Flabbergasted and Appalled (she/her)
@baftigger.bsky.social
Trans ally. Pretty sure with the multitude of awful things going on, resisting by affirming my pronouns is the absolute least I can do.
My heart bleeds for so many people and communities being targeted - 🇺🇦 Ukraine, 🇵🇸 Palestine, 🏳️🌈 lgbTiq, 🇬🇱 Greenland, ...
My heart bleeds for so many people and communities being targeted - 🇺🇦 Ukraine, 🇵🇸 Palestine, 🏳️🌈 lgbTiq, 🇬🇱 Greenland, ...
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In preparation for next week’s parade/demonstration, tanks are being moved into Washington, DC today. Unprecedented.
(Photo from a colleague in DC)
(Photo from a colleague in DC)
The Tiananmen Square Massacre is what this photo makes me think of.
It's the kind of move Trump (the narcissist) would admire and Miller (the ghoul) would encourage.
I don't think the tanks will be leaving DC.
Trump is pushing for civil war & wants his own arse to be safe. Fuck anyone else.
It's the kind of move Trump (the narcissist) would admire and Miller (the ghoul) would encourage.
I don't think the tanks will be leaving DC.
Trump is pushing for civil war & wants his own arse to be safe. Fuck anyone else.
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UPDATE: COLOMBIA’s President says 🇺🇸 government (Trump) “committed murder” and bombed a fisherman with no ties to drugs
“The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure”
“The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure”
October 19, 2025 at 4:06 AM
UPDATE: COLOMBIA’s President says 🇺🇸 government (Trump) “committed murder” and bombed a fisherman with no ties to drugs
“The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure”
“The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure”
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Arizona's attorney general threatened legal action against Mike Johnson for failing to seat Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva.
Arizona attorney general threatens legal action against Mike Johnson for failing to seat Adelita Grijalva
The Democrat accused Johnson of playing “political games” by delaying the swearing-in ceremony.
www.politico.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Arizona's attorney general threatened legal action against Mike Johnson for failing to seat Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva.
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I’ve directed the U.S. House to withhold my pay during the shutdown.
If federal workers are missing paychecks because of Washington’s dysfunction, Members of Congress certainly shouldn’t be cashing theirs.
My bill with Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick would make that the rule, not the exception.
If federal workers are missing paychecks because of Washington’s dysfunction, Members of Congress certainly shouldn’t be cashing theirs.
My bill with Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick would make that the rule, not the exception.
October 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I’ve directed the U.S. House to withhold my pay during the shutdown.
If federal workers are missing paychecks because of Washington’s dysfunction, Members of Congress certainly shouldn’t be cashing theirs.
My bill with Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick would make that the rule, not the exception.
If federal workers are missing paychecks because of Washington’s dysfunction, Members of Congress certainly shouldn’t be cashing theirs.
My bill with Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick would make that the rule, not the exception.
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Gotta love the Sikh’s, they are beautiful people. 💖
October 14, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Gotta love the Sikh’s, they are beautiful people. 💖
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We also need to keep in focus that her claim is false.
ICE travels around with camera crews. If there was violence, they'd broadcast it everywhere.
Instead, all we get is citizen video of ICE perpetrating violence, not the other way around.
ICE travels around with camera crews. If there was violence, they'd broadcast it everywhere.
Instead, all we get is citizen video of ICE perpetrating violence, not the other way around.
October 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
We also need to keep in focus that her claim is false.
ICE travels around with camera crews. If there was violence, they'd broadcast it everywhere.
Instead, all we get is citizen video of ICE perpetrating violence, not the other way around.
ICE travels around with camera crews. If there was violence, they'd broadcast it everywhere.
Instead, all we get is citizen video of ICE perpetrating violence, not the other way around.
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"The rest of us are in a panic. I think I may have been fired and I don’t have a way to find out. They sent the RIF notices to our official government emails which we don’t have access to.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Panic as US federal workers scramble to find out if they’ve been fired: ‘I don’t have email access’
Education department staff say they can’t access work emails amid the shutdown to check for layoff notices
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:23 PM
"The rest of us are in a panic. I think I may have been fired and I don’t have a way to find out. They sent the RIF notices to our official government emails which we don’t have access to.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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"Opsec, how does it work??"
Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.
October 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
"Opsec, how does it work??"
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My god.
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 10:06 AM
My god.
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
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Elizabeth Warren: "The president said 'I am going to impose a lot more pain on my fellow American citizens. I'm going to impose a lot more pain on people in NY who need to use those tunnels so I can get my way politically.' To me, that is a place to stop & say, then we're ready to fight about this"
October 2, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Elizabeth Warren: "The president said 'I am going to impose a lot more pain on my fellow American citizens. I'm going to impose a lot more pain on people in NY who need to use those tunnels so I can get my way politically.' To me, that is a place to stop & say, then we're ready to fight about this"
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Q: How did the White House decide it was appropriate for Jared Kushner to be working on matters that involve Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia -- 3 countries combined that have given him more than $2.5b
LEAVITT: It's frankly despicable that you're trying to suggest that it's inappropriate
LEAVITT: It's frankly despicable that you're trying to suggest that it's inappropriate
October 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Q: How did the White House decide it was appropriate for Jared Kushner to be working on matters that involve Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia -- 3 countries combined that have given him more than $2.5b
LEAVITT: It's frankly despicable that you're trying to suggest that it's inappropriate
LEAVITT: It's frankly despicable that you're trying to suggest that it's inappropriate
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I’m confused how it is despicable to ask that question. These are exactly the kinds of questions we have been begging reporters & TV hosts to ask. You see when they do get asked how sensitive they are about it. Much, much more of this. More crypto questions, Qatar, UAE, etc bsky.app/profile/atru...
