bubblesdeux.bsky.social
@bubblesdeux.bsky.social
Native San Diegan, living in NYC, but always dreaming of Paris. #resistance, forever.
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Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 25, 2026
January 24, 2026 at 8:49 PM
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Given the overwhelming response to my original post, I decided to provide the link today. Read, learn, & share. It's free, straightforward, accessible, & leaves no doubt about the meaning of Confederate monuments & why the latest EO resurrects Lost Cause ideology.
www.book2look.com/book/SO9q2ZB...
March 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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John Roberts created a monster. It's about to eat him.
open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
John Roberts created a monster. It's about to eat him.
The Supreme Court faces an existential dilemma of its own creation.
open.substack.com
March 31, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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March 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein
March 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus: I am here today to urge Canadians to avoid travel to the United States if at all possible and to call on our government to stand up for our citizens who are being denied their rights through arbitrary detention in the United States.
March 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Elon Musk staffers are drawing six-figure government salaries funded by taxpayers.
March 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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PEN America Condemns Education Department’s Threat to Defund Colleges and Universities Over DEI Programs pen.org/press-releas...
PEN America Condemns Education Department's Threat to Defund Colleges and Universities Over DEI Programs - PEN America
PEN America Denounces Department of Education Letter That Would Ban Ideas About Race
pen.org
February 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Most of the chickens are dead. Egg prices are sky high. People are getting sicker. Doctors have no information.

This is like sending the Marines to go fight a war with no guns.

www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/h...
Urgent CDC data and analyses on influenza and bird flu go missing as outbreaks escalate | CNN
Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients sick with coughs, soreness, fevers, vomiting, and other flu-like symptoms.
www.cnn.com
February 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Nothing wrong with spending a cold Saturday curled up.

We're reading #OctaviaButler tonight. Well, one of us is.

#lambchop
#potatothecat
February 16, 2025 at 12:33 AM
🗑️ 🤡.
This is just sheer brazen criminality by DOJ. Adams gets federal corruption charges dropped not because there isn’t overwhelming evidence, but because he agrees to help Homan round up migrants. And Homan says the charges will be refiled if Adams doesn’t “come through.”
February 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Proud of prosecutors in SDNY and Washington who resigned rather than carry out DAG Emil Bove’s order to dismiss indictment against NYC Mayor Eric Adams.
Integrity > politics and careerism.
Federal prosecutors in New York and Washington resign after refusing to drop Adams charges
At least six prosecutors, including the acting U.S. attorney in Manhattan, have stepped down over the DOJ order to dismiss corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams.
buff.ly
February 14, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Doge is auditing NASA today.

This is absurd. The owner of Space X should not be auditing NASA.

It’s a massive conflict of interest.
February 13, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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The Trump administration is expected to begin laying off thousands of employees at the Internal Revenue Service, six people briefed on the matter said, as billionaire Elon Musk’s team begins to target tax collections.

The cuts could start as soon as Friday.
Layoffs to hit IRS as DOGE targets tax collections
Several people briefed on the matter said cuts to the IRS cuts numbering in the thousands. One target is tax collections.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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CDC source:

“We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff.

They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”
February 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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BREAKING: Ranking Member Raskin demands Attorney General Bondi halt illegal intimidation campaign targeting the DOJ’s Public Integrity Office.
February 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Because, well, why not?
February 14, 2025 at 8:06 PM
This 🤡 right here is set to put millions of Americans at risk and I'm still shaking my head at ~70m people voting for what we're seeing now.
The government, RJK Jr. said, would “assess the prevalence of and threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, [and] mood stabilizers.”
RFK Jr. is already taking aim at antidepressants
The new HHS secretary has made baseless claims that the drugs are addictive and cause violent behavior.
www.motherjones.com
February 14, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.”

Albert Camus
February 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw”

Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start
Tom Homan says he sent an email to the Deputy AG asking if AOC is crossing the line by providing webinars to undocumented immigrants: I’m not an attorney… maybe AOC is going to be in trouble now
February 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said she will not comply with a request to extradite to Louisiana a New York doctor who faces a criminal charge there for allegedly prescribing abortion-inducing drugs despite a near-total abortion ban.
New York won’t comply with extradition of abortion provider, governor says
Louisiana is seeking to prosecute the doctor, who allegedly provided abortion medication to a minor there. The case is a key test for blue state “shield laws.”
wapo.st
February 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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MEASLES OUTBREAK—Texas is reporting an outbreak of measles. At this time, 48 cases have been identified with symptom onset within 3 weeks. 13 of the patients have been hospitalized. 📌All of the cases are unvaccinated or vaccination status is unknown. www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...
February 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Heartbreaking news… Tonight, many of our friends were let go, and tomorrow, even more will follow. Word is that all probationary employees at NPS will be let go. 😭
February 14, 2025 at 2:02 AM