MsCoop65
@mscoop65.bsky.social
Retired teacher, researcher, current history nerd, union thug, gardener, outdoorswoman, likes weird Ozarks stuff. AR/MO/MT 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🚜 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺 ally. Blue voter since 1984.
What the actual hell is wrong with people?
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‘Magic Tree House’ Author, ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ among hundreds of Tennessee book bans - PEN America
The removals in Tennessee are the result of a growing political movement to control information through book banning.
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June 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
What the actual hell is wrong with people?
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Here's the election article, @msarkiebrat.bsky.social
The Arkansas State Board of Election Commissioners on Wednesday authorized election integrity reviews for Pulaski and Izard counties. The board also voted unanimously to decertify all three members of an unnamed county’s election commission. #arpx #arleg
Pulaski and Izard counties subject to election integrity review by state board | Arkansas Advocate
The Arkansas State Board of Election Commissioners on Wednesday authorized election integrity reviews for Pulaski and Izard counties. The board also voted unanimously to decertify all three members…
buff.ly
June 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Here's the election article, @msarkiebrat.bsky.social
As you are covering the AWOL Republicans at town halls, @maddow.msnbc.com there was a town hall in Little Rock, AR with invited guests Sen. Boozman, Sen. Cotton and Rep. Hill. They didn't show for over 700 constituents. Where were they? At a $7,000 a plate fundraiser for Cotton's re-election.
March 22, 2025 at 1:35 AM
As you are covering the AWOL Republicans at town halls, @maddow.msnbc.com there was a town hall in Little Rock, AR with invited guests Sen. Boozman, Sen. Cotton and Rep. Hill. They didn't show for over 700 constituents. Where were they? At a $7,000 a plate fundraiser for Cotton's re-election.
The world's richest man stole food from the world's poorest children. Now they are beginning to die
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The cruelty continues.
Trump's administration is planning to revoke temporary legal status for some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the conflict with Russia, potentially putting them on a fast-track to deportation.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-plans-revoke-legal-status-ukrainians-who-fled-us-sources-say-2025-03-06/
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-plans-revoke-legal-status-ukrainians-who-fled-us-sources-say-2025-03-06/
Exclusive: Trump plans to revoke legal status of Ukrainians who fled to US, sources say
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is planning to revoke temporary legal status for some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the conflict with Russia, a senior Trump official and three sources familiar with the matter said, potentially putting them on a fast-track to deportation.
www.reuters.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The cruelty continues.
‘Hamilton’ Hits Back at Trump, Cancels 2026 Kennedy Center Run
‘Hamilton’ Hits Back at Trump, Cancels 2026 Kennedy Center Run
Hamilton, the Broadway smash hit musical, has canceled all 2026 appearances at the Kennedy Center, an apparent jab at President Donald Trump after he took control of the performing arts center’s board of trustees. “Our show simply cannot, in good…
www.mediaite.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Can you imagine the woman-free prayer meetings they have here every evening?
New:
The evangelical pastor running a secretive influence project appears to be running a group house for lawmakers in D.C.
In addition to Mike Johnson living there, Trump ally Andy Ogles has the keys.
www.propublica.org/article/room...
w/ @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
The evangelical pastor running a secretive influence project appears to be running a group house for lawmakers in D.C.
In addition to Mike Johnson living there, Trump ally Andy Ogles has the keys.
www.propublica.org/article/room...
w/ @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
Secretive D.C. Influence Project Appears to Be Running a Group House for Right-Wing Lawmakers
Evangelical pastor Steve Berger’s political influence campaign operates out of his D.C. townhouse. In addition to House Speaker Mike Johnson living there, a prominent Trump ally, Rep. Andy Ogles, has ...
www.propublica.org
March 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Can you imagine the woman-free prayer meetings they have here every evening?
Not so secret now, but probably damaging nonetheless. Hope the UA opposition isn't counting on trump funding their election fraud.
(Politico) - Four senior members of Donald Trump’s entourage have held secret discussions with some of Kyiv’s top political opponents to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, just as Washington aligns with Moscow in seeking to lever the Ukrainian president out of his job.
