Patricia M Sears
@pmsears.bsky.social
#LifeEnthusiast #DeathLiteracySpecialist #Connector #Community #Communicator
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Hide Reply is a miracle of modern social media. Thanks BlueSky.
October 20, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Hide Reply is a miracle of modern social media. Thanks BlueSky.
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One of perverse dynamics of Trumpism, how a frequently toadyish establishment press undergirds a system in which Trumpists regularly accuse Democrats of being “the Nazis” and we have frequent revelations in which Trump insiders tell each other “we’re the Nazis”
October 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
One of perverse dynamics of Trumpism, how a frequently toadyish establishment press undergirds a system in which Trumpists regularly accuse Democrats of being “the Nazis” and we have frequent revelations in which Trump insiders tell each other “we’re the Nazis”
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Along with the $20 billion U.S. taxpayer bailout to Argentina, the Trump admin announced another $20 billion for Argentina from private banks. But the banks won’t lend the money without a guarantee from the federal government. So it’s a $40B taxpayer bailout.
www.wsj.com/finance/arge...
www.wsj.com/finance/arge...
www.wsj.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Along with the $20 billion U.S. taxpayer bailout to Argentina, the Trump admin announced another $20 billion for Argentina from private banks. But the banks won’t lend the money without a guarantee from the federal government. So it’s a $40B taxpayer bailout.
www.wsj.com/finance/arge...
www.wsj.com/finance/arge...
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The Trump administration has targeted a federal office that oversees a $300 million family planning program for layoffs, raising fears that it is effectively ending an initiative that provides contraception for millions of low-income women, according to people with knowledge of the events.
Trump Administration Decimates Birth Control Office in Layoffs
The layoffs have raised fears that the administration could be effectively ending an initiative that provides contraception for millions of low-income women.
nyti.ms
October 16, 2025 at 2:50 AM
The Trump administration has targeted a federal office that oversees a $300 million family planning program for layoffs, raising fears that it is effectively ending an initiative that provides contraception for millions of low-income women, according to people with knowledge of the events.
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Still find it wild how they shut down USAID with no Congressional approval
would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute
White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT
October 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Still find it wild how they shut down USAID with no Congressional approval
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This is a very good paragraph.
From "The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps" in The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
By Nancy A. Youssef
From "The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps" in The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
By Nancy A. Youssef
October 16, 2025 at 1:26 AM
This is a very good paragraph.
From "The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps" in The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
By Nancy A. Youssef
From "The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps" in The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
By Nancy A. Youssef
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Before it was illegally destroyed by Musk and co., USAID had a budget of $35 billion (in 2024)
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the bailout for Argentina, now doubled to $40 billion, is part of an effort to swing Latin America to the right
@jacobbogage.bsky.social @davidjlynch.bsky.social David Feliba report
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
@jacobbogage.bsky.social @davidjlynch.bsky.social David Feliba report
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Bessent says bailout for Argentina will double to boost U.S. influence in region
The Trump administration is working to arrange private sector financing for Argentina that would double the total U.S. financial lifeline for the embattled Latin nation.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Before it was illegally destroyed by Musk and co., USAID had a budget of $35 billion (in 2024)
Pernicious
An HHS source says admin also RIFed entire Office of Population Affairs last night.
“Not a single staff person to run our nation's family planning program or the evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program. The Office of Adolescent Health which nested within OPA functionally ceases to exist”
“Not a single staff person to run our nation's family planning program or the evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program. The Office of Adolescent Health which nested within OPA functionally ceases to exist”
October 13, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Pernicious
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BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
October 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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No one signs up for the National Guard thinking, “One day, I’ll invade Oregon.”
October 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
No one signs up for the National Guard thinking, “One day, I’ll invade Oregon.”
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“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow
October 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow
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This is worth reading
America enters a new, dark chapter: "Kavanaugh Raids" on entire buildings and neighborhoods, a chapter surely to be remembered as infamously as we now view the "Palmer Raids" of the first Red Scare. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...
Welcome to the Era of "Kavanaugh Raids"
ICE crosses another big, important line.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
October 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
This is worth reading
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I literally wrote earlier today that ICE and CBP are "a portrait of an authoritarian secret police that seems set to model itself on history’s worst fascist enforcers." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...
Case in point here:
Case in point here:
ICE agents tear-gassing neighborhoods while sitting in their cars is some messed up shit. As @gregdoucette.bsky.social would say, “cops are great.”
October 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I literally wrote earlier today that ICE and CBP are "a portrait of an authoritarian secret police that seems set to model itself on history’s worst fascist enforcers." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...
