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chrisgrose.bsky.social
@chrisgrose.bsky.social
Brevity is not my forte. Irony is.
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sober and practical. and very much where we are.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Trump’s Attempts to Muzzle the Press Look Familiar
Much of what the U.S. president has done to curb independent media echoes the Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán’s playbook.
www.theatlantic.com
March 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
@aoc.bsky.social CHALLENGE HIM. We got you.
March 15, 2025 at 12:04 AM
March 7, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I really want to support this bluesky thing, but also it kinda feels like saying anything here is just screaming into the void. Is anybody out there???
March 6, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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I was expecting al green to be thrown out, sure, and then other people to have stood up with him, and one by one they all get thrown out like Spartacus. They make them be removed. I was expecting that because movies have made me expect courage, solidarity, and honor
March 5, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Democrats hold the line. Do NOT agree to fund DOGE.
Escalating threat of government shutdown on March 14

House GOP appears incapable of securing enough of its own votes

And Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries today says GOP has walked “away from the negotiating table”
March 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
March 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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25,000 Americans have signed my letter of support for President Zelenskyy and the people of Ukraine.

Please add your name!

sign.moveon.org/petitions/to...

#Ukraine
#PresidentZelensky
To President Zelenskyy, From Embarrassed Americans
Please help the voices of the American people reach President Zelenskyy, the people of Ukraine, the US Government, and the world.
sign.moveon.org
March 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
❄️🤣
Comedian Bill Burr’s Twitter Gets Flagged for Ruthlessly Mocking Elon Musk
YouTube video by The Humanist Report
youtu.be
March 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
(1) There are 2 me's right now: the me that is fundamentally more focused on my own personal aims than ever before, and the me that is horrified by the society I am inextricably a part of.
March 1, 2025 at 1:07 AM
This whole "economic blackout" thing is nonsense. If you spend nothing on Feb 28, you just spent more on Feb 27 to sustain yourself while you spent nothing on Feb 28. There is no magic bullet, we can't beat them with empty gestures. If we want to win, shit has to get real REAL fast.
February 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM
🙄😡
February 21, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Tl;dr: "This isn't MY fault." 🙄

Fuck you. Fuck your retirement, fuck your career, fuck your legacy, fuck your disavowal of responsibility, fuck your detached superiority, and fuck your refusal to acknowledge your role in all of this. Simply and fundamentally FUCK YOU. 🖕🐢

*Note: sorry not sorry.
Mitch McConnell announces he will not seek reelection next year
Longtime Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell confirmed reports he will not seek reelection next year.
abcnews.go.com
February 21, 2025 at 1:41 AM
"GROK" is the sound I make when I burp, not the sound I want to make when I query #AGI. Reductive & Inelegant. 🙄🤣
February 19, 2025 at 1:21 AM
President's Day 2025. 😠
February 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
While everyone is focused on ChatGPT as the avitar of ALL AI, with occasional mention of Claude as runner up, Google Gemini is over here quietly suggesting that the mainstream doesn't always catch on right away. 😉💡

Paying attention now isn't optional, it's everything. Tune in, be prepared.
February 15, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Keep your eyes on this. Musk is following the same playbook he used to acquire Twitter. Musk owning OpenAI (and Twitter!) is a doomsday scenario - at that point he not only has the most money, he also has the most power. ☢️⚛️ 🤯🚨🚨🚨🚨
OpenAI rejects Musk's takeover offer, says it was 'not a bid at all'
OpenAI sent a short letter to Elon Musk's lawyer Friday, rejecting the billionaire's acquisition offer.
www.cnbc.com
February 15, 2025 at 1:23 AM
If they think they can separate us, they are woefully ignorant of history. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️😐

When we stand together, we win. 🇺🇲 🎶"We are family. I got all my sisters and me." 🎶🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
‘You can’t erase us’: Community rallies after ‘trans’ and ‘queer’ removed from Stonewall Monument website | CNN
After the words “transgender” and “queer” were removed from the National Park Service’s website for the Stonewall National Monument, a landmark of the LGBTQ pride movement in New York City, protesters...
www.cnn.com
February 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
This MFer tho 😡 He spent his whole life dedicated to getting us to where we are now & now that we're here he regrets that it might impact him personally? 🙄

FUCK.RIGHT.OFF. 🖕 I wish I hated him less. It would be better for me if I hated you less, you despicable deplorable excuse for a human being 🤮
February 14, 2025 at 1:23 AM
🚨🚨DANGER🚨🚨
Elon Musk is trying to buy OpenAI for $97 billion
It's a huge gambit amid pending litigation between the two sides.
www.axios.com
February 12, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Are we taking votes?
February 12, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
February 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The longer I live the more I wonder how much past impossibillity gave rise to the present we know today? 🤔

In this context, what are we to do NOW? 🤔

Maybe this suggests everything will be OK? Or maybe NOW is a new thing we don't even know how to grapple with yet? 🤔 Are we that full of hubris? 🤷🏻‍♂️
February 8, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Here's a Google Doc to bookmark that tracks all Trump executive actions, grouped by agenda and implications, for easy reference.

tinyurl.com/tracking-tru...
February 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM