@tellmethetruth.bsky.social
"Social media is ultra processed speech in the same way that doritos are food." Jon Stewart
#jonstewart
#jonstewart
November 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
"Social media is ultra processed speech in the same way that doritos are food." Jon Stewart
#jonstewart
#jonstewart
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Do you use Spotify Premium? Cancel your subscription until Spotify stops running ICE ads. There are other streaming options that don’t profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify
October 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Do you use Spotify Premium? Cancel your subscription until Spotify stops running ICE ads. There are other streaming options that don’t profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify
The good news...the people successfully, and in solidarity, put pressure on a company - Disney - to put Kimmel back on; the bad news - Disney made the decision based on $$$$, not the 1st amendment free speech rights.
#Disney
#Kimmel
#FreeSpeech
#Disney
#Kimmel
#FreeSpeech
September 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The good news...the people successfully, and in solidarity, put pressure on a company - Disney - to put Kimmel back on; the bad news - Disney made the decision based on $$$$, not the 1st amendment free speech rights.
#Disney
#Kimmel
#FreeSpeech
#Disney
#Kimmel
#FreeSpeech
This is what responsible, moral, billionaires do with their money. They use it to save lives!
#BillGates
#philanthropy
#GatesFoundation
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/m...
#BillGates
#philanthropy
#GatesFoundation
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/m...
The $200 Billion Gamble: Bill Gates’s Plan to Wind Down His Foundation
www.nytimes.com
May 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This is what responsible, moral, billionaires do with their money. They use it to save lives!
#BillGates
#philanthropy
#GatesFoundation
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/m...
#BillGates
#philanthropy
#GatesFoundation
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/m...
You know it’s bad when #DavidBrooks calls for a collective uprising. Thank you #NewYorkTimes for publishing this well written and [as always] well researched piece by David. Now it’s time to do it!
Link to the 4/17/25 article. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...
Link to the 4/17/25 article. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...
April 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
You know it’s bad when #DavidBrooks calls for a collective uprising. Thank you #NewYorkTimes for publishing this well written and [as always] well researched piece by David. Now it’s time to do it!
Link to the 4/17/25 article. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...
Link to the 4/17/25 article. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...
A ray of hope in the America!! Thank you #HarvardUniversity for standing firm on the freedoms of education and research guaranteed by the constitution!!
www.harvard.edu/president/ne...
www.harvard.edu/president/ne...
The Promise of American Higher Education
No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue
www.harvard.edu
April 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
A ray of hope in the America!! Thank you #HarvardUniversity for standing firm on the freedoms of education and research guaranteed by the constitution!!
www.harvard.edu/president/ne...
www.harvard.edu/president/ne...
A ray of hope in the America!! Thank you #HarvardUniversity for standing firm on the freedoms of education and research guaranteed by the constitution!!
www.harvard.edu/president/ne...
www.harvard.edu/president/ne...
The Promise of American Higher Education
No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue
www.harvard.edu
April 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
A ray of hope in the America!! Thank you #HarvardUniversity for standing firm on the freedoms of education and research guaranteed by the constitution!!
www.harvard.edu/president/ne...
www.harvard.edu/president/ne...
A glimmer of hope from #chiefjusticeRoberts that the judicial branch of government is still intact.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
Chief justice pushes back against calls to impeach judges who rule against Trump
Chief Justice John Roberts issued a statement following President Donald Trump's call for a judge to be impeached for ruling against the administration.
www.nbcnews.com
March 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
A glimmer of hope from #chiefjusticeRoberts that the judicial branch of government is still intact.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
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Breaking News: Chief Justice John Roberts, in a rare statement, rebuked President Trump for calling for a judge’s impeachment.
Chief Justice Roberts Rebukes Trump, Saying Impeaching Judges Over Rulings Is Improper
The chief justice rarely issues public statements. This one was reminiscent of another in 2018 defending judicial independence after the president criticized a different judge’s ruling.
www.nytimes.com
March 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Breaking News: Chief Justice John Roberts, in a rare statement, rebuked President Trump for calling for a judge’s impeachment.
