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"Trump Is Inflicting More Damage Than Even the Pessimists Anticipated" In every realm that allows him to harm our country’s interests, values, and norms, the president continues to outdo himself in all the worst ways, writes @johnjharwood.bsky.social. Read the article: zeteo.com/p/trump-is-i...
NEW: We took a deep dive into the anti-abortion zealotry of one of Trump's judicial nominees, Josh Divine. Divine's record makes clear that he cannot be a fair and impartial judge on reproductive health issues. Here's Divine, in his own words 🧵 courtaccountability.substack.com/p/what-judic...
I created an album cover for my cats. What name do you suggest?
He. Is. So. Unbelievably. Stupid.
ICEBlock is an innovative, completely anonymous crowdsourced platform that allows users to report Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity with just two taps on their phone. In recent years, ICE has faced criticism for alleged civil rights abuses and failures to adhere to constitutional
He would cringe and ignore them.
During our meeting in New York today, Zohran Mamdani produced a large handsaw and cut a circle around my chair, causing me to fall through the floor to the level below. "Why are you doing this?" I pleaded with him. "Because I'm muslim and communist" he replied
You voted for this.
Today 9:45 pm pst is available for anyone who wants to listen to one-on-one 45 minutes! You will receive a tshirt! TMB-“Yes, at 9:.45 PM pst I will be available to listen and anyone I include in watching will not be a hostage, nor will I be steering a ship through the Panama Canal!”
@crendor.bsky.social our cat Lily really enjoyed your Top Ten Owls in World of Warcraft video!
Palantir, the intelligence and data tracking firm founded by Peter Thiel, is reportedly being used by ICE to track down and kidnap political dissidents. The head of Palantir UK is Louis Mosley, the the eldest grandson of Oswald Mosley, who founded the Brish Union of Fascists (BUF) in 1932.
The worst happened. We were DOGE’d. Our NSF funding is gone. So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment. It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/ expertvoicestogether.org
The phones are offline.
The Commerce Dept. office in DC has taken their phone # off the website and their phones are offline.
A white West Virginia couple found guilty of forcing their five adopted Black children to work as "slaves" on their farm were sentenced to hundreds of years in prison. Jeanne Kay Whitefeather, 63, was sentenced Wednesday to 215 years in prison. Her husband, Donald Lantz, 64, received 160 years.
In 1989, Gladys and Nelson Gonzalez fled to the United States, seeking asylum from the violence and drugs consuming their native Colombia. They built a beautiful life and family in Southern California. They followed all the immigration protocols. They continually pursued…
people nationwide need to study what's happening in Montana to protect trans kids and their families
“But the email presented Americans with one of the other really perfect responses to fascism: ridicule.” 🙏
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii Supreme Court rules against insurance companies in Maui wildfire, allowing $4B settlement to move forward.
She wrote a character letter for Danny Masterson.
the “administrative state” in practice is a lot of very hard working, practically anonymous people doing the thankless work of making this country run and a drug-addled dipshit is slandering them in order to steal our money for himself
This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
www.npr.org/2025/02/05/n...
An important historical note — that USAID helped end Apartheid — sheds new light on Elon’s relentless and soulless attack on USAID. During Apartheid, Black South Africans were robbed of human rights and political power. 1/2 www.thealtmedia.com/p/musks-sout...
It’s a pedophile’s favorite hangout and hunting grounds
Elon Musk says we should allow more WHITE South Africans to emigrate to the US. Not South Africans of any other race - specifically WHITE South Africans only.
THIS IS BEYOND LEGISLATION CHUCK! Sue his ass!!!!!
If they eliminate the DOE I am not paying a dime in student loans.
it would probably be a really fun time to impress Jodie Foster rn
Come at me.
Need plaintiffs? Sign me up!
Hey, if any attorneys need plaintiffs in filings against Musk, I volunteer as tribute.
Ive said this before. Unions have a moment in time to create parallel, Non Profit Trust or Associated Health Plans and offer them to small to medium size businesses. Unions can negotiate far better than SMBs or associations . Imagine if millions got their healthcare from unions ? Thoughts ?
Datasets are being deleted. www.404media.co/archivists-w...
NBC News is being kicked out of its space in the Pentagon and replaced by OANN.
They are just pouring water out of a reservoir for no goddamn reason other than Trump thinks that there's a magic valve that was stopping California from fighting wildfires.
Let’s keep spreading the truth.
Just saw this, too. The Pentagon is kicking NBC, NYT, NPR, and Politico out of it's press room, and is replacing them with the NY Post, Breitbart, and OANN.
Stop issuing statements and FIGHT BACK!!!!
I thought they weren't using fact checking anymore? Anyway, there's multiple articles about the proposed legislation.
ICE will no longer consider if "an alien is a victim of a crime...a positive discretionary factor" in determining whether to deport them, per new ICE memo leaked to me
I’m used to this as a criminal defense attorney - constitutional rights get called technicalities all the time. I can no longer say I expect better from the NYT. This is pathetic.
JUST IN: "Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials." www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.
The authoritarian takeover currently happening within federal government is nightmarish — hopefully, rule of law prevails. However, we must understand this will not be contained to the federal government. We must prepare, this playbook will be used across all levels of government — state & local.
This is a hostile takeover of the U.S. Government.
NTEU has sent an email regarding the follow up OPM Fork email urging people not to accept the deferred resignation. The bolded “FU” is a nice touch.
