@calminginfluence
Puget Sound (on a dry spot) Laborer, scientist, builder, artist, general life enthusiast. Despite it all, I like to smile. USAF, PSD, 9th SRW, Beale AFB, 75-79 Pro-democracy, Anti-authoritarian, Peace-loving veteran.
HOLY SHIT.
A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election.
Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?
The economy grew at an annual rate of just 0.7% at the end of 2025, down from the initially reported 1.4% estimate.
Trump is running the economy just like he ran his businesses — straight into the ground. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbh9SW5Cgqg
We've lost 13 Americans in less than two weeks of this war. These are sons, daughters, and parents. The American people deserve to know why our country rushed into another war without a strategy or a goal.
I've decided to learn "small-talk" as a retired senior in Seattle. What else can I say besides "looks like rain"?
@hcrichardson.bsky.social @jbf1755.bsky.social fyi i feel the need to post about LBJ post presidency
The actual question you should be asking is why the voters are holding Dems more responsible for not stopping the GOP than the GOP for doing the fking thing itself?
Voters are stupid af.
Oh dear.
Cutting-edge aerodynamics with Italian styling.
Some Ferrari rotisserie wing zen #F1
ICYMI — one of Elon’s DOGE guys Justin Fox saying a documentary is “DEI” if it’s about how historical events impact led Black civil rights because it’s “not for the betterment of humankind”
Meme: Doctor running for Lindsey Graham's senate seat blasts him after comments on sending sons and daughters to MidEast Stew Peters Sen. Lindsey Graham: "I'm going back to South Carolina and asking them to send their sons and daughters over to the MidEast." Annie Andrews MD e Forgive me for not sounding like a Senate candidate when I say this. Lindsey, f -- k all the way off. Sincerely, A mom of three South Carolinian children and the person who is going to end your career.
Whatever Trump has on Lindsey must be pretty wild.
Murphy: I have great sympathy for our soldiers and our military leaders they are being given directions by a senile old man who is losing his mind. And so it's no surprise that this war is going horribly
Trump went to Kentucky to campaign against Thomas Massie yesterday. Today, the betting market shows that Massie’s odds of winning jumped from about 53% to 66% after the rally. 😂
NEW: Right-wing activists are circulating a draft executive order that purports to give Trump sweeping power over federal elections.
@mollyroberts.bsky.social and I got new details on the activists, lawyers, and conspiracy theorists behind the proposed order:
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/in-c...
It's happening here.
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Yes. This is transparently the plan. It is a destructive and unconstitutional plan. And it can be stopped. It can even be turned into an electoral issue that hurts Trump. But only if we face this now.
Even this moron got it
@davewhamond.bsky.social
🔥IMPORTANT REMINDER🔥
French news channel, LCI, airs a split screen simultaneously showing footage of Trump dancing to YMCA in front of a rally crowd as oil fields in the
Middle East are in flames
They really are fascinating! Check it out:
youtu.be/IFaAjR_RRJs?...
"Invented" something a Dutch artist has been doing for 40 years.
www.strandbeest.com
Pete Hegseth’s Defense Department Blew $22M On Steak and Lobster in a Single Month, Watchdog Claims share.google/Vh6njvv3MD3I...
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Probably need more than 2 trucks.
when iPad was new two guys competed to see who could type on its screen keyboard faster, one person got more words in but with a lot of errors, to which the other guy replied if errors don't matter I can type a whole lot faster
A Golf club firm owned by Trump’s sons is merging with a drone manufacturer.
But nothing to see here, right? Cause a golf club manufacturing company and drone manufacturer with Israeli ties merger is perfectly fucking normal.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
as Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling of The New Republic noted last night, according to a report from government watchdog Open the Books, the Pentagon under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth blew through $93.4 billion in September 2025 alone, with more than $50 billion going out in the last five days of the month alone. To spend the entirety of the defense budget, rather than lose it, Pentagon officials bought “a $98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home, $5.3 million for Apple devices such as the new iPad, and an astronomical amount of shellfish, including $2 million for Alaskan king crab and $6.9 million worth of lobster tail. (Lobster tail is apparently a favorite of Hegseth’s Pentagon—the department spent more than $7.4 million total on the luxury item in March, May, June, and October.) In other pricey food purchases, the government decided to drop $15.1 million for ribeye steak (again, just in September), $124,000 for ice cream machines, and $139,224 on 272 orders of doughnuts.” In October, Houghtaling noted, the administration said it could not fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps, because the government had shut down. Millions of Americans lost food benefits.
From Heather Cox Richardson's epistle for the day:
Helluva way to run a war, as the NYT reports. But the article doesn’t go far enough. WHY are his aides terrified of telling Trump the truth? Because the commander-in-chief is not OK in the head, that’s why. These reporters should say it instead of covering it up. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...
Behold! A $3 million US missile launched by a $200 million jet that flies @a cost of $200,000/hr to kill people who live on less than $10/day in Iran.
Meanwhile in the US Republican lawmakers believe that a $6.20 daily SNAP benefit providing food to a needy person is wasteful spending.
