rottenkowski.bsky.social

rottenkowski.bsky.social

@rottenkowski.bsky.social

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Hopefully the more officials and politicians who participate in shielding Trump and others from consequences of Epsteinery, the more of them can be banished from the public sphere. Hopefully we can cast them into some oubliette like Leavenworth or GITMO.

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I would like for wealthy people excited for tax cuts to sign a piece of paper acknowledging that every dollar they get in tax breaks is going to be paid for by someone else…either someone not getting healthcare or SNAP or some future person paying higher taxes to pay the interest on our new debt.

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Automobile dependence erodes public health in many ways: blunt force trauma (#1 cause for children and young adults), air pollution (CVD, asthma), noise pollution (QoL, dementia) but perhaps the most pernicious is that it has almost completely displaced walking. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...

sciencedaily.comLess than 25 percent of Americans walk for more than ten minutes continuously in a typical weekMany people in the U.S. do not walk, bike or engage in other forms of active transportation, missing an important opportunity to improve their cardiovascular health, concludes a new study.

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there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch

southpaw@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social

A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

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Katy Perry went to space, cried "feminism" while NASA's forced to remove women's achievements from their history, caused an enormous amount of environmental damage, & contributed NOTHING to art or culture while she was up there. She released a set list for a tour that can't even give away tickets.

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An opinion I am developing while doing this project is that if your city has a separate committee for "Equestrian" anything then you need to be immediately absorbed into the nearest city without one.

Clayton Becker@cnbecker14.bsky.social

Update: as of today I am officially 50% done with this very long webscraping project. Also, in case you were wondering, since January of 2008, the city of Los Angeles has held 10,227 public meetings for which there are Agendas available. Which is a thing I know now.

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When Andrew Tate was charged with rape and human trafficking, Trump intervened to fly him back to the US. When a working-class father of a disabled 5-year-old child was wrongfully deported and charged with NO crime, Trump refuses to lift a finger.

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Replying to @adambonica.bsky.social

My latest dives deep into this breaks down, dissecting how global democracies have succeeded in holding leaders accountable while US institutions and elites shielded power and exploring what we must learn from this failure.

open.substack.comAn Exceptional Failure of Democratic Accountability: How American Institutions Protected Power While Global Democracies Upheld JusticeHow Elite Deference Eroded America's Rule of Law, Defying the Global Norm.

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BOYCOTT MADE IN EL SALVADOR Here is a start: - Hanes (underwear, T-shirts) - Fruit of the Loom (apparel) - Gildan (basic clothing) - Diana (snacks and candy) - Capri (mattresses and furniture)⬇️

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Katy Trail in Dallas on a Saturday afternoon. They built one piece of car free infrastructure and it’s so crowded you can’t even bike on it.

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Just a normal day in America where the Army Secretary now runs the ATF. No big deal. Just a military official taking over a civilian law enforcement agency. Totally fine. Nothing authoritarian to see here. 🤬 It's #Project2025 in action as planned

politico.comArmy secretary, in rare move, also becomes ATF headThis puts a Pentagon official in charge of a law enforcement agency for the first time.

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Not for nothing, but how, exactly, is it legal to send people for *punishment* in a foreign prison (esp with no due process)? Were the funds being used for it appropriated for this purpose? I feel this has just become a thing no one questions

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Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

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If the agent of an embittered KGB officer somehow won the US presidency and entered into the office bent on destroying the USA in its national influence, network of alliances, and the American people’s quality of life, what would he be doing differently?

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it’s a perfect plan. we will fire everyone doing skilled work in science, technology and medicine and force them into factories making consumer electronics. this will enrich the country somehow.

There are still people that think this man is something other than incredibly stupid. *LEAVITT: TRUMP THINKS US HAS WORKFORCE TO MAKE IPHONES ONSHORE

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Rand Paul: "The whole [tariffs] debate is so fundamentally backwards & upside down. It's based on a fallacy & the fallacy is this: that somehow in a trade, someone must lose. That somehow when you trade with someone, someone is taking advantage of you... I have a trade deficit with my grocery store"