trickle-down fascism. soon it will be you and me.
remember Andy McCabe & Comey's intrusive audits? in addition to bogus "prosecutions" (and illegal abductions of course) all agencies including IRS will be turned against Garfield Anus' perceived enemies #RevengeTour
People forget AOC started her career before being sworn in stumping America w Bernie dissing, among others, Sharice Davids, an indigenous woman. Her entitlement and privilege are overwhelming.
It’s a social media op boosted by bots. In real life, AOC is a joke since she touted defund the police and chased Amazon out of her district. And her endorsement is poison.
Again, AOC Voters need AOC to be the center of everything. Even Black Congresswomen (more skilled than AOC) cannot do ANYTHING without AOC's support.
Fauxgressives...we see your racism, and it's not good:
US-Vizepräsident J.D. Vance besucht an Ostern Rom, den Vatikan - und hatte wohl auf eine Begegnung mit dem Papst gehofft. Daraus wurde bislang nichts. Alle Entwicklungen im USA-Blog.
Yes
‘We can’t run against Republicans that’s too scary :( we can only challenge people in safely blue seats!’
It’s almost like y’all aren’t as slick as you pretend to be at this.
Trump and the GOP: "Tariffs aren't a hidden tax on consumers."
AutoZone CEO: "We will pass those tariff costs back to the consumer."
Best Buy CEO: "Tariffs at this level will result in price increases."
abcnews.go.com/Business/com...
Aka Putin is prepping a surprise attack on Easter
The latest from this weekend in North Carolina. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump admin officials who have conceded that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was erroneously removed to El Salvador:
1. Solicitor General John Sauer, in a filing at SCOTUS
2. ICE official Robert Cerna, in a sworn declaration
3. DOJ lawyer Erez Reuveni, in court filings and at a hearing
Balaji Srinivasan suggests giving Elon Musk “control of a huge swath of land surrounding Starbase, Texas” & designate that land as “a military base or … similar, so that [Musk] can fence it off & determine at his sole discretion who can enter.” Then replicate in other states w/ other Tech Bros. 1/
![Palantir @PalantirTech • 26m
Dropping at select colleges today.
[Embedded image of a billboard ad:]
A moment of reckoning has
arrived for the West.
Our culture has fallen into shallow consumerism while abandoning national purpose. Too few in Silicon Valley have asked what ought to be built - and why.
We did.
We built Palantir to ensure America's future, not to tinker at the margins. On the factory floor, in the operating room, across the battlefield - we build to dominate.
Join us.
[signed by the Palantir founder]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreibnnhk4kfvgsvqnrjitt27efuetj44x5opwvjayzgrr55eqa5eive@jpeg)
Palantir @PalantirTech • 26m Dropping at select colleges today. [Embedded image of a billboard ad:] A moment of reckoning has arrived for the West. Our culture has fallen into shallow consumerism while abandoning national purpose. Too few in Silicon Valley have asked what ought to be built - and why. We did. We built Palantir to ensure America's future, not to tinker at the margins. On the factory floor, in the operating room, across the battlefield - we build to dominate. Join us. [signed by the Palantir founder]
You don’t have to be particularly sharp to decipher the code here.
But if you need someone to say it, this is a major technology company and a sizable defense and intelligence contractor publicly declaring, with only the thinnest patina of deniability, that its cause is white nationalism.
👀
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not a Jon Stewart/Crossfire moment (Jon himself is an unreliable narrator these days) but WaPo journalist @joshrogin.bsky.social deserves a lot of credit for calmly, nicely telling Bill what he did was appeasement
(Josh would be a better Real Time host if I'm honest. funny and knowledgeable.)
saw #RealTime in person and watched every week (even recapped for my blog) before Bill went fruit loops/looney tunes so I feel mildly qualified to say: that incremental operation “own annoying libs” is complete
Here’s some info about the chief legal officer of Mills’ international arms sales company, who was COO of Blackwater during the massacre, involved in Jan 6 Pence plot, and a Project 2025 guy. threadreaderapp.com/thread/19111...
While reading all this, consider that Cory Mills—a literal international arms dealer—is on both the Armed Services Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee (where he chairs the intel/oversight subcommittee)
Here’s from tonight.
In 2021 Cory Mills created a secret nonprofit he hasn't disclosed to House Ethics. His own congressional office promoted it. He used it, apparently, to fund rescue missions in Afghanistan & Israel—missions he & others told reporters were funded by others.
x.com/Sollenberger...
GOP Rep. Cory Mills is on Foreign Affairs & Armed Services. He also bashes Ukraine. He also has an international arms company that has made millions sending weapons to Ukraine while he served on those committees — including to state-owned arms maker SpetsTechnoExport. x.com/Sollenberger...
Just starting out on Bluesky, so this will be my first. I’ve been posting a bunch of absolutely crazy stories about GOP Rep. Cory Mills on Twitter—he’s like George Santos, but it’s far more serious. Some folks have compiled them on ThreadReader. Here’s the first.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19108...
“Needless to say, Defendants were under no obligation to take
action under the court’s order while it was administratively stayed by the Chief
Justice of the United States” is a pretty bold thing to say when the order was in effect for 3+ days before the stay issued
Patrick Davis, Donald Trump’s pick to be an Assistant Attorney General, pledged to respond to oversight requests “in a matter of days or weeks, not months.”
DOJ has failed to answer for two months.
He must keep his word to Congress and respond to Republicans AND Democrats alike.
Honestly, Trump imitates him quite closely
A military officer in a dark blue uniform adorned with various medals, standing in front of an American flag backdrop.
Colonel Susan Meyers of the US Space Force, stationed at Pituffik Space Base in Greenland, was removed from her command after criticizing Vance’s unneeded and costly visit to Greenland. She stated her loyalty to the US and the law and not to politicians so Trump got rid of her.
This can be summarized as "pound sand, Your Honor."
Indeed, this is *exactly* what's wrong with last night's #SCOTUS ruling, as I wrote about in this morning's newsletter:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/141-abrego...
Everyone saw this coming. And yet the Court did what it did anyway.
