🍂🍁 Margaret 🍁🍂
@nw89ta.bsky.social
OG Never Trump, XGOP, slow runner, GGMU, 🦅💚, Survivor of Camp Lejeune water, trying to break my Twitter habit
“With fear for our democracy, I dissent.”
“With fear for our democracy, I dissent.”
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🍂🍁 Margaret 🍁🍂
@nw89ta.bsky.social
· Nov 7
“An affluent society that thinks it is living in a hellscape is ripe for gulling by dictators who are willing to play along with such delusions.”
~Tom Nichols
~Tom Nichols
This moral freak show of an administration is PATHETIC.
March 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This moral freak show of an administration is PATHETIC.
Trump’s allowed to call Zelensky a dictator but Zelensky’s supposed to lick Trump’s balls to demonstrate his gratitude. 🙄
March 1, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Trump’s allowed to call Zelensky a dictator but Zelensky’s supposed to lick Trump’s balls to demonstrate his gratitude. 🙄
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NEWS
The FDA, which operates under the authority of Robert Kennedy Jr., canceled the meeting to discuss next year’s flu vaccines.
This could interfere with or delay production of flu vaccines.
86 children and 19,000 adults have died from flu this season.
About 430,000 people were hospitalized.
The FDA, which operates under the authority of Robert Kennedy Jr., canceled the meeting to discuss next year’s flu vaccines.
This could interfere with or delay production of flu vaccines.
86 children and 19,000 adults have died from flu this season.
About 430,000 people were hospitalized.
F.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots (Gift Article)
The cancellation plays into fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.
bit.ly
February 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM
NEWS
The FDA, which operates under the authority of Robert Kennedy Jr., canceled the meeting to discuss next year’s flu vaccines.
This could interfere with or delay production of flu vaccines.
86 children and 19,000 adults have died from flu this season.
About 430,000 people were hospitalized.
The FDA, which operates under the authority of Robert Kennedy Jr., canceled the meeting to discuss next year’s flu vaccines.
This could interfere with or delay production of flu vaccines.
86 children and 19,000 adults have died from flu this season.
About 430,000 people were hospitalized.
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The reply email inbox for this “what did you do last week” email is HR@opm.gov, so, you know, definitely don’t send them any unrelated messages that would interfere with their ability to carry out Elon’s dumbass bullshit
February 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The reply email inbox for this “what did you do last week” email is HR@opm.gov, so, you know, definitely don’t send them any unrelated messages that would interfere with their ability to carry out Elon’s dumbass bullshit
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Federal employees are now being told they will be fired if they do not reply to a guy who does not respond to the Moms of his kids.
February 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Federal employees are now being told they will be fired if they do not reply to a guy who does not respond to the Moms of his kids.
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One of my tools as a critic had been a Twitter list called, "Top Journalism Linkers." Designed so that I could survey the space. It was the first thing I read in the morning. When I left it had 6.8K users.
Over the weekend I rebuilt it for Bluesky. You can subscribe. bsky.app/profile/jayr...
Over the weekend I rebuilt it for Bluesky. You can subscribe. bsky.app/profile/jayr...
February 21, 2025 at 3:18 AM
One of my tools as a critic had been a Twitter list called, "Top Journalism Linkers." Designed so that I could survey the space. It was the first thing I read in the morning. When I left it had 6.8K users.
Over the weekend I rebuilt it for Bluesky. You can subscribe. bsky.app/profile/jayr...
Over the weekend I rebuilt it for Bluesky. You can subscribe. bsky.app/profile/jayr...
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ALEXANDER: Fraud is a crime. Have you turned over evidence of fraud to the Justice Department, and when should we expect to see those indictments?
LEAVITT: It's a clever question
LEAVITT: It's a clever question
February 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
ALEXANDER: Fraud is a crime. Have you turned over evidence of fraud to the Justice Department, and when should we expect to see those indictments?
LEAVITT: It's a clever question
LEAVITT: It's a clever question
America First
= America Alone
= America Alone
February 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
America First
= America Alone
= America Alone
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ProPublica has released another study related to the effects of abortion bans in the U.S., this time showing a spike in sepsis cases in Texas following the implementation of that state's "heartbeat" abortion ban in 2021.
Sepsis Rates Soared in Texas After Abortion Ban: Report
Women in Texas are forced to wait with dangerous infections due to extremist anti-choice laws
meidasnews.com
February 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
ProPublica has released another study related to the effects of abortion bans in the U.S., this time showing a spike in sepsis cases in Texas following the implementation of that state's "heartbeat" abortion ban in 2021.
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Here’s a better peace plan for Ukraine.
“Russia, you’ve already sustained twice as many casualties as the US did in ww2. Leave Ukraine or suffer four times more, and collapse as a country in the process”
Done
“Russia, you’ve already sustained twice as many casualties as the US did in ww2. Leave Ukraine or suffer four times more, and collapse as a country in the process”
Done
February 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Here’s a better peace plan for Ukraine.
