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Bsky, I'm seeing a lot of people on my feed asking good questions like "why would Trump want to gut the FDIC?" and I am happy to answer this question now that I've given it some thought. There are two main reasons as I understand it.
Source is me, a former (non-FDIC) bank examiner. 1/?
Source is me, a former (non-FDIC) bank examiner. 1/?
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Like many others, I find myself rapidly becoming a social democratic version of George Will.
We have a crisis of soft, decadent and deeply irresponsible people turning their personal defects into everyone else's problem.
We have a crisis of soft, decadent and deeply irresponsible people turning their personal defects into everyone else's problem.
May 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Like many others, I find myself rapidly becoming a social democratic version of George Will.
We have a crisis of soft, decadent and deeply irresponsible people turning their personal defects into everyone else's problem.
We have a crisis of soft, decadent and deeply irresponsible people turning their personal defects into everyone else's problem.
Primary all these motherfuckers.
SCOOP: Two Democratic aides and a lawmaker told @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has discouraged further member excursions to El Salvador
April 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Primary all these motherfuckers.
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A Horrible Truth That Shouldn’t Be….
April 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
A Horrible Truth That Shouldn’t Be….
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Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.
April 28, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.
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The use of the term “settlers” to describe illegal occupiers is a devious distortion of language itself, evoking a fantasy of rugged pioneers surveying an untamed prairie rather than the reality of fundamentalist bigots pursuing a policy of land theft through ethnic cleansing.
April 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
The use of the term “settlers” to describe illegal occupiers is a devious distortion of language itself, evoking a fantasy of rugged pioneers surveying an untamed prairie rather than the reality of fundamentalist bigots pursuing a policy of land theft through ethnic cleansing.
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Maybe its time to consider the fact that if these were actually “our” institutions two capitalists high off their own farts wouldn’t be able to dismantle them in 3 months time
April 27, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Maybe its time to consider the fact that if these were actually “our” institutions two capitalists high off their own farts wouldn’t be able to dismantle them in 3 months time
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You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.
April 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.
Good.
NEW: PublicSquare, a website that lets you search for businesses in your community that explicitly want you to know they endorse Trump/MAGA values, is backfiring as people use it to boycott those businesses. www.huffpost.com/entry/public...
Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts
Social media posts about PublicSquare have gone viral as Trump critics use it to find companies not to support – the opposite of what the site was set up for.
www.huffpost.com
April 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Good.
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It's extremely weird to me the cognitive dissonance required to be a political progressive who supports Israel if you know literally anything at all about the Netanyahu government. It would be like saying you're a progressive who supports Trump or Putin. It makes absolutely zero sense.
April 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
It's extremely weird to me the cognitive dissonance required to be a political progressive who supports Israel if you know literally anything at all about the Netanyahu government. It would be like saying you're a progressive who supports Trump or Putin. It makes absolutely zero sense.
Worth pointing out the "normal" these Beltway types want to return to was a dystopian nightmare BEFORE 🍊💩 was elected. We need to use this moment to come together and bring about meaningful, lasting change that improves working people's lives or we will suffer mightily.
I think people need to get rid of the idea of a “return to normal” whatever that even means. The political and economic situation of the world with climate change getting worse is not going to be less chaotic
April 26, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Worth pointing out the "normal" these Beltway types want to return to was a dystopian nightmare BEFORE 🍊💩 was elected. We need to use this moment to come together and bring about meaningful, lasting change that improves working people's lives or we will suffer mightily.
Well, this is going to be highly unpleasant.
A terrifying warning from the CEO of a consumer products company about what is about to hit the economy from Trump’s tariffs.
April 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Well, this is going to be highly unpleasant.
