Schism

Schism

@thetitanslayer.bsky.social

Former insurance agent/auditor. Audiophile, musician, politics, humor

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What fool would make a plan like that?

Alexander Tin@alexander-a-tin.bsky.social

Today Secy Kennedy said he'll undo some layoffs in HHS "was always the plan. Part of the DOGE, we talked about this from the beginning, is we're going to do 80% cuts, but 20% of those are going to have to be reinstated, because we'll make mistakes" tinalexander.github.io/notes/2025/0...

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No fights are the wrong fight to pick. Pick every fight. Fight these fascist fuckers every time about everything. Fight them even when they aren't fighting. If they run away, chase them and keep fighting them until they beg to stop and then fight even harder.

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One nice thing about being a free person, or the operator of a free press, is you don’t have to consult—much less “obey”—a goddam book of presidential proclamations to learn what words, geographic or otherwise, are permissible to use. Any government encroachment on that freedom ought to be fought.

Axios@axios.com

The White House said it will bar the Associated Press from future events in the Oval Office and Air Force One, over the AP's refusal to obey Trump's executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

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my view is that as soon as the administration froze disbursement of congressional appropriations we entered constitutional crisis territory

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The SAVE Act is systemic misogyny. It would disenfranchise tens of millions of women--those who changed their name after marriage but don't have either a birth certificate or a passport with their new legal name.

ACLU@aclu.org

The House of Representatives is considering a bill that will lead to voter purges and widespread disenfranchisement of eligible voters. The SAVE Act stems from baseless claims of voter fraud and is part of a strategic, well-financed effort to suppress voting.

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Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

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SCOOP: The US Treasury claimed a DOGE's Marco Elez didn’t have ‘write access,’ when he actually did. Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.

wrd.cmThe US Treasury Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually DidSources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE's Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn't exist.

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Donald Trump... ✅ Boots FAA chief ✅ Freezes hiring of already short-handed air traffic control personnel ✅ Offers to “buyout” federal workers ✅ Guts key aviation security advisory group And when one of our busiest airports is understaffed he has the nerve to blame wokeness?

Donald trump probably got 67 people killed and has the nerve to blame the air traffic controller. I can't imagine the guilt they must feel without POTUS pilling on. Trump can actually rot in hell.

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Feels like now is a good time to remind folks that Trump literally stole money from kids with cancer. www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

forbes.comHow Donald Trump Shifted Kids-Cancer Charity Money Into His BusinessDonald Trump is one of the least charitable billionaires in the world. Eric Trump is far more altruistic. In a clash of values, the president directed hundreds of thousands of dollars from his son's k...
Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social

The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.

Anyone wanna ask the Philippines how state sponsored vigilantes went?

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com

Does the right have a fetish for Black men getting strangled to death? Because I’m missing their loud cry of condemnation for Rep-elect Brandon Gill’s remarks. “I don’t know about you all, but I think we need a lot more Daniel Pennys in this country, because we have far too many Jordan Neelys.”

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Me: I will just relax for a few minutes by playing a mindless game on my phone Phone: Cool, every 90 seconds you will just need to watch a little animated snuff film featuring a mother and child freezing to death, or a king slowly being crushed against a spiky wall by piles of falling rubble

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Chuck Schumer should immediately announce Democrats will accede to Trump's wishes here and do away with the Electoral College once and for all. Here's that bipartisan push the pundits are looking for. Let's go!

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social

um what’re we doin here

Trump continues legally dubious grift to settle his outstanding legal bills. Here's an idea, why doesn't someone sue every single time his Corp so much as breaths. Even if it's losing cases waste his legal teams money on it and widen the hole he's in. www.forbes.com/sites/tylerr...

forbes.comDonald Trump Promotes $199 Cologne, New ‘Trump Watches’ In Latest Merchandise PushThe president-elect has hawked other products since his election win, including another line of colognes and autographed guitars.