Somewhere in Seattle @charlie62.bsky.social · 12/05/2026AOC: You can’t ‘earn’ a billion dollars - USA TODAY 000 0
Somewhere in Seattle @charlie62.bsky.social · 11/05/2026The Iran war doesn’t just raise gas prices for Americans. It means people will starve in Sudan. Sudan was already at war and hungry. Now its farmers are hit by another conflict. - The Associated Press 000 0
Reposted by Somewhere in SeattleAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever. 885334827223 0
Reposted by Somewhere in SeattleAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Orban made grand appeals to “Christianity” and “Western Civilization,” but his “illiberal democracy” was just a scam, a way to make him and his buddies rich while subjecting Hungarians to stagnation and robbing them of their freedom. Sound familiar? (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... 533425968 0
Reposted by Somewhere in SeattleGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/04/2026"[Donald Trump] doesn't care about the distinction between truth and lies. And so does he know he's lying? It doesn't matter to him. Truth has no meaning to him. All that has any meaning to him in any given moment, is whether or not he's receiving praise, or adulation or some kind of a reward. ... 551374343 0
Somewhere in Seattle @charlie62.bsky.social · 28/01/2026“We have a society now that selects for people who are excellent at getting attention, not necessarily people who are competent at the work that they do.” - Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social @thebulwark.com podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...podcasts.apple.comAdam Serwer and Bobby Pulido: MAGA Got Proven WrongPodcast Episode · The Bulwark Podcast · 01/28/2026 · 57m 000 0
Somewhere in Seattle @charlie62.bsky.social · 26/01/2026“Over Trump’s past year, what originally looked like an effort to make the government his personal plaything has drifted distinctly toward doctrinal and operational fascism.” Jonathan Rauch @jonrauch.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comYes, It’s FascismUntil recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny. 000 0
Somewhere in Seattle @charlie62.bsky.social · 26/01/2026“The point here isn’t hypocrisy; it’s them nakedly asserting that constitutional rights are for us, not you.” - Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...nytimes.comOpinion | ‘We Are Creating the Conditions for a Catastrophe.’ Three Columnists on Minneapolis. 000 0
Reposted by Somewhere in SeattleThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13/10/2025"I can't remember the quotation exactly, but it's like 'when fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and wearing the cross.' Mike Johnson's the real embodiment of that." - @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social 11447711345 0
Reposted by Somewhere in SeattleHome of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 13/10/2025On October 18th, millions of brave Americans will stand up and peacefully protest against the authoritarian disease metastasizing under Donald Trump. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. @gtconway.bsky.social 20296663153 0
Reposted by Somewhere in SeattleWashington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 01/10/2025"Pete Hegseth is so intent on creating a tough military that having a smart one appears secondary," David Ignatius writes. wapo.st/4gV2Y58wapo.stOpinion | Trump and Hegseth’s backward-facing message to the generalsA preoccupation with “woke” culture and “enemies” won’t prepare the military for the high-tech demands of 21st-century war. 1276 0
Somewhere in Seattle @charlie62.bsky.social · 22/08/2025@bencasselman.bsky.social important article on the real impact of Trump 2.0. 010 0
Somewhere in Seattle @charlie62.bsky.social · 22/08/2025The damage he is doing to all of our institutions will take a generation or more to repair (legal, academic, economic, medical, statistical, military, research,…intelligence). We now live in a different America. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/b...nytimes.comTrump’s Attacks on Institutions Threaten a Bulwark of Economic Strength 010 0
Somewhere in Seattle @charlie62.bsky.social · 15/08/2025@markzandi.bsky.social That’s OK Trump will just change the numbers. There are no experts anymore and no “credible” data. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...washingtonpost.comOpinion | This number is bad news for the economyLow unemployment is great, but only if it’s due to lots of new jobs, not an evaporating labor force. 010 0
Somewhere in Seattle @charlie62.bsky.social · 15/08/2025That’s OK Trump will just change the numbers. There are no experts anymore and no more credible data. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...washingtonpost.comOpinion | This number is bad news for the economyLow unemployment is great, but only if it’s due to lots of new jobs, not an evaporating labor force. 000 0
Somewhere in Seattle @charlie62.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Thank you @rhodesben.bsky.social for your brilliant contextual outline of how we got here and how we might imagine our future way out. How Short-Term Thinking Is Destroying America www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...nytimes.comOpinion | How Short-Term Thinking Is Destroying America 000 0
Reposted by Somewhere in SeattleSarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 03/08/2025If you’re an immigrant with legal status who’s committed 0 crimes you can be sent to a torture prison where you’ll be raped and dehumanized. If you’re old pals with Trump and ran a pedophile ring you get sent to a cushy minimum security prison despite being ineligible because you’re a sex offender. 6630801116 0
