@lcapasso.bsky.social
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You’re not voting against a government shutdown @schumer.senate.gov.
You’re voting FOR massive governmental cuts, a crippling attack on Washington DC, and the codification of Trump & Musk’s illegal attacks on the federal government.
You’re voting FOR massive governmental cuts, a crippling attack on Washington DC, and the codification of Trump & Musk’s illegal attacks on the federal government.
March 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
You’re not voting against a government shutdown @schumer.senate.gov.
You’re voting FOR massive governmental cuts, a crippling attack on Washington DC, and the codification of Trump & Musk’s illegal attacks on the federal government.
You’re voting FOR massive governmental cuts, a crippling attack on Washington DC, and the codification of Trump & Musk’s illegal attacks on the federal government.
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"they're gonna make us look bad"
go fucking make them look bad. they're fascists. how hard can this be.
go fucking make them look bad. they're fascists. how hard can this be.
March 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
"they're gonna make us look bad"
go fucking make them look bad. they're fascists. how hard can this be.
go fucking make them look bad. they're fascists. how hard can this be.
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democrats i swear to god if you back away from a fight where you have the moral high ground against a political opponent with tanking approval numbers that the entire country is mad at right now, i swear to GOD yall i freaking swear
March 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
democrats i swear to god if you back away from a fight where you have the moral high ground against a political opponent with tanking approval numbers that the entire country is mad at right now, i swear to GOD yall i freaking swear
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Only takes 23 Senate Democrats to remove Chuck Schumer from leadership and replace him with someone willing to fight
March 14, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Only takes 23 Senate Democrats to remove Chuck Schumer from leadership and replace him with someone willing to fight
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everyone should listen to this in its entirety but journalists should listen to it multiple times. this is how you ask questions. you just keep asking simple, easily answerable stuff and the evasiveness becomes that much more glaring
In which the Department of Homeland Security struggles to answer a very simple question: "Is any criticism of the United States government a deportable offense?"
(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
March 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
everyone should listen to this in its entirety but journalists should listen to it multiple times. this is how you ask questions. you just keep asking simple, easily answerable stuff and the evasiveness becomes that much more glaring
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That didn't take anytime at all. What a waste. Defunding cancer research, health disparities research, gebe therapy and real vaccine research to waste the valuable time of scientists to study debunked conspiracies.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Exclusive: U.S. CDC plans study into vaccines and autism, sources say
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links.
www.reuters.com
March 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
That didn't take anytime at all. What a waste. Defunding cancer research, health disparities research, gebe therapy and real vaccine research to waste the valuable time of scientists to study debunked conspiracies.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
March 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
The voter registration guy who helped flip PA has turned his sights to NJ:
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Who is Scott Presler? Gay conservative activist vowing to turn New Jersey red
With New Jersey’s gubernatorial race less than a year away, the controversial campaigner is on a mission to turn the blue state red
www.the-independent.com
March 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The voter registration guy who helped flip PA has turned his sights to NJ:
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
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Democrats even *thinking* about joining Republicans to censure Al Green for having the courage to stand up while they sat down do not deserve to be able to generate a single fundraising dollar from a person of moral character ever again.
March 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Democrats even *thinking* about joining Republicans to censure Al Green for having the courage to stand up while they sat down do not deserve to be able to generate a single fundraising dollar from a person of moral character ever again.
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I mean, it’s not great that only 5 of 9 Supreme Court justices believe in the Constitution, but a win is a win.
March 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I mean, it’s not great that only 5 of 9 Supreme Court justices believe in the Constitution, but a win is a win.
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republicans: fyi we are bombing france for being too gay and lead poisoning is now mandatory
democrats: yeah? well prepare yourselves for several strongly worded haikus
democrats: yeah? well prepare yourselves for several strongly worded haikus
March 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
republicans: fyi we are bombing france for being too gay and lead poisoning is now mandatory
democrats: yeah? well prepare yourselves for several strongly worded haikus
democrats: yeah? well prepare yourselves for several strongly worded haikus
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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Current mood:
The beacons are lit
Gondor calls for aid
The beacons are lit
Gondor calls for aid
March 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Current mood:
The beacons are lit
Gondor calls for aid
The beacons are lit
Gondor calls for aid
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Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this
An estimated 300,000 children globally are expected to lose access to a nutrient-dense peanut butter that’s specially formulated to treat severe acute malnutrition.
