David Stone
A proud liberal striving to look on the bright side. Writer of spicy satires about fun couples I'd like to hang with. Big fan of Carbonara, books, & travel.
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- Reminder: when Sean Duffy was a congressman, he and other Republicans voted against upgrading air traffic control systems. Now, he’s trying to blame those systems for Newark airport’s outages – while claiming DOGE’s cuts of critical support staff at the FAA had nothing to do with it. Hello?
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- So have I. bsky.app/profile/davi...
- Why aren't pilots and flight attendants striking? Along with the understaffed FAA, our safety is supposed to be their main concern. Why are they making an exception here?
- Lutnick: "We do expect a 10 percent baseline tariff to be in place for the foreseeable future ... what happens is the businesses and the countries primarily eat the tariff."
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View full thread$8 for a coffee? You're joking, I hope.
- It wasn't my receipt (Rachel Bitecofer's, I believe), but if you Google "tariffs receipts Starbucks" you'll see an assortment.
- GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene just announced she will not run for Senate against Dem Sen. Jon Ossoff in Georgia. This is great news—I’ve been investigating Greene for years, and I really can’t think of a worse person for the job. More here: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/bad-news-f...
- I'm sure she had her heart set on being included in Trump's administration. Now heart broken, flailing generally, largely disliked, and with nowhere to go but down, I couldn't be happier for her.
- Moskowitz on ICE arresting of the mayor of Newark and harassing other elected Dems: "I gotta be honest -- I think someone at Homeland decided to set them up as they were exiting the facility. The deep state, remember -- that still exists."
- They're testing the courts to see what they can (and likely will) get away with. Dark times.
- Hold on a minute, Lut-nut:
- 😆 From the "Schadenfreude Chronicles":
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- He's having a bad day: