Tara D
@tarad.bsky.social
Reader. Baker. Cat lover. Novice weaver, sometime artist, frequent crochet project starter, yarn enthusiast, seeker of joy. NYC. #uglydogs #GratefulDead #Dead&Co
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It’s cool that Chuck Schumer, Kiersten Gillibrand, and Hakeem Jeffries just proved to every future dem that establishment approval is irrelevant tbh
Q: It's election day in NYC. Did you vote for Mamdani or Cuomo?
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
November 5, 2025 at 2:27 AM
It’s cool that Chuck Schumer, Kiersten Gillibrand, and Hakeem Jeffries just proved to every future dem that establishment approval is irrelevant tbh
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Seems like a good time for the Speaker of the House to swear in Rep. Grijalva.
November 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Seems like a good time for the Speaker of the House to swear in Rep. Grijalva.
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I expect to see Schumer's resignation letter on my desk in the morning.
November 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I expect to see Schumer's resignation letter on my desk in the morning.
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As a NYer, ”real” “small town” America now looks like a sexual freak zoo run by genital-obsessive xenophobes who make women into living dolls and shoot each other. Mamdani’s NYC (and mine) is a safe, wholesome place where neighbors help each other, do scavenger hunts, ride bikes, and birdwatch.
November 4, 2025 at 1:04 AM
As a NYer, ”real” “small town” America now looks like a sexual freak zoo run by genital-obsessive xenophobes who make women into living dolls and shoot each other. Mamdani’s NYC (and mine) is a safe, wholesome place where neighbors help each other, do scavenger hunts, ride bikes, and birdwatch.
Pretending it’s not 82 degrees out and forging ahead with long simmering bolognese sauce and gochujang caramel cookies because Fall, dammit. 🍂🍁🥵
October 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Pretending it’s not 82 degrees out and forging ahead with long simmering bolognese sauce and gochujang caramel cookies because Fall, dammit. 🍂🍁🥵
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We keep to the old ways here
September 23, 2025 at 12:35 AM
We keep to the old ways here
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how lovely they should have leni riefenstahl shoot it
New editor at Vanity Fair already winning the hearts and minds of staff newrepublic.com/post/199641/...
Vanity Fair Staff Shocked by Proposed Melania Cover
Some employees are flipping out over a proposal to put the first lady on the cover.
newrepublic.com
August 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
how lovely they should have leni riefenstahl shoot it
Hello friends. It is such a lovely night here in NYC. 🌃 76 degrees, a light breeze, and not humid. We have the windows open and I can hear crickets chirping in the bushes below- one of my favorite late summer things. 🦗That sound just makes me happy, and more so here in the city. ✨😊
#SmallJoys
#SmallJoys
August 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Hello friends. It is such a lovely night here in NYC. 🌃 76 degrees, a light breeze, and not humid. We have the windows open and I can hear crickets chirping in the bushes below- one of my favorite late summer things. 🦗That sound just makes me happy, and more so here in the city. ✨😊
#SmallJoys
#SmallJoys
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Hey, so, TOTALLY not suggesting that RFK Jr. BACKS DOWN when we PUSH BACK, BUT if you’d like to call…
HHS Toll-Free: 1-877-696-6775
HHS Direct Line: 202-690-7000
PLEASE share and consider calling your senators and representatives as well.
NONE of this is okay.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
HHS Toll-Free: 1-877-696-6775
HHS Direct Line: 202-690-7000
PLEASE share and consider calling your senators and representatives as well.
NONE of this is okay.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
RFK Jr’s health department to halt $500m in mRNA vaccine research
Agency to end 22 federal contracts, questioning safety of technology credited with helping end Covid pandemic
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Hey, so, TOTALLY not suggesting that RFK Jr. BACKS DOWN when we PUSH BACK, BUT if you’d like to call…
HHS Toll-Free: 1-877-696-6775
HHS Direct Line: 202-690-7000
PLEASE share and consider calling your senators and representatives as well.
NONE of this is okay.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
HHS Toll-Free: 1-877-696-6775
HHS Direct Line: 202-690-7000
PLEASE share and consider calling your senators and representatives as well.
NONE of this is okay.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.
