Adam Hahn
@jerkypnut.bsky.social
Playwright, programmer, liberal, grumpy beardo.
He/him.
He/him.
Reminder: Tom Homan, "border czar" taking more visible control of federal officers in Minnesota, really should be in prison.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Trump officials shut down bribery probe of border czar Tom Homan
Tom Homan was caught on tape accepting a bag filled with $50,000 in cash from an undercover FBI agent in Texas in September 2024, according to people familiar with the matter and a government document...
www.washingtonpost.com
January 29, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Reminder: Tom Homan, "border czar" taking more visible control of federal officers in Minnesota, really should be in prison.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Among the terrifying events barely making the news: Regulations are being slashed to rush construction of new nuclear reactors. Safety, security, and environmental protection are being sidelined.
www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...
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The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules
The rewrite was done to speed up the construction of a new generation of nuclear reactors. Critics warn it could compromise safety and public trust.
www.npr.org
January 29, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Among the terrifying events barely making the news: Regulations are being slashed to rush construction of new nuclear reactors. Safety, security, and environmental protection are being sidelined.
www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...
www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...
Trump's ICE stormtroopers murdered a citizen. Again.
The DOJ obstructs the investigation. Again.
Brutality is the point. Impunity is the point.
We're seeing how ICE treats white citizens in daylight with multiple cameras recording. Brown-skinned immigrants in custody are certainly facing worse.
The DOJ obstructs the investigation. Again.
Brutality is the point. Impunity is the point.
We're seeing how ICE treats white citizens in daylight with multiple cameras recording. Brown-skinned immigrants in custody are certainly facing worse.
January 25, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Trump's ICE stormtroopers murdered a citizen. Again.
The DOJ obstructs the investigation. Again.
Brutality is the point. Impunity is the point.
We're seeing how ICE treats white citizens in daylight with multiple cameras recording. Brown-skinned immigrants in custody are certainly facing worse.
The DOJ obstructs the investigation. Again.
Brutality is the point. Impunity is the point.
We're seeing how ICE treats white citizens in daylight with multiple cameras recording. Brown-skinned immigrants in custody are certainly facing worse.
It's Christmas Eve. Before you go to bed tonight, don't forget to leave out Red Bull and pipe tobacco for the ghosts tormenting the rich.
December 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
It's Christmas Eve. Before you go to bed tonight, don't forget to leave out Red Bull and pipe tobacco for the ghosts tormenting the rich.
This is your annual reminder that Spotify pays artists very, very little. If you're not buying albums (or paid downloads, concert tickets, t-shirts, Patreon memberships, . . . ), then you're not giving the artists in your Wrapped sustainable careers.
December 6, 2025 at 5:06 AM
This is your annual reminder that Spotify pays artists very, very little. If you're not buying albums (or paid downloads, concert tickets, t-shirts, Patreon memberships, . . . ), then you're not giving the artists in your Wrapped sustainable careers.
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank
Our vision: No one goes hungry in Los Angeles.
www.lafoodbank.org
October 31, 2025 at 5:20 AM
"I have an idea for a protest sign."
"Oh?"
"'No Kings! Yes Kinks!' with a picture--"
"--Of the band!"
"What?"
"Of the band, The Kinks."
"Oh. Okay."
"Did you mean something else?"
"No . . . the band is fine."
"Oh?"
"'No Kings! Yes Kinks!' with a picture--"
"--Of the band!"
"What?"
"Of the band, The Kinks."
"Oh. Okay."
"Did you mean something else?"
"No . . . the band is fine."
October 19, 2025 at 3:48 AM
"I have an idea for a protest sign."
"Oh?"
"'No Kings! Yes Kinks!' with a picture--"
"--Of the band!"
"What?"
"Of the band, The Kinks."
"Oh. Okay."
"Did you mean something else?"
"No . . . the band is fine."
"Oh?"
"'No Kings! Yes Kinks!' with a picture--"
"--Of the band!"
"What?"
"Of the band, The Kinks."
"Oh. Okay."
"Did you mean something else?"
"No . . . the band is fine."
Suppose they gave a rapture and nobody left?
September 24, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Suppose they gave a rapture and nobody left?
"We had some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and with everything they can to score political points from it. In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving."
