forphxsake.bsky.social

forphxsake.bsky.social

@forphxsake.bsky.social

Uber driver in the Valley, ex-teacher, music listener and maker. Liking Bluesky after bailing on Twitter when it was only moderately infested with vile idiocy. Sex phishers and trolls blocked, reported, and advised to return to X.

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Atul Gawande, who worked for U.S.A.I.D. during the last Administration, calls the agency “America at its best.” But with Donald Trump and Elon Musk, “there’s a different world view at play here,” he says. “Power is what matters, not impact.” Listen here.

newyorker.comAtul Gawande on Elon Musk’s “Surgery with a Chainsaw”Gawande, until recently a senior leader at U.S.A.I.D., explains the agency’s importance to America and to the world, and what its undoing by DOGE will bring.

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“It’s just the beginning of the playbook. This was the soft target.” Atul Gawande, a former senior leader at U.S.A.I.D., talks about watching Donald Trump and Elon Musk make the agency a guinea pig for the government-wide purge now under way.

newyorker.comHundreds of Thousands Will DieThe writer, surgeon, and former U.S.A.I.D. administrator Atul Gawande on the Trump Administration’s decimation of foreign aid and the consequences around the world.

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This is worth 2.5 minutes of your time. DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar unwittingly makes the case that they have nothing on Mahmoud Khalil. And — perhaps wittingly — he leaves the impression that if they can come for Khalil they can come for *any* noncitizen who opens their mouth.

Adam Steinbaugh@adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social

In which the Department of Homeland Security struggles to answer a very simple question: "Is any criticism of the United States government a deportable offense?" (From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)

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Goes to show that when people get riled up enough, somebody will always go to the point of damaging probably to make that point clear. I might feel sorry for the people who bought these over-priced fire bombs, but not for Tesla or the Muskrat.

Rasmus Rafael Damgaard@rasmusrafael.bsky.social

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Replying to @atrupar.com

Some restrained thoughts on last night’s Presidential address to the joint session of Congress: ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/drea...

Dreamweasel@dreamweasel.bsky.social

I CAN CERTAINLY THINK OF ONE GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL WHO IS NOT FIT TO HAVE A JOB AT THIS MOMENT, AND HE SPENT NEARLY TWO HOURS LAST NIGHT TOSSING BATSHIT RIGHT-WING NONSENSE TO HIS SLACK-JAWED BASE OF FOX NEWS CHUNDERFUCKS AND DEMONSTRATING EXACTLY WHY

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The only minority destroying America is the billionaires. Here in Texas, a group of billionaires are trying to dismantle our public schools with a private school voucher scam. If they want to close our schools, Texans have 4 words for them: Come and Take It.

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Reporter: Do you still think Zelenskyy is a dictator? Trump: Umm did I say that? I can’t believe I said that. Next question

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Three times this week, Trump said that the US had given Ukraine “$350 billion,” about double the actual amount of US aid for the country. And he wrongly said the U.S. gave “$200 billion more than Europe.” Here are the actual numbers. Robert Scott Horton

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If members of Congress—like Rep. Grothman —are this clueless about what the man who is dismantling our government is saying and promising, they don’t deserve to keep their jobs! This woman is in his face, begging him to wake TF up—and he just walks off. Pathetic.

What a moron.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "We were the richest relatively -- think of this -- from 1870 to 1913. That was our richest. Because we collected tariffs ... we had so much wealth. Of course, now we give it away to transgender ... everybody gets a transgender operation."

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President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.

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Absolutely. Grind it to a halt.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"

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USAID source tells me, "This is so harmful, I can't even explain it." Says the human cost is "shocking", not to mention the "extraordinary" financial cost.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

fucking hell abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Holy fuck.

Harry Dunn@libradunn1.bsky.social

Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections." Each defendant assaulted him.