Carolyn Bahm
@cbahm.bsky.social
💙Progressive retired newspaper editor.💙 Girl mom, grandma, bookworm, sweary funny feminist, MS native & TN resident. Never-Trumper. Ally: BLM & LGBTQIA+. 🚫No DMs.🚫 https://linktr.ee/cbahm
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This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
May 20, 2025 at 11:04 AM
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
In today’s Utter Bullshit News, we have this gleaming turd. apnews.com/article/trum...
May 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
In today’s Utter Bullshit News, we have this gleaming turd. apnews.com/article/trum...
I’m impressed with her values and judgment. 💙
In a scathing dissent, Ketanji Brown Jackson slammed the court's ruling made under the “shadows of our emergency docket."
“Make no mistake: We are just as wrong now as we have been in the past, with similarly devastating consequences. It just seems we are now less willing to face it,” she wrote.
“Make no mistake: We are just as wrong now as we have been in the past, with similarly devastating consequences. It just seems we are now less willing to face it,” she wrote.
Ketanji Brown Jackson Blasts Supreme Court’s Increasingly Shady Moves
The justice wrote a scathing dissent of the court’s latest decision to back Donald Trump.
newrepublic.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I’m impressed with her values and judgment. 💙
Well done, RFK Jr (oh, that hurt to squeak out). I guess even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Prominent anti-vaccine activists lined up on social media to denounce the move. By @gbrumfiel.bsky.social
Health secretary RFK Jr. endorses the MMR vaccine — stoking fury among his supporters
Prominent anti-vaccine activists lined up on social media to denounce the move.
www.npr.org
April 9, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Well done, RFK Jr (oh, that hurt to squeak out). I guess even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Excuse me while I go put on my “Oh For Fuck’s Sake” T-shirt.
Exclusive: Trump administration officials have told some US government employees that Elon Musk's DOGE team of technologists is using AI to surveil at least one federal agency’s communications for hostility to President Donald Trump and his agenda reut.rs/4i5ORZq
Exclusive: Musk's DOGE using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say
Trump administration officials have told some U.S. government employees that Elon Musk's DOGE team of technologists is using artificial intelligence to surveil at least one federal agency’s communications for hostility to President Donald Trump and his agenda, said two people with knowledge of the matter.
reut.rs
April 9, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Excuse me while I go put on my “Oh For Fuck’s Sake” T-shirt.
Thanks to the NYT for reporting on the IRS’s outrageous bending-of-the-knee capitulation to Trump’s regime.
Breaking News: The IRS agreed to share information with ICE to help locate people for deportation, court records show. This is a fundamental change in the IRS, which had gained the trust of migrants and encouraged them to file their taxes.
I.R.S. Agrees to Share Migrants’ Tax Information with ICE
The agreement is a major departure from the Internal Revenue Service’s efforts to gain the trust of migrants and encourage them to file their taxes.
www.nytimes.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Thanks to the NYT for reporting on the IRS’s outrageous bending-of-the-knee capitulation to Trump’s regime.
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A little morning silliness for ya. (And yeah, I used a filter — damn, I’m 64! 😜)
April 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM
A little morning silliness for ya. (And yeah, I used a filter — damn, I’m 64! 😜)
THE LIST KEEPS GROWING … of countries cautioning their citizens about visiting the United States: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, & the UK. Utterly mortifying. See links in comments for deets!
April 1, 2025 at 4:26 PM
THE LIST KEEPS GROWING … of countries cautioning their citizens about visiting the United States: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, & the UK. Utterly mortifying. See links in comments for deets!
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In his own words, Trump either “knows nothing about” news topics or “nobody knows better” than him: www.instagram.com/jimmykimmell... 🙄
Jimmy Kimmel Live on Instagram: "Does Trump know NOTHING ABOUT IT or MORE THAN EVERYONE?"
