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submitted 2 days ago • 117 comments

Amplify this more. Elon has no ability to assess downstream consequences of his decisions because he knows nothing about govt besides what can be fed into an algorithm. Really smart people have residency t for what they don’t know. The willingness to learn is a key quality of the truly brilliant.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Featured post: “All in all, this concept is so bad that it has an excellent chance of passing the Legislature. Much as we would like to help the rest of the nation by demonstrating once more just how stupid ideas work out in practice, couldn’t we give this one a miss?”

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

As an offshoot of this thread, let’s talk about what happens if federal, state, or local officials text, email, call, or show up at your door wanting to talk to you about what you said about the President. I have a theme, a thesis, a throughline, a leitmotif, which is SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH. /1

submitted 3 days ago • 92 comments

Dear Mr. Bezos, I write to pitch you my op/ed about how private equity dominance is an egregious corruption of the “free market” you love so much, and benefits the personal liberties only of billionaire executives. In this essay, I will…

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Whaddayagonnado

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I have maintained subscriptions to the NYT and WP despite their problems, but this is a bridge too far for me. Heads up, @mrcdfw.bsky.social.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

New — HHS just got another email with guidance stating that they aren’t required to respond to the 5 bullets email, but if they do they should follow specific guidelines including: “Assume that what you write will be read by malign foreign actors and tailor your response accordingly.”

submitted 7 days ago • 303 comments

Can’t help but be reminded of the words of Russell Vought, now head of OMB: “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected because they are increasingly viewed as villains. We want to put them in trauma.”

submitted 8 days ago • 361 comments

Chancellor Crystal Hines Martin of Hinds County, Mississippi has issued a prior restraint order so ludicrously unconstitutional it’s only consistent with deliberate misconduct or abject ignorance of the relevant law. Disgraceful and lawless. /1

submitted 12 days ago • 109 comments

Professors please pull up a chair. I’ve been talking to my classes about what has been going on. I explained indirect costs to them. I talked to them about what a probationary employee is in the government. At the end of class they asked if we could talk about it more. (1/)

submitted 13 days ago • 91 comments

House Republicans released a draft budget that aims to cut $2 trillion in spending. The programs impacted could include Medicaid, SNAP, and education programs. Why the cuts? To finance another round of tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It's reverse Robin Hood.

submitted 16 days ago • 222 comments

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

submitted 17 days ago • 1914 comments

😂😂😂

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

I think Kendall Roy would love this halftime but miss the point.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Yep

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

(probably working with lobbyists & counsel to strategize actions and lawsuits to counter illegal freezes, rather than picking very public fights with a lawless dictator who relishes them and has a thirst for retribution)

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

There are a bunch of “that’s what they voted for” in the comments and I am once again reminding you that kids did not vote for anything. Kids cannot help having dipshit parents, and kids will be the ones suffering. I understand that excising empathy feels better but come ON, y’all.

submitted 24 days ago • 108 comments

Ahem, @mrcdfw.bsky.social

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Take the time to watch to this video. It well worth the few minutes. An unstated arc in this response is the importance of learning and understanding history.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

As I’ve said, it’s a frustrating time to be a scholar of the Progressive Era.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

submitted 25 days ago • 6587 comments

West Point orders certain student groups to disband in compliance with Trump EO. The list includes Asian-Pacific Forum, National Society of Black Engineers, Native American Heritage Forum, and Society of Women Engineers. Reporters covering mil, defense, natsec beats... seems like a big deal.

submitted 27 days ago • 126 comments

submitted 28 days ago • 59 comments

My vocabulary is not exactly limited, but everything I can think of to say about (or to) this man is exceptionally profane.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad. There’s not.

submitted 29 days ago • 731 comments

oh no please don't give them the idea to rap

submitted 29 days ago • 21 comments

Welp. Glad I had some excellent guacamole today.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

I'm struck by the near-total failure of leadership across civil society, in a country that fetishizes the concept. Whole sections of leadership books at every bookstore. Named, endowed "leadership" institutes and curricula across higher ed. Awards and special recognition for "leaders." AND YET

submitted 31 days ago • 186 comments

Same

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

“The party running against the 3rd Reich wasn’t that great either” is how so many people sound. Like just stop talking! Shut the fuck up!

submitted 31 days ago • 226 comments

I mean yes, there is such a concept in Christianity. It appears quite notably in the letters of Paul, for instance, where it’s a concept he relentlessly argues against, and in the Gospel where it’s a concept Jesus very much repeatedly scorns. So it is technically in there!

submitted 32 days ago • 372 comments

Just the <checks notes> Chair of the House Appropriations Committee going on the record to say that appropriations statutes “are not a law.” The United States Congress, ladies and gentlemen.

submitted 34 days ago • 962 comments

Would love to understand why every Democrat is not out there every second of the day explaining in plain English that Donald Trump has declared war on cancer patients.

submitted 35 days ago • 182 comments

I’m supposed to teach the federal budget tomorrow at 10am 🫠🫠🫠

submitted 35 days ago • 28 comments

Wow. This is a great way to combat (some of the) bullshit. Keep calling it out!

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

As this "pause" hits you and your project, institution, workplace, etc: TELL SOMEONE ABOUT IT. Contact your MoC, esp if they're a Dem. Contact a relevant advocacy group. Contact the press, local, regional, movement, trade - and not just for an LtE, for a story. Tell real life stories of harm.

submitted 35 days ago • 50 comments

Alcoholic here! Alcoholism is a disease, sure. But hiring someone who is an active, sex pest alcoholic and has been repeatedly drunk on the job at some point slips from supportive to enabling. I would take that into consideration if he were otherwise a perfect nominee.

submitted 37 days ago • 19 comments

Quiet Striking. newrepublic.com/post/190555/...

submitted 37 days ago • 15 comments

Trump hated TikTok (because China) until it helped him win an election (as even he acknowledges) and now he’s going to save it and take a victory lap. So he’ll have X, TikTok, Insta, and Facebook all working on his behalf. That’s a big difference between now and 2017.

submitted 44 days ago • 754 comments