Holly Croft
@hollycroft.bsky.social
Archivist. Owned by a dog and some cats. I work for a public institution in Georgia, but I also make wreaths in my spare time. Good trouble (usually).
She/her.
She/her.
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A new report from @warren.senate.gov details Elon Musk’s reign of corruption in Washington, itemizing 130 dodgy dealings in 130 days.
EXCLUSIVE ⤵️
EXCLUSIVE ⤵️
Elon Musk's Reign of Corruption Chronicled in Elizabeth Warren Report
Warren’s report is focused on Musk’s misuse of political power for personal gain as Donald Trump’s DOGE chief.
www.rollingstone.com
June 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
A new report from @warren.senate.gov details Elon Musk’s reign of corruption in Washington, itemizing 130 dodgy dealings in 130 days.
EXCLUSIVE ⤵️
EXCLUSIVE ⤵️
It’s a Tuesday in June, which means Orientation for incoming freshman.
And their parents.
As I pulled into the parking lot this morning, Superdad in a minivan driving the wrong way made it a point to cut me off in his quest to get the parking space I was signaling to pull into.
Good times.
And their parents.
As I pulled into the parking lot this morning, Superdad in a minivan driving the wrong way made it a point to cut me off in his quest to get the parking space I was signaling to pull into.
Good times.
June 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
It’s a Tuesday in June, which means Orientation for incoming freshman.
And their parents.
As I pulled into the parking lot this morning, Superdad in a minivan driving the wrong way made it a point to cut me off in his quest to get the parking space I was signaling to pull into.
Good times.
And their parents.
As I pulled into the parking lot this morning, Superdad in a minivan driving the wrong way made it a point to cut me off in his quest to get the parking space I was signaling to pull into.
Good times.
Morning:
Assistant scanning photos: “When was this picture taken, do you think?”
Me: “Looks like a 70s or 80s Camaro parked out front…so then?”
Afternoon:
Assistant: “Who is this guy?”
Me: “Joe Frank Harris. He was governor when I was born.”
I am a fount of totally random knowledge, friends.
Assistant scanning photos: “When was this picture taken, do you think?”
Me: “Looks like a 70s or 80s Camaro parked out front…so then?”
Afternoon:
Assistant: “Who is this guy?”
Me: “Joe Frank Harris. He was governor when I was born.”
I am a fount of totally random knowledge, friends.
June 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Morning:
Assistant scanning photos: “When was this picture taken, do you think?”
Me: “Looks like a 70s or 80s Camaro parked out front…so then?”
Afternoon:
Assistant: “Who is this guy?”
Me: “Joe Frank Harris. He was governor when I was born.”
I am a fount of totally random knowledge, friends.
Assistant scanning photos: “When was this picture taken, do you think?”
Me: “Looks like a 70s or 80s Camaro parked out front…so then?”
Afternoon:
Assistant: “Who is this guy?”
Me: “Joe Frank Harris. He was governor when I was born.”
I am a fount of totally random knowledge, friends.
Welp. First AOTUS, then the Kennedy Center board, then the Librarian of Congress. I suppose this was inevitable.
TRUMP VS. THE SMITHSONIAN: Everyone watching Trump's attacks on the institutions of American high culture expected something like this to come eventually. Nobody knew what the attack on the Smithsonian would look like, just that it would come.
Our initial reporting on Trump dismissing the director of the National Portrait Gallery, although the job of hiring and firing Smithsonian leaders is not his www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
May 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Welp. First AOTUS, then the Kennedy Center board, then the Librarian of Congress. I suppose this was inevitable.
Y’all, imma try this again. I feel like I never quite get my rhythm here.
Since I ghosted everyone, here are a few wild developments in my life:
1. I’m three water heaters in and about to upgrade my electric panel in a quest to return hot water to my house.
2. Carter turned two on May 8th!
Since I ghosted everyone, here are a few wild developments in my life:
1. I’m three water heaters in and about to upgrade my electric panel in a quest to return hot water to my house.
2. Carter turned two on May 8th!
May 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Y’all, imma try this again. I feel like I never quite get my rhythm here.
