Thicc Semper Tyrannis
Privacy, surveillance, risk, tech, healthcare, & too much politics & sports probably.
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- Also, anti-birthright citizenship legal "theories"? Still very much fringe.
- i am fascinated by the editorial choice to give the last word to a disbarred charlatan pushing a discredited constitutional theory www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/u...
- Pound-for-pound, DropSite has to feature the smoothest brains in journalism, right?
- Rick Tocchet rn:
- If you want to see what happens to a party when it's owned by its wealthiest donors, look no further than the GOP. It and every auxiliary organization in its ecosystem (eg, FedSoc, Heritage Foundation, &c) will simply rationalize ideology and policy to fit their donors' demands.
- I guess we're "reengineering the corporation" again, but this time the tech companies are going to target *themselves*.
- Again, nothing less necessary or productive for us at this moment than rehashing Biden and the 2024 campaign. The fact that *this* (below) is the basis for the current discourse just underlines my argument.
- Republicans will make it easier for corporations to strip mine you for your private, personal data and put it up for sale.
- Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data. www.wired.com/story/cfbp-q...
- Man, Quebeckers deserve better than this.
- JFC
- Big news from @bethhawkins.bsky.social: Linda McMahon’s top special education official ran a school for autistic students that restrained 41 percent of its students in the 2021 school year www.the74million.org/article/trum...
- RFK Jr just lying away to Congress. He has no idea what the truth even is anymore.
- We just love to take Axios’ bait here on the ol’ Bluesky, don’t we, folks? Just love it. Hate reads so predictable, you could set a clock to them.
- I wonder how Boeing feels about being a main conduit for foreign autocracies’ bribes to Trump and the GOP.
- They’ll fit right in.
- Nine of the Afrikaners that the Trump admin brought to the US yesterday will settle in Idaho (I feel that "refugee" lends way too much credibility to claims about what these ppl faced in SA) www.idahostatesman.com/news/politic...
- Yikes!
- What a tool.
- Can’t think of anything that will help illuminate our path forward *less* than settling scores over Joe Biden.
- I hate the fact that the powerful (and stupid) are never the first to suffer the consequences of their stupidity.
- This is, of course, a lie, and one that Republicans tell reflexively, all the time.
- So, Amazon, but for services. Which raises an interesting question for investors...
- IMO the fundamental problem comes from thinking about politics and governing as a product and market challenge—looking at the electorate as shoppers and trying to figure out what product you can offer that most of them would choose to buy.
- DEW you really think so? *polishes monocle and chuckles at his own joke*
- That dark blue line for 90+ day delinquent credit card debt? Seems to me like there's a 2024 presidential election story in there.
- The philanthropy? Chauncey Billups' bank account.
- Nice that we can give the world a chuckle every now and then to leaven their disgust.
- This piece, while arguably too long and too muddled for someone (me) who's deeply versed in the details of these issues, lands some devastating blows, summed up in this passage.
- Exactly this. www.theverge.com/policy/66568...
- Real guillotining has never been tried.
- Hope CNN reminded its viewers that Zinke was one of Trump’s most corrupt cabinet members and resigned while being investigated.
- Tricky to get the Adderall-to-Ambien ratio & timing dialed in when you’re traveling.
- Enjoy infamy for being a collaborator, Andrew Levy.
- From this brain genius' law firm's website: "Our firm is known for its strong advocacy for the rights and interests of First Nations." OK, bud.
- The separatists claim "residents of a breakaway Alberta republic would still keep their Canadian passports and Canada Pension Plan entitlements." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
- It's extremely difficult to determine which of Trump's economic advisors is the dumbest.
