Nettie Lagace
@abugseye.bsky.social
I believe in truth and facts and humanities and science and data. Learning every day. “Make it make sense.”
Fan of the Maritimes and brown dogs.
Fan of the Maritimes and brown dogs.
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This is what oligarchy looks like:
If you're Elon Musk, the richest man alive, Tesla gives you a $1 trillion pay package & Trump gives you a huge tax break.
If you're a poor kid on SNAP, Trump appeals a court decision that would have prevented you from going hungry.
Obscene.
If you're Elon Musk, the richest man alive, Tesla gives you a $1 trillion pay package & Trump gives you a huge tax break.
If you're a poor kid on SNAP, Trump appeals a court decision that would have prevented you from going hungry.
Obscene.
November 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This is what oligarchy looks like:
If you're Elon Musk, the richest man alive, Tesla gives you a $1 trillion pay package & Trump gives you a huge tax break.
If you're a poor kid on SNAP, Trump appeals a court decision that would have prevented you from going hungry.
Obscene.
If you're Elon Musk, the richest man alive, Tesla gives you a $1 trillion pay package & Trump gives you a huge tax break.
If you're a poor kid on SNAP, Trump appeals a court decision that would have prevented you from going hungry.
Obscene.
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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🔥 🇨🇦 👇🏽The premier of Ontario responds to Trump’s claim the anti-tariffs ad is fake by posting the original Reagan speech showing it isn’t.
Mic drop 🎤 🏆
The video: youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc?...
Mic drop 🎤 🏆
The video: youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc?...
October 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
🔥 🇨🇦 👇🏽The premier of Ontario responds to Trump’s claim the anti-tariffs ad is fake by posting the original Reagan speech showing it isn’t.
Mic drop 🎤 🏆
The video: youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc?...
Mic drop 🎤 🏆
The video: youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc?...
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Why is Apple, Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, Blackstone, Google, OpenAI, Amazon and others financing the destruction of the WH and desecration of the grounds, something that is infuriating to huge chunk of the American population? Do you hate your customers that much?
October 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Why is Apple, Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, Blackstone, Google, OpenAI, Amazon and others financing the destruction of the WH and desecration of the grounds, something that is infuriating to huge chunk of the American population? Do you hate your customers that much?
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Do they award Nobel prizes for advances in the field of corruption?
October 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Do they award Nobel prizes for advances in the field of corruption?
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Has anyone before figured out you can use lawsuit settlements as facially legal bribes or is this a Trump innovation?
October 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Has anyone before figured out you can use lawsuit settlements as facially legal bribes or is this a Trump innovation?
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ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
October 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
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"This Court has listened carefully to the reasons given by Öztürk’s captors for masking-up and has heard the same reasons advanced by ... ICE. It rejects this testimony as disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a single reason—to terrorize Americans into quiescence."
Young’s opinion, which rules that the Trump admin illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation, is absolutely scathing.
“In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police…ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it.”
“In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police…ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it.”
September 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"This Court has listened carefully to the reasons given by Öztürk’s captors for masking-up and has heard the same reasons advanced by ... ICE. It rejects this testimony as disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a single reason—to terrorize Americans into quiescence."
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regular reminder that "he wants" ≠ "he will"
September 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
regular reminder that "he wants" ≠ "he will"
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Interesting that CNN didn't bother to report that the president could not pronounce acetaminophen.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/h...
www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/h...
Trump links autism to acetaminophen use during pregnancy, despite decades of evidence it’s safe | CNN
President Donald Trump announced Monday that the US Food and Drug Administration will be notifying physicians that the use of acetaminophen during pregnancy “can be associated with a very increased ri...
www.cnn.com
September 22, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Interesting that CNN didn't bother to report that the president could not pronounce acetaminophen.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/h...
www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/h...
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They’re only going after Tylenol because the president of the United States can’t say acetaminophen. 🤦♂️
September 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
They’re only going after Tylenol because the president of the United States can’t say acetaminophen. 🤦♂️
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“A reporter who publishes only what the government ‘authorizes’ is doing something other than reporting,” said Katie Fallow, deputy litigation director at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University @katiefallow.bsky.social
NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com
Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is imposing strict new rules that would severely limit the ability of journalists to report on the Pentagon.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM
“A reporter who publishes only what the government ‘authorizes’ is doing something other than reporting,” said Katie Fallow, deputy litigation director at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University @katiefallow.bsky.social
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It’s like seeing a surgeon about a curable cancer and focusing entirely on the potential harms of the surgery option without evaluating the potential harms of the no-surgery option. 6/
September 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
It’s like seeing a surgeon about a curable cancer and focusing entirely on the potential harms of the surgery option without evaluating the potential harms of the no-surgery option. 6/
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I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.
August 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.
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The price of eggs? Wait until you see your ACA premiums. Got cancer? The hope for new cures has been dashed. If H5N1 develops mutations that confer easy human-to-human transmission? Fuggedaboudit. 7/
August 28, 2025 at 10:09 AM
The price of eggs? Wait until you see your ACA premiums. Got cancer? The hope for new cures has been dashed. If H5N1 develops mutations that confer easy human-to-human transmission? Fuggedaboudit. 7/
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These letters of resignation from CDC officials are VERY MUCH worth your time.
PLEASE READ AND PROPAGATE.
PLEASE READ AND PROPAGATE.
August 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM
These letters of resignation from CDC officials are VERY MUCH worth your time.
PLEASE READ AND PROPAGATE.
PLEASE READ AND PROPAGATE.
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"You will NOT work in this administration while disrespecting our government and law enforcement" . . . with some exceptions
Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to 'kill' cops
The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.
www.npr.org
August 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
"You will NOT work in this administration while disrespecting our government and law enforcement" . . . with some exceptions
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Some of the crimes I've seen in Washington DC:
— Beige sweater with beige chinos
— Jacket sleeve tag left on
— Tan shoes with navy suits
— Giant Windsor knots (triple felony with the metal sports watch paired with dark suit and French cuffs)
— Beige sweater with beige chinos
— Jacket sleeve tag left on
— Tan shoes with navy suits
— Giant Windsor knots (triple felony with the metal sports watch paired with dark suit and French cuffs)
August 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Some of the crimes I've seen in Washington DC:
— Beige sweater with beige chinos
— Jacket sleeve tag left on
— Tan shoes with navy suits
— Giant Windsor knots (triple felony with the metal sports watch paired with dark suit and French cuffs)
— Beige sweater with beige chinos
— Jacket sleeve tag left on
— Tan shoes with navy suits
— Giant Windsor knots (triple felony with the metal sports watch paired with dark suit and French cuffs)
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Not for the first time, thinking "it took three and a half years to get this bad last time; this time we've still got three and a half years worth of getting worse from this point."
August 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Not for the first time, thinking "it took three and a half years to get this bad last time; this time we've still got three and a half years worth of getting worse from this point."
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“A jolt to American universities”: In a new #ScienceEditorial, H. Holden Thorp reflects on the implications of Columbia University’s recent deal with the Trump administration to restore federal funding for research. scim.ag/3H3MES0
July 31, 2025 at 7:19 PM
“A jolt to American universities”: In a new #ScienceEditorial, H. Holden Thorp reflects on the implications of Columbia University’s recent deal with the Trump administration to restore federal funding for research. scim.ag/3H3MES0
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The NIH’s 2024 budget of just under $37B generated $95B in economic activity in 2024 alone. 99.4% of new pharmaceuticals approved from 2010-2019 came from NIH-funded research. I’m hard pressed to think of anything that generates as much direct economic benefit as our NIH did before they destroyed it
TAPPER: 14 Republicans say you're risking undermining critical research by holding up NIH funding
VOUGHT: If they were a company, their stock price would in shambles. They in some respects caused the pandemic. You have an entire institute that does nothing more than DEI research at the NIH.
VOUGHT: If they were a company, their stock price would in shambles. They in some respects caused the pandemic. You have an entire institute that does nothing more than DEI research at the NIH.
July 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The NIH’s 2024 budget of just under $37B generated $95B in economic activity in 2024 alone. 99.4% of new pharmaceuticals approved from 2010-2019 came from NIH-funded research. I’m hard pressed to think of anything that generates as much direct economic benefit as our NIH did before they destroyed it
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Our #SCIMaP analysis of the impacts of NIH budget cuts on economies nationwide. Perhaps someone might ask why the administration is intent on undermining our discovery pipeline as well as causing near-term economic harm?
scienceimpacts.org/fy26
scienceimpacts.org/fy26
SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research
View Projected Impact of the FY2026 Budget Cuts to the NIH
scienceimpacts.org
July 27, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Our #SCIMaP analysis of the impacts of NIH budget cuts on economies nationwide. Perhaps someone might ask why the administration is intent on undermining our discovery pipeline as well as causing near-term economic harm?
scienceimpacts.org/fy26
scienceimpacts.org/fy26
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TAPPER: 14 Republicans say you're risking undermining critical research by holding up NIH funding
VOUGHT: If they were a company, their stock price would in shambles. They in some respects caused the pandemic. You have an entire institute that does nothing more than DEI research at the NIH.
VOUGHT: If they were a company, their stock price would in shambles. They in some respects caused the pandemic. You have an entire institute that does nothing more than DEI research at the NIH.
July 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
TAPPER: 14 Republicans say you're risking undermining critical research by holding up NIH funding
VOUGHT: If they were a company, their stock price would in shambles. They in some respects caused the pandemic. You have an entire institute that does nothing more than DEI research at the NIH.
VOUGHT: If they were a company, their stock price would in shambles. They in some respects caused the pandemic. You have an entire institute that does nothing more than DEI research at the NIH.
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This is an extraordinarily dark day in an extraordinarily long run of extraordinarily dark days.
July 1, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This is an extraordinarily dark day in an extraordinarily long run of extraordinarily dark days.
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If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.
June 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.