GalacticBus
@galacticbus.bsky.social
Family comes first. First computer used: PET. First computer owned: Apple IIe. Favorite book: you can pick just one? Most re-read: LOTR, Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Love baking (cakes and bread) & making chocolates and candies. And Woodworking.
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Way to go, Sheryl!!
Sheryl Crow Has Message For 'Haters' After She Sold Her Tesla And Donated Proceeds To NPR
Thank you for your call to action, Sheryl!
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February 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Way to go, Sheryl!!
please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/te...
Tell President Trump and Elon Musk: HANDS OFF OUR SOCIAL SECURITY
Trump is giving Elon Musk the power to steal benefits that people earned. He's using the standard MAGA Republican playbook: Make an issue out of a non-issue, cause chaos, and then get rid of it and cl...
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February 22, 2025 at 1:15 AM
please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/te...
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Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal
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February 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal
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I would love if someone could explain why Rick Klein--DC bureau chief of ABC News--went on national television today and pronounced that Elon Musk has "legal authority" to take over sensitive systems at the Treasury, OPM, USAID, and GSA because "Trump told him to."
That's not how US law works.
That's not how US law works.
February 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I would love if someone could explain why Rick Klein--DC bureau chief of ABC News--went on national television today and pronounced that Elon Musk has "legal authority" to take over sensitive systems at the Treasury, OPM, USAID, and GSA because "Trump told him to."
That's not how US law works.
That's not how US law works.
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Just a punch on the head, Ted
A poke in the eye, Sy
Make fists to deploy, Roy
And set those mitts free
Just a smack in the teeth, Keith
Will knock em right off their damn feet
Then get a kick in the balls, Paul
And you'll watch them all fall
A poke in the eye, Sy
Make fists to deploy, Roy
And set those mitts free
Just a smack in the teeth, Keith
Will knock em right off their damn feet
Then get a kick in the balls, Paul
And you'll watch them all fall
“there must be fifty ways to punch a nazi” -Paul Simon
in related news I am hearing lots of things as song lyrics today
in related news I am hearing lots of things as song lyrics today
February 3, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Just a punch on the head, Ted
A poke in the eye, Sy
Make fists to deploy, Roy
And set those mitts free
Just a smack in the teeth, Keith
Will knock em right off their damn feet
Then get a kick in the balls, Paul
And you'll watch them all fall
A poke in the eye, Sy
Make fists to deploy, Roy
And set those mitts free
Just a smack in the teeth, Keith
Will knock em right off their damn feet
Then get a kick in the balls, Paul
And you'll watch them all fall
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Premier Ford, don’t back down. Elon continues to be an enemy of Canada. Nothing has changed.
Destroy the deal Ford. Musk and Trump want to invade and subjugate your country.
Ontario’s $100 million gift to Elon Musk is back on. Rip up the deal, Premier Ford.
globalnews.ca/news/10995669/…#onpolil#Nepeanan
globalnews.ca/news/10995669/…#onpolil#Nepeanan
February 4, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Premier Ford, don’t back down. Elon continues to be an enemy of Canada. Nothing has changed.
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NEW: My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze. This is a blatant attempt to rip away health care from millions of Americans overnight and will get people killed.
Illinois shut out of Medicaid after Trump administration halts federal grants and loans chicago.suntimes.com/politics/don...
Illinois shut out of Medicaid after Trump administration halts federal grants and loans
The Trump administration's federal freeze has shut Illinois out of Medicaid, according to Gov. JB. Pritzker's office. The government-funded health insurance program covered about 3.9 million people in...
chicago.suntimes.com
January 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
NEW: My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze. This is a blatant attempt to rip away health care from millions of Americans overnight and will get people killed.
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People don’t seem to understand that the federal funding being withheld from…well…everything is THE TAXES WE LITERALLY PAY AND EXPECT SERVICES FOR
This isn’t “the governments money” like they worked to earn it. It comes from taxes. From us. You wanna cut it all? No income tax should be collected
This isn’t “the governments money” like they worked to earn it. It comes from taxes. From us. You wanna cut it all? No income tax should be collected
January 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
People don’t seem to understand that the federal funding being withheld from…well…everything is THE TAXES WE LITERALLY PAY AND EXPECT SERVICES FOR
This isn’t “the governments money” like they worked to earn it. It comes from taxes. From us. You wanna cut it all? No income tax should be collected
This isn’t “the governments money” like they worked to earn it. It comes from taxes. From us. You wanna cut it all? No income tax should be collected
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Today I renewed our lapsed membership and went shopping at Costco for the first time since 2019. Goodbye Target, screw you Walmart, and Amazon, your time is coming.
✅ DEI Action of the Day™
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Yesterday, 19 Republican attorneys sent a letter to Costco:
"Within 30 days, please either notify us that Costco has repealed its DEI policies or explain why Costco has failed to do so."
Join Costco here: www.costco.com/join-costco....
