Allison Rockey
@allisonrockey.bsky.social
I want the good people to win and the world to be better.
I’m a consultant helping kind people be effective leaders, build audiences, and be their best selves at work. Former VP Vox.
I’m a consultant helping kind people be effective leaders, build audiences, and be their best selves at work. Former VP Vox.
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There's a lot going on, God knows, but don't miss that the President of the United States is using the full force of the Federal government, as well as tax dollars, to punish a state because its Governor... refused to do as he instructed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/u...
U.S.D.A. Freezes Funding for Maine Amid Battle Over Transgender Athletes
The administration concluded last month that Maine had violated federal law by allowing transgender athletes to play on girls’ or women’s teams.
www.nytimes.com
April 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
There's a lot going on, God knows, but don't miss that the President of the United States is using the full force of the Federal government, as well as tax dollars, to punish a state because its Governor... refused to do as he instructed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/u...
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"The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs said Thursday that it will end a mortgage-rescue program designed to help veterans who have fallen behind on their mortgages keep their homes."
Trump's VA is ending a rescue program that's saved 17,000 military veterans' homes
The Department of Veterans Affairs says it will end a mortgage rescue plan that has saved many veterans from needlessly losing their homes, the move could strand thousands of others who need help.
www.npr.org
April 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
"The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs said Thursday that it will end a mortgage-rescue program designed to help veterans who have fallen behind on their mortgages keep their homes."
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Eugene Robinson is leaving the Washington Post after 45 years following Jeff Bezos' "significant shift" to the paper's opinion section
Eugene Robinson Leaves the Washington Post After Jeff Bezos' 'Significant Shift' to Opinion Section
"I wish nothing but the very best for the paper and for all of you. I won't be a stranger," the political columnist tells his colleagues after 45 years at WaPo
www.thewrap.com
April 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Eugene Robinson is leaving the Washington Post after 45 years following Jeff Bezos' "significant shift" to the paper's opinion section
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Everyone is rightly excited about the Wisconsin race, but don't sleep on what happened at the Naperville (Illinois) City Council. The fate of a giant, polluting coal plant was on the line. An anti-coal majority was elected & the plant will shut down on schedule! 🎉
www.dailyherald.com/20250401/loc...
www.dailyherald.com/20250401/loc...
White, Gibson, Holzhauer, Syed headed to victory in Naperville City Council race
Incumbents were in a battle Tuesday night in some of DuPage County’s most heated village board and city council races.
Here is a look at the unofficial results for those races.
Naperville
Two i.....
www.dailyherald.com
April 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Everyone is rightly excited about the Wisconsin race, but don't sleep on what happened at the Naperville (Illinois) City Council. The fate of a giant, polluting coal plant was on the line. An anti-coal majority was elected & the plant will shut down on schedule! 🎉
www.dailyherald.com/20250401/loc...
www.dailyherald.com/20250401/loc...
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April 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Need power, but want it reliable & grid-friendly? Try solar + batteries!
Need power, but want to boost national security & reduce imports? Try solar + batteries!
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Need power, but want it reliable & grid-friendly? Try solar + batteries!
Need power, but want to boost national security & reduce imports? Try solar + batteries!
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George HW Bush marveled at a new kind of grocery scanner in 1992 and was pilloried for being out of touch.
Trump — who’s repeatedly said you need to show photo ID buying food — now insists “groceries” is some obscure term he recovered from the distant past and we’ll just move right along.
Trump — who’s repeatedly said you need to show photo ID buying food — now insists “groceries” is some obscure term he recovered from the distant past and we’ll just move right along.
Trump: "An old fashioned term that we use -- groceries. I used it on the campaign. It's such an old fashioned term, but a beautiful term. Groceries. It says a bag with different things in it."
April 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
George HW Bush marveled at a new kind of grocery scanner in 1992 and was pilloried for being out of touch.
Trump — who’s repeatedly said you need to show photo ID buying food — now insists “groceries” is some obscure term he recovered from the distant past and we’ll just move right along.
Trump — who’s repeatedly said you need to show photo ID buying food — now insists “groceries” is some obscure term he recovered from the distant past and we’ll just move right along.
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Chicago Teachers Union reached a tentative agreement with Chicago Public Schools Monday night that reaffirms sanctuary school protections, protects the ability to teach Black history, gives veteran teachers a raise, and more.
As Trump Attacks Education, Chicago Teachers Reach Powerful Tentative Contract
It reaffirms sanctuary school protections, assures the ability to teach Black history and gives veteran teachers raises.
buff.ly
April 2, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Chicago Teachers Union reached a tentative agreement with Chicago Public Schools Monday night that reaffirms sanctuary school protections, protects the ability to teach Black history, gives veteran teachers a raise, and more.
