Lowell Chilton
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Lowell Chilton
@chiltie.bsky.social
ELCA Pastor, Maritime Chaplain, Reader, Coder.
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Please share!!! This is getting ridiculous—they just can’t accept a loss. Please help spread the word to North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that over 60,000 votes cast in last year’s closely contested state Supreme Court race must be verified and recounted.
April 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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OMG. I was wondering that as the tariff numbers made no sense, but this is even dumber than I thought. I mean, this is "fail your econ 101 class and have to go meet with the professor" bad.
james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country

"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
April 2, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Congress was denied entry to both the U.S. Department of Education and the Treasury, where Musk staffers blocked the doors. Along with its appropriations responsibilities, Congress holds oversight authority over federal agencies. Blocking congressional access to these agencies is illegal.
February 9, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people
February 5, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Dear every ally, both celebrity and random.

Hormones cause puberty. Republicans are trying to convince everyone that *teenagers* are too young for *puberty*.

Please bake this into the way you talk about trans youth.
February 5, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking the Bureau of Prisons from enacting President Trump’s executive order to house transgender women with male inmates and stop medical treatment related to gender transitions.
Judge Blocks Trump Effort to Move Trans Women to Men’s Prisons
A temporary restraining order blocked the administration from transferring transgender women and from ending gender-transition treatment for prisoners.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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andrew johnson was impeached for violation of the tenure of office act. in the scheme of things, was that a huge deal? not really. the actual issue was that johnson was trying to scuttle any attempt to reconstruct the former confederate states on an egalitarian basis and *that* was intolerable
February 5, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.
February 4, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.
What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.
February 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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NEW: USAID source says staff are scrambling to save archived copies of US regulations before they're gone & are being actively locked out of systems, including a publicly available database of USAID documents.

WIRED has built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains.
US Government Websites Are Disappearing in Real Time
A growing number of US government websites have gone offline as of Saturday, including several related to USAID and others focused on youth programs, Africa, and more.
www.wired.com
February 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Breaking News: The Justice Department fired more than a dozen prosecutors who had been hired to investigate the Jan. 6 riot.
Over a Dozen Prosecutors at U.S. Attorney’s Office in D.C. Are Dismissed
Those informed of their dismissals had been hired to investigate the Jan. 6 riot as the office struggled to manage what became the largest prosecution in the department’s history.
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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BREAKING WAPO:

Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin just announced the dismissal of roughly 30 federal prosecutors who worked on Capitol riot cases in the D.C. office over the past four years.

Notifications went out at about 5 p.m. on Friday. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Interim U.S. attorney fires more than 2 dozen Jan. 6 prosecutors in D.C.
Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin is dismissing more than two dozen federal prosecutors in his D.C. office who worked on Capitol riot cases over the past four years.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 31, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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i need someone to ask john roberts if nondelegation applies to handing over the entire federal government to a single unelected billionaire
January 31, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Wilson, because there was already a record of hundreds of competent African-American workers throughout the federal government at different levels and he still authorized its segregation.
I mean this is the most racist government since… Woodrow Wilson? Jefferson Davis?
January 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.
It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.
January 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Read these words from ELCA Metro DC Bishop Ortiz #lutheran #ELCA. metrodcelca.org/as-dawn-brok...
As dawn broke over D.C. | Metro DC - ELCA
Reflecting on Bishop Budde’s Sermon Click here to read the reflection from Bishop’s Ortiz.
metrodcelca.org
January 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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The White House didn't say "stop teaching about the Tuskegee Airmen when you do US history." The White House said "stop doing DEI and wokeness," and the military interpreted it as "stop saying the Tuskegee Airmen were heroes, and maybe stop teaching about them altogether."

Yeah, that's bad.
Here's the thing about the Tuskegee Airmen history - there was nothing in the EO about it. Someone in the Air Force interpreted it that way -- which is far worse.
January 26, 2025 at 12:31 AM