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Cat mom to 3 in Houston, TX. Classically trained musician (flute) studied at Rice U. Later got my MBA in Finance and Economics at NYU. Interested in medicine, science, cultural arts, law, politics, nature, sports. Astros ⚾ and Texans 🏈 fan.
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Wow, I wonder why it takes until 10:30 pm to get those children back into ORR custody?
Oh yeah, Gazongo! Partial nudity for the win!!! 😺🧡
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
If your state hasn't done this yet, call your governor's office as well as top public health official in your state, and request that they do this. If enough people start calling, they will hear us loud and clear!
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YAY FUN! Hanging out with the Veterans at the rememberyouroath.org at Union Station. Reminding Guardsmen to Remember They swore an oath to the Constitution. PS the Navy Baby Goat Binky is for WATB Louisiana National Guard who say they can’t share sidewalks with old Veterans. Boo hoo!
NEW: DOJ says the Guatemalan children have been removed from the planes and are "in the process" of being returned to custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
So heartbreaking 💔 😭
NEW: Judge Sooknanan now orders the govt to explain why it has failed to meet her 4 p.m. ET deadline to give a status update on the Guatemalan children who are supposed to be removed from planes and returned to Office of Refugee Resettlement custody.
JUST IN: Judge Sooknanan ordered the government to file a status report by 4 pm to address whether the children have been deplaned. DOJ blew the deadline. Now she orders them to show cause why they didn’t file the report in time — and sets new 6:30 pm deadline.
Yep, immediate block
Pour one out for Judge Sparkle Sooknanan’s clerks this Labor Day weekend
Luis Garcia will start for the Astros tomorrow.
The Astros lost 3-0. They are 75-62. Houston has scored two runs or fewer in 11 of its past 18 games. The lineup had two hits today and did not have a runner reach third base. Hunter Brown was good again.
Welp! Couldn't my #COVID shot at #CVS appointment today. I was informed I will only be able to get it by prescription in the state of Georgia. Let's see if my healthcare system will provide shots for medical staff. I will update you on this as well.🤷🏽♀️
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Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
This is the way you do it!!!
Ryan is still in jail and being denied his right to see council. All for sidewalk chalk.
@jollygoodginger.bsky.social is in DC with other vets right now standing up for democracy. He's playing General Milleys speech on repeat for them today 💜 #LoveTheVets!
Cool! Can't wait to find out what you think!
This article finally gives a name to who I've been all my life -- an otrovert. I feel seen. 😊
"They would rather do work assignments individually than in a group, despise playing team sports, and find the shared traditions or rituals of communal life – office parties, graduation ceremonies, even religious holidays – difficult and even baffling." Hi. 👋
Wow, this place looks great!
CDC not tracking. bsky.app/profile/pulm...
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group.” This is on Trump. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
🧊🚨✈️ CHILD TRAFFICKING⁉️ As a court hearing about a plan to imminently deport 600 unaccompanied minors to Guatemala gets underway, we can see at least three ICE Air planes headed south *right now* from El Paso, Dallas, and Alexandria LA 👀 Track them here: globe.adsbexchange.com?icao=a83f98,...
NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...
It appears the Trump admin may again be lying to a federal judge.
I can usually parse the bullshit Trump says but I don’t understand the claim that without tariffs “our military power would be instantly obliterated.” Has he talked about this angle before?
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
HAPPENING NOW: Judge Sparkle Sooknanan holds an emergency hearing as the Trump admin is reportedly trying—imminently—to deport hundreds of Guatemalan children without required process or access to representation. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71240...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s assault may have dealt lasting damage to the CDC, experts fear, with harsh consequences for public health. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/h...
I made a spreadsheet of all the federal cases filed as part of Trump's DC crackdown. It's not going great
VA is a disaster right now. I generally don't trust the private sector with my healthcare, yet had wrist surgery three weeks ago at Baylor Scott & White in Dallas because VA couldn't handle it. First time I've had a major procedure or serious condition treated outside the military or VA since 1996.
One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”
abcnews.go.com/Health/covid...
Please sign and share our petition to remove RFK Jr. www.change.org/p/rfk-jr-mus...
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
Just so insanely unfair. 😡
EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS infuriating, deplorable account of what one trans woman in the U.K. has gone through as a result of the country's shifting laws (particularly as they have moved toward explicit hatred this year). Just read it. My God.