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THREAD: Last year, ProPublica started receiving tips from an unusual kind of source: flight attendants. They said they'd worked on deportation flights for ICE, and they could tell us what it was really like on board. 1/
April 1, 2025 at 9:50 PM
THREAD: Last year, ProPublica started receiving tips from an unusual kind of source: flight attendants. They said they'd worked on deportation flights for ICE, and they could tell us what it was really like on board. 1/
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Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
April 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
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Just no words for this level of cruelty and enthusiasm for inflicting suffering on the poorest in our society
April 1, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Just no words for this level of cruelty and enthusiasm for inflicting suffering on the poorest in our society
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what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!
April 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!
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We should all be terrified to live in an America where legal residents can be detained, held at gunpoint, or deported because of the color of their skin or because the President disagrees with their views.
March 28, 2025 at 2:16 PM
We should all be terrified to live in an America where legal residents can be detained, held at gunpoint, or deported because of the color of their skin or because the President disagrees with their views.
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The number of people who think that DOGE is a good idea that just went a little wrong is ... discouraging. People really, genuinely have no idea how the federal bureaucracy is built or how it works.
March 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The number of people who think that DOGE is a good idea that just went a little wrong is ... discouraging. People really, genuinely have no idea how the federal bureaucracy is built or how it works.
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Breaking:
WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court upholds Biden rule requiring serial numbers and background checks for nearly untraceable ghost gun kits.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court upholds Biden rule requiring serial numbers and background checks for nearly untraceable ghost gun kits.
March 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Breaking:
WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court upholds Biden rule requiring serial numbers and background checks for nearly untraceable ghost gun kits.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court upholds Biden rule requiring serial numbers and background checks for nearly untraceable ghost gun kits.
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Ummmmm
Hegseth: The DOD will be merit based and colorblind. You will be judged on how good you are at your job. Full stop.
March 26, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Ummmmm
Jesus
SCOOP: Hooded ICE agents snatched Indian-born Georgetown postdoc Badar Suri from Rosslyn street Monday, per court filing. Like Khalil, linked to pro-Palestinian views & Rubio 'foreign policy' power, lawyer says. Then whisked to Louisiana. w/ @kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Trump is seeking to deport another graduate student who is legally in the country, lawsuit says
Badar Khan Suri, a fellow at Georgetown, says he is being punished because of the suspected views of his wife, a U.S. citizen with Palestinian heritage.
www.politico.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Jesus
Jesus.
You wouldn't know from reading this New York Times story about Trump punishing the University of Pennsylvania for trans athletes that there are no trans athletes on women's teams at the University of Pennsylvania because the New York Times didn't find that detail worth including
March 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Jesus.
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So I was on a flight into DCA tonight when we had to abruptly abort our landing because, the captain said, another smaller, slower craft had been routed directly in our path. Flight logs show we were just 200 feet above the ground.
March 18, 2025 at 2:04 AM
So I was on a flight into DCA tonight when we had to abruptly abort our landing because, the captain said, another smaller, slower craft had been routed directly in our path. Flight logs show we were just 200 feet above the ground.
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DOGE/SSA marked this person dead and *removed his savings from his bank account,* cancelled his social security and Medicare. #seattle https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/
March 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
DOGE/SSA marked this person dead and *removed his savings from his bank account,* cancelled his social security and Medicare. #seattle https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/
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As more and more Americans get their news from online shows and streamers, our analysis found that this expanding media ecosystem is overwhelmingly right-leaning. 🧵: www.mediamatters.org/google/right...
March 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
As more and more Americans get their news from online shows and streamers, our analysis found that this expanding media ecosystem is overwhelmingly right-leaning. 🧵: www.mediamatters.org/google/right...
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Here's something important. It's just one part of the equation. But it's a key one. This debate is being carried on on the basis of the claim that a long shutdown opens up new legal authority for Musk to fire people. For a while now I've been in contact with a lawyer with deep knowledge of ...
March 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Here's something important. It's just one part of the equation. But it's a key one. This debate is being carried on on the basis of the claim that a long shutdown opens up new legal authority for Musk to fire people. For a while now I've been in contact with a lawyer with deep knowledge of ...
This is the point I keep explaining to people outside of DC that really makes their jaws drop.
People also need to understand this isn’t federal money, this is DC money collected through DC taxes. They’re openly stealing from the city with the intent to immiserate the people living there because they resent the idea they should be allowed to govern themselves.
Glad someone mentioned it talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog/se...
March 14, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This is the point I keep explaining to people outside of DC that really makes their jaws drop.
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And... her office confirms she's a NO on all of it.
"Yep, Senator Rosen is a no on cloture."
"Yep, Senator Rosen is a no on cloture."
March 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
And... her office confirms she's a NO on all of it.
"Yep, Senator Rosen is a no on cloture."
"Yep, Senator Rosen is a no on cloture."