disappointing, Apple. ht @hamishbuchanan.bsky.social @nileane.fr www.macrumors.com/2025/02/12/a...
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i try to stay with it.
Excellent. “If a judge orders an action to cease and the executive refuses, who gets to call the police? Who do the police listen to? If people don’t leave their positions, who makes them?”
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oh god. nowhere to run to nowhere to hide.
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maybe Russia will send some economic advisors to help us out with “shock therapy”.
worried about @kdrum.bsky.social jabberwocking.com/health-updat...
you wanted the world reenchanted, you said. and so it has been, in the form of a curse.
Elon Musk is robbing us blind. He is the most flagrantly corrupt figure in all of American history.
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a claim that there has been no suspensions or delays in disbursements strikes me as... inaccurate. how can we start to enforce the norm against lying (or in this case repeating claims from a source the author should know is false)?
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eggstraordinary.
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just… democracy? a Congress in which incumbents are safe is a Congress in which constituents are disenfranchised and ignorable.
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The Trump Administration is just pathetic at negotiating. It "played tough" and won nothing much from Canada and Mexico with its tariff gambit. It negotiated against itself and conceded all leverage in its negotiations on Russia and Ukraine. Just pathetic.
Credit goes to @dangillmor.bsky.social! It was a while back, but he's the one who pointed us to this amazing nugget, via a Mastodon post.
we're treating migrants so badly when many of us may need to be migrants soon.
same playbook as Afghanistan. which worked really well.
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1. Cut social services to the point people who’ve relied upon them become desperate; 2. Protests that can be characterized as disorderly, perhaps even violent, riots emerge; 3. Use the riots as pretext for a crushing response that deters future opposition of any sort.
explains my inner life.
A great resource! But it looks like Senator Scott doesn't accept them. No word yet on our new Senator Moody.
Representative Luna is not accepting faxes.
Trying to contact my Congresspeople. I want to write them. I mistrust their webforms. I want an e-mail address. So I phone to ask. 1/
I call Representative Anna Paulina Luna's office. Someone answers, but informs me that there is no e-mail, just the webform. Postal mail it will have to be. 2/
I try to call Senator Rick Scott's office. There's no phone number on his site, so I call his contact number listed on the official Florida delegation page of the US Senate. www.senate.gov/states/FL/in... Straight to voicemail, at 13:20-ish on Wednesday. 3/
On the same page, I find the phone number for my newly Senator, Ashley Moody. Again, straight to voicemail. 4/
I'm going to be producing a lot of postal mail, I think. Very old school. Very time consuming. Our democracy in action. /fin
* 12:30-ish, not 13:20-ish!
tbf i didn't. i loved and trusted Google for it's first few years, even remember telling friends, yeah, the kind of power they're amassing is dangerous, but i trust these people. by the mid-aughts (ironically when i tried to become a paying customer) i was disabused of any belief in their idealism.