SharonT
@svtsvt.bsky.social
I always vote for Democrats. Vote Ev Election &research local candidates &amendments.
Retired RN, daughter, 2 granddaughters plus a dog. I love flowers & gardens.🦋🪻🌼
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Retired RN, daughter, 2 granddaughters plus a dog. I love flowers & gardens.🦋🪻🌼
Unsolicited DMs = Immediate Block. 🌊🏵🪻🌺
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BREAKING: Eight employees are reportedly working for the White House without taking a salary from it.
This means they could be earning outside income while working in powerful roles, creating potential conflicts of interest.
This means they could be earning outside income while working in powerful roles, creating potential conflicts of interest.
If White House employees are working for free, what are they getting instead? - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
According to the report, eight employees are working for the White House without taking a salary from it. Forgoing a government salary may seem like a noble choice, and in some cases it can be. But it...
www.citizensforethics.org
July 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
BREAKING: Eight employees are reportedly working for the White House without taking a salary from it.
This means they could be earning outside income while working in powerful roles, creating potential conflicts of interest.
This means they could be earning outside income while working in powerful roles, creating potential conflicts of interest.
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YES! Gavin Newsom starts the process to gerrymander California. Why that is good!
July 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
YES! Gavin Newsom starts the process to gerrymander California. Why that is good!
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Trump’s attacks on Iran were based on vibes, not new intel, two administration officials tell Rolling Stone. “There is no intel,” one of the sources says. “The intelligence assessments have not really changed”
'There Is No Intel': Trump's Attacks on Iran Were Based on Vibes, Sources Say
Trump’s decision to strike three Iranian nuclear facilities was not based on new intelligence, administration officials say.
www.rollingstone.com
June 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Trump’s attacks on Iran were based on vibes, not new intel, two administration officials tell Rolling Stone. “There is no intel,” one of the sources says. “The intelligence assessments have not really changed”
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Rachel Maddow: “If Trump wasn’t getting the intelligence that Iran is on the verge of a nuclear weapon from the intelligence community… who is he getting it from? Israel?”
The right question.
And pretty obviously the right answer.
The right question.
And pretty obviously the right answer.
June 22, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Rachel Maddow: “If Trump wasn’t getting the intelligence that Iran is on the verge of a nuclear weapon from the intelligence community… who is he getting it from? Israel?”
The right question.
And pretty obviously the right answer.
The right question.
And pretty obviously the right answer.
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And this right here!!! ⬇️
Iran’s stockpile dropped to 0 after Obama made the Iran Deal… until Trump pulled out of it (against the advice of his own Defense Secretary, General Mattis… because he hated Obama)
Feels pretty relevant in this moment.
Feels pretty relevant in this moment.
June 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
And this right here!!! ⬇️
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Iran’s stockpile dropped to 0 after Obama made the Iran Deal… until Trump pulled out of it (against the advice of his own Defense Secretary, General Mattis… because he hated Obama)
Feels pretty relevant in this moment.
Feels pretty relevant in this moment.
June 22, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Iran’s stockpile dropped to 0 after Obama made the Iran Deal… until Trump pulled out of it (against the advice of his own Defense Secretary, General Mattis… because he hated Obama)
Feels pretty relevant in this moment.
Feels pretty relevant in this moment.
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Closing the thread: bsky.app/profile/tani...
RESULT: Democrats easily defend a state House seat in South Carolina in a special election tonight.
Keishan Scott, the 24-year old Dem nominee, won 71% to 29%, so by 42. (Harris had carried the district by 5% last fall; Biden won it by 15% in 2020.)
Keishan Scott, the 24-year old Dem nominee, won 71% to 29%, so by 42. (Harris had carried the district by 5% last fall; Biden won it by 15% in 2020.)
June 4, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Closing the thread: bsky.app/profile/tani...
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There’s a special election tonight for a South Carolina House seat that Harris carried by single-digits last fall.
The early vote just came in, 80% to 20% for the Democrat.
The early vote just came in, 80% to 20% for the Democrat.
June 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
There’s a special election tonight for a South Carolina House seat that Harris carried by single-digits last fall.
The early vote just came in, 80% to 20% for the Democrat.
The early vote just came in, 80% to 20% for the Democrat.
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RFK Jr starts having a tantrum as Chris Murphy details how he lied during his confirmation hearing about his anti-vax views
May 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
RFK Jr starts having a tantrum as Chris Murphy details how he lied during his confirmation hearing about his anti-vax views
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We collected well over 180,000 signatures to put it on the ballot. It passed by 57%. These assholes don’t care about us.
STOP VOTING FOR THEM.
STOP VOTING FOR THEM.
May 15, 2025 at 1:44 AM
We collected well over 180,000 signatures to put it on the ballot. It passed by 57%. These assholes don’t care about us.
STOP VOTING FOR THEM.
STOP VOTING FOR THEM.
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DOGE already has cost tax payers money (at the very least $500B/year in IRS revenues, but that's before other huge costs are accounted for).
And as I keep noting, Elon's $150B/year estimate is what some of the IGs who got fired were finding--w/o cutting services.
And as I keep noting, Elon's $150B/year estimate is what some of the IGs who got fired were finding--w/o cutting services.
Doge will end up costing tax payers money and not saving one nickel.
All we will have done is opened up our books to a group of nefarious folks for some yet to be determined reason.
