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

Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

submitted 5 hours ago • 286 comments

Wait. It gets worse: "The new document states that the revenues will be directed to a fund in which the United States holds 100 percent financial interest, and that Ukraine should contribute to the fund until it reaches $500 billion....The US has allocated $119 billion for aid to Ukraine."

submitted 7 hours ago • 235 comments

There’s no evidence that Dan Caine will not be an effective chairman of the joint chiefs relative to his peers, but it is certainly saying something to the services that we are replacing a highly qualified black man with a white man who literally lacks the command qualifications for the job.

submitted 8 hours ago • 38 comments

"the poll shows that majorities oppose cutting taxes on corporations. It finds that 63 percent say their top priority for tax policy is helping 'working-class families,' versus one percent—no, really, one percent—who say it’s helping corporations and the wealthiest Americans."

submitted 9 hours ago • 15 comments

I’m sorry. What.

submitted 9 hours ago • 10 comments

We are arms dealers to terrorists.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1635 comments

So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

submitted 20 hours ago • 156 comments

Just ran my cursor over on Amazon documentary on the War of 1812 and suddenly there is one of my two major professors from my undergraduate years who has been dead for a while now. Kind of shook.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

Judge Advocates General. He’s fired the top military lawyers in each service.

submitted 21 hours ago • 30 comments

"During the meeting, Ukraine was told it faced imminent shutoff of the Starlink service if it did not reach a deal on critical minerals, said the source, who requested anonymity to discuss closed negotiations." Astonishing betrayal of an ally. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

submitted 21 hours ago • 147 comments

Donald Trump’s firing of military leaders — four-star General Brown and four-star Admiral Franchetti — along with top legal officers is a betrayal of legions of first rate service members who dedicate their lives to our nation’s defense. This is a growing national security risk.

submitted 20 hours ago • 513 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1061 comments

Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

submitted 1 day ago • 290 comments

Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

submitted 1 day ago • 949 comments

The Execution of the Doge, by Delacroix, 1825. He was beheaded for attempting a coup d'etat. Apropos of, you know, absolutely nothing at all.

submitted 17 days ago • 80 comments

This is what a personalist presidency looks like: "Investigation follows President Trump's remarks at the Republican GOvernor's Association dinner...that Maine risks losing federal funds."

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Gift link. A small unelected, secretive crew now has free access to sensitive private data of everyone. And Musk is already publicly targeting family members of judges who rule against the administration. If this isn’t ringing alarm bells, I don’t know what would. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

submitted 1 day ago • 248 comments

Just wow. He's openly threatening governors if they don't comply with losing all federal funding by violating their own state laws.

submitted 1 day ago • 68 comments

the only thing Canadians like more than beating Russia in hockey is beating the US in hockey. the general sentiment this morning is that last night we got to do both.

submitted 1 day ago • 252 comments

The facts of the transgender discrimination cases that the Trump EEOC wants to drop are stomach-turning. They are doing this because they want to empower the abuse of trans people, which they don't think should ever have been illegal in the first place ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

This is in fact a real picture and it will work nicely in the ads next year about the military families devastated by Elon's illegal firings.

submitted 1 day ago • 262 comments

Lent is coming up and people on here are chatting about how they will observe it. One Lenten discipline I now try to practice year round is refraining from loud opinions in the absence of sufficient information or understanding. (Don’t get my dogs talking, though, they know what I really think.)

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Mom, come pick me up, they're coming up with the silliest possible version of the Great Man Theory of History

submitted 1 day ago • 146 comments

the heirs of vichy think the US right has gotten a little too fash for them to feel comfortable associating with it

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

In addition to Congress being the place that makes the laws, pretty key thing, the constitution explicitly says Congress gets to create the postal system. It’s not left implied that that comes under law making generally. The President has no power to unilaterally abolish it and move it to commerce.

submitted 1 day ago • 298 comments

“The “west”, in any coherent sense, is over.”

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

New Editor Commentary: Under the current program of wild, mindless destruction, Ohio doctors, farmers, veterans, teachers, professors, students, working families, and children with disabilities, are all being terrorized by the Musk, Trump, Vance regime.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

O Canada! 🍁

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Reminder that a month ago Politico did a puffy soft focus interview with Steve Bannon, who today literally threw up a Nazi salute at CPAC. Inexcusably terrible editorial judgment at the time and looks even worse now.

submitted 1 day ago • 81 comments

The past ten years has just been the same clutch of morons and apologists insisting that Trump would never cross that line and then shuffling along with him to insist that he would never cross that next one.

submitted 1 day ago • 96 comments

1) Every Republican district has been hit hard by Trump's actions, but THIS is their focus? 2) There are no transgender K-12 athletes in MN. ZERO! 3) They have to lie to vilify. 4) There will be GOP forced genital inspections of girls. This is ONLY about hate. www.startribune.com/bill-at-legi...

