A rogue frigatebird
@hamlambeau.bsky.social
Ecologist, science advocate, raging leftist from the Dairy State. Concerned primarily with my cats.
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Federal employee terminations will cause widespread economic damage even beyond the hardships for specific employees
How many federal workers live in your state or county or congressional district?
I made an little interactive site to tell you economic.github.io/federal_work...
How many federal workers live in your state or county or congressional district?
I made an little interactive site to tell you economic.github.io/federal_work...
February 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Federal employee terminations will cause widespread economic damage even beyond the hardships for specific employees
How many federal workers live in your state or county or congressional district?
I made an little interactive site to tell you economic.github.io/federal_work...
How many federal workers live in your state or county or congressional district?
I made an little interactive site to tell you economic.github.io/federal_work...
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I DO NOT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT INFLATION RIGHT NOW. I AM WORRIED ABOUT:
1) Fascism
2) An unelected billionaire destroying functioning federal government
3) the moves to genocide trans people
4) the moves to deport immigrants
GET YOURSELF TOGETHER, SCHUMER.
1) Fascism
2) An unelected billionaire destroying functioning federal government
3) the moves to genocide trans people
4) the moves to deport immigrants
GET YOURSELF TOGETHER, SCHUMER.
February 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I DO NOT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT INFLATION RIGHT NOW. I AM WORRIED ABOUT:
1) Fascism
2) An unelected billionaire destroying functioning federal government
3) the moves to genocide trans people
4) the moves to deport immigrants
GET YOURSELF TOGETHER, SCHUMER.
1) Fascism
2) An unelected billionaire destroying functioning federal government
3) the moves to genocide trans people
4) the moves to deport immigrants
GET YOURSELF TOGETHER, SCHUMER.
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Actually, the number one issue on my mind is the hostile takeover and destruction of the US government, the shoveling of taxpayer dollars to the ultra rich, and the shift to white male “Christian” nationalism, but do go on.
February 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Actually, the number one issue on my mind is the hostile takeover and destruction of the US government, the shoveling of taxpayer dollars to the ultra rich, and the shift to white male “Christian” nationalism, but do go on.
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Exactly. Reactionary movement always phrase their concerns in the most sympathetic light. "I'm not against school desegregation, I just want local parents to have a say in education!"
The idea that all of this was necessary is absurd and only serves to coddle power.
bsky.app/profile/miss...
The idea that all of this was necessary is absurd and only serves to coddle power.
bsky.app/profile/miss...
February 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Exactly. Reactionary movement always phrase their concerns in the most sympathetic light. "I'm not against school desegregation, I just want local parents to have a say in education!"
The idea that all of this was necessary is absurd and only serves to coddle power.
bsky.app/profile/miss...
The idea that all of this was necessary is absurd and only serves to coddle power.
bsky.app/profile/miss...
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The right has invented a woke guy to be mad at — and Chatterton has aided in their effort every step of the way.
February 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The right has invented a woke guy to be mad at — and Chatterton has aided in their effort every step of the way.
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What we’re seeing is not the pendulum swinging back toward the right after the left went too far. We’re seeing a moral panic, a society-wide assault on a phantom leftist who wants to ban Dr. Seuss and arrest you for using the wrong pronouns and put kitty litter boxes in classrooms.
February 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
What we’re seeing is not the pendulum swinging back toward the right after the left went too far. We’re seeing a moral panic, a society-wide assault on a phantom leftist who wants to ban Dr. Seuss and arrest you for using the wrong pronouns and put kitty litter boxes in classrooms.
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This gave voters permission to vote for Trump or disengage from politics entirely. If the left and the right both have authoritarian tendencies, what does it matter if the guy who did January 6 gets into power again?
February 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This gave voters permission to vote for Trump or disengage from politics entirely. If the left and the right both have authoritarian tendencies, what does it matter if the guy who did January 6 gets into power again?
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Second, the ‘threat’ of wokeness was a media fiction. Conservative and centrist publications spent years promoting ‘free speech on campus’ and ‘cancel culture’ as threats equivalent to the right’s assaults on democracy and minority rights.
February 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Second, the ‘threat’ of wokeness was a media fiction. Conservative and centrist publications spent years promoting ‘free speech on campus’ and ‘cancel culture’ as threats equivalent to the right’s assaults on democracy and minority rights.
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First, the activist ‘overreach’ mostly consisted of low-stakes, cherry-picked anecdotes. The police were not defunded. Words were not banned. White men were not barred from college.
The backlash is responding to the *possibility* of social change, not actual change.
The backlash is responding to the *possibility* of social change, not actual change.
February 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
First, the activist ‘overreach’ mostly consisted of low-stakes, cherry-picked anecdotes. The police were not defunded. Words were not banned. White men were not barred from college.
The backlash is responding to the *possibility* of social change, not actual change.
The backlash is responding to the *possibility* of social change, not actual change.
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for decades the federal govt has bent over backwards to limit spending even on totally sensible things like office coffee, all so they can say your tax dollars aren't going to pay for coffee. and it was all for nothing bc elon is tweeting out conspiracy theories about non-existent fraud.
February 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
for decades the federal govt has bent over backwards to limit spending even on totally sensible things like office coffee, all so they can say your tax dollars aren't going to pay for coffee. and it was all for nothing bc elon is tweeting out conspiracy theories about non-existent fraud.
