Capybarabara
@capybarabara.bsky.social
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Resigned CDC official: I was really optimistic that we could continue to improve public health infrastructure across our nation. But with losing 30% of my staff, not able to execute contracts, not be able to hire new individuals, it became apparent I wasn't going to be effective in my role
August 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Resigned CDC official: I was really optimistic that we could continue to improve public health infrastructure across our nation. But with losing 30% of my staff, not able to execute contracts, not be able to hire new individuals, it became apparent I wasn't going to be effective in my role
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We found the waste, fraud, and abuse…
August 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
We found the waste, fraud, and abuse…
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If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
June 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
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On Transgender Day of Visibility, we celebrate Minnesota’s transgender community and recommit to standing up for our neighbors in the face of hatred.
As your Governor, I’m proud to stand in this fight with you.
As your Governor, I’m proud to stand in this fight with you.
March 31, 2025 at 7:35 PM
On Transgender Day of Visibility, we celebrate Minnesota’s transgender community and recommit to standing up for our neighbors in the face of hatred.
As your Governor, I’m proud to stand in this fight with you.
As your Governor, I’m proud to stand in this fight with you.
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"Hi, we are calling you about the unpaid bills you have"
-"I can't be in debt"
"Yes you are"
-"No because I follow Absolutism"
"I don't follow"
-"Which means that there can't be any negative numbers"
"I'm sending you to collections"
-"An array or using some some tree structure?"
"I'm hanging up"
-"I can't be in debt"
"Yes you are"
-"No because I follow Absolutism"
"I don't follow"
-"Which means that there can't be any negative numbers"
"I'm sending you to collections"
-"An array or using some some tree structure?"
"I'm hanging up"
March 1, 2025 at 12:20 PM
"Hi, we are calling you about the unpaid bills you have"
-"I can't be in debt"
"Yes you are"
-"No because I follow Absolutism"
"I don't follow"
-"Which means that there can't be any negative numbers"
"I'm sending you to collections"
-"An array or using some some tree structure?"
"I'm hanging up"
-"I can't be in debt"
"Yes you are"
-"No because I follow Absolutism"
"I don't follow"
-"Which means that there can't be any negative numbers"
"I'm sending you to collections"
-"An array or using some some tree structure?"
"I'm hanging up"
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Make Sure You Have It In Writing is amazing widely applicable advice for all situations always
"would you please put that in writing" is how you pull off insubordination without actually being insubordinate. Very useful when you are getting sketchy (whatever 'sketchy' might mean) instructions from someone who might not want to take responsibility for it later.
signed, a former union steward.
signed, a former union steward.
Have you been asked, as a federal worker, to do something you don't want to do? But they won't put it in writing?
DON'T DO IT.
If they're going to punish you? MAKE THEM PUT IT IN WRITING. ALL OF IT.
Document, document, document.
Act confused. Be confused! Go slow. Require clarity. Lots. Document
DON'T DO IT.
If they're going to punish you? MAKE THEM PUT IT IN WRITING. ALL OF IT.
Document, document, document.
Act confused. Be confused! Go slow. Require clarity. Lots. Document
February 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Make Sure You Have It In Writing is amazing widely applicable advice for all situations always
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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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Unelected, union-busting billionaires have no business trying to get access to complaints workers have filed for their personal advantage. We are fighting back in court to make sure this illegal power grab is shut down.
www.seiu.org/2025/02/seiu...
www.seiu.org/2025/02/seiu...
SEIU’s Verrett: Unions will not allow the illegal seizure of workers’ complaints at the Department of Labor
www.seiu.org
February 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Unelected, union-busting billionaires have no business trying to get access to complaints workers have filed for their personal advantage. We are fighting back in court to make sure this illegal power grab is shut down.
www.seiu.org/2025/02/seiu...
www.seiu.org/2025/02/seiu...
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Again, I say this all the time, but the specific anti-trans rhetoric that pervades now *literally doesn't make sense* unless we magically popped into existence 10 or so years ago making new demands. It can all be traced directly back to this manufactured panic around that time.
If anyone claims that the current anti-trans panic was caused in any part by trans people advocating for our human rights, that person is lying through their teeth.
The religious right lost on marriage equality, and immediately started going after trans people instead. That's what happened.
The religious right lost on marriage equality, and immediately started going after trans people instead. That's what happened.
