@asvec
Comms professional, barstool philosopher, extroverted introvert, optimistic pessimist, sci-fi aficionado, music addict. Minnesota native married to a California native, and we're living in the south Seattle suburbs. Opinions expressed are entirely my own.
there's a lot going on right now but did you know a massive amount of the world's fertilizer flows through the middle east, and did you know that that fertilizer needs to be shipped to the us *right now* for planting season, and uh did you know we are at war with iran
As I scroll through triumphal pro-war tweets, thinking about this image a lot today:
I'm hearing reports that the elderly despotic leader is now afraid to reenter the capital and is attempting to establish a functioning government in a gilded palace located in a remote southern part of the country.
Forty-four years ago this week--February 27, 1982--these would be my picks for the top 11 songs of that week, retrospectively, taking into consideration my musical opinions of 2026. Full list of 40 at www.crownnote.com/charts/amsve...
Here is my opening statement to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.
1. The president lied and lied. He lied so much he appears to think he’s going to scam his way to victory in November. Last night’s State of the Union was a preview of what's to come.
Of all Presidementia's prior State-of-the-Unions I've not watched in the past, tonight's State-of-the-Union is the State-of-the-Union I'm not watching the most. 🍊🚫
The Supreme Court ruling has helped the family of one man in particular: the architect of Trump’s tariffs himself.
A firm headed by Lutnick’s sons was allowing its traders to purchase the rights to hundreds of millions of dollars of refunds in the event tariffs were struck down. trib.al/JcwQ9MT
The story that Elon Musk committed voter fraud has gotten next to no coverage -- one of those things you can't make come up on a Google search.
But I think it's time for Dems to go on offensive abt right wing coddling of this immigrant interfering in our elections.
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I 💛 this man.
No child should fear the people meant to protect them.
So he showed up.
Not as an “activist.”
As a neighbor.
As a citizen.
As someone who said enough.
If your heart is pounding, let your first step be the same. Show up.
We, the people have the power.
can't stop thinking about rectangular february
Worth stating plainly: when Olympic athletes criticize the Trump agenda as damaging to American ideals and the GOP responds with threats and calls to silence them, it literally validates the criticism.
MAGA Pedo Half Time Show.
I am deeply concerned that we are surrounded by millions of people who hear the things Trump says every day and act like it is perfectly normal and reasonable behavior from a U.S. President
If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
This new @jamellebouie.net video, which is good, has MythBusters vibes
JUST IN: Fed judge in Seattle strikes down several provisions in Trump executive order on election integrity. Judge John Chun (Biden) says the Constitution assigns the president no role in election administration. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Things I want more than Greenland as an American:
•Affordable Housing
•Universal Healthcare
•Ability to travel and explore
•Chance to pursue passions not money
•To make a difference in other people’s lives
So I want #StarTrek
The future Gene Roddenberry envisioned
You know who else shot civilians in the street?
Nazis
Bari Weiss’ two accomplishments so far are hosting an interview that she desperately wanted people to watch (but they didn’t) and trying to spike a news story that she desperately wanted nobody to watch (but they did)
I’m at the combination Pizza Hut and Kennedy Center.
I miss the days when FBI Directors caught mass shooters and didn’t fly to wresting events on a government jet to watch their girlfriend sing.
White House Dementia Care Unit Lets Trump Write Walk Of Fame Plaques All By Himself!
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For the youngins who follow me: It is not normal for the president's chief of staff to say that he has an "alcoholic's personality." It is, moreover, manifestly not normal for said president to admit, yes, I have an "alcoholic's personality."
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Narcissistic pedophile.
Feds are ordering church leaders to take down Nativity scenes that protest ICE. These are not just political expressions. They are exercises in religious liberty. “This nativity is a visual reminder … that the attacks on our immigrant neighbors are attacks on God’s own self,” a pastor told People.
Done vanityfair.com For Trump, Wiles has helped pick a Cabinet of MAGA hard-liners: Pete Hegseth, secretary of war (formerly defense); Kash Patel, FBI director; John Ratcliffe, CIA director; Pam Bondi, attorney general; Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence; and Kristi Noem, head of Homeland Security. Wiles calls them "a world-class Cabinet, better than anything I could have conceived of." Trump's Cabinet members are either one of the least qualified presidential teams in history or, to hear Wiles tell it, disrupters —the only people with the balls to take on an entrenched deep state.
Done vanityfair.com "People talk about the deep state being at the State Department," Wiles said. "It's not. It's the military-industrial complex." Hegseth, in her view, is just the guy to take on the powers that be. She referred to Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., another world-class disrupter, as "my Bobby" and "quirky Bobby." In Wiles's view, RFK Jr.'s shock treatment of HHS is warranted. "He pushes the envelope—some would say too far. But I say in order to get back to the middle, you have to push it too far." (In December, Kennedy's federal vaccine panel voted to end the decades-long recommendation for newborn vaccinations against hepatitis B, which is highly infectious and causes liver failure.)
Some takeaways from the Susie Wiles interview in no particular order. 1) Before anyone congratulates her on telling the truth, we must first acknowledge that when it comes to the craziest and most unqualified cabinet members...she absolutely fucking loves it because deep state something something.
