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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18h

Can’t Allow Elon Musk the Power to Intervene in Wars No individual should be able to disrupt military ops like Musk did with Ukraine’s. I wrote that when he did it in 2023. Was told the problem was contract rules. Nope. Happened again. The problem is too much power, esp for an enemy of democracy.

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The U.S. Government Can’t Allow Elon Musk the Power to Intervene in Wars

The billionaire’s interference in Ukrainian military operations shows he’s a national security risk. No private citizen should have that much power.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Trump has cut off intelligence to Ukraine so that Putin can more easily bomb civilians including children.

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Crow @cantankerouscrow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Honestly except for him being president still I’d probably have just said “so it’s going about as well as I thought it would” and just be pleased we survived this long, 😂

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Crow @cantankerouscrow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

AI generated sheet music, perhaps?

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Crow @cantankerouscrow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

In U-571, the battle with the German destroyer doesn’t make sense because by that time in the war German surface forces were not operating in the Atlantic / western approaches and had relocated to Norway / the Baltic.

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 11/10/2026

Elon: i’m going to send a data center to space! Zelenskyy, packing a repurposed Cessna full of composition 4: me too

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

ICYMI, great statement by former VP Mike Pence about Trump's betrayal of Ukraine. Scandal there's no one else left in Republican Party able to say it out loud.

President Trump's decision to lift sanctions on Russian fuel amidst Putin's ongoing and brutal attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine makes no sense and is a betrayal of the legacy and leadership of the late Senator Lindsey
Graham.
While Ukraine fights for its survival, Putin's war machine continues to prosecute his terrorist war on civilian populations and innocent Ukrainians are dying every day.
Now, Instead of implementing the tough sanctions Lindsey Graham fought to his last breath to enact, President Trump has announced the United States is lifting sanctions on Russian energy, fueling the Putin's war machine.
As I saw firsthand in Ukraine last month, Putin is losing this war. Ukraine has fought the Russian military to a standstill and reinvented warfare with drones taking the fight into the heart of Russia.
America should not be throwing a lifeline to Putin's war machine. Now is the time to stand strong against Russian aggression as we did during the first Trump administration.
Putin doesn't want peace. Putin wants Ukraine. I have no doubt that if Putin overruns Ukraine, it will only be a matter of time until Russia's military crosses a border that our troops will have to deal with him.
America is the Leader of the Free World. For our National Security, for the security of our Allies in Europe including Ukraine, President Trump should rescind this deal immediately and return to the strong policies of our four years in the White House; impose harsh sanctions on any nation purchasing Russian energy and work with our allies to ensure Ukraine has the military support it needs to repel and defeat this Russian invasion once and for all. Slava Ukraini

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Crow @cantankerouscrow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

My position is that anyone donating money should donate to senate races not these house races

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

So we are warring with Iran And Russia is supplying weaponry to Iran. And we are paying Russia to send us diesel fuel. Because we are warring with Iran the ships with the diesel can't get to us. So we are buying it from Russia, which... Yeah, this is some three-dimensional chess right here.

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Crow @cantankerouscrow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Better to win tight senate races and get both chambers.

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Crow @cantankerouscrow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I’m not convinced, the good bills that get through will just get vetoed and thus don’t matter. We’re better served putting all available cash into the senate races

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Crow @cantankerouscrow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Is there any point to winning these districts? In a scenario where we win them we will already have a healthy house majority, and we will just lose them again in ‘28 when things revert to the mean. What’s the pitch for spending money on these races?

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Crow @cantankerouscrow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Catching some of the lightning at the edge of hurricane #Isaias

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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

major democracies electing far-right populist governments

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Crow @cantankerouscrow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Dems should include a provision that if the bill is struck down the court’s annual appropriation is automatically re-set to $1

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The extremists on both sides are fighting for a single-state solution that denies the future of the other. and they have been doing so for a century. Pretending otherwise is what allows Hamas and Netanyahu to embrace and continue the bloodletting.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There's a shit-ton of actual anti-Semitism in the world today, but Netanyahu's fraudulent misuse of the term devalues it dangerously. Hamas is anti-Semitic and murderous. Netanyahu is a cynical, murderous shitheel. Mamdani is an American politician with a perverse impulse to tell blunt truths.