February 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Again, I say this all the time, but the specific anti-trans rhetoric that pervades now *literally doesn't make sense* unless we magically popped into existence 10 or so years ago making new demands. It can all be traced directly back to this manufactured panic around that time.
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A group of 94 concerned citizens visited #LindseyGraham 's office in Greenville SC on Wednesday‼️
Thanks to INDIVISIBLE for spearheading this event.
Thanks to INDIVISIBLE for spearheading this event.
February 6, 2025 at 11:47 AM
A group of 94 concerned citizens visited #LindseyGraham 's office in Greenville SC on Wednesday‼️
Thanks to INDIVISIBLE for spearheading this event.
Thanks to INDIVISIBLE for spearheading this event.
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Senate Democrats are doing an overnight filibuster to protest Russell Vought's nomination for OMB, so we can't pass up the opportunity to re-post video of Vought talking about a national porn ban:
Project 2025 Co-Author Caught On Secret Camera Talking About a National Porn Ban
YouTube video by The Intercept
youtu.be
February 6, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Senate Democrats are doing an overnight filibuster to protest Russell Vought's nomination for OMB, so we can't pass up the opportunity to re-post video of Vought talking about a national porn ban:
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USAID was investigating Elon Musk’s Starlink contracts in Ukraine 👀
Also, can we agree that it's pronounced U-S Aid and not U-S-A-I-D?
Also, can we agree that it's pronounced U-S Aid and not U-S-A-I-D?
Elon Musk's Enemy, USAID, Was Investigating Starlink's Contracts in Ukraine
The agency was in the midst of a probe into the billionaire's equipment at the time of Musk's assault.
gizmodo.com
February 5, 2025 at 11:11 PM
USAID was investigating Elon Musk’s Starlink contracts in Ukraine 👀
Also, can we agree that it's pronounced U-S Aid and not U-S-A-I-D?
Also, can we agree that it's pronounced U-S Aid and not U-S-A-I-D?
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Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work
February 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work
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During my former life, I accepted being shot at, dodging IEDs and the occasional rocket…Let me tell you, waking up to yet another Fork in the Road email knowing it originated from a 19-y/o incel at the behest of an oligarch has me enraged like never before.
February 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
During my former life, I accepted being shot at, dodging IEDs and the occasional rocket…Let me tell you, waking up to yet another Fork in the Road email knowing it originated from a 19-y/o incel at the behest of an oligarch has me enraged like never before.
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I... have no words for how... just... what... I mean... holy shit...
Top Dem on the House Intel Committee Jim Himes says in a statement that he understands that the White House “insisted” on the CIA transmitting the list in an unclassified email
New via NYT — The CIA sent the White House an unclassified email listing all employees hired by the spy agency over the last two years to comply with an executive order to shrink the federal work force. One former agency officer called the reporting of names a “counterintelligence disaster.”
February 5, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I... have no words for how... just... what... I mean... holy shit...
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TRUMP TRADE WAR UPDATE:
Colombia: Lasted 4 hours - Trump accepts what was already offered.
🇨🇴
Mexico: Lasted one weekend - Trump accepts worse than before.
🇲🇽
Canada: Lasted one weekend - Trump accepts what was already agreed.
🇨🇦
Two-step process established:
1. Try to look tough
2. Just fold
🤡
Colombia: Lasted 4 hours - Trump accepts what was already offered.
🇨🇴
Mexico: Lasted one weekend - Trump accepts worse than before.
🇲🇽
Canada: Lasted one weekend - Trump accepts what was already agreed.
🇨🇦
Two-step process established:
1. Try to look tough
2. Just fold
🤡
February 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
TRUMP TRADE WAR UPDATE:
Colombia: Lasted 4 hours - Trump accepts what was already offered.
🇨🇴
Mexico: Lasted one weekend - Trump accepts worse than before.
🇲🇽
Canada: Lasted one weekend - Trump accepts what was already agreed.
🇨🇦
Two-step process established:
1. Try to look tough
2. Just fold
🤡
Colombia: Lasted 4 hours - Trump accepts what was already offered.
🇨🇴
Mexico: Lasted one weekend - Trump accepts worse than before.
🇲🇽
Canada: Lasted one weekend - Trump accepts what was already agreed.
