Annette
@4nn3tt3.bsky.social
Designer and writer. Native Midwesterner - Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota. Gen X.
.✨May the Force be with you ✨
.✨May the Force be with you ✨
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. @kenwhite.bsky.social , is it a good idea to publicly announce “this thing we’re doing is just bullshit to fool the judge” while litigation is pending
WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt just clarified on X that the rescission of the OMB memo was simply to get the federal court case to go away, not lifting the funding freeze on anything that goes against Trump's EOs
translation: "please stop yelling at me for the thing i want to keep doing"
translation: "please stop yelling at me for the thing i want to keep doing"
January 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
. @kenwhite.bsky.social , is it a good idea to publicly announce “this thing we’re doing is just bullshit to fool the judge” while litigation is pending
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So the Defense Intelligence Agency on its own decided long time observances of MLK Day, Black History Month, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and more are “DEI?” I joined the Army in the 80’s and we recognized these and DEI wasn’t a fucking thing then. This is bullshit. www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...
Pentagon agency pauses celebrations for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Black History Month and more
www.stripes.com
January 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
So the Defense Intelligence Agency on its own decided long time observances of MLK Day, Black History Month, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and more are “DEI?” I joined the Army in the 80’s and we recognized these and DEI wasn’t a fucking thing then. This is bullshit. www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...
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For federal employees (or anyone) who wants to speak to a reporter about what's unfolding about their agencies, the Associated Press investigative team can be reached here: Investigative@ap.org or www.ap.org/tips/
I am byrontau.01 on Signal.
I am byrontau.01 on Signal.
News tips | The Associated Press
www.ap.org
January 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
For federal employees (or anyone) who wants to speak to a reporter about what's unfolding about their agencies, the Associated Press investigative team can be reached here: Investigative@ap.org or www.ap.org/tips/
I am byrontau.01 on Signal.
I am byrontau.01 on Signal.
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Was literally talking to the union representing federal air traffic controllers earlier today about how there’s already a major shortage of air traffic controllers and the resignation offers they all just got from OPM could seriously endanger public safety.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Passenger jet collided with helicopter while landing at Reagan Washington National Airport, FAA says.
January 30, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Was literally talking to the union representing federal air traffic controllers earlier today about how there’s already a major shortage of air traffic controllers and the resignation offers they all just got from OPM could seriously endanger public safety.
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Seems like we all agree RFK Jr. cannot be the next Secretary of Health and Human Services.
www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...
www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...
January 30, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Seems like we all agree RFK Jr. cannot be the next Secretary of Health and Human Services.
www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...
www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...
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Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
January 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
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Hey Jim- You were the best that @cnn.com had to offer & will be deeply missed! I look forward to the next chapter in your career & I'm not just saying that because of the killer Yoda impression you did when I was on your show.
Really love this cartoon from the great Michael De Adder. The outpouring of support coming in has been truly amazing! Thanks everybody!
January 29, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Hey Jim- You were the best that @cnn.com had to offer & will be deeply missed! I look forward to the next chapter in your career & I'm not just saying that because of the killer Yoda impression you did when I was on your show.
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Army Blackhawk helicopters are crashing into passenger planes at DCA while the Secretary of Defense is on Fox News ranting about DEI
January 30, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Army Blackhawk helicopters are crashing into passenger planes at DCA while the Secretary of Defense is on Fox News ranting about DEI
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Steve Bannon has been talking about “dismantling the administrative state” since 2016. The politics of systematic sabotage we are currently witnessing was already clearly the Trumpian plan in 2019 when I wrote this thread. This is their long game and they are really going for it hard.
January 28, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Steve Bannon has been talking about “dismantling the administrative state” since 2016. The politics of systematic sabotage we are currently witnessing was already clearly the Trumpian plan in 2019 when I wrote this thread. This is their long game and they are really going for it hard.
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Imagine the message to America's enemies that the Secretary of Defense - normally a position filled by overwhelming bipartisan consensus - has squeaked into his job with a Vance tie-breaker after repeated concerns about his character and lack of experience.
