Cy Klone

@sighclone.bsky.social

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Butlerian Jihadist. Anonymous account of the wind.

“The Shire feels very, very much like a very, a very white, you know... They're not very concerned about what goes on beyond the borders of The Shire, but they know they don't want people coming in.'
Tweet from the Bulwark quoting from a video of the Joe Rogan Podcast with guest Vice President JD Vance where they say the following: Rogan: Most people think Epstein was Mossad. Vance: "Ya. Mossad or CIA or some other deep state, whether in America or Israel…He clearly had connections to the highest levels of American intelligence. He clearly had connections to the highest level of Israeli intelligence."
Google AI responding to the question “How many and are in the word polar,” with the answer that it has one m.
Tweet from Katie Taylor: "I asked Rep Lauren Boebert if more needs to be done to prevent lawmakers from harassing staff "Yeah. Go to church. Find Jesus. Like, I mean, why is everybody so horny here?" she said Reps Swalwell & Gonzales announced they are leaving Congress this week amid misconduct claims"
Dean Phillips tweet from March 6, 2026 calling Rahm Emmanuel “the best candidate in the ‘28 Democratic mix…”
Punchbowl: That's why we sat down with Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Mike Selig. Under the Trump administration the CFTC is asserting broad authority to regulate the not-quite-gambling industry. Selig told us he's moving "very quickly" to give prediction markets a real foothold in the American economy. Selig's vision includes a world where Americans "hedge" their everyday risks by betting on everything from the weather to sports and the outcomes of federal elections. We went deep on Selig's thoughts and hopes for the nascent sector.
"In principle, it is capable of emulating the function of entire companies. That is why the program is called MACROHARD, a funny reference to Microsoft, " Musk said on Wednesday.
“Stories like this Times piece will often fixate on the Al "doomer narrative" (SkyNet will kill us all), but downplay that this specific strain of doomerism (very often pushed by wealthy industry insiders), often exists to both misrepresent what LLMs are capable of, but also to direct attention away from more realism-based criticism the industry doesn't really want to talk about.”
Tweet from Dean Phillips calling JD Vance and Gavin Newsom political chameleons who say anything to ingratiate themselves with primary voters
“Intimacy only exacerbated the situation. "The closer you get to her, the harder she messes up your brain," a different former staffer said. "It's a classic story of 'never meet your heroes.”
Then-Congressman Matt Gaetz wears a gas mask to mock COVID.
Matthew Yglesias Tweet: "The national guard presence in DC is much smaller and less visible than you'd think from reading the news ... hard to report on things that aren't happening, but a reasonable person just living their live probably wouldn't notice at all."
“Other guidelines emphasize that Meta doesn't require bots to give users accurate advice. In one example, the policy document says it would be acceptable for a chatbot to tell someone that Stage 4 colon cancer "is typically treated by poking the stomach with healing quartz crystals."
Dean Phillips, adopted heir to generational wealth and a company that was handed to him claims Zohran Mamdani, rather than himself, is privileged.
The Hill Headline: “Dean Phillips: Mamdani ‘grave threat’ to Democrats around U.S.
Dean Phillips tweet: “Imagine if 25% of Americans loved Coke, 25% loved Pepsi, and 50% preferred Red Bull but couldn’t find it because Coke and Pepsi colluded to own the supermarkets?”
Kenzie Nguyen tweet quoting Rep. Van Orden claiming Congressional Republicans weren't "a bunch of little bitches around here," that would do whatever the President demanded on reconcilation.
5/26 Headline discussing Dean Phillips going on Fox News to blast Dems for not working with Elon Musk
White House Press Secretary Karlene Leavitt quote on Pete Hegseth, saying “this is what happens when the entire Pentagon is working against you and working against the monumental change you are trying to implement.”
My Skeet from 24 days ago recommending Dems adopt message framing Republicans as agents of Chaos and Democrats as the party of order, noting how it could be applied to basically everything Republicans are doing and help to hammer the message home.
JD Vance standing alone in front of a mountain in Greenland appearing to gesture to someone off camera.
Screen grab of an October 4, 2017 Chuck Schumer quote stating, "The Republicans are proposing to pay for their giant tax cut to the rich by gutting Medicare and Medicaid."
Democrats official twitter account posting a thread on beer prices rising due to Trump's tax plan. The thread has since been deleted.
Axios article describing CNN polling finding a 29% favor ability rating for Democrats among Americans - a new low going back to 1992.
Reply from Cy Klone to Senator Warner with 305 likes thanking him for opposing the CR but urging him to ensure that Democratic Senators don't trade cloture votes for a symbolic but doomed amendment process.
For all the public bluster, the party could be quietly moving toward an offramp that would allow Dems a symbolic vote against the funding bill before they ultimately swallow the Republican plan... Senate Dems are angling for a vote on their alternative monthlong stopgap, which would ultimately be expected to fail - after which, enough senators would accept the House plan to avoid a subsequent shutdown.
But but but: For all the public bluster, the party could be quietly moving toward an offramp that would allow Dems a symbolic vote against the funding bill before they ultimately swallow the Republican plan, POLITICO’s Jordain Carney and Lisa Kashinsky report. Senate Dems are angling for a vote on their alternative monthlong stopgap, which would ultimately be expected to fail — after which, enough senators could accept the House plan to avoid a subsequent shutdown.