@momo663.bsky.social
Retired healthcare exec. Sassy truth teller not afraid to look reality straight in the eye. Use science and history to make sense of human nature. Passionate about human rights, science and moral character. No DMs.
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When the birthday parade list reads like a cautionary guide to history.
June 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
When the birthday parade list reads like a cautionary guide to history.
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For the record he's a MAGA Republican Evangelical White Nationalist Cult hate mongering Murderer.
June 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
For the record he's a MAGA Republican Evangelical White Nationalist Cult hate mongering Murderer.
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This is a helluva letter
A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”
Via Sam Stein on twitter
Via Sam Stein on twitter
June 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
This is a helluva letter
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Mike Lee is just one example of legal education's tendency to produce leaders who regard political argument and debate as a mere game, divorced from real-world consequences. Do not be surprised if he chastises Smith for "making things personal."
Photo from The Hill's Al Weaver (from Xitter) catches Tina Smith confronting Mike Lee.
June 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Mike Lee is just one example of legal education's tendency to produce leaders who regard political argument and debate as a mere game, divorced from real-world consequences. Do not be surprised if he chastises Smith for "making things personal."
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A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”
Full emails below
Full emails below
June 16, 2025 at 10:44 PM
A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”
Full emails below
Full emails below
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If we are all willing to dig in and sacrifice, by growing our red bars we can do our part in making the green bar even bigger.
June 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
If we are all willing to dig in and sacrifice, by growing our red bars we can do our part in making the green bar even bigger.
Some things never change. And humans never learn. Renaissance thinkers - like the ancients they studied and longed to model-understood how dangerous too much wealth in the hands of a few destroy republics.
“…a properly ordered state must keep the community rich but the citizens poor.”
Machiavelli
“…a properly ordered state must keep the community rich but the citizens poor.”
Machiavelli
June 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Some things never change. And humans never learn. Renaissance thinkers - like the ancients they studied and longed to model-understood how dangerous too much wealth in the hands of a few destroy republics.
“…a properly ordered state must keep the community rich but the citizens poor.”
Machiavelli
“…a properly ordered state must keep the community rich but the citizens poor.”
Machiavelli
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Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣
June 15, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣
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This is, hands down, the most extensive article I've read about the suspect and how this whole thing went down.
Well done, @wired.com.
Well done, @wired.com.
US white evangelicalism is a death cult
New info from @wired.com. www.wired.com/story/shooti...
June 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
This is, hands down, the most extensive article I've read about the suspect and how this whole thing went down.
Well done, @wired.com.
Well done, @wired.com.
Two dead Minnesotans assassinated for being Democrats and he posts about his parade…see what is happening?
June 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Two dead Minnesotans assassinated for being Democrats and he posts about his parade…see what is happening?
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Ahead of the No Kings protest in Dallas this afternoon, the CEO of the right wing Dallas Express posted this image that includes a long rifle and a pistol, saying he will be "going in hot" to the "riot."
June 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The hypocrisy… of course they won’t hold the business owners accountable…but they will scapegoat the immigrant worker…
Despite Texas' tough talk on immigration, its lawmakers have refused to mandate that private businesses check employment authorization.
Why? Because they know “if you got serious about applying [E-Verify], you would create even worse problems” with labor shortages, a former GOP state lawmaker said.
Why? Because they know “if you got serious about applying [E-Verify], you would create even worse problems” with labor shortages, a former GOP state lawmaker said.
Texas Talks Tough on Immigration. But Lawmakers Won’t Force Most Private Companies to Check Employment Authorization.
Texas’ conservative Legislature has again and again refused to mandate that most private businesses use E-Verify. Experts say that Republican resistance is rooted in how the system could impact the…
www.propublica.org
June 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The hypocrisy… of course they won’t hold the business owners accountable…but they will scapegoat the immigrant worker…
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In the last week, Marines were deployed in an American city, the president has called for a governor to be arrested & the speaker of the House has called for that gov to be tarred & feathered, a senator has been pinned and handcuffed, and two state legislators have been shot in their homes.
June 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
In the last week, Marines were deployed in an American city, the president has called for a governor to be arrested & the speaker of the House has called for that gov to be tarred & feathered, a senator has been pinned and handcuffed, and two state legislators have been shot in their homes.