All we will have done is opened up our books to a group of nefarious folks for some yet to be determined reason.
April 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
DOGE already has cost tax payers money (at the very least $500B/year in IRS revenues, but that's before other huge costs are accounted for).
And as I keep noting, Elon's $150B/year estimate is what some of the IGs who got fired were finding--w/o cutting services.
And as I keep noting, Elon's $150B/year estimate is what some of the IGs who got fired were finding--w/o cutting services.
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I have over 35 stories on my list of DOGE debunkings (I'm sure I missed some while I was traipsing around Paris).
Three months in, DOGE continues to make the same stupid accounting errors in its claims.
www.emptywheel.net/portfolio-it...
Three months in, DOGE continues to make the same stupid accounting errors in its claims.
www.emptywheel.net/portfolio-it...
DOGE Debunking - emptywheel
MuskWatch’s DOGE tracker Running Xitter threads from Momentum Chaser January 30: Fact Check: No evidence US spent $50 million on condoms for Gaza January 30: FACT FOCUS: No evidence that $50 million w...
www.emptywheel.net
April 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I have over 35 stories on my list of DOGE debunkings (I'm sure I missed some while I was traipsing around Paris).
Three months in, DOGE continues to make the same stupid accounting errors in its claims.
www.emptywheel.net/portfolio-it...
Three months in, DOGE continues to make the same stupid accounting errors in its claims.
www.emptywheel.net/portfolio-it...
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March 26, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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The Atlantic has now published the Signal texts with attack plans in response to administration denials.
I worked at the Pentagon.
If information like this is not classified, nothing is.
If Hegseth is claiming he declassified this information, he should be shown the door for having done so.
I worked at the Pentagon.
If information like this is not classified, nothing is.
If Hegseth is claiming he declassified this information, he should be shown the door for having done so.
March 26, 2025 at 12:46 PM
The Atlantic has now published the Signal texts with attack plans in response to administration denials.
I worked at the Pentagon.
If information like this is not classified, nothing is.
If Hegseth is claiming he declassified this information, he should be shown the door for having done so.
I worked at the Pentagon.
If information like this is not classified, nothing is.
If Hegseth is claiming he declassified this information, he should be shown the door for having done so.
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Just in case anyone was wondering, every bit of this was classified.
Lot of perjury in those hearings yesterday.
Lot of perjury in those hearings yesterday.
March 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Just in case anyone was wondering, every bit of this was classified.
Lot of perjury in those hearings yesterday.
Lot of perjury in those hearings yesterday.
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Pete Hegseth: “Nobody texted war plans.”
March 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Pete Hegseth: “Nobody texted war plans.”
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Oh wow, @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social did it
March 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Oh wow, @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social did it
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Texted LITERALLY WAR PLANS
March 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Texted LITERALLY WAR PLANS
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it is BUCK WILD that they are just texting this shit to each other
March 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
it is BUCK WILD that they are just texting this shit to each other
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Nothing to see, just the head of the FBI under the influence of illicit narcotic substances.
March 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Nothing to see, just the head of the FBI under the influence of illicit narcotic substances.
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BREAKING: Senator Ron Wyden shared Whistleblower letter received by the Senator & EVERY member of the Senate Finance Committee. Frank Bisignano DENIED Senator Wyden's allegations. Bisignano said he was NOT in contact w/Doge or the Social Security Administration.
WHAT DO YOU THINK? NOT FIT TO SERVE!
WHAT DO YOU THINK? NOT FIT TO SERVE!
March 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
BREAKING: Senator Ron Wyden shared Whistleblower letter received by the Senator & EVERY member of the Senate Finance Committee. Frank Bisignano DENIED Senator Wyden's allegations. Bisignano said he was NOT in contact w/Doge or the Social Security Administration.
WHAT DO YOU THINK? NOT FIT TO SERVE!
WHAT DO YOU THINK? NOT FIT TO SERVE!
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This is Yale Professor Timothy Snyder, who studies authoritarians and tyranny, with a warning.
He and another Yale professor, Jason Stanley, who studies similar topics at Yale, are moving to Canadian universities, a result of the political and academic climate here.
He and another Yale professor, Jason Stanley, who studies similar topics at Yale, are moving to Canadian universities, a result of the political and academic climate here.
March 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
This is Yale Professor Timothy Snyder, who studies authoritarians and tyranny, with a warning.
He and another Yale professor, Jason Stanley, who studies similar topics at Yale, are moving to Canadian universities, a result of the political and academic climate here.
He and another Yale professor, Jason Stanley, who studies similar topics at Yale, are moving to Canadian universities, a result of the political and academic climate here.
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If these men had any sense of honor, they would already have resigned. The fact that they are all still in their jobs is just as damning as their terrifying and lawless incompetence.
March 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
If these men had any sense of honor, they would already have resigned. The fact that they are all still in their jobs is just as damning as their terrifying and lawless incompetence.
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Imagine if The Atlantic’s editor chose blackmail over journalistic integrity.
There’s a lot of blackmail potential here. Isn’t that exactly why security clearances get denied?
There’s a lot of blackmail potential here. Isn’t that exactly why security clearances get denied?
March 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Imagine if The Atlantic’s editor chose blackmail over journalistic integrity.
There’s a lot of blackmail potential here. Isn’t that exactly why security clearances get denied?
There’s a lot of blackmail potential here. Isn’t that exactly why security clearances get denied?