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Crow @cantankerouscrow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Take flyers at the depo or prelim, not at trial

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Crow @cantankerouscrow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why would you draft extensive legislation without requiring the teams to go back to the pac 10 and the other small conferences, or capping coach salaries?

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Crow @cantankerouscrow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think this is mostly right, but that Trump does have some beliefs, just ones that are dumb and/or immoral, like the idea that trade deficits are bad, tariffs are good, or that you can make assumptions about people based on race or nationality. He’s been consistent about these beliefs

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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 27/09/2026

What an odd moment in United States history. A U.S. president is running an overtly political camaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government. Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...

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A Trump 2024 Campaign Ad Returns, Now Brought to You by the Government (Gift Article)

The ad, which ethics experts said could violate federal law, shows Mr. Trump vowing to “expel the warmongers” from the government and fight the “deep state,” even as he wages a war with Iran.

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Crow @cantankerouscrow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s illegal for the president to use taxpayer money to do a partisan commercial during a football game right? Why am I seeing that on TV “funded by the US Government”?

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Crow @cantankerouscrow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Jensen Huang is incredibly unpersuasive in this interview with Ezra Klein, we’ve got to regulate / shut these guys down right away.

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Crow @cantankerouscrow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Estimate macros for this bowl of cottage cheese and ketchup [.jpg]

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Crow @cantankerouscrow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We’re going to have a good night in November but that will become increasingly rare as power is further consolidated by reactionary billionaires. This country is going down the tubes, one step forward two steps back

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I knew George W. Bush was a bad guy when I was 12. I am not surprised to see him behave poorly

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Crow @cantankerouscrow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Saving this one for a few months from now amidst super El Niño

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Micah @rincewind.run · 19/09/2026

new Stupidest Play Of All Time contender, holy shit

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Democratic strategists: Ahhh! What's the right message!!?? Where do we moderate!?!? Jon Ossoff: This administration is horrible. I hate these people. We should put them in jail. I'm pissed Voters: This guy is cool Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!!

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Reminder again that the President of the United States has no idea what a trade deficit is — a concept taught in high school econ. He thinks that if the US buys $500 of goods and services from Canada, and Canada buys $400 of goods and services from the US, we have “lost” $100.

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Crow @cantankerouscrow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You can relax, the article is paywalled, no one is going to read it

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Crow @cantankerouscrow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’m currently writing a novel set five years in the future which involves smugglers and it just got way more realistic unfortunately lol

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Crow @cantankerouscrow.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I look at that image and see a guy about to lose a fist

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Crow @cantankerouscrow.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is awful, but also … Glad we’re all talking about this dumb bullshit rather than the war we’ve lost or private development in Yosemite or 5 year olds being deported or how we’re only letting white people from South Africa in as refugees or regulation of AI

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Crow @cantankerouscrow.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: A new ship built in Murmansk travels across the Atlantic and is conveyed to a new owner off the coast of Maine after a few hiccups during the trip.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation.

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Crow @cantankerouscrow.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I thought he was a bigger McKinley fan

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Crow @cantankerouscrow.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Is this debate about whether the law should mandate helmet usage, or whether you, individual, should wear a helmet? This is novel to me; I’ve never heard of anti-helmet people except people who want to motorcycle without one.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Seriously wtf is wrong with the guy? And with our Congress for leaving him in this position? And with our country, for largely shrugging at all this?

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Shortly after taking office last year, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth polled the nation's top commanders about cutting a program designed to protect civilians during U.S. military operations.
Hegseth had bet senior officers would endorse his view that focusing on civilian security was
"woke" and out of step with "maximum lethality," current and former defense officials told ProPublica.
Instead, every commander rebuffed the idea.

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

really incredible. We’re 71 days to the midterms. But the states are manufacturing standing by trying to plan around an order intended to make mail in voting illegal

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