Profile avatar
pepebuho.bsky.social
108 posts 109 followers 129 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter

Elections have consequences

Fear has a way of being contagious. But courage is also contagious.

It’s a recalibration of economic control. Oligarchs don’t live paycheck to paycheck. They have the capital to buy market dips and recoup faster, acquiring more assets at fire sale prices along the way. When the dust finally settles, they will own more. The rest of us will own less. A lot less.

HOLY SHIT, IT'S 1:45AM AND SENATOR CORY BOOKER IS STILL ON THE SENATE FLOOR, DISRUPTING SHIT!!!! THIS IS WHAT WE NEED!!! THANK YOU, SEN. BOOKER!!! 🙏💪

This piece from @jvl.bsky.social is one of the most important insightful I have read since January 20th 2025.

THE WAY I SEE IT -- THE *ONLY WAY* TO AVOID A LITERAL CIVIL WAR IN THIS COUNTRY IS FOR OUR MILITARY TO *RISE UP AND DO THEIR SWORN DUTY TO PROTECT OUR CONSTITUTION* BY PHYSICALLY REMOVING KRASNOV AND ANY OTHER RUSSIAN ADVANTAGE IN OUR WHITE HOUSE.

THEY WANT NO EDUCATION Keep em stupid.

I hear Kid Rock and Derek Chauvin’s knee are the guests of honor at the grand reopening ceremony

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

Pete Kegseth must resign over his whiskey leaks!!

This is a DEI hire, by the way.

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.

What Jen said.

I founded and chair an "elite law firm" and we are not in retreat. I have spoken with many other "elite" firm leaders that are staffing up. What the WSJ means is large corporate law firms. Please do not confuse quality with cowardice.

Not the first person to make this observation, but it's so striking how the media covered the crack epidemic as a problem caused by black/urban drug users and the fentanyl epidemic as a problem imposed externally on white/rural drug users.

The perfect metaphor for what the Supreme Court did to this country with Citizens United v. FEC.

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

This is what a good citizen looks like when standing up for Americans healthcare and retirement money.

🔥 AKBARI: “I AM OFFENDED… We’re talking about 5 year-old babies. I cannot in good conscience go to sleep at night and support something to do this to kids.” Senator Bo Watson’s (R) cruel bill to keep undocumented kids out of schools passed in committee 5-4 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DG1qNW-...

Socialism is what they called public power.  Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

A list of books that sound rude (but aren’t) for World Erotic Book Day: 7. HARD TIMES (Dickens) 6. THE HUMAN STAIN (Phillip Roth) 5. BE BOLD WITH BANANAS (Unknown) 3. WHAT’S INSIDE OF ME? (Herbert Zim) 2. A WEASEL IN MY MEATSAFE (Phil Drabble) 1. YOUR WOOD CAN LAST FOR CENTURIES (US Forest Service)

High point

Me: I can’t believe UK voters chose to torch their economy with Brexit. That can never be topped. American voters:

I wonder, is Musk the boss of DOGE or not? I thought DOJ told a judge that he was not.