That figures since he's a tyrant. 😼🧡
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Why the Texas AG is trying to lock me up and what we're doing to fight back and win. open.substack.com/pub/betoorou...
Stephen Manning, this guy’s lawyer, is one of the best in the country. It’s very good news that he’s taken this case.
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Is MeanCat bribable? Perhaps pay him in Churu treats in lieu of correct papers?
Have you seen any hummingbirds, Gazongo?
It looks so enchanting! 🧡
Good thread
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And also: www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
‘It’s madness’: Trump-voting fishermen oppose… | Canary Media
Welch: As someone who lives in a red state, let me just tell you what MAGA supermajorities get you. We're 50th in education. The worst in the whole country for women to live. We're poorer, worst health care. And if you look at the bottom ten states, they are all MAGA supermajorities.
They don’t care if you have papers or not. What they care about is whether you look like an immigrant from south of the border.
Maybe we should burn Confederate Flags! What do you think?
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
The Transportation Department on Friday canceled $679 million in federal funding for a dozen offshore wind projects, the latest attack by the Trump administration on the reeling U.S. offshore wind industry. https://to.pbs.org/45HtATc
Absolutely insane 😡
Cristian Javier against the Angels: 6 IP, 0 H, 0 ER, 3 BB, 6 K, 85 pitches, 51 strikes, 36 swings, 9 whiffs, 84.2 mph average exit velocity, .080 xBA on 12 balls in play. Javier departs with a no-hitter intact. His ERA after five starts is 3.38.
Cristian Javier is no-hitting the Angels through five innings at Daikin Park. He's walked three batters and thrown 76 pitches. Javier hasn't thrown more than 85 in any start since coming back from Tommy John surgery.
Federal agents deployed tear gas during an immigration operation in the Westlake District on Thursday morning, witnesses tell CBS News Los Angeles.
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Garcia: We finally got word from the Epstein estate. They're going to be providing the actual Epstein book… the estate is actually going to actually now get us that book and a bunch of other documents that they have that's actually not been reported yet.
“Independent journalist Marisa Kabas was first to report on Borges’ resignation and his email’s disappearance in posts on Bluesky.”
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
No tariffs on naps!
NEW — I wrote about the resignation of SSA's chief data officer just says after he blew the whistle on a major data vulnerability, including the full text of his blistering email and how his allegations confirm those made by a previous whistleblower and a former employee back in March:
We must offer something that we are voting FOR, a vision about how this country will be better when we stop the bad guys in power and elect Democrats to replace them. So how about this vision that returns power to the people and delivers big, bold change in America: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wisr...
"Schumer should accept defeat here. He should stop trying to recruit anyone to run against Platner. He should give everyone in the Democratic coalition a fair and unspoiled test of left-populist appeal." Agreed, @brianbeutler.bsky.social www.offmessage.net/p/graham-pla...
More sad news for the polar community... Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (@arcus-arctic.bsky.social) is shutting down. We all lose here. The past 8 months have been unthinkable, and their consequences for the future even more so.
The maddening thing is that we know EXACTLY how to prevent this. Yes, kids should get vaccinated, test, stay home when sick, mask as much as possible. But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.
US COVID-19 levels continue to climb gradually Over the past week, test positivity for SARS-CoV-2 rose from 10.2% to 11.2% www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
The other day, our rescue’s only car died. Because it also doubled as my personal vehicle, I struggled with the decision to ask for donations to replace it. But the fact is we need a car to function. No rescues, vet appointments, adoptions, NOTHING can happen without a car. donorbox.org/crits4cats
Without ACIP endorsement, pharmacists cannot administer (and thus will not schedule) covid19 vax in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia & DC.
she slayed www.cnbc.com/2025/08/29/b...
@nature.com I love this article - but WHY are the only share options to X and Facebook when the whole point of the article is that science-based posts get more shares here? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Fascinating and Disturbing Read Tesla said it didn’t have key data in a fatal crash. Then a hacker found it. The critical evidence was presented last month to a jury, which found the company partially liable for the 2019 crash in Key Largo, Florida. Gift link ⬇️
I'm often asked why dire predictions about how Trump would destroy economy haven't (yet) come to pass. Part of the answer is that he's paused/delayed/reversed some things (e.g., TACO on tariffs). But part of the answer is about actions like this, on student visas...
