Jody Mask
@jodymask.bsky.social
FloridaMan 🌀 NatureNerd 🌱 Pastor ✝️
It really is that simple.
If you remember this mantra, everything will always make sense:
They want to rule. They don’t want to govern. All the power, none of the responsibility.
They want to rule. They don’t want to govern. All the power, none of the responsibility.
June 11, 2025 at 2:12 AM
It really is that simple.
@kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social I also use Early Riser for my alarm! It’s a perfect intro to a new day. #sistersinlaw
May 21, 2025 at 12:37 AM
@kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social I also use Early Riser for my alarm! It’s a perfect intro to a new day. #sistersinlaw
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Not sure who needs to hear this, but any govt official who violates someone's constitutional rights -- and is acting outside the scope of their lawful authority -- can be PERSONALLY liable in a civil suit.
ICE officers. Cabinet members. White House staffers. Even the president.
ICE officers. Cabinet members. White House staffers. Even the president.
April 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Not sure who needs to hear this, but any govt official who violates someone's constitutional rights -- and is acting outside the scope of their lawful authority -- can be PERSONALLY liable in a civil suit.
ICE officers. Cabinet members. White House staffers. Even the president.
ICE officers. Cabinet members. White House staffers. Even the president.
I banished lilies in the sanctuary this year!
April 19, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I banished lilies in the sanctuary this year!
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the latest from RD: @robertpjones.bsky.social on how DefSec Hesgeth's recent book bans are trying to erase America's legacy of white christian supremacy
(the list also includes RD fave @antheabutler.bsky.social's *White Evangelical Racism*, bc of course)
religiondispatches.org/my-book-on-t...
(the list also includes RD fave @antheabutler.bsky.social's *White Evangelical Racism*, bc of course)
religiondispatches.org/my-book-on-t...
My Book on The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity Was One of Hundreds Just Banned by the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
I was surprised on Friday when I started getting messages that my book, White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity, which won a 2021 American Book Award, appeared as #46 on...
religiondispatches.org
April 8, 2025 at 7:55 PM
the latest from RD: @robertpjones.bsky.social on how DefSec Hesgeth's recent book bans are trying to erase America's legacy of white christian supremacy
(the list also includes RD fave @antheabutler.bsky.social's *White Evangelical Racism*, bc of course)
religiondispatches.org/my-book-on-t...
(the list also includes RD fave @antheabutler.bsky.social's *White Evangelical Racism*, bc of course)
religiondispatches.org/my-book-on-t...
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I'm carving out a new beat here @propublica.org - CIVIL RIGHTS UNDER TRUMP. It's a big and important beat and one I'm thrilled ProPublica has committed to. Here's my first of many stories to come. Advocates, lawyers, teachers and fed workers. Send me your tips! david.mcswane@propublica.org
“They Don’t Care About Civil Rights”: Trump’s Shuttering of DHS Oversight Arm Freezes 600 Cases, Imperils Human Rights
The closure of the 150-person office, which protected the civil rights of both immigrants and U.S. citizens, strips Homeland Security of its internal guardrails as the Trump administration turns DHS i...
www.propublica.org
April 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I'm carving out a new beat here @propublica.org - CIVIL RIGHTS UNDER TRUMP. It's a big and important beat and one I'm thrilled ProPublica has committed to. Here's my first of many stories to come. Advocates, lawyers, teachers and fed workers. Send me your tips! david.mcswane@propublica.org
He heard the culprits were emperors
April 3, 2025 at 2:19 AM
He heard the culprits were emperors
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BlueSky Tip: Just because folks aren't following you, that does not mean they are not seeing what you sharing. Check out @clearsky.app to see what lists you are on clearsky.app and check out the followers feed to see what your followers are posting: bit.ly/4iYWsdu
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March 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM
BlueSky Tip: Just because folks aren't following you, that does not mean they are not seeing what you sharing. Check out @clearsky.app to see what lists you are on clearsky.app and check out the followers feed to see what your followers are posting: bit.ly/4iYWsdu
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My grandparents were natural born German citizens. Until they weren't. I have copies of their documents, stamped "cancelled" by the government.
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 28, 2025 at 12:36 AM
My grandparents were natural born German citizens. Until they weren't. I have copies of their documents, stamped "cancelled" by the government.
Of course she’s a faith adviser to the huckster in chief. Birds of a grifting feather.
If you give White House faith adviser Paula White $1,000 before Easter, she promises that you will receive "seven supernatural blessings.": "God will assign an angel to you ... He'll give you prosperity. He'll take sickness away from you. He will give you long life."
March 25, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Of course she’s a faith adviser to the huckster in chief. Birds of a grifting feather.
Yep
So, if you’re not a good ally, we can takeover your territory? Sounds like the German approach ahead of the start of WW II.
JD Vance, "Denmark is not being a good ally"
"If we need to take Greenland that is what President Trump will do because he doesn't care about what Europeans scream at us"
"If we need to take Greenland that is what President Trump will do because he doesn't care about what Europeans scream at us"
March 23, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Yep
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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but “I was only following orders” was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg Trials.
March 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but “I was only following orders” was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg Trials.
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In the hours before IRS leadership fired some 7,000 employees for allegedly poor performance, a top IRS lawyer flagged officials that “no one” at the agency had done such an assessment.
The termination notice went out unchanged anyway.
By @andykroll.bsky.social
The termination notice went out unchanged anyway.
By @andykroll.bsky.social
Emails Reveal Top IRS Lawyer Warned Trump Firings Were a “Fraud” on the Courts
The Trump administration cited “performance” failures to justify its mass firing of IRS workers. But this claim was “false,” a senior agency attorney warned officials, because the administration had…
propub.li
March 23, 2025 at 12:30 AM
In the hours before IRS leadership fired some 7,000 employees for allegedly poor performance, a top IRS lawyer flagged officials that “no one” at the agency had done such an assessment.