Since I ghosted everyone, here are a few wild developments in my life:
1. I’m three water heaters in and about to upgrade my electric panel in a quest to return hot water to my house.
2. Carter turned two on May 8th!
Since I ghosted everyone, here are a few wild developments in my life:
1. I’m three water heaters in and about to upgrade my electric panel in a quest to return hot water to my house.
2. Carter turned two on May 8th!
Hello, yes… Am I speaking to Georgia’s Ghost of 1941? How well did the Cocking Affair work out for Governor Talmadge?
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
Exclusive | Trump to Sign Executive Order Targeting University Accreditors
The move is the latest in an effort to remake higher education after the president and other Republicans have long criticized the accreditation process.
www.wsj.com
April 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Hello, yes… Am I speaking to Georgia’s Ghost of 1941? How well did the Cocking Affair work out for Governor Talmadge?
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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this entire article is an argument for dems to refuse to lift a single fucking finger to help republicans pass a dirty CR. if congressional republicans can go straight to musk to get relief for their districts but congressional democrats can't, then there's absolutely no reason to help, at all.
Over texts and ‘eyeball to eyeball,’ Republicans succeed in persuading Musk. But Democrats hit dead ends | CNN Politics
When a multi-million federal grant program for dairy businesses was shut down earlier this month in line with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency push to downsize the government, Wisconsin...
www.cnn.com
March 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
this entire article is an argument for dems to refuse to lift a single fucking finger to help republicans pass a dirty CR. if congressional republicans can go straight to musk to get relief for their districts but congressional democrats can't, then there's absolutely no reason to help, at all.
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Musk states "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy". Charles Darwin, who actually researched this stuff, showed it was empathy, specifically, that enabled humanity to flourish.
Government AI, defending DOGE and more: Takeaways from Elon Musk’s three-hour interview with Joe Rogan
The wide-ranging interview between the two prominent Trump supporters comes as Musk remakes the federal government.
www.politico.com
March 5, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Musk states "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy". Charles Darwin, who actually researched this stuff, showed it was empathy, specifically, that enabled humanity to flourish.
I suppose with these new tariffs on Mexico, Tea Partiers have finally stuck it to those pesky, avocado toast-eating Millennial kids.
Too bad that in that 13 year interim, a lot of those Tea Partiers discovered guacamole, green smoothies, and… avocado toast.
Alas.
Too bad that in that 13 year interim, a lot of those Tea Partiers discovered guacamole, green smoothies, and… avocado toast.
Alas.
March 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I suppose with these new tariffs on Mexico, Tea Partiers have finally stuck it to those pesky, avocado toast-eating Millennial kids.
Too bad that in that 13 year interim, a lot of those Tea Partiers discovered guacamole, green smoothies, and… avocado toast.
Alas.
Too bad that in that 13 year interim, a lot of those Tea Partiers discovered guacamole, green smoothies, and… avocado toast.
Alas.
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A lot of folks think the Great Depression happened all at once , with the stock market crash. That was bad, absolutely, but things got worse from there.
Smoot Hawley helped make it worse
Smoot Hawley helped make it worse
Seems like just a few weeks ago I was telling students that while no single thing caused the Great Depression, the one thing that threw the country over the cliff was Smoot Hawley.
Good thing there's no wealth inequalities, shifting technologies, unstable banking, or overproduction. That'd be bad 😬
Good thing there's no wealth inequalities, shifting technologies, unstable banking, or overproduction. That'd be bad 😬
March 3, 2025 at 11:47 PM
A lot of folks think the Great Depression happened all at once , with the stock market crash. That was bad, absolutely, but things got worse from there.
