Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/02/2025It's baffling to me because, to me, the absolute best part of becoming very very rich would be never having to care what anyone else thinks of you ever again! But the social instinct to Impress The Older Boys is very strong in the former-nerd rich kid demographic our billionaire class is drawn from 81785 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/02/2025There it is. Good. 1043505415 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/02/2025"There's so much fraud, waste, and abuse." "Can you give us an example?" "Oh ho ... trust us, there's so much fraud, waste and abuse, you wouldn't believe it." "Try me! Just one." "Sorry, there's too much fraud, waste, and abuse. I can't pick out just one instance of fraud, waste, and abuse." 1813221603 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/02/2025Jeffries: "Let me be clear -- House Democrats will not provide a single vote to this reckless Republican budget. Not one. Not one." 758136932560 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/02/2025You know what type of people a $5 million "Gold Card" for US citizenship will attract? Successful criminals and state-sponsored spies. Well done, Donald, after years of accusing Democrats of using immigration to bring unsavory people to the US, you prove that you were, once again, just projecting. 31888732529 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/02/2025Pritzker: "We're talking about the death of a constitutional republic. That's what happened in Germany in 1933, 1934. And we're seeing today that we've got an administration in Washington that's ignoring court orders." 6963402310135 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialCasey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 25/02/2025NEW: Google used to warn you when you were seeing low-quality search results. Then, in the weeks leading up to the 2024 election, the company quietly turned that warning off www.platformer.news/google-data-... 122149924471 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialChris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Here is your daily required* reading of me blithering on assorted topics *not really requiredspectrumnews1.comFormer UCLA, NFL punter arrested at Huntington Beach City Council meetingChris Kluwe arrested at Huntington Beach City Council meeting 1784739468 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialGary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 25/02/2025"We all know it intuitively." COME ON. 4849560 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialGary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 25/02/2025I wrote a bit about this yesterday for Wonkette, because it's driving me nuts. If there's so much gov't fraud - not just Medicaid, but everywhere - it should be trivially easy to give examples. Instead they just keep repeating this as if saying it will make it true. bsky.app/profile/kevi... 44115 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 26/02/2025It's wild that one of the things that was intended to radicalize people towards the right was years of reporting on a manufactured shoplifting epidemic only for us to be where we are now, witnessing the biggest and most materially deadly smash and grab in US history. 301594311 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 25/02/2025When Musk’s role in govt or in FAA oversight was under consideration, perhaps it was fair to say “raising concerns about conflicts.” When he announced SpaceX would redesign the ATC system, that was at least a clear conflict. Now they’re buying SpaceX products to do it, it is just plain corruption. 1142911944 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialHunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Imagine being on vacay in Mexico and getting a call informing you that while you were out of town your asshole bosses wrote your name in as the head of their Doing Crimes Department. 548683 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialDave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 25/02/2025lol 731508304 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Pretty much every DOGE employee and Trump cabinet member has committed worse crimes than just about anyone currently incarcerated. 520562 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/02/2025The deranged DOGE rats have fired Yosemite National Park’s *locksmith*. www.instagram.com/p/DGLxMKbyKw... 503048873 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialSarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy 41467403484 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialTammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 26/02/2025Secretary of Defense Hegseth says he doesn’t know if Russia invaded Ukraine. This you? 946217806766 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 26/02/2025The language, as described, is superfluous. It is already constitutional and federal statutory law that the administration must spend the money that Congress appropriates. Congress’s power of the purse fundamental to our system of government. And yet, it’s a red line for Republicans to include it. 511634402 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 27/02/2025Finally. A major media outlet has finally reported on Trump’s total travel ban for transgender visa applicants seeking the United States. I had to scream for two days to get someone else to report on it. It is NOT just for athletes. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...the-independent.comState Department visa policy could bar trans people from traveling to U.S.Violations could result in travel bans beyond just athletes 8857262086 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 27/02/2025feel like one problem of Trump is that describing him objectively sounds like you're insulting him 2297293 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 27/02/2025I think about this a lot 27968137 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 27/02/2025I'm convinced this is a genuine problem. The reality of Trump is so cartoonishly, comically awful that an absolutely neutral description sounds like a hit piece, even to me. So if you're at all predisposed to think of press as biased, factual reporting looks like some relentless vendetta. 352341463 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 27/02/2025I'd wager a nontrivial cause of declining trust in press is precisely that people are accustomed to an era of politics where objective coverage generally sounded somewhat even-handed. And suddenly one party is constantly talked about like inept comic book supervillains. 633926 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 27/02/2025And this is, of course, because one party has been taken over by a buffoonish comic book supervillain. But because this seems incredible to people—surely the American public wouldn't elect someone THAT terrible—they instead decide press are getting more biased. 