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I'm Charlie Jane Anders (she/her). I write some pretty wacky science fiction and fantasy, plus a noozletter. My book Lessons in Magic and Disaster comes out August. A trans woman teaches her lesbian mom to do magic, and the two of them heal their grief and trauma together. Plus 18th century queers!
.@maddow.msnbc.com Kash Patel was chief of staff for Chris Miller they DENIED the National Guard 14 times on January 6th. I logged all the 14 calls and out over where I was that day. Pelosi is NOT in the chain of command! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr3P...
you can still search and get results for "LGBT" on the cdc dot gov site; it's just the search results are return 404s (except the smoking related pages?) live link: search.cdc.gov/search/?quer... archive link: web.archive.org/web/20250131...
It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives
Gov JB Pritzker (R-IL) signs order prohibiting Jan 6 rioters from state employment in Illinois: “I hereby direct CMS to apply the State Personnel Code and consider any participation in the January 6 insurrection as infamous and disgraceful conduct that is antithetical to the mission of the State”
If this happened under Biden's watch, it would be 24-7 outrage for 6 months. Democrats need to unify on message and blast Trump AND his baseless attacks on women, POC, and DEI. www.yahoo.com/news/trump-g...
Let’s all meet up for an hour and just scream. I live in a red state and a red district so calls to these Nazi fucks are pointless.
Fourteen hours before the crash. 👇
Women deserve to know the TRUTH about the impact of Texas' total abortion ban. Today, I along with Rep. Gerry Connolly, Rep. Summer Lee, and Rep. Ayanna Pressley sent ANOTHER letter calling on Texas to explain why it won't release maternal mortality data from the past 2 years after Dobbs.
WTF is a Doge Dem? Other than a Republican in disguise?
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES IN LOS ANGELES: If you’re looking to get involved with volunteer efforts in LA, please check out this list provided by Mutual Aid LA: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
"It is not unusual for a sitting justice to offer a job recommendation ... but it is rare ... for a justice to have such a conversation directly with a sitting president or president-elect, especially one with an active stake in business pending before the court." abcnews.go.com/US/trump-spe...
I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...
Facebook suppressed promotion of political content during a Democratic administration and is restoring it for a Republican one
Here’s a very worrying article that came out as well. If you read more in depth it essentially allows attacks on any minority now. Meta's new hate speech rules allow users to call LGBTQ people mentally ill www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
Oooofffff
I can’t think of a better way to honor Jimmy Carter than donating to Habitat for Humanity. He and Rosalynn first began volunteering with the nonprofit in 1984 — 3 years after leaving the White House. They volunteered every year until 2020, eventually helping to build and repair 4,390 Habitat homes.
WATCH: “Heath insurers gave $120 BILLION to shareholders while denying your claim… millions of American have had their lives ruined…” #MedicareForAll The @LeverNews report: www.levernews.com/health-insur...
She was there before Elvis, Little Richard or Johnny Cash swiveled their hips and strummed their guitars. If you've never heard Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of rock 'n' roll, you should.
The warning about "decivilization" didn't come after any one of a number of school shootings. It didn't come after January 6. It was after a health insurance company CEO's shooting wasn't received with national mourning: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Remember it’s not normal for a FBI director - appointed by the president-elect himself to serve a 10 year term 7 years ago - to resign in this way, and it’s normal to nominate someone as unqualified as Patel to replace him. None of this is normal - and should not be normalized by the news media!
Timeline cleanse
Just a reminder that land doesn’t vote. People do.
Coalition building is key to surviving this next 4 years
It's going to be a Watergate and a half per day.
If you’re wondering what his qualifications for FBI director are, we present The Atlantic’s Kash Patel profile from August👇🏽 www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Trump just selected him to be FBI Director (this clip is from 2023 with Bannon when Kash was vying to be CIA Director)
He just wants a lock of your hair, Ken.
@gailsimone.bsky.social oh Gail I am so glad that you’re here!!
New account to make the most blocked on bluesky.
Never trust a Trumper.
One of my English teachers in high school reduced books like The Great Gatsby into a hunt for symbols and it was difficult to unlearn that.
The Oregon Republican Party has at its disposal a (technically unaffiliated) news-ish site that churns out about 5-8 stories per day that frame the news in a GOP-friendly manner. I frequently see these stories shared on Republican social media pages. There is no OR DEM equivalent. oregoncatalyst.com
But hear me out: the books are good.
THIS account is not Betty Bowers. The correct account is @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social Please report this one. It has an “i” at the end of the account name.
Maybe before making up just-so stories about why and how the left forced the Silicon Valley bros to go hard right, you could look up the bros' personal histories, their family histories, or the entire history of ultra-rich people in general
My old pinned post from The Bad Place
He’s such a stooge. See my pinned post.
Counterpoint: your head continues to exist inside your descending colon. Walz was awesome and I can’t wait to see him on my ballot again.
EVERY. WORD. OF. THIS.
I read the washington post editorial condemning the ICC for their arrest warrant on Netanyahu. I expected to disagree with one or two of their arguments. What I discovered is they made not a single factual claim. And no one is even talking about it. Receipts: www.qasimrashid.com/p/rebuking-t...
A lot of people don't realize that many patients with #LongCovid are now often being treated in Brain Injury Clinics, together with patients recovering from traumatic brain injury after a concussion. It's been hard to keep up with the literature, but here is a new one published yesterday #NeuroCovid
"Everything You Need to Know About Donald Trump’s NIH Pick" - @walkerbragman.bsky.social brings receipts. He's bad, really bad:
Anyone who is anti-vax is pro-death. Period. The science and data do not lie. And they don’t care about your podcast.
Yeesh