Smoot Hawley helped make it worse
Smoot Hawley helped make it worse
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A central project for the next little while is to figure out how to tell the many people who don't closely follow politics what Musk is doing. Like literally get the information to them and make them believe it even though it all sounds cartoonishly evil.
March 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
A central project for the next little while is to figure out how to tell the many people who don't closely follow politics what Musk is doing. Like literally get the information to them and make them believe it even though it all sounds cartoonishly evil.
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Horrific: One of the USAID programs Trump just terminated was set to deliver lifesaving treatment to hundreds of thousands of starving kids abroad. Much of it is now sitting in a Georgia warehouse.
Rubio's promise to preserve urgent assistance was a lie.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1921...
Rubio's promise to preserve urgent assistance was a lie.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1921...
Musk’s Purges Suddenly Take a Horrific Turn—and Wreck an Ugly MAGA Lie
We can now be depressingly confident that their mass cuts are killing people.
newrepublic.com
March 1, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Horrific: One of the USAID programs Trump just terminated was set to deliver lifesaving treatment to hundreds of thousands of starving kids abroad. Much of it is now sitting in a Georgia warehouse.
Rubio's promise to preserve urgent assistance was a lie.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1921...
Rubio's promise to preserve urgent assistance was a lie.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1921...
I will only be referring to the idiotic duo as Chump and Prance from now on.
It’s completely childish, but if we can make weak-sounding, emasculating nicknames stick, I suspect it would undercut some of their appeal.
It’s completely childish, but if we can make weak-sounding, emasculating nicknames stick, I suspect it would undercut some of their appeal.
February 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I will only be referring to the idiotic duo as Chump and Prance from now on.
It’s completely childish, but if we can make weak-sounding, emasculating nicknames stick, I suspect it would undercut some of their appeal.
It’s completely childish, but if we can make weak-sounding, emasculating nicknames stick, I suspect it would undercut some of their appeal.
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The Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development is being felt in Georgia peanut country.
ajc.com/news/georgia...
ajc.com/news/georgia...
USAID cancels large contracts of Georgia peanut butter supplier
Mana, which produces peanut-butter based food pouches in Georgia, said USAID had terminated $12 million of its contracts to feed malnourished children in Africa.
ajc.com
February 28, 2025 at 12:50 AM
The Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development is being felt in Georgia peanut country.
ajc.com/news/georgia...
ajc.com/news/georgia...
People, it’s still February 2025, and Trump has been in office for a month. No, the majority of people who voted for him in November haven’t already turned against him.
It will happen, but those people need to personally feel the impact of the things he’s doing now to hurt them. 1/2
It will happen, but those people need to personally feel the impact of the things he’s doing now to hurt them. 1/2
February 26, 2025 at 10:06 AM
People, it’s still February 2025, and Trump has been in office for a month. No, the majority of people who voted for him in November haven’t already turned against him.
It will happen, but those people need to personally feel the impact of the things he’s doing now to hurt them. 1/2
It will happen, but those people need to personally feel the impact of the things he’s doing now to hurt them. 1/2
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Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all?
Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.
Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.
February 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all?
Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.
Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.
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The DC police last week sought to arrest a sitting member of Congress, a Florida Republican, for physically assaulting a woman in DC. But the US attorney’s office didn’t sign off on it. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/f...
Florida congressman investigated for alleged DC assault as police probe their own handling
D.C. police confirm they are investigating an alleged assault by Florida Rep. Cory Mills, a Republican representing a district northeast of Orlando, calling it an active criminal investigation.
www.nbcwashington.com
February 25, 2025 at 12:11 AM
The DC police last week sought to arrest a sitting member of Congress, a Florida Republican, for physically assaulting a woman in DC. But the US attorney’s office didn’t sign off on it. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/f...
