BakesQTF
@bakesqtf.bsky.social
Recovering IP Paralegal, writer, and cheerleader for the underdog. Follower of profiles that mention cats or other creature pets.
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Hey, here’s some of what @thedemocraticparty.bsky.social did today 👋🏽
February 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Hey, here’s some of what @thedemocraticparty.bsky.social did today 👋🏽
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America got this look on its face like oh, yeah, NOW I remember why we threw this assclown out of office the first time.
February 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
America got this look on its face like oh, yeah, NOW I remember why we threw this assclown out of office the first time.
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DOGE access to the DOE information technology system is unacceptable. We must keep Elon Musk and his minions away from our most sensitive nuclear weapons information. I am demanding answers from Secretary Wright. www.reuters.com/world/us/dem...
Democratic US lawmakers ask Energy Department about any DOGE access to nuclear data
Two U.S. Democratic lawmakers pressed the secretary of energy on Wednesday whether members of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency have access to classified information on nuclear weapons, saying nuclear secrets need to be tightly safeguarded.
www.reuters.com
February 13, 2025 at 1:17 AM
DOGE access to the DOE information technology system is unacceptable. We must keep Elon Musk and his minions away from our most sensitive nuclear weapons information. I am demanding answers from Secretary Wright. www.reuters.com/world/us/dem...
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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 12, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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.
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new video up about our constitutional crisis youtu.be/aBVGmDaQRbE
Elon Musk, "DOGE" and the future of the Constitution
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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February 13, 2025 at 3:43 AM
new video up about our constitutional crisis youtu.be/aBVGmDaQRbE
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The Kim Jong Un-ification of America
February 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The Kim Jong Un-ification of America
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Absolutely brutal scroll on Fox.
February 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Absolutely brutal scroll on Fox.
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Trump says there must be "pain" for Americans in this idiotic trade war of his.
Ask yourself, what pain does TRUMP suffer?
What pain will the billionaire class suffer?
Why is it that when Republicans talk about pain and sacrifice, it's always YOU who suffers for their vision?
Ask yourself, what pain does TRUMP suffer?
What pain will the billionaire class suffer?
Why is it that when Republicans talk about pain and sacrifice, it's always YOU who suffers for their vision?
February 3, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Trump says there must be "pain" for Americans in this idiotic trade war of his.
Ask yourself, what pain does TRUMP suffer?
What pain will the billionaire class suffer?
Why is it that when Republicans talk about pain and sacrifice, it's always YOU who suffers for their vision?
Ask yourself, what pain does TRUMP suffer?
What pain will the billionaire class suffer?
Why is it that when Republicans talk about pain and sacrifice, it's always YOU who suffers for their vision?
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This is the “democracy” resulting from the “thoughtful debates” that Jeff Sutton tells us are happening in legislatures across the country. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
October 12, 2023 at 8:52 PM
This is the “democracy” resulting from the “thoughtful debates” that Jeff Sutton tells us are happening in legislatures across the country. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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I recently went back and refreshed myself on Yitzhak Rabin's assassination and did not remember how much Netanyahu incited it, and how his reaction to the murder was "meh".
![National religious conservatives and Likud party leaders believed that withdrawing from any "Jewish" land was heresy.[4] The Likud leader and future prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, accused Rabin's government of being "removed from Jewish tradition [...] and Jewish values".[2][3] Right-wing rabbis associated with the settlers' movement prohibited territorial concessions to the Palestinians and forbade soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces from evacuating Jewish settlers under the accords.[5][6] Some rabbis proclaimed din rodef, based on a traditional Jewish law of self-defense, against Rabin personally, arguing that the Oslo Accords would endanger Jewish lives.[5][7][page needed]
Rallies organized by Likud and other right-wing groups featured depictions of Rabin in a Nazi SS uniform, or in the crosshairs of a gun.[2][3] Protesters compared the Labor party to the Nazis and Rabin to Adolf Hitler[5] and chanted, "Rabin is a murderer" and "Rabin is a traitor".[8][9] In July 1995, Netan](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fi2keywfodbhnsgbvfwliwep/bafkreihit2z7mtbfikrvfg6irdtf6np6ump5tyavk7feyhxwsqbedmys4m@jpeg)
October 12, 2023 at 8:39 PM
I recently went back and refreshed myself on Yitzhak Rabin's assassination and did not remember how much Netanyahu incited it, and how his reaction to the murder was "meh".
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people who are vocally supporting palestine are being tracked on websites, getting released from contracts/labels, losing jobs. CEOs are calling for students—undergraduate! students!—to be blacklisted. just for saying “free palestine”.
October 12, 2023 at 2:03 PM
people who are vocally supporting palestine are being tracked on websites, getting released from contracts/labels, losing jobs. CEOs are calling for students—undergraduate! students!—to be blacklisted. just for saying “free palestine”.
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🔥🔥 Rep. Mike Rogers leaves the GOP meeting unhappy, says eight Republican “traitors” (he used the word four times) have “paralyzed” the House by removing McCarthy. He tells me Scalise has the same problems and GOP may NEVER get 217 votes for a Speaker. He says Dems must help.
October 12, 2023 at 7:56 PM
🔥🔥 Rep. Mike Rogers leaves the GOP meeting unhappy, says eight Republican “traitors” (he used the word four times) have “paralyzed” the House by removing McCarthy. He tells me Scalise has the same problems and GOP may NEVER get 217 votes for a Speaker. He says Dems must help.
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Doctors Without Borders in Gaza says 100% of the patients it has treated in the past 24 hours have been children
Doctors Without Borders in Gaza says 100% of the patients it has treated in the past 24 hours have b...
