Tammy Zimmer
@tammyz.bsky.social
Supporter of LGBTQ+, Public Schools, Democratic policies (yes, we have them).
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Why I hate unitary executive theory with a strength of 10,000 suns. Turns out having a President who exercises total control over hiring and firing creates perverse incentives for people to commit to one man over a democracy.
NEW. Powerful piece by Miles Bruner.
"I know the thought of walking away from your career and your social network is terrifying...I urge you to recognize that our nation is heading down a very dark path. But it’s not too late to change direction...Take a stand."
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
"I know the thought of walking away from your career and your social network is terrifying...I urge you to recognize that our nation is heading down a very dark path. But it’s not too late to change direction...Take a stand."
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
My Last Day as an Accomplice of the Republican Party
Why I’m leaving the GOP and why I’m urging my former colleagues to do the same.
open.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Why I hate unitary executive theory with a strength of 10,000 suns. Turns out having a President who exercises total control over hiring and firing creates perverse incentives for people to commit to one man over a democracy.
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“Dems cannot pretend this is a normal Republican administration. They cannot ignore masked agents in the streets, armed troops in the cities, billions of dollars of money going into the Trump family’s pockets… If Dems cannot make an issue out of all that, then they are screwed and so are we.”
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Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal
www.nytimes.com
September 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“Dems cannot pretend this is a normal Republican administration. They cannot ignore masked agents in the streets, armed troops in the cities, billions of dollars of money going into the Trump family’s pockets… If Dems cannot make an issue out of all that, then they are screwed and so are we.”
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Old Man Transparency Chuck Grassley Confesses He Covered Up the ICA Annex for Five Years
www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/06/o...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/06/o...
Old Man Transparency Chuck Grassley Confesses He Covered Up the ICA Annex for Five Years - emptywheel
Chuck Grassley bragged of transparency yesterday when he released a document -- the ICA annex summarizing the Steele dossier -- he's been sitting on for over five years.
www.emptywheel.net
August 6, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Old Man Transparency Chuck Grassley Confesses He Covered Up the ICA Annex for Five Years
www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/06/o...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/06/o...
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In 2012, Rob Faux was bringing water out to the hens on his organic farm in northeast Iowa when a plane flew over and sprayed pesticides on him, his partner, and his farm. Not once, but twelve times.
Listen: attheiowafarmtable.substack.com/p/drenched-i...
Listen: attheiowafarmtable.substack.com/p/drenched-i...
Pesticide Immunity
Listen now | An aerial‑spray accident wiped out an entire season of Rob’s diversified vegetable production—along with his CSA commitments. Now he’s fighting “pesticide‑immunity” bills moving through s...
attheiowafarmtable.substack.com
July 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM
In 2012, Rob Faux was bringing water out to the hens on his organic farm in northeast Iowa when a plane flew over and sprayed pesticides on him, his partner, and his farm. Not once, but twelve times.
Listen: attheiowafarmtable.substack.com/p/drenched-i...
Listen: attheiowafarmtable.substack.com/p/drenched-i...
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ICYMI gift link to a jaw-dropping, fascinating WSJ article about the auto industry by Dan Neil, the best automotive reporter in the U.S. mho. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
High Costs Have Ended America’s Love Affair With Cars
You love them, you want them, you can’t live without them…and they’re costing you a fortune in repairs, insurance and shockingly expensive replacement parts. Dan Neil on why our national obsession wit...
www.wsj.com
July 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
ICYMI gift link to a jaw-dropping, fascinating WSJ article about the auto industry by Dan Neil, the best automotive reporter in the U.S. mho. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
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DHS posts explicitly Christian nationalist and violent video about how ICE/CBP is delivering the Lord's justice
July 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
DHS posts explicitly Christian nationalist and violent video about how ICE/CBP is delivering the Lord's justice
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“If you wonder whether Medicaid is important in Iowa… more than 600,000 Iowans are enrolled in Medicaid. That’s almost 20 percent of the state, including 2 in 5 children. 50 percent of nursing home residents receive Medicaid. So… the funding is life or death for many,” Sen. Ernst.
-Dan Rather
-Dan Rather
June 2, 2025 at 11:36 PM
“If you wonder whether Medicaid is important in Iowa… more than 600,000 Iowans are enrolled in Medicaid. That’s almost 20 percent of the state, including 2 in 5 children. 50 percent of nursing home residents receive Medicaid. So… the funding is life or death for many,” Sen. Ernst.
-Dan Rather
-Dan Rather
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Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse
May 31, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse
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The Democrat’s top line ad theme for the midterms…
May 31, 2025 at 12:57 AM
The Democrat’s top line ad theme for the midterms…
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They’re doing the meme.
May 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
They’re doing the meme.
