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Daniel Z @danzyl666.bsky.social · 59m

Marechal de Gaulle saved French democracy in 1958. You can do the same

Daniel Z @danzyl666.bsky.social · 1h

Take what is rightfully yours Admiral Holsey. You should take the men loyal to you and March on Washington just like Gaius Julius Caesar did

whet moser @whetmoser.com · 1h

🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say

www.nytimes.com

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Daniel Z @danzyl666.bsky.social · 1h

I pledge my undying loyalty to Admiral Holsey if he tries to do a Spain 1936 or France 1958

Daniel Z @danzyl666.bsky.social · 2h

Oh that's sure to be popular

Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 3h

Internal DHS memo shows Trump plans to keep paying ICE agents and Border Patrol officers throughout the shutdown, while other feds go without pay.

Even the DHS administrative staff processing the paychecks won't get theirs, employee tells me.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Trump Plans To Keep Paying Immigration Agents While Other Federal Workers Go Without Paychecks

The move amounts to special treatment for Trump’s favorite constituency within the federal bureaucracy.

www.huffpost.com

Daniel Z @danzyl666.bsky.social · 2h

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h

JPMORGAN: “.. Across the technology sector there’s a clear distinction between firms borrowing at scale to establish a foothold with investors and increase future flexibility (Apple, Google, $AMD), and those borrowing at scale to fund current period capital expenditures.”

Daniel Z @danzyl666.bsky.social · 2h

I have no love for the American Constitutional Republic but it does have an Article I and it does say that only Congress shall have the power of the purse, etc

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Leavitt: "The president tapped into tariff revenue to keep WIC money going out the door. He found a creative solution to keep the troops paid. And rather than congratulate him for doing that, this unprecedented action to get our troops paid, Dems want to sue him for it. They're saying it's illegal."

Daniel Z @danzyl666.bsky.social · 2h

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Daniel Z @danzyl666.bsky.social · 2h

The superstars have become far too powerful to the detriment of actual labor solidarity

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Daniel Z @danzyl666.bsky.social · 2h

Selig might have. Stern vetoed that Chris Paul trade. Tagliabue at least tried. The less said about Bettman the better

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 2h

John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry began on October 16, 1859.

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Daniel Z @danzyl666.bsky.social · 2h

There was a switch in this latest cohort of commissioners. They think they're CEOs. Commissioners are stewards of their leagues and are mediators between ownership and players.

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Daniel Z @danzyl666.bsky.social · 3h

I have a contrarian take: the average European should be incredibly grateful that they have a Fourth rate tech Industry

Semafor @semafor.com · 3h

Europe will be ‘number 3 at best’ in AI race: Belgium bank governor

www.semafor.com/article/10/1...

Europe will be ‘number 3 at best’ in AI race: Belgium bank governor

Speaking at Semafor’s World Economy Summit, Pierre Wunsch said European regulators put more emphasis on redistribution than risk.

www.semafor.com

Daniel Z @danzyl666.bsky.social · 3h

We're going to school board meetings and ask why they're not teaching computers in school

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Daniel Z @danzyl666.bsky.social · 3h

God bless Donald John Trump for liquidating the kulaks as a class

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Daniel Z @danzyl666.bsky.social · 4h

Their life's work is to make the Democrats into something awesome when they're clearly not

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

Daniel Z @danzyl666.bsky.social · 5h

We finally found the thing that's going to make millennials look the most like boomers - "tell me sonny, have you ever updated a driver?" Things of that nature

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Daniel Z @danzyl666.bsky.social · 5h

Stopping Fascism by taking a state permitted afternoon stroll down main street every fiscal quarter

Daniel Z @danzyl666.bsky.social · 5h

The people who are going to take an weekend afternoon stroll and think that they're doing resistance…Right?

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Daniel Z @danzyl666.bsky.social · 5h

Haha so you have the first hand experience of the mental illness?

Daniel Z @danzyl666.bsky.social · 5h

Seems very strange to drop into a platform and make wild generalizations about its user base

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Daniel Z @danzyl666.bsky.social · 16h

This is peak Elon Xitter. Thousands of barely literate chuds who can't even read a graph complaining about how legal immigrants are apparently allowed to buy houses using FHA loans

Daniel Z @danzyl666.bsky.social · 16h

All that's left is for them to come with a fiber optic fabrication called Shelob

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Daniel Z @danzyl666.bsky.social · 17h

And the funniest thing is that Congress brought this upon themselves after decades of refusing to do their jobs

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Daniel Z @danzyl666.bsky.social · 17h

I think it is very funny that we're just speed running the origins of the English Civil War without the Bishop's War and Book of Common Prayer part

Daniel Z @danzyl666.bsky.social · 19h

If we get to a point where "blue state" national guards are in open firefights with "red state" counterparts and the feds this will be a civil war so intractable that it will be more like Russian civil war than the American