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‪Yashar Ali 🐘‬ ‪@yasharali.bsky.social‬ · 19m 1. Congressman Matt Gaetz’s resignation is now official as of an hour ago. House Ethics Chair Michael Guest will not commit to releasing the upcoming Gaetz report. “What happens in ethics is confidential. we’re going to maintain that confidentiality,” he said to reporters. Yashar Ali 🐘 ‪@yasharali.bsky.social‬ Follow 2. But now, GOP Senator John Cornyn, who sits on the Judiciary Committee, is demanding to see it. It is inevitable that the details of this report, if not the entire report itself, will leak.

Daughter's Fender Squire arrived. Signed her up for lessons. It is not easy to find a young woman to teach a young woman guitar. Did find one who is college student so right up her alley. I assigned the son the job of buying her picks that he thinks she'd like. That might have interesting results.

Nancy P was the one the Jan 6 rioters tried to murder and that guy broke into her house to kill and caused near-fatal injuries to her husband. Just a little context.

Now imagine if Sears and K-Mart were trying to convince everyone who came into their stores that gender roles were under attack and a cabal of leftists were poisoning our vital essences.

Sears and Roebuck used to be the most important retailer in the United States. K-Mart was the most important discount retailer. Those days are over.

I was thinking of using the mailing/phone data for the subscribers to spam them with pictures of dead kids.

Larry Sabato is selling slavery. F that noise. I should not have to use the monopoly product if I decide I don't need the monopoly product.

Please

Had a long chat with coworker i thought was a MAGA today about Tulsi and Gaetz picks. He's scratching his head because he thought Trump stood for competent, merit-based hiring. JK. But the guy I spoke with is the office crank but couldn't support these picks.

That is amazing!

‪Catherine Rampell‬ ‪@crampell.bsky.social‬ · 10h Looking forward to learning how appointing an accused child-sex-trafficker as AG and a suspected Russian asset as DNI will lower the price of eggs

Yep, it would have been the one where Mattis actually didn't play along. Mattis resigned about halfway through so this would have been 2017-2019.

A lot of notes on my TV about how Trump lost in the Senate today (when Thune was voted leader) and the Senate might actually stand up to him on these nutbag appointments. Well, i hope so.

Tulsi is the worser pick.

a lot of interesting comments about the brand building “resistance twitter” folks that the bsky folks are leery of joining. It’s not the worst concern to have.

‪Kakistocracy Hat‬ ‪@kenwhite.bsky.social‬ · 16h Pairing Elon and Vivek is like a buddy comedy written by someone who doesn’t understand buddies or comedy ‪Steve Vladeck‬ ‪@stevevladeck.bsky.social‬ · 16h Not sure whether the Elon/Vivek "DOGE" frolic is going to raise more Anti-Deficiency Act issues (by doing stuff) or Federal Advisory Committee Act issues (by proposing stuff). But it'll sure be a litigation bonanza, either way...

eye wash. Billionaire's law

jamelle ‪@jamellebouie.net‬ elon very clearly thinks he is co-president ‪@SIfill‬ ‪@sifill.bsky.social‬ · 23h Elon, using Trump’s casual racism as a certificate of authenticity, warns Senators against confirming Biden nominated judges during the lame duck. Do not sleep on the Elon thuggery.

somebody do a meme of Elon in the Captain Phillips scene saying "i'm the President now"

Hegspeth is going to cause all sorts of bow wake that the real weirdos will take cover in.

Tulsi to DNI is apparently the thing they wanted to hide with the Hegspeth pick for SecDef Angry ‪@angrystaffer.bsky.social‬ Tulsi in a national security role would be a disaster. She’s a Putin and Assad apologist and has completely misguided foreign policy opinions. This is how you start off alienating our allies.

Fixing the "Autocrat problem" is couple phased thing. G2 warned me about Citizens United and I was too blinded by partisanship to see that back then. Now, its clear as anything that the foundation of the US electoral system is rotted. I don't know how we fix that without massive COVID-like emergency. Good news! This administration won't take long to create the conditions for that next disaster. I just hope the educated and ethical among us survive that next horrible thing.

I've not consumed any #nevertrump content since the election although i feel great empathy for them. I'm just too angry at this point.

That has been a nice change.

At this point bsky is just a port in a storm of billionaire excesses. I think its struggling with growing this much so soon but the crowd there seems to be self-regulating. I guess I'll give it a beat. But so far so good.