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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
www.cnn.com/2025/04/08/c... "A $500M grant fm the Biden admin was slated for steel giant Cleveland-Cliffs...to help...upgrade aging blast furnaces" "[It would've] created >100 permanent jobs & 1,200 construction jobs [and] are slated for termination under the Trump admin..." IN THE VP'S HOMETOWN.
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Major steel mill project in JD Vance’s hometown on a list of Trump administration cuts to manufacturing industry | CNN
The centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s America-first economic agenda is reinvigorating the manufacturing industry. But his administration is planning to slash a key program that invests in some o...
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
"d'« imbécile »"
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
"Some Democratic leaders don’t see cause for panic. Trump’s success in November was unique, they argue, not a warning sign of a fracturing of their multiracial coalition." Hey, I have an idea... Why don't we SEE cause for panic and GO FROM THERE. Sheesh. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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The hidden trend behind Latinos’ shift toward Trump
A surge in ticket-splitting among Latinos could shape politics for elections to come.
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Wonder of Science @wonderofscience.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The size of space — a visualization of the scale of the universe to help put things in perspective. Credit: Neal Agarwal
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Ahh... Comer, for the gazillionth time, exposes the fact that he's a total moron. Then deploys the oft-used "My time has expired" mantra as a cover for making a total fool out of himself. Too late, Jim. We all know you're an fucking idiot.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Imagine foreign spy agencies right now
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two women are working in a kitchen with a sign above them that says kitchen
ALT: two women are working in a kitchen with a sign above them that says kitchen
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
www.politico.com/news/2025/03... This was about the whole China/Musk leak issue last year... wonder if it still applies. I'm sorry, what? It was last week?? Huh.
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
"Usha Vance, the wife of Vice President JD Vance, will land in the Danish territory on Thursday, alongside ❗️National Security Adviser Mike Waltz❗️ ..." Yeah, Waltz might want to make sure he brings a personal credit card in case he needs to buy his ticket home. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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Greenland to Trump: No, we didn't invite you
A delegation that includes second lady Usha Vance is slated to arrive on the island on Thursday.
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
💯 accurate.
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Collins and Wicker are going to set a date for a "Concern Off." Should be an interesting competition.
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Re: "The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans" Thus far, in meme land..... 1/3
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 24/03/2025
Circling back on this…
Post from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard that reads: Any unauthorized release of classified information is a violation of the law and will be treated as such.
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I love this.
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
"I had very strong doubts that this text group was real, because I could not believe that the national-security leadership of the US would communicate on Signal abt imminent war plans." Hegseth: "And if we do, I will do all we can to enforce 100% OPSEC” So much for 100% operational security! omg.
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Well, maybe not. My first thought was, "Who the fuck thought this was a good idea?"
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I'm at a loss for words.
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
To the Dems: "DUH!!!"
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Rep McCormick, a GOP Rep in Georgia was confronted by voters vocally opposed to "Tyranny in the WH." How did he respond? He said he FELT THE SAME WAY with BIDEN in the WH. He said the passion in the room WAS THE SAME AS THE PEOPLE WHO WERE AT THE CAPITOL ON JANUARY 6th. www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...
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Angry voters confront GOP representative over Trump’s push to expand his power | CNN Politics
Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) faced angry voters in Roswell, Georgia, who were upset about President Trump attempting to expand his own power using executive orders.
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
www.politico.com/news/magazin... "It is also one thing to advance an aggressive theory of executive power on paper and in court, where you can rely on constitutional abstractions, but an entirely different matter when dealing in the real world." A TL:DR 1/6
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How Trump Is Undermining His Own Constitutional Crusade
A haphazard approach makes it more likely the Supreme Court rules against him.
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Hear, hear.
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
File this under "No shit, Sherlock."
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
"This is precisely how the GOP messaging got so good. By focusing on their enemy relentlessly." As I drank my coffee and read this, I shouted, "THIS!" And the Susan Collins part especially. I mean, she's low-hanging fruit. And SO many others. Bill Cassidy comes to mind, too.
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Yes, some will realize, but only if they are personally affected. Even then, Fox, Newsmax, X, etc will tell them it's somebody else's fault...& they'll believe it. Those not affected are consuming news that tells them Musk/Trump are doing the Lord's work & fixing the country...& they'll believe it.
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
thehill.com/homenews/sen... This is what a GOP SENATOR said about Elon Musk and his efforts to plunder/destroy the federal government. Who is it? WE DON'T KNOW because none of them will grow a pair and speak publicly. These cowards will fiddle while Rome burns.
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
www.politico.com/news/2025/02... "Susan Collins...who said she’s heard from universities & labs in her state that the cuts would be 'devastating', pressed HHS Secretary RFK Jr. on her concerns" Collins is so concerned abt the devastation she voted to confirm RFK Jr. How very Susan Collins of her.
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Trump’s cuts hit red states, triggering GOP pushback
GOP lawmakers try to intervene with the Trump administration as local fallout grows.
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
“He is eager to demonstrate he has an independent streak and some deep convictions that he could not always reveal as a majority leader” Please fuck ALL the way off, Mr Single Point of Failure. www.cnn.com/2025/02/15/p...
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McConnell, free from leadership constraints, bucks Trump and the evolving GOP | CNN Politics
Sen. Mitch McConnell was a generational force for the Republican Party — using procedural tactics and political will to stymie much of former President Barack Obama’s agenda, hand President Donald Tru...
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Yay. www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/s...
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Astronomers are closely monitoring a newly discovered asteroid with a slightly increased chance of hitting Earth | CNN
A newly discovered asteroid named 2024 YR4 now has a 2.2% chance of affecting Earth in 2032 after recent observations.
