Political Science PhD (UCSD ‘13), Data Science Bureaucrat (Oregon DHS), Union Member (SEIU), Mediocre Golfer (16 Handicap), Dad (‘25)
See also: cutting off aid to states for pure political reasons, openly monetizing the presidency, threatening NATO allies with conquest, etc. etc. One amazingly Special Boy we have made of him.
Secretary of Defense RockStill can’t over the fact that the president of the United States just told an entire state to pound sand after getting cyberattacked by a foreign adversary because they didn’t vote for him and it was treated like a Tuesday lol
I can’t believe we’re doing another cycle of pretending to have a deal with Iran. This is so stupid.
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
Capital One Financial fights back over litigation tied "decision to close the Trump Organization's bank accounts years ago, stating that it did so after a review by anti-money laundering experts...Marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns" to Trump family. Via Reuters
Capital One says it closed Trump Organization's accounts after anti-money laundering probeThe disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to Trump's family business.www.reuters.comIt’s not a panacea, but the fascists are getting 20-25% of the vote & aren’t dominating politics in multiparty systems. Also, Americans love to point to 🇮🇱 & 🇬🇧, which are two of the worst-designed parliamentary systems. Anyway, more & stronger parties are absolutely a bulwark against fascism.
Noah Berlatskypeople love the idea of a multi party system. based on israel, UK, and really lots of other places, I'm much less convinced. our problem is fascism. if we don't defeat fascism, it doesn't matter how many parties we have.
The President being out of his mind should be a much more significant story!
Will Ferrell: I Feel Like I'm Taking Crazy PillsAlt: Will Ferrell: I Feel Like I'm Taking Crazy Pillsstatic.klipy.com
Zakaria: With "forced labor" tariffs against Sweden, Japan, etc., Trump "appears to be ordering the USG to formally certify as fact something it knows is not true. Agencies must publish findings...and affix the authority of the American state to a falsehood manufactured" to withstand court review.
Opinion | Trump appears to order the government to lie on behalf of tariffsThe president moves to subvert the Supreme Court — and the truth.www.washingtonpost.com
Where is our government? Trump? DHS Secretary Mullin? Is the American homeland under attack? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...
Scope of Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Widens as Evidence Points to IranMichigan and Minnesota are among at least seven states coping with cyberattacks aimed at disrupting water systems nationwide.www.nytimes.comThis week hackers penetrated critical infrastructure in 7 US states. Rather than developing a plan to mitigate and counter Trump blamed.....Tim Walz? It's a searing sign of how vulnerable US has become under Trump & why we must fight now for a better path 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trumps-ter...
Trump's Terrible Presidency Is Leaving America Weaker, More Vulnerable Now. Democrats Must Step Up And Aggressively Fight For A New And Better WayTrump's global wrecking ball is leaving the world, and America, far less safe. We cannot wait until next year to force a course correction......www.hopiumchronicles.com
Russia commits war crimes every single day
Anton GerashchenkoIt was a massive attack involving dozens of ballistic missiles. Russia killed nine people and injured 28 more, including four children, in Kyiv overnight. Civilian infrastructure was heavily damaged across multiple districts of the city.
A self-respecting Congress would impeach him over this immediately. Doing an end-run around the Senate's Constitutional "advise and consent" authority to illegally take money from taxpayers, and give it to himself and criminals he likes. Alone, one of the most impeachable offenses in US history.
Howard Frenchwww.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
America is now a joke country where citizens are arrested to cover up for the president’s lies on social media. We’ve replaced DEI with incompetence and protecting the egos of mediocre white men.
Republicans largely erasing their party id advantage among Americans without a college degree seems like a finding from the Pew NPORS study that should be getting more attention www.pewresearch.org/politics/fac...
So basically an adversary could attack any blue state and Trump wont care because he doesn't see himself as the President of the "United States" Without a doubt the most worst president we've ever had. Anti-republic, anti-democratic, anti-constitutional just devoid of basic dignity
Aaron RuparTrump: "We heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota."
Let me tell you, having chronicled Pentagon-style war game on attacking Iran nearly 25 yr ago, every single "surprise," "darkening turn," "narrowing option," spreading warfare," "rising casualties," "no easy exit," etc that comes drip-by-drip is EXACTLY why GHWB WJC GWB OBAMA BiDEN did NOT do this
Driving off care workers, farm workers, advanced-degree workers, etc. — because of a curdled nativist insistence that walling our economy off will mean better outcomes for themselves, rather than worse outcomes for everybody. Scarcity politics is rotten stuff.
Timothy McBrideU.S. Weighs $100,000 Fee for Foreign Students Wanting to Work After Graduation www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
This is honestly one of the most shocking images coming out of this administration and that’s saying something
Murshed Zaheed“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
I'd rather we not have an entire ecosystem of internet-poisoned weirdos who are obsessed with the "real-life" behavior of hobbits and mermaids and cyclopses
Siobhan "Shiv" Craig - DarkEden21just in case you wondered how graham is doing lol
Great reporting from our student journalists at the Duke Chronicle on increases for the most highly paid Duke employees in the wake of unnecessary massive layoffs: www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
As cost-cutting began, Duke’s highest-paid employees took big raisesTax filings reveal administrators, including President Vincent Price and Provost Alex Gallimore, saw their compensation rise in fiscal year 2025. Managers of Duke’s endowment and standout athletics co...www.dukechronicle.com