Amy Glynn
@amyglynn.bsky.social
RN, Mom, Nana. Despite its many flaws, America is pretty great. Let’s not let one man destroy it.
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We as a country will save nothing. Federal employee salaries make up just 4% of the budget—roughly $271 billion. So even if every federal worker were fired, that’s the maximum you’d save. Meanwhile, the U.S. House GOP has released a budget that raises the debt limit by $4 trillion.
February 14, 2025 at 3:11 AM
We as a country will save nothing. Federal employee salaries make up just 4% of the budget—roughly $271 billion. So even if every federal worker were fired, that’s the maximum you’d save. Meanwhile, the U.S. House GOP has released a budget that raises the debt limit by $4 trillion.
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How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million.
How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65
Note: In 2024 alone, Musk’s enterprises were awarded approximately $3 billion across nearly 100 federal contracts, averaging about $8 million per day.
How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65
Note: In 2024 alone, Musk’s enterprises were awarded approximately $3 billion across nearly 100 federal contracts, averaging about $8 million per day.
February 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million.
How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65
Note: In 2024 alone, Musk’s enterprises were awarded approximately $3 billion across nearly 100 federal contracts, averaging about $8 million per day.
How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65
Note: In 2024 alone, Musk’s enterprises were awarded approximately $3 billion across nearly 100 federal contracts, averaging about $8 million per day.
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The best messaging is to state what everyone knows to be the truth in the simplest and clearest way possible.
So it’s hard to imagine more effective messaging than this.
So it’s hard to imagine more effective messaging than this.
Brianna Keilar: Do you think that calling Elon Musk a dick is effective messaging?
Congressman Robert Garcia: Well, he is a dick.
Congressman Robert Garcia: Well, he is a dick.
February 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The best messaging is to state what everyone knows to be the truth in the simplest and clearest way possible.
So it’s hard to imagine more effective messaging than this.
So it’s hard to imagine more effective messaging than this.
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This amounts to the most significant data leak in cyber history. Private individuals in the data business now have access to your Social Security information.
This violates privacy laws in every state. Hopefully, state AGs will file suit & pursue criminal charges.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
This violates privacy laws in every state. Hopefully, state AGs will file suit & pursue criminal charges.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury’s Payments System
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This amounts to the most significant data leak in cyber history. Private individuals in the data business now have access to your Social Security information.
This violates privacy laws in every state. Hopefully, state AGs will file suit & pursue criminal charges.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
This violates privacy laws in every state. Hopefully, state AGs will file suit & pursue criminal charges.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
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This is actually a huge factor in American politics. Americans generally overestimate minority groups and underestimate majority groups by huge margins: today.yougov.com/politics/art...
January 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This is actually a huge factor in American politics. Americans generally overestimate minority groups and underestimate majority groups by huge margins: today.yougov.com/politics/art...
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For the challenges ahead in 2025, I wish you all courage, consolation, and community.
Courage: May you be not afraid, and avoid becoming demoralized or cynical.
Consolation: May you find sources of beauty, wisdom, and peace.
Community: May you find your people, and may your people find you.
Courage: May you be not afraid, and avoid becoming demoralized or cynical.
Consolation: May you find sources of beauty, wisdom, and peace.
Community: May you find your people, and may your people find you.
January 2, 2025 at 2:41 AM
For the challenges ahead in 2025, I wish you all courage, consolation, and community.
Courage: May you be not afraid, and avoid becoming demoralized or cynical.
Consolation: May you find sources of beauty, wisdom, and peace.
Community: May you find your people, and may your people find you.
Courage: May you be not afraid, and avoid becoming demoralized or cynical.
Consolation: May you find sources of beauty, wisdom, and peace.
Community: May you find your people, and may your people find you.
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At the time, everyone, including Republicans, understood how bad it was. Then, brick by brick, they built a foundation of lies to justify doing what they know, deep down, to be wrong. Trump betrayed the country. And so do they.
January 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
At the time, everyone, including Republicans, understood how bad it was. Then, brick by brick, they built a foundation of lies to justify doing what they know, deep down, to be wrong. Trump betrayed the country. And so do they.
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President-elect Trump and his allies disavowed the conservative Project 2025 during the election.
Now, his transition team is turning to Project 2025 to help staff the next administration, sources tell @nbcnews.com.
Now, his transition team is turning to Project 2025 to help staff the next administration, sources tell @nbcnews.com.
Trump's transition team turns to Project 2025 after disavowing it during the campaign
Transition officials have used Project 2025's extensive personnel database for potential candidates to hire for the incoming administration, a person familiar the plans said.
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November 22, 2024 at 12:35 PM
President-elect Trump and his allies disavowed the conservative Project 2025 during the election.
Now, his transition team is turning to Project 2025 to help staff the next administration, sources tell @nbcnews.com.
Now, his transition team is turning to Project 2025 to help staff the next administration, sources tell @nbcnews.com.
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Let’s keep these facts in mind as the anti-vax onslaught accelerates. Thanks, @mikeljollett.bsky.social
Annual morbidity in the 20th century, before and after vaccines:
Measles:
Before: 530,000, After: 47
Mumps:
Before: 160,000, After: 429
Rubella:
Before: 50,000, After: 3
Diphtheria:
Before: 20,000, After: 2
Smallpox:
Before: 30,000, After: 0
Polio:
Before: 16,000, After: 0
Measles:
Before: 530,000, After: 47
Mumps:
Before: 160,000, After: 429
Rubella:
Before: 50,000, After: 3
Diphtheria:
Before: 20,000, After: 2
Smallpox:
Before: 30,000, After: 0
Polio:
Before: 16,000, After: 0
November 17, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Let’s keep these facts in mind as the anti-vax onslaught accelerates. Thanks, @mikeljollett.bsky.social