--Jimmy Kimmel
--Jimmy Kimmel
September 18, 2025 at 7:18 AM
"We had some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and with everything they can to score political points from it. In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving."
--Jimmy Kimmel
--Jimmy Kimmel
Our narcissist-in-chief has handed veto power over federal medical research funding to a brain-damaged anti-science nutjob.
We'll never know how much suffering or how many deaths the projects they're cancelling could have prevented.
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We'll never know how much suffering or how many deaths the projects they're cancelling could have prevented.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Public health experts dismayed by RFK Jr.'s defunding of mRNA vaccine research
The Trump administration canceled about $500 million for research into mRNA vaccines. The move slows progress in using the technology to prevent a future pandemic or treat disease, experts say.
www.npr.org
August 7, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Our narcissist-in-chief has handed veto power over federal medical research funding to a brain-damaged anti-science nutjob.
We'll never know how much suffering or how many deaths the projects they're cancelling could have prevented.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
We'll never know how much suffering or how many deaths the projects they're cancelling could have prevented.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Every damned day, it's another stupid, wasteful, authoritarian damned thing.
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Trump fires labor statistics boss hours after the release of weak jobs report
Without evidence, Trump called the data "rigged" and implied that BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer manipulated the numbers "for political purposes."
www.nbcnews.com
August 2, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Every damned day, it's another stupid, wasteful, authoritarian damned thing.
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www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
KRISTEN WELKER, NBC NEWS:
But even given those numbers that you’re talking about, don’t you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as president?
DONALD TRUMP:
I don’t know.
But even given those numbers that you’re talking about, don’t you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as president?
DONALD TRUMP:
I don’t know.
May 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
KRISTEN WELKER, NBC NEWS:
But even given those numbers that you’re talking about, don’t you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as president?
DONALD TRUMP:
I don’t know.
But even given those numbers that you’re talking about, don’t you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as president?
DONALD TRUMP:
I don’t know.
"A fine play."
"You’re always engaged, eager to find out what happens next."
"Buy some Skittles in the lobby."
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"You’re always engaged, eager to find out what happens next."
"Buy some Skittles in the lobby."
www.buffalorising.com/2025/03/deco...
DECONSTRUCTION: Unraveling Lives and Beliefs in a Touching Tale of Love, Loss, and Renewal. First Look at Canterbury Woods PAC - Buffalo Rising
THE BASICS: DECONSTRUCTION, a new play by Adam Hahn, directed by Lara D. Haberberger, starring Brooke Goergen and Brandon Williamson. 3/21 – 4/6. Fri – Sat 7:30pm, Sun 2:00pm, presented
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March 28, 2025 at 4:04 AM
"A fine play."
"You’re always engaged, eager to find out what happens next."
"Buy some Skittles in the lobby."
www.buffalorising.com/2025/03/deco...
"You’re always engaged, eager to find out what happens next."
"Buy some Skittles in the lobby."
www.buffalorising.com/2025/03/deco...
This is a terrible idea.
Any crypto investment is, at best, highly speculative, one effective hack from becoming worthless.
At worst, the US government is stabilizing the shadowy financial systems that make ransomware and other international crimes profitable.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Any crypto investment is, at best, highly speculative, one effective hack from becoming worthless.
At worst, the US government is stabilizing the shadowy financial systems that make ransomware and other international crimes profitable.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Trump says cryptocurrency 'strategic reserve' includes XRP, SOL and ADA
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that his recent executive order on digital assets directed his team to create "a Crypto Strategic Reserve that includes XRP, SOL, and ADA."
www.reuters.com
March 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
This is a terrible idea.
Any crypto investment is, at best, highly speculative, one effective hack from becoming worthless.
At worst, the US government is stabilizing the shadowy financial systems that make ransomware and other international crimes profitable.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Any crypto investment is, at best, highly speculative, one effective hack from becoming worthless.
At worst, the US government is stabilizing the shadowy financial systems that make ransomware and other international crimes profitable.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
March 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Trans people were key figures in the Stonewall Uprising, a landmark civil rights event.
Trans people have always been here, and they always will be.
Those who would erase the T from LGBTQ+ wouldn't stop there.
Keep fighting.
www.npr.org/2025/02/14/g...
Trans people have always been here, and they always will be.