735027 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/02/2025Quite the message from the guy running our government 3875268285358 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/02/2025110 of 363 Taxpayer Assistance Centers and 5 of 10 call centers are going to be shut down, per a meeting that just happened at the IRS. During tax season. 12727501244 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Legit, I think a large reason why were here is that we somehow got psyoped into thinking feeling shame automatically means you’re the victim because you’re uncomfortable. 1456783 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 28/02/2025also Mad Max is NOT a warlord! that is a HUGE part of his character! he is a consumate loner who MURDERS WARLORDS 57198284 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 28/02/2025"Liberalism’s devotion to fairness and belief in the honor system has made it incapable of taking its own side against those who would replace it with fascism."thebulwark.comThe Washington Post and Autocracy’s Asymmetric AdvantageLiberalism is afraid to take its own side. 33637156 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialErin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Where I grew up (New Mexico), they literally renamed Medicaid so that more doctors would accept it!!!! People don’t know, and in an ideal world, that would make sense. But still, it’s so bad when there is no good class-based organizing 417059 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialSJ Worrier @sjworrier.bsky.social · 28/02/2025We’ve got a friend in Wisconsin who said she wasn’t worried about potential cuts to Medicaid because she and her 3 kids don’t need it - they’re on BadgerCare. She was stunned when I told her they were all on Medicaid. Protecting people from shame by renaming MA has definite downsides. 663367869 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Bears repeating that social security is incredibly INCREDIBLY efficient to run. Its overhead costs are basically zero when you consider the size of the undertaking and the genuine benefits delivered. If anyone was interested in improving govt efficiency, the SSA would be their model not their target 7356191553 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Not only is SSA historically efficient, they keep getting better and more efficient! www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/a... 14906189 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 27/02/2025The state has been captured and is being stripped for parts, folks. www.cnn.com/2025/02/27/b... 37560951823 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialDr. Larissa @rissarwx.bsky.social · 27/02/2025All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public. 895221107297 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Every day we all log on and see which vital Jenga piece some rapist nazi has pulled out of the infrastructure of human civilization while giggling deep in a k-hole. 39122 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/02/2025That fact even Ron DeSantis and Dave Portnoy are repulsed by the Trump administration’s effort to free the Tate brothers means this is a useful thing we can exploit to get normal people to turn on the regime. “Trump and Musk are importing rapists to rape your American daughters” is *true*. 472799729 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialPossible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 28/02/2025I mean, women and girls face significantly more at risk in public restrooms from the Tate brothers than from every transgender person combined. 132049 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/02/2025I love having to root for the America that I know as a neoliberal market-driven hell hole over the America that I know as a fascist militaristic ethnostate. 1133541 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialCaroline Casey @cacasey.bsky.social · 27/02/2025I am way less interested in "believed lies that would benefit them" than I am in "didn't care who else got hurt" 622348362 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 27/02/2025There is no explicit Constitutional prohibition against human trafficking, so it's hard for me to see why liberals dislike the Tate brothers so much. by Jonathan Turley 833155312 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025They just fired hundreds of FAA employees. 44094047710635 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialbrie “Stupid Twink” monger @stupidtwink.bsky.social · 27/02/2025i like how the prank of rickrolling was just making somebody listen to a popular and generally well liked song. like, haha, made you listen to one of the 80’s best pop hits, you loser 1496506774 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialGodspeed You! BOOsky Emperor @andrewpaul.bsky.social · 27/02/2025could always be worse, i guess www.popsci.com/science/moun...popsci.comMount Vesuvius eruption turned a victim’s brain into glassThe 2,000-year-old remains are the only known examples of their kind. 410916 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 28/02/2025there is really going to be no option but to prosecute these people the second they are out of power if we ever want a chance to fix this country 1114253873 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 28/02/2025there is no better future for this country in which we don't become the Land of A Thousand Nurembergs 402089264 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialStephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 27/02/2025…rubella (MMR) vaccine, which is safe and effective. Vaccines are an essential tool to keeping children and adults safe and healthy. There are currently at least two confirmed measles outbreaks in the United States — in West Texas and New Mexico. In the last 24 hours in Texas, a child died… 7754245 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialStephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 27/02/2025…hearing loss, blindness, and death. Survivors of measles remain at risk. There is a possibility of developing a degenerative brain and nervous system disease known as subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. The potentially deadly disease of measles can be prevented with the measles, mumps and… 6693182 0
Reposted by @devouringdavid.bsky.socialStephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 27/02/2025…most contagious viruses in the world. Prevention of the disease is essential to preserving health, and even survival. A measles infection can have a number of particularly devastating complications for pregnant women and young children, including pneumonia, severe neurological impairment… 6726196 0