Reposted by Guy That Does His JobCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/03/2025(NYT) - President Trump inherited an economy that was, by most conventional measures, firing on all cylinders. .. Just weeks into Mr. Trump’s term, the outlook is gloomier. @nytimes.com @bencasselman.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/b... 49656193
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/03/2025“.. Witness Trump’s bizarre pattern of threatening small countries and allies instead of adversaries — nations from Canada to Denmark and Panama. Whereas the US used to attract other countries by promising to enhance their safety and freedom, it now repels them.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti... 26621151
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Just a quick observation that amid all the turmoil created by the Zelensky meeting, this got completely ignored: A Chinese citizen paid Trump $50 million for the SEC to drop its charges against him. 411333640
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/02/2025This man is barely even a formal government employee, let alone elected or Senate-confirmed. A total failure of the Constitutional order, just broadcast & normalized by every major media outlet. 16056241317
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/02/2025The deranged DOGE rats have fired Yosemite National Park’s *locksmith*. www.instagram.com/p/DGLxMKbyKw... 503049873
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobJoe Weisenthal @weisenthal.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Had never heard of this restaurant chain, and now it's the largest in the world by store count 4122722
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobSam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Shot: We must stop the politicization of the Justice Department once and for all Chaser: "As President Trump's lawyers...." 1220137
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 24/02/2025ding ding ding 592165362
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobMichael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 24/02/2025At a London bus stop. The Brits are telling it like it is. 70112712519
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 21/02/2025If your adversary can't believe their luck, either you're very, very bad at negotiating, or you don't think they're your adversary.thebulwark.comTo Russia, With Love, DonaldMoscow can’t even believe its luck. 461358259
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 19/02/2025That’s how you write a headline, people. 540306558003
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobNeil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 16/02/2025As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that ***refraining from provoking the authoritarian*** is not how it works. Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair. 251103403641
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16/02/2025On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile... 44077744000
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobDan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 16/02/2025she’s STILL “working towards the creation of an agreement about raising their child”?? i thought right wingers were better organized about these things tbh 041
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Vance visiting Dachau and then meeting w the AfD and urging German politicians to welcome them into government is a "gotta hear both sides" for the ages. 504104482081
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobEdward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 15/02/2025America's greatest force multiplier and global strength has been its network of allies. Popular lore now sees them as a burden. So America is killing its alliances. The Trump-Musk-Vance administration's moves are an act of epic self-harm. 2139692
Reposted by Guy That Does His Jobsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14/02/2025if we had to listen to SPEECHES from A LITTLE GIRL, surely it’s fine to give the richest person in the world free rein to shutter and dismantle US agencies with global impacts and grant him unchecked access to all the confidential information held by the government. 771859382
Guy That Does His Job @guydoesjob.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Kash Patel isn’t stupid per se but he’s going to encounter people a lot smarter than he is who are going to allow him to hang himself, both by resignations and by letting him broadcast his crimes. 010
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobArieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 11/02/2025The URLs are kind of a red herring here. They were probably used for trolling. But an imagehost for sharing encrypted, untraceable *images* with no logging on Discord and other social media... Anyone with any kind of Trust and Safety background knows exactly what it was intended to be used for. 36827
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobAnna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 12/02/2025In the Soviet Bloc, the Communist Party assigned political minders/ commissars to every school, factory, army unit, etc to ensure ideological compliance and loyalty to the regime. Hiring was based on class background and demonstrated loyalty. Obviously, this is very different. 501758679
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 07/02/2025So basically Elon Musk and his team of Dogie Howsers, none of whom have gone through any security clearances or background checks from what I can tell, are going from one federal agency to another doing a couple Edward Snowden's per day...and not even for any plausibly believable principled reason. 351084277
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobEllen Pao @ekp.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Best headline since the election: succinct and accurate and the only place I've read it so far www.mainepublic.org/politics/202...mainepublic.orgGolden slams Musk: America didn't elect 'weirdo billionaire'Maine 2nd District U.S. Rep. Jared Golden has generally refrained from criticizing President Trump. But he suggested the president is being sidelined by the world's richest man. 430164
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobChatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Marco Rubio became Secretary of State so he could have the privilege of sounding like a two-bit Free Republic poster from 15 years ago 1023544