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The US is now demanding massive war reparations:
-from Ukraine, which acted in self-defense against Russian aggression
-for the US, which did not get attacked or even fight in the war
-as compensation for resources the US used in ways that served US interests, when most US money went to US companies
-from Ukraine, which acted in self-defense against Russian aggression
-for the US, which did not get attacked or even fight in the war
-as compensation for resources the US used in ways that served US interests, when most US money went to US companies
February 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The US is now demanding massive war reparations:
-from Ukraine, which acted in self-defense against Russian aggression
-for the US, which did not get attacked or even fight in the war
-as compensation for resources the US used in ways that served US interests, when most US money went to US companies
-from Ukraine, which acted in self-defense against Russian aggression
-for the US, which did not get attacked or even fight in the war
-as compensation for resources the US used in ways that served US interests, when most US money went to US companies
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“Putin planned to take Kyiv in three days, but he couldn't take Kyiv in three years.
The only way Putin wins now—the only way he finally succeeds in destroying Ukraine’s sovereignty—is by persuading Ukraine’s allies to abandon Ukraine.”
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
The only way Putin wins now—the only way he finally succeeds in destroying Ukraine’s sovereignty—is by persuading Ukraine’s allies to abandon Ukraine.”
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Putin’s Three Years of Humiliation
The Russian president can’t win his war against Ukraine unless he persuades its allies to betray it.
www.theatlantic.com
February 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
“Putin planned to take Kyiv in three days, but he couldn't take Kyiv in three years.
The only way Putin wins now—the only way he finally succeeds in destroying Ukraine’s sovereignty—is by persuading Ukraine’s allies to abandon Ukraine.”
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
The only way Putin wins now—the only way he finally succeeds in destroying Ukraine’s sovereignty—is by persuading Ukraine’s allies to abandon Ukraine.”
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
So, things are going for Republicans well in ruby red suburban Georgia…
augustatoday.com/2025/02/22/c...
augustatoday.com/2025/02/22/c...
Columbia County Republican Party Meeting Ends in Arrest
Republican Party Official Linda Parnell was arrested Saturday after allegedly assaulting former Columbia County Commissioner Dewey Galeas.
augustatoday.com
February 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
So, things are going for Republicans well in ruby red suburban Georgia…
augustatoday.com/2025/02/22/c...
augustatoday.com/2025/02/22/c...
"We should make this thought clear for the Europeans, now we can actually strike Brussels, London and Paris...We can forget about Article 5 and forget about Americans stepping up to help.”
What a humiliating indictment of us.
www.newsweek.com/russian-stat...
What a humiliating indictment of us.
www.newsweek.com/russian-stat...
Russian state TV warns Kremlin can now strike 3 NATO allies' capitals
Sergey Mikheyev warned Moscow could strike three NATO-member capitals in response to the Trump administration's shifting stance on the Russia-Ukraine war.
www.newsweek.com
February 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"We should make this thought clear for the Europeans, now we can actually strike Brussels, London and Paris...We can forget about Article 5 and forget about Americans stepping up to help.”
What a humiliating indictment of us.
www.newsweek.com/russian-stat...
What a humiliating indictment of us.
www.newsweek.com/russian-stat...
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"During the meeting, Ukraine was told it faced imminent shutoff of the Starlink service if it did not reach a deal on critical minerals, said the source, who requested anonymity to discuss closed negotiations."
Astonishing betrayal of an ally.
www.reuters.com/business/us-...
Astonishing betrayal of an ally.
www.reuters.com/business/us-...
Exclusive: US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources
U.S. negotiators pressing Kyiv for access to Ukraine's critical minerals have raised the possibility of cutting the country's access to Elon Musk's vital Starlink satellite internet system, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
February 22, 2025 at 1:42 AM
"During the meeting, Ukraine was told it faced imminent shutoff of the Starlink service if it did not reach a deal on critical minerals, said the source, who requested anonymity to discuss closed negotiations."
Astonishing betrayal of an ally.
www.reuters.com/business/us-...
Astonishing betrayal of an ally.
www.reuters.com/business/us-...