iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

The president of the United States is extorting the Federal Reserve Board Chairman by threatening criminal prosecution if he doesn't lower interest rates. DOJ is compromised, legacy media is cowed and Big Law is AWOL. As I wrote last year: "We are on our own."

democracydocket.com

We Are on Our Own

From Marc | Our institutions are not going to save us. Only we can do that.

391141555499

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

It’s time to make corporate #Democrats scared shitless of the people again. #TheTraitorousTen

010

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

@chrislhayes.bsky.social It’s time to make corporate Democrats scared shitless of the people again. #TheTraitorousTen

000

Reposted by ComDocH

Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

Scatterplot titled “Empirical Evidence of Ideological Targeting in Federal Layoffs: Agencies seen as liberal are significantly more likely to face DOGE layoffs.”
• The x-axis represents Perceived Ideological Leaning of federal agencies, ranging from -2 (Most Liberal) to +2 (Most Conservative), based on survey responses from over 1,500 federal executives.
• The y-axis shows Agency Size (Number of Staff) on a logarithmic scale from 1,000 to 1,000,000.

Each point represents a federal agency:
• Red dots indicate agencies that experienced DOGE layoffs.
• Gray dots indicate agencies with no layoffs.

Key Observations:
• Liberal-leaning agencies (left side of the plot) are disproportionately represented among red dots, indicating higher layoff rates.
• Notable targeted agencies include:
• HHS (Health & Human Services)
• EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)
• NIH (National Institutes of Health)
• CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)
• Dept. of Education
• USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development)
• The National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE), despite its conservative leaning (+1 on the scale), is an exception among targeted agencies.
• A notable outlier: the Department of Veterans Affairs (moderately conservative) also faced layoffs despite its size.

Takeaway:

The figure visually demonstrates that DOGE layoffs disproportionately targeted liberal-leaning agencies, supporting claims of ideological bias. The pattern reveals that layoffs were not driven by agency size or budget alone but were strongly associated with perceived ideology.

Source: Richardson, Clinton, & Lewis (2018). Elite Perceptions of Agency Ideology and Workforce Skill. The Journal of Politics, 80(1).

251106234758

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Kash Patel should be prosecuted, not confirmed. #KashPatel #trump

020

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

File Under: Last Night’s Criterion Collection #Welles is at his peak in this adaptation of The Trial by #Kafka. The police arrive to arrest Josef K (Anthony Perkins), but no one will tell him the charges. It’s claustrophobic, paranoid, unsettling, absurd. Perfect for our current times.

030

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Remember, these are not good people. Andrew Taake, who received a presidential pardon, was arrested by a fugitive task force in Texas for soliciting a minor. #jan6 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

independent.co.uk

Newly-pardoned Jan 6 rioter rearrested on child solicitation charges

‘He must answer for 2016 charge of soliciting a minor online,’ said Harris County authorities

000

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

If you are wondering why #Musk went after USAid with a vengence, it’s because #USAid helped end apartheid in South Africa. Since Musk is a racist, he hates that. www.flyingpenguin.com?p=65793&fbcl...

flyingpenguin.com

Elon Musk’s Angry USAID Grudge Explained: Revenge for Ending South African Apartheid | flyingpenguin

000

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I guess she’s “concerned.”

000

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Working my way through the #CriterionCollection of films. Last night it was Rita Hayworth as the gorgeous but damaged titular character in a love triangle with the despicable Mundson (Macready) and the “read between the lines” likely bi-sexual Farrell (Glenn Ford). #movies #film #classic #gilda

000

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Right-wing men calling #Trump “daddy” is not the flex they think it it. #betaboys

000

Reposted by ComDocH

Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

This is a line Democrats should revisit on Vought from @schatz.bsky.social: "Why doesn’t government run like a business? Let me tell you why: because if you ran government like a business, you would shut down every rural hospital.”

571604368

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I don’t want to hear people who bought a $70,000 #truck to run errands telling people that a #college #education is a waste of money. #morons

000

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The #Trump administration needs to be drowned in lawsuits, subpoenas, phone calls, emails, strikes, and every other way they can be cock-blocked.

000

Reposted by ComDocH

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Mitch McConnell: Tariffs "will drive the cost of everything up. In other words, it will be paid for by American consumers. I mean, why would you want to get in a fight with your allies over this?"

3512244185340

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

#Obama should have closed #GITMO like he promised he would. This stain on America keeps getting worse and worse and worse. Immigrants aren’t terrorists. Or are they? By using Guantanamo Bay, #Trump is inferring they may well be.

slate.com

Trump’s Gitmo Detention Center Would Be Bigger Than History’s Worst Concentration Camps

Like the border wall, building a detention center for migrants in Guantanamo Bay is nothing new. The scale, though, is frighteningly new.

010

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

@theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social “Why now?” regarding TikTok. Because our oligarchs didn’t like that we weren’t buying their narratives about the economy, Gaza, healthcare, housing, or about them. TikTok allowed us a workaround and a way to organize, a way to fight the system that is crushing us.

000

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Meta ranks this as 100% accurate!

010

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” - Warren Buffett #marx #taxtherich then #eattherich

000

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

They thought we were gonna move to Meta and X. 🤣

000

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Sometimes it’s all about the orange ass. #trump #zuckerberg

010

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

An idea for a wealth tax. Anything over $5Billion goes into the government coffers. If you can’t live on $5Billion, you’ll just have to lift yourself up by your bootstraps.

040

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

In case you needed a reminder, Elon Musk is trash.

220

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

@marcelias.bsky.social - Great interview on The Weekend this morning. Thank you for all your work and those glimmers of hope!

020

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

At this point I may just give up and go back to cable #youtubetv

020

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The left is saying we need a Joe Rogan. We had a Joe Rogan. His name was Joe Rogan. He endorsed Bernie Sanders. And then the Democratic Machine attacked them both. Then Joe Rogan left the left. #democrats #theleft #berniesanders #joerogan

020

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

So, it seems people are ok murdering a person in a mental health crisis rather than getting that person help. #America #jordanneely

010

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

When the Uni is on a two hour delay, you can’t get out of your driveway, and therefore you are going to teach online. It is a good day. #ETSU

010