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New post by Geoff Horsfield and Anne Schechinger of the Environmental Working Group: House budget bill’s top farm subsidy loopholes and giveaways
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/05/28/h...
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/05/28/h...
House budget bill’s top farm subsidy loopholes and giveaways
Farm subsidies already favor the largest farms. The budget reconciliation bill is packed with loopholes that would make the problem worse.
www.bleedingheartland.com
May 29, 2025 at 2:51 AM
New post by Geoff Horsfield and Anne Schechinger of the Environmental Working Group: House budget bill’s top farm subsidy loopholes and giveaways
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/05/28/h...
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/05/28/h...
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House Republicans passed their bill that’d rip health insurance from millions and take food assistance away from millions including households with kids as young as 7 in the largest Medicaid and SNAP cuts in history - while giving giant tax cuts to the rich.
Thread on the next steps of the process.
Thread on the next steps of the process.
May 22, 2025 at 12:06 PM
House Republicans passed their bill that’d rip health insurance from millions and take food assistance away from millions including households with kids as young as 7 in the largest Medicaid and SNAP cuts in history - while giving giant tax cuts to the rich.
Thread on the next steps of the process.
Thread on the next steps of the process.
My husband @mikezimmer.bsky.social Mike Zimmer for Iowa, is finally on Bluesky. He won a special election last month as a Democrat in Republican Iowa, and we are now experiencing the highs and lows of government.
I have observed the casual cruelty that is being inflicted on our fellow citizens, and
I have observed the casual cruelty that is being inflicted on our fellow citizens, and
March 1, 2025 at 2:46 AM
My husband @mikezimmer.bsky.social Mike Zimmer for Iowa, is finally on Bluesky. He won a special election last month as a Democrat in Republican Iowa, and we are now experiencing the highs and lows of government.
I have observed the casual cruelty that is being inflicted on our fellow citizens, and
I have observed the casual cruelty that is being inflicted on our fellow citizens, and
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THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files.
It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.
It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.
January 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM
THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files.
It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.
It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.
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@autisticbooks.bsky.social
Hi, I'm looking for a little advice. I'm Autistic, my 15 year old daughter is also about to be diagnosed too but is VERY much in denial about it & won't discuss it.
She is a huge reader, can you recommend anything to gently introduce ideas to her without being preachy?
Hi, I'm looking for a little advice. I'm Autistic, my 15 year old daughter is also about to be diagnosed too but is VERY much in denial about it & won't discuss it.
She is a huge reader, can you recommend anything to gently introduce ideas to her without being preachy?
December 31, 2024 at 9:57 AM
@autisticbooks.bsky.social
Hi, I'm looking for a little advice. I'm Autistic, my 15 year old daughter is also about to be diagnosed too but is VERY much in denial about it & won't discuss it.
She is a huge reader, can you recommend anything to gently introduce ideas to her without being preachy?
Hi, I'm looking for a little advice. I'm Autistic, my 15 year old daughter is also about to be diagnosed too but is VERY much in denial about it & won't discuss it.
She is a huge reader, can you recommend anything to gently introduce ideas to her without being preachy?
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BAPTIST NEWS [Dec 26] -- Publisher Mark Wingfield: "Taking away their rights & health care, shaming & scapegoating them—this is a death sentence. If you gave a damn you would speak up...If Jesus were among us today, he would be eating dinner with some trans folks..."
[@rikiwilchins.bsky.social]
[@rikiwilchins.bsky.social]
What will it take for you to care about transgender people?
Of all the people justifiably living in fear of the incoming Trump administration, there is one group that stands out for its vulnerability and, to quote the late Tony Campolo, you don’t give a damn. ...
baptistnews.com
December 31, 2024 at 11:55 AM
BAPTIST NEWS [Dec 26] -- Publisher Mark Wingfield: "Taking away their rights & health care, shaming & scapegoating them—this is a death sentence. If you gave a damn you would speak up...If Jesus were among us today, he would be eating dinner with some trans folks..."
[@rikiwilchins.bsky.social]
[@rikiwilchins.bsky.social]
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This story knocked the wind out of me and i hope esquire paid this man.
www.esquire.com/news-politic...
www.esquire.com/news-politic...
My Life As a Homeless Man in America
An extraordinary firsthand account.
www.esquire.com
November 28, 2024 at 10:07 PM
This story knocked the wind out of me and i hope esquire paid this man.
www.esquire.com/news-politic...
www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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agree.. it's going be one dangerous blunder after another newrepublic.com/article/1887...
Donald Trump Is a Weakling. That’s the Problem.
Yes, he’s authoritarian. But the specific danger he poses is the chaos caused by his lack of discipline, not a triumph of the will.
newrepublic.com
November 26, 2024 at 7:37 PM
agree.. it's going be one dangerous blunder after another newrepublic.com/article/1887...