gcp

gcp

@prud-homme.org

Tech skeptic technology executive. Austin, TX; formerly Exit 7A. Genius.com's #1 Poor Righteous Teachers scholar.

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I'm sure X is remarkably friendly if you aren't the target of racial slurs and harassment campaigns. Anyway, I wonder how many "niggers" I'll have to sift through if I start posting there again?

Holy shit, we did? Is Bessent from the future?? Who is President in his timeline, I want to know!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Bessent: "We've gone from a president who couldn't stay awake to a president who refuses to sleep" 🙃

Schumer expressing gratitude for the fig leaf that the court provided, rather than being angry that he has been pantsed by the Federalist Society.

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Kate Riga@kateriga.bsky.social

Kavanaugh says that Constitution is an "enduring document" and that new exceptions to birthright citizenship can be added for "modern situations that were unknown or unanticipated by the Constitution’s Framers"

Is it too late to go back to strange women, lying in ponds, distributing swords as a basis of government?

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social

The three branches of the United States government, as delineated in the Constitution, are the God Emperor, The High Council of the Six Ayatollahs, and the Federal Reserve

I don’t think there’s any more to it other than the fact that they want to keep cashing paychecks, but they also want to be viewed as honorable and having integrity.

HELL Kennedy@helenkennedy.com

Pelley's interview with the Times makes me even less able to understand the three correspondents who remained.

Skatalites KRS-ONE The Police Jungle Brothers Culture Mad Professor w/ Lee Perry Doug E. Fresh Ghostland Observatory Steel Pulse The Rapture

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PORK is the White Man, and the White Man is PORK! Spell ”pork” backward - what do you have? WHITE MAN! If you can’t see that, my brother they’ve got you brainwashed.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

quote with a fictional band that is not spinal tap

Why can't we get this same energy from our elected Dem representatives?

George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸@gtconway.bsky.social

“If this guy isn’t impeached and removed, what’s the point to the whole Constitution? You can’t have a fucking criminal running the government for his own benefit screwing the people. And that’s what we have.”

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“If this guy isn’t impeached and removed, what’s the point to the whole Constitution? You can’t have a fucking criminal running the government for his own benefit screwing the people. And that’s what we have.”

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They literally dragged a minor employee out of a Target as he was wailing that he was a US citizen, roughed him up in their car, and then dropped him off bloodied and bruised in the freezing cold a couple of miles away, so miss us with this.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Homan: "ICE is a legitimate federal law enforcement agency. We're not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process."

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There are so few moments when most of the country is watching the same news in mostly the same way. Alex Pretti’s murder was one of them. And instead of seizing it, Democrats gave it to Trump. “You must act *or* we will.” Ok, he didn’t act. Attention will shift (SignalGate, Epstein…) Now what?

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These folks do so much of their corruption in plain view that the only obstacle to throwing them all in prison after this is over is going to be a lack of will.

ProPublica@propublica.org

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms. (Published June 2025)

Here's how I put it last time someone pissed me off with this "advice for children" brainless nonsense. bsky.app/profile/prud...

Popehat@kenwhite.bsky.social

I posted this in response to people expressing hopelessness and despair and someone just post quoted it “NO THAT’S ADVICE FOR CHILDREN GO DO SOMETHING” so I blocked them because that’s being an annoying douche and if I could block them across the fucking multiverse I would.

Scrolling through some old posts, I think this one held up well!

gcp@prud-homme.org

I used to think that nobody would ever torch their legacy to the extent that Rudy did. But Elon Musk might have a real shot. And he seems really motivated. I think he’ll get there.

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i strongly, strongly believe that good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand. without fail, tortured writing comes from writers who don’t know and can’t think clearly about anything.

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social

Oh man! This paragraph is brutal. The best thing about this review is it's not trying to be mean. It's just listing how bad the writing is.

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“White House deputy chief of staff Stephen and his podcaster wife, Katie Miller, have fled their Arlington home after peaceful chalk messages were left on the sidewalk.“ Now imagine if armed, masked men were hunting you and your family like animals.

rawstory.comStephen Miller selling home after fleeing amid peaceful chalk messages on sidewalkWhite House deputy chief of staff Stephen and his podcaster wife, Katie Miller, have fled their Arlington home after peaceful chalk messages were left on the sidewalk.According to ARLnow, the Millers ...