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Top Trump allies hold secret talks with Zelenskyy’s Ukrainian opponents
As Washington ramps up its pressure on Zelenskyy to step aside, his rivals are talking to Trump’s team.
www.politico.eu
March 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Not so secret now, but probably damaging nonetheless. Hope the UA opposition isn't counting on trump funding their election fraud.
Arkansas is contemplating higher education reform that attacks teachers and students. There are a lot of reasons to be suspicious, which I outlined in today’s Arkansas Democrat Gazette.
March 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
And Republicans are going to celebrate this as a victory 60 years in coming. Get ready to find room for Grandma.
March 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
And Republicans are going to celebrate this as a victory 60 years in coming. Get ready to find room for Grandma.
This is as accurate an explanation as I've seen to what is really happening and why the GOP doesn't want to stop it. @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com
1. As I lie in this bed overcoming whatever demon-hell kind of cold I have, I have been thinking about what it means for a president to dismantle the United States government as the rate that Donald Trump is, and I keep coming back to what a professor at the University of Texas at Austin said:
March 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is as accurate an explanation as I've seen to what is really happening and why the GOP doesn't want to stop it. @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com
I can see this not ending as well as they hope.
NEW — House Republicans are putting the brakes on town halls after blowback over the Trump administration's cuts.
One GOP aide said House Republican leaders are urging lawmakers to stop engaging in them altogether.
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One GOP aide said House Republican leaders are urging lawmakers to stop engaging in them altogether.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
House Republicans hit the brakes on town halls after blowback over Trump's cuts
A number of Republican lawmakers faced significant pushback in their home districts over Trump and Elon Musk's slashing of the federal government.
www.nbcnews.com
February 26, 2025 at 4:29 AM
I can see this not ending as well as they hope.
So how do we capitalize on the invisibility of being an older woman to benefit the opposition? I have "that face" that everyone tells their life stories to, yet no one ever pays me much attention.
February 26, 2025 at 4:24 AM
So how do we capitalize on the invisibility of being an older woman to benefit the opposition? I have "that face" that everyone tells their life stories to, yet no one ever pays me much attention.
Mark your calendars
February 15, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Mark your calendars
The vileness continues.
February 15, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The vileness continues.
But this dude isn't batsh*t crazy himself.
concentration camps for mentally ill people.
just horrific.
just horrific.
RFK Jr said he wants to send folks who are taking antidepressants and ADHD medications to "wellness farms" in rural America where they will be forced to labor by growing organic food to "cure their addictions."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
February 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
But this dude isn't batsh*t crazy himself.
We just can't have nice things.
The Trump administration takes further action to rescind EPA grants from Arkansas.
EPA chief's vow to clawback climate grant money creates more uncertainty for Arkansas projects - Arkansas Times
A new action by Trump's EPA places more uncertainty on Arkansas EPA grants.
buff.ly
February 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
We just can't have nice things.
Wow. Somebody needs drying out.
February 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Wow. Somebody needs drying out.
Elon is the welfare queen of all welfare queens.
February 8, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Elon is the welfare queen of all welfare queens.
More deadly shenanigans that the tech bros are allowing.
US immigration is manipulating Google to create a mirage of mass deportations.
Top searches bring up thousands of decades old enforcement actions, all updated with a timestamp from after Trump’s inauguration.
Creating fear.
It is malicious and on purpose.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Top searches bring up thousands of decades old enforcement actions, all updated with a timestamp from after Trump’s inauguration.
Creating fear.
It is malicious and on purpose.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US immigration is gaming Google to create a mirage of mass deportations
Thousands of press releases about decade-old enforcement actions topped search results, all updated with a timestamp from after Trump’s inauguration
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
More deadly shenanigans that the tech bros are allowing.
This needs to be everywhere.
February 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This needs to be everywhere.
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I wonder why Musk is focused on the federal civilian workforce (4% of the budget) and not federal contractors, which account for 3x more annual spending and are more prone to waste, fraud, and abuse?
February 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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CNN, he said this in public. We don't need to hear from him why he said it.
Rep. Brandon Gill on Rep. Ilhan Omar: "American would be better off were she deported."
February 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
CNN, he said this in public. We don't need to hear from him why he said it.
February 6, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”
Federal health workers terrified after ‘DEI’ website publishes list of ‘targets’
The site calls out workers who have been involved with DEI initiatives. A majority are Black.
www.nbcnews.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM