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Just brutal

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The cover of French magazine @lepoint.fr has it right.

submitted 12 hours ago • 7 comments

It’s very strange living in a country led by actual Russian agents and criminal kleptocrats, but here we are. And the thing is, that’s not hyperbole, that truly is where we are.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

RFK really missed the simplest lesson of LBJ’s career, try not to get any kids killed if your name rhymes with “how many kids did you kill today”

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

@brooklynbuckets.bsky.social Which team is 46-11, with a “historically good defense”, and playing at full strength, and which team is 21-36, with multiple players out? Crazy.

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submitted 4 days ago • 105 comments

Measles cases in Texas this year, over 200.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Question: If Valentine’s Day is such a big deal, why aren’t Alternate Side Parking regulations suspended?

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Daniel Sassoon, channeling Elliot Richardson. The whole letter is extraordinary. Brave and beautiful.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Seems relevant

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

RFK Jr. as health and human services secretary is just the stupidest thing. There are other things going on that are more corrupt and more dangerous (maybe), but for pure stupidity, this has to be near the top of the list.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Really fun to read. Especially in high school. Double especially Another Roadside Attraction. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/o...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Super Bowl of super soup

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Super Bowl USAID Save Foreign Aid

submitted 19 days ago • 59 comments

10% of recycled paper in NYC gets turned into pizza boxes on Staten Island!! and other fun facts:

submitted 28 days ago • 7 comments

LeBron James is now both the youngest (19 years, 88 days) and the oldest (40 years, 39 days) player in NBA history to score 40+ points in a game.

submitted 22 days ago • 5 comments

Very good article, explaining the damage, on multiple levels, done by killing USAID. Harm and more harm. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/o...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Under the banner of “government efficiency,” U.S.-grown food and lifesaving medicine meant to help the world’s most vulnerable is instead rotting on cargo ships and in warehouses across the globe. @suzykhimm.bsky.social has the details: www.nbcnews.com/news/politic...

submitted 24 days ago • 19 comments

Sabotage. Criminal sabotage. "[The NSF] is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months, a top National Science Foundation official said Tuesday." www.eenews.net/articles/sci...

submitted 24 days ago • 39 comments

More cruelty

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Week three not looking any better than weeks one and two. Very, very bad.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Musk and Trump, spreading disease, increasing suffering.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Two consecutive posts on my BlueSky timeline. Coincidence? I think not.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

No one elected Elon Musk. As Donald Trump allows Musk to access people’s personal information and shut down government funding, Republicans in Washington will also own the consequences. We must do everything in our power to push back and protect people from harm.

submitted 26 days ago • 3499 comments

The tariffs are not good, but they are mostly the distraction from the really bad stuff—the takeover of the government personnel and (especially!!!) finance. It’s the autocracy and kleptocracy, hiding behind bad policy.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

The Dallas trade of Luka Doncic has to be the worst NBA deal since the Nets gave up a decade of unprotected draft picks (turned into Tatum and others) for over the hill Garnett and Pierce.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

I do not recall a 24 hour or one week news cycle with more disturbing news about the state of the presidency and the US government in it than those of today and the past seven days. January 6 was nothing compared to this. But make no mistake, this too is the gov't being torn apart by a mob of thugs.

submitted 28 days ago • 134 comments

I’m happy that Costco and the Teamsters settled without a strike. It doesn’t change the fact that Trump, Musk and their henchmen are tearing the country to shreds, but at least there’s no conflict between buying good peanut butter and potentially crossing a picket line.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

This is heartbreaking and that is the point. Create as much chaos and misery as possible while creating a huge purse of $ to try and plunder.

submitted 27 days ago • 76 comments

This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

submitted 28 days ago • 1824 comments

This is how autocrats throughout history have endangered the people they govern by erasing factual information vital to health and well being www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

submitted 28 days ago • 817 comments

This is what Trump’s cruelty and chaos has unleashed.

submitted 28 days ago • 66 comments

While many of these nominees are terrible, RFK Jr. is particularly infuriating to me, because his awfulness involves things that I know something about. Again, I truly hope he is not confirmed. If he is, it will only lead to harm. Less Health. Fewer Humans. Fewer Services.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

This Kennedy person is truly horrible. The lack of knowledge, honesty, and sense is a terrible combination. I hope upon hope that he is not confirmed.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Today’s example of gratuitous stupid cruelty

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

So far: Purge of the Inspector Generals Leaving the WHO Pauses of NIH funding and CDC communications Suspension of multiple humanitarian immigration programs Cancellation of discount drug program Halting of anti discrimination law suits Abusive alcoholic unqualified Secretary of Defense confirmed

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

More cruelty. In every case, suffering with no benefit to anyone. What a fucking disaster. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/u...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments