Sylvia Barsion
@barsion.bsky.social
Researcher, knitter, caregiver, fell in love with NYC at birth, ready to work to reclaim my country.
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I’ve released a report on 130 potential acts of corruption that benefit Elon Musk or his companies—one for every day he was a “Special Government Employee” in the Trump administration.
These examples fit the Trump agenda: billionaires win, families lose.
These examples fit the Trump agenda: billionaires win, families lose.
Elon Musk's Reign of Corruption Chronicled in Elizabeth Warren Report
Warren’s report is focused on Musk’s misuse of political power for personal gain as Donald Trump’s DOGE chief.
www.rollingstone.com
June 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I’ve released a report on 130 potential acts of corruption that benefit Elon Musk or his companies—one for every day he was a “Special Government Employee” in the Trump administration.
These examples fit the Trump agenda: billionaires win, families lose.
These examples fit the Trump agenda: billionaires win, families lose.
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Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
April 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
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Literally “if you ask us to prove he’s a terrorist, then maybe YOU are a terrorist!”
JUST IN: Deputy Assistant to the President and "Counterterrorism Czar" Sebastian Gorka says anyone advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be viewed as "aiding and abetting a terrorist" and be federally charged. (h/t Philip Germain)
April 17, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Literally “if you ask us to prove he’s a terrorist, then maybe YOU are a terrorist!”
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I'm calling for an investigation into whether President Trump manipulated the market to benefit his Wall Street donors—all while working people and small businesses paid the price.
Did Trump help insiders cash in on his tariff flip-flopping? It sure looks like corruption.
Did Trump help insiders cash in on his tariff flip-flopping? It sure looks like corruption.
Did Trump help insiders cash in on his tariff flip-flopping?
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
youtu.be
April 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I'm calling for an investigation into whether President Trump manipulated the market to benefit his Wall Street donors—all while working people and small businesses paid the price.
Did Trump help insiders cash in on his tariff flip-flopping? It sure looks like corruption.
Did Trump help insiders cash in on his tariff flip-flopping? It sure looks like corruption.
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I don't think it's being talked about enough that Trump is basing his tariff assaults on Peter Navarro, and Navaro's theories rest on the "research" of "Ron Varo" which is an economist he made up and cited for decades: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP-e...
Rachel Maddow: Trump crashed the world's markets based on the advice on a fictional economist
YouTube video by Egberto Willies (Politics Done Right)
www.youtube.com
April 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I don't think it's being talked about enough that Trump is basing his tariff assaults on Peter Navarro, and Navaro's theories rest on the "research" of "Ron Varo" which is an economist he made up and cited for decades: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP-e...
Our government considers immigrants to be non-humans. This is how the Holocaust happened. This is how slavery happened. When do we stand up and say, not in my name?
"There was no access to a toilet, so guards told the women – whose accounts in some cases occurred on different days or different buses – to urinate or defecate on the floor... "
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Immigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detention
No shower for days, cameras trained on the toilet, women crammed into cells 'like sardines,' among the allegations.
www.usatoday.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Our government considers immigrants to be non-humans. This is how the Holocaust happened. This is how slavery happened. When do we stand up and say, not in my name?
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It is impossible to capture how catastrophic Trump’s recent moves and statements are for US defense contractors—this will have a huge trickle-down industrial effect given supply chains and subcontractors.
March 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
It is impossible to capture how catastrophic Trump’s recent moves and statements are for US defense contractors—this will have a huge trickle-down industrial effect given supply chains and subcontractors.
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Kaufmann: DOGE claims to have found Social Security loans going to 11 year olds and under. It's a survivor benefit annuity to young children whose parents have passed. That's the problem billionaires without a clue doing a job they don't understand
March 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Kaufmann: DOGE claims to have found Social Security loans going to 11 year olds and under. It's a survivor benefit annuity to young children whose parents have passed. That's the problem billionaires without a clue doing a job they don't understand
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Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed information about prominent Black, Hispanic and female service members and topics such as the Civil War from its website, part of an effort across the Defense Department to remove all references to diversity, equity and inclusion from its online presence.
Arlington Cemetery website scrubs links about Black and female veterans
Pentagon leaders have ordered that their websites and social media pages remove articles and images that “promote” DEI.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed information about prominent Black, Hispanic and female service members and topics such as the Civil War from its website, part of an effort across the Defense Department to remove all references to diversity, equity and inclusion from its online presence.
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UPDATE: Yale just confirmed that State terminated the contract in a statement to me:
"Researchers at the Humanitarian Research Lab were notified recently that government funding for their work on the war in Ukraine has been discontinued."
Yale notes the Lab's work defending "Ukrainian children."
"Researchers at the Humanitarian Research Lab were notified recently that government funding for their work on the war in Ukraine has been discontinued."
Yale notes the Lab's work defending "Ukrainian children."
SCOOP --> Trump's State Department quietly terminated a contract that was in the process of transferring evidence of Russian abductions of Ukrainian kids to European law enforcement, two sources familiar with the situation tell me.
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/1927...
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/1927...
Trump Admin Nixed Contract Helping Kidnapped Ukrainian Kids: Sources
The fate of abducted Ukrainian children is a white-hot issue for peace negotiations—and it looks like the State Department may have just undercut the cause.
newrepublic.com
March 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
UPDATE: Yale just confirmed that State terminated the contract in a statement to me:
"Researchers at the Humanitarian Research Lab were notified recently that government funding for their work on the war in Ukraine has been discontinued."
Yale notes the Lab's work defending "Ukrainian children."
"Researchers at the Humanitarian Research Lab were notified recently that government funding for their work on the war in Ukraine has been discontinued."
Yale notes the Lab's work defending "Ukrainian children."
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trump came to power both times arguing that america was in the dump — that nothing could be worse than it currently is.
and both times what he meant is that *he* would make it that way
and both times what he meant is that *he* would make it that way
I just heard this as well. The entire staff of the National Center for Education Statistics, created in 1867, has been fired.
March 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
trump came to power both times arguing that america was in the dump — that nothing could be worse than it currently is.
and both times what he meant is that *he* would make it that way
and both times what he meant is that *he* would make it that way
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This is really remarkable. A pardon attorney was told that Gibson was a personal friend of the President and she should recommend he be given his access to guns back. She didn't and was immediately fired.
They will fire lawyers who won't bless their cronyism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/u...
They will fire lawyers who won't bless their cronyism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/u...
Justice Dept. Official Says She Was Fired After Opposing Restoring Mel Gibson’s Gun Rights
Elizabeth G. Oyer, the former pardon attorney, said that she was not told why she was dismissed, but that as events unfolded she feared they might lead to her firing.
www.nytimes.com
March 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
This is really remarkable. A pardon attorney was told that Gibson was a personal friend of the President and she should recommend he be given his access to guns back. She didn't and was immediately fired.
They will fire lawyers who won't bless their cronyism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/u...
They will fire lawyers who won't bless their cronyism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/u...
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🧵 One of the biggest unions in the US is pressuring Tesla investors, "acting on behalf of an estimated $4 trillion in retirement assets"
“This is about safeguarding workers’ retirements...we saw Tesla stock continue to sink faster than a Cybertruck in quicksand"
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/b...
“This is about safeguarding workers’ retirements...we saw Tesla stock continue to sink faster than a Cybertruck in quicksand"
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/b...
A Union Takes On Musk via Tesla’s Stock (Gift Article)
The American Federation of Teachers is pressuring some of the carmaker’s biggest shareholders as the tech mogul's cost-cutting influence in Washington sets off alarm bells.
www.nytimes.com
March 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
🧵 One of the biggest unions in the US is pressuring Tesla investors, "acting on behalf of an estimated $4 trillion in retirement assets"
“This is about safeguarding workers’ retirements...we saw Tesla stock continue to sink faster than a Cybertruck in quicksand"
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/b...
“This is about safeguarding workers’ retirements...we saw Tesla stock continue to sink faster than a Cybertruck in quicksand"
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/b...
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Anyone who cares about the shocking resurgence of antisemitism and its relationship to the attack on democracy all over the world must read this powerful analysis of the Trump-Vance attempt to humiliate President Zelensky in the Oval Office. Tim Snyder’s analysis is devastating.
Antisemitism in the Oval Office
A confrontation seen with a historian's eye
snyder.substack.com
March 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Anyone who cares about the shocking resurgence of antisemitism and its relationship to the attack on democracy all over the world must read this powerful analysis of the Trump-Vance attempt to humiliate President Zelensky in the Oval Office. Tim Snyder’s analysis is devastating.
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As a former Fulbright Scholar (in Chile), I personally understand how terrifying this is. U.S. citizens around the world & foreign nationals in the U.S. — all Fulbright Scholars — have now had their incomes eliminated & are stranded.
DOGE is an illegal, criminal operation that must be shut down.
DOGE is an illegal, criminal operation that must be shut down.
Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States
March 7, 2025 at 11:34 PM
As a former Fulbright Scholar (in Chile), I personally understand how terrifying this is. U.S. citizens around the world & foreign nationals in the U.S. — all Fulbright Scholars — have now had their incomes eliminated & are stranded.
DOGE is an illegal, criminal operation that must be shut down.
DOGE is an illegal, criminal operation that must be shut down.
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We are working on launching an ALT DOGE website. It will soon feature a team page listing all of Elon’s staffers, our own wall of receipts (tracking the money he’s taking from America), and a section to help Americans keep tabs on the false claims on Doge’s website—which now exceed 52%.
March 6, 2025 at 3:40 AM
We are working on launching an ALT DOGE website. It will soon feature a team page listing all of Elon’s staffers, our own wall of receipts (tracking the money he’s taking from America), and a section to help Americans keep tabs on the false claims on Doge’s website—which now exceed 52%.
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Counteroffer: we nationalize SpaceX and you go to prison
"We should try to privatize everything we possibly can, and that would be my recommendation," Musk said later.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
Elon Musk suggests the U.S. should privatize the Postal Service and Amtrak
During a remote appearance at a technology conference in San Francisco, Musk told attendees the U.S. should privatize "as much as possible."
www.nbcnews.com
March 5, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Counteroffer: we nationalize SpaceX and you go to prison
Is this a parody account?
The National Parks are a big money loser for us. They should be privatized. Just think how much income having a McDonalds every few miles in Yosemite could bring in. Think what Elon Musk could do with The Grand Canyon. Nobody can steward public lands like the private sector.
March 5, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Is this a parody account?
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Zelenskyy left White House without signing US-Ukraine critical minerals deal Trump had demanded.
February 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) - Zelenskyy left White House without signing US-Ukraine critical minerals deal Trump had demanded.
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Trump is an international disgrace. The way he treated Zelensky was un-American. Only a traitor who is Putin's puppet would be this horrible. Unforgivable.
February 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Trump is an international disgrace. The way he treated Zelensky was un-American. Only a traitor who is Putin's puppet would be this horrible. Unforgivable.
Oh swell. Let’s give him and Trump a map coloring book with Sharpies, and Rubio can tell them the borders are redrawn.
Peter Navarro, the senior White House trade adviser to Donald Trump, has threatened to redraw the U.S.-Canada border, according to The Telegraph.
Insane.
Insane.
February 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Oh swell. Let’s give him and Trump a map coloring book with Sharpies, and Rubio can tell them the borders are redrawn.
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People laughed a few days ago when @jamellebouie.net said we might not have flu shots next year, but:
NEWS: The FDA abruptly canceled its upcoming advisory committee meeting to select the strains for next year's flu shot.
by @berkeleyjr.bsky.social
by @berkeleyjr.bsky.social
FDA cancels meeting to select flu strains for next season's shots
The canceled meeting comes just days after a CDC vaccine advisory committee meeting was abruptly postponed.
www.nbcnews.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:43 AM
People laughed a few days ago when @jamellebouie.net said we might not have flu shots next year, but:
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If you work for or are impacted by the Department of Housing and Urban Development or the Department of Transportation, @jessecoburn.bsky.social wants to hear from you.
Reach out on Signal at 917-239-6642.
Reach out on Signal at 917-239-6642.
February 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
If you work for or are impacted by the Department of Housing and Urban Development or the Department of Transportation, @jessecoburn.bsky.social wants to hear from you.
Reach out on Signal at 917-239-6642.
Reach out on Signal at 917-239-6642.