aka Patty Melt
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aka Patty Melt
@apschell.bsky.social
Living in western CO, on the edge of the Grand Mesa.
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Quick FYI - HR 22 the SAVE Act that would disenfranchise millons, has NOT passed the House in the current legislative session. It has passed in previous sessions, but has not even reached a committee vote in this term. 👍🤓
February 11, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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DOGE wants illegal access to an IRS system that contains the personal identification numbers and bank information for millions of taxpayers. Call your reps and demand they block DOGE's access to this highly sensitive data.

🔥📞🔥 5calls.org/issue/musk-d...
Protect Your IRS Data from DOGE ⭑ 5 Calls
Elon Musk’s invented agency DOGE is seeking to give an employee illegal access to an IRS system called the Integrated Data Retrieval System (IDRS). …
5calls.org
February 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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We didn't elect Elon, and Trump is abusing his executive power. Protest executive overreach on Monday, February 17th, No Kings Day of Action - Find your event at events.pol-rev.com @polrev.bsky.social #50501movement #fiftyfiftyone #buildtheresistance #politicalrevolution #novoiceunheard
February 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Replacing the classy David Rubinstein with a suck up lapdog is never going to make a fatally insecure man what he will never be. Trump is certainly culturally relevant in this cheap & cheesy moment, but not in the ways that matter and endure when it comes to the arts. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/a...
Trump Names Richard Grenell Interim Leader of Kennedy Center
The president also purged 18 board members appointed by former President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who were scrubbed from an official roster on the center’s website, along with the chairman, David M. Ruben...
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2025 at 4:26 AM
And Prez Musk's buyouts to Federal workers will be mute.
32 days until the government runs out of money

Democratic are about to have a lot of leverage

Not clear they’ll use it
February 11, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Funny, sad and true.
February 7, 2025 at 1:15 AM
He's such a tease. Groan.
Trump on air traffic control: "We're gonna sit down & do a great computerized system for our control towers. Brand new...let's spend less money & build a great system done by 2 or 3 companies...when I land in my plane, privately, I use a system from another country...I won't tell you what country"
February 7, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Buckle up. We in for a bumpy ride.
February 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Got it!
Trump announces task force to ‘eradicate anti-Christian bias.’

So DEI for Christians is still ok. Got it.
February 7, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Netanyahu did this to Gaza and he's passed the responsibility to the US & Trump to clean it up. Madness.
Ethnic cleansing 2 million souls to build a crappy Trump resort and casino
February 7, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Cheeky. 😆
Donold just signed an Executive Order making it illegal to intentionally misspell his name.
February 7, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Bravo. There are still people of courage in the GOP.
February 7, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Let us rejoice.
Dear Humans,

Gather 'round, for I bring thee great tidings of schadenfreude. The pardoned January 6 insurrectionists keep getting arrested or worse. Karma doth continue its holy work. Let us review.
Pardoned Jan 6 Morons Keep Getting Arrested Or Worse
SMITE!
www.thegodpodcast.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:50 AM
This is going to hit #Colorado farmers hard.
February 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Netanyahu destroyed Gaza and doesn't feel he has a role in its reconstruction. Then he smirks when Trump impulsively suggests the US will take it over and turn it into beach front property. Surreal.
“Actual fresh thinking could lead to a reconstruction plan for Gaza that doesn’t activate the same old mechanisms that enabled Hamas,” Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib writes. A lawless grab for land and power, however, won’t do that—it will just delegitimize the U.S.
There Is No Real-Estate Solution for Gaza
Here’s what truly fresh thinking would look like instead.
www.theatlantic.com
February 6, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Weird. Trump's team taking a page out of Heinrich Himmler's Lebensborn.
February 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Huh. Trying to have it both ways. It doesn't work.
Elon Musk has been at the forefront of Trump administration efforts to gut programs designed to promote diversity. At the same time, Tesla, which Musk leads, has tried to appease critics who have accused the company of racial discrimination.
As Elon Musk Attacks DEI, Tesla Quietly Addresses Racism Complaints
The company’s board pledged to investors that it would pay closer attention to how the company managed workers.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Multiple tweets per hour? How is Musk finding time to supervise his tech bruhs?
Comer: "I support what Elon Musk is doing. He's being very transparent with the American people. He's tweeting out multiple tweets per hour saying what his goals are."
February 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
He still yells at us in all caps and must still be thinking of breakfast pastries, misspelling stolen. I feel sorry for his interns who have to key in these demented posts. Sheesh.
Trump fired off psychotic posts like this this morning, then turned around and called for unity at a prayer breakfast
February 6, 2025 at 5:52 PM
If you guys can figure it out, let us know. Maybe we can shut down the MAGA cult.
February 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Interesting to see how quickly American foreign policy pivoted from "Get clean drinking water for children without hope" to "Do ethnic cleansing for condos with Mediterranean views."
February 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Just a distraction to cover Musk and his boys.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Feb 5
It wasn't immediately clear what legal authority Trump would have to execute his proposal, and they would likely be met by fierce resistance from Palestinians and from regional Arab countries.
Trump says the U.S. will 'take over' Gaza and relocate its people. What does it mean?
It wasn't immediately clear what legal authority Trump would have to execute his proposal, and they would likely be met by fierce resistance from Palestinians and from regional Arab countries.
www.npr.org
February 6, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Bake a comforting banana, date & pecan bread when you need a distraction. Enjoy with coffee or tea.
February 6, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Vladimir Putin just shuttered the Kremlin's "Destroy America Project," conceding, "We tried hard, but we are nowhere as good at this task as they are."
February 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Muskovites, indeed. Destruction and chaos.
I know. They’ve already pillaged federal agencies - eviscerating the core agencies that keep the government working at all. People have no idea, mostly.

contrarian.substack.com/p/all-the-go...
All the Government’s Data
Government survives because offices that are taken for granted make its work possible
contrarian.substack.com
February 6, 2025 at 4:40 AM