JonQuack

JonQuack

@jonquack.bsky.social

Dad. Landscape Architect. Woodworker. Progressive. Cynical optimist. Contrarian. Rebel scum.

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Senior officers commanding the most powerful military in human history were summoned from around the globe to sit in a room and listen to a Fox News hairdo do his fast five on pushups and wokeness, then the slurring spray tan guy came out and told them they're going to have to kill Americans soon.

theguardian.comNo more ‘woke’ in the US military: key takeaways from Pete Hegseth’s speechPentagon chief railed against diversity and fat-shamed the troops as he directed his generals to fall in line – or quit

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The murder of Charlie Kirk was criminal, wrong, and should be condemned. And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized. I refuse to sanitize him.

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Replying to @originalist.bsky.social

Racist "real American" and "heartland" conservative bias at media like NYT is so pervasive that senior editors and politics reporters admitted they don't think Black Americans count as Midwestern Living in bucolic cities in blue states while demonizing them and claiming to know "heartland" America

Obvious narrative biases pushed by mediocre NYT editors who all "DEI" hired each other "Working class" luxury pickup truck owners, but not POC "Faith voters" but not the most religious group, Black Americans "Elite" doesn't apply to the party of the world's richest families "Midwest" means White

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This is the way politically. New, young, smart candidates just talking about basic self evident principles, decency, and the actual good things we could be doing for people in this country

I love Kat, she's a STAR Follow and support her, she's running for Congress @katmabu.bsky.social katforillinois.com

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declaring a moratorium on “I bet you could get Trump to do X” posts, the risk is too great

Gary Alexander@garyalexander.bsky.social

not saying anyone should, but I bet you could convince Trump to re-open Alcatraz in under 20 minutes

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begging for money on the internet after calling a child racial slurs? these are gutter people raised in gutter families with a rotten, rancid culture

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So you’re saying we could solve all the financial problems of 379 million of us and impact just 19 households. What an interesting fact. Fun little bit of trivia.

Inequality Media@inequalitymedia.bsky.social

The 19 richest U.S. households saw a $1 trillion wealth increase in 2024, a rise that exceeds the size of Switzerland’s economy. These 19 households now control $2.6 trillion in wealth — almost as much wealth as the bottom 50% of American households. If this isn't an oligarchy, what is?

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Absolutely fuck everyone involved in this show. They know. They all know. It's impossible not to at this point. Lithgow had a CLOSE FRIEND reach out and try and get how awful this is through to him and he's more than happy to take the role and is "curious" to meet Rowling. Absolute fucking scum.

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Philosophical differences in governance are expected and good. That the right is more than comfortable with elevating just the most egregiously incompetent and unqualified people with just an astounding number of disqualifying characteristics and conflicts of interest will always astonish me.

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i genuinely want to know what the hell is wrong with this guy. he is a total monster and i am a little interested in how he got to be this way.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com

Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff for policy, has begun baselessly claiming that birthright citizenship is a massive welfare scam. Miller has previously endorsed a theory called “remigration” that refers to the forcible removal of non–ethnically European immigrants.

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my endorsement for any democratic presidential candidate who promises to send the entire DOGE team to prison

Hemry, Local Bartender@bartenderhemry.bsky.social

This is insane and everyone involved needs to be sued into oblivion and then go directly to jail

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mind you this is all before things start getting really bad we are still in the “wow this is gonna suck” stage, economically, we haven’t hit “wow this fucking sucks” yet whatever you think Trump’s popularity floor is, it’s gonna be tested once we hit a deep recession that is 100% his fault

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Last week, WaPo reported that 17 of 18 intelligence agencies said that Tren de Aragua had no substantive tie to Venezuela. This effectively says one of two claims on which Trump based his Alien Enemies Act invocation is false. Now, Tulsi says down is up.

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the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time

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We had the reporter on tonight; @maddow has the whistleblower

Phillip Anderson@phillipanderson.bsky.social

There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:

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Without due process, this could be you. It could be me. It could be any or all of us. It doesn’t matter who you voted for. Or the color of your skin. You must understand what is truly at stake here. All tyranny needs to thrive is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

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He is a union apprentice and raising three special needs kids, two of them from his wife's previous relationships so yes he is certainly in the running.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Leavitt describes Abrego Garcia as "hiding in Maryland" and says, "based on the sensationalism of many of the people in this room, you would think we deported a candidate for father of the year"

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Did you know Hanes is El Salvador’s biggest importer? • They can use their economic influence to pressure Bukele to release Kilmer Garcia • Stop making products in a country willing to imprison American citizens without due process Call and tell them you will #BoycottHanes 👇🏼

Cat Ladies for America😼@catladies4america.bsky.social

President of El Salvador & Trump openly affirmed yesterday -AGAIN- that Trump would like to render AMERICAN CITIZENS to notorious prison in El Salvador & El Salvador would love to take them. 1/3 #kilmargarcia #clawsout #nokings #elsalvador #project2025 #supremecourt #handsoff #doge #dueprocess

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there’s no reason not to do this. it’d probably end up with another kind of constitutional crisis, which is exactly why it should happen.

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social

Martin O'Malley just mentioned state attorneys general filing state kidnapping charges. Just imagine the collective cheer in this country if state troopers pulled over, arrested and cuffed a van full of masked ICE fascists.

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Replying to @thedesertginger.bsky.social

#ICE isn't "deporting" immigrants, it is kidnapping them. #DOGE isn't "fixing" the government, it is dismantling it. #Trump isn't "helping" Americans, he is retaliating against them. Pam Bondi isn't "upholding" the Constitution, she is ignoring it. #FuckTrump #Resist

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Just a legal historian here reminding everyone that “high crimes and misdemeanors” do not need to be felonies. They can include political abuses and stupidity, like, hypothetically, destroying the economy and wiping out people’s savings in 3 days.

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3yo Tymofiy 7yo Radyslav 7yo Arina 9yo Herman 15yo Danylo 15yo Mykyta 15yo Alina 16yo Kostiantyn 17yo Nikita President Zelenskyi published the names of kids, innocent victims of the russian terror attack against Kryvyi Rih residential district yesterday. Never forgive. Never forget.

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If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

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Replying to @atrupar.com

Trump took one single question from a reporter outside the White House, then hopped in a helicopter to begin his trip to Florida for a golf tournament at his private club. I guess that's all we'll here from him today about wrecking the economy.

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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

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Judges can’t be impeached just because you disagree with their decisions. But cabinet members CAN be impeached for gross incompetence and endangering American service members. Just in case you were wondering.