to Putin’s brutal invasion. As…

DNC, or whoever it is, stop with the constant misleading emails--I'm sick of seeing "Crying tears of joy"--over nothing--in my inbox.

Sen. Chris Murphy: “This isn’t hyperbole to say that we are staring the death of democracy in the eyes right now. The centerpiece of our democracy is that we observe court rulings. No one is above the law, and whether we like it or not, the courts interpret the law.” (CNN)

But sure, let's trust this guy with all our personal data.