chip goines
Turned out the vote for Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley's historic 2018 campaign. Progressive movement builder. Cat lady. Bylines: Washington Post, Newsweek, Reuters, gbhnews.
- Reposted by chip goinesLet's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey. They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵
- Reposted by chip goinesThe NYT and SCOTUS both believe it isn’t “corruption” unless an official is caught accepting a giant bag of cash with literal dollar signs on it *and* saying in front of witnesses “in exchange for this illegal offer of money I will do ____”
- Reposted by chip goinesStrains bounds of propriety? Strains…bounds…of…proprietary? Am I having a stroke? What is happening?
- Reposted by chip goinesIn 2024, Ernst Van Zyl of Afriforum—a White Afrikaner group that has been accused of treason re: Trump’s actions against South Africa—acknowledged that “there is no white genocide” in South Africa. But Trump just used the white genocide myth to justify giving White Afrikaners refugee status. 1/
- Reposted by chip goinesThe cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"
- Thanks, Joe Biden. You could've cancelled all student debt & prevented a second trump term.
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- Reposted by chip goinesThis is the nominee for US Surgeon General
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- Reposted by chip goinesThis may have significant consequences for U.S. copyright policy, as the Librarian supervises the Register of Copyrights. I would pay attention to any maneuvering in the Copyright Office, particularly given its relatively cool attitude toward AI copyrightability and training fair use.
- Reposted by chip goinesThis by itself is impeachable.
- The Trump Organization just admitted that the president still controls his business. www.forbes.com/sites/danale...
- Trump can still be the next pope if MIKE PENCE HAS THE COURAGE
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- Trump fired her b/c she's a black woman. smh.
- Dr. Carla Hayden, the 14th Librarian of Congress, was fired by Pres. Trump today according to a press statement from @morelle.house.gov. Only the Legislative Branch should make decisions about the hiring & removal of the Librarian of CONGRESS. This needs to be fixed asap.
- Reposted by chip goinesPirro is the 23rd former Fox employee Trump has named to his administration. She's wildly unqualified to be DC's top prosecutor and was been described by her former executive producer as a "reckless lunatic." Gonna thread some of her lowlights.
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- Reposted by chip goinesScott Bessent is a clown. A total embarrassment. The importer of record pays the tariffs—not China. And those costs get passed down to you in the form of higher prices. You all get that, right? It’s not rocket science.
- BRB, starting a gofundme to buy $20M in trumpcoin so I can tell Trump in person to fuck right off
- Reposted by chip goinesI am 100% serious when I say that Harvard's response to this rambling bullshit should simply be this classic:
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- Make TBI Great Again www.espn.com/espn/story/_...
- Yup. SMFH. Mission Accomplished for Yarvin.
- Reposted by chip goinesIf I were me and it were fifty years from now, "mingling over drinks and charcuterie" would be the historical detail I would pull out to convey the decadence of too many of our elites in the face of our Weimar moment. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
- This is an actual letter from Linda McMahon, Trump's secretary of education to Harvard University.
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- Reposted by chip goinesThe Constitution is designed for tension between the three branches of government; it cannot function if one branch proclaims its supremacy and the other two give up without a fight.
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- Reposted by chip goinesSo, local cops conducted a warrantless search of Luigi's backpack, realized they screwed up, admitted it on camera, put the backpack in a patrol car NOT sealed in an evidence bag (an 11 minute drive with no bodycam footage available), then searched the backpack again at the station and "found" a gun
- idk. elon musk succeeded in destroying federal research, the humanities, the VA, & other social services like meals on wheels. He achieved something conservatives have dreamed of for decades.
- Reposted by chip goinesLook it's good for tech workers to speak out and also saying Palantir has lost its "founding ideals" is a very weird thing to say about a company tied up with Peter Thiel!! www.npr.org/2025/05/05/n...
- Reposted by chip goinesThe most likely place one of the US scientists fired by a 19 year old will end up isn't in some other country's version of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, but like, McDonalds or Doordash. The brain drain will be mostly into shitty gig jobs, not picking up that research elsewhere.
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- You do not, I repeat, do not under any circumstances, have to platform the Z-list libertarian troll parading as the thought leader behind elon musk and DOGE. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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- Reposted by chip goines“New Right” leader Matt Peterson encourages Trump to pick Michael Anton as his next NSA. Anton’s 2021 book, “The Stakes,” predicted the possible rise of either a “Red Caesar” or a “Blue Caesar” in America. It defined Caesarism as “authoritarian one-man rule partially legitimized by necessity.” 1/
- Reposted by chip goinesFor the love of god congressional Republicans, take tariffs authority away from this madman
- May the 4th be with you! Always.
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- Reposted by chip goinesHarvard Law professor Michael Klarman gave an inspiring lecture about the need for lawyers to protect democracy. I was honored that he noted the attacks and threats aimed at me. His words serve to steel my spine and make me more committed than ever to fighting for democracy. Thank you professor.🙏
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- Reposted by chip goinesTrump made the family of a terrorist rich with our tax dollars, signaling that political violence for Trump is a path to profit and glory:
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- we should be pressuring givesendgo's payment processors. cut them off from visa,mc,amex,paypal, apple pay, venmo, square, etc.
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- Iran is on super double secret probation now!!! 🤦🏾♂️
- Reposted by chip goinesI’m still baffled at how America took one of the basic principles of the presidency — the occupant shouldn’t be able to benefit financially from the office — and just said, nah, that just doesn’t count for this one guy.
- An international trucking logistics firm is buying as much as *** $20 MILLION *** worth of President Donald Trump’s crypto coins to influence the administration’s trade policy. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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- Reposted by chip goinesI don't understand how the Times can never determine whether Trump is lying but can say with certainty when he is joking.
- Say what you want about Obama, but at least he wasn't trolling Catholics in the middle of the night on Friday on his official social media. 77 million Americans voted for this nonsense & I will never forgive them for it. Ever.
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- Reposted by chip goinesNature reports that the National Science Foundation has stopped awarding new grants and allotting funds to existing ones. All of them. @colincarlson.bsky.social says that unless the freeze is lifted, it “is going to destroy people's labs.” 2/10 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by chip goinesNIH is freezing funds for research abroad, threatening thousands of projects. 9/10 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by chip goinesPresident Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to end federal funding for America’s two biggest public broadcasters, which have faced a series of attacks from the White House and Republican lawmakers accusing them of biased reporting.
- Reposted by chip goinesThe old Washington Post.
- Reposted by chip goinesUnhappy to confirm that the entire Historical Advisory Committee at the State Department received termination notices this afternoon (myself included). The HAC, set up by Congress, oversees the office that produces the FRUS series. history.state.gov/about/hac/in... 1/
- Reposted by chip goinesTwo years ago I went on TV and said exactly this: The AI panic cycle was a marketing campaign by known billionaire failures, ultimately an excuse to revenge-fire workers with no immediate replacement. I literally said "The agita around AI is deeply cultural." Me no have TV job shortly thereafter.
- Reposted by chip goinesA calculator that costs 1 trillion dollars, but it’s also wrong
- Reposted by chip goinesvirtually every other publication could learn a thing or two from @404media.co on linking back to other publications. not only is this extremely useful context to catch people up on a story, it shares credit and goodwill. this is exactly what this should look like www.404media.co/this-is-pala...
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- Reposted by chip goinesAlright, Bluesky, do your thing! I need a part-time, DC-based operations manager to come work with me ASAP. Email assistant@resistancesummerschool.com.
