WAZZU1979
@wazzu1979.bsky.social
Lifelong Democrat. Grateful to live in the PNW
Fought the good fight in the 60s & 70s for women's rights and still in the fight today. Not going back.
Retired CEO of a public travel & tourism DMO in WA state
Avid reader, gardener & mediocre crafter
NO DM
Fought the good fight in the 60s & 70s for women's rights and still in the fight today. Not going back.
Retired CEO of a public travel & tourism DMO in WA state
Avid reader, gardener & mediocre crafter
NO DM
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WAZZU1979
@wazzu1979.bsky.social
· Feb 19
It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic.
When the fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.
When the fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.
This is real folks and it's happening right now in plain sight.⬇️
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Congress has just NINE voting days left before Republicans let the ACA tax credits expire.
It’s time for Speaker Johnson to put a bill on the floor to stop premiums from doubling or tripling for millions of Americans.
It’s time for Speaker Johnson to put a bill on the floor to stop premiums from doubling or tripling for millions of Americans.
December 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Congress has just NINE voting days left before Republicans let the ACA tax credits expire.
It’s time for Speaker Johnson to put a bill on the floor to stop premiums from doubling or tripling for millions of Americans.
It’s time for Speaker Johnson to put a bill on the floor to stop premiums from doubling or tripling for millions of Americans.
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Rep. Adelita Grijalva was pepper-sprayed by ICE agents during a raid last week.
Remember: ICE is getting $170B in new funding from Trump's Big Ugly Bill and lowering its hiring standards.
If Trump's thugs can do this to a member of Congress, they can do it to you.
Remember: ICE is getting $170B in new funding from Trump's Big Ugly Bill and lowering its hiring standards.
If Trump's thugs can do this to a member of Congress, they can do it to you.
December 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Rep. Adelita Grijalva was pepper-sprayed by ICE agents during a raid last week.
Remember: ICE is getting $170B in new funding from Trump's Big Ugly Bill and lowering its hiring standards.
If Trump's thugs can do this to a member of Congress, they can do it to you.
Remember: ICE is getting $170B in new funding from Trump's Big Ugly Bill and lowering its hiring standards.
If Trump's thugs can do this to a member of Congress, they can do it to you.
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BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just now:
December 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just now:
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As Anne Applebaum notes, “The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly.”
charliesykes.substack.com/p/trump-just...
charliesykes.substack.com/p/trump-just...
Trump Just Put the Quiet Part in Writing
And I'm grateful for that.
charliesykes.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
As Anne Applebaum notes, “The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly.”
charliesykes.substack.com/p/trump-just...
charliesykes.substack.com/p/trump-just...
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Holy crap. Perhaps we should blow up SCOTUS, come up with an entirely different mechanism for adjudicating disputes.
Justice Gorsuch: Is it possible--"just maybe"--that we're setting our sights far too low and we should be blowing up many more structures of modern government?
December 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Holy crap. Perhaps we should blow up SCOTUS, come up with an entirely different mechanism for adjudicating disputes.
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Incredibly galling to hear Sauer talk about how the president is accountable to the public through elections, when the president he's referring to is one who attempted to illegally overturn an election he lost
December 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Incredibly galling to hear Sauer talk about how the president is accountable to the public through elections, when the president he's referring to is one who attempted to illegally overturn an election he lost
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Trigger warning: ANIMAL CRUELTY & CRUELTY TO PEOPLE!
Make sure knows these stories because if it can happen to them, it can happen to you & your precious pup(see below).
Speak out against #ICELawlessness!
Make sure knows these stories because if it can happen to them, it can happen to you & your precious pup(see below).
Speak out against #ICELawlessness!
December 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Trigger warning: ANIMAL CRUELTY & CRUELTY TO PEOPLE!
Make sure knows these stories because if it can happen to them, it can happen to you & your precious pup(see below).
Speak out against #ICELawlessness!
Make sure knows these stories because if it can happen to them, it can happen to you & your precious pup(see below).
Speak out against #ICELawlessness!
