Anna Tambour
@annatambour.bsky.social
Totally not bestselling author • Crap photographer • Snail wrangler • Noninfluencer of humans but possibly followed by a Fuligo septica community
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In the Gilded Age, tariffs fueled lobbying, favoritism, and graft in the federal government. Let’s not go back to that.
A Second Gilded Age
Tariffs and favoritism are signs of a poisoned political era.
www.brennancenter.org
May 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
In the Gilded Age, tariffs fueled lobbying, favoritism, and graft in the federal government. Let’s not go back to that.
As Sun Tzu said in The Art of War: "Wear pink."
March 7, 2025 at 2:49 AM
As Sun Tzu said in The Art of War: "Wear pink."
The legal route is the Maginot Line for Trump's traitorous government.
February 20, 2025 at 3:28 AM
The legal route is the Maginot Line for Trump's traitorous government.
Trump commits US troops to Ukraine, to serve alongside North Koreans.
"We must contain the threat of democracy," he said, while Russian state media laughed.
edition.cnn.com/2025/02/11/e...
"We must contain the threat of democracy," he said, while Russian state media laughed.
edition.cnn.com/2025/02/11/e...
Ukraine ‘may be Russian someday,’ Trump says ahead of Vance-Zelensky meeting | CNN
US President Donald Trump suggested that Ukraine “may be Russian someday,” throwing into question the future independence of a sovereign country that, with Western backing, has defended itself against...
edition.cnn.com
February 15, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Trump commits US troops to Ukraine, to serve alongside North Koreans.
"We must contain the threat of democracy," he said, while Russian state media laughed.
edition.cnn.com/2025/02/11/e...
"We must contain the threat of democracy," he said, while Russian state media laughed.
edition.cnn.com/2025/02/11/e...
Even the nanas need a break.
February 12, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Even the nanas need a break.
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Trump just terminated the Chair of the Kennedy Center and has installed himself as the new chair.
He says he will now be dictating the institution’s “art and culture” and says it “must reflect” what he chooses.
He says he will now be dictating the institution’s “art and culture” and says it “must reflect” what he chooses.
February 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Trump just terminated the Chair of the Kennedy Center and has installed himself as the new chair.
He says he will now be dictating the institution’s “art and culture” and says it “must reflect” what he chooses.
He says he will now be dictating the institution’s “art and culture” and says it “must reflect” what he chooses.
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First they came for anyone who tried to stop them.
To recap:
*The career Treasury official who said it was illegal for DOGE to control the US payment system has resigned
*The contractor who warned of security risks was fired
*Musk is campaigning to fire the reporter who exposed the DOGE employee posting racist messages
Pattern?
*The career Treasury official who said it was illegal for DOGE to control the US payment system has resigned
*The contractor who warned of security risks was fired
*Musk is campaigning to fire the reporter who exposed the DOGE employee posting racist messages
Pattern?
Booz Allen fires contractor who prepared an assessment warning Treasury not to let DOGE access payment system www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
February 8, 2025 at 11:58 AM
First they came for anyone who tried to stop them.
Trump called other countries “shithole” but now that he’s purging everyone who isn’t an asswipe, what is he making?
February 6, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Trump called other countries “shithole” but now that he’s purging everyone who isn’t an asswipe, what is he making?
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This is one goal that Musk and others have for the U.S. government today. They want to carve off parts of the federal government and either privatize their functions and seize them for themselves, or simply destroy them. www.damemagazine.com/2025/02/05/w...
We’re Living in a New Age of Robber Barons | Dame Magazine
There is a huge chasm between the wealthiest Americans and the rest of us. In 2024, it came out that Jeff Bezos makes roughly $7.9 million an hour—more than three times as much as a typical college gr...
www.damemagazine.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
This is one goal that Musk and others have for the U.S. government today. They want to carve off parts of the federal government and either privatize their functions and seize them for themselves, or simply destroy them. www.damemagazine.com/2025/02/05/w...
