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Happily married, cats, retired space mission planner and system analyst for NASA. Now a curmudgeon and an enraged citizen doing what I can to save our democracy. Abiding in The Land of Pleasant Living on the Western Shore of Chesapeake Bay. AFT...
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Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social)
Walter Cronkite is spinning in his grave...
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD (@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social) reposted
An absolute barnburner by @gregggonsalves.bsky.social! www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
RFK JR: You're making things up to scare people. And it's a lie. Hassan: With respect, I do not think I'm the one making things up.
Natrice Rese 🇨🇦 (@natrese.bsky.social) reposted
I’m so impressed by the survivors and I’m behind their efforts to get validation, conviction for those involved ! Enough is enough! #jeffreyEpstein
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social)
New measles cases continue to be reported in the US, bringing the total for 2025 to 1,436. New outbreaks have occurred in Ohio and Wisconsin. This is the highest number of measles cases in the US since its elimination in 2000.
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social)
“During the Biden administration, HHS became a collaborator in child trafficking for sex and for slavery, and we have ended that. We’re very aggressively going out and trying to find these 300,000 children that were lost by the Biden administration.” He must be thinking about ICE...
Jack Hopkins-The Original (@therealjackhopkins.bsky.social) reposted
The REAL STORY is STILL THIS: AND WE MUST KEEP IT THAT WAY.
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
Between his crypto ventures, real estate deals, and licensing agreements, Trump and his family have profited off the presidency to the tune of $3.4 billion. The grifter-in-chief knows no bounds. We must not become numb to this.
Indivisible ❌👑 (@indivisible.org) reposted
CW: Sexual assault Men are impersonating ICE agents to kidnap and assault women. This is one of many reasons why we shouldn't have a masked, unaccountable secret police force roaming the streets. Tell your elected officials to take action today: www.bluestatedefiance.org/no-secret-po...
Marco Foster (@marcofoster.bsky.social) reposted
Gavin Newsom: “Eight of the top ten murder states in this country — red states. What bullshit. Everyone knows it. It’s acts of authoritarianism. It’s acts of power. It’s weak and it’s increasingly desperate. It’s important that we meet him head on with substantive counteractions”
Dorit Reiss (@doritreiss.bsky.social) reposted
Her father died of COVID-19, before a vaccine was available. Now RFK Jr. is taking those vaccines from people, undermining public health and risking lives unnecessarily. www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr...
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
WARNER: Do you accept the fact that 1 million Americans died from covid? RFK Jr: I don't know how many died W: You're the secretary of health and human services. You don't have any idea how many Americans died from covid? RFK Jr: I don't think anybody knows that W: How can you be that ignorant?
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Warnock to RFK jr: "For the first time, we are seeing deaths of children from measles. We haven't seen that in two decades. We're seeing that under your watch. You are a hazard to the health of the American people."
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
This is a reminder that Speaker Mike Johnson, the prude who is currently helping Donald Trump to cover up his alleged pedophilic past, was the first (and only) dean of Judge Paul Pressler School of Law. Judge Paul Pressler liked to molest underage boys. apnews.com/article/mike...
Carolyn Barber, MD (@cbarbermd.bsky.social) reposted
Former CDC Chief Medical Officer: “I had offered to brief on things like COVID, H5N1, flu, measles. But he never had a briefing from the senior leaders at CDC on any of these topics.” —Interview MSNBC R/t Factnews #BlueSky #Medasky #NewsSky #NurseSky #ScoSky #IDSky
Adam Kinzinger (@adamkinzinger.substack.com) reposted
Soybeans are collapsing because China isn’t buying them. The farm economy is in deep trouble. Because of our needless trade war that we are clearly losing. Maybe farmers will wake up
Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist (@drandrealove.bsky.social) reposted
Any Senators here? I’m a biomedical scientist with immunology, cancer, infectious disease expertise. RFK Jr lied to you in his confirmation hearings. Repeatedly. Provably. He’s lied to EVERYONE for 30+ years. Repeatedly. Provably. He WILL lie today. Repeatedly. Provably. 1/
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Ossoff: "It's been extraordinary to see the Speaker of the House reduced to lying in order to cover up sex crimes"
butterflygirl24 (@butterflygirl24.bsky.social) reposted
The Epstein Survivors r going to put together an Epstein client list since Taco won’t release the information. ✊🏼 They r so brave. I’m sure their lives have been threatened 2 keep them silent. www.youtube.com/live/kvJuX_h... #arresttrump #arrestrepublicans
Carter P. Hayes (@allchronology.com) reposted
The President is a convicted felon DHS Secretary is puppy killer HHS Secretary is an ex-heroin addict and antivaxxer Education Secretary can't read Defense Secretary is a drunk DNI is a Russian asset WTF happened for us to end up here?????