This is exactly right. Our slide towards fascism is being accelerated by those who are perhaps the most comfortable, the most pampered, the most coddled class of people in history. These people should be the most capable of standing up, of pushing back, and instead they choose to lick the boot.

Amanda Litman@amandalitman.bsky.social

Shocked but not surprised to learn how many ~titans of industry~ who probably think of themselves as brave ballsy businessmen are actually cowardly pieces of shit when it counts.

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If Bill Kristol gets it in ways that Schumer and Jefferies do not, that says volumes about party "leadership"

Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social

I want to congratulate leading Democrats’ for their insistence on saying the takeover of DC is a “stunt” or a “distraction.” It’s a rare trifecta of intellectual failure, political stupidity, and moral obtuseness.

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Fred Rogers was talking to *people*. The thing about Mr. Rogers was, he didn't talk down to children, because he understood that they were *people* - worthy of and capable of love, respect, and understanding. Yes we should all be helpers. We should also "look for the helpers". These are not at odds.

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Let me put this a different way. One reason why Fred Rogers was such a great communicator to children, is that he treated them, in crucial ways, as equals. Be careful of being dismissive of true things that he said, because you misunderstand his audience.

Chuck is *so fucking excited* that he got to execute his preferred strategy -- do absolutely nothing -- and then crow about 'victory'.

Joshua Erlich@joshuaerlich.bsky.social

i swear to god it's like he lives on another planet

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Here's a thought: if a court wanted to make an impression on someone they found in civil contempt, it appears that they could order them to be held in an El Salvadoran prison until they paid their fines and complied with the court's order.

I'm starting to think that maybe we can't take everything this guy says at face value.

Bobby Kogan@bbkogan.bsky.social

Incredible. First Elon said he’d cut $2 trillion per year. Then he said well actually $1 trillion per year. Now he’s saying $150 billion per year, but not until next year. Gonna say that what he’s working at won’t get that much. Elon’s great a PR - but one of the most prolific liars on the planet.

Is this bad, if you are a narcissist?

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

This week Elon saw his scheme to buy a state Supreme Court seat blow up in his face, prompting stories about his unpopularity. Then he watched Tesla stock plummet further as President Mumbleshits destroyed the economy. And now he gets to see millions of Americans marching in the rain against him.

Relieved to be scrolling this evening and not seeing a bunch of whining about how Booker should have "done more" or done this "sooner", etc. etc. Relieved to discover that we seem to be able to take the W here - let's keep it up!

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Quite moving hearing Booker just now saying why he started this and referring to his constituents asking him to do more, do things differently, to take risks, and then referencing John Lewis. Sounds like he took the advocacy to heart.

Not interested in criticisms about this being "performative". We need to use all of the tools at our disposal. Particularly moving was Mr. Booker's display of vulnerability; recognizing that he can do better, and vowing to do better. We need lots more of this, not less.

Philip Bump@pbump.com

“My friend, Madame President: I yield the floor.”

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Senator Booker: What kind of man is in the white house that makes fun of the disabled, who lies so much that the fact checkers lose count, that minimizes the pain and the suffering

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I guess I just think it's hard to make the argument that carny shit doesn't move the needle when the biggest PT Barnum-ass motherfucker in a hundred years is currently the president

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Elon Musk has been a walking SEC violation for a decade and no one cared. The entire Trump era could have been avoided if the US took white collar crime anywhere near as seriously as it does low level drug crime.

WIRED@wired.com

On a 2023 earnings call, Elon Musk boasted that Tesla had bagged “over 1 million” Cybertruck reservations and that “demand is off the charts.” So why has the company still sold less than 50,000 trucks since customer deliveries began 14 months ago?

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I know at a base level political journalism in this country is compromised when senate aides i’ve never communicated with email me “off the record, blah blah.” that’s not how this works, but it tells me they’re used to treating hill reporters like trained dolphins. and that shit doesn’t fly with me.

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I’m not sure that the Trump Democrats strategy of letting the bully take their lunch money today in the hopes the bully will be nice to them tomorrow will be all that effective