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I'm just going to leave Freedom of the Press Foundation's excellent guide to leaking to the press right here in case anyone happens to need it: freedom.press/digisec/blog...
Here’s how to share sensitive leaks with the press
Thinking about securely leaking information to news organizations? This guide will show you how.
freedom.press
February 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I'm just going to leave Freedom of the Press Foundation's excellent guide to leaking to the press right here in case anyone happens to need it: freedom.press/digisec/blog...
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A 25-year-old DOGE worker named Marko Elez who has admin privileges on Treasury dept systems that control about 95% of payments made by the gov, including Social Security checks, tax refunds and contract payments "has already made extensive changes to the code base for these critical payment system"
Musk Cronies Dive Into Treasury Dept Payments Code Base
Overnight, Wired reported that, contrary to published reports that DOGE operatives at...
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM
A 25-year-old DOGE worker named Marko Elez who has admin privileges on Treasury dept systems that control about 95% of payments made by the gov, including Social Security checks, tax refunds and contract payments "has already made extensive changes to the code base for these critical payment system"
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Include disabled people in your resistance planning. In many ways we’re built for resistance, as we have to find creative and sustainable ways to survive every single day.
This is the time for intersectionality and community care. We need to work together and save one another.
This is the time for intersectionality and community care. We need to work together and save one another.
February 4, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Include disabled people in your resistance planning. In many ways we’re built for resistance, as we have to find creative and sustainable ways to survive every single day.
This is the time for intersectionality and community care. We need to work together and save one another.
This is the time for intersectionality and community care. We need to work together and save one another.
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They’ve also erased guidance on pharmacies’ obligation not to discriminate against patients seeking reproductive health care.
February 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
They’ve also erased guidance on pharmacies’ obligation not to discriminate against patients seeking reproductive health care.
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At the newsletter right now:
The Trump administration has scrubbed information about HIPAA protections for reproductive rights from the Department of Health and Human Services website.
The Trump administration has scrubbed information about HIPAA protections for reproductive rights from the Department of Health and Human Services website.
Breaking: Trump is Scrubbing HIPAA Info off HHS Website
The White House is deleting information on reproductive health privacy and discrimination at pharmacies
jessica.substack.com
February 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
At the newsletter right now:
The Trump administration has scrubbed information about HIPAA protections for reproductive rights from the Department of Health and Human Services website.
The Trump administration has scrubbed information about HIPAA protections for reproductive rights from the Department of Health and Human Services website.
Reminder. A hot dog has as much legal authority as Musk. A dead dog has as much legal stature as Trump's firings. tinyurl.com/2jcxwxmn
'Plainly illegal': Donald Trump's firing of watchdogs at US government agencies criticised
Trump's latest move could clear the way to replace independent watchdogs with loyalists.
tinyurl.com
February 4, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Reminder. A hot dog has as much legal authority as Musk. A dead dog has as much legal stature as Trump's firings. tinyurl.com/2jcxwxmn
Talk about Aliens! This is to script, every alien invasion flick.
February 4, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Talk about Aliens! This is to script, every alien invasion flick.
Trump and Musk are Xi's New Year's present worthy of the Year of the Snake.
February 4, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Trump and Musk are Xi's New Year's present worthy of the Year of the Snake.
Career law enforcers are going to have to make choices.
February 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Career law enforcers are going to have to make choices.
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The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!
February 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!
As long as you care about others you will never meet, you have power.
January 21, 2025 at 12:39 AM
As long as you care about others you will never meet, you have power.
Arrest made for selling fake AIs.
"I made them up," she confessed, after being charged with Creativity. "I was just trying to make a living."
"I made them up," she confessed, after being charged with Creativity. "I was just trying to make a living."
January 15, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Arrest made for selling fake AIs.
"I made them up," she confessed, after being charged with Creativity. "I was just trying to make a living."
"I made them up," she confessed, after being charged with Creativity. "I was just trying to make a living."