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobEric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Don Beyer said about USAID, says it's no coincidence "that Elon Musk, the world's wealthiest man with billions of dollars of investment in China, is doing China's bidding." 8439103
Guy That Does His Job @guydoesjob.bsky.social · 03/02/2025The fact there isn’t a Dem member of Congress with them… 010
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobMike Masnick @masnick.com · 03/02/20251. Show up. Go to the places Musk is taking over, bring cameras, demand to find out what's going on and where it breaks the law. 2. Refuse to allow standard business to continue unimpeded. Deny unanimous consent, delay votes, etc. 3. Be public about how illegal all of this is 4. Lay out a plan 19076311726
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/02/2025JPMORGAN: “.. the size of a sustained 25% tariff hike will be large enough to throw the Mexican and Canadian economies into recession, and this outcome will be our inclination if these policies are maintained for six months.” 1316551
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/02/2025JPMORGAN: “.. this weekend’s actions challenge our underlying view that the Trump administration will strive to limit disruptive policies .. “.. In short, the risk is that the policy mix is tilting (perhaps unintentionally) into a business-unfriendly stance.” 3825846
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobSean Hecker @sean-hecker.bsky.social · 02/02/2025The press needs to be asking Musk, Trump, press secretary, & any Sunday show guest, why is Musk accessing the Treasury payment system?, who is working for Musk on this?, are they govt officials?, have they had background checks?, and what is the legal authority for stopping payments? 417837
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 28/01/2025That was known. Not unimportant! But known. The metadata aspect makes it seem like the administration was caught doing something. But what it was caught doing was what was predictable months ago: hiring the people who made Project 2025 in the first place. 2/2washingtonpost.comAnalysis | The impossibility of separating Trump from Project 2025The Heritage Foundation’s playbook isn’t the campaign’s. But Trump’s relegation of policy to staff makes the document an important preview of a second term. 313220
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence, by Girolamo da Santacroce, 1550-55, from the @nelson_atkins 6736100
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 23/01/2025The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high. 1207453389713
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobSam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 21/01/2025"If you committed violence on that day [Jan. 6] obviously you shouldn't be pardoned. And there is a little bit of gray area there." -- JD Vance, eight days ago. Trump pardoned basically all of them tonight 451126268
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobDan Rubenstein @danrubenstein.solidverbal.com · 21/01/2025ESPN with a quick commercial break - kickoff - commercial break. Riley Leonard alone just demolishing tonight's Rinvoq Quota. 1182
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 20/01/2025The moment Vivek criticized native-born Americans and praised the work ethic of brown-skinned immigrants, he crossed a line with MAGA than can never be recrossed. 1630650
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 20/01/2025You may not have a billion dollars but your dignity is all yours 721609247
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19/01/2025(Axios) - The $TRUMP memecoin — a financial asset that didn't exist on Friday afternoon — now accounts for about 89% of Donald Trump's net worth. www.axios.com/2025/01/19/d... 2291812716
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 15/01/2025I think it’s very important for Republican women to know that Pete Hegseth’s accuser is a married mom and a highly respected Republican aide, who went to the police immediately after the assault. They still don’t believe her. Your fascism will not save you from their misogyny. 283283857
Reposted by Guy That Does His Jobjon christian @jonchristian.net · 13/01/2025thanks for the helpful info, google futurism.com/google-image... 52870166
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/01/2025BRENNAN: Do you expect though that Republicans will still help Californians in need even if they don't like their local politics and the party? SEN. BARRASSO: I expect there will be strings attached to money that is ultimately approved ... 6991766517
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 11/01/2025Trump strategist: Companies are either "a. Finally recognizing that 'wokeness' is a cancer, or b. Strategically adapting to the political climate and pandering to Republicans now that we are in power. ... Regardless, MAGA is winning" www.axios.com/newsletters/...axios.comAxios AM 8336
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobDave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Just remembered the early NYT Q&A with Madison Cawthorn, who introduced himself as a thoughtful across-the-aisle healer... then got elected and did not, uh, do that www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/u... 1536971
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 08/01/2025happens a lot but going on X this AM (for my job) & seeing it filled to the absolute brim w/ people culture warring over the LA fires and using the disaster to score political points before the thing is remotely contained activates the full doomer instinct in me. the black heart of american culture. 943208264
Reposted by Guy That Does His JobNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 08/01/2025The reason prominent voices from the "anti-war" and "anti-imperialist" left are expressing eager hope about Trump's foreign policy is the same reason they've been excusing, even defending, Russian imperialism: They've never been anti-war or anti-imperialism, they've always just been anti-American. 1114031
Guy That Does His Job @guydoesjob.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Facebook is supposed to be a website for picture of babies, food, and you on a date. That’s it. It’s pathetic that we’re having to bend over backwards to appease lunatics who want to use it as their news source. 000