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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.
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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.
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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.
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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Replying to @atrupar.com
Some restrained thoughts on last night’s Presidential address to the joint session of Congress: ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/drea...
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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Trump loves parades. bsky.app/profile/wuta...
Can’t quite put my finger on it but I’m getting a feeling that they don’t really care for Trump or Elon in Germany….this was at the street carnival in Düsseldorf today 🤣
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In case you missed this, Senate Dems held the floor for 30 hours through the night to stall the Vought vote. Most of MSM seemed to ignore it though. rollcall.com/2025/02/06/d...
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Absolutely. Grind it to a halt.
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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This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/do...
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