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Per the @apnews.com:
Chief Justice Roberts rebukes Donald Trump, saying impeachment isn’t the ‘appropriate response’ to disagreeing with a judge’s ruling.
Chief Justice Roberts rebukes Donald Trump, saying impeachment isn’t the ‘appropriate response’ to disagreeing with a judge’s ruling.
March 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Per the @apnews.com:
Chief Justice Roberts rebukes Donald Trump, saying impeachment isn’t the ‘appropriate response’ to disagreeing with a judge’s ruling.
Chief Justice Roberts rebukes Donald Trump, saying impeachment isn’t the ‘appropriate response’ to disagreeing with a judge’s ruling.
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Chief Justice Roberts weighs in on Trump wanting to impeach a judge he disagrees with.
How soon until Trump attacks Roberts ….
How soon until Trump attacks Roberts ….
March 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Chief Justice Roberts weighs in on Trump wanting to impeach a judge he disagrees with.
How soon until Trump attacks Roberts ….
How soon until Trump attacks Roberts ….
To President #Zelensky Please do not take the disgraceful behavior of our POTUS and VPOTUS as representative of the American people. I support your brave efforts 100% to defeat the aggresive invasion by Putin.
#SupportUkraine
#SupportUkraine
February 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
To President #Zelensky Please do not take the disgraceful behavior of our POTUS and VPOTUS as representative of the American people. I support your brave efforts 100% to defeat the aggresive invasion by Putin.
#SupportUkraine
#SupportUkraine
@repkimschrier.bsky.social What are you doing about this disgraceful bullying and alignment with Putin?!
www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...
www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...
Video: Trump, Zelensky and Vance Argue Over Ukraine War
President Trump and Vice President JD Vance scolded President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine during a meeting in the Oval Office on Friday, claiming he was not grateful enough for U.S. aid.
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
@repkimschrier.bsky.social What are you doing about this disgraceful bullying and alignment with Putin?!
www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...
www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...
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Boycotts are taking hold. Protests are on the rise. Federal courts are hitting back. The Trump-Musk-Vance regime's popularity is plunging and DOGE is losing credibility. In these dark times, it's important to recognize that people are fighting back. Join them.
February 25, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Boycotts are taking hold. Protests are on the rise. Federal courts are hitting back. The Trump-Musk-Vance regime's popularity is plunging and DOGE is losing credibility. In these dark times, it's important to recognize that people are fighting back. Join them.
YOU have the POWER to set them FREE. Let your Republican representatives know you support their opposition to actions taken by #Trusk.
US Capitol Switchboard 202.224.3121
The White House 202.456.1414
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” Alice Walker
US Capitol Switchboard 202.224.3121
The White House 202.456.1414
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” Alice Walker
February 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
YOU have the POWER to set them FREE. Let your Republican representatives know you support their opposition to actions taken by #Trusk.
US Capitol Switchboard 202.224.3121
The White House 202.456.1414
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” Alice Walker
US Capitol Switchboard 202.224.3121
The White House 202.456.1414
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” Alice Walker
How does cutting research on Alzheimer’s disease help Americans?
#alzheimer #NIH #DOGE
www.threads.net/@maddowshow/...
#alzheimer #NIH #DOGE
www.threads.net/@maddowshow/...
The Rachel Maddow Show (@maddowshow) on Threads
"I think there's real risk of a generation or more of data being lost." - Dr. Michael Greicius, neurology professor at Stanford University, on the damage Trump's cuts to NIH research will do to progre...
www.threads.net
February 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
How does cutting research on Alzheimer’s disease help Americans?
#alzheimer #NIH #DOGE
www.threads.net/@maddowshow/...
#alzheimer #NIH #DOGE
www.threads.net/@maddowshow/...
You should be outraged that “…DOGE employees only need to be able to read the data to make copies of Americans’ most sensitive personal information.” I am!
