@rattenbo
Retired Project Manager. Having fun travelling with my wife, playing with my 3D printer and learning about everything I can. I am Canadian, Liberal, and have zero tolerance for extreme right wing. I am pro science and discovery.
Chinese officials "were saying, it's very interesting to watch President Trump because we've had a long-term strategy to basically try to weaken and divide America's alliances....President Trump is just doing it for us."
Jake Sullivan joins @timmiller.bsky.social on the latest Bulwark Podcast:
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Such a shame when the rats start eating each other.
So, ICE is getting a $150 Billion budget. A few questions. 1) will they swear allegiance to the constitution or to the President? 2) will they get nifty Brown Shirts to wear? How about a special unit emblem to wear on their arms, maybe something taken from Native American culture? Thoughts?
They're building concentration camps with money they stole from medicare.
“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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I'm sorry, but doesn't "autonomous Drone swarms" that "evolve to deal with new threats" sound like a BAD idea?
Dear Mike Johnson and friends,
globalnews.ca/news/1117421...
For anyone who ever says their vote doesn't count!
Mike Waltz has left the chat.
1️⃣ The GOP’s scam is clear: fake a Social Security fraud crisis to gut it. Vance’s “40% fraud” claim? Total nonsense. They’re laying the groundwork to cut benefits by labeling everyday Americans as criminals.
#Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue
Market manipulation, anyone?
And what do the spineless, wimpy Republicans do about it? Absolutely nothing.
Convicted Felon Donald Trump is a criminal. Full stop.
#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #TrumpIsACriminal #FuckTrump
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This past week, the Chinese learned
1) exactly where Trump's pain points are;
2) how much to squeeze them before he flinches;
and
3) how little America's partners and allies want to help this president.
Highly useful information.
Big day for corrupt insiders.
“They're sitting there telling the American people that 2+2=7, that black is white. Those were attack plans, those were war plans, that was classified information, everybody knows it. And the idea that they think they can get away with this level of gaslighting – it just strikes at the foundation of democracy – which is a set of truths that we all have to operate off of.” Senator Chris Murphy
It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.
The lives of American troops - and every American life - depends on the people in charge of our government taking their responsibilities seriously. But again and again, including with the incompetence that came to light today, they are demonstrating the opposite.
My full interview here:
Buttigieg: I know this in my experience, both in the cabinet and as an intelligence officer, you would have to go out of your way to take classified information and move it into an unclassified system
Any member of the military who did what they did on signal would be kicked out or arrested.
Top intelligence committees need to begin an investigation into Pete Hegseth's epic Signal chat mishap. ASAP.
There should be televised hearings so all Americans have transparency on how such an enormous breach of national security could take place in first place.
WHO ELSE AGREES with Pete?! 🤚
One word. Scaramucci.
