@ctrout.bsky.social
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
Schizofacism: the ultimate manipulation
March 3, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Schizofacism: the ultimate manipulation
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Cartoon by Nick Anderson
February 27, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Cartoon by Nick Anderson
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Americans’ obsession with the super wealthy allowed this Trojan horse to roll up into the center of the republic. And here we are.
February 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Americans’ obsession with the super wealthy allowed this Trojan horse to roll up into the center of the republic. And here we are.
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HEADS UP! We need to give this story more attention. This is the next phase - investigations of those who criticize Trump, Musk or SCOTUS. It’s already started. It is a campaign of intimidation designed to silence criticism.
wapo.st/3X8d75G
wapo.st/3X8d75G
D.C. U.S. attorney probing Democrats over alleged threats, documents show
Analysts say Ed Martin’s ‘Operation Whirlwind,’ which targets statements by Democrats and others about Elon Musk and Supreme Court justices, is meant to stifle criticism.
wapo.st
February 20, 2025 at 3:47 AM
HEADS UP! We need to give this story more attention. This is the next phase - investigations of those who criticize Trump, Musk or SCOTUS. It’s already started. It is a campaign of intimidation designed to silence criticism.
wapo.st/3X8d75G
wapo.st/3X8d75G
I see you, Google, and like Spain calls their country España, I will still call it the México.
February 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I see you, Google, and like Spain calls their country España, I will still call it the México.
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Abolishing the Department of Education will further decimate rural schools...
And, for what? The Dept of Ed does not write curriculum -- that is done at the local and state level. The funding from the department mostly supports economically disadvantaged school systems. The poorest schools...
And, for what? The Dept of Ed does not write curriculum -- that is done at the local and state level. The funding from the department mostly supports economically disadvantaged school systems. The poorest schools...
February 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Abolishing the Department of Education will further decimate rural schools...
And, for what? The Dept of Ed does not write curriculum -- that is done at the local and state level. The funding from the department mostly supports economically disadvantaged school systems. The poorest schools...
And, for what? The Dept of Ed does not write curriculum -- that is done at the local and state level. The funding from the department mostly supports economically disadvantaged school systems. The poorest schools...
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1,100 EPA employees have been notified of imminent termination.
February 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
1,100 EPA employees have been notified of imminent termination.
When Trump won the 2016 election, several people told me to "just wait".
Still waiting, y'all, and I'm even more terrified than I was then.
Still waiting, y'all, and I'm even more terrified than I was then.
January 31, 2025 at 11:33 PM
When Trump won the 2016 election, several people told me to "just wait".
Still waiting, y'all, and I'm even more terrified than I was then.
Still waiting, y'all, and I'm even more terrified than I was then.
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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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We can't do this for four years. It has only been nine days. For the sake of all of us, even the morons who put them in office, the current administration has to go.
January 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
We can't do this for four years. It has only been nine days. For the sake of all of us, even the morons who put them in office, the current administration has to go.
I was at a minor league ice hockey game last night. During the national anthem, a group of people cheered when the singer reached the "land of the free" part.
January 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I was at a minor league ice hockey game last night. During the national anthem, a group of people cheered when the singer reached the "land of the free" part.
Good leaders instill stability in those that follow them.
January 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Good leaders instill stability in those that follow them.
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PROP - PR Over Policy.
Don't confuse them.
He is flooding the zone. He knows that media will cover everything he does. Getting people upset. Which helps give him more coverage of the upset people. All just talking about him.
Dems need to be strategic.
Don't confuse them.
He is flooding the zone. He knows that media will cover everything he does. Getting people upset. Which helps give him more coverage of the upset people. All just talking about him.
Dems need to be strategic.
January 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
PROP - PR Over Policy.
Don't confuse them.
He is flooding the zone. He knows that media will cover everything he does. Getting people upset. Which helps give him more coverage of the upset people. All just talking about him.
Dems need to be strategic.
Don't confuse them.
He is flooding the zone. He knows that media will cover everything he does. Getting people upset. Which helps give him more coverage of the upset people. All just talking about him.
Dems need to be strategic.
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Amazon, Meta, and Google donated millions to Trump's inauguration. Why?
Collectively they'll gain an annual tax cut worth $7.4 billion if Trump lowers the corporate tax rate.
They're also facing major antitrust lawsuits for abusing their market power.
Always follow the money.
Collectively they'll gain an annual tax cut worth $7.4 billion if Trump lowers the corporate tax rate.
They're also facing major antitrust lawsuits for abusing their market power.
Always follow the money.
Trump’s $50 Billion Tax Giveaway to the 100 Largest Corporations
Trump’s plan to slash the corporate tax rate would give the largest corporations a tax cut exceeding federal K-12 education spending.
www.americanprogressaction.org
January 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Amazon, Meta, and Google donated millions to Trump's inauguration. Why?
Collectively they'll gain an annual tax cut worth $7.4 billion if Trump lowers the corporate tax rate.
They're also facing major antitrust lawsuits for abusing their market power.
Always follow the money.
Collectively they'll gain an annual tax cut worth $7.4 billion if Trump lowers the corporate tax rate.
They're also facing major antitrust lawsuits for abusing their market power.
Always follow the money.
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Who gets the benefit of the doubt?A teenager tagged by cops as a gang member b/c he shops at a particular bodega or wears the wrong color? A Black man the NYPD decides is “furtively walking”? OR a white man from apartheid S.A. who posts antisemitic/racist stereotypes & endorses the Nazi adjacent 1/
January 21, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Who gets the benefit of the doubt?A teenager tagged by cops as a gang member b/c he shops at a particular bodega or wears the wrong color? A Black man the NYPD decides is “furtively walking”? OR a white man from apartheid S.A. who posts antisemitic/racist stereotypes & endorses the Nazi adjacent 1/
My partner and I are in Central America right now.
I'm legitimately worried of what customs will be like going home to WA State, even as US citizens.
I'm legitimately worried of what customs will be like going home to WA State, even as US citizens.
January 21, 2025 at 2:32 AM
My partner and I are in Central America right now.
I'm legitimately worried of what customs will be like going home to WA State, even as US citizens.
I'm legitimately worried of what customs will be like going home to WA State, even as US citizens.
Is LAX being impacted by So Cal fires?
Stay safe, y'all!
Stay safe, y'all!
January 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Is LAX being impacted by So Cal fires?
Stay safe, y'all!
Stay safe, y'all!
Reason to move to & stay at Bluesky
January 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Reason to move to & stay at Bluesky
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Elon’s politics are disturbing.
December 20, 2024 at 10:22 PM
Elon’s politics are disturbing.
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12 GOP-led states could leave nearly 10 million kids at risk of hunger if they reject federal funding for the SUN Bucks food assistance program next month.
Let me be clear: there's nothing "pro-life" about letting millions of children go hungry.
Let me be clear: there's nothing "pro-life" about letting millions of children go hungry.
10 Million Kids at Risk of Hunger Unless GOP-Led States Embrace Summer EBT Program | Common Dreams
"Summer can be the hungriest time for children," said one anti-hunger advocate.
www.commondreams.org
December 19, 2024 at 12:00 AM
12 GOP-led states could leave nearly 10 million kids at risk of hunger if they reject federal funding for the SUN Bucks food assistance program next month.
Let me be clear: there's nothing "pro-life" about letting millions of children go hungry.
Let me be clear: there's nothing "pro-life" about letting millions of children go hungry.