Don Moynihan

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

I think journalists, policymakers and good govt types are struggling to understand DOGE because their mental model is that it is a government reform commission, operating like previous ones. Maybe. But it might be better to start thinking about it as a hostile takeover of the govt by oligarchs.

We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.

Going to be wild to have Clarence Thomas and other members of the court write that even the appearance of impropriety is sufficient to allow the President to remove Federal Reserve members from office, and then head off to Harlan Crow’s yacht

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

This is an echo of the general election. The trans Democrat is blamed for "sparking" the crisis despite the fact she did nothing beyond be herself.

Before she arrived to DC, or made any demands, the GOP preemptively turned her identity into a political issue.

So, who is doing identity politics?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

all she did was exist

hate to praise Massie, but this is funny

Shout out to the media who participated in the most obvious misdirection ever

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social

The Executive Orders rolling out today were part of Project 2025, the part that was never made public, overseen by Russ Vought. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Within a week, there is going to be an opinion piece:
"I tried to break into the BlueSky echo chamber, but the so-called tolerant left would not talk to me."

Please register your predictions of author and venue.

"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago."
If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.

Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5) www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

EFF is Leaving X

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.

Reminder that Congress can stop this shitshow anytime they want.

"We are asking the Department of War to deploy to our cities" should be a statement that ends any Governor's political career.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry: "Tonight, we're sending the Department of War a request to send the National Guard, asking them to deploy the National Guard here in Louisiana into our cities like New Orleans and Baton Rogue and others."

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When the racist meme becomes national policy

When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.

Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social

Thanks to the OBBB, Amazon’s tax bill for 2025 is $1.2 billion, down from $9 billion the year before despite a 45% jump in profits.

Amazon's tax bill plunges after GOP tax cuts

The 87 percent drop is largely due to a more generous depreciation break in the 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act.'

A friend of my compared gutting of federal agencies to a wrecking a car: if you remove 30% of the parts of the car, it does not go 30% slower. It stops working.

Vance is here to grab content he can post on X, using your replies. Starve the beast.

So, a Fox personality calls for ICE to go to Dodger Stadium and then it happens a couple of days later.
Our leaders now just getting their marching orders from right wing media.

Feel like one political party kidnapping an opponent should be bigger news

MS NOW @ms.now

NEW: “I’ve had enough…I’m refusing to back down.” Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier speaks to MSNBC from the Texas State Capitol. She is stuck there after the Texas GOP required police surveillance as condition for release. She is refusing to sign a waiver for the law enforcement escort.

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I am begging the national media to start taking this seriously.

Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause."

They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social

NEW — OMB temporarily pauses all agency grants and loans programs. Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."

In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on

Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social

Four more top #CDC officials have submitted their resignation in the past few hours - Debra Houry (chief medical officer), Demere Daskalakis (director of NCIRD), Daniel Jernigan (director of NCEZID) + Jen Layden (director of OPHDST) www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... It is horrifying

CDC director pushed out, flood of top resignations follow

The ouster comes at a tumultuous time for the embattled health agency. Other top officials also submitted their resignations Wednesday.

Getting a lot of replies along the lines of "oh, you rube, you still think the law matters" and it feels strategically foolish to just concede that it doesn't. Contest everything. Expose the hypocrisy.

Don't want to speak ill of the dead, so getting this Mitch McConnell take out now.
He saw Trump with complete clarity, as a danger to America, but protected him anyway.
Perhaps more than anyone, he had the power to end Trumpism, but chose party over country.
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