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the murdering

https://go.bsky.app/SddPqdZ Detroit Tigers starter pack on bsky.

DougJBalloon aka NYTimes pitchbot just joined Bsky

I'd like to see a couple of thought leaders migrate. I would also like to see some of the sports people migrate but many good folks I hadn't seen in a while are here which is great.

Added. I was scrolling Bsky last night during the game and felt a lot less fury than I would if I had been doing that on Thanos' X app.

Yeah, good point. Bookmark, highlight or flag this as precedent. Get some good attorneys and have them pulverize the administration over unlawful firings.

Bluesky appears to be a pretty good place to be.

Concur. So many additional thoughts but putting them down here might destroy my keyboard.

Yeah, that isn't how a startup operates. A true startup, as in the bull**** that the CEO of a previous company i worked for claimed, was where all the employees put out maximum effort in exchange for the hope of a gigantic payoff in value. I don't see anyone in Congress doing that. I DO see a lot of federal employees doing maximum effort in places where their very lives are at risk around the World but they do not anticipate a massive payout. That's why Trump called them suckers and losers. That's why he hated his generals for coming up in a merit-based system that wasn't rewarding them for being born to the right lucky parent.

Will Congress be running like a startup? I'll hangup and listen.

have checked in...will continue.

So, I'm thinking that's it for X/Twitter for me. I used to prolifically post from there but, its too stinky with Elon's thanos ambitions. I'll try Threads out.

I know the campaigns fairly well. Gettysburg is one of my favorite places in the World because its one of the definitive places where Democracy stood at a precipice. You could make a quick list: Gettysburg Dunkirk Midway Places where the entire Western and now global idea of Democracy stood at the brink and forces who were entirely on their back foot made a decisive stand in two cases and survived by the skin of their teeth in the other.

Was listening to a podcast about Jefferson Davis being the better military strategist than Lincoln not long ago. Fat lot of good it did him.

Been there. Not far from Harper’s Ferry. I plan to rewatch “The Good Lord Bird” soon to remind me of happier times.

The GOP got where it is by fighting everything and anything and having a bigger bullhorn and having billionaires pumping their views on all media resources through all manner of things at their disposal.

It wasn't per se. I think Oblong AND CMRIVdogs will have a better feel on this but the big mistake the Confederacy which cost them the war made was when they were trying to push into Maryland and Pennsylvania that they issued orders to seize freedmen as war booty and they were trying to knock out the North by taking Washington. This led to the Gettysburg campaign which stopped Lee cold.

as for what a coup is...an extra-constitutional attempt to change the government. The US Civil War was an attempt by the rebels to change the government of the people living in the rebel states.

Sorry, I meant that the previous one was...

we hadn't had anything like that since 1861 so...

how dare they!? https://x.com/natashabertrand/status/1854982978994139389?s=46&t=76Y1aNflZsD8yrwQrvLC2g

He had black masked goons thump BLM protesters on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Lincoln would have spun in his grave.

by the transitive property all aviation crash victims are about to uncover .... i've said too much. :--)

might as well be. I lost track of him.