Heather_Whaaaaa
hellohoopy.bsky.social
Heather_Whaaaaa
@hellohoopy.bsky.social
SoCal
Aspiring to be an Anarchist Buddhist
The first pride was a riot 🧱
🏳️‍🌈 🫶🏼 ✊🏼 🍉
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Trump turned Biden’s EV charger program into a punchline — and then kept most of it.

Now the plan to build a nationwide network of standard EV plugs is quietly succeeding.

How a political-failure-turned-policy-success could offer a road map for Dems 👇
Why Trump Couldn’t Stop the Electric Vehicle Dream
We never got those promised EV chargers — but we did get a future for EVs.
politi.co
November 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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3 times in the past 2 weeks, a WashPost editorial "has taken on matters in which Bezos has a financial or corporate interest without noting his stake. In each case, the Post's editorial line landed in sync with its owner's interests"

Via @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social

www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...
'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
www.npr.org
October 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪

Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.

I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
September 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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And remember, the reason he wanted separate vaccines wasn't due to any science, but because *he'd filed a patent application for a single measles vaccine*. It was just grifting.
Wakefield taking a victory lap.
September 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him.

I'm talking about something very different.

Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired.

Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to.

But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️
September 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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So cool they discovered the cause of autism on basically day they guessed they would. I’m also glad they are withholding this information for a few days to prep for a WrestleMania-style announcement. This is how science works.
September 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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I give up.*

Everything's shit. The Dems are useless. Their supporters are too. The racism and misogyny and transphobia and anti-immigrant and anti-homeless bullshit from "our" side is off the charts.

*I never actually give up. I just need space to vent.
September 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...
Airlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records to the Government For Warrantless Searching
New documents obtained by 404 Media show how a data broker owned by American Airlines, United, Delta, and many other airlines is selling masses of passenger data to the U.S. government.
www.404media.co
September 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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🤣🤣🤣

We are a deeply unserious country.

What an ugly prayer.

But shout-out to all of the trans people that prayed harder I guess 🤷🏿‍♂️
"I wish we could blame this on muslims or migrants, but turns out it was one of us." what a wild thing to say
September 13, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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UPMC is forcing their trans patients under 19 to taper off their medication while simultaneously telling their emergency staff to expect more suicide attempts, mental health crises, and psychotic episodes as a result of being forcefully pulled off their medication.

open.spotify.com/episode/3HJN...
The Fight for Trans Youth Healthcare at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
It Could Happen Here · Episode
open.spotify.com
July 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.

Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
July 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it.

They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.

Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.

Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
July 4, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Per @npr.org, the Department of Homeland Security, in partnership with the White House U.S. DOGE Service, has built a searchable national citizenship register with data from the Social Security Administration & immigration records— without public notice & comment.
Infrastructure for a police state.
The Trump administration is building a national citizenship data system
The Department of Homeland Security, with help from DOGE, has rolled out a tool that purports to be able to check the citizenship status of almost all Americans.
www.npr.org
June 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Don't forget that the Supreme Court has undertaken this radical expansion of executive power and personal immunity not for some ordinary Republican but for the most corrupt president In American history. They're doing it for THIS GUY, who is guaranteed to abuse every ounce of power he's given.
June 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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when history reflects on how trump managed to so quickly and so thoroughly kneecap democracy, the role of the Roberts Court cannot be overstated. trump's an amoral monster, but his biggest successes were only possible thanks to conservative justices who would bless them
June 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Justice Jackson in dissent: "The Court's decision to permit the Executive to violate the Constitution with respect to anyone who has not yet sued is an existential threat to the rule of law."
June 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?
June 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
😂
Forbes: Mamdani grew up to the baby age of 33 with enough food to eat and here's why that means he's dangerously incompetent

Also Forbes: Here's 500 of the richest people under the age of 30 who are so smart, trustworthy & capable that we release an annual list in our news magazine about it
June 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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all the worst people are sad tonight and i just think thats neat
June 25, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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I see the Washington Post is platforming an op-ed by Krisi Noem, because apparently they're still pissed they missed their opportunity to publish Goebbels in the original German.
June 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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NIH researchers were working on treatments, health equity, and saving lives—but their work was cut for being ideologically inconvenient.

Now a federal judge says: illegal.

Recently, NIHers risked everything to speak out. Stand with them here ➡️zurl.co/rqq7T

zurl.co/0GTNE
Judge rules some NIH grant cuts illegal, saying he's never seen such discrimination in 40 years
A federal judge says it was illegal for the Trump administration to cancel several hundred research grants issued by the National Institutes of Health.
apnews.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Just putting it out there that everyone self-censors at work, it's called "being a professional."
i thought they were all excited about trump winning so they could say more slurs?
June 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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A federal officer cannot be “doxxed.” The public has a right to know who is operating in our government, especially if they have the power to imprison someone.
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons: "If you look before January 20, and even after January 20, the men & women of ICE did not have to have masks on their face. Me personally, I don't want those officers having to wear masks bc it's hot, it's dangerous. But ICE agents are being doxxed at a horrible rate"
June 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM