Patrick Stoddart

Starting something new. Fmr. @RebellionDef, building software for national defense. Earlier @DefenseDigital / @USDS / @phone2action. KCMO to DC 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈

[Washingtonian Weather Geeks @WashingtonianWx]

Radar is now estimating 85-90mph damaging winds as these storms approach Northwest Stadium!

THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION! Winds this high are capable of producing significant damage! #mdwx

[Patrick Stoddart @prstoddart]

@oucmecalling311 Same accident a couple minutes earlier 😭

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

When I say the country is institutionally rigged for Republicans I’m talking about how Virginia gets their maps struck down after a two year process involving multiple legislative sessions and a statewide referendum but Tennessee can just decide not to enfranchise Memphis anymore

[Brian Schatz @brianschatz]

and is now bullying a company for refusing to do mass surveillance of Americans. This kind of chaos and corruption is terrible for the business environment. Political instability makes America a very different kind of economic proposition. Capital can and will go elsewhere. 2/2

[Brian Schatz @brianschatz]

No snark - if you like free markets you should consider being a a Dem. The govt has taken a stake in multiple companies, imposed hundreds of billions in tariffs, illegally halted multi gigawatt energy projects that were almost done, 1/2

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

No administration of my lifetime has been more antagonistic toward the private sector, free markets, and free trade. All the warnings of socialists and Democratic overreaches and government intrusion — it's all worse in reality right now than ever before. Just remarkable.

[Organizermemes @OrganizerMemes]

Removing the memorial of the pulse nightclub victims is some of the most heinous work imaginable and I hope shame for this follows desantis to his grave

[Carter Christensen @CarterChristens]

Can we stop saying we are "dangerously close to crossing that line" now?

Trump and his traitorous thugs have crossed it.
We've crossed it.
We are here!

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

If they can handcuff a U.S. Senator for asking a question, imagine what they will do to you.

[Parker Butler @parkerpbutler]

Just incredible

[The okayest poster there is @ok_post_guy]

"we want China to have a country full of wealthy knowledge workers who consume goods and services while Americans toil in the mines and soot-spewing factories"

Unreal that people voted for this and still support it in any way

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

Trump's bringing stagflation, a tumbling stock market, constitutional crisis, political retribution, and the sabotaging of American science and medicine. What an awesome first 100 days.

[Patrick Stoddart @prstoddart]

DoD and our national security will be worse off for this.

[Dave Brown @dave_brown24]

NEW: Under pressure from DOGE, nearly all the staff of the Defense Digital Service — the Pentagon’s fast-track tech development arm — are resigning over the coming month, according to the director and three other current members of the office https://t.co/P6RBVaER32 @MoharChat

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

I think today was an inflection point - maybe small, but real.

The President, having launched a global trade war, feted in the Oval Office a Central American dictator who runs a mega-prison known for starvation and torture - a prison to which our government has, by its own admission, sent at least one person "in error."

They disappeared a man without a single criminal charge who's lived and worked here for 15 years - who was alleged to be a member of a gang based in a state he never lived by one anonymous informant. No other evidence. No trial. No conviction. Nothing but a legal order that he not be deported to El Salvador, where he's now serving a life sentence.

The Supreme Court just ruled, without any noted dissent, that the government must facilitate the man's release.

But Trump and his dictator friend said no. They laughed. They mocked the journalist who asked whether they'd abide by the Court's order. The Attorney General, the Secretary of State, and the White House Deputy Chief all lied about the facts of the case. Then the President repeated his proposal to send American citizens to the dictator's prison, and asked him to build five more.

The same day we found out that the government knowingly disappeared a PhD student for nothing but an op-ed, a man's 19-year old son who agents admitted was the wrong kid, and a visa-holding Russian scientist at Harvard who forgot to declare frog embryos at the border.

But: it's all breaking through. It's getting more coverage. More people are paying attention. More elected Democrats are speaking up. More conservative pundits and legal scholars are speaking up. Even Joe Rogan thinks it's bullshit.

Now we have to keep pushing. This is much bigger than immigration or deportation policy - this is about whether we live in a free country or a police state. It's the whole ballgame.

[Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer]

Crash the economy, defy a judges order to return a man from a foreign prison infamous for torture, hit the links

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

The 8 worst days EVER for the Dow — all of them under Donald Trump

−2,997.10 - March 16, 2020
−2,352.60 - March 12, 2020
−2,231.07 - TODAY
−2,013.76 - March 9, 2020
−1,861.82 - June 11, 2020
−1,679.39 - YESTERDAY
−1,464.94 - March 11, 2020
−1,338.46 - March 18, 2020

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

The 7 largest Dow Jones drops in American history:

1. Trump, 3/16/20
-2,997.10

2. Trump, 3/12/20
-2,352.60

3. Trump, 3/9/20
-2,013.76

4. Trump, 6/11/20
-1,861.82

5. Trump, 4/3/25
-1,679.39

6. Trump, 3/11/20
-1,464.94

7. Trump, 03/18/20
-1,338.46

Tired of winning yet?

[Matt McDermott @mattmfm]

The NASDAQ just saw the largest single day point drop in American history and the response from the President is to cut his work week short to get on his plane and go golfing.

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

Make America Great Again

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Happy Liberation Day!