The New York Times (@nytimes.com) reposted
Steps away from the Capitol, victims of Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and sex offender, on Wednesday demanded that all people who received sexual favors through Epstein be identified. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
The Lincoln Project (@lincolnproject.us) reposted
He doesn't know what his department's plans are to help Americans. Maybe it's because there are none.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social) reposted
We've seen what collaboration with Trump has brought us: money stolen from city accounts, cuts to essential services, New Yorkers as young as six deported. Cuomo offers more of the same. I am prepared to fight back.
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
RFK JR: You’re just making stuff up Hassan: Sometimes when you make an accusation, it’s kind of a confession
Fred Wellman (@fpwellman.bsky.social) reposted
All. Of. This. My former colleague Stuart Stevens knocks it out of the park here. We have to stop being polite. Fight like our lives depend on it because they do. www.lincolnsquare.media/p/my-plea-to...
Trump Resistance Movement (@trm.bsky.social) reposted
The regime's response to the Epstein press conference was telling and not surprising.
Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox.bsky.social) reposted
They are one step away from starting a fire in order to have an excuse arrest people.
Blue World (@theblueworld.bsky.social) reposted
WATTERS: You weren't on Jeffrey Epstein's jet, were you? RFK JR: I was on Jeffrey Epstein's jet two times… but otherwise I was never on his jet alone
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD (@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social) reposted
Kennedy continues to claim that vaccines aren’t adequately tested. He is a liar. They are the most thoroughly tested intervention of all.
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Support for vaccinating kids against infectious diseases dropped from 81% in 1991 to 51% last year We are getting dumber as a society
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
"For so many years, it felt like Epstein's criminal behavior was an open secret." “We’re not going away. We’re not staying quiet. We’re not going to give up.” Annie Farmer (Epstein survivor)
Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) reposted
First Bernie Sanders. Then the CDC directors. Now, more than 1,000 current and former HHS staffers are demanding he step down.
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
RFK Jr: It's gonna be the biggest infusion of federal dollar into rural healthcare in American history BERNIE SANDERS: Yeah. You know why? Because you're cutting $150b for rural hospitals, you're putting $50b back. That's not an infusion. That's a loss of $100b.
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social)
Tulsi Gabbard’s reckless outing of a CIA officer has exposed the staggering incompetence of this administration, and raised urgent questions about coordination across our intelligence community.
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social)
Melania's backdoor man makes his exit as the 🍊💩 comes home...
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social)
Meanwhile, the conspiracy-minded HHS secretary, whose history of self-described “polygamous” behavior and alleged sexual assault is well documented, pursues his crusade against public health, putting more Americans at risk by the day.
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social)
September 3, 2025 From 1975 to 2018, at least $50 trillion moved from the bottom 90% to the top 1%. Trickle down my ass. And keep demanding release of the Epstein files.
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social)
Justice!
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
As a survivor, I can't think of a more fitting metaphor than a rapist creating loud noises with planes as a survivor tries to tell her story. I mean... just wow. Nevertheless, she persisted.
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social) reply parent
Madame Defarge is furiously knitting away...
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social)
#DerangedDonald just murdered 11 people to create a photo op. Do you believe what the World's biggest liar told us about who they were, what they were carrying, where they were headed? He's trying to start a war to justify martial law and hide the Epstein files.
Dr. Jack Brown (@drjackbrown.bsky.social) reposted
"We know the names." Epstein survivor
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, duh.
Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted
The overall takeaway from the Epstein survivors’ press conference is that they are united and are no longer going to allow rich and powerful men to victimize, silence and intimidate them. Including the ones in Congress and the perp in the Oval Office.
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social)
Hurricane Lorena Bobbitt is curling around and heading for the Southwest desert chockful of rain capable of flooding. Demand the Epstein files before they are washed away.
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social)
To answer your question: Yes!
Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) reposted
Why didn’t some of the Epstein survivors speak out earlier? “I thought someone was going to kill me,” one explained. As another asked, “Why did the government work so hard to protect Jeffrey Epstein and not victims like me?”
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
AOC: If anybody says “this isn’t fair, I'm gonna have to divest all my stocks if I run for congress” maybe you should stay home.
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social)
Unfortunately, we can't believe anything the Trump administration says. They didn't know, and we don't know, who they blew up in international waters.
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social) reply parent
My black cat doesn't sit on my black pants, only on my khakis...
Baltimore Orioles News (@oriolesnews.bsky.social) reposted
Orioles’ Rogers on winning AL Pitcher of the Month: ‘Getting back to where I knew I could’d #Orioles
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social)
We need to watch closely. The closer we get to forcing the release of the Epstein files, the closer they come to destroying all the evidence.
