Steve B

Steve B

@bsteve978.bsky.social

1984 is upon us today: “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”

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🚨REPORT GoFundMe for ICE officer Jonathan Ross🚨 This campaign is STILL raising $ for his “legal defense” in the execution of Renee Good. Unverified claims, no authorization, clear misinformation. VIOLATES GoFundMe RULES. REPORT IT. SHARE IT. 📄 See how to easily report below, including CA AG.

tinyurl.comGoFundMe Is Hosting a Campaign That Shouldn’t Exist — And You Can Help Take It DownA GoFundMe campaign raising money for the “possible legal defense” of ICE officer Jonathan Ross is live right now.

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Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling on ICE: "They are an undisciplined militia and the leadership is awful...This is not policing and it's not military service. It's something dangerously undefined."

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AOC: "It is reported he had a permit. And this administration's response is that the very that he was a legal firearm owner was reason for them to shoot him in the street ... if we do not do something now, I do not what can happen afterward. We have to contain this chaos."

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Mayor Frey: "To everyone listening, stand with Minneapolis, stand up for America. Recognize that your children will ask you what side you were on. Your grandchildren will ask you what you did to act to prevent this from happening again."

Exactly. My parents bought a dozen homes for their retirement. Bessent, as always, has his pulse on the life of the common man.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Bessent: "Someone, maybe your parents for their retirement have bought 5, 10, 12 homes."

Up is down, down is up. Unemployment is a GOOD thing folks. 🤪🤪🤪

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "All I have to do is what the Democrats do all the time. They hire a million people and then they hire another million and they load it up and it says, 'Oh, they only have a 3% unemployment rate.' It's a fake rate. With us, we're proud of the fact that we cut so many."

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"If we elected an entire new government tomorrow, I don't know how long it would take to get those markets back....This is a real existential threat for the American farmer." Wright Thompson talks tariffs and markets with @timmiller.bsky.social on The Bulwark Podcast:

Wow--we would have broken the law even bigger.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

NN: There's a report your husband bought stock in Musk's xAI days before news surfaced the Pentagon is expanding xAI's role in military systems. Can you assure us this wasn't based on inside info? McCLAIN: If it was, we wouldn't have bought 100,000 shares. We would've bought a heck of a lot more

BOYCOTT OIL. If Trump’s Venezuela grab turns into a profit play, U.S. oil companies involved are war profiteers. Most likely: *CHEVRON*, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips. Don’t buy their products *STARTING NOW*. Make war-for-oil toxic. #BoycottTrumpOil #HandsoffVenezuela #NoWarForOil

~70–85% of Venezuelan extremely heavy crude --> fuels (diesel, gasoline). Only ~7–15% --> petrochemical feedstocks (consists of long hydrocarbon chains refineries crack into fuels; plastics need light molecules). Boycotting fuel is the most direct way to hit back at the oil companies involved.

Former Barack Obama aides Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor know exactly how to block Donald Trump from somehow getting a third term in office. “Obama should run,” Vietor suggested on Tuesday. “We should mop the floor with this piece of shit. Run it back, sir.” 🤣🤣🤣

One can only hope fucker.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Musk: Losing this judge race has good chance of causing Republicans to lose control of the house. You lose control of the house, there will be nonstop impeachment hearings and subpoenas

Liberal candidate for Wisconsin’s Supreme Court wins overcoming flood of political (and illegal) cash from billionaire Elon Musk! Congrats Susan Crawford! 🎉 A clear referendum on Musk and Trump. So sad.

It’s a problem for the Pentagon chief that there’s evidence of his incompetence, abuses and failures, but it’s just as notable a problem that there are DOD insiders who are apparently willing to talk to reporters about his incompetence, abuses and failures. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

msnbc.comAs allegations against Hegseth mount, the Pentagon chief faces a new kind of problemAs Pete Hegseth flails, there are apparently Pentagon insiders eager to talk about the defense secretary’s struggles.

Lovely. Feels like we’re living in a banana republic. WAPO: Tech companies are telling immigrant employees on visas not to leave the U.S. Uncertainty around high-skilled visas is rattling Silicon Valley’s immigrant tech community, long viewed as one of the key pillars of U.S. innovation.

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Thank you for sharing news of our initiative... we are an interdisciplinary team of researchers from U of Maryland, UPenn, and Georgia Tech + more whose aim is to communicate the impacts of federal cuts on science and health research nationwide. Full explainer thread here: bsky.app/profile/josh...

Mark Cuban@mcuban.bsky.social

Just in NIH grants, It looks like beautiful Iowa City, home of the U of Iowa, will lose $71m in funding. That's almost $1k per resident. And that's before all the other cuts to SSA, FDA, etc. Anyone in Iowa City that can offer more insight? scienceimpacts.org H/T to Prathima !

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Here's an intriguing fine detail: @premthakker.bsky.social reports that university officials have discovered that the Trump administration has been revoking not only visas but also the student "status" (based on, e.g., maintaining required course load) that universities usually control

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social

SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning. It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.

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SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning. It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.

zeteo.comSCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge“Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students.

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This is a major major major scandal and must be treated as such Call your senators Call your congresspeople

Shane Harris@shaneharris.bsky.social

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Nearly 10% above asking price? In this market with these interest rates? Right...

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social

"A government contractor and lobbyist who served in President Donald Trump’s first administration bought Vice President JD Vance’s Virginia home in an above-market deal, a sale his spokesperson says was based on the market." $170,000 ABOVE ASKING PRICE

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3/23/25- 300 intelligent/brave souls gathered 9k honks (4 hours) of support, fighting fascism in Cherry Hill, NJ (Camden County/part of #Philadelphia - 14th place) 4/5/25💪🇺🇸💪