C.J. Raven @raggededge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Politicians mandate expedited DHS hiring and then act surprised when a significant number are criminals; some are cartel members. But you know this time will be different. 🙄 010
C.J. Raven @raggededge.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The most bad thing about having Harris would have been the inevitable rightwing/MSM media onslaught attempting to kneecap her from day 1. 040
C.J. Raven @raggededge.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This happens every single time a Republican admin forces rapid hiring into CBP or other border facing DHS components. At best you get cartel and terrorist infiltrators and at worst psychos. 000
C.J. Raven @raggededge.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The Republicans since Grover Norquist have wanted to weaken the fed govt to the point it is weak enough to drag into the bathroom and be drowned in a bathtub. That’s the world we are quickly heading to. 000
C.J. Raven @raggededge.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Trying to deny Muslim communities a voice is like Bessent intervening in the bond markets: not going to work. 000
C.J. Raven @raggededge.bsky.social · 30/08/2026First time I heard the term was when Samuel Jackson was screaming that we should wake the fuck up. He meant it essentially like Bouie meant it, except he was extending it to everyone who didn’t want this world we are now in. 000
C.J. Raven @raggededge.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Except it was all for Trump’s ego. Israel has been pitching this war for decades. Only one thing changed: Trump. Now the war is about America’s global brand. 010
C.J. Raven @raggededge.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Finally, the long promised Republican Big Beautiful Health Care Plan and the Vance plan to address securities fraud. 010
C.J. Raven @raggededge.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Ask if he as AG would have recommended the pardons. 010
C.J. Raven @raggededge.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The guy that appointed hacks, charlatans, grifters and cosplayers to his Cabinet is starting to look precarious. 000
C.J. Raven @raggededge.bsky.social · 13/08/2026His whole job, both as a doctor and a legislator is doing things now to affect the future. Laws regulate the future as do pharmaceuticals. But personnel decisions when the guy is a heroin addict brain worm survivor conspiracy theorist and quack: too complicated! 000
C.J. Raven @raggededge.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Are they planning to name a post office after her instead? 000
C.J. Raven @raggededge.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Same thing happened here around Occupy Wall Street. I was in DC on a phone call with people in Manhattan telling me about this huge march that was so loud it was rattling windows 30 floors up and it made them hopeful. There was NO news coverage. Press had moved on. 000
C.J. Raven @raggededge.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Yeah that’s why I ended with 🙄. Good on Ukraine for forcing the issue. 110
C.J. Raven @raggededge.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Huh. If only we had the technical capabilities to see this ourselves and not depend on Ukraine. That would require a big signals assessment capability and apparently don’t have that in the NSA, NGA, NRO, DIA, CIA, etc. No wonder Trump views our intel agencies so negatively. 🙄 100
C.J. Raven @raggededge.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Ok but perhaps you are exhibiting traits of another cognitive bias? 050
C.J. Raven @raggededge.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Well maybe loss aversion is not irrational? Perhaps this completely divorced from life thought experiment is being used in unintended ways? See Kahneman, Thinking F&S, p 282, bullet 3 and 284. 020
C.J. Raven @raggededge.bsky.social · 23/07/2026LWhat would Elon Musk do? Probably ignore the whole thing because he already makes a million dollars per second. So a million doesn’t move the needle. A mere millionaire would go for the big prize, losing doesn’t move the needle. A asst college professor feeding her family, 50k certain looks great. 020
C.J. Raven @raggededge.bsky.social · 23/07/2026So when I am asked this question how much money do I have in the bank, what bills do I need to pay immediately, how secure is my job, etc? Because some people can afford risk where others can’t. 050
C.J. Raven @raggededge.bsky.social · 23/07/2026I felt like Chappelle’s superpower was letting wt people feel like they were in on the joke while still making them the butt of it. 000
C.J. Raven @raggededge.bsky.social · 17/07/2026It’s good to see Kevin ultimately giving some of his vast fortune to some non-profits. Not exactly the Giving Pledge but whatever gets it done. 000
C.J. Raven @raggededge.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Right? It’s only communists that obey the law. Who is the “law” to tell me what to do? 000
C.J. Raven @raggededge.bsky.social · 14/07/2026We don’t know how many in the domestic security infrastructure are compromised. 000
C.J. Raven @raggededge.bsky.social · 13/07/2026He wants to literally lock up people wanting help with healthcare and childcare? Because the future of this country is 80 year old grifter criminals? 022
C.J. Raven @raggededge.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Going to be difficult depending on who is left in place. 100
C.J. Raven @raggededge.bsky.social · 12/07/2026And since they want capital punishment for pedophiles, they should be self executing. 020
C.J. Raven @raggededge.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Oh look, it’s fraud, waste, and abuse all together prosecuting someone over nothing. 0120
C.J. Raven @raggededge.bsky.social · 04/07/2026I’d say all successes in the sense that a food vendor to a private prison may charge $100 per prisoner per day, but only spends $5 of that on what is delivered with the rest being grift. 000
C.J. Raven @raggededge.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Isn’t practically an historical truism that Dems often poll poorly in rural areas where Dem championed issues poll well? 010
C.J. Raven @raggededge.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Why would he sign a bill that interferes with his donors’ ability to collect rents? 0100
C.J. Raven @raggededge.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Yup. We are going to have to make those media properties worthless by getting our news and entertainment elsewhere. 000
C.J. Raven @raggededge.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I understand that people are often unaware of the consequences of their decisions, both to themselves and others. I understand that, apparently, per you, paradoxically, the compute centers are nevertheless unpopular. 000
C.J. Raven @raggededge.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I think I correctly understood the gist of your point. 100
C.J. Raven @raggededge.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Well I’d say in the sense that hyperscale compute centers are facts on the ground while it’s not clear at all that people want the level of surveillance state that inevitably serves. 100
C.J. Raven @raggededge.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Ok but what is the business case for this capacity? Why do we require so much “compute?” 230
Reposted by C.J. RavenJess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 04/06/2026You know, I think it’s pretty weird that Missouri Republicans can find a way to regulate every uterus in the state, but they can’t find a way to regulate corporate data centers… 19721181
Reposted by C.J. RavenDisheartened Boomer @sewsimply.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Evidently not. Acknowledging the problem is the first step but the modus operant for this admin, be it Ebola or Covid or screwworms, is to pretend it’s not an issue. Get louder. 011
C.J. Raven @raggededge.bsky.social · 26/05/2026This is completely ridiculous. All information that should be restricted is already through official classification schemes on both the civilian and military sides. 040
C.J. Raven @raggededge.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Attempting to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat is driving Trump further into madness. 020