Case in point here:
Case in point here:
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Buttigieg: You’ve got a president and a Republican Congress who would rather see the entire government shut down than allow Americans to afford their healthcare.
October 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Buttigieg: You’ve got a president and a Republican Congress who would rather see the entire government shut down than allow Americans to afford their healthcare.
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Early Bird Registration for next workshop (21 Oct - 25 Nov. Perfect timing for upcoming family Holidays.): linktr.ee/pmsears
October 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Early Bird Registration for next workshop (21 Oct - 25 Nov. Perfect timing for upcoming family Holidays.): linktr.ee/pmsears
When we win by having someone else lose, we set up a conflict.
It’s clear, direct but not generative.
But when we win by confronting our fear, everyone benefits.
Often, people who choose to battle others are actually better off looking at their fear instead. - Seth Godin
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It’s clear, direct but not generative.
But when we win by confronting our fear, everyone benefits.
Often, people who choose to battle others are actually better off looking at their fear instead. - Seth Godin
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October 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM
When we win by having someone else lose, we set up a conflict.
It’s clear, direct but not generative.
But when we win by confronting our fear, everyone benefits.
Often, people who choose to battle others are actually better off looking at their fear instead. - Seth Godin
linktr.ee/pmsears
It’s clear, direct but not generative.
But when we win by confronting our fear, everyone benefits.
Often, people who choose to battle others are actually better off looking at their fear instead. - Seth Godin
linktr.ee/pmsears
When we win by having someone else lose, we set up a conflict.
It’s clear, direct but not generative.
But when we win by confronting our fear, everyone benefits.
Often, people who choose to battle others are actually better off looking at their fear instead. - Seth Godin
linktr.ee/pmsears
It’s clear, direct but not generative.
But when we win by confronting our fear, everyone benefits.
Often, people who choose to battle others are actually better off looking at their fear instead. - Seth Godin
linktr.ee/pmsears
October 3, 2025 at 10:25 PM
When we win by having someone else lose, we set up a conflict.
It’s clear, direct but not generative.
But when we win by confronting our fear, everyone benefits.
Often, people who choose to battle others are actually better off looking at their fear instead. - Seth Godin
linktr.ee/pmsears
It’s clear, direct but not generative.
But when we win by confronting our fear, everyone benefits.
Often, people who choose to battle others are actually better off looking at their fear instead. - Seth Godin
linktr.ee/pmsears
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Just to note. January 23, 2019 there was a vote to reopen government (HJ RES 28, roll call vote 46) when the govt had been shut down for 30 days.
Mike Johnson voted “no” on that.
They didn’t seem to mind shutdowns then
Mike Johnson voted “no” on that.
They didn’t seem to mind shutdowns then
October 1, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Just to note. January 23, 2019 there was a vote to reopen government (HJ RES 28, roll call vote 46) when the govt had been shut down for 30 days.
Mike Johnson voted “no” on that.
They didn’t seem to mind shutdowns then
Mike Johnson voted “no” on that.
They didn’t seem to mind shutdowns then
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The Kavanaugh rule
In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Feds in military gear flood downtown Chicago; top border official says arrests based on 'how they look'
The immigration agents were spotted making arrests in downtown Chicago and River North neighborhood early Sunday.
chicago.suntimes.com
September 29, 2025 at 12:10 AM
The Kavanaugh rule
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September 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Top *eight* articles on NYT devoted to Charlie Kirk, top one asks if he will be remembered like MLK. This is a man who only a tiny percent of Americans had even heard of before his death, whose views are too nasty for NYT to detail. But they are trying so hard to turn into martyr.
September 14, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Top *eight* articles on NYT devoted to Charlie Kirk, top one asks if he will be remembered like MLK. This is a man who only a tiny percent of Americans had even heard of before his death, whose views are too nasty for NYT to detail. But they are trying so hard to turn into martyr.
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Just because I saw someone mention it: There’s no reason to think that TPUSA/Kirk had a significant effect on the 2024 election. The turnout operation was non-existent and claims that they/he are the central (or even a major) cause of young voters moving right aren’t backed by any actual evidence.
September 14, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Just because I saw someone mention it: There’s no reason to think that TPUSA/Kirk had a significant effect on the 2024 election. The turnout operation was non-existent and claims that they/he are the central (or even a major) cause of young voters moving right aren’t backed by any actual evidence.
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Egregiously bad reporting by the Times here. The President’s “fury” is not justification or explanation for a spew of lies and libels. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...
September 11, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Egregiously bad reporting by the Times here. The President’s “fury” is not justification or explanation for a spew of lies and libels. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...