January 25, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Imagine the message to America's enemies that the Secretary of Defense - normally a position filled by overwhelming bipartisan consensus - has squeaked into his job with a Vance tie-breaker after repeated concerns about his character and lack of experience.
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Deleted apps for Instagram, Threads, & Facebook. X is private and no longer active. Eliminating the unnecessary. Cheers.🍻
January 23, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Deleted apps for Instagram, Threads, & Facebook. X is private and no longer active. Eliminating the unnecessary. Cheers.🍻
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This is not some disgruntled ex-employee speaking off the record.
This is David Maraniss, a Pulitzer-winning reporter and author who’s now an associate editor at the Washington Post, where he’s been affiliated for more than 40 years.
This is David Maraniss, a Pulitzer-winning reporter and author who’s now an associate editor at the Washington Post, where he’s been affiliated for more than 40 years.
The Washington Post editorial this morning essentially equating Biden's questionable pardons with Trump's outrageous Jan. 6 pardons was unconscionable. The newspaper I've been part of for 48 years has utterly lost its soul.
January 23, 2025 at 3:22 AM
This is not some disgruntled ex-employee speaking off the record.
This is David Maraniss, a Pulitzer-winning reporter and author who’s now an associate editor at the Washington Post, where he’s been affiliated for more than 40 years.
This is David Maraniss, a Pulitzer-winning reporter and author who’s now an associate editor at the Washington Post, where he’s been affiliated for more than 40 years.
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The Washington Post editorial this morning essentially equating Biden's questionable pardons with Trump's outrageous Jan. 6 pardons was unconscionable. The newspaper I've been part of for 48 years has utterly lost its soul.
January 23, 2025 at 2:49 AM
The Washington Post editorial this morning essentially equating Biden's questionable pardons with Trump's outrageous Jan. 6 pardons was unconscionable. The newspaper I've been part of for 48 years has utterly lost its soul.
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1/It goes beyond what happened at DHS & NASA today.
CIA employees were told all resource & affinity groups are canceled. No black history month or MLK celebration, or any other ethnic recognition months. DEI folks are to be fired rather than allowed to rotate back to former offices.
CIA employees were told all resource & affinity groups are canceled. No black history month or MLK celebration, or any other ethnic recognition months. DEI folks are to be fired rather than allowed to rotate back to former offices.
The Trump administration urged government employees to inform on each other and their departments in order to root out any attempts to hide diversity programs reut.rs/40IZlbJ
Trump campaign against diversity urges government employees to turn informer
The Trump administration urged government employees to inform on each other and their departments in order to root out any attempts to hide diversity programs.
reut.rs
January 23, 2025 at 4:45 AM
1/It goes beyond what happened at DHS & NASA today.
CIA employees were told all resource & affinity groups are canceled. No black history month or MLK celebration, or any other ethnic recognition months. DEI folks are to be fired rather than allowed to rotate back to former offices.
CIA employees were told all resource & affinity groups are canceled. No black history month or MLK celebration, or any other ethnic recognition months. DEI folks are to be fired rather than allowed to rotate back to former offices.
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Less than a week into the Trump administration and we’ve already blown through all of these.
January 23, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Less than a week into the Trump administration and we’ve already blown through all of these.
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THE REASON THAT FEMA EXISTS IS BECAUSE STATES COULD NOT DEAL WITH LARGE SCALE DISASTERS BY THEMSELVES *IN THE 1970S.*
Now the disasters are bigger, there are homeland security threats, and this guy wants to roll us back 50 years.
Now the disasters are bigger, there are homeland security threats, and this guy wants to roll us back 50 years.
Trump: "FEMA is gonna be a whole big discussion very shortly, because I'd rather see the states takes care of their own problems."