Somewhere in Seattle @charlie62.bsky.social · 03/08/2025This is setting us up for the next financial crash in the US. It will be the “crypto crash”. Working Americans will pay the price to bail out greedy speculating crypto. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...washingtonpost.comOpinion | The road map to making America a crypto superpowerThe Trump administration is making America the “crypto capital of the world.” 000 0
Reposted by Somewhere in SeattleRae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 19/07/2025#BookSky 535390867772 0
Somewhere in Seattle @charlie62.bsky.social · 19/07/2025It’s easy to scapegoat performing on a campaign. But once you are in control of governing, there’s nowhere to point the finger. Trump and his Maga cult need an enemy. But the dog caught the car. MAGA’s New Target: Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/o...nytimes.comOpinion | MAGA’s New Target: Trump 010 0
Somewhere in Seattle @charlie62.bsky.social · 29/06/2025If it’s not documented… it didn’t happen… you can’t prove anything… nothing is true… www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comThe first rule in Trump’s Washington: Don’t write anything downA new culture of secrecy in government is taking root – among career staffers and new political appointees alike. 000 0
Reposted by Somewhere in SeattleChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Just to be crystal clear: bombing Iran is completely illegal. 1961489049136 0
Reposted by Somewhere in SeattleThe Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 18/06/2025When ICE agents look like this, it is ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE for state and local law enforcement to step in and demand they identify themselves and show judicial warrants before detaining anyone from an immigration court. Democratic mayor and governors can take action on this. 60965042079 0
Somewhere in Seattle @charlie62.bsky.social · 12/06/2025This is because we don’t have a Congress. The third branch of government is supposed to restrain a lawless president. All we have is the judicial system, which is slow by nature. It was never meant to handle the problem we are in. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...nytimes.comIn Trump’s Washington, ‘You Don’t Leave Home Without Your Lawyer’ 000 0
Somewhere in Seattle @charlie62.bsky.social · 12/06/2025I think the American dream is over. Reading the comments I can relate. We all have our own version of this, some worse than others depending on our particular demographic. This is the new America we are all living through. It’s important to face the truth. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/o...nytimes.comOpinion | No Home, No Retirement, No Kids: How Gen Z-ers See Their Future 000 0
Somewhere in Seattle @charlie62.bsky.social · 10/06/2025@mashagessen.bsky.social speaks to what each of us can do in the space that is shrinking! 000 0
Somewhere in Seattle @charlie62.bsky.social · 09/06/2025How do we prepare for this inevitability? @davidfrum.bsky.social #2026midterms www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...theatlantic.comFor Trump, This Is a Dress RehearsalOrdering the National Guard to deploy in Los Angeles is a warning of what to expect when his hold on power is threatened. 000 0
Somewhere in Seattle @charlie62.bsky.social · 07/06/2025“Trumpism is a kind of authoritarian autoimmune disease, one that has been ravaging the American body politic for so long that there are fewer small-d democratic antibodies left to fight it off” @adamserwer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...theatlantic.comTrump Is Wearing America DownLess than a decade ago, the Trump administration's travel ban sparked an outcry. Today, people seem far more willing to accept such a policy. 000 0
Reposted by Somewhere in SeattleMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/06/2025It's incredible how we've just totally normalized "A bunch of random dudes are bypassing every federal law to plunder the government" & no one seems to care. Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history, & well 🤷♂️ 417957 0
Somewhere in Seattle @charlie62.bsky.social · 02/06/2025This is an uncomfortable truth that does not fit with the American myth we’ve all been taught. Saying “yes” to an “opportunity” that “time and chance” has brought to your door is most likely the real reason for success. www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/03/...cnbc.com'Captain America' star Anthony Mackie: 'We're lying to our kids' when we say success comes just from hard work—luck is key, tooMarvel star Anthony Mackie says success has as much to do with luck and connections as with talent. Highly successful people like Mark Cuban agree. 000 0
Somewhere in Seattle @charlie62.bsky.social · 01/06/2025@dgraham.bsky.social explains how a failed con man finally succeeded. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...theatlantic.comTrump’s Most Successful Business VentureHis office is bringing in money—at the expense of the American people. 000 0
Reposted by Somewhere in SeattleKara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Read this excellent piece by @karenattiah.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...washingtonpost.comOpinion | The budding bromance between authoritarianism and techBefore he was killed, Jamal Khashoggi described the dark side of Saudi Arabia’s push to modernize. 35911237 0
Reposted by Somewhere in SeattleOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/05/2025the modern information environment 1144020880 0
