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

The video game industry is a fascinating place where it is apparently financially impossible to develop and publish games

submitted 16 hours ago • 5 comments

antivaxx is a luxury belief that only was able to fester because vaccines were so effective that people forgot how horrible these diseases are

submitted 9 hours ago • 29 comments

From family chat (my wife’s side!). There is no reasoning with this.

submitted 11 hours ago • 66 comments

The way we're already pricing in authoritarianism is very, very bad. Trump is using his power as president to openly retaliate against a law firm for representing Jack Smith and it's barely news. The signal this sends is chilling to anyone who would oppose him. What else will he do to his opponents?

submitted 11 hours ago • 32 comments

I think the most effective argument very soon will be “fuck those ingrates; this country gave them everything and look what they did to it.”

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

Teapot Dome is like THE corruption scandal and it has absolutely nothing on the average day in February 2025.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

Literally more than a single member of American media in the White House Press Corps has done.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Competitive authoritarianism involves retaining some of the trappings of democracy while removing its core values

submitted 9 hours ago • 11 comments

Curious how the Republicans did not seem to mind when Matthew Kacsmaryk was the anywhere judge in question

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Musk explicitly says he wants to turn America into El Salvador where a strongman has consolidated power, undermined judicial independence, harassed journalists, and suspended constitutional rights

submitted 10 hours ago • 243 comments

NEW — House Republicans are putting the brakes on town halls after blowback over the Trump administration's cuts. One GOP aide said House Republican leaders are urging lawmakers to stop engaging in them altogether. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

submitted 10 hours ago • 306 comments

As the measles outbreak in Texas keeps spreading, parents who previously chose not to vaccinate their children are now lining up to get their kids the shots needed to protect them from the serious illness.

submitted 14 hours ago • 299 comments

thing is, this shouldn't be true. talented executives — not founders, i'm talking about people who have worked for a living here — can build big, sustainable companies through shrewd and complex decision making. but, esp in tech, a lot of these positions have been captured by rent-seeking dolts.

submitted 10 hours ago • 8 comments

Basic authoritarian stuff: the government revolves around protecting the President and punishing his enemies. Completely inconsistent with democratic norms, but will barely be a blip in the news in our new regime.

submitted 12 hours ago • 17 comments

The AP was banned from the event but the French press corps conspired to get a US AP reporter inside and insisted she be allowed to ask her question.

submitted 14 hours ago • 54 comments

In this case, which challenges the mass firing of probationary employees, earlier today Judge Alsup issued a notice requiring DOJ top explain "how can an agency lawfully terminate a probation employee on the basis of 'performance' if that employee's performance was in fact satisfactory."

submitted 11 hours ago • 10 comments

The White House will be handpicking which media outlets are permitted to participate in the presidential press pool. So the White House will be very carefully selecting which journalists can witness Trump’s illegal activities up-close — and then ask him questions. “This move tears at…

submitted 9 hours ago • 23 comments

Gotta love how the party that wraps itself in the flag and claims to be the TRUE PATRIOTS seeks to ruin the lives of people who dedicated their lives to serving our country because “literally just openly admits he makes shit up knowing the media will run with it anyway” is seen as a higher calling.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Remember when Republicans wanted to impeach Bill Clinton because big donors got to stay a night in the Lincoln bedroom? Seems quaint now.

submitted 11 hours ago • 157 comments

This is really bad. Many nonprofits rely on pro bono counsel from elite law firms they otherwise couldn't afford. Law firms are going to think twice about taking on pro bono clients disfavored by Trump or filing amicus briefs opposing the administration. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 10 hours ago • 5 comments

This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote. There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.

submitted 10 hours ago • 935 comments

Anyone saying the Democrats got their wallets inspected on the vote is, frankly, being either stupid or a wrecker, or both. The GOP flipped their own people. The Dems got their own reps back into the chamber, at least one limping out of a hospital bed, another with her newborn, and they were united.

