capitan villalobos

captain of a borrowed ship — CMU ‘16 — UPR Derecho ‘24

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

He paid New Yorkers to shovel. The 78 degreee recommendation has been on the books for every state for literally 50 years. And he has refused to take a raise if it gets approved. This is literally the best you can do and it’s all lies.

[Polygon @Polygon]

Dropout snubbed by 2026 Emmys despite actually having the best game show around https://t.co/LYBjP3F6hT

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

Just so everyone's clear, if there was ANY photographic or video evidence of this happening, Fox News would be running it on a loop 24/7.

[the phantom callback @realjdburn]

it's all so very tiresome

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I hope everyone had a great 4th of July. I know @realDonaldTrump and family did.

250 years ago we declared independence from a king who ran the colonies as a family business. In just 18 months the Trumps have made King George look like an amateur.

A $620 million Pentagon loan, the largest in the program’s history, to a company Don Jr.’s firm bought into three months before.

An Air Force drone contract to a startup the princelings took public through a golf course company they own a piece of.

The Army’s largest drone motor order ever, to a company where Don Jr. sits on the board and holds millions in stock.

A $24 million Pentagon robotics contract to the company that employs Eric as Chief Strategy Advisor.

A stake in the largest undeveloped tungsten deposit on earth, in Kazakhstan, backed by $1.6 billion in US government support.

Jared’s fund seeded with $2 billion from the Saudi crown prince, now $6.2 billion, 99% of it foreign money from Gulf governments. Over $110 million in fees collected from the Saudis alone. He negotiates American foreign policy with the governments that pay him.

$2.3 billion from crypto ventures their father regulates. More than a million people bought in and lost $2.3 billion. The money didn’t grow. It simply moved from the subjects pockets to the crown’s coffers.

And the next one is already drafted. A proposed ATF rule that will allow guns to be shipped straight to your front door. The government’s own estimate is 3.3 million home gun deliveries a year. Don Jr. sits on the board of the online gun megastore built to cash in. He holds 300,000 shares.

And that’s only the fraction they’ve allowed us to see. Not one subpoena served. Not one search executed. Why hide anything when you own the investigators?

Me? They searched a laptop for six years. Federal prosecutors. Grand juries. Subpoena power. Congressional hearings. They found nothing. I made about $200k a year selling paintings when my Dad was President, and they made my paintings part of an impeachment inquiry.

For six years they’ve asked Where’s Hunter? What about the laptop?

Wrong questions. The right one is 250 years old. Does America belong to a family?

They’ve given their answer. Long live the King.

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

Two hundred and fifty years ago, a group of Americans signed their names to a piece of parchment and made a promise no nation had ever made before: that we're all created equal, endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights — life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

We're the only nation in history built not on ethnicity, or blood, or geography but on an idea. That's always been what makes us exceptional. We chose that path 250 years ago but that’s where the work began, not where it ended. Every generation has had to choose it again. At Valley Forge, at Gettysburg, on the beaches of Normandy, in the streets of Selma. Americans recommitted themselves to the principles on which our nation was founded.

Now it's our turn.

There's nothing guaranteed about our democracy. We have to fight for it, defend it, and earn it. Over and over, year after year. That's not a burden. That's what it means to be an American.

250 years in, we still haven't fully lived up to those words in the Declaration. But we've never walked away from them, and this July 4, I hope all of us can commit to one thing: that we never will. I don't believe we're as divided as we're told we are. I've bet my whole life on the American people, and I'm not stopping now.

Happy 250th birthday, America. Our story isn't finished. Let's keep writing it together.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

I extend my heartfelt congratulations to all Americans on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. This anniversary stands as an invitation not only to celebrate the nation’s remarkable journey, but also to reflect upon the responsibilities that the sons and daughters of this country bear to one another, and to the generations who will inherit the nation that is being shaped today. https://t.co/jIio4BBg9v

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

This is fascinating to me, because beyond the surface level it illuminates why conservatives are often so full of shit.

The baseline here is that there's a heatwave, and Mamdani asked New Yorkers to adjust their thermostats to help the grid. This is regular practice in red and blue areas of the country. Daniel posts a defiant "I'm not gonna do what mommy tells me!" style post. He surely thinks he's a very clever boy here.