Somewhere in Seattle @charlie62.bsky.social · 29/05/2025 Glad there are voices like @karenattiah.bsky.social still speaking clearly! This is an eye-opening opinion piece. Welcome to the new American tech authoritarian world. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...washingtonpost.com 1188 0
Somewhere in Seattle @charlie62.bsky.social · 28/05/2025 A sobering wake up call… thank you @mashagessen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Beware: We Are Entering a New Phase of the Trump Era 000 0
Somewhere in Seattle @charlie62.bsky.social · 27/05/2025 Amazing discussion with @anandwrites.bsky.social and @catherinebracy.com open.substack.com/pub/anandwri...open.substack.comHow venture capital broke AmericaTechnologist and author Catherine Bracy on what went wrong in Silicon Valley and how to rebuild after the broligarchs burn it all down 021 0
Somewhere in Seattle @charlie62.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Thank you, Apple. Money is always the answer to 99 questions out of 100. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/books/re…nytimes.comApple Used China to Make a Profit. What China Got in Return Is Scarier. 000 0
Reposted by Somewhere in SeattleThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/05/2025🇺🇸 “Rolling Stone reached out to all 53 GOP senators after the president said he didn't know whether he needs to honor the nation's founding document. None replied.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... 1453226169761 0
Somewhere in Seattle @charlie62.bsky.social · 08/05/2025 It’s calm before the storm. But we are about to hit an iceberg. www.newsweek.com/seattle-port...newsweek.com"We currently have no container ships," Seattle port saysSeattle port commissioner Ryan Calkins described the decline in activity as "a stark reminder" of the impact of tariffs. 000 0
Reposted by Somewhere in SeattleMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Trump's 100 days in 100 seconds. From yours truly. Watch/share/subscribe: zeteo.com/subscribe 792310812 0
Somewhere in Seattle @charlie62.bsky.social · 17/04/2025@peter-wehner.bsky.social sobering article mentions “narcissistic collapse” as a possible scenario. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...theatlantic.comAmerica’s Mad KingThe president has grown more impulsive, more vindictive, and more anarchic. 000 0
Reposted by Somewhere in SeattleAndrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 16/04/2025“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943 267136886065 0
Somewhere in Seattle @charlie62.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio said that he is worried about a breakdown of the global monetary order. 100 0
Somewhere in Seattle @charlie62.bsky.social · 13/04/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/b... “The whole world has decided that the U.S. government has no idea what it’s doing,” said Mark Blyth, a political economist at Brown Universitynytimes.comTrump Has Added Risk to the Surest Bet in Global FinanceShocked by Trump’s trade war, foreign investors are selling U.S. government bonds, long the world’s safe haven. 000 0
Reposted by Somewhere in SeattlePeter Wehner @peter-wehner.bsky.social · 05/04/2025"As disinformation increases, and as more and more individuals and institutions go silent, it becomes ever more important for truth tellers to speak up, if only to assure those who don’t believe the propaganda that they’re not losing their mind." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...theatlantic.comTrump Is Gaslighting UsTrump is an agent of chaos, and chaos has a human cost. 5339 0
Reposted by Somewhere in SeattleJonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Decline is a choice. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...open.substack.comThe American Age Is OverEmergency Triad: The United States commits imperial suicide. 471033258 0
Reposted by Somewhere in SeattleSenator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 28/03/2025We should all be terrified to live in an America where legal residents can be detained, held at gunpoint, or deported because of the color of their skin or because the President disagrees with their views. 1585223846058 0
Reposted by Somewhere in SeattleMark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 29/03/2025“The Bureau employs some 2,000 people in the city of 29,000.” The Red Rural Recession. www.thedailybeast.com/maga-junkie-...thedailybeast.com‘MAGA Junkie’ Fired in DOGE Cuts Now Regrets Voting for Trump: ‘I Expected Better’“I was a MAGA junkie, a MAGA junkie who thought her government job would be safe with Donald Trump in office,” says West Virginia woman fired from the Bureau of Fiscal Service. 4829306176296 0
Somewhere in Seattle @charlie62.bsky.social · 29/03/2025“A.I. wants workers who make decisions based on expertise without an institution that creates and certifies that expertise. Expertise without experts.” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Actually, A.I. Is Pretty MidA.I. is just what we need in the post-fact era: less research and more predicting what we want to hear. 010 0
Somewhere in Seattle @charlie62.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Trump is going to give us a militarized globe, crash the global economy, and destroy our alliances. It’s not difficult to guess what the results of that might be. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/w...nytimes.comRattled by Trump, America’s Allies Shift to Defense ModeThe new auto tariffs are straining relations with U.S. allies and deepening doubts about America’s reliability as a partner. 000 0
