Call it anecdotal, but my Canadian friends who are cancelling their US travel are not doing it because of tariff worries at all; they’re doing it because the US government is currently actively threatening Canada’s sovereignty and economy and they’re all justifiably furious

Psychological safety is NOT about lack of disagreement. Psychological safety REQUIRES: * disagreement and debate * setting standards for behavior and performance, and enforcing them * telling people things they don't want to hear * courage, from the bottom up * humility, from the top down

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

Remember: Wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging our markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of billionaires.

The old "sarcasm" defense from Trump, which he uses to explain away his failures & make it impossible to hold him accountable: "Trump says he was being a ‘bit sarcastic’ when he promised to end Russia-Ukraine war in 24 hours" apnews.com/article/trum...

Think about how no one under 30 knows what pensions are, it's a totally alien concept. The GOP goal is to make all government services as alien and unfamiliar. Imagine in a decade, trying to explain to a 20 year old what social security, libraries, grad school, the EPA, OSHA, mass vaccination, ADA,

Once again: quit trying to insult Nazis by feminizing them. It is not shameful to be feminine. It is shameful to be a Nazi. It’s also shameful to have more money than God and inflict those hairstyles on the public, so maybe start there.

A typical human story. Acceptance of abuse invites more abuse, even if retaliation can be costly. People are warier of people who hit back.

And there it is bsky.app/profile/sahi...

Also going after services for the homeless, minority businesses, and community development. The cruelty is the point.

“I was one of the critics that sat on the side and made the decision there was only two genders, so I got an education that was unbelievable. And I don't know just exactly how to say this but my perspective for people have changed [...] I’d like to apologize" good things still happen sometimes 🥲

The thing about this that absolutely kills me is that this will only embolden Republicans to stuff *even worse* stuff in future spending bills, knowing that there are enough Dems who will vote yes on cloture no matter what.

“I was proud to vote recently for the House budget resolution, which provides the framework—" Rep. Edwards told the town hall in Asheville, North Carolina before cutting himself off as boos washed over him, while other attendees raised their hands to give him a thumbs-down. More:

The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.

It feels like the argument inside of the Democratic establishment is heating up. I hope that's a good thing. I hope there's a faction that understands the fight in front of them and wants to be more proactive. And I hope they're winning against Schumer's milquetoast business as usual.

hey friends. there’s a whole lot going on, but I am still on the job hunt and watching savings vanish monthly any leads welcome, especially if you or your company are hiring devops/SRE and support related roles travel is not really safe for me now VT and/or remote, relocation negotiable

i fact checked this profile and think about it all the time. schumer isn't playing to anyone real, just imaginary ghouls in his head

THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T DO THE THING WHEN BULLIES SAY, "DO THE THING OR ELSE." BECAUSE BULLIES ARE ALWAYS GOING TO DO THE THING OR ANOTHER, EQUALLY BAD THING. AND THEN A WORSE THING.

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents 800,000+ federal and D.C. workers (i.e. people directly impacted by a government shutdown), is urging senators to vote no on the House GOP's CR. In other words, AFGE is saying a government shutdown is less bad than this GOP bill.

Yes. They're treating it as if a shutdown would be some sort of opportunity to make recess appointments (but in this case, recess firings). It is not. It opens up no such new legal authority to fire.

Annnnnd there it is. ““Medicaid is not just for Black people in the ghetto, these are our voters,” said a Republican operative close to the White House.”

American exceptionalism is why many Americans genuinely don't understand why Canadians wouldn't want to join the US because they don't understand that people in other countries see the US for what it is- without freedom colored glasses (formerly known as rose colored glasses but sold in the USA).

Cybersecurity is political. Period, end of story. If you could vote and didn't bother because it was boring you're just as responsible for loss of key research, ISAC funding, international collaboration, and federal jobs. Same if you kept using X. We warned you.

I read this book called “Let Them”. It’s super popular a en has sold lots of copies. The problem is that it is full of feel good mono with no substance. When you “let them”, you get the situation the United States is currently facing.

/4 Yglesias’ view is that slogans like “states’ rights” and “welfare queens” and “anchor babies” are all just preexisting sincere concerns of the American electorate that emerged unprompted from the people. That’s deeply credulous.

/3 The idea that the American people were a simmering cauldron of anxiety about trans issues and the GOP just finally acknowledged it is ridiculous. The trans panic is as cynical, bad-faith, and artificial as the “people eating dogs” panic. “Moderating” to their framing is capitulation to evil.

/2 Today the demand for “moderation” calls on people to accept the Right’s hysterical bad faith framing of trans issues in a way that demeans humans and reduces liberty. If you do that their next demand will be that you abandon some other group or value.

Put another way: I’ve never had the sense that Yglesias has any actual values, just strategies. “Moderating” is a questionable strategy when you have no control over what “moderate” means and you’re just reacting to bad-faith fascists who will demand that you abandon value after value.

Perfect example of how in leadership, you can’t aim to please everyone. If you’re getting shout outs from destructive people, you’re doing it wrong. Your job is to make things better.

White people jokingly calling Vance and other white dudes “DEI hires” annoys me. It concedes the framing that DEI is bad and results in undeserving people getting jobs they wouldn’t have otherwise

In this clip, Vance explicitly says that, *more* than being about national security, this is about "who do *we,* as an American public, decide gets to join our national community." Not to be Influence of Soros on this but this is antithetical to an open society www.foxnews.com/video/636998...

here's the thing: donald trump and chuck schumer are peers. same age-ish (4 years difference), from the same city, moved in the same circles. up until trump decided he was a republican because he hated obama, trump gave the max donation to every single one of schumer's campaigns.

*MASSIVE LEFTIST OUTRAGE AGAINST TRUMP, MUSK, AND FASCISM* Hakeem Jeffries: "We should direct that anger at the people destroying the country." Chuck Schumer: "I have a better idea, we should *re*direct that anger at our political party." Hakeem: "Wut?" Schumer: "Then Trump voters will vote for us"

THIS.

My piece on crappy headlines and scaremongering about ADHD, PIP and disability support more widely is in today’s app edition of @the-independent.com - and how our society distrusts difference and thinks all disabled people should be angelically suffering rather than living their lives.

Infinite screaming

Why the caving is worse than a shutdown The Courts can't help if Congress gives them the authority to do what they've been doing already

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.

so this whole thing was bullshit if he had time to write and place an op-ed in the times

"Devour Feculence" is my new favorite sentence

The word "entitled" has so many of y'all confused. There's a difference between: "She is entitled" And "She feels entitled" The implication of feeling entitled, is often that you are not entitled. If you've paid into social security your whole career, you *are* entitled to benefits.

"Ce n'est pas un salut nazi" never was gonna end well, but here they are, having to draw an actual line! Glad they found one eventually, and even threw in "Palestinian is not a slur"-- nice of them to notice! Will be interesting to see what happens as Trump's antisemitism gets louder, here.

On point for Dems folding on the budget

AOC on senate Dems caving and backing the CR: “A wide sense of betrayal.”

After the keynote we were grabbing lunch and 3 people ordered caesar salads and we were like "uhhhh no wait it's cool we're eating them, we're getting rid of the caesars" anyway. shirt!

Ok but I can't emphasize this enough: Peanut Corporation of America was a family-owned company. No shareholders, no stock market, no private equity sharks. The guy who killed all those people w shit sprinkles in his peanut butter? The same exact dude who started it as a small business in 1977.

Hey look everyone, it’s an Adobe stock photo

They want to turn our social security fund into their exit liquidity. Instead of saving for the future they want us to gamble for it.