Recrudescence of the Kakistocrats
MSSQL/PGSQL he/him; beer geek, soccer fanatic (#FCD/#ARS/#TSG), board/#KeyForge gamer, Big D born and raised, classical liberal, chaos butterfly and cynical analyst.
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- Reposted by Recrudescence of the KakistocratsBig win for police accountability advocates: The Bill Waybourn Protection Act has been postponed until June 3rd, AFTER sine die, and is dead, dead, dead, dead! This bill not only wd have concealed misconduct by jailers but gutted every police oversight system in the state. Its death is a mitzvah.
- Reposted by Recrudescence of the KakistocratsCops are great
You can't make this up. ICE left a 12-year-old completely abandoned on the street after abducting the adult he was with. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...
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- Reposted by Recrudescence of the KakistocratsA NEW ALIEN ENEMIES PROBLEM (DENIAL OF HABEAS CLASS TREATMENT) Remember when SCOTUS issued a 1 am order “not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees … until further order of this Court?” 1/
- Reposted by Recrudescence of the KakistocratsThere is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to Medicaid.
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- Reposted by Recrudescence of the KakistocratsThe First Amendment still applies to speech about abortion even if Texas doesn't want it to, EFF’s Jennifer Pinsof told @taylorlorenz.bsky.social’s Power User podcast.
- Reposted by Recrudescence of the KakistocratsThe anti-abortion movement is using a bogus study to push the Trump FDA for more restrictions on mifepristone. This week in epistemic collapse: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Reposted by Recrudescence of the KakistocratsTexas Republicans are advancing an anti-trans bill that they're calling the "Women's Bill of Rights." I'm not from Texas, but I'm willing to bet the women there are more interested in not dying from a septic miscarriage than being 'protected' from trans women in bathrooms
- Reposted by Recrudescence of the KakistocratsThis is a symptom of the death of freedom. Folks can not “like” porn or not watch porn, but this is religious fundamentalist law-making. That simple. Taliban also outlaws porn. gizmodo.com/gop-senator-...
- Reposted by Recrudescence of the KakistocratsThe corporate media is so easily manipulated. The Medicaid cuts are less "drastic" cause ONLY 14 m lose insurance. Tariffs were slashed because they are only 30 percent. Were they always this easily manipulated? is the stenography laziness or fear?
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- Reposted by Recrudescence of the Kakistocratsread this please www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
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- Reposted by Recrudescence of the Kakistocrats"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...
- Reposted by Recrudescence of the KakistocratsThere was an old tweet that stuck with me: "If you can easily walk to the coffee shop but your barista has a one hour commute, you don't live in a walkable 15 minute city; you live in a theme park"
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- If Nico does this after criticizing Luka's conditioning in the aftermath of the trade, they wouldn't find twelve people in Dallas to vote for conviction.
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- Reposted by Recrudescence of the KakistocratsSo American children should make do with "two dolls" while Donald Trump gets a free "sky palace" from the Qatari government? Okay.
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- Reposted by Recrudescence of the KakistocratsPostgreSQL, the open source database that continues to get better, is introducing oauth support. This should help with database automation and hopefully bring us one step closer to moving away from static credentials and copying usernames and passwords around. www.postgresql.org/about/news/p...
- Reposted by Recrudescence of the KakistocratsThe annoying thing about Rand is how often he's wrong and hypocritical and, you know, enabling fascism. But the second most annoying thing is when he's right, as sometimes happens, it doesn't matter because he has no friends in the Senate he can bring along on anything, much less in the White House.
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- Reposted by Recrudescence of the Kakistocratswow, wonder who was president when no one was flying during covid?
- Reposted by Recrudescence of the KakistocratsDuffy: "By the way, during covid, when people weren't flying, that was a perfect time to fix these problems." (Who wants to tell him ... )
- Reposted by Recrudescence of the KakistocratsA little preemptive reminder that we don’t need to talk shit about fat people just because Trump said something ridiculous.
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- Reposted by Recrudescence of the KakistocratsThank God!
- Reposted by Recrudescence of the KakistocratsAaaand there it is.
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- Reposted by Recrudescence of the KakistocratsMan Can’t Believe He Has To Download Stupid App Just To Bribe President theonion.com/man-can...
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- Reposted by Recrudescence of the KakistocratsTHREAD: We’ve reported that Veterans Affairs officials have warned that Trump’s cuts are hurting veterans. VA Secretary Doug Collins called our story a “false narrative,” but did not say anything was inaccurate. Here’s what our story revealed and how we engaged with the VA.
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- Reposted by Recrudescence of the KakistocratsIf you’re in Morgantown, WV or you know anybody who is, 50 ICE agents landed at the airport there this morning.
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- Reposted by Recrudescence of the KakistocratsSome people have criticisms of the administration torturing children but under a 5-4 Supreme Court decision written by Justice Alito it is technically not a federal crime, so to preserve accuracy and neutrality, we will not be calling it a crime against humanity. Tomorrow in the New York Times.
- Reposted by Recrudescence of the KakistocratsIn 2024, Biden signed into law a $105 billion measure designed to end a shortfall in air traffic controllers. In 2025, Trump came in and instead began firing hundreds of them. So you can see how *clear* it is that Biden is to blame for the shortage now.
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- Reposted by Recrudescence of the KakistocratsAgain they don't believe in actual meritocracy. They believe in "racial meritocracy," ie if you're born into the right skin you're good and worthy and if you're not you're not. Racist predestination bsky.app/profile/atru...
