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This was always the move. It was clear this was the move in *2023*. Anyone who thinks this is because of the Oval confrontation is an idiot, or on the make.

my god

We are entering a new era—Government by Gimmick. Policies won’t be serious efforts to solve real problems but mere attention-grabbing stunts.

Gift link. The actual story of the shackled people being deported without even being told where they were being taken — maybe to countries where they’d face torture or death — while their terrified children cried.😢 The White House posted that pic with “ASMR” tag. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

See here's how to do a headline. fortune.com/2025/02/13/e...

"It's scary that the government has your social security number" is how dumb Musk thinks we are.

I just can't wait until this stuff reaches SCOTUS, when the justices come up with some way to rationalize all of this being legal – because they know Trump will ignore a ruling against him, and they end up becoming impotent overnight

“According to one Trump ally, Musk is not fully briefing White House chief of staff Susie Wiles about his plans and the White House is effectively in the dark.” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/i...

the current right wing "scandal" that the U.S. government pays for news subscriptions is very funny but its also funny that these guys can't even read their own evidence that supposedly proves bias his own screenshot shows AP received the most $ from the first Trump admin lol

Let’s be clear: this is just a test case in what they will be allowed to do.

I'm glad that America is doing real classic end of empire stuff. A king who is visibly losing his mind declaring a war based on a dream he had. Greedy courtiers feuding over access to the treasury. Some looks are timeless.

Trump is suddenly concerned about South Africa. Gee, I wonder where that came from.

Yes. While there are absolutely things Democrats can and must do to slow, obstruct, etc, GOP hold both House and Senate majorities, severely limiting our options. Johnson and Thune are handing over the own keys and relinquishing their own power. Even for the cynics this should be a shock.

I can't believe four years of calling Trump "The Former Guy" didn't save us from this nightmare.

Good thing the Dems didn't admit to the coup in advance, they would have looked so weak and cowardly, so fucking craven, in the newspaper if they said "America Is Under Attack From The Inside And We Will Stop It By Any Means Necessary" This is better, the optics are great

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Watching the RFK hearing fills me with more despair than I thought possible. He's a lunatic. Republicans are craven. Democrats are useless. And all of these people know that this is a farce, but they're playing their parts instead of living in reality.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social on the Pete Hegseth debacle: GOP senators showed our allies and our enemies that "they would rather elevate an unqualified and unfit nominee to a position of immense responsibility" than cross Trump, Musk or the folks back home. 🎁 www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Last time I checked, Trump had nominated 10 people from the Fox News for big and important government jobs that they are largely, and sometimes grotesquely, unqualified for. But they are still going to act like they are the defenders of merit?

This is just so corrupt. And creepy. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/u...

Biden turned out to be a “bridge” after all - a dilapidated one between two Trump terms.

This is how ALL tariffs are going to work. Companies that are nice to Trump will get exemptions. Companies that aren't nice--or are actively "not nice"--will not.

Good morning Bluesky. Moo Deng was robbed.

A preview of the backwards world of obeisance to power in totalitarianism: Alito is not faulted but a judge who dared criticize him in the Times is. Gift link: Judge Broke Rules by Criticizing Justice Alito During Flag Flap www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

For those who might need it. archive.ph/58wtw

The Los Angeles Times' billionaire owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, has requested his paper's editorial board outright "take a break from writing about Trump," per a memo Opinion staffers sent to the outlet's top editor, sounding the alarm. More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/patrick-so...

It's time x.com/JeremiahDJoh...

I love the drone panic because its a reminder that despite all our technology and societal advancement we're never more than one unanswered question from reverting to peasants worried we'll make the stars mad

FINALLY SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS

We are starting to see a Democratic narrative form: that the Trump Admin is a government by billionaires for billionaires. And Musk will be the poster boy.

X is dominated by MAGA voices and actively suppresses others; meanwhile, the distance between the Morning Joe Libs and hardcore leftists on Bluesky is so vast, there's disagreement here all day. Painting this place as an echo chamber is just lazy, especially at this late date.

Fox News talking about Luigi Mangione, but make the footage Kyle Rittenhouse

Nearly a decade of Democratic leaders telling us Trump is a fascist, Trump is Hitler, and Trump will kill us all immediately transitioned to "well, he has a mandate so he's basically god now" as soon as he won the popular vote by 1.5%.

Anyone who’s been on CNN w Scott Jennings knows what a fraud he is. Last time I was on w him he asserted that the problem with antisemitism is entirely on the left. I pinned him down over Trump’s Kanye/Nick Fuentes dinner. He selectively edited the clip to take that part out and released it. Fraud.

A government of oligarchs that will exist to solely serve the interests of oligarchs while distracting working people with culture wars. And people can complain all they want about a Trump screenshot. I almost never post any here and this is important so just block me instead of whining.

Says a drug user with a mental illness

"LUIGI. MANGIONE."

Burger King: We Won’t Turn You In To The Feds™

This isn’t quite a false choice so much as an unknowable outcome. Both are live possibilities and the median outcome is probably some combination of the two. We won’t know the answer until we get there. So it’s best to be open to reality as it unfolds.

One of two things will happen with "DOGE". Either it will be a toothless advisory committee making recommendations that Congress will largely ignore, or it will be an executive body operating outside and in defiance of the Constitution. I don't know which.

Less than 30 minutes apart.

"As disquieting as this widespread desire for retribution was, the LOL Nothing Matters sentiment was most dispiriting when it came from a place not of bloodlust but earnest sadness." Today's Triad with Tim Miller in for JVL:

Trump, who positions himself as a populist, "has assembled an administration of unprecedented, mind-boggling wealth, ⁦" Zachary Basu‬⁩ writes, not even counting Elon Musk. "It's not hyperbole to call this a government of billionaires." www.axios.com/2024/12/06/t...

There are 14 BILLIONAIRES that are part of the second Trump administration

Scoop: After the LA Times published a piece about Elon Musk that carried a headline owner Patrick Soon-Shiong didn't like, a new rule was implemented: Prior to publishing opinion stories, headlines must be emailed to Soon-Shiong, where he can then choose to weigh in. www.status.news/p/los-angele...