🇨🇦
Two-step process established:
1. Try to look tough
2. Just fold
🤡
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I wrote about the right to bathrooms, trans rights, executive orders, personhood, the history of politicizing peeing, Susan Stryker, Sarah McBride, and public space for @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Right to Pee Is Everything
www.thenation.com
February 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I wrote about the right to bathrooms, trans rights, executive orders, personhood, the history of politicizing peeing, Susan Stryker, Sarah McBride, and public space for @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Sen. Schiff presses Kash Patel to look at the Capitol Police officers behind him. Patel doesn't.
"I want you to look at them if you can, if you have the courage … and tell them you're proud of what you did. Tell them you're proud that you raised money off of people that assaulted their colleagues."
"I want you to look at them if you can, if you have the courage … and tell them you're proud of what you did. Tell them you're proud that you raised money off of people that assaulted their colleagues."
January 30, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Sen. Schiff presses Kash Patel to look at the Capitol Police officers behind him. Patel doesn't.
"I want you to look at them if you can, if you have the courage … and tell them you're proud of what you did. Tell them you're proud that you raised money off of people that assaulted their colleagues."
"I want you to look at them if you can, if you have the courage … and tell them you're proud of what you did. Tell them you're proud that you raised money off of people that assaulted their colleagues."
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Sen. Tim Kaine tells federal employees to ignore Trump’s offer to quit with pay for months. “Don’t be fooled. He’s tricked hundreds of people with that offer. If you accept that offer and resign he’ll stiff you just like he stiffed the contractors. He doesn’t have any authority to do this.”
January 29, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Sen. Tim Kaine tells federal employees to ignore Trump’s offer to quit with pay for months. “Don’t be fooled. He’s tricked hundreds of people with that offer. If you accept that offer and resign he’ll stiff you just like he stiffed the contractors. He doesn’t have any authority to do this.”
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NEW: Trans women in federal custody were placed in solitary and told they were going to be moved to men's facilities days after Trump's exec order. Other trans folks have issues accessing HRT.
Advocates fear this is just the beginning.
from me + @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/35x3azm7
Advocates fear this is just the beginning.
from me + @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/35x3azm7
Trans Woman Sues After Being Notified Of Transfer To Men’s Prison
One of the women sued the Trump administration, alleging the order violates her constitutional rights and puts her “at an extremely high risk of harassment, abuse, violence, and sexual assault.”
www.huffpost.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:23 AM
NEW: Trans women in federal custody were placed in solitary and told they were going to be moved to men's facilities days after Trump's exec order. Other trans folks have issues accessing HRT.
Advocates fear this is just the beginning.
from me + @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/35x3azm7
Advocates fear this is just the beginning.
from me + @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/35x3azm7
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I kept this screenshot assuming someday we might be asked to forget.
January 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I kept this screenshot assuming someday we might be asked to forget.
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a raccoon that listened could fix me
October 21, 2024 at 10:47 PM
a raccoon that listened could fix me
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Russian court sentences 3 lawyers to prison for providing legal services.
Yep, you read that right: lawyers jailed for doing lawyer things.
Their client was Alexei Navalny, once Russia's leading opposition politician, who died suddenly in a prison colony last year.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/01...
Yep, you read that right: lawyers jailed for doing lawyer things.
Their client was Alexei Navalny, once Russia's leading opposition politician, who died suddenly in a prison colony last year.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/01...
Prison Terms for Navalny’s Russian Defense Lawyers
Last week, a Russian court sentenced three lawyers who had represented the country’s leading opposition politician, Alexei Navalny, to imprisonment on bogus extremism charges following a sham trial.
www.hrw.org
January 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Russian court sentences 3 lawyers to prison for providing legal services.
Yep, you read that right: lawyers jailed for doing lawyer things.
Their client was Alexei Navalny, once Russia's leading opposition politician, who died suddenly in a prison colony last year.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/01...
Yep, you read that right: lawyers jailed for doing lawyer things.
Their client was Alexei Navalny, once Russia's leading opposition politician, who died suddenly in a prison colony last year.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/01...
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If you have watched the last 2 and a half minutes of the Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde's homily this morning, I urge you to watch the whole 15 minutes. My first impression is that of the entire inauguration, this speech will be the one remembered and studied for decades.
1.21.25 Homily by The Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde
YouTube video by Washington National Cathedral
youtu.be
January 22, 2025 at 4:52 AM
If you have watched the last 2 and a half minutes of the Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde's homily this morning, I urge you to watch the whole 15 minutes. My first impression is that of the entire inauguration, this speech will be the one remembered and studied for decades.