August 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
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The NYC #Legionnaires outbreak has grown to 22 cases, with 1 death. Cases have been reported in Central Harlem (ZIP codes 10027, 10030, 10035, 10037 & 10039) & bordering communities. Sounds like cooling towers (multiple?) may be the source??? www.nyc.gov/site/doh/abo...
July 31, 2025 at 12:37 AM
The NYC #Legionnaires outbreak has grown to 22 cases, with 1 death. Cases have been reported in Central Harlem (ZIP codes 10027, 10030, 10035, 10037 & 10039) & bordering communities. Sounds like cooling towers (multiple?) may be the source??? www.nyc.gov/site/doh/abo...
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Power loss at W.4th St has caused major subway outages.
But MTA does not post updates here.
So help spread the word on service status:
* B/C suspended
* No A b/n Columbus Circle & Jay St
* No D b/n Atlantic Av & 34 St-Herald Sq
* No M b/n Delancey St & Forest Hills-71 Av
* E & F severely disrupted
But MTA does not post updates here.
So help spread the word on service status:
* B/C suspended
* No A b/n Columbus Circle & Jay St
* No D b/n Atlantic Av & 34 St-Herald Sq
* No M b/n Delancey St & Forest Hills-71 Av
* E & F severely disrupted
July 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Power loss at W.4th St has caused major subway outages.
But MTA does not post updates here.
So help spread the word on service status:
* B/C suspended
* No A b/n Columbus Circle & Jay St
* No D b/n Atlantic Av & 34 St-Herald Sq
* No M b/n Delancey St & Forest Hills-71 Av
* E & F severely disrupted
But MTA does not post updates here.
So help spread the word on service status:
* B/C suspended
* No A b/n Columbus Circle & Jay St
* No D b/n Atlantic Av & 34 St-Herald Sq
* No M b/n Delancey St & Forest Hills-71 Av
* E & F severely disrupted
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"I asked ChatGPT" well I asked the Oracle of Delphi and she told me, in dactylic hexameter, to beware of a man with an inconsistent number of fingers
July 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
"I asked ChatGPT" well I asked the Oracle of Delphi and she told me, in dactylic hexameter, to beware of a man with an inconsistent number of fingers
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I for one think it was cool and good that nothing was done in the last four years of Democratic control to rein in the Supreme Court, I'm glad the norm respecters won out and we're all living in a rich norm-filled paradise today.
July 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I for one think it was cool and good that nothing was done in the last four years of Democratic control to rein in the Supreme Court, I'm glad the norm respecters won out and we're all living in a rich norm-filled paradise today.
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TIL (on mastodon) that the US National Park Service has crochet patterns!
www.nps.gov/articles/000...
www.nps.gov/articles/000...
Halibut Crochet Pattern (U.S. National Park Service)
www.nps.gov
July 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
TIL (on mastodon) that the US National Park Service has crochet patterns!
www.nps.gov/articles/000...
www.nps.gov/articles/000...
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This story should not have been published. They hint at an accusation (Mamdani said he is black to get into a fancy college) they can't back up. That this was published tells me that Mamdani's most important opponent may not be Cuomo or Adams but a paper whose NEWS section will run stuff like this.
You know, when I heard that all of our personal data had been hacked, I didn't expect the first major use of it to be the NYT trying to fuck over Zohran but maybe I'm naive www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/n...
Mamdani Identified as Asian and African American on College Application
www.nytimes.com
July 3, 2025 at 10:52 PM
This story should not have been published. They hint at an accusation (Mamdani said he is black to get into a fancy college) they can't back up. That this was published tells me that Mamdani's most important opponent may not be Cuomo or Adams but a paper whose NEWS section will run stuff like this.
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A very simple thing you can do is stop linking to the NYT.
I know they do some good reporting but they are also actively upholding facism and working to subvert democracy and shaping your world view.
It is more work but it is better if we start starving harmful institutions.
I know they do some good reporting but they are also actively upholding facism and working to subvert democracy and shaping your world view.
It is more work but it is better if we start starving harmful institutions.
July 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
A very simple thing you can do is stop linking to the NYT.
I know they do some good reporting but they are also actively upholding facism and working to subvert democracy and shaping your world view.
It is more work but it is better if we start starving harmful institutions.
I know they do some good reporting but they are also actively upholding facism and working to subvert democracy and shaping your world view.
