Jonathan Zepp

Bassoonist, maker, gamer, reef aquarist, citizen of the internets.

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) statement defending his constituent David Hearn, who is charged with damaging Reflecting Pool... (It ain't subtle)

"Davey Hearn would never desecrate a federal building or landmark by writing his name on it or affixing his name illegally to it or engaging in any other kind of political graffiti, vandalism or delinquency. He would never intentionally damage government property. Whether we are talking about the White House, the Reflecting Pool or the Kennedy Center, Davey would never try to alter, bulldoze or redesign federal property or buildings without explicit Congressional authorization and direction.  Davey is an honorable and law-abiding citizen who has won real giant prizes, including eight world championships. He did so without any corrupt practices and only through his magnificent hard work and surpassing dedication to the team. He would never try to undercut or sabotage anyone, much less our entire community"

[Jonathan Zepp @DaJMasta]

@gmart711 I feel like that should just be the Steam tag "Slop"

[Jonathan Zepp @DaJMasta]

@JesseCox "It's really irresponsible of people to give consumers information they want to know and which effects their purchasing."
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"AI is unpopular but we want to use it so let us hide it from consumers"

What a whiny take from a multibillionaire overinvested in AI.

[Jonathan Zepp @DaJMasta]

@SirScoots It's odd that it's just to kill it once and not a longer lasting algaecide or just blue dye (making the paint even more redundant) to prevent its growth.

It's like no one doing the project has any experience working with ponds or pools.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500.

If we end that absurdity and lift the cap on taxable income, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years and expand benefits by $2,400. My Social Security bill does that.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

But taxing wealth so normal people can afford to see a doctor and not go bankrupt over inhalers is radical left. OK

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

The single largest form of theft in America is wage theft. $50 billion a year are stolen from American workers.

If a billionaire amasses their wealth by underpaying their full-time workers so severely that they must rely on food assistance and government programs to survive, then no, that wealth was not earned by one individual - it was a wealth transfer subsidized by underpaid American workers and the public who get stuck with the bill for large corporations free-riding off our systems.

The point is less about individual morality. It’s more about how our current economic reality of shattering inequality rewards screwing over workers and exploiting essential systems at scale.

We’re talking monopoly power. Rent-seeking. Wage theft. Profiteering. Stock buybacks. Destabilizing housing markets. Companies using SNAP/EBT to underwrite their wages. Massive government subsidies or contracts to corporations following lobbying and dark money in politics with little to no oversight or accountability.

Some people get enraged that I draw attention to this. That’s on them. Let them call me shrill, dumb, inexperienced, girly, uneducated - these folks will say anything to distract from or undercut the truth that working people are getting screwed, and giving people a fair shake means we must have a grown conversation about reigning in abuse of power.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

This statement changes nothing.

The President has threatened a genocide against the Iranian people, and is continuing to leverage that threat.

He has launched a massive war of enormous risk and of catastrophic consequence without reason, rationale, nor Congressional authorization - which is as clear a violation of the Constitution as any. Each day this goes on, the risk and criminality of these actions escalate for our nation and the world.

Moreover, this administration’s self enrichment, insider trading, and pure corruption off this chaos - from crypto currencies to predictive trading markets to bribe “settlements” - has placed the Trump administration’s pursuit of personal wealth squarely against the wellbeing of our nation and its people.

All of these incidents, and plenty more, have clearly driven our country past the threshold for impeachment or invocation of the 25th amendment.

We cannot risk the world nor the wellbeing of our nation any longer. None of these considerations should be partisan, but shared in good faith by Americans of all backgrounds who care for the safety and stability of the United States.

Whether by his Cabinet or Congress, the President must be removed from office. We are playing with the brink.

[Jonathan Zepp @DaJMasta]

@TerribleMaps Surprising given the state of US geography education.

[Bark @barkmeta]

Let me explain what just happened 👇

5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil.

5 minutes…

These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch.

There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made.

Someone in that room picked up a phone.
And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars.

American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it.

This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions.

This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight.

You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question.

Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that.

The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…

[Jonathan Zepp @DaJMasta]

@Strippin New Silent Hill Pog

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

Donald Trump in 2024 - “You are not going to have a war with Iran with me as president.”

JD Vance in 2025 - “I certainly empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East...but the difference is back then we had dumb presidents.”

Pete Hegseth in 2024 - “The foolishness with which we ricocheted around the world intervening, thinking it was in our best interest when really we just overturned the table and created something worse.”

These people are against every war except the ones they start. That's what happens when you're surrounded by a bunch of yes men.

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war because the Framers insisted that the representatives of the people weigh all the vast implications. But now, desperate to distract from the spectacular failure of his illegal tariffs, the Epstein files, and spiraling inflation, the president who campaigned on keeping us out of regime-change ‘forever wars,’ like Iraq and Afghanistan, just launched unilateral military strikes against Iran without any Congressional declaration of war. Speaker Johnson must call us into session for a vote immediately.

[Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @RepAOC]

My statement on President Trump’s combat operations in Iran⬇️

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

Trump is the most corrupt president in American history. He has made more money in office in one year—billions of dollars mostly from foreign government emoluments, crypto scams and insider deals—than all the other presidents made in office combined. He is sinking like a stone in the polls, so he has suddenly decided to denounce corruption, his one major commitment in life!

[HealthRanger @HealthRanger]

Trump just declared, "glyphosate-based herbicides are a cornerstone of this Nation’s agricultural productivity and rural economy." And he's declaring glyphosate weedkiller to be a federally-protected critical resources.

This is insanity. He is now pushing the mass poisoning of American food crops and groceries with cancer-causing deadly weedkiller chemicals that will be sprayed all over the food crops.

Trump just declared chemical warfare on the American people. It's all here in black and white:
https://t.co/eFPZPxa8nD

[Jonathan Zepp @DaJMasta]

@DJSnM The bubble has burst!

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

Constitutional lawyer here, Sir!

ICE needs a warrant based upon probable cause signed by a neutral, impartial judge or magistrate under Article III to enter a person’s home. No executive branch edict or order from Trump or Noem can empower masked federal agents to override the Fourth Amendment.

Now, as a farmer, can you tell me how Trump’s unconstitutional tariffs are working for farm country?

[Jonathan Zepp @DaJMasta]

@ewarren To be clear, these are already legal requirements of ICE and are the absolute bare minimum requirements for their operation. Their funding should be contingent on far more than the absolute constitutionally required minimum level of performance.

[Jonathan Zepp @DaJMasta]

@Dansgaming Same