Cynthia A
@baker10.bsky.social
A blue sky waiting tomorrow, waiting tomorrow
Maybe it's all we need 🦋
Self taught sourdough baker
Real food, Knitter, Crafter, home grown tomatoes 🍅
Liberal 💙 wife, mom to 3 plus Rocco🐕
🚫MAGA 🚫 DMs
Maybe it's all we need 🦋
Self taught sourdough baker
Real food, Knitter, Crafter, home grown tomatoes 🍅
Liberal 💙 wife, mom to 3 plus Rocco🐕
🚫MAGA 🚫 DMs
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BULLETIN PODCAST: ABC, Disney, and Bob Iger fold to the fascists: Jimmy Kimmel taken off the air effective immediately, unlikely to return, for telling the truth about MAGA exploitation of the death of Charlie Kirk and Trumpist whitewashing of his hate speech
PODCAST HERE: tinyurl.com/mr2j8k99
PODCAST HERE: tinyurl.com/mr2j8k99
BULLETIN: BOB IGER, ABC AND DISNEY FOLD TO FASCISTS, SUSPEND KIMMEL - 9.17.25 - Countdown with Keith Olbermann
BULLETIN, SEASON 4 EPISODE 14, COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
BULLETIN (2:55): ABC announced late this afternoon that it had taken "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" off the network's air effective immediately, be...
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September 18, 2025 at 12:20 AM
BULLETIN PODCAST: ABC, Disney, and Bob Iger fold to the fascists: Jimmy Kimmel taken off the air effective immediately, unlikely to return, for telling the truth about MAGA exploitation of the death of Charlie Kirk and Trumpist whitewashing of his hate speech
PODCAST HERE: tinyurl.com/mr2j8k99
PODCAST HERE: tinyurl.com/mr2j8k99
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🧵Masked ICE thugs attempted to abduct the school nurse at Cooke Elementary School, located in the densely populated Adams Morgan section of DC. Workers at the school intervened, demanding a warrant and holding up their phones and ICE scurried off without making their arrest.
March 29, 2025 at 11:26 PM
🧵Masked ICE thugs attempted to abduct the school nurse at Cooke Elementary School, located in the densely populated Adams Morgan section of DC. Workers at the school intervened, demanding a warrant and holding up their phones and ICE scurried off without making their arrest.
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Gabbard says that anybody who Trump wants to get a security clearance can get one
March 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Gabbard says that anybody who Trump wants to get a security clearance can get one
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I agree with Donald Trump that an unelected bureaucrat should be fired.
Let’s start with Elon Musk.
Let’s start with Elon Musk.
March 5, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I agree with Donald Trump that an unelected bureaucrat should be fired.
Let’s start with Elon Musk.
Let’s start with Elon Musk.
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The corporations and billionaires who run them are taking over our government.
Five major financial institutions were all under federal investigation for fraud. All five cases were just dropped by Trump and Musk.
It's now legal to cheat consumers. www.npr.org/2025/02/27/n...
Five major financial institutions were all under federal investigation for fraud. All five cases were just dropped by Trump and Musk.
It's now legal to cheat consumers. www.npr.org/2025/02/27/n...
The CFPB drops its lawsuit against Capital One, marking a major reversal
The consumer protection agency also dropped cases against four other companies including Rocket Homes.
www.npr.org
February 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The corporations and billionaires who run them are taking over our government.
Five major financial institutions were all under federal investigation for fraud. All five cases were just dropped by Trump and Musk.
It's now legal to cheat consumers. www.npr.org/2025/02/27/n...
Five major financial institutions were all under federal investigation for fraud. All five cases were just dropped by Trump and Musk.
It's now legal to cheat consumers. www.npr.org/2025/02/27/n...
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HAPPENING NOW: A federal judge who ordered the unfreezing of USAID contract spending is voicing frustration as a Trump administration lawyer repeatedly refuses to say whether they have actually taken any steps to implement his 12-day-old order.
February 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
HAPPENING NOW: A federal judge who ordered the unfreezing of USAID contract spending is voicing frustration as a Trump administration lawyer repeatedly refuses to say whether they have actually taken any steps to implement his 12-day-old order.
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The same GOP lawmakers who believe citizens should be armed to protect themselves from assault want the woman dragged from a public town hall in Idaho to be ticketed for biting the men who threw her to the floor, dragged her outside, and zip tied a man who tried to intervene.
Idaho woman forcibly dragged from local Republican town hall by private security
The Kootenai County Republican Central Committee said Teresa Borrenpohl was asked to leave after disrupting the event multiple times.
www.nbcnews.com
February 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The same GOP lawmakers who believe citizens should be armed to protect themselves from assault want the woman dragged from a public town hall in Idaho to be ticketed for biting the men who threw her to the floor, dragged her outside, and zip tied a man who tried to intervene.
