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

“A group of frustrated Yosemite National Park staffers hoping to draw attention to the federal government’s sweeping workforce cuts have hung an upside-down American flag thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.”

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

#DYRBRY (Did you read Black Reconstruction yet?)

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny

submitted 9 hours ago • 154 comments

purges...

submitted 14 hours ago • 8 comments

OpenAI isn't on the path to becoming a for profit company! They spent $9 billion to lose $5 billion last year! And if you think Sam Altman is some virtuous guy being pushed around by venture capitalists you are a god damn mark, holy shit

submitted 9 hours ago • 31 comments

Dear Reichsleiter Musk I humbly offer 10: (I am very productive): 1, 1, 1 'cause you left me And 2, 2, 2 for my family And 3, 3, 3 for my heartache And 4, 4, 4 for my headaches And 5, 5, 5 for my lonely And 6, 6, 6 for my sorrow And 7, 7— no tomorrow And 8, 8, I forget what 8 was for...

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

To state the obvious as has been observed my countless people on numerous occasions, Dems speaking about red areas 10 percent as harshly as Republicans speaking about blue areas is treated as a massive scandal.

submitted 10 hours ago • 18 comments

Your annual Carnival reminder that this is what they took from you (everywhere you could see a parade, 1977)

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

Geez, lighten up. It's for my cigars! Lol triggered much?

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

See, the thing to remember about the narrative about GenX that came from all those movies is not that everyone was a cool, quirky, tolerant, non-conformist, but that the people with power and social cachet were complete assholes and almost everyone else was terrified or indifferent.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

I think she got that backwards. anyone who performs there under these conditions should be boycotted there and EVERYWHERE. “With the change, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt boasted, "The Kennedy Center learned the hard way that if you go woke, you will go broke.”

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

“… unless, of course, the people of Boston know they don’t have to open the door to an immigration warrant, in which case Hell and I will stand around with our dicks in our hand like we did in Chicago and LA.”

submitted 12 hours ago • 24 comments

Molotov-Ribbentrop: the US is proposing to carve up Ukraine with Russia getting the land and the US getting the mineral rights. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/w...

submitted 18 hours ago • 7 comments

If federal employees don't respond "Your mom" or "Deez Nutz" en masse, I will be very disappointed.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

I would have gone to parades today, but I have a Courir costume to complete.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

I truly think people don’t realize how many universities and colleges — especially public ones — may shut down if restrictions on and withholding of federal funding persists for even one presidency We are facing the demolition of American higher education

submitted 15 hours ago • 86 comments

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 16 hours ago • 421 comments

Excellent thread.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

We really went from, “We can’t possibly defund the police,” to “let’s defund everything else.” Smh

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

I always shock my students a bit when I tell them that quantitative data is just qualitative data that has already been interpreted numerically.

submitted 19 hours ago • 21 comments

This is key to understanding the building outrage & backlash that extends way beyond the hurt of those fired. Firing people for no reason is brutal & loathsome but the even larger overall offense is wiping out all the fired people’s jobs with them, all the purposes & needs & value those jobs serve.

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 477 comments

The University of Alaska Board of Regents passed a resolution removing diversity, equity, inclusion, DEI, and affirmative action from ALL UA materials 9-1. Only UA Student Regent Selimi voted no. It was not noticed or made available to the public in any form before it passed. #AkLeg #Alaska

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Penn & Teller: Fool Us is the only TV show I like to watch these days.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I hope the rest of the world wakes up to this quickly. Trump will side with Putin against our allies and the free world. The US is going to the dark side and can no longer be trusted to defend democracies or keep our commitments. This is sad and shameful, but obvious and inevitable.

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 1 day ago • 978 comments

Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn!

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

⚡️63% of Ukrainians approve Zelensky as president, poll shows.

submitted 1 day ago • 126 comments

Every time they cry fraud, this should be the question.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Go Bruins. Go Canada.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds. Gov Mills: See you in court

submitted 1 day ago • 2284 comments

It would be great if there were an organization with enough money to put on the Kennedy Center program that was planned, and that should have been

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

“I just wanna say trans people are beautiful. We are never going to stop existing. I’m never gonna stop being trans, a letter on a passport can’t change that, and fuck this administration.”

submitted 1 day ago • 68 comments

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry's hand-picked Attorney General Liz Murrill is one of those suing to ensure rural Louisiana doesn't receive federal subsidies to bring it broadband internet. It's good enough for city folk and people in wealthy states, but not for poor Louisianians, I suppose.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Doesn't know what AI is, doesn't know what duplicitous means, doesn't know what the CDC does.

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

Don't miss today's conversation with Omar El Akkad, about a book I'll surely be thinking alongside for a long time. A map, a guide, a thinking through & a breakup letter with the American dream. Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar... @aaknopf.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk @textpublishing.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Patrick Shea and I piloted oar rigs down the Colorado through the Grand Canyon together last year. He is an excellent human and his performance reviews show he's also an outstanding ranger. Trump/Musk firing him for "performance" is a vile lie. www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

You kan not run educacioun lyke a businesse. A businesse ys meant to make a profit. Educacioun ys meant to make the future. A businesse ys meant to serve customers. Educacioun ys meant to empower citizens.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

La présence de Volodymyr Zelensky aux pourparlers pour mettre fin à la guerre en Ukraine n'est pas "très importante", a affirmé Donald Trump vendredi.

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

Is the United States facing a constitutional crisis? BU LAW Professor Jessica Silbey says yes, but it’s not up to the courts to resolve it. She emphasizes the important role representatives and individual citizens play in ensuring the future of democracy.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This is why I keep talking about the last ten years as a metastasizing misinformation crisis. Why on EARTH would you think Trump would do anything thoughtfully or strategically? If the media is giving people this impression, it is lying to them

submitted 1 day ago • 88 comments