Anecdata: I’ve now heard from the heads of two nonprofits who are hedging about preplanned interviews on two different topics. Both say they’re hesitant to speak for attribution because they’re worried about HR9495, and retaliation from the Trump administration. Not good!
Yeah, you can give these guys agency for their dickishness. The simplest explanation is that wealthy, center-left tech guys turned into angry middle-aged white guys. https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:c7ozmxoc5b2ky4iam2o36uic&cid=bafkreiboi2tqtsn7ax24vcley5wig6abuv22c33ql4fzjoqajr6fc66jai
BREAKING: House Speaker Mike Johnson announces that male Republicans neutered by Donald Trump may continue to use the men's bathrooms. https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:c7ozmxoc5b2ky4iam2o36uic&cid=bafkreigzwdx4zlkjyea5wgtfknnrhtszbgetodspbssmjmfdihcrjbeaxe
A Trump supporting, anti-trans, anti-gay Republican was elected commissioner of the county where I grew up. He won despite being in jail on election night for a sexual assault in Vegas. It’s now come out that the woman he assaulted was his daughter. [fox59.com/news/indycri...](
Fox 59
Politician pleads guilty in sexual assault case after being elected to Hancock County Council
(Update 4/24/25): John Jessup was given a six to 15-year prison term for the sexual assault of a woman in January 2024. While Jessup must serve at ...
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Fox 59
Politician pleads guilty in sexual assault case after being elected to Hancock County Council
(Update 4/24/25): John Jessup was given a six to 15-year prison term for the sexual assault of a woman in January 2024. While Jessup must serve at ...
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Idiots. Trump is been an economically illiterate protectionist his entire life. [fortune.com/2024/11/17/t...](
Fortune
Wall Street may now have to take Trump literally as the battle for Treasury secretary focuses on a centerpiece campaign pledge | Fortune
Trump's advisers are seeking assurances from the top Treasury candidates that they are committed to his aggressive tariffs, sources told the FT.
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This is Jack Posobiec, writing about Trump's "mandate from heaven" in Human Events (he leads the PV by 1.7 percent). Recall that incoming vice president JD Vance wrote the forward to Pizzagate-promoter Posobiec's book. Hard to overstate the crankery that's about to take over the American government. https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:c7ozmxoc5b2ky4iam2o36uic&cid=bafkreidgvmwefvhejuwcsuusjlzf7gexi7wxljqc5myt7tt6vu3bu3bybq https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:c7ozmxoc5b2ky4iam2o36uic&cid=bafkreibupmqxivyprl6n7ek3bpfkbppx5qa3soon5nlypm5w45sqcf4vkq https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:c7ozmxoc5b2ky4iam2o36uic&cid=bafkreifv2wr4cj4vgosi32wfjyevx5dxkrzmnml75mbxv3fe5k3eg7rbwy
Odd that we rarely hear the “Twitter is the new town square, so all voices must be heard” argument anymore. It was always dumb, as the emergence of Bluesky demonstrates. But they’re gone silent on politically neutral moderation. It’s almost as if it was never really about free speech!
An ex-NY Times columnist and Ivy League grad interviewed a billionaire about how he, the world’s richest man, and several other billionaires helped another billionaire/Ivy League grad/real estate mogul world defeat an HBCU grad to reclaim the most powerful office in the world. The headline: https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:c7ozmxoc5b2ky4iam2o36uic&cid=bafkreif4z4b5pnp22i22lmb7whixkeimstbxt6v5nmvgohl37tawd3itpy
Homan is the most extreme pick imaginable for this job. The father of family separation has insisted that yes, they will be deporting 15m+. They weren’t exaggerating. Congrats to the libertarians and anti-anti Trumpers who downplayed this threat. Enjoy the cruelty and human misery that’s coming. RE:
Bluesky Social
Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com)
Trump announces that he's placing former ICE director and family-separation-policy originator Tom Homan in charge of the border
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