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Someday, someone will write The History of the Decline and Fall of the American Empire, perhaps even in the then-former territory of the United States. In that work, the Roberts Court will be correctly identified as one of the chief causes of its destruction. 🧵
Undoubtedly
This week, The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether children born on American soil are American citizens.
thehumanityarchive.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Someday, someone will write The History of the Decline and Fall of the American Empire, perhaps even in the then-former territory of the United States. In that work, the Roberts Court will be correctly identified as one of the chief causes of its destruction. 🧵
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Great site to follow @admirablewomen.bsky.social
DYK women used to be prohibited from checking into most US hotels without a male chaperone?
The Hotel Figueroa in LA opened in 1926, built & operated by women for solo women travelers. Maude Bouldin was general manager (the first female hotel manager in the US & loved to fly airplanes). #history
The Hotel Figueroa in LA opened in 1926, built & operated by women for solo women travelers. Maude Bouldin was general manager (the first female hotel manager in the US & loved to fly airplanes). #history
December 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Great site to follow @admirablewomen.bsky.social
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What in the actual hell
I am not live posting the whole argument here because I want to listen closely to Trump v. Slaughter. But the solicitor general for Trump just said the point here in killing the independence of agencies like the FTC is that executive branch officers must “fear and obey” the president. Wow. #SCOTUS
December 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
What in the actual hell
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The Supreme Court on Monday hears a case to decide if a president can fire FTC, NLRB, or agency leaders at will.
If Trump wins, he could force the FTC to approve the Netflix merger.
He could fire the NLRB chair if they don’t stop union drives at Amazon.
If Trump wins, he could force the FTC to approve the Netflix merger.
He could fire the NLRB chair if they don’t stop union drives at Amazon.
December 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The Supreme Court on Monday hears a case to decide if a president can fire FTC, NLRB, or agency leaders at will.
If Trump wins, he could force the FTC to approve the Netflix merger.
He could fire the NLRB chair if they don’t stop union drives at Amazon.
If Trump wins, he could force the FTC to approve the Netflix merger.
He could fire the NLRB chair if they don’t stop union drives at Amazon.
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Agree 💯 With Our European 🇪🇺
Allies......
Allies......
December 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Agree 💯 With Our European 🇪🇺
Allies......
Allies......
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
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Donald Trump isn't interested in wielding his antitrust authority to protect the American people and preserve competition in our economy — he's using it to reward his allies.
It's all out on the open.
It's all out on the open.
This is just how we do mergers now.
"Paramount executives also plan to argue their deal will have a much shorter regulatory approval process given the company’s smaller size and friendly relationship with the Trump administration."
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/p...
"Paramount executives also plan to argue their deal will have a much shorter regulatory approval process given the company’s smaller size and friendly relationship with the Trump administration."
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/p...
Paramount Skydance launches hostile bid for WBD after Netflix wins bidding war
Netflix won a bidding war for the Warner Bros. film studio and HBO Max streaming service, but it doesn't plan to buy WBD's TV networks.
www.cnbc.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Donald Trump isn't interested in wielding his antitrust authority to protect the American people and preserve competition in our economy — he's using it to reward his allies.
It's all out on the open.
It's all out on the open.
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AFFORDABILITY IS NOT A SCAM.
December 8, 2025 at 7:36 AM
AFFORDABILITY IS NOT A SCAM.
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If we won’t adhere to our own laws, or any international laws, why would anyone else?
Their brazen lawless actions will have a ripple effect and it will endanger Americans everywhere.
Their brazen lawless actions will have a ripple effect and it will endanger Americans everywhere.
December 8, 2025 at 8:49 AM
If we won’t adhere to our own laws, or any international laws, why would anyone else?
Their brazen lawless actions will have a ripple effect and it will endanger Americans everywhere.
Their brazen lawless actions will have a ripple effect and it will endanger Americans everywhere.
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RELEASE THE ENTIRE VIDEO
The more we learn, the harder it is to deny it was a war crime.
📌 The Atlantic: Footage was so graphic it made viewers nauseated. “Worse than we were led to believe.”
📌 NBC News: Pete Hegseth ordered the military to kill all 11 people on the boat.
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The more we learn, the harder it is to deny it was a war crime.
📌 The Atlantic: Footage was so graphic it made viewers nauseated. “Worse than we were led to believe.”
📌 NBC News: Pete Hegseth ordered the military to kill all 11 people on the boat.
1/2
December 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
RELEASE THE ENTIRE VIDEO
The more we learn, the harder it is to deny it was a war crime.
