Amriv

Amriv

@amriv.bsky.social

Devoted conservationist, re-wild our lawns, plant native, wildlife needs wildlands, anti-MAGA, anti-corporate take-over of America.

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Amriv
@amriv.bsky.social

This is a true representation of the scowl he keeps on his face. It is a look of a guilty man that know he's old and wasted his life on the things he thought were important. apnews.com/article/2025...  Quick action by an AP photographer helped make a memorable shot of Trump boarding Air Force One

apnews.comQuick action by an AP photographer helped make a memorable shot of Trump boarding Air Force OneJacquelyn Martin has been a photojournalist for The Associated Press, based in Washington, D.C., since 2006.
Amriv
@amriv.bsky.social

Interesting, if you check the business media sources they make it look like all the protestors are old. This is not what I am seeing in photos and reports from all over the world.

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Ron Filipkowski
@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

He wore the cheesehead hat in WI. Spent $20 million. Paid people to sign petitions. Paid people to canvas. Did million dollar giveaways. A rally. TV interviews. But I guess people in Wisconsin didn’t appreciate an oligarch trying to buy their civil liberties.

Amriv
@amriv.bsky.social

Has anyone read the book "Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism"? Zuckerberg wants to censor it, after getting rid of fact checking on Facebook. Looks very interesting. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.comAmazing: of all the books in all the world Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to ban, it’s the one about him | Marina HydeWhether the Meta boss and his ex-lieutenant Sheryl Sandberg are truly beyond awful is neither here nor there. I thought he was done with factchecking, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
Amriv
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Tell me how firing federal workers not paid by tax dollars, but rather user fees by the private sector is saving tax dollars. Bullshit. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

reuters.comTrump is firing federal workers who are not funded by taxpayersElon Musk's DOGE team has slashed hundreds of jobs paid for by fees from banks, medical device companies and other forms of funding rather than taxpayer dollars, raising the question of whether the cuts will render hoped for savings.
Amriv
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Per Kara Swisher: "He’s trying to functionally make the federal government something that can be effectively controlled by people like him in order to achieve these goals."

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Per Kara Swisher, "But what ended up happening was that he made Twitter a channel for him personally. And he turned all of its attention and influence into something he could control."

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WIRED
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SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

wrd.cmA US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”