January 23, 2025 at 2:47 AM
THE REASON THAT FEMA EXISTS IS BECAUSE STATES COULD NOT DEAL WITH LARGE SCALE DISASTERS BY THEMSELVES *IN THE 1970S.*
Now the disasters are bigger, there are homeland security threats, and this guy wants to roll us back 50 years.
Now the disasters are bigger, there are homeland security threats, and this guy wants to roll us back 50 years.
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Study sections are the review panels that allocate NIH research grants. They bring in experts from around the country and have to be scheduled many months in advance; they provide the funds that keep the nation's biomedical research going.
It's hard to overstate the disruption this causes.
It's hard to overstate the disruption this causes.
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Study sections are the review panels that allocate NIH research grants. They bring in experts from around the country and have to be scheduled many months in advance; they provide the funds that keep the nation's biomedical research going.
It's hard to overstate the disruption this causes.
It's hard to overstate the disruption this causes.
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Indicative of the political moment that somebody can throw up something that looks like a Nazi salute at a political rally, and it’s other people who get in trouble for saying that’s a bad thing.
www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...
www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...
CBS 58 weather reporter Sam Kuffel is out after criticizing Elon Musk arm gesture
Meteorologist Sam Kuffel criticized Elon Musk on social media for his straight-arm gesture some likened to a Nazi salute at the Trump inauguration.
www.jsonline.com
January 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Indicative of the political moment that somebody can throw up something that looks like a Nazi salute at a political rally, and it’s other people who get in trouble for saying that’s a bad thing.
www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...
www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...
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I have and will continue to. But you know why I say it here ? Because @bsky.app is 30m strong and growing quickly. The collective wisdom and influence of users here is far greater than any individual democrat.
I can't say it enough. Bluesky can be the influence that can counter RW media.
I can't say it enough. Bluesky can be the influence that can counter RW media.
No offense, Mark, but you have influence and power most of us don’t. Why don’t you speak up to those in DC you have connections with? Actions speak louder than words as you well know.
January 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I have and will continue to. But you know why I say it here ? Because @bsky.app is 30m strong and growing quickly. The collective wisdom and influence of users here is far greater than any individual democrat.
I can't say it enough. Bluesky can be the influence that can counter RW media.
I can't say it enough. Bluesky can be the influence that can counter RW media.
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it sounded better in the original East German
Here's an e-mail that just went out to NASA agency wide. 🔭
January 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
it sounded better in the original East German
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“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”
AOC 🔥🎯
“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”
AOC 🔥🎯
January 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Pin this, save it, we’ll need it.
“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”
AOC 🔥🎯
“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”
AOC 🔥🎯
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My wife is doc, seeing a lot of children in hospital with virulent flu. None are vaccinated. Many are extremely, dangerously sick.
We are just moving backward so rapidly.
We are just moving backward so rapidly.
January 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
My wife is doc, seeing a lot of children in hospital with virulent flu. None are vaccinated. Many are extremely, dangerously sick.
We are just moving backward so rapidly.
We are just moving backward so rapidly.
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I just got a report that the Minneapolis VA has stopped hiring workers thanks to a hasty Trump Executive Order.
They’ve rescinded offers to dozens of people who were going to fill critical roles to care for vets.
They’ve rescinded offers to dozens of people who were going to fill critical roles to care for vets.
January 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I just got a report that the Minneapolis VA has stopped hiring workers thanks to a hasty Trump Executive Order.
They’ve rescinded offers to dozens of people who were going to fill critical roles to care for vets.
They’ve rescinded offers to dozens of people who were going to fill critical roles to care for vets.
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President Trump demanded an apology from the Episcopal bishop of Washington after she asked him to have mercy on LGBTQ+ people and immigrants.
Trump Demands Bishop Apologize for Urging Mercy for Immigrants
President Trump demanded an apology from the Episcopal bishop of Washington after she asked him to have mercy on LGBTQ+ people and immigrants.
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January 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
President Trump demanded an apology from the Episcopal bishop of Washington after she asked him to have mercy on LGBTQ+ people and immigrants.