Join Costco
$65 a year
Yesterday, 19 Republican attorneys sent a letter to Costco:
"Within 30 days, please either notify us that Costco has repealed its DEI policies or explain why Costco has failed to do so."
Join Costco here: www.costco.com/join-costco....
January 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Today I renewed our lapsed membership and went shopping at Costco for the first time since 2019. Goodbye Target, screw you Walmart, and Amazon, your time is coming.
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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
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Yuuuuuup
The "first they came..." poem gets quoted and quoted and quoted and quoted and you know what, we do in fact know who they're coming for first, right now, and that is trans people, and the answer needs to be "absolutely the fuck not, you motherfuckers," full stop.
January 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Yuuuuuup
Very soon I’ll be trying to make these.
One of the best baking projects you can do on a long weekend is Sourdough Croissants! 🥐
My detailed recipe walks through how to make them with lots of photos and tips for these flaky pastries.
Sourdoughbrandon.com/sourdough-croissants/
My detailed recipe walks through how to make them with lots of photos and tips for these flaky pastries.
Sourdoughbrandon.com/sourdough-croissants/
January 27, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Very soon I’ll be trying to make these.
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The Republican party is now a cult of personality, not a political entity.
All those predicting that it will crumble and fall apart imminently don't seem to recognise that. Cults will always offset their cognitive dissonance and make excuses for failed prophecy and that makes them hard to topple
All those predicting that it will crumble and fall apart imminently don't seem to recognise that. Cults will always offset their cognitive dissonance and make excuses for failed prophecy and that makes them hard to topple
January 19, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The Republican party is now a cult of personality, not a political entity.
All those predicting that it will crumble and fall apart imminently don't seem to recognise that. Cults will always offset their cognitive dissonance and make excuses for failed prophecy and that makes them hard to topple
All those predicting that it will crumble and fall apart imminently don't seem to recognise that. Cults will always offset their cognitive dissonance and make excuses for failed prophecy and that makes them hard to topple
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I can blank out Trump and his vile victory parade.
What I find much more difficult to deal with is the parade of Brit commentators telling me that as a liberal European I have to change my worldview to accommodate him.
The world is a much more dangerous place with him as US president. Full stop.
What I find much more difficult to deal with is the parade of Brit commentators telling me that as a liberal European I have to change my worldview to accommodate him.
The world is a much more dangerous place with him as US president. Full stop.
January 20, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I can blank out Trump and his vile victory parade.
What I find much more difficult to deal with is the parade of Brit commentators telling me that as a liberal European I have to change my worldview to accommodate him.
The world is a much more dangerous place with him as US president. Full stop.
What I find much more difficult to deal with is the parade of Brit commentators telling me that as a liberal European I have to change my worldview to accommodate him.
The world is a much more dangerous place with him as US president. Full stop.
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Youguysyouguysyouguys!!!! This documentary just came out - about Anna's Hummingbirds in this guy's backyard in Victoria, BC - the videography is astonishing - we LOVED this little film!!!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g02S...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g02S...
He created a hummingbird paradise in his backyard
YouTube video by The Nature of Things
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January 15, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Youguysyouguysyouguys!!!! This documentary just came out - about Anna's Hummingbirds in this guy's backyard in Victoria, BC - the videography is astonishing - we LOVED this little film!!!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g02S...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g02S...
She was a mighty, mighty warrior. And her mother's daughter.
Rest in Power, Cecile. And may we all live up to your legacy.
Rest in Power, Cecile. And may we all live up to your legacy.
January 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
So true
I used to scratch my head as to how they all allowed the world to go to hell in a handbasket in the 1930s and why not enough was done to prevent it. We all know now.
January 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
So true
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You're not going to be able to develop a highly informed, nuanced take on every conflict in the world, but I'll give you a good heuristic
Always, in every circumstance, be opposed to the wanton slaughter of civilians, no matter what elaborate excuses folks throw up about why this time is different
Always, in every circumstance, be opposed to the wanton slaughter of civilians, no matter what elaborate excuses folks throw up about why this time is different
December 3, 2024 at 3:38 AM
You're not going to be able to develop a highly informed, nuanced take on every conflict in the world, but I'll give you a good heuristic
Always, in every circumstance, be opposed to the wanton slaughter of civilians, no matter what elaborate excuses folks throw up about why this time is different
Always, in every circumstance, be opposed to the wanton slaughter of civilians, no matter what elaborate excuses folks throw up about why this time is different
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Well said.
the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment
December 3, 2024 at 9:22 PM
Well said.
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We need more folks in the GOP to stand up against hate and discrimination.
December 3, 2024 at 10:27 PM
We need more folks in the GOP to stand up against hate and discrimination.
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No matter how demoralized we are in today's America, I'll always have this selfie of me meeting Jane Goodall.
December 3, 2024 at 11:19 PM
No matter how demoralized we are in today's America, I'll always have this selfie of me meeting Jane Goodall.