It is more work but it is better if we start starving harmful institutions.
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this is going around again, and having just read the CECOT reports from the KAG case and I’m compelled to say again:
this administration is run by genocidal white supremacists and I am done donating or volunteering for democrats who don’t understand that
this administration is run by genocidal white supremacists and I am done donating or volunteering for democrats who don’t understand that
I will work 100 hours a week for whoever is gonna run the Nuremberg trials against these fucking monsters
democrats are really going to convince themselves that “a return to normalcy” is what people want when its really “rebuild, investigate, imprison”
July 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
this is going around again, and having just read the CECOT reports from the KAG case and I’m compelled to say again:
this administration is run by genocidal white supremacists and I am done donating or volunteering for democrats who don’t understand that
this administration is run by genocidal white supremacists and I am done donating or volunteering for democrats who don’t understand that
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the Senate's small-state ultra-bias is never more maddening than when one senator uses it to get benefits for her 740,000 constituents while openly acknowledging the bill she's supporting will harm the nation's 339 million other residents.
July 1, 2025 at 9:29 PM
the Senate's small-state ultra-bias is never more maddening than when one senator uses it to get benefits for her 740,000 constituents while openly acknowledging the bill she's supporting will harm the nation's 339 million other residents.
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"Alligator Alcatraz" is wrong and media should not use it. It's propaganda. Alcatraz held people convicted of crimes, particularly violent crimes.
The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere.
The site is a textbook concentration camp.
The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere.
The site is a textbook concentration camp.
I know the media is going to unthinkingly start using “Alligator Alcatraz,” but it’s disgusting and sadistic and I intend to call it what it is, a fucking concentration camp, and fuck those people who are doing this and giving it a cutesy name.
July 2, 2025 at 12:31 AM
"Alligator Alcatraz" is wrong and media should not use it. It's propaganda. Alcatraz held people convicted of crimes, particularly violent crimes.
The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere.
The site is a textbook concentration camp.
The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere.
The site is a textbook concentration camp.
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There are some useful ideas in here for obstructing or at least delaying passage of reconciliation bill in the House.
Every day of delay drags the GOP's poll numbers down further, because people hate this bill when they learn about it.
Every day of delay drags the GOP's poll numbers down further, because people hate this bill when they learn about it.
Here's @brianbeutler.bsky.social explaining the many House rules that could be used to slow this bill.
But Jeffries needs to be on board. More than that — Jeffries needs to be actively pushing the House members to use this playbook. So far, he's been doing the opposite.
But Jeffries needs to be on board. More than that — Jeffries needs to be actively pushing the House members to use this playbook. So far, he's been doing the opposite.
Exclusive: A Stronger Playbook For House Resistance
An internal memo shows Senate Democrats aren't the only ones who can gum up the works.
www.offmessage.net
July 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM
There are some useful ideas in here for obstructing or at least delaying passage of reconciliation bill in the House.
Every day of delay drags the GOP's poll numbers down further, because people hate this bill when they learn about it.
Every day of delay drags the GOP's poll numbers down further, because people hate this bill when they learn about it.
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really does feel like if we can cyberbully the House into passing changes on the shit they openly hate and get it kicked back upstairs again there’s a chance it might not survive the Senate a second time
if you live in a GOP state it’s time to ruin a House rep’s life
if you live in a GOP state it’s time to ruin a House rep’s life
The package now goes to the House who is expected to vote on it this week. Any changes to the bill in the House will force the Senate to take up the bill again.
The current bill as written raises the debt limit by $5 trillion.
The current bill as written raises the debt limit by $5 trillion.
July 2, 2025 at 12:47 AM
really does feel like if we can cyberbully the House into passing changes on the shit they openly hate and get it kicked back upstairs again there’s a chance it might not survive the Senate a second time
if you live in a GOP state it’s time to ruin a House rep’s life
if you live in a GOP state it’s time to ruin a House rep’s life
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Almost twice as many people ride the New York City bus every day as live in Wyoming.
The bus should have two senators
The bus should have two senators
The Senators that voted 'yes' on this disastrous bill represent more than 30 million FEWER Americans than the Senators that voted 'no.'
July 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Almost twice as many people ride the New York City bus every day as live in Wyoming.
The bus should have two senators
The bus should have two senators