📌 The Atlantic: Footage was so graphic it made viewers nauseated. “Worse than we were led to believe.”
📌 NBC News: Pete Hegseth ordered the military to kill all 11 people on the boat.
1/2
The more we learn, the harder it is to deny it was a war crime.
📌 The Atlantic: Footage was so graphic it made viewers nauseated. “Worse than we were led to believe.”
📌 NBC News: Pete Hegseth ordered the military to kill all 11 people on the boat.
1/2
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Is Trump going to hand over CNN to his pals, the Ellisons?
Paramount Skydance launches hostile bid for WBD 'to finish what we started,' CEO Ellison says
Netflix won a bidding war for the Warner Bros. film studio and HBO Max streaming service, but it doesn't plan to buy WBD's TV networks.
www.cnbc.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Is Trump going to hand over CNN to his pals, the Ellisons?
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Trump and Republicans gave ICE $45 billion in their Big Bad Betrayal Bill to ramp up their campaign to kidnap and disappear immigrants — sending many to inhumane detention centers.
Yet DHS is refusing to allow members of Congress to conduct oversight visits of these facilities.
Yet DHS is refusing to allow members of Congress to conduct oversight visits of these facilities.
December 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Trump and Republicans gave ICE $45 billion in their Big Bad Betrayal Bill to ramp up their campaign to kidnap and disappear immigrants — sending many to inhumane detention centers.
Yet DHS is refusing to allow members of Congress to conduct oversight visits of these facilities.
Yet DHS is refusing to allow members of Congress to conduct oversight visits of these facilities.
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Foul winds blowing across America.
Trump has removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of days Americans can enter national parks for free. He has added his own birthday.
Trump has removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of days Americans can enter national parks for free. He has added his own birthday.
December 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Foul winds blowing across America.
Trump has removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of days Americans can enter national parks for free. He has added his own birthday.
Trump has removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of days Americans can enter national parks for free. He has added his own birthday.
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It's not "free-market conservatism" when Trump uses government power to sabotage farmers' markets and then spends taxpayer money to bail them out, making them more dependent on the government. It's what dictators want: everyone dependent on their personal whims.
Trump is proposing a $12B aid package for farmers hit hard by his trade war with China
A White House official says President Donald Trump is planning a $12 billion aid package for U.S. farmers who have struggled to sell their crops while getting hit by rising costs after the president r...
apnews.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
It's not "free-market conservatism" when Trump uses government power to sabotage farmers' markets and then spends taxpayer money to bail them out, making them more dependent on the government. It's what dictators want: everyone dependent on their personal whims.
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Putin declares victory.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
December 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Putin declares victory.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Did you ask him if his job was under threat if he failed to follow an illegal order? Did you ask him if he knows killing the shipwrecked is an illegal order? Did you ask him if he was promised clemency if he took the fall? What did he say? TELL US. Stop dancing around these questions.
BRENNAN: Do you have confidence in Admiral Bradley?
HIMES: What it raises is what happens when an apparently good man like Admiral Bradley is placed in a context where he knows that if he countermands an order he's uncomfortable with it's very likely he'll be fired
HIMES: What it raises is what happens when an apparently good man like Admiral Bradley is placed in a context where he knows that if he countermands an order he's uncomfortable with it's very likely he'll be fired
December 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Did you ask him if his job was under threat if he failed to follow an illegal order? Did you ask him if he knows killing the shipwrecked is an illegal order? Did you ask him if he was promised clemency if he took the fall? What did he say? TELL US. Stop dancing around these questions.
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📌NOTE: The Conservative Supreme Court is nothing but a bunch of destructive liars doing the bidding of a sick, demented tyrant who wants to hold absolute power.
Dismantling this court shouldn't be a consideration, it should be a thing that simply has to happen so that our democracy will survive.
Dismantling this court shouldn't be a consideration, it should be a thing that simply has to happen so that our democracy will survive.
December 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
📌NOTE: The Conservative Supreme Court is nothing but a bunch of destructive liars doing the bidding of a sick, demented tyrant who wants to hold absolute power.
Dismantling this court shouldn't be a consideration, it should be a thing that simply has to happen so that our democracy will survive.
Dismantling this court shouldn't be a consideration, it should be a thing that simply has to happen so that our democracy will survive.