Joan Setka

“We can’t have a civilization without everyone pitching in.” RuPaul. @jsetka.bsky.social

[Joan Setka @JSetka]

“Honesty is simply a declaration of one’s own vulnerability-it is its keen, bright edge-and my own vulnerability and the vulnerability of others became, in the end, a kind of shared armour. I learned that, ultimately, our own truth and sense of self is all any of us have.”-N.Cave

[Joan Setka @JSetka]

@ClassicGameBoss @Kanew @NYCMayor @ZohranKMamdani @nyknicks @NY_KnicksPR They are his employees, so he can. It’s really stupid, because I would think it’s somewhat humiliating to them because trmup is such a racist, but he can make them go.

[Joan Setka @JSetka]

@EvaEaston @jackunheard No it wasn’t

[Joan Setka @JSetka]

@clashreport Get the money from @ DHS

[NAFO_trinzu🇪🇪❤️🇺🇦🔱🦉 @trinzu]

Visibility is terrible.

The need isn’t.

Phantom Strike still needs night vision.

🎯 Goal: €7,000
💰 €2,532
📊 €4,468 left

https://t.co/f0S2Gc6gbg
https://t.co/jhst620ZPw
https://t.co/G8U4mLVPTj
https://t.co/m19NtdzfRn

[Joan Setka @JSetka]

@LetsArmUKR @IAPonomarenko Not, historical allusion trolling is far too sophisticated for these trolls. All of the stereotypes about American boorishness are true in this case.

[Darwin BondGraham @DarwinBondGraha]

Who’s behind the AI-generated social media posts targeting Oakland’s mayor?

A Piedmont-raised political activist is building a network of websites and social media accounts blasting progressive politicians.

https://t.co/jKr6dazg5T

[Emily Mills @sf_mills]

This guy

[Emily Mills @sf_mills]

“The records also shed some light on the connections between SpaceX and Qatar. Funds affiliated with Bracket Capital…invested about $48 million through a series of deals from 2017 through 2020” https://t.co/Uv97d3zImR

[Emily Mills @sf_mills]

This is actually more important than I think a lot of people realize. These VC folks were laying the groundwork in special elections, like Alabama, like San Francisco.

[Emily Mills @sf_mills]

See how he talks about Conservative Christians (Catholic/Evangelical), see how Leonard Leo popped up with Napa Legal in 2018 with the first priest with whom JD Vance discussed becoming Catholic?

[Emily Mills @sf_mills]

Frontline Strategies LLC was pretty new at that point.

[Emily Mills @sf_mills]

Let’s look back to 2023 when a major league baseball team invited the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to Pride Night and gave them a Community Hero Award. Frontline Strategies “began crafting multi-medium fundraising copy geared towards a conservative Catholic audience.” ⬇️

[Joan Setka @JSetka]

@MeghanMcCain @BarackObama Your dad was a decent man

[Joan Setka @JSetka]

@BowesChay It was a Russian drone.

[414 Magyar's Birds @414magyarbirds]

The cracks are starting to show.
“The army has mutinied! They say the tsar is a fake!”

MAGYAR 🇺🇦
18.06.26

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

My friend Jamie Raskin is one of the most careful and principled people in Congress. So when he says the director of the FBI may be running a taxpayer funded slush fund, I pay attention.

Here is what he found.

Kash Patel directed more than $1 million in bonus payments to a small circle of agents in his inner circle and on his security detail.

Some were getting nearly $8,000 every two weeks on top of salaries that were already maxed out at the federal ceiling. A number of them collected close to $40,000 over consecutive pay periods.

The payments came so fast that the FBI’s bonus reserve accounts ran dry and some checks bounced.

So who got the money?

Agents on Patel’s so-called "director’s advisory team."

That is the unit created in 2025 and described internally as a payback squad, built to dig up dirt on the law enforcement officials who investigated Trump and his allies.

Raskin has given Patel until June 29 to account for every payment, every recipient, and any internal review of whether this was even legal.

Patel should answer for all of it.
https://t.co/HZPeRJ2Kqg

[Joan Setka @JSetka]

@marykay50572512 @CalltoActivism @RealMartyT7 Oh, he gets it

[Joan Setka @JSetka]

@SenSchumer I would also like my tax dollars to not go to Israel.

[Joan Setka @JSetka]

@TheBigMan60 @HQNewsNow He wasn’t perfect. In retrospect, I’m sure there’s lots of things that he would do differently, but he certainly didn’t SUCK. He wasn’t corrupt, he didn’t make himself or his family rich, he didn’t abuse the office.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

FYI: The biggest celebration of America’s 250th anniversary may end up being the opening of the Obama Presidential Library.

A quarter millennium after the nation’s founding, the first Black president’s legacy will have a permanent home on Chicago’s South Side.

History has a way of picking its own milestones. 🇺🇸