SoCalNik

SoCalNik

@socalnik.bsky.social

Recovering writer, blue since birth, mother of 3, cat/dog/ferret/horse mom, Sick of this Sh*t.

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"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944

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Aside from the blatant illegality here, you’ll get this right after your tariff dividend, your freedom dividend, Trump’s health care plan, and your $2 gas

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "We're making a fortune. So if the Republicans win, you win with us and you get $5,000. It will be called the Trump Dividend. Congratulations."

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So the destruction of Bahrain simultaneously damaged the machinery for moving food, fuel, ordnance and supplies and removed one of the mechanisms for keeping several thousand sailors functional over a prolonged deployment....

Mary Geddry@magixarc.bsky.social

USS Abraham Lincoln, politicized intelligence, 24,500+ cyclospora cases, and a $533 million artillery factory that produced zero usable shells. Sometimes what looks like bureaucratic friction is actually the machinery that makes institutions competent. #uspolitics open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

I have seen this in local police department for years. They all have buzz haircuts, they all wear tactical gear all of the time, they have armored vehicles. Our police departments are starting to look like mini military organizations, and it screams of the same attitude that this article describes.

I am going to move to NYC just so I can vote for him.

Lea Zengage@leazengage.bsky.social

-Notice News 1/ "YES: Mamdani's administration just funded New York City's first-ever pet food pantry program.

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Compare this to Obama, who demanded detailed briefings and a risk assessment / COA analysis with every decision he made. You simply can’t distill complex foreign policy issues into a one pager and expect good outcomes.

Miles Taylor@milestaylor.bsky.social

There was a rule when I was in Trump's first term: if a memo had a staple in it, it was too long for him to read. Life-or-death decisions were cut to one page. Or a half-page. Or less. Bold fonts. BIG pictures. When you’re wondering why everything’s a mess, remember that.

This is not the first attack on nuclear facilities. NATO needs to take action on behalf of everyone on the continent. Radiation doesn’t stay within country borders.

The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com

A Russian drone strike damaged part of the Centralized Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone overnight on June 7, Ukraine's state nuclear operator Energoatom reported.

This needs to be spread far and wide. This article does a good job of talking about the consequences, but the destruction of our scientific community is far bigger than what is mentioned.

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It cannot be overstated how bad this is. This is textbook authoritarianism. This is another of our rights being stripped away.

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) said in a yet-to-be-published proposed rule Friday that it’s drawing up plans to radically crack down on mail voting by sending ballots only to voters who are registered with the federal government. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

This 1000 times.

Hoarse Whisperer@therealhoarse.bsky.social

I think the world would be such a better place if people reacted to seeing someone else struggling with something they can’t understand as evidence of their own fortune not of that person‘s failure.

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Gas prices: record seasonal high Beef prices: record high Farmers: bankruptcies up 46%, can’t get fertilizer Foreclosure rates: 6 year high Epstein pedos: still being protected MAGA: at least we owns the libs.

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“Trump’s grip on the Republican Party faces these challenges” Stop it. Trump could waddle naked across the South Lawn screaming about how Obama was spying on him from inside the White House microwave, and the GOP would clap like obedient seals.

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Very few people realize the true scale of the war in Ukraine. In the first 100 days alone, more people potentially died in the siege of Mariupol than during the entire war in Gaza. Understanding this grim reality is crucial to grasping what is actually at stake

Just a reminder that the US doesn’t get oil from Hormuz. The oil companies jacked up our gas prices because they had an excuse. Also, we taxpayers get to subsidize these oils companies to the tune of billions of dollars every year.

And this is on top of the fact that thousands of people are dead, including Americans, and now Iran knows they can hold the world economy hostage.

Angry@angrystaffer.bsky.social

We’re about to pay Iran $6 billion to re-open the thing that was open before the war. Art of the deal, baby.