tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social) reply parent
I was thinking about syphilis for no reason...
tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social) reply parent
I was thinking about syphilis for no reason...
tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, I think your point is women should make only saintly decisions to be considered good or have value. Check your misogyny...
tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social) reply parent
This
tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social) reply parent
Stares in George W. Bush
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
From an FDA probationary employee: the firings are coming from outside the agency without cause and with zero input from supervisors (as promised.) More firings expected between now and Tuesday. Do not open the termination email before you download your documents and performance evals.
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
Jasmine Crockett, after accusing colleagues of castrating their Constitutional duty, said, “My job is to make sure we don’t have any kings or queens in this country, but it seems like you all have decided it’s going to be Mr. King and his queen. And y’all can pick which one is which.”
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
AOC 🔥🔥🔥
tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social) reply parent
Same, I've muted a ton of the starter pack folks, it felt spammy and not human.
tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social) reply parent
I mean the guy running the show has a brain worm, what could possibly go wrong?
Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Flu hospitalization rates are higher so far this season than at the same point during each of the past FIFTEEN YEARS, at least Chart shows Influenza Hospitalization Surveillance Network (FluSurv-NET) cumulative hospitalization data; red line is current (2024-2025) season gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluvie...
Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) reposted
On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...
tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social) reply parent
Same. Did it once and the guy had cameras everywhere it was creepy and expensive, not worth it. I clean in life, not on vacation.
Pete Buttigieg (@petebuttigieg.bsky.social) reposted
Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
If Democrats are looking for a great, clear, forceful spokesperson while they are in exile from power, this is the person.
tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social) reply parent
Nah, they want to use H1B visas and have indentured servants do it cheaper...
Mark Cuban (@mcuban.bsky.social) reposted
Money talks
Brian Goldstone (@brian-goldstone.bsky.social) reposted
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted
If you claim to be a leader but are too scared to lead, fine -- sit down and let someone else take your place. It is easy to be bold when there is no threat. Now is a time for courage. www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...
Miranda Yaver (@mirandayaver.bsky.social) reposted
It's the worst flu season in about 15 years, so surely removing relevant information about vaccination will help us get a handle on it.
tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social)
Unpopular opinion. By calling everything fascism we've desensitized people to it. First off, they don't know what it means. Then, when the sky doesn't fall people think you lied and the opposition looks even better... 🫤
tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social) reply parent
There are no schools that mandate vaccines, literally none, they can opt out and do. This is a smokescreen...
tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social) reply parent
And go where?
tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social) reply parent
Sociopathy is not just serial killers, it manifests in many ways...
ProPublica (@propublica.org) reposted
NEW: Marocco has tried shutting down nearly all USAID programs & freezing foreign aid. He’s led the charge to place nearly all USAID staff on administrative leave. Officials said they see the move as retribution against those who opposed his earlier work. By @annamaria.bsky.social + Brett Murphy
Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted
The greatest political scandal today is not what Trump is doing. It is the fact that congressional Republicans have given up their role in the constitutional system as a check on the executive branch. If we are in a constitutional crisis, it is as much on Mike Johnson and John Thune as anyone else.
tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social) reply parent
The guy who created a business where at the end of your vacation you do your own cleaning and get charged for it? You don't say...
Raw Story (@rawstory.com) reposted
We are not making this up.
tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social)
How long can one sustain a ketamine addiction? Asking for no particular reason...
Ricky Davila (@therickydavila.bsky.social) reposted
The U.S. Army and U.S. Navy have removed all web pages highlighting women’s military service. Weak men always fear and are threatened by strong women. I’ll never regret voting for VP Kamala Harris.
DevinCow (@devincow.bsky.social) reposted
He does, and he used to, too.
tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social) reply parent
I agree with this. The optics are not appealing to anyone, it looks comical.
tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social) reply parent
She is one.
Pete Buttigieg (@petebuttigieg.bsky.social) reposted
You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
Newsweek (@newsweek.com) reposted
Utah state Rep. Trevor Lee cited the presence of Venezuelan crime syndicate Tren de Aragua in the state as a reason for the bill.
Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) reposted
Judge Amy Berman Jackson has formally dismissed the case of Jan. 6 defendant DJ Rodriguez, who drove a taser into the neck of MPD officer Michael Fanone and had been sentenced to 12 years in prison "Michael Fanone's heroism will never be moot," she says. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein.bsky.social) reposted
The FBI is NOT investigating the alleged mishandling of Treasury data by Elon Musk's DOGE, senior intelligence official tells me.
Ellen L. Weintraub (@ellenlweintraub.bsky.social) reposted
Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
Phil Williams (@philinvestigates.com) reposted
Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE's Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn't exist. www.wired.com/story/treasu...
Adam Kinzinger (@adamkinzinger.substack.com) reposted
Quick reminder: DOGE isnt real. Its a figment of President Musks imagination and has no power, and isn’t an agency
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
Is this who we are? Never mind, don’t answer that. 🫤🇺🇸
WIRED (@wired.com) reposted
SCOOP: The US Treasury claimed a DOGE's Marco Elez didn’t have ‘write access,’ when he actually did. Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.
tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social) reply parent
Someone tell everyone not on Trump's side to stop acting like these are normal times with platitudes and weird ambivalence. Jfc
Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted
Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them at one point as “targets.” The website lists mostly Black employees.
tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social) reply parent
It's disgusting.
tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social)
WHERE ARE THE ATTORNEYS?
Bloomberg News (@bloomberg.com) reposted
Elon Musk said his “DOGE team” of government efficiency enforcers is shutting down payments to federal contractor, suggesting that the world’s richest man may have access to sensitive systems used at the Treasury Department.
Reuters (@reuters.com) reposted
The Trump administration removed two top USAID security officials over the weekend after they tried to stop representatives from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from gaining access to restricted parts of the building reut.rs/4hmspfa
tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm still waiting on my Soros check from 2016...
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"
Fred Wellman (@fpwellman.bsky.social) reposted
Elon Musk is not a Federal employee or a political appointee. DOGE is not a real department. None of their activities are legal. This is a coup. The Republicans in Congress are willing participants in it. At what point do Democrats in DC get that and start acting like it? It’s not the price of eggs!
tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social) reply parent
He should just stick with reality tv and weird logging competitions...
Senate Finance Committee (@senatefinance.bsky.social) reposted
NEWS: Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social) reply parent
Do something besides pithy social media posts.
Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted
No one's blaming Democrats for causing this crisis, but yes, many of them are failing to meet this moment. One Democratic senator could bring the chamber to a halt. House Dems can go to fed agencies being gutted by Musk with cameras in tow. Governors can push back. State AGs can bring lawsuits.
tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social)
Donald Trump thinks he's our boss not the other way around.
tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social) reply parent
The real world guy. I'll never get over it.
tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social) reply parent
Explain in detail how vaccines work.
Bobby Kogan (@bbkogan.bsky.social) reposted
NSF has received an email from its director to ignore the federal judge’s stay of Trump’s order and implement the spending pause. Note that the director does not take the limited interpretation the admin pushed publicly but instead takes the broad interpretation the admin pushed privately.
Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 (@theswprincess.bsky.social) reposted
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗗𝗼 Call your Senators, Republican or Democrat. Their offices need to feel this chaos too! Call the Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121 and ask for your Senator. From Indivisible:
Jen Bendery (@jbendery.bsky.social) reposted
Trump's nominee to lead OMB, Russ Vought, submitted this response to the Senate Budget Committee when asked by Sen. Whitehouse about who won the 2020 election. The Senate Budget Committee is currently scheduled to vote on whether to advance Vought's nomination on Thursday.
tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social)
Who appropriated the funds for this?
tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social)
Who appropriated the funds for this?
tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social)
Who appropriated these funds?
tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social)
Imagine being so small that you do whatever TRUMP tells you. Thats the GOP...
Mark Harris (@markharris.bsky.social) reposted
We are living through Republicanism boiled down to its essence: Everyone should be deprived of everything, because otherwise, somebody I don't like might get something I don't want them to have. We call it an ideology, but it's really a personality: Greedy, withholding, suspicious, angry, cruel.
Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) reposted
"I'm gonna have to check back on whether we shut down 11% of the federal budget and health insurance for poor families" is next level incompetence www.statnews.com/2025/01/28/f...
kichikoi.bsky.social (@kichikoi.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Governor of Michigan was saying they have the most border crossings, way above and beyond Mexico. Someone asked if they were going after illegal Canadians in this country? Don’t think so, just the ethnic or brown people.
Dan Diamond (@ddiamond.bsky.social) reposted
Regardless of what the White House says about Medicaid not being affected in payment freeze, the chaos today has been very real. via @jeffstein.bsky.social + me from earlier
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
Halting spending approved by Congress. Firing independent inspectors general from federal agencies. Replacing civil servants with loyalists. All plans pulled from Project 2025. Remember when Trump denied knowing about the playbook and the media gave him a pass?
tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social) reply parent
Sociopaths all of them.
Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted
Sen. Thom Tillis will be remembered by history as a coward. For not, let us work to see that he is defeated in Nov. 2026.
tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social) reply parent
The cruelty is the point.
tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social) reply parent
Cults are scary
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
NEW: Trump orders federal health agencies to STOP communicating health advisories, weekly scientific reports, updates to websites, and to stop making social media posts. I said previously I was worried about the lack of reporting. Here it is. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@nothoodlum.bsky.social) reposted
Remember when Trump vowed on the campaign trail that drug dealers would face capital punishment? Instead, he decided to pardon them. 🤷♂️
tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social) reply parent
She has her own Roman salute scandal...
The New Republic (@newrepublic.com) reposted
By describing a fetus as a person from conception, Trump has legitimized fetal personhood. The legal language employed by fetal personhood also effectively categorizes any person receiving an abortion at any stage as a murderer.
tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social) reply parent
But the fentanyl... 🙄
tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social) reply parent
I mean he said he'd do it and they endorsed him... get a clue
Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted
If they were actively trying to start another pandemic, I'm not sure what they'd be doing differently.
Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) reposted
BREAKING: In a new executive order sent out by the White House, Donald Trump has revoked the federal contractor nondiscrimination executive order, EO 11246, that was signed by Lyndon Johnson in 1965 and has protected employees of businesses seeking federal contracts from discrimination ever since.
Sarahlarchmont (@sarahlarchmont.bsky.social) reposted
Remember when you were happy because insulin was capped at $35 a month? That is gone. It’s $600 now!! Fuck you Trump supporters.
Coach Finstock (@coachfinstock.bsky.social) reposted
Lmao THR having more sack than the mainstream press
Dan Diamond (@ddiamond.bsky.social) reposted
New: Trump officials have paused all external communications at health agencies like CDC, FDA, NIH. No health alerts and the famed MMWRs; no updates to key websites or social media posts. And no indication how long the pause will last. With @rachelroubein.bsky.social + Lena Sun.
tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social) reply parent
Thoughts and prayers.
SMarkeseMD FAAFP (@smarkesemd.bsky.social) reposted
He’s wasting no time starting project 25 agenda that he claimed to know nothing about. Withdraw from WHO first day in office😞 #WHO www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/u...
Reuters (@reuters.com) reposted
President Donald Trump has ordered federal workers to return to the office five days a week and weakened job protections for civil servants, the first salvoes in his campaign to gut the federal bureaucracy reut.rs/4hl5pNc
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
um
Governor Gavin Newsom (@governor.ca.gov) reposted
If you don’t believe in science, believe your own damn eyes.
tenacious-p.bsky.social (@tenacious-p.bsky.social)
Live your life in such a way that nobody would think you might be a nazi.
E Pluribus Unum (@january.6.was.a.failedcoup.com) reposted reply parent
side-to-side comparison
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
We are not economists… but how does repealing EO’s that lower prices make things cheaper? 🫤
Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) reposted
Trump just withdrew the United States from the World Health Organization. The US is now the only country in the world besides Liechtenstein to not be a member of the organization.