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rudymadrox.bsky.social
Small-town American man. Lover of coffee and other things that aren't good for me. Trying to follow mostly legitimate news sources. Only on Bluesky on a trial basis, we'll see how it goes.
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The thing about swastikas spray painted on the side of a cybertruck is there’s a 50/50 chance the owner did it.

It's incredible how every stage appearance he makes, there is ALWAYS this moment where he ends up sitting there thinking he's clever, waiting for applause that never comes. It's also kind of how he seems to live his entire life at this point

a very confused Trump still thinks that people who make political asylum claims by definition come from insane asylums

This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

He nails it.

DANCE FOR ME, PEASANTS! DANCE!

Please, everyone. Contact your reps. Even if they’re Republicans. Be the one to Do Something. Everyone should #resist

You don't fire Judge Advocates General unless you plan on issuing unlawful orders. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

When you fire the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs-who’s Black Replacing him with an unqualified white man Then ax the Chief of Naval Operations-who’s a woman-saying she’s a DEI hire After you fired a female Coast Guard Commandant Your racism and misogyny seem pretty clear apnews.com/article/trum...

We are already at the ‘purging the generals and replace them with loyalists’ part of the Trump second term, just five weeks in. Totally normal. Not dangerous at all

From the get go of the second Trump administration, it was clear that the president would try to pass a bunch of executive orders without any clear indication that he, or his trusted advisors, actually knew if it was legal. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/wha...

UPDATE: Meta is continuing to censor anti-Musk ads. It has removed a Facebook ad calling for a boycott of Tesla, saying that it violates the company's policy on "unacceptable business practices" muskwatch.com/subscribe

Listen to @radiofreetom.bsky.social! "Now that Trump has captured the intelligence services, the Justice Department, and the FBI, the military is the last piece he needs to establish the foundations for authoritarian control of the U.S. government."

www.npr.org/2025/02/21/n...

The worst part of this North Korean style sycophancy is that we all know Lutnick doesn’t believe a word of this and Trump knows Lutnick doesn’t believe a word of this.

Trump fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Chief of Naval Operations Vice Chief of Staff for the Air Force The Coast Guard Commandant And is looking to replace the Judge Advocates General for the Army, Navy and Air Force Will anyone stop him if he tries to use the military against US citizens

Decades of sacrifice and work by generations of men and women across the globe up in smoke. Truly tragic. Tens of millions of American voters squandered the legacy of their parents and grandparents for the thrill of racism and “owning the libs.”

Temporary Protective Status allows immigrants fleeing violence and persecution to live and work in the U.S. without fear of deportation. Revoking TPS is not only cruel — it's unlawful.

Why we need a bunch of new Democratic leaders to take over—like right now The system that got us here can not get us out.

Congrats to Trump’s new picks for top military posts for meeting the job description. You don’t have to say yes, you know.

Musk took over the US government with graft and is using it—in combination with his space launch firm—to exploit an allied country that’s suffering under Russian invasion for its mineral rights. The scheme is so imperiously evil I feel like audiences wouldn’t find it believable in a Bond villain.

US officials are reportedly threatening to revoke Starlink access for Ukraine if they don’t give us 50% of their mineral rights. That’s not diplomacy, it’s extortion. We’re also pushing them to kill a UN Resolution that blames Russia for starting the war. Facts matter.

For the first weeks, Americans seemed frozen, expecting institutions to do something. Americans were used to “checks and balances” and “guardrails” working. That didn’t happen. People realized that they had to take matters into their own hands. 👇

We are arms dealers to terrorists.

One thing this little bleat from Chad “Damp Little Britches” Mizelle demonstrates is the duality of Trumpism: it’s about simultaneously being (1) a tough truth-telling masculine elbow-thrower and (2) as fragile as a porcelain goose. Bullies who can dish, but weep at the slightest pushback. Losers.

I'm 100% percent serious that is was YOU AND I--the grassroots Dems--that has caused Trump's approval #s to drop like a rock. We have been the ones calling out what Trump has been doing on social media, on Substack, Youtube etc. We are the leaders we've been waiting for!

I can understand this mistake in 2016, but we already had a whole term of Trump fuckuppery. How on earth were people still thinking he’s some business genius who’ll make government better in 2024? How?

This was NOT a mistake. Trump and GOP are now labeling critics as "terrorists." The goal is to put critics in camps--possibly even Gitmo. Save this post because this is where this is going:

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

So let's get this straight: The U.S. and Elon are now extorting Ukraine and threatening to turn off their Starlink Internet access unless they give their critical rare earth minerals to the United States? Staggering levels of corruption.

firing for "too much DEI" is plainly firing a woman and a Black man on the presumption only white men can be qualified. this is disgusting biogtry.

that Trumpers think the US Postal *SERVICE* should be a profit-making enterprise exposes the fallacy in their conception of government

I'm about to drop a piece at The Atlantic on this Pentagon purge. As I warned, Trump is capturing Justice, Intelligence, the military. This is praetorianism, pure and simple.

BREAKING - The Dow just had its worst drop since March 2020 — at the beginning of Covid Back then it was a pandemic mismanaged by Trump Now it’s tariffs and inflation mismanaged by Trump Watch out — Trump is giving America economic Covid

This spending dispute is a constitutional crisis in disguise. tRump’s unilateral cuts & freezes are a blatant power grab, testing Congress’s authority over the purse strings. He’s crossing lines that should never be crossed, threatening the very fabric of our democracy. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

🔥 MEDICAID IS A HUMAN RIGHT, NOT A HANDOUT! 🔥 80M Americans—kids, moms, seniors, POC, rural folks, & the disabled—CLING TO IT FOR LIFE! Republicans ready to *SLASH* it? OVER OUR DEAD BODIES! #DontCutMyMedicaid

BREAKING: Donald Trump just fired General CQ Brown (left) and has replaced him with the less qualified Lt. General Dan Caine. DEI isn’t a problem if you’re white.

the stock market is now below where it was when Joe Biden left office

It’s a cult.

None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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...

Here's an action to take today: If you're in TX or LA, call Ted Cruz or Bill Cassidy and ask them why they're letting Trump piss away America's competitive advantage w/o lifting a finger. Mention this article. Cruz (Chair of Commerce): (202) 224-5922 Cassidy (Chair of HELP): (202) 224-5824