The termination notice went out unchanged anyway.
By @andykroll.bsky.social
The termination notice went out unchanged anyway.
By @andykroll.bsky.social
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The author of this piece is an American photo journalist who has been embedded in El Salvador. Reading this piece is frightening and it should be. It's who we are in danger of becoming. time.com/7269604/el-s...
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The author of this piece is an American photo journalist who has been embedded in El Salvador. Reading this piece is frightening and it should be. It's who we are in danger of becoming. time.com/7269604/el-s...
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Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.
March 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.
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"More than 600 Iron Range steelworkers out of work as auto industry cuts orders because of tariffs"
More than 600 Iron Range steelworkers out of work as auto industry cuts orders because of tariffs
Cleveland-Cliffs, the largest iron ore operator in Minnesota, is idling operations in Hibbing and Virginia.
www.startribune.com
March 20, 2025 at 11:23 PM
"More than 600 Iron Range steelworkers out of work as auto industry cuts orders because of tariffs"
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this stuff is happening across the country and even more intensively downstream of the veterans admin but it's happening in so many places at once and without any public notification that it's still only barely emerging in the news
A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.
March 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
this stuff is happening across the country and even more intensively downstream of the veterans admin but it's happening in so many places at once and without any public notification that it's still only barely emerging in the news
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Schoolchildren are routinely slaughtered by AR-15s. Hundreds die.
[*crickets* "Thoughts and prayers" *crickets*]
A couple unoccupied cars are set on fire. No one is hurt.
["THIS HORROR WILL NOT STAND!!! We MUST act to STOP it from ever happening AGAIN!!!!" We will pass new LAWS BANNING IT!!!]
[*crickets* "Thoughts and prayers" *crickets*]
A couple unoccupied cars are set on fire. No one is hurt.
["THIS HORROR WILL NOT STAND!!! We MUST act to STOP it from ever happening AGAIN!!!!" We will pass new LAWS BANNING IT!!!]
March 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Schoolchildren are routinely slaughtered by AR-15s. Hundreds die.
[*crickets* "Thoughts and prayers" *crickets*]
A couple unoccupied cars are set on fire. No one is hurt.
["THIS HORROR WILL NOT STAND!!! We MUST act to STOP it from ever happening AGAIN!!!!" We will pass new LAWS BANNING IT!!!]
[*crickets* "Thoughts and prayers" *crickets*]
A couple unoccupied cars are set on fire. No one is hurt.
["THIS HORROR WILL NOT STAND!!! We MUST act to STOP it from ever happening AGAIN!!!!" We will pass new LAWS BANNING IT!!!]
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People need to get over thinking the legacy news media are ever going to be anything but collaborators in installing autocracy in the US. Individual reporters may come through at times, but the larger corporate news outlets will never risk their status no matter how much Trump abuses them.
March 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
People need to get over thinking the legacy news media are ever going to be anything but collaborators in installing autocracy in the US. Individual reporters may come through at times, but the larger corporate news outlets will never risk their status no matter how much Trump abuses them.
But you’re the pride of the American side—oh, right.
I hate when I’m hauling a load of iron ore, 26000 tons or more, and the gales of November come early
March 20, 2025 at 9:27 PM
But you’re the pride of the American side—oh, right.
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💥 BREAKING: Walt Disney Company shareholders voted today 99-1 percent to reject an anti-LGBTQ+ proposal, requesting that the company sever its relationship with the Human Rights Campaign and HRC's Corporate Equality Index. Disney Board recommended shareholders vote against the proposal.
March 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
💥 BREAKING: Walt Disney Company shareholders voted today 99-1 percent to reject an anti-LGBTQ+ proposal, requesting that the company sever its relationship with the Human Rights Campaign and HRC's Corporate Equality Index. Disney Board recommended shareholders vote against the proposal.
Anna is the best! Subversive and creative. I-4 as the Kessel Run is *chef’s kiss*
May the Force be with you!
May the Force be with you!
This morning we’ll be hearing a bill to rename “Gulf of Mexico” to “Gulf of America”… so I have filed an amendment to rename the Gulf alongside other landmarks after places in Star Wars!
If we’re renaming things, we might as well go to a galaxy far far away!
If we’re renaming things, we might as well go to a galaxy far far away!
March 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Anna is the best! Subversive and creative. I-4 as the Kessel Run is *chef’s kiss*
May the Force be with you!
May the Force be with you!
In a fascist regime, the rule of law and due process are radical leftist ideas. Guess the Founders were radical leftists too…
One of my Radical Leftist opinions is the government shouldn't be able to deprive anyone of life, liberty, or property without due process of law
March 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
In a fascist regime, the rule of law and due process are radical leftist ideas. Guess the Founders were radical leftists too…
Ferris the Wise said it best!
a man is standing in a kitchen with his eyes closed and a quote about life .
Alt: Ferris Beuller saying “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
media.tenor.com
March 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Ferris the Wise said it best!
“The economic impacts will be enormous. But so, too, will be the cultural ones. What is really happening here is an attack on the American faith in knowledge as a value and a public good that has served us well.”
@meghanor.bsky.social
@meghanor.bsky.social
Opinion | The View Inside Trump’s Assault on Universities
The Trump administration’s attacks on universities will lead to the permanent diminishment of vital American institutions.
www.nytimes.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:01 AM
“The economic impacts will be enormous. But so, too, will be the cultural ones. What is really happening here is an attack on the American faith in knowledge as a value and a public good that has served us well.”
@meghanor.bsky.social
@meghanor.bsky.social