Now if the message is "This is a free country, and I love my AC, and by god it's my house and no government bureaucrat can force me to change", then fine. Sure. But there is no law being proposed here. No police are bursting down your door demanding to check your thermostat. It's a request from a community leader, a polite ask that you engage in a very small pro-social sacrifice.

You would think conservatives would understand the idea that local communities should pull together in times of need. For the 'common good', perhaps. You'd think. And that they'd be happy if no government force was involved, if they could act merely because they had strong moral character and believed in private charitable action.

"Nobody should ever ask anyone to sacrifice for the common good, even if it's just a polite request" is just dipshit nihilism.

But I suspect Daniel doesn't actually believe in those conservative ideas. Or if he does, they're a distant second to the true guiding star of conservative thought: owning the libs. Given the chance to help people or own the libs, conservatives will always own the libs. Given the chance to demonstrate strong principles or own the libs, they'll always abandon the principle to own the libs. The actual philosophy of the right is merely "We hate the left". And it's sad.

[Chef Joe Gera 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇹 @redhotnerd]

I can vouch for this. We filled out the paperwork to be a food vendor specifically with barbecue and had planned to be there for the entire celebration. Stopped hearing from organizers late last summer, and here we are. Truly sad what has happened, this would have been a truly incredible event.

[HIDEO_KOJIMA @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN]

I saw “Supergirl” in IMAX. It wasn’t a “superhero movie” about saving the Earth through self-sacrifice as “justice” confronts “evil.” It was a coming-of-age story about saving oneself, Kara, as she struggles with her own trauma. Structurally, it feels less like “Mad Max: Fury Road” (2015), where everyone is driven purely by survival instinct beyond notions of good and evil, and more like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), where heroes, villains, and scoundrels all converge.

[capitan villalobos @thiswayjose]

I’ve been waiting six weeks for a few packages and ever since their latest update, I’m getting a “cannot display current status” where the shipping info would normally be.

[Interesting AF @interesting_aIl]

Jeff Bezos says “if we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, your packages would take six weeks to arrive” in response to NYC’s high school spending

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

We cannot consider #AI to be morally neutral. In reality, every technical tool embodies choices and priorities through what it measures, ignores, and optimizes, and how it classifies people and situations. Ethical discernment cannot be limited to asking whether we are using a system for good or bad purposes. It must also examine how that system is designed and what vision of the human person and society is embedded in the data and models that guide it. #MagnificaHumanitas

[capitan villalobos @thiswayjose]

quick reminder that Jared Kushner doesn't work for the government.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Photo posted by the Prime Minister of Qatar, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, alongside U.S. Vice President JD Vance and President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, as fragile peace negotiations with Iran appear to be continuing in Switzerland.

[capitan villalobos @thiswayjose]

Didn’t be pardon a bunch of people who broke open doors and windows of the Capitol building?

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Breaking news: U.S. Park Police officers arrested former Olympian David Hearn on a misdemeanor charge of destruction of government property.

Hearn said he touched the Reflecting Pool’s detached liner but “didn’t destroy or break or peel anything.” https://t.co/EkLvCHvbKR

[capitan villalobos @thiswayjose]

This is wild cause Absolutely no story has gotten more coverage than Joe Biden’s “mental decline”. Jake Tapper is STILL talking about it.

[Brilyn Hollyhand @BrilynHollyhand]

The reflecting pool has gotten more coverage than:

- Somalian daycare fraud
- Laken Riley’s murder
- Biden’s mental health decline

Combined…

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

By the time Trumpism is fizzling out, a lot of very slimy right wing types will try to pretend they were never really on his side. Don't let the bastards get away with it.

[Negan @Roger_Negan]

This

[Josh Chavis @JoshChavis65]

This quote from the Argentinian Ambassador to the United States is incredibly badass, and perfectly encapsulates the early vibes of this World Cup:

[Mark Warner @MarkWarner]

Surprise, surprise – the corrupt sweetheart deal for one of Trump’s buddies ended in disaster.