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Hoffman and his wife seem to have pulled through thank god
June 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Hoffman and his wife seem to have pulled through thank god
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Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows reut.rs/3ZvxVoY
Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows
Marines deployed to Los Angeles carried out the detention of a civilian on Friday, the U.S. military confirmed after being presented with Reuters images, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed there by President Donald Trump.
reut.rs
June 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows reut.rs/3ZvxVoY
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by nearly every measure California ranks ahead of states like MS, AL, AR, MO, SC, TN and SD. CA has lower murder rate, lower crime rate, higher education, higher health ratings, higher minimum wage, higher well-being, safer envirnoment, etc than all those states.
June 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
by nearly every measure California ranks ahead of states like MS, AL, AR, MO, SC, TN and SD. CA has lower murder rate, lower crime rate, higher education, higher health ratings, higher minimum wage, higher well-being, safer envirnoment, etc than all those states.
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This one is important. Share it widely. "Contrary to conventional wisdom, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed those in 2017, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful." wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer...
American Spring? How nonviolent protest in the US is accelerating
Contrary to conventional wisdom, anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed 2017 in size, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful.
wagingnonviolence.org
June 13, 2025 at 9:16 AM
This one is important. Share it widely. "Contrary to conventional wisdom, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed those in 2017, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful." wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer...
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Less than 5 months in:
☑️Arrested a judge
☑️Arrested a Democratic mayor
☑️Arrested a Democratic Congressperson
☑️Detained a Democratic Senator
☑️Threatening to arrest a Democratic Governor
☑️Investigating other political enemies
☑️Deploying Marines domestically
They are not hiding their intentions.
☑️Arrested a judge
☑️Arrested a Democratic mayor
☑️Arrested a Democratic Congressperson
☑️Detained a Democratic Senator
☑️Threatening to arrest a Democratic Governor
☑️Investigating other political enemies
☑️Deploying Marines domestically
They are not hiding their intentions.
June 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Less than 5 months in:
☑️Arrested a judge
☑️Arrested a Democratic mayor
☑️Arrested a Democratic Congressperson
☑️Detained a Democratic Senator
☑️Threatening to arrest a Democratic Governor
☑️Investigating other political enemies
☑️Deploying Marines domestically
They are not hiding their intentions.
☑️Arrested a judge
☑️Arrested a Democratic mayor
☑️Arrested a Democratic Congressperson
☑️Detained a Democratic Senator
☑️Threatening to arrest a Democratic Governor
☑️Investigating other political enemies
☑️Deploying Marines domestically
They are not hiding their intentions.
Good news
Good news by the debased standards of the current moment
NEW: Senate Republicans quietly stripped the provision from the House GOP's "big, beautiful bill" that would have allowed Trump to circumvent the courts and essentially serve as a king. www.huffpost.com/entry/senate...
June 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Good news
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DISASTROUS: Trump's Big Bill Would Be More Regressive Than Any Major Law in Decades
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump’s Big Bill Would Be More Regressive Than Any Major Law in Decades (Gift Article)
Estimates from the Congressional Budget Office, released Thursday, offer a detailed view into the effects on income groups.
www.nytimes.com
June 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
DISASTROUS: Trump's Big Bill Would Be More Regressive Than Any Major Law in Decades
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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What will you do when authoritarianism comes to America? Because it's here. Right now.
BREAKING: SENATOR PADILLA HANDCUFFED AND THROWN TO THE GROUND AFTER BEING FORCIBLY REMOVED FROM PRESS CONFERENCE.
June 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
What will you do when authoritarianism comes to America? Because it's here. Right now.
Disgusting, immoral times…
A brazen new form of corrupt giveaway by Trump’s DOJ: Bondi’s decision to cave in to meritless big money lawsuits by criminals pursued by the Biden administration will transfer $100M or more from us as taxpayers to those who tried to overthrow the U.S. Constitution. Ugh
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Proud Boys’ lawsuit is legally unsound — but DOJ will likely just surrender
The Justice Department already settled in the Ashli Babbitt case, signaling it won't fight back against legally unsound MAGA lawsuits.
www.msnbc.com
June 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Disgusting, immoral times…
Not surprised…we are in an era of pseudo science and grifters. People will get sick, some die because of it…
Robert Malone, a mainstay in conspiratorial circles, and Martin Kulldorff, a coauthor of the widely criticized Great Barrington Declaration, are two of the most concerning picks. www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr...
RFK Jr.’s Appointees to CDC Vaccine Panel Are Not Good
Robert Malone, a mainstay in conspiratorial circles, and Martin Kulldorff, a coauthor of the widely criticized Great Barrington Declaration, are two of the most concerning picks.
www.wired.com
June 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Not surprised…we are in an era of pseudo science and grifters. People will get sick, some die because of it…
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