Georgia Nonprofit That Produces Life-Saving Food For Kids Has Federal Contract Cut
An estimated 300,000 children globally are expected to lose access to a nutrient-dense peanut butter that’s specially formulated to treat severe acute malnutrition.
www.huffpost.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this
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DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA.
Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.
Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.
See how this works?
Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.
Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.
See how this works?
February 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA.
Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.
Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.
See how this works?
Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.
Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.
See how this works?
February 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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And let me say, imperfect as it is, this economic blackout thing has broken through. It was on the radio this morning, family members have texted me to remind me.
Folks are HUNGRY for mass national action opportunities and I really wish national orgs would read the room and call a day.
Folks are HUNGRY for mass national action opportunities and I really wish national orgs would read the room and call a day.
February 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
And let me say, imperfect as it is, this economic blackout thing has broken through. It was on the radio this morning, family members have texted me to remind me.
Folks are HUNGRY for mass national action opportunities and I really wish national orgs would read the room and call a day.
Folks are HUNGRY for mass national action opportunities and I really wish national orgs would read the room and call a day.
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@kkjetelina.bsky.social is always great, but this figure on the increasing probability of risk of an H5N1 bird flu pandemic is particularly helpful. yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/h5n1-updat...
February 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
@kkjetelina.bsky.social is always great, but this figure on the increasing probability of risk of an H5N1 bird flu pandemic is particularly helpful. yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/h5n1-updat...
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For my latest edition of @bloomberg.com Buying Power, I wrote about the enormous economic and societal risks that come along with this week’s news that the richest 10% of Americans now do fully half of the country’s consumer spending. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Rich People Are Firing a Cash Cannon at the US Economy—But at What Cost?
Industries get recalibrated, economic signals get crossed and the social fabric begins to fray.
www.bloomberg.com
February 28, 2025 at 12:45 PM
For my latest edition of @bloomberg.com Buying Power, I wrote about the enormous economic and societal risks that come along with this week’s news that the richest 10% of Americans now do fully half of the country’s consumer spending. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Little known, recently discovered fact:
Measles wipes out immune protections OTHER diseases: many who recover actually face big future risk.
Earlier measles may be implicated in HALF OF ALL LATER CHILDHOOD DEATHS from ALL infectious diseases before vaccines.
Gift🔗👉
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
Measles wipes out immune protections OTHER diseases: many who recover actually face big future risk.
Earlier measles may be implicated in HALF OF ALL LATER CHILDHOOD DEATHS from ALL infectious diseases before vaccines.
Gift🔗👉
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
February 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Little known, recently discovered fact:
Measles wipes out immune protections OTHER diseases: many who recover actually face big future risk.
Earlier measles may be implicated in HALF OF ALL LATER CHILDHOOD DEATHS from ALL infectious diseases before vaccines.
Gift🔗👉
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
Measles wipes out immune protections OTHER diseases: many who recover actually face big future risk.
Earlier measles may be implicated in HALF OF ALL LATER CHILDHOOD DEATHS from ALL infectious diseases before vaccines.
Gift🔗👉
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
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I think if you don't want to buy things from major retailers today or any day that is great, and I would also love for everyone to remember that successful movements usually need to involve labor, and to start thinking of yourself as a worker first and a consumer second
February 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I think if you don't want to buy things from major retailers today or any day that is great, and I would also love for everyone to remember that successful movements usually need to involve labor, and to start thinking of yourself as a worker first and a consumer second
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Growing Up Sick.
“A healthy [child] wants a thousand things, a sick [child] only wants one.” - Confucius
Source: www.linkedin.com/pulse/growin...
Paywall free link: archive.md/L1Izy
“A healthy [child] wants a thousand things, a sick [child] only wants one.” - Confucius
Source: www.linkedin.com/pulse/growin...
Paywall free link: archive.md/L1Izy
February 26, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Growing Up Sick.
“A healthy [child] wants a thousand things, a sick [child] only wants one.” - Confucius
Source: www.linkedin.com/pulse/growin...
Paywall free link: archive.md/L1Izy
“A healthy [child] wants a thousand things, a sick [child] only wants one.” - Confucius
Source: www.linkedin.com/pulse/growin...
Paywall free link: archive.md/L1Izy
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The first reaction to this news should be concern about the future of voting by mail www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say
The move threatens to upend trillions of dollars in e-commerce business and the 250-year-old Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 21, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The first reaction to this news should be concern about the future of voting by mail www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...