Evergreen
I would like for stupid people to stop making important decisions that affect my life
April 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Evergreen
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unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy
April 23, 2025 at 6:35 AM
unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy
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Costco is a really popular subject for business-success case studies but I feel like business guys kinda lose interest when the upshot of the study is like "just operate with scrupulous integrity in all facets and levels of your business for four decades" and not some easy-to-fix gimmick
“You can’t say people are our most important product and then treat them like shit.” - Jim Sinegal, co-founder of Costco
April 20, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Costco is a really popular subject for business-success case studies but I feel like business guys kinda lose interest when the upshot of the study is like "just operate with scrupulous integrity in all facets and levels of your business for four decades" and not some easy-to-fix gimmick
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Autism isn’t an epidemic. It's not a disease. It’s a natural variation in how people think…which, frankly, is a relief in a world where most people don't think at all.
April 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Autism isn’t an epidemic. It's not a disease. It’s a natural variation in how people think…which, frankly, is a relief in a world where most people don't think at all.
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We all need to dedicate the rest of our lives to destroying the republican party
New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause:
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
April 17, 2025 at 9:44 PM
We all need to dedicate the rest of our lives to destroying the republican party
I for one am extremely fucking tired of the country's most willfully ignorant, hateful morons being lauded as "Real Americans" while people like me are labeled "coastal elites" because we're not too proud to move to a place with jobs and work for a living.
This from @jdcivicscience.bsky.social nails why small town, red America is not turning on Trump.
April 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I for one am extremely fucking tired of the country's most willfully ignorant, hateful morons being lauded as "Real Americans" while people like me are labeled "coastal elites" because we're not too proud to move to a place with jobs and work for a living.
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the most appalling part of this political era is the physical harm they are inflicting on innocent people but secondary to that i find the constant smug lectures from this country's biggest collection of hypocrites, scammers, perverts, pedophiles, and overall bozos very distasteful
Baseball participation and poems are down because of vaccines is a new one
April 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
the most appalling part of this political era is the physical harm they are inflicting on innocent people but secondary to that i find the constant smug lectures from this country's biggest collection of hypocrites, scammers, perverts, pedophiles, and overall bozos very distasteful
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I think RFK Jr appeals to 3 groups of people
1. People who think the "MAHA" movement sounds good without really knowing what any of it means
2. People who like conspiracy theories, fringe science, and are antivaxxers
3. Eugenecists who believe that the disabled and sick are better off dead
1. People who think the "MAHA" movement sounds good without really knowing what any of it means
2. People who like conspiracy theories, fringe science, and are antivaxxers
3. Eugenecists who believe that the disabled and sick are better off dead
I wish more people would just realize what a fucking sack of shit the guy is…this isnt normal, his level of distain towards people
April 17, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I think RFK Jr appeals to 3 groups of people
1. People who think the "MAHA" movement sounds good without really knowing what any of it means
2. People who like conspiracy theories, fringe science, and are antivaxxers
3. Eugenecists who believe that the disabled and sick are better off dead
1. People who think the "MAHA" movement sounds good without really knowing what any of it means
2. People who like conspiracy theories, fringe science, and are antivaxxers
3. Eugenecists who believe that the disabled and sick are better off dead
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Just to be clear, I'm advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia
JUST IN: Deputy Assistant to the President and "Counterterrorism Czar" Sebastian Gorka says anyone advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be viewed as "aiding and abetting a terrorist" and be federally charged. (h/t Philip Germain)
April 17, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Just to be clear, I'm advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia
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"the state can just summarily imprison someone without filing charges or holding a trial" doesn't just overturn democracy it overturns 1000 years of common law, like throwing out the entire legal system entirely and saying all people in America are the state's property.
They continue to violate a court order to retrieve someone they illegally deported.
We’re now well beyond a constitutional crisis. If they’re allowed to do this, their secret police can sweep up anyone, for any reason, deport them & refuse to bring them back.
That would be the end of democracy.
We’re now well beyond a constitutional crisis. If they’re allowed to do this, their secret police can sweep up anyone, for any reason, deport them & refuse to bring them back.
That would be the end of democracy.
April 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
"the state can just summarily imprison someone without filing charges or holding a trial" doesn't just overturn democracy it overturns 1000 years of common law, like throwing out the entire legal system entirely and saying all people in America are the state's property.