#DOGE #personaldata #stopmusk
theconversation.com/efficiency-o...
#DOGE #personaldata #stopmusk
theconversation.com/efficiency-o...
Efficiency − or empire? How Elon Musk’s hostile takeover could end government as we know it
Granting tech leaders direct control over government functions fundamentally alters the relationship between private power and public governance.
theconversation.com
February 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
You should be outraged that “…DOGE employees only need to be able to read the data to make copies of Americans’ most sensitive personal information.” I am!
#DOGE #personaldata #stopmusk
theconversation.com/efficiency-o...
#DOGE #personaldata #stopmusk
theconversation.com/efficiency-o...
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The President & the richest man in the world are recklessly attacking medical research—with researchers being laid off, studies being canceled, & kids now unable to get the lifesaving treatment they need. It’s absolutely heartless & will have devastating consequences for us all.
February 16, 2025 at 9:46 PM
The President & the richest man in the world are recklessly attacking medical research—with researchers being laid off, studies being canceled, & kids now unable to get the lifesaving treatment they need. It’s absolutely heartless & will have devastating consequences for us all.
#FEDERAL workers in a #FEDERAL agency - MSHA - has brought mining deaths down from thousands a year to single digit since it's inception (and lower as a % of mine workers). This is just one example of the value of #federal agencies
youtu.be/ijvrvp8Z17M?...
youtu.be/ijvrvp8Z17M?...
February 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM
#FEDERAL workers in a #FEDERAL agency - MSHA - has brought mining deaths down from thousands a year to single digit since it's inception (and lower as a % of mine workers). This is just one example of the value of #federal agencies
youtu.be/ijvrvp8Z17M?...
youtu.be/ijvrvp8Z17M?...
Read this to better understand the dangers to our first amendment.
#firstamendment
#CBS
www.npr.org/2025/02/06/n...
#firstamendment
#CBS
www.npr.org/2025/02/06/n...
Why CBS stands at the epicenter of Trump's assault on the media
CBS News appears likely to settle a lawsuit filed by President Trump in a case that legal observers say it should win. The network is caught up in Trump's assault on the media and an owner intent on f...
www.npr.org
February 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Read this to better understand the dangers to our first amendment.
#firstamendment
#CBS
www.npr.org/2025/02/06/n...
#firstamendment
#CBS
www.npr.org/2025/02/06/n...
Time will tell.
"Importers pay tariffs to their home government, but most economists find that the bulk of tariff costs are passed on to consumers. ... domestic producers can safely raise their prices. Ultimately, consumers share the burden with importers."
www.cfr.org/backgrounder...
"Importers pay tariffs to their home government, but most economists find that the bulk of tariff costs are passed on to consumers. ... domestic producers can safely raise their prices. Ultimately, consumers share the burden with importers."
www.cfr.org/backgrounder...
What Are Tariffs?
President Donald Trump has begun his second term with a raft of tariff threats to bolster his immigration priorities, support local industries, and compete with China. Here’s how these taxes work and…
www.cfr.org
January 31, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Time will tell.
"Importers pay tariffs to their home government, but most economists find that the bulk of tariff costs are passed on to consumers. ... domestic producers can safely raise their prices. Ultimately, consumers share the burden with importers."
www.cfr.org/backgrounder...
"Importers pay tariffs to their home government, but most economists find that the bulk of tariff costs are passed on to consumers. ... domestic producers can safely raise their prices. Ultimately, consumers share the burden with importers."
www.cfr.org/backgrounder...
College should be free to all citizens. Happy to see Washington state is the first to move in that direction.
#freetuition
www.king5.com/article/news...
#freetuition
www.king5.com/article/news...
Washington guarantees free in-state tuition for low-income students
The state of Washington will soon provide guaranteed college tuition for low-income students.
www.king5.com
December 12, 2024 at 6:48 PM
College should be free to all citizens. Happy to see Washington state is the first to move in that direction.
#freetuition
www.king5.com/article/news...
#freetuition
www.king5.com/article/news...