Mark Cianca

Mark Cianca

@mcianca.bsky.social

Dispatches from the Pacific Northwest. Well-read, liberal, happy to say what I mean and own what I say.

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Fluff, fluff. Fluffy fluff.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

USHA VANCE: JD is reading The Hobbit to our two younger kids right now FOX & FRIENDS: So JD finds time to read to the kids with his schedule? USHA: Oh yeah

Simple Truth: At the end of every Republican administration, America's elite are wealthier, and everyone else is worse off. Another Truth: America would be better run by a rabid dog with Herpes than the current administration.

Google Gemini four months ago with this prompt: Draw a map of Washington State, label its most important cities, and check your work against USGS maps. Show any corrections you make.

So much winning. "Sir, sir! I'm just tired of all the winning!"

Aman Batheja@amanbatheja.bsky.social

New: The White House is signaling that reopening the Strait of Hormuz is not a must-have to end the Iran War, potentially setting the stage for Iran to continue to flex its strategic position over one of the world's busiest oil shipping channels for the foreseeable future

Let's review: 47 years ago was 1979. Jimmy Carter was president. He uses 47 because he wants us to remember he's the 47th president. He also calls it a war, not an "excursion".

I guess he wants us to forget about TrumpRx, about the Epstein files, about the immense corruption, about his personal ICE army, and about his seditious connections to other dictators. Donald Trump is an American travesty, as are those who elected him to office.

Ask yourself why the need for so many new stormtroopers is vital to this administration.

Just Jack@just-jack-1.bsky.social

Listen to this ICE whistleblower. This is why Trump’s iteration of ICE needs to be completely dismantled and its leadership impeached.

A man who cannot govern his bowels, or his mouth, or his temper, cannot be judged fit to govern this country. The 25th amendment was made for this moment.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "I can do anything I want to do to them ... I'm allowed to destroy the country."

In my fantasy world, one in which we have a functioning Congress, the conversation would center on how best to amend the tax code to be able to capture tax revenue from AI agents as those same agents are used as an excuse to decimate today's workforce.

Techmeme@techmeme.com

Anthropic CCO Paul Smith says the company is focused on "growing revenue" rather than making "flashy headlines", calls the market selloff "hyperbole", and more (CNBC) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

I periodically think that one of the things that got us to where we are today is our refusal to adopt the metric system. That was an obvious fork in the road, and we took the stupid route.

Hell YES. It'll take a while to get the taint washed off too, once that fucker disappears.

Karly Kingsley@karlykingsley.bsky.social

Trump says he’s closing the Kennedy Center for two years for “construction, revitalization, and complete rebuilding.” That’s code for no one will perform there since he took over and he doesn’t want another public reminder that artists and audiences overwhelmingly despise him

In other words he has no plan. Just a continuous stream of bullshit to fill a news cycle in hopes that we'll forget about Epstein.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: Can you explain how your healthcare plan will affect premiums? TRUMP: It's a tremendous thing. It's called the great healthcare plan. And we're gonna get tremendous, uh, reductions through, uh, if you look at prescription drugs, they're gonna come down by numbers that have never been seen before

My nomination for the service pin that will be awarded to our brave soldiers who served in the brutal "Portland Insurrection". Each pin will be autographed by Stephen Miller.