Rachel MB
@fiverafore.bsky.social
feminist, educator, bibliophibian, science geek, writer, she/her. i also make a damn good pie.
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"It’s easy to miss the human side of policy, legal compliance, the nitty gritty of efficient government. To get caught up in slogans about fraud or waste. That’s what Musk and Trump are counting on. And yet I see and hear the human side every time my son says “My dad’s name is David.” On @msnbc.com
Opinion | The Trump administration is ready to abandon kids like my son
Attacks on disabled Americans and the policies we rely on lie at the core of so much of MAGA culture.
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March 4, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Giving infectious disease research a break, as promised by the MAHA agenda.
Let's break down what exactly this Executive Order is *really* saying.
Fortunately, I speak fluent anti-vax grifterese & can translate.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Let's break down what exactly this Executive Order is *really* saying.
Fortunately, I speak fluent anti-vax grifterese & can translate.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
February 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Giving infectious disease research a break, as promised by the MAHA agenda.
Let's break down what exactly this Executive Order is *really* saying.
Fortunately, I speak fluent anti-vax grifterese & can translate.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Let's break down what exactly this Executive Order is *really* saying.
Fortunately, I speak fluent anti-vax grifterese & can translate.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Mystery Solved: Here's what Scott Bessent and DOJ and Treasury mean by Marko Elez only having 'read only' access the payments system. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/heres...
Here’s What Treasury and DOJ Mean By ‘Read-Only’ Access
One of the continuing mysteries about the DOGE intrusion into the super...
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February 7, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Mystery Solved: Here's what Scott Bessent and DOJ and Treasury mean by Marko Elez only having 'read only' access the payments system. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/heres...
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in addition to musk stealing the data for his own purposes, I imagine that they think they can simply shut off payments to whoever doesn’t comply. I would not be shocked if they tried to turn off Social Security for an entire state of course that’s dissolution of the union territory.
NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
NEWS: Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
February 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM
in addition to musk stealing the data for his own purposes, I imagine that they think they can simply shut off payments to whoever doesn’t comply. I would not be shocked if they tried to turn off Social Security for an entire state of course that’s dissolution of the union territory.
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"[DOGE] personnel ... physically tried to access the USAID headquarters ... & were stopped. [They] demanded to be let in and threatened to call US Marshals to be allowed access ... [They] wanted to gain access to security systems and ... classified information." www.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...
February 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
"[DOGE] personnel ... physically tried to access the USAID headquarters ... & were stopped. [They] demanded to be let in and threatened to call US Marshals to be allowed access ... [They] wanted to gain access to security systems and ... classified information." www.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...
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Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they *done* yet but the level of …
February 2, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they *done* yet but the level of …
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Trudeau: I think Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us.
I don’t think there are a lot of Americans who wake up in the morning saying, "Oh, damn Canada. Oh, we should really go after Canada."
I don’t think there are a lot of Americans who wake up in the morning saying, "Oh, damn Canada. Oh, we should really go after Canada."
February 2, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Trudeau: I think Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us.
I don’t think there are a lot of Americans who wake up in the morning saying, "Oh, damn Canada. Oh, we should really go after Canada."
I don’t think there are a lot of Americans who wake up in the morning saying, "Oh, damn Canada. Oh, we should really go after Canada."
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this choice of photos by the Carter Center is shadier than a Georgia peach tree in summer
January 10, 2025 at 4:58 AM
this choice of photos by the Carter Center is shadier than a Georgia peach tree in summer
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this is worth reading if only as further evidence for the thesis that these self-proclaimed philosopher capitalists are total morons who huff paint and call it insight
All I can say about this Peter Thiel op-ed in the Financial Times is that it reads like something he actually wrote. No comms team or AI chatbot is capable of producing this strange paranoid string of sentences www.ft.com/content/a46c...
A time for truth and reconciliation
Trump’s return to the White House augurs the ‘apokálypsis’ of the ancien regime’s secrets
www.ft.com
January 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
this is worth reading if only as further evidence for the thesis that these self-proclaimed philosopher capitalists are total morons who huff paint and call it insight
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Thanks to the first volume of Michael Palin's diaries, I recently discovered the glory of one of the greatest travel pieces in British publishing history.
In early April 1977, The Guardian published a 7-page travel supplement on this "little-known" island nation...
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In early April 1977, The Guardian published a 7-page travel supplement on this "little-known" island nation...
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July 24, 2023 at 2:21 PM
Thanks to the first volume of Michael Palin's diaries, I recently discovered the glory of one of the greatest travel pieces in British publishing history.
In early April 1977, The Guardian published a 7-page travel supplement on this "little-known" island nation...
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In early April 1977, The Guardian published a 7-page travel supplement on this "little-known" island nation...
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