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jolie26.bsky.social

Husband, Soccer Dad, cross country coach, Directed U Texas Debate for 30 years, 🤘 PhD, ANTIFA, STL Cardinals fan

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This column is almost a week after I FIRST showed that Trump is relying on a GAO report that in turns relies on COVID fraud to substantiate fraud claims--and it doesn't get the scope of the COVID fraud correct OR mention that those who found it got fired.

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

The president's remarks were ripped as "morally disgusting" by Yale history professor Timothy Snyder, who is an expert on authoritarianism.

submitted 9 days ago • 57 comments

I am one of more than 750 political scientists who signed this statement "express[ing] our urgent concern about threats to the basic design of American government and democracy" drive.google.com/file/d/1lGk2...

submitted 9 days ago • 82 comments

Man, the Post sure is on one.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I was watching this bullpen the other day...and thought: "Two Seamer"? "Skenes doesn't throw a Two Seamer. " Welp, he throws one now. And a Cutter. Good luck. 🙏

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

We had a functional media that held people accountable. Now we have billionaires pushing whatever story they want from their own outlet to an overwhelmed public in their own echo chamber hearing what they want. Or ya know "Happy Thursday!"

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

While so many major mainstream outlets bend the knee to Trump, Wired has been crushing it when it comes to reporting on the havoc unleashed by Musk and his neo-Nazi henchmen. If that's not worth your $5 for a subscription, then I don't know what is.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

hiring the guy in a hot dog costume to find the guy who did this

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

This moment is an assault on reality. Disappearing agencies, studies, identities, it's how fascism, purges, and genocides start. Hang on to FACTS. Their erasure coupled with AI is going to be absolutely devastating.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

And it begins. FBI class action lawsuit against the retaliatory purge. First Amendment Violation of Due Process Rights to Privacy www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 23 days ago • 1032 comments

The Trump administration is looking to Georgia for an example of how a motivated and militarized government can crack down on protest, dissent, and the civil rights of everyday citizens en masse.

submitted 23 days ago • 7 comments

"The entire point of doing this at Guantanamo is to apply the machinery of the post-9/11 state to this latest version of the Enemy. It is to entrench in the public mind a conflation of migration and terrorism," writes @attackerman.bsky.social. www.forever-wars.com/the-wages-of...

submitted 25 days ago • 15 comments

It's time to stop supporting Musk's fascist platform. We at X Out Hate have a new letter to call for an immediate boycott of X.

submitted 24 days ago • 92 comments

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submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

I wrote about Musk and this bureaucratic coup as plainly as I could. There's reporting in here & the particulars are overwhelming but what's happening is so clear: He's not trying to run the federal govt like a software company He's trying to turn it into a political weapon. (gift link)

submitted 24 days ago • 93 comments

The richest man in the world has taken over the US government and his first order of business is taking revenge for the fall of apartheid in South Africa www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 25 days ago • 76 comments

Bernie Sanders: "We are living in an unprecedented moment in American history. We are looking at a rapid growth of oligarchy. We are looking at a rapid growth of authoritarianism. And I fear we're looking at a rapid growth of kleptocracy as well."

submitted 26 days ago • 709 comments

Between unprovoked and foolish trade wars, threatening our allies, eliminating foreign aid, gutting our civil service, preparing to weaken the intel community and FBI, placing inexperienced clowns in key nat sec positions, and supporting our enemies’s agenda, we are weaker by far today than on 1/19.

submitted 26 days ago • 51 comments

according to the nonpartisan Budget Lab at Yale University, the #tariffs will mean a loss of about $1,200 in annual purchasing power for the typical US household.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

So apparently SC wants to teach Holocaust education but not about warning signs. This Rabbi called them out. Pass Holocaust education to license anti gay and immigant policies www.jpost.com/israel-news/...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

DEI hiring is problematic when it becomes a priority, but if the Trump admin is supposed to be a meritocracy, the only merit they seem to care about is personal loyalty to Trump. Replacing identity politics with a cult of personality is not an improvement.

submitted 32 days ago • 26 comments

Ok, quick thread on why DeepSeek is blowing up assumptions about LLMs and maybe the whole (U.S.) AI industry. DeepSeek is an AI lab funded by a Chinese hedge fund, their AI code is open source, meaning freely available to use, which most big U.S. models (aside from Meta’s) are not. That’s the start…

submitted 32 days ago • 124 comments

You can fight for ideals without being an ideologue. You can have passion without joining a cult. Great @renewdemocracy.bsky.social interview with @ritchietorres.bsky.social, who doesn't have a problem talking about values, right, and wrong—and the big picture. youtube.com/watch?v=z7jzL_…

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

🎯 I wrote about this 8 years ago in my book Deep Thinking and it’s just as true today. It’s a race, and authoritarian regimes see institutions and regulations only as a way to slow down naïve rivals in the free world. Innovation is essential, but so is human accountability.

submitted 28 days ago • 4 comments