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Think firing the entire federal workforce will save America money?
Federal civilian employees account for just 4% of the federal budget. Even if someone like Musk—or any president—fired all of us, it wouldn’t make much of a dent in government spending. Don’t fall for it.
Federal civilian employees account for just 4% of the federal budget. Even if someone like Musk—or any president—fired all of us, it wouldn’t make much of a dent in government spending. Don’t fall for it.
February 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Think firing the entire federal workforce will save America money?
Federal civilian employees account for just 4% of the federal budget. Even if someone like Musk—or any president—fired all of us, it wouldn’t make much of a dent in government spending. Don’t fall for it.
Federal civilian employees account for just 4% of the federal budget. Even if someone like Musk—or any president—fired all of us, it wouldn’t make much of a dent in government spending. Don’t fall for it.
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Ah damn it turns out this whole political system relies on false assumptions about how big of an asshole someone could be
February 1, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Ah damn it turns out this whole political system relies on false assumptions about how big of an asshole someone could be
Please be clear in your caption. No information "disappeared" as if by some mystery. The T rump administration purposefully took down valuable health information, and as a result this is likely to lead to the deaths of Americans.
BREAKING NEWS: Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.
Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies
Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.
www.npr.org
February 1, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Please be clear in your caption. No information "disappeared" as if by some mystery. The T rump administration purposefully took down valuable health information, and as a result this is likely to lead to the deaths of Americans.
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respectfully, can someone just kick Schumer in the nads?
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME
January 31, 2025 at 3:16 AM
respectfully, can someone just kick Schumer in the nads?
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25 Democrats voted for Burgum for secretary of the interior.
Like Mr. "I hate Natives and the environment" is now over public lands and the BIA lol
Like Mr. "I hate Natives and the environment" is now over public lands and the BIA lol
January 31, 2025 at 3:04 AM
25 Democrats voted for Burgum for secretary of the interior.
Like Mr. "I hate Natives and the environment" is now over public lands and the BIA lol
Like Mr. "I hate Natives and the environment" is now over public lands and the BIA lol
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Fuuuuuuuuck outta here.
Private business.
The FUCKING EEOC.
Private business.
The FUCKING EEOC.
1. The EEOC acting chair, Andrea Lucas, has announced that a private business transgender bathroom ban is her top priority.
This comes in the wake of a slew of anti-trans executive orders.
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This comes in the wake of a slew of anti-trans executive orders.
Latest from Mira Lazine.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/eeoc-chair...
EEOC Chair Announces Transgender Bathroom Ban in Private Businesses "A Priority"
The new chair states that her top priority is the targeting of transgender people in the workplace.
www.erininthemorning.com
January 31, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Fuuuuuuuuck outta here.
Private business.
The FUCKING EEOC.
Private business.
The FUCKING EEOC.
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Pssst - Planned Parenthood offers online birth control options.
Get Birth Control Online | Sexual and Reproductive Care Services
Get birth control online with the Planned Parenthood Direct app: Birth control, UTI treatment, ella (emergency contraception), and the abortion pill delivered directly to your door.
www.plannedparenthood.org
January 21, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Pssst - Planned Parenthood offers online birth control options.
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Sir our plan to replace the entire government with 4chan freaks has run into a few snags
January 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Sir our plan to replace the entire government with 4chan freaks has run into a few snags
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Got me tearing up first thing in the morning.
January 29, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Got me tearing up first thing in the morning.
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Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last.
Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.
Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.
January 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last.
Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.
Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.
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We're finally dismantling the federal government! Sure hope it doesn't serve essential functions that I've taken for granted my whole life
January 29, 2025 at 12:04 AM
We're finally dismantling the federal government! Sure hope it doesn't serve essential functions that I've taken for granted my whole life
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We have been in this bizarre spiral my entire life:
1. Democrats ignore right-wing radicalization to focus on economic issues.
2. Right-wing media accuses Democrats of being out-of-touch leftist elites.
3. Centrist media repeats right-wing framing.
4. Democrats double down on economic issues.
1. Democrats ignore right-wing radicalization to focus on economic issues.
2. Right-wing media accuses Democrats of being out-of-touch leftist elites.
3. Centrist media repeats right-wing framing.
4. Democrats double down on economic issues.
NEW —> Democrats' playbook for Trump 2.0: Tune out the noise and focus on economic issues www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Democrats' playbook for Trump 2.0: Tune out the noise and focus on economic issues
As Trump floods the zone in his first week in office, Democrats are departing from their "resistance" strategy in his first term and zeroing in on issues that cost them the last election.
www.nbcnews.com
January 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
We have been in this bizarre spiral my entire life:
1. Democrats ignore right-wing radicalization to focus on economic issues.
2. Right-wing media accuses Democrats of being out-of-touch leftist elites.
3. Centrist media repeats right-wing framing.
4. Democrats double down on economic issues.
1. Democrats ignore right-wing radicalization to focus on economic issues.
2. Right-wing media accuses Democrats of being out-of-touch leftist elites.
3. Centrist media repeats right-wing framing.
4. Democrats double down on economic issues.
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silliness is a fuck you to the void
January 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
silliness is a fuck you to the void