C. Leighton Scott

C. Leighton Scott

@cleightonscott.bsky.social

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Donald Trump is scared out of his mind that Republicans are going to lose the House in the midterms, if not sooner given how fast things are unraveling, which is why he’s accelerating his authoritarian and fascist plans at a pace we’ve never seen before. This isn’t confidence, it’s panic.

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McMorrow: What Trump has done is weaponize us against each other, when everybody needs hospitals, good schools, and health care. It has become this battle for scarcity, when we’re the wealthiest country in the world. We should not be fighting each other for our basic needs.

I think the right has finally come up with their buzz word for racism. “Social solidarity”

New York Times Opinion@nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Social solidarity is destroyed when you have too much migration too quickly,” JD Vance tells our columnist Ross Douthat in this episode of “Interesting Times.” “That’s not because I hate the migrants or I’m motivated by grievance. That’s because I’m trying to preserve something in my own country.”

We’ve come to that time. It’s Super Bowl Sunday. Two weeks to wait for a game and two years to wait for revenge for many on the team. Saquon is our X factor! Our defense will not be stopped or slowed by a garbage field! Go and win this one for Philly Go Birds! #flyeaglesfly #birdgang Say it back

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What if there were a coup, the US government fell to a drug-addled oligarch who seized control of our money, secrets, and levers of power, and Corporate media did not report on it?

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Holy crap. This is a heavily armed fox in a henhouse kinda thing. Read this guy's wikipedia page. Scroll down to "contact with far-right groups". This is the guy he wants to be in charge of anti-terrorism. Who do you think he thinks are terrorists? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Kent

en.wikipedia.orgJoe Kent - Wikipedia
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social

Joe Kent, the guy Trump is nominating to lead his counterterrorism division, employed Proud Boys and Patriot Front members, met with Nick Fuentes and sat down with a neo-Nazi YouTuber for an interview.

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Joe Kent, the guy Trump is nominating to lead his counterterrorism division, employed Proud Boys and Patriot Front members, met with Nick Fuentes and sat down with a neo-Nazi YouTuber for an interview.

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Yes totally cool that a 19-year-old who called his deleted LinkedIn "Big Balls," where he lists his experience working as a camp counselor can access the entire US federal payment system without anyone looking into his background, for instance, his Russian national close relatives or anything else

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I get that this is all “wag the dog” and they are probably planning something much worse but has anyone in the administration even bothered explaining why a trade war against the friendliest nation on earth is necessary and/or going to improve our lives in any small way?

In the Musk administration, DEI means: “is it white and Christian enough?”

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social

scoop: Musk's DOGE has brought in Stephanie Holmes, an HR consultant & attorney focused on "non-woke" HR and a version of DEI "aligned with our faith." Has spoken at Federalist Society, with members of Heritage Society, at religious conferences: www.404media.co/musks-doge-b...

The mad king ordered water to be released from some random dam in central California. There is virtually no way for that water to get to LA and completely fucks up the central California water supply.

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This should be 25th amendment level conduct. The president ordered water to be released from a random dam in California nowhere near the wildfires and then claimed it would help. That’s literally Mad King behavior.

Musk & DOGE trying to gain access to the Government system that paid out 5.4 Trillion dollars to U.S Citizens not being a bigger story is media negligence. Doge isn't even an official government program. This is a huge scandal.

Everyone in the administration is blaming DEI for this crash. While DEI is often poorly implemented, removing it doesn’t create meritocracy—just a system where privilege still dominates. It is a comforting myth that justifies inequality, letting those at the top claim success is earned.

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Replying to @osinttechnical.bsky.social

The Potomac VFR is insanely busy with Army helicopters, Park Police, other associated agency helicopters, and DC Police helicopters. Seen here, a US Army UH-60 flying at low altitude up the Washington Channel, just adjacent to DCA.

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Replying to @osinttechnical.bsky.social

Pilots in the r/flying community are saying similar things. One regional jet pilot: “This would be the very FIRST place I would expect this to happen”

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The new president swore to uphold the Constitution, and within minutes, he began to undermine it. Declaring a national emergency at the southern border is an abuse of emergency powers. 1/2

Many people are saying Trump never officially became president because he didn’t place his hand on the Bible during the oath. They claim it’s part of a plot by global elites to bypass the Constitution and install him as a puppet leader for their secret agenda. www.themirror.com/news/us-news...

themirror.comPresident Trump doesn't put hand on Bible when taking oath after Melania blunderTrump did not place his hand on a stack of two Bibles held by first lady Melania Trump during his swearing-in ceremony

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@jvl.bsky.social with the perfect quote: "That’s the dual hermeneutic the populists use for evaluating the world. If you’re an expert who got one thing wrong, it damns you. If you’re a total lunatic crank who gets one thing right, it makes makes you bulletproof."

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Why is it that elites are held to a standard of perfection at all times, and populists are held to no standard at all?

Nothing that a sharpie can’t fix.

CNN@cnn.com

President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration is expected to be moved indoors Monday due to dangerously cold temperatures projected in the nation’s capital, multiple sources with direct knowledge of the plans told CNN: cnn.it/3DWnZN8

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They obeyed in advance…AGAIN! The Washington Post killed off its "Democracy Dies In Darkness" slogan. New slogan: “Riveting Storytelling for All of America.”

The NFL really lets playoff coaches juggle job interviews mid-playoffs? Kellen Moore has 3 this week! Instead of focusing on the big game this week, he’s prepping for interviews. Start interviews after the Super Bowl. This system is a joke. It sucks. #flyeaglesfly #birdgang

I am no longer on the bird app and can find fewer and fewer reasons to stay attached to the cesspool that is meta.

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social

I chatted with Bluesky users about quitting Meta platforms in addition to X: "We don’t feel like we’re taking a moral absolutism kind of stance, we feel like we’re just living our values by saying ‘This is not OK.'" www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...

The MAGA culture war is pushing a law targeting trans athletes in women’s sports under the guise of protecting women, while opposing measures like the Violence Against Women Act and cheering Dobbs decision. This law affects just 10 athletes, solving a problem that doesn’t exist and harming people.

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I'm sorry but the Dems are ridiculously bad at their Hegspeth questions. IMO, if you want to prove someone is incompetent, you ask them the hardest strategic questions they will have to know to succeed at the job