Those who would erase the T from LGBTQ+ wouldn't stop there.
Keep fighting.
www.npr.org/2025/02/14/g...
Park Service erases 'transgender' on Stonewall website, uses the term 'LGB' movement
The website deleted all mentions of "transgender" and "queer" in its history of the Stonewall riots, and only referred to the riots' impact on lesbian, gay and bisexual people.
www.npr.org
February 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Trans people were key figures in the Stonewall Uprising, a landmark civil rights event.
Trans people have always been here, and they always will be.
Those who would erase the T from LGBTQ+ wouldn't stop there.
Keep fighting.
www.npr.org/2025/02/14/g...
Trans people have always been here, and they always will be.
Those who would erase the T from LGBTQ+ wouldn't stop there.
Keep fighting.
www.npr.org/2025/02/14/g...
Basic functions of your federal government are being gutted. Funding is being cut or delayed. Enforcement actions are being canceled. Career, non-political staff are being fired. Publications are being censored. Appointed leaders are hostile to missions of the departments they oversee.
February 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Basic functions of your federal government are being gutted. Funding is being cut or delayed. Enforcement actions are being canceled. Career, non-political staff are being fired. Publications are being censored. Appointed leaders are hostile to missions of the departments they oversee.
I am certainly voting for and donating to Democrats in 2026.
However, the CEASELESS text messages asking me to donate/answer a poll/sign a petition on a website I've never heard of don't convince me the Democratic Party has meaningful, immediate plans to respond to the crises Trump is creating.
However, the CEASELESS text messages asking me to donate/answer a poll/sign a petition on a website I've never heard of don't convince me the Democratic Party has meaningful, immediate plans to respond to the crises Trump is creating.
February 5, 2025 at 9:17 AM
I am certainly voting for and donating to Democrats in 2026.
However, the CEASELESS text messages asking me to donate/answer a poll/sign a petition on a website I've never heard of don't convince me the Democratic Party has meaningful, immediate plans to respond to the crises Trump is creating.
However, the CEASELESS text messages asking me to donate/answer a poll/sign a petition on a website I've never heard of don't convince me the Democratic Party has meaningful, immediate plans to respond to the crises Trump is creating.
I can criticize previous US policy on Palestine and Israel all day, but Trump's latest statements on Gaza are uniquely terrible.
He has effectively declared war on the people of Gaza--not their government, not Hamas, not terrorists and criminals, but on every individual--for a real estate fantasy.
He has effectively declared war on the people of Gaza--not their government, not Hamas, not terrorists and criminals, but on every individual--for a real estate fantasy.
February 5, 2025 at 9:06 AM
I can criticize previous US policy on Palestine and Israel all day, but Trump's latest statements on Gaza are uniquely terrible.
He has effectively declared war on the people of Gaza--not their government, not Hamas, not terrorists and criminals, but on every individual--for a real estate fantasy.
He has effectively declared war on the people of Gaza--not their government, not Hamas, not terrorists and criminals, but on every individual--for a real estate fantasy.
When Trump "TURNED ON THE WATER":
-It wasn't needed in Southern California.
-It didn't go to Southern California.
-It wasn't needed where it was sent.
-It wasn't coordinated with local officials.
-It left farmers with less water in reserve for summer irrigation.
www.latimes.com/environment/...
-It wasn't needed in Southern California.
-It didn't go to Southern California.
-It wasn't needed where it was sent.
-It wasn't coordinated with local officials.
-It left farmers with less water in reserve for summer irrigation.
www.latimes.com/environment/...
Acting on Trump's order, federal officials opened up two California dams
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers just opened up two California dams. A spokesperson says the flows are 'controlled' and being coordinated with local officials.
www.latimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
When Trump "TURNED ON THE WATER":
-It wasn't needed in Southern California.
-It didn't go to Southern California.
-It wasn't needed where it was sent.
-It wasn't coordinated with local officials.
-It left farmers with less water in reserve for summer irrigation.
www.latimes.com/environment/...
-It wasn't needed in Southern California.
-It didn't go to Southern California.
-It wasn't needed where it was sent.
-It wasn't coordinated with local officials.
-It left farmers with less water in reserve for summer irrigation.
www.latimes.com/environment/...
January 26, 2025 at 2:33 AM