“Russia, you’ve already sustained twice as many casualties as the US did in ww2. Leave Ukraine or suffer four times more, and collapse as a country in the process”
Done
“Russia, you’ve already sustained twice as many casualties as the US did in ww2. Leave Ukraine or suffer four times more, and collapse as a country in the process”
Done
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Kevin Hassett’s COVID model, which he was in no way qualified to create, predicted that American COVID deaths would be at ~zero by May 2020
Kevin Hassett on Trump's avian flu plan: "What we need to do is have better ways w/ bio-security & medication & so on to make sure that the perimeter doesn't have to kill the chickens. To have a better, smarter, perimeter...they're killing chickens to stop the spread, but chickens don't really fly"
February 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Kevin Hassett’s COVID model, which he was in no way qualified to create, predicted that American COVID deaths would be at ~zero by May 2020
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This is what every American deserves to know right f*cking NOW!
February 16, 2025 at 5:13 AM
This is what every American deserves to know right f*cking NOW!
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This. Especially Senate Republicans.
The greatest political scandal today is not what Trump is doing. It is the fact that congressional Republicans have given up their role in the constitutional system as a check on the executive branch. If we are in a constitutional crisis, it is as much on Mike Johnson and John Thune as anyone else.
February 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
This. Especially Senate Republicans.
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The Trump administration has fired a quarter of the federal employees in a central program office responsible for coordinating the tracking and monitoring of the growing bird flu outbreak.
Trump Firings Impact 'Front Line of Surveillance' for Bird Flu Outbreak
The Trump administration has fired 25 percent of the employees in a small federal office that coordinates bird flu testing across the country.
www.rollingstone.com
February 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The Trump administration has fired a quarter of the federal employees in a central program office responsible for coordinating the tracking and monitoring of the growing bird flu outbreak.
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Fact check: nearly 70 percent of US money for Ukraine actually went to US defense industry to replenish the stocks of OLD stuff that went to Ukraine to use.
Much of which we would have paid to destroy as their lifespan expired.
Much of which we would have paid to destroy as their lifespan expired.
February 16, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Fact check: nearly 70 percent of US money for Ukraine actually went to US defense industry to replenish the stocks of OLD stuff that went to Ukraine to use.
Much of which we would have paid to destroy as their lifespan expired.
Much of which we would have paid to destroy as their lifespan expired.
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Serena Williams was on the field longer today than Harrison Butker.
February 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Serena Williams was on the field longer today than Harrison Butker.
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John McCain's former Chief of Staff commenting on recent unconstitutional actions: “We’re getting a pretty intense lesson in how much our constitutional order depended on people’s character. … Republicans, almost to a person, have failed.”
February 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
John McCain's former Chief of Staff commenting on recent unconstitutional actions: “We’re getting a pretty intense lesson in how much our constitutional order depended on people’s character. … Republicans, almost to a person, have failed.”
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Anyone out there ever work in Treasury Payments? I'm curious if this is actually the case:
The Secure Payment System (SPS) employs a strict separation of duties as a core security measure.
The point of the ? Is to know how many people are required to approve a payment and where are they located
The Secure Payment System (SPS) employs a strict separation of duties as a core security measure.
The point of the ? Is to know how many people are required to approve a payment and where are they located
February 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Anyone out there ever work in Treasury Payments? I'm curious if this is actually the case:
The Secure Payment System (SPS) employs a strict separation of duties as a core security measure.
The point of the ? Is to know how many people are required to approve a payment and where are they located
The Secure Payment System (SPS) employs a strict separation of duties as a core security measure.
The point of the ? Is to know how many people are required to approve a payment and where are they located
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This is a great idea. Do you know anyone in Congress you can talk to?
Congress must take action to restore the rule of law.
February 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This is a great idea. Do you know anyone in Congress you can talk to?
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Really love this cartoon from the great Michael De Adder. The outpouring of support coming in has been truly amazing! Thanks everybody!
January 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Really love this cartoon from the great Michael De Adder. The outpouring of support coming in has been truly amazing! Thanks everybody!
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"When you think of RFK Jr., think of rows of tiny coffins." And more than that, too.
@monacharen.bsky.social from the recent archives: www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jr-one...
@monacharen.bsky.social from the recent archives: www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jr-one...
RFK Jr. Is a One-Man Plague
It’s not just that he’s misinformed. It’s the way his mind works that’s dangerous.
www.thebulwark.com
January 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"When you think of RFK Jr., think of rows of tiny coffins." And more than that, too.
@monacharen.bsky.social from the recent archives: www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jr-one...
@monacharen.bsky.social from the recent archives: www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jr-one...
I will not give in to the lies. I will not give in to the fears. #jimacosta
January 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I will not give in to the lies. I will not give in to the fears. #jimacosta