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tripwar.bsky.social
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Auchincloss: "I'm for return on investment. And when DOGE fires the guy at the FDA who makes sure that eyedrops don't blind you, that's not an ROI. That's foolish decision-making that creates uncertainty for business and makes Americans less safe."

submitted 16 hours ago • 43 comments

Cops are not your friends and the criminal process will not save us. Prosecutors will back cops like this up 100% of the time. The only thing that is going to save us is us.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

@warren.senate.gov @repauchincloss.bsky.social This is our state. These are our people. You have the power and the placement to do something. Please do everything you can.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

It is really hard to see how Tim Cook can remain as CEO of Apple on the back of this mess. Even if he hadn't been directly involved with some of these decisions, the right call would be to resign. That he was the one taking them makes it even worse. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/technology/ap

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Did the ding dongs in the administration simply borrow an idea from the Third Reich playbook? Please listen to The Man Who Calculated Death for a microcosm of WW2 Germany and how slippery is the slope we are sliding down now… #history #ancestry #ww2 #podcast #politics #nevertrump

submitted 20 days ago • 11 comments

(1/X) It is simply a fact that one of the central conceits of this account—that establishment media failed to convey the dangers of a second Trump presidency—has been proved correct. In particular, they completely ignored the fact that Trump has an easily diagnosed personality disorder....

submitted 7 days ago • 43 comments

Klemperer's book THE LANGUAGE OF THE THIRD REICH is so accessible because it's a collection of essays that need not be read in order. E.g., you can turn directly to Chap. 30, "The Curse of the Superlative" for a concise discussion of a linguistic tropism that infects all of Trump's rhetoric.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Dear god let this man cook.

submitted 15 days ago • 1139 comments

Trans men are men. Trans women are women. Nonbinary people are non binary. Trans rights are human rights. And everyone has the right to be, and be loved, as they are.

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

U.S. public broadcasting barely qualifies as publicly-funded broadcasting because our government routinely starves it of funding (left). Yet the far right loves to demonize U.S. public broadcasting as some kind of radical extremism (Trump statement from Monday, right)

submitted 28 days ago • 6 comments

1) My data was subpoenaed by Trump's feds under the guise of "national security," 2) I was heavily suppressed on Twitter when Musk took over, and 3) the Dem influencer class ostracized me for being anti-genocide, so I strongly urge y'all to speak out. The status quo is terrified of outspoken people.

submitted 28 days ago • 5 comments

If you're a reporter in a White House press briefing as the spokesperson for the government asserts flatly that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang who's guilty of human trafficking and you sit there silently without shouting out "PROVE IT!" I'd like to invite you to go fuck yourself.

submitted 28 days ago • 829 comments

Foreign Friends with Travel Plans to the U.S. for Conventions: A bit back I said you should maybe reconsider those plans. I would like to amend my prior statement. Cancel them. Cancel them now. We cannot keep you safe from our own government. Take your holiday in Spain or something.

submitted 30 days ago • 203 comments