Brian Aune

I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

Except for those that still openly support Trump. If you’re so willfully ignorant as to support someone so evil, you’re either evil yourself or too lazy to care about evil, and both are unacceptable.

The biggest divide is not between “right” and “left." It’s between democracy and oligarchy. The billionaires who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see that they have all the wealth and power. Remember this.

They just lie.

Every time I have to interact with our medical system, which has been utterly destroyed by for-profit insurance companies and investment firms, I am re-infuriated. We can fix this!

“A system that covers everyone, costs $1 trillion less, and averts more than 100,000 deaths annually requires no new discovery to implement, only enactment,” wrote the study authors. 2/

high speed rail? works universal healthcare? works free school lunches? works SNAP? works we have to pretend all of this is a waste of money because we obviously need a munitions factory populated with robots that are throwing i beams around the warehouse

This is insane. A mental health crisis aboard a US air craft carrier due to prolonged (record breaking) deployment and neglect. MULTIPLE thwarted sliced attempts, including sailors trying to jump out to sea. This man’s capacity to destroy everything, even a whole country, is terrifying.

I work in Title IX at a state university and I experienced this as well. Just immediate capitulation work obviously illegal executive orders. It was infuriating. Is infuriating.

You might get sick of hearing this but if he keeps doing it I'm gonna keep saying it: this is an unconstitutional impoundment, violating both Congress' Article I spending authority and the 1974 Impoundment Control act, and immediately impeachable.

My suggestion has never been “tip toe around everything lest we ruffle the feathers of anti-vaccine propagandists (etc).” It’s “Clearly identify your *actual goal* and communicate with a psychologically plausible eye toward reaching that goal.”

Really important thread to keep in mind if you ever hope to legitimately change minds. It’s not fair but it’s the psychological reality of the situation.

NEW: President Trump makes four false claims in a 43-word post about Tina Peters. Peters is 70 (not 73), does not have cancer, was sentenced by a judge in Mesa County (not the Governor), and did not expose fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

A photo that encapsulates the Trump 2.0 era.

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

They are choosing Putin over abducted children.

Hi @schatz.bsky.social. I'm hearing you are a yes on the cloture motion. I know how thoughtful and authentic you are. If you are a yes, can you tell us why? It sure seems like a bad idea to me.

Journalists who frame what's happening in Washington as Republicans vs. Democrats instead of fascism vs. democracy are missing the most important story of their lives.

Pretty much, yes.

This "immediate cancellation" violates the law. If the Admin thinks Columbia has violated Title VI by being deliberately indifferent to antisemitic harassment, it has to give Columbia a chance for a hearing first, make findings on the record, & wait 30 days. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

Fucking monsters.

Elon Musk has fired an estimated nearly 6,000 Veterans from their federal jobs, including many who are disabled. In Trump's America, the world's richest man gets to kick thousands of our nation's heroes to the curb. punchbowl.news/article/wash...

"The increase to Musk's wealth since Trump was elected president three months ago is greater than all of the American aid given to Ukraine over the last three years."-- @timothysnyder.bsky.social

I'm not able to independently verify the authenticity of this, but given everything that is happening, it seems very reasonable to believe it. Everyone should read this and share it. Media should be investigating it. Dems should be talking about it and doing everything possible to interfere with it.

Trump is openly violating the law on a vast and unprecedented scale and everyone is acting like it's normal. NPR had a long story about finding a rare shrew. NYT said he was disregarding "legal niceties." This is an attack on the Constitution as profound as the attempt to overturn the 2020 election.

1) This is egregious and immoral. 2) It's also more low-hanging fruit for Dems if Schumer and Jeffries would stop telling their members to let this stuff slide. The Trump admin is *again* trying to get people killed in a pandemic for no reason beyond "too-online conservative brain rot."

DEI isn't about lowering standards. It's about lowering barriers.

Trump said 67 people died in a plane crash because not enough white people work at the FAA. Remember, this is the guy corporate America lined up behind.

NEW: Govt tech workers are getting thrown into "sneak attack" meetings to discuss their code and projects with random Elon Musk bros. It's all very reminiscent of Musk's Twitter takeover. Inside the last week at GSA w/ @telliotter.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

I think it would better, instead of adopting the MAGA framing, to call out specifically what they are saying. They are not blaming “DEI.” They are blaming Blacks, other minorities, women, and people with disabilities. It’s called scapegoating.

Contrary to common beliefs, we find that misinformation isn’t universal or a general condition of our media ecosystem. Instead, it's specifically associated with radical-right populist parties that spread misinformation as a political strategy. 5/

It’s the enshitification, stupid.