Medical-aid groups in the Gaza Strip told Insider they were running out of supplies due to Israel's counterattack and blockade.
www.businessinsider.com
October 12, 2023 at 7:02 PM
Doctors Without Borders in Gaza says 100% of the patients it has treated in the past 24 hours have been children
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Good on the Kennedy family to put out this statement. It couldn’t have been easy.
October 10, 2023 at 8:16 PM
Good on the Kennedy family to put out this statement. It couldn’t have been easy.
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This is such an infuriating framing. The family that moved out of Iowa wasn’t “fed up with its politics,” the state had literally just criminalized their son’s existence and banned the medical treatments he needs
Two Families Got Fed Up With Their States’ Politics. So They Moved Out.
The Nobles of Iowa moved to blue Minnesota. The Huckinses of Oregon moved to red Missouri. Their separate journeys, five weeks apart, illustrate the fracturing of America.
www.nytimes.com
October 7, 2023 at 1:32 PM
This is such an infuriating framing. The family that moved out of Iowa wasn’t “fed up with its politics,” the state had literally just criminalized their son’s existence and banned the medical treatments he needs
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Huge scoop from @BrandyZadrozny:
Michael Benz, a Trump State Dept official who’s been promoted by Elon Musk, is secretly a white nationalist influencer who goes by “Frame Game.”
Here he is talking about “the Jewish influence” on “white genocide.”
www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
Michael Benz, a Trump State Dept official who’s been promoted by Elon Musk, is secretly a white nationalist influencer who goes by “Frame Game.”
Here he is talking about “the Jewish influence” on “white genocide.”
www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
October 7, 2023 at 2:02 AM
Huge scoop from @BrandyZadrozny:
Michael Benz, a Trump State Dept official who’s been promoted by Elon Musk, is secretly a white nationalist influencer who goes by “Frame Game.”
Here he is talking about “the Jewish influence” on “white genocide.”
www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
Michael Benz, a Trump State Dept official who’s been promoted by Elon Musk, is secretly a white nationalist influencer who goes by “Frame Game.”
Here he is talking about “the Jewish influence” on “white genocide.”
www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
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The IRS has put a lien on Giuliani’s property in Palm Beach, Florida because it claims he owes over half a million in unpaid taxes. I’m sure that Republicans will call for him to be prosecuted for it the same way Hunter Biden was, even though Hunter has already repaid his tax debt. Right? [Crickets]
October 6, 2023 at 3:13 PM
The IRS has put a lien on Giuliani’s property in Palm Beach, Florida because it claims he owes over half a million in unpaid taxes. I’m sure that Republicans will call for him to be prosecuted for it the same way Hunter Biden was, even though Hunter has already repaid his tax debt. Right? [Crickets]
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@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com it's a fact?
October 6, 2023 at 2:14 PM
@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com it's a fact?
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Hey there, friends! 👋 In case you missed it, we had a fantastic chat with @RuthBenGhiat earlier this week about the rise of authoritarianism in the U.S. If you haven't checked it out, head to #TheBigPicture for the full interview! Trust me, it's a conversation you'll want to be a part of:
The Big Q&A With Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat, an expert on the history of fascism and authoritarianism, answers questions from George and Team Takei.
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
October 6, 2023 at 5:03 PM
Hey there, friends! 👋 In case you missed it, we had a fantastic chat with @RuthBenGhiat earlier this week about the rise of authoritarianism in the U.S. If you haven't checked it out, head to #TheBigPicture for the full interview! Trust me, it's a conversation you'll want to be a part of:
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Senate Democrats in Virginia have killed a barrage of GOP bills over the last two sessions, including restrictions on abortion access. If the GOP gains control of the legislature this November, it could open the floodgates for such bills: boltsmag.org/state-govern...
The Five States Where Trifectas Are At Play in November
Parties are battling over governorships and legislatures in Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, and Virginia, with the future of abortion and voting rights in the balance.
boltsmag.org
October 6, 2023 at 9:35 PM
Senate Democrats in Virginia have killed a barrage of GOP bills over the last two sessions, including restrictions on abortion access. If the GOP gains control of the legislature this November, it could open the floodgates for such bills: boltsmag.org/state-govern...
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NaNoWriMo
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October 7, 2023 at 2:31 AM
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October 5, 2023 at 10:18 PM
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Fox News hosts are now openly calling for an end to democracy and a civil war.
I’m sure this will be largely ignored and treated as a peculiarity despite all the evidence we’ve seen that we need to take this stuff seriously.
I’m sure this will be largely ignored and treated as a peculiarity despite all the evidence we’ve seen that we need to take this stuff seriously.
October 5, 2023 at 10:55 PM
Fox News hosts are now openly calling for an end to democracy and a civil war.
I’m sure this will be largely ignored and treated as a peculiarity despite all the evidence we’ve seen that we need to take this stuff seriously.
I’m sure this will be largely ignored and treated as a peculiarity despite all the evidence we’ve seen that we need to take this stuff seriously.
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Virginia's elections are heating up, and with reproductive rights in the crosshair, the implications go far beyond state lines. We need to pay attention, because as goes Virginia, so may go the country next year.
The High Stakes Election Coming Up In Virginia
As donors plan to converge on Virginia to possibly woo Gov. Glenn Youngkin into running for President next year, the November 7th legislative elections couldn't be more consequential.
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
October 5, 2023 at 6:38 PM
Virginia's elections are heating up, and with reproductive rights in the crosshair, the implications go far beyond state lines. We need to pay attention, because as goes Virginia, so may go the country next year.