submitted 11 hours ago • 40 comments

Make sure you follow this account and check out the website. Tracks litigations against this authoritarian regime.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

people should take birth control if they want to and should not take birth control if they don’t want to and I don’t think it’s all that complicated or for that matter all that left-coded

submitted 10 hours ago • 28 comments

Here's our president's "first buddy" reaching consensus with the autocratic strongman leader of El Salvador that US judges need to be impeached "to save democracy," saying "there is no other option"

submitted 11 hours ago • 31 comments

nature of software as a product means that the money guys can delude themselves into thinking they don’t need those useless eater workers, just a few cracked hardcore geniuses (which they assume they are). if you run a factory that makes actual things, even if you hate your workers, you know better.

submitted 10 hours ago • 8 comments

"While Trump publishes his imperial fantasies on Truth Social, supposedly more sober voices are busily penning magical imperialism in the pages of respected U.S. news outlets." foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/25/c...

submitted 20 hours ago • 4 comments

Trump used the last four years to turn the GOP into an anti-democratic war machine. And he is not done wreaking havoc. That is the stark reality we face. If we truly care about the future of free and fair elections, we must take the threat Trump poses to our elections literally and seriously.

submitted 11 hours ago • 172 comments

Just in case it wasn’t clear enough… MAGA = Nazis

submitted 11 hours ago • 102 comments

trump crash plane

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

1/The news that additional private attorneys may have their security clearances revoked, as I did, without any due process, simply because they represented someone the President doesn't like is a disgraceful affront to the entire legal and national security system. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...

submitted 15 hours ago • 44 comments

The government punishing a law firm for defending a client seems like the kind of tyranny we fought a revolution against.

submitted 13 hours ago • 45 comments

I mean even if this was true (it isn't) do they not realize that they won because of low-information disengaged voters? You think those folks are going to stop to ponder the contribution of Biden's fiscal policy to the economy? Live by "president take egg" die by "president take egg."

submitted 14 hours ago • 7 comments

Congressional Republicans tried to pull a fast one. They called off the budget vote that cuts healthcare for over 38 million children and just put it back up after everyone left to try and make some Democrats miss the vote. Many Dems are voting by card to keep the vote open. I just did mine.

submitted 12 hours ago • 313 comments

Pam Bondi: “On day one, I issued 14 executive orders...” (The Attorney General does not have the authority to issue executive orders)

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

Former Capitol police officer Michael Fanone when confronting Proud Boys insurrectionist Enrique Tarrio: “You are a traitor to this country.” RETWEET if you stand with Officer Fanone!

submitted 2 days ago • 539 comments

Do you need a measles booster shot? What to know as a U.S. outbreak continues to spread. "There is a very specific group that does have to worry about their immunity from vaccination. People born after 1957 but vaccinated before 1968 — that group is unlikely to have robust immunity from…

submitted 1 day ago • 64 comments

More than 700 National Park Service employees have quit amid Elon Musk's purge, per an agency memo www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

submitted 12 hours ago • 6 comments

So now we are selling US citizenship for $5 million. bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 12 hours ago • 322 comments

Update for the purveyors of this most recent conspiracy theory: Texas DOH confirms genomic testing shows no vaccine strain in its collected measles samples. www.nbcnews.com/news/texas-m...

submitted 12 hours ago • 19 comments

you know what the worst thing about Trump’s trade policy is? He can’t get away from the number 25%. “Uhh sir how big a tariff should we put on Mexico?” “25%” “and steel?” “25%” “Aluminum?” “25%” “Cars?” “25%” “semiconductors?” “25%” Pick a different number!

submitted 12 hours ago • 15 comments

🇷🇺 More images of the Russian Armed Forces ! Wow ! #Russia #Ukraine

submitted 19 hours ago • 4 comments

The world is dark and everything is on fire, but here’s a puppy discovering ice for the first time in her life.

submitted 12 hours ago • 23 comments