Q: How did the White House decide it was appropriate for Jared Kushner to be working on matters that involve Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia -- 3 countries combined that have given him more than $2.5b
LEAVITT: It's frankly despicable that you're trying to suggest that it's inappropriate
LEAVITT: It's frankly despicable that you're trying to suggest that it's inappropriate
October 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I’m confused how it is despicable to ask that question. These are exactly the kinds of questions we have been begging reporters & TV hosts to ask. You see when they do get asked how sensitive they are about it. Much, much more of this. More crypto questions, Qatar, UAE, etc bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers?
October 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers?
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Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."
October 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."
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#TrumpTrainWreck
A groundbreaking microscope at Harvard Medical School could lead to breakthroughs in cancer detection. But the scientist who unlocked its full potential has been in an immigration detention center for 2 months.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
A groundbreaking microscope at Harvard Medical School could lead to breakthroughs in cancer detection. But the scientist who unlocked its full potential has been in an immigration detention center for 2 months.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them
Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.
www.nbcnews.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:29 PM
#TrumpTrainWreck
A groundbreaking microscope at Harvard Medical School could lead to breakthroughs in cancer detection. But the scientist who unlocked its full potential has been in an immigration detention center for 2 months.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
A groundbreaking microscope at Harvard Medical School could lead to breakthroughs in cancer detection. But the scientist who unlocked its full potential has been in an immigration detention center for 2 months.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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U.S. cities are not “training grounds” for the military and U.S. citizens are not the “enemy from within”.
This is incredibly dangerous and is not what our military is trained for or meant to do. It’s authoritarianism, plain and simple.
www.axios.com/2025/09/30/t...
This is incredibly dangerous and is not what our military is trained for or meant to do. It’s authoritarianism, plain and simple.
www.axios.com/2025/09/30/t...
Trump offers "dangerous" U.S. cities as military "training grounds"
He told military leaders "we have to handle" the so-called "enemy from within."
www.axios.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
U.S. cities are not “training grounds” for the military and U.S. citizens are not the “enemy from within”.
This is incredibly dangerous and is not what our military is trained for or meant to do. It’s authoritarianism, plain and simple.
www.axios.com/2025/09/30/t...
This is incredibly dangerous and is not what our military is trained for or meant to do. It’s authoritarianism, plain and simple.
www.axios.com/2025/09/30/t...
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On the bright side, it was McCarthy's decision to go after the military that led to his downfall.
September 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
On the bright side, it was McCarthy's decision to go after the military that led to his downfall.
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I don’t need a message from Newsom. I came to that conclusion on my own. I suspect most of us did. It was based on listening to what Miller says, watching what he does, and understanding history.
October 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I don’t need a message from Newsom. I came to that conclusion on my own. I suspect most of us did. It was based on listening to what Miller says, watching what he does, and understanding history.
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AOC: When everyone says makes an exception here or makes an exception there, and then before you know it, you have masked agents roaming the streets of this country that do not feel entitled to identify themselves
October 1, 2025 at 12:37 AM
AOC: When everyone says makes an exception here or makes an exception there, and then before you know it, you have masked agents roaming the streets of this country that do not feel entitled to identify themselves
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I’m a socialist mayor. Sewage systems are sexy.
October 1, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I’m a socialist mayor. Sewage systems are sexy.
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Fat Man and Little Boy bombed.
October 1, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Fat Man and Little Boy bombed.
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What a REAL tough military guy looks like. Aus Army Chief David Morrison’s famous speech excoriating sexism in the army.
(And when his Lieutenant announced she was trans and tried to hand in her resignation, he refused to accept it.)
youtu.be/dRQBtDtZTGA
(And when his Lieutenant announced she was trans and tried to hand in her resignation, he refused to accept it.)
youtu.be/dRQBtDtZTGA
Austrlian Chief To Sexist Soldiers: Respect Women Or GET OUT
YouTube video by Everyone Matters
youtu.be
October 1, 2025 at 1:41 AM
What a REAL tough military guy looks like. Aus Army Chief David Morrison’s famous speech excoriating sexism in the army.
(And when his Lieutenant announced she was trans and tried to hand in her resignation, he refused to accept it.)
youtu.be/dRQBtDtZTGA
(And when his Lieutenant announced she was trans and tried to hand in her resignation, he refused to accept it.)
youtu.be/dRQBtDtZTGA
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