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social)
I don't know why Alan Watts is suddenly on YouTube, but it's interesting history. He was a New Age guru to boomer hippies (like me). What he taught still resonates today. Oh, and keep demanding the Epstein files.
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social)
Floriduh! Floriduh elementary schools will be ground zero for countless epidemics.
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social)
Republican election strategy: lie, cheat, and steal...
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social) reply parent
Welcome to the new normal...
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social)
Demand release of the Epstein files!
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social)
Make every MAGAt view the video of that interview.
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social)
#DerangedDonald's attack plan.
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social)
But you would be wrong — the teen was spared punishment by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro last month. Yes, the same Pirro who, like many of her colleagues, justified President Donald Trump’s takeover of D.C. by decrying the prevalence of juvenile crime there.
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social)
Shame!
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social)
What is Zuck up to? Gratuitously making enemies on purpose isn't a great business model. If everyone who signed that petition took Meta to their local small claims court (you don't need a lawyer), Meta would have to fight 40,000 suits at once or be handed 40,000 summary judgements against them.
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social)
Most drugs come in through regular ports of entry in New York and and border crossings California.
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Massie: "The Speaker of the House just offered a fig leaf to my colleagues. They're gonna vote on a non-binding resolution today that does absolutely nothing ... they're allowing the DOJ to curate all of the information that the DOJ is giving them ... the perpetrators are being protected"
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social)
"...connections between the Donald Trump campaign and Russia, including a report by The Guardian that British intelligence agency GCHQ first raised concerns as far back as late 2015." #TraitorTrump has been a Russian agent for so long, he can retire at full salary.
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social)
Already the Environmental Protection Agency is using the Energy Department analysis to justify the repeal of the endangerment finding, a 2009 scientific declaration that climate change poses a danger to human health and welfare. Demand ALL the Epstein files.
George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted
Rep. Robert Garcia: "The Attorney General herself has said that President Trump is in the Epstein files."
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social)
September 2, 2025 Excellent read...
jen 🌻 (@bunnibytz.bsky.social) reposted
KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that? RFK JR: “I never said that.” KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.” RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024) ht: @cwebbonline.com
Laura Benjamin (@laura.direct) reposted
Wealth taxes NOW. It’s patriotic to do your part and fund society for the workers you exploit in order to get this rich. #taxtherich
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social) reply parent
Stop them at the Illinois border.
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
The largest SNAP cuts in history went into effect yesterday, eliminating or drastically cutting food assistance for millions of Americans. And it’s all to pay for more tax cuts that primarily benefit the super-rich. Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax — it's cruel.
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
Since returning to office, Trump has: -Stripped 1 million federal workers of collective bargaining rights -Reversed Biden's minimum wage hike for federal contractors -Gutted OSHA and frozen enforcement of a regulation protecting miners from lung disease "Pro-worker" president.
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social)
The kind of news that Floriduh needs in the middle of their home insurance crisis... Where are Floriduh's Senators, Representatives, Governor, Legislature? Are they more afraid of Trump than they are of the voters?
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social)
Will #TraitorTrump complain to his Daddy Putin?
Marko Silberhand (@markosilberhand.bsky.social) reposted
. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social)
#PrettyBoyPete isn't shy about saying where he is headed.
Public Citizen (@publiccitizen.bsky.social) reposted
RFK Jr. has desecrated federal vaccine policy, putting Americans' public health at severe risk. He has upended CDC vaccine guidance and given authority to unqualified, anti-science quacks. If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention.
Debs Girl💙🌊Save 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇹🇼 (@olepal.bsky.social) reposted
We have the momentum heading into September open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...
Sustainability (@sustainableplanet.bsky.social) reposted
Two remarkable Ambassadors for our Planet, 99 year old Sir David Attenborough and 91 year old Dr. Jane Goodall. They’ve dedicated their lives to educate and protect.. 🌍 #janegoodall #davidattenborough #nature #chimpanzees #wildlife #environment #drjanegoodall #jane #sirdavidattenborough #bbc #bsky
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social)
Republican legacy: waste, fraud, and abuse...
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social)
#BrainWormBobby working hard to find new ways to kill us all.
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social)
September 1, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social)
H.P. Lovecraft: She gathers all the classified documents from around her and pushes up through the ground. She sniffs the air to get his scent and begins the shuffling trek to find him and paper him with the documents...
Skatingfool (@michaelbruceschaub.bsky.social)
There are still a lot of people in the red states that don't deserve what is happening to them. We need to show them how to take their government back.
George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.