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I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath.
I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.
I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.
My Open Letter to Elon Musk
From Marc | Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” This is my response.
www.democracydocket.com
February 21, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath.
I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.
I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.
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For no particular reason, what the Commonwealth of Virginia thinks about kings.
February 20, 2025 at 12:47 AM
For no particular reason, what the Commonwealth of Virginia thinks about kings.
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Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
February 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
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Murphy: "This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is."
February 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Murphy: "This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is."
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I hope people see how truly alarming this is:
1. Musk's team, who may not even be US govt employees yet, have complete access to OPM's databases of PII on federal employees and have locked out career employees
2. Musk's people trying to do same with THE US TREASURY MASTER PAYMENT SYSTEM 🚨
1. Musk's team, who may not even be US govt employees yet, have complete access to OPM's databases of PII on federal employees and have locked out career employees
2. Musk's people trying to do same with THE US TREASURY MASTER PAYMENT SYSTEM 🚨
New - Elon Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
www.reuters.com
January 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I hope people see how truly alarming this is:
1. Musk's team, who may not even be US govt employees yet, have complete access to OPM's databases of PII on federal employees and have locked out career employees
2. Musk's people trying to do same with THE US TREASURY MASTER PAYMENT SYSTEM 🚨
1. Musk's team, who may not even be US govt employees yet, have complete access to OPM's databases of PII on federal employees and have locked out career employees
2. Musk's people trying to do same with THE US TREASURY MASTER PAYMENT SYSTEM 🚨
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President Donald Trump removed Rohit Chopra as the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, setting in motion a potentially landmark shift at one of the nation’s most powerful consumer watchdog agencies.
Trump removes Rohit Chopra as director of CFPB
The change in leadership could portend radical changes at one of the nation’s most powerful consumer watchdog agencies.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
President Donald Trump removed Rohit Chopra as the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, setting in motion a potentially landmark shift at one of the nation’s most powerful consumer watchdog agencies.
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
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Hundreds of internal contractors working for the US Agency for International Development are being put on unpaid leave and some are being terminated after US President Donald Trump imposed a sweeping freeze on US foreign aid worldwide reut.rs/4aF8WE7
Hundreds of USAID internal contractors put on leave, terminated amid US freeze on global aid
Hundreds of internal contractors working for the U.S. Agency for International Development are being put on unpaid leave and some are being terminated after U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a sweeping freeze on U.S. foreign aid worldwide.
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January 30, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Hundreds of internal contractors working for the US Agency for International Development are being put on unpaid leave and some are being terminated after US President Donald Trump imposed a sweeping freeze on US foreign aid worldwide reut.rs/4aF8WE7
January 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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January 25, 2025
January 25, 2025
We have all earned a break for this week, but as some of you have heard me say, I write these letters with an eye to what a graduate student will need to know in 150 years.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
January 26, 2025 at 4:29 AM
January 25, 2025
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If you’re not part of the resistance, you’re part of the problem. And stay out of the way of the people that actually care about this country and the human beings in it.
January 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
If you’re not part of the resistance, you’re part of the problem. And stay out of the way of the people that actually care about this country and the human beings in it.
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The U.S. State Department office that funds the clearance of unexploded munitions around the world has asked humanitarian demining organizations funded by the department to cease operations “effective immediately,” according to a surprise announcement early Saturday.
State Dept. Halts Global Mine-Clearing Programs
Efforts to clear unexploded munitions in places like Iraq and Southeast Asia will stop for at least three months, according to a surprise announcement.
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
The U.S. State Department office that funds the clearance of unexploded munitions around the world has asked humanitarian demining organizations funded by the department to cease operations “effective immediately,” according to a surprise announcement early Saturday.
January 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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One voice can be very very loud.
And by being so, it can inspire others to speak up too.
And by being so, it can inspire others to speak up too.
Would very much like to thank Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social for her pointing out that Bishop Budde was one voice, just one, speaking to power and it was amplified across the media.
Don't give up.
Don't stop speaking the truth.
Resistance is NOT futile.
Don't give up.
Don't stop speaking the truth.
Resistance is NOT futile.
January 25, 2025 at 5:08 AM
One voice can be very very loud.
And by being so, it can inspire others to speak up too.
And by being so, it can inspire others to speak up too.
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Have Democrats lost their resolve, or are their voices being muted in a new tech landscape that’s swung toward the right? “The trolls won the medium and the country went with it,” Jay Caspian Kang writes.
The Big Tech Takeover of American Politics
Social media is no longer just a tool for politicians to get out their message; politicians now have to shape themselves into optimized vessels for social media.
www.newyorker.com
January 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Have Democrats lost their resolve, or are their voices being muted in a new tech landscape that’s swung toward the right? “The trolls won the medium and the country went with it,” Jay Caspian Kang writes.