msix8.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

"Unlike Donald Trump, Elon Musk, or J. D. Vance, I have had children serve in uniform in wartime," writes @eliotacohen.bsky.social. "The parent of a service member looks with a particularly keen eye at who is in command."

submitted 19 hours ago • 16 comments

"So stop moping around. We have the people! We have to bring them together. The numbers are on our side. Trump and Elon Musk are like two guys with six-shooters trying to hold a thousand people hostage. They only win if everyone thinks they are too strong to rush."

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I wish every American could watch this. In which a Republican Representative (Rep. Schweikert) talks about the magnitude of our debt problem, the recklessness of Trump's tax cuts, and how DOGE has been insignificant in actually tackling the real budget problem: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RQE...

submitted 5 days ago • 35 comments

The Regime wants to put in a work requirement to receive Medicaid, a medical plan that covers people with disabilities. At the same time, they want everyone back in an office, and they’ve killed DEI efforts. So their message is “go to hell, people with disabilities”. apnews.com/article/medi...

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

#OrdoAmoris —the idea that love should be rightly ordered, prioritizing family, then community, then nation—has some biblical basis. Scripture calls us to care for our families (1 Tim 5:8), honor our parents (Ex 20:12), and do good especially to those in the household of faith (Gal 6:10). 🧵 (1/4)

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

#NPC Agreement with Trump’s policy aims need not mean agreement with his power grab. But the most powerful branch of government — the branch with the power to check the others — is supine. It is not that it can’t act to protect its power. It’s that it will not act...This is a non player Congress.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Slashing ‘big government’ sounds great—until it means firing nuclear security experts so fast they can’t even be contacted to be rehired. DOGE is moving so fast to cut federal jobs that the NNSA let go of staff they actually need—then realized they couldn’t reach them to bring them back. 🧵 1/3

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

This chuckle head is something else. He promises to bring down inflation on day 1 and the MAGA faithful rejoice. Then he admits he can't do it and the MAGA blame bird flu. Now he's blaming inflation on Biden and the MAGA faithful are giddy as fuck. Welcome to the #idiocracy

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Trump's #NIH cuts threaten the future of medical breakthroughs. What seems like “waste” is often the foundation for life-saving discoveries—just like how Gila monster venom research led to Ozempic. We can’t afford to gut the gov't research that saves lives.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

"The eggs may not be cheaper, but they taste better with a side of Schadenfreude." #DEI

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

submitted 18 days ago • 807 comments

This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.

submitted 21 days ago • 490 comments

“you must contend with the reality that you are entering office with almost no credibility with your opposite numbers in Moscow and Beijing (and elsewhere). I say this not as an insult, but to describe in plain terms the conditions you face abroad.” @radiofreetom.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com

submitted 29 days ago • 19 comments

When #Trump pardons those who commit acts of seditious violence in his name while removing protective measures from political opponents facing credible threats, it speaks volumes about his priorities and character. These actions are not just political decisions; they are moral failures.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance. Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.

submitted 33 days ago • 318 comments

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." #MLK

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

With #Trump and his #MAGA minions, cruelty is the point. "America needs secure borders, and while not every illegal immigrant should be deported... deportations are a necessary part of immigration enforcement. But cruelty is unacceptable, and civil liberties should be sacrosanct."

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

This flip-flopping reveals the danger of tying your #values to a leader with no moral compass. Instead of asking whether the ban was objectively good or bad, #Kirk followed #Trump’s lead—regardless of facts. Independent thought matters. #Leadership without principle creates #hypocrisy, not progress.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

#Trump voters learning that their guy is actually not the epitome of masculinity. He's afraid of being cold. Yet another example of how Trump doesn't actually care what his supporters want. It's all about what is best for him.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Voters will find out soon enough that #Trump doesn't care what they think. Trump is going to do whatever will please his ego. But this was known from the beginning but folks chose willful ignorance over thoughtful deliberation.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

The irony is staggering: ‘Woke’ liberals blamed for weakening the military with a 4 ⭐️ general to lead the DOD, while the ‘God & Guns’ crowd backs a Fox News, sex abusing, culture warrior. His credentials? Loyalty to Trump & a Christianity that endorses violent insurrections. Patriotism, redefined.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Unfortunately, the reality-based world has zero overlap with the MAGAverse where the high cost of eggs was all Biden's fault. #MAGA

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

California’s on fire, and while the GOP is busy blaming DEI and concocting conspiracies, Canada and Mexico are busy saving lives.

submitted 42 days ago • 594 comments

#petehegseth It's journalistic malpractice to focus solely on Hegseth's drinking and sexual abuse and completely ignore how he demonizes his ideological opponents as existential threats to the nation's identity and security. Such views should disqualify him from becoming SecDef.

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments

When the Secretary of Defense transitions from a black 4-star general to a white cable news host, we’ll have ended DEI and brought back the meritocracy. by Charlie Kirk

submitted 43 days ago • 157 comments

January 6, 2020 was an insurrection.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Trump Sees the U.S. as a ‘Disaster.’ The Numbers Tell a Different Story. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/u...

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Is the eating of dogs and cats in Springfield OH still a national emergency? Or were those people’s lives upended just so Donald Trump could demagogue his way back into the White House?

submitted 63 days ago • 219 comments

Before they've even taken the reins of our government, President Elon is calling all the shots while VP Trump sits on the sidelines. And he's already running it into the ground. youtu.be/07KHdLsofbY?...

submitted 64 days ago • 232 comments