12K likes, 240 comments - jimmykimmellive on September 10, 2024: "Does Trump know NOTHING ABOUT IT or MORE THAN EVERYONE?".
www.instagram.com
March 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
In his own words, Trump either “knows nothing about” news topics or “nobody knows better” than him: www.instagram.com/jimmykimmell... 🙄
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I know it bothers you as much as it does me that journalism as an institution can’t process that what it’s seeing on a daily basis is evil people doing evil sh*t
Not incompetence, not naivete, not negligence, not mispeaking, not mixups, not miscommunications: straight-up evil people doing evil sh*t
Not incompetence, not naivete, not negligence, not mispeaking, not mixups, not miscommunications: straight-up evil people doing evil sh*t
March 27, 2025 at 5:28 AM
I know it bothers you as much as it does me that journalism as an institution can’t process that what it’s seeing on a daily basis is evil people doing evil sh*t
Not incompetence, not naivete, not negligence, not mispeaking, not mixups, not miscommunications: straight-up evil people doing evil sh*t
Not incompetence, not naivete, not negligence, not mispeaking, not mixups, not miscommunications: straight-up evil people doing evil sh*t
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Duckworth goes on Fox and Baier reads her statement calling Hegseth a “f**king liar”
March 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Duckworth goes on Fox and Baier reads her statement calling Hegseth a “f**king liar”
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Swalwell: Hegseth is still the Secretary of Defense? This moron texts out our war plans, putting our soldiers at risk, and he’s not gone?
Every one on that chat—they just fire off texts not knowing who is on the chat? They all should be fired if they don’t resign.
Every one on that chat—they just fire off texts not knowing who is on the chat? They all should be fired if they don’t resign.
March 25, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Swalwell: Hegseth is still the Secretary of Defense? This moron texts out our war plans, putting our soldiers at risk, and he’s not gone?
Every one on that chat—they just fire off texts not knowing who is on the chat? They all should be fired if they don’t resign.
Every one on that chat—they just fire off texts not knowing who is on the chat? They all should be fired if they don’t resign.
People from other countries don’t deserve a hostile deportation from the U.S. Sign a petition to move the 2028 Summer Olympics ANYWHERE else. I suggest Canada or Mexico: chng.it/YV99kCxTRN
March 23, 2025 at 10:36 PM
People from other countries don’t deserve a hostile deportation from the U.S. Sign a petition to move the 2028 Summer Olympics ANYWHERE else. I suggest Canada or Mexico: chng.it/YV99kCxTRN
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A leaked Wall Street memo confirms that privatizing the Post Office would mean higher prices, mass layoffs, and worse service — especially for rural America.
Wall Street Bankers Salivate Over Postal Privatization | Revolving Door Project
A leaked Wells Fargo paper reveals how corporate profiteers could ransack an institution older than America itself.
therevolvingdoorproject.org
March 20, 2025 at 10:42 PM
A leaked Wall Street memo confirms that privatizing the Post Office would mean higher prices, mass layoffs, and worse service — especially for rural America.
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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS motion to HALT deportation under rarely invoked Alien Enemies Act of 1798. “A TRO is appropriate for the class members to prevent the removal of the class.”
WOW. Planes in air must turn around.
A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.
WOW. Planes in air must turn around.
A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.
March 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS motion to HALT deportation under rarely invoked Alien Enemies Act of 1798. “A TRO is appropriate for the class members to prevent the removal of the class.”
WOW. Planes in air must turn around.
A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.
WOW. Planes in air must turn around.
A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.
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I was going to retire to Europe in 2027 with modest savings and Social Security. Now Trump had tanked the economy, and he’s pissing off other countries by deporting LEGAL immigrants. I’ll be lucky if ANY country will welcome an American.
March 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I was going to retire to Europe in 2027 with modest savings and Social Security. Now Trump had tanked the economy, and he’s pissing off other countries by deporting LEGAL immigrants. I’ll be lucky if ANY country will welcome an American.