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NPR @npr.org · 07/02/2025
The fingerstyle guitarist builds worlds with her music; at the Tiny Desk, Yasmin Williams invites us into hers.
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Yasmin Williams: Tiny Desk Concert
The fingerstyle guitarist builds worlds with her music; at the Tiny Desk, Yasmin Williams invites us into hers.
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
"But Hugenberg lived by the golden rule: He who had the gold ruled." This piece lays out some chilling parallels between then and now. And it's not just Hitler's rise to power but the involvement of the Elon Musks of the time. It's an eerie read...in some cases you could simply swap out names. 1/2
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
THIS is how to trim the federal workforce LEGALLY. This other stuff is just batshit crazy. I'm so glad to hear a judge stopped the nonsense...at least for now. www.cnn.com/2025/02/06/p...
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Couldn't sleep...woke up at 3:30 a..m. Saw the BREAKING NEWS that USPS had halted acceptance of packages from China. Fell back asleep until now, 7:33, and saw this. Governing by whiplash. Maybe I'll just have to check the news every 24 hours only to see what madness has happened.
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
"Despite progress on the stated goal of the retreat — coalescing around a fiscal blueprint for their vast party-line agenda — what they saw wasn’t pretty: Key strategic disputes continued to fester inside the GOP ranks..."
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
A great point by Warnock re: the impact of the "buyout" email. He said the scientists who can freely do much more on the outside are more likely to take the buyout, resulting in a brain drain (my label). I SO wish people would be more strident about the fact that the email ALSO says:
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Cheryl Hines' smirks and eye-rolling are pretty annoying. She's been doing it the whole hearing.
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Kennedy tells Cortez-Masto he's going to wave his magic MAHA wand & attack critical diseases & the overall health of Americans at the direction of Trump. So, cutting NIH funding of disease/cure research and repealing access thru the ACA is going to do this? And the lemmings clap in the audience.
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
This is what is going to be a huge point of failure in reining Trump in. Apathy. 1/2 www.cnn.com/2025/01/28/p...
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Oops.... too late! Not symbolic because Google caved so they could placate Trump as their tech brethren have done. Left is from The Atlantic today. Right is from CNN today.
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... This piece makes some valid points. For me it's the "pendulum" theory of politics. It's a fact. The unknown is how bad the damage will be & how long it'll take to fix. (Although I believe there will be some permanent damage, most likely to the American psyche.)
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Trump Can’t Escape the Laws of Political Gravity
Sooner or later, nature will catch up to the president.
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
www.politico.com/news/magazin... "Grassley hasn’t yet formally endorsed Kash Patel...to lead the FBI, but he’s clearly a fan. In an interview with [Politico]... ...GRASSLEY LAMENTED THE LACK OF COMMON SENSE IN WASHINGTON... ...AND SAID PATEL WOULD BRING SOME." No elder statesman...just elder.
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Chuck Grassley Thinks Democrats Will Rebound More Quickly Than You Think
The Senate Judiciary Committee chair also talks Trump 2.0, congressional oversight and the politics of aging.
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
"The firings have prompted CONCERN from some GOP senators" "Other GOP sens expressed CONCERN abt the fact that they had not received notice & about the widespread nature" Murkowski: "...the summary dismissal of everybody, I think, has raised CONCERNS” Collins: "expressed CONCERN with the firings"
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
www.newsweek.com/democrats-vo... Sorry, but I had to laugh at these allegations. TRUMP: "He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers. And we ended up winning PA like in a landslide." Elon knows exactly jack shit about those computers.
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Democrat urges probe into Trump's "vote counting computers" comment
The remark prompted some opponents of the president to speculate if he was admitting to rigging the election.
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Repub lawmakers are "surprised" that Trump paused money going out under the Inflation Reduction Act. Why? B/c "more than half of all projects were in R districts & 19 of the top 20 congressional districts for clean energy investments are held by Republicans." 1/2 cleantechnica.com/2024/08/14/t...
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
@bsky.app Please, please, please provide an option to turn off reposts by individuals, not *all* reposts. I love what I'm seeing but I'm seeing it over and over and over (and over, in fact) again. Sincerely, me
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
"Some conservatives & MAGA faithful are livid over Elon Musk’s daylong public meltdown over Donald Trump’s AI infrastructure project, saying THE PRESIDENT'S STAFF NEEDS TO GET CONTROL OF THE TECH TITAN" Grab your 🍿🍿🍿, ladies & gents. Things are going to get juicy. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
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Bannon berates Musk over his attacks on Trump’s AI infrastructure project
“I’ve never seen action like this in my life,” Steve Bannon, Trump’s one-time chief strategist, said.
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
www.cnn.com/2025/01/13/t... As we experience the growing gulf between the economic "haves" and "have-nots," we can also see a widening gulf between the "critical thinkers" & the "noncritical thinkers." I'm having a hard time seeing this trend reversing itself...because it seems to *feed* on itself.
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Soon to be out of a job, Meta’s fact-checkers battle a blaze of wildfire conspiracy theories | CNN Business
Just hours after Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg announced last Tuesday that the social media giant would eliminate its US-based fact-checkers, the iconic hills above Los Angeles began to smolder.
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Yep....
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
CNN outdoes itself with one of their stupidest ledes yet (& that's saying a LOT: "IF HE'S SERIOUS...an expansion into Panama, Greenland & Canada WOULD RIVAL THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE." As if Trump is some kind of statesman or capable of seizing parts of other sovereign countries. Fucking ridiculous.
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V_Stanhope @vstanhope.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
CNN (and much of the MSM) is going full Tiger Beat magazine with this Luigi Mangione bullshit. It's so gross.
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