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant. Today:

submitted 2 days ago • 77 comments

gravedigger of american democracy. a more malign influence than john c calhoun.

submitted 2 days ago • 1420 comments

McConnell saying adieu. Close call betw Mitch/R Murdoch for overall damage in our times. McConnell: -Was crucial in blocking gun-safety laws after Sandy Hook massacre. -Was crucial in sparing Trump in 2nd impeach (which would have blocked 2nd term). -Made filibusters routine. -SCOTUS.

submitted 2 days ago • 57 comments

The thing about the hockey, aside from all of the politics around the hockey, is that the hockey has been really good hockey.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I wrote about the 1980 US Olympic hockey team when I was a child at The New York Times. The political atmosphere around their game with the USSR stands in useful contrast to the atmosphere around the game tonight. It is hard to imagine the rest of the world will think of us as good guys again soon.

Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

Wait. It gets worse: "The new document states that the revenues will be directed to a fund in which the United States holds 100 percent financial interest, and that Ukraine should contribute to the fund until it reaches $500 billion....The US has allocated $119 billion for aid to Ukraine."

There’s no evidence that Dan Caine will not be an effective chairman of the joint chiefs relative to his peers, but it is certainly saying something to the services that we are replacing a highly qualified black man with a white man who literally lacks the command qualifications for the job.

"the poll shows that majorities oppose cutting taxes on corporations. It finds that 63 percent say their top priority for tax policy is helping 'working-class families,' versus one percent—no, really, one percent—who say it’s helping corporations and the wealthiest Americans."

I’m sorry. What.

We are arms dealers to terrorists.

So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

Just ran my cursor over on Amazon documentary on the War of 1812 and suddenly there is one of my two major professors from my undergraduate years who has been dead for a while now. Kind of shook.

Judge Advocates General. He’s fired the top military lawyers in each service.

"During the meeting, Ukraine was told it faced imminent shutoff of the Starlink service if it did not reach a deal on critical minerals, said the source, who requested anonymity to discuss closed negotiations." Astonishing betrayal of an ally. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

Donald Trump’s firing of military leaders — four-star General Brown and four-star Admiral Franchetti — along with top legal officers is a betrayal of legions of first rate service members who dedicate their lives to our nation’s defense. This is a growing national security risk.

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

The Execution of the Doge, by Delacroix, 1825. He was beheaded for attempting a coup d'etat. Apropos of, you know, absolutely nothing at all.

This is what a personalist presidency looks like: "Investigation follows President Trump's remarks at the Republican GOvernor's Association dinner...that Maine risks losing federal funds."

Gift link. A small unelected, secretive crew now has free access to sensitive private data of everyone. And Musk is already publicly targeting family members of judges who rule against the administration. If this isn’t ringing alarm bells, I don’t know what would. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

Just wow. He's openly threatening governors if they don't comply with losing all federal funding by violating their own state laws.

the only thing Canadians like more than beating Russia in hockey is beating the US in hockey. the general sentiment this morning is that last night we got to do both.

The facts of the transgender discrimination cases that the Trump EEOC wants to drop are stomach-turning. They are doing this because they want to empower the abuse of trans people, which they don't think should ever have been illegal in the first place ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

This is in fact a real picture and it will work nicely in the ads next year about the military families devastated by Elon's illegal firings.

Lent is coming up and people on here are chatting about how they will observe it. One Lenten discipline I now try to practice year round is refraining from loud opinions in the absence of sufficient information or understanding. (Don’t get my dogs talking, though, they know what I really think.)

Mom, come pick me up, they're coming up with the silliest possible version of the Great Man Theory of History

the heirs of vichy think the US right has gotten a little too fash for them to feel comfortable associating with it

“The “west”, in any coherent sense, is over.”

New Editor Commentary: Under the current program of wild, mindless destruction, Ohio doctors, farmers, veterans, teachers, professors, students, working families, and children with disabilities, are all being terrorized by the Musk, Trump, Vance regime.

O Canada! 🍁

Reminder that a month ago Politico did a puffy soft focus interview with Steve Bannon, who today literally threw up a Nazi salute at CPAC. Inexcusably terrible editorial judgment at the time and looks even worse now.

The past ten years has just been the same clutch of morons and apologists insisting that Trump would never cross that line and then shuffling along with him to insist that he would never cross that next one.

1) Every Republican district has been hit hard by Trump's actions, but THIS is their focus? 2) There are no transgender K-12 athletes in MN. ZERO! 3) They have to lie to vilify. 4) There will be GOP forced genital inspections of girls. This is ONLY about hate. www.startribune.com/bill-at-legi...

In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant. Today:

gravedigger of american democracy. a more malign influence than john c calhoun.

McConnell saying adieu. Close call betw Mitch/R Murdoch for overall damage in our times. McConnell: -Was crucial in blocking gun-safety laws after Sandy Hook massacre. -Was crucial in sparing Trump in 2nd impeach (which would have blocked 2nd term). -Made filibusters routine. -SCOTUS.

The thing about the hockey, aside from all of the politics around the hockey, is that the hockey has been really good hockey.

I wrote about the 1980 US Olympic hockey team when I was a child at The New York Times. The political atmosphere around their game with the USSR stands in useful contrast to the atmosphere around the game tonight. It is hard to imagine the rest of the world will think of us as good guys again soon.

LITERALLY EVERY FBI DIRECTOR HAS BEEN A REPUBLICAN. EVERY SINGLE ONE.

The Emperor's New Dead People Collecting Social Security

They’re going to try and prosecute their political enemies