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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 5h

1. In 2022, Jeff Bezos promised to give away the majority of his wealth during his lifetime.

It is not going well.

Since making the pledge, his net worth has almost doubled to $240 billion.

Meanwhile, he has given less than $5 billion to charity.

Jeff Bezos Can’t Give Away His Money

Maybe he should ask his ex-wife.

oligarchwatch.substack.com

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bigsteven.bsky.social @bigsteven.bsky.social · 4h

*insert Dr Manhattan meme*

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 19h

The Russians don't want you to know this but the nuclear reactors in the Kara Sea are free.

You can take them home.

I have fissile material in my checked bag

Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 19h

If you ever look at a map of the North Pole and wonder what happens here, the answer is this is where the Soviets and the Russian Federation dump their nuclear waste

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bigsteven.bsky.social @bigsteven.bsky.social · 5h

No…that just can’t be…

a cartoon of a man wearing a yellow uniform with a star on it

ALT: a cartoon of a man wearing a yellow uniform with a star on it

media.tenor.com

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bigsteven.bsky.social @bigsteven.bsky.social · 5h

The marble bust is what sold me on it…lol

bigsteven.bsky.social @bigsteven.bsky.social · 5h

Nobody tell him about the deployed “morale drives” that got passed around…

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

There is absolutely zero chance that a man who took $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from an FBI agent on camera would have been appointed to any position by any other president.

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 16h

Shot/chaser

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bigsteven.bsky.social @bigsteven.bsky.social · 18h

Every day we stray further from God’s light..

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 18h

We mocked this and they just went and made it real

Halo Infinite cat ears helmet attachment

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 21h

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 20h

The Chinese are likely going to return to the moon before Americans and it's going to hit the American space establishment like a nightmare

Reuters @reuters.com · 23h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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bigsteven.bsky.social @bigsteven.bsky.social · 19h

I approve this message.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 7d

He works direct for Pete, he's explicitly called currently serving GOs idiots, everyone from randy george on down is treating him as untouchable

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 20h

Fox (not that surprising given their Defense beat folks) and **NEWSMAX** also refused, which you won't see adam poasting about

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 20h

Dort is big mad that WaPo and the Atlantic won't bend the knee

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bigsteven.bsky.social @bigsteven.bsky.social · 19h

I just read an article stating that NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab is firing ~500 employees…and yet this reporting on Trump’s daughter in law is the dumbest thing I’ve read today…

bigsteven.bsky.social @bigsteven.bsky.social · 19h

When my kids asks why America just fucking surrendered the 21st century I hope I can look them in the eyes…

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

This is correct, in part - as the grim, military historian in me feels the need to note - it is psychologically much harder to get soldiers to open fire on people they view as 'respectable.'

And I dread, with grim increasingly certainty, that we are headed to a point where that matters.

WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 1d

protests against this government should include white Boomer grandmothers who meet for pilates class, get a pitcher of mimosas & walk together to the public space

we need people in the street who think everyone can talk their way out of a speeding ticket, they're key to winning

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bigsteven.bsky.social @bigsteven.bsky.social · 20h

Hegseth’s willingness to gleefully send that order forward is the sole qualification he needed to get that job. That and total obsequiousness…

It’s why nothing else he does will result in his removal.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 1d

Notice how bystanders start whistling the moment the Gestapo leave the car--a warning to the vulnerable and a call to action for those ready to exercise their rights to record government agents, protest said agents, and petition the government for redress (in person!).

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2d

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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bigsteven.bsky.social @bigsteven.bsky.social · 1d

I never called it a genocide, I know people are going to quibble over the technical definition.

I believe it’s one of the biggest war crimes I’ve seen in my years. And yes, I do view many of the actions as intentional decisions by some of the Israeli leadership.

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bigsteven.bsky.social @bigsteven.bsky.social · 1d

It’s easy when you know you’ll get no serious pushback.

Also, they’re aware their voters aren’t going to watch CNN, MSNBC, or any other “traditional” media outlet..

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 2d

It's amazing how public officials who willingly go on TV to talk about these issues can claim ignorance about the very things they've come on to talk about, and it's treated like a legitimate answer.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Jim Jordan after he's played clips from videos of ICE brutalizing people, including American citizens: "I don't know the specifics of those examples you gave. What I do know is these ICE agents are under tremendous pressure ... I think they're doing a good job."

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bigsteven.bsky.social @bigsteven.bsky.social · 1d

“The devastation is irrelevant without loss of life.”

As someone who has both planned, executed, and debriefed military operations, this is a woefully ignorant statement.

The idea of secondary, tertiary, and long term impacts of this level of destruction have to be accounted for.

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bigsteven.bsky.social @bigsteven.bsky.social · 2d

You can see the devastation from the plethora of commercial overhead imagery that is available to anyone…that is not a question.

The death toll is certainly up for debate, but there are plenty of studies done (outside of Gaza ministry) that come close to those numbers.

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