The destruction continues. Sobering thread 🧵👇🏻
Working people across the DC are unified in our demands: we want these federal forces out of our city now! #FreeDC
“We did all of this with our hands tied behind our backs,” said a spokesperson for the families. “Even with the FBI pushing back and President Trump invoking state secrets, we created an overwhelming picture of Saudi Arabia’s role.”
L.A. teen is moved to ICE detention center out of state without parents' knowledge
As expected. Noted antivaxxer Geier, who has had many retractions in the lit and was fined for practicing medicine without a license, is who Kennedy hired to "find the cause of autism."
NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers again ask the TN judge overseeing his criminal case to order the govt to stop making prejudicial public statements that "severely threaten—and perhaps have already irrevocably impaired—the ability to try this case at all—in any venue."
![That same morning, at a press conference at the White House, Attorney General Bondi and President Trump made the following remarks about Mr. Abrego: ONALD TRUMP: [Democrats] think he's gonna be good for votes and I think he's very bad for votes. These people are deranged. He's not good for votes. He beat the hell out of his wife. His wife is afraid to even talk about him. She's been mauled by this animal and uh you know through a system of liberal courts you know he's doing things but no we have that under control.... PAM BONDI: No, no we've got him under control he will no longer terrorize our country. He's currently charged with human smuggling including children. The guy needs to be in prison he doesn't need to be on the streets like all these liberals want him to be....We are oing to keep America safe from all of these foreign terrorist rganizations, including Abrego Garcia. 12 Meanwhile, the government continued its barrage against Mr. Abrego on social media. Since Friday, DHS has posted a litany of inflammatory statements on its official X account. In a series of posts, DHS once again publicly described purported](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/bafkreihhczyejf2fyrei32bcjo76kwnyjeg74qoxfeytqddvk5mfx4etxa@jpeg "Click to view full size")
“The Texas Supreme Court dismissed Paxton’s motion. Paxton was trying to reverse the ruling from an El Paso court that had issued a restraining order against Paxton”
He is wrong on the facts. 1. The data is clear, VBM benefits Democrats electorally and it remains true. Rejected mail ballots skew Democratic as well. 2. Strict photo ID laws also disadvantage Democrats, particularly young voters and those in urban areas. Again, this is data not opinion.
And it gets worse. Jim O’Neill, who was selected to be acting CDC Director, is a tech investor, former CEO of the Thiel Foundation, and co-founder with Peter Thiel of the Thiel fellowship. He has no direct medical education or experience.
Thiel's power grab is already upending the world. Remember yesterday's scandal, that the Trump admin has been running active measures against our NATO ally Denmark, to get Greenland to secede? That's a Thiel mad-king project too: our ambassador to DK is Peter Thiel's close friend Ken Howery. 7/
Nothing in Jim O'Neill's history prepares him to safeguard our public health. What he's prepared to do is impose Peter Thiel's visions on the American people. And if Trump fades and Thiel's protege JD Vance takes the presidency, Thiel will own your government, bottom to top. 5/
The new head of CDC is not a doctor or scientist. He has no science training at all; he's a humanities major who caught Peter Thiel's eye and spent two decades fluffing his mad-king dreams. O'Neill ran Clarium Capital into the ground - it lost 90% of its value - but Peter kept him on. 4/
Jim O'Neill's not just a Thiel lieutenant, he's a true acolyte, fervently pushing all Peter's fruitcake ideas: building government-free floating cities on the ocean. Achieving eternal life. Getting kids to drop out of college. And he thinks drug safety testing is for wimps. 3/
No one's even trying to hide the Thiel takeover anymore. Jim O'Neill has been a key Thiel lieutenant for nearly 20 years. He ran the Thiel foundation, Thiel's Clarium Capital and Mithril Capital (that's the one that employed JD Vance). He's on the board of Thiel's "Seasteading Institute". 2/
The techbro takeover of the US continues: while CDC employees "clap out" their principled leaders who resigned, Trump swears in a 2-decade Peter Thiel advisor to lead CDC. Thiel's Palantir already has all your data. He controls your Vice President. Now he controls your public health too. 1/
icymi they opened the door to making all wind farms illegal happy thursday
One of the firefighters arrested is an Oregonian. My office has been in touch with his lawyer who says he can't locate his client. My office is working to get more information on his whereabouts ASAP.
Trump administration moves to bar states and even private (!) nonprofits, such as Red Cross, from helping undocumented immigrants after disasters. Evil. s2.washingtonpost.com/4467742/68af...