Jean
@jeanf22.bsky.social
high school history and journalism teacher, animal lover, volunteer, spelling geek, old lady liberal, voracious reader,
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Shortly after senior Trump officials discussed the bombing of Yemen in a Signal group chat that just happened to include the Atlantic's editor in chief, a subset of the group feasted at a secret dinner featuring Trump where guests were asked to pay $1 million apiece to join.
Trump Officials in Signal Fiasco Attended Secret Mar-a-Lago Dinner Shortly After Celebrating Bombing
Trump officials accidentally invited the editor in chief of The Atlantic to their Signal group chat. Hours after bombs dropped on Yemen, they partied at a $1-million-per-seat Mar-a-Lago dinner.
www.wired.com
March 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Shortly after senior Trump officials discussed the bombing of Yemen in a Signal group chat that just happened to include the Atlantic's editor in chief, a subset of the group feasted at a secret dinner featuring Trump where guests were asked to pay $1 million apiece to join.
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We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado.
11,000 people showed up.
Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.
11,000 people showed up.
Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.
Overflow crowd for Bernie/AOC rally in Greeley, CO — the small one today, big one is in Denver later
March 21, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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In the late 1940s into the 1950s, the US sought to ideologically deport individuals, including those who had lived in the US for most of their lives.
"Should Miss Liberty Be Deported?" is a pamphlet in 1950 calling on the public to help challenge these deportations.
Ch. 5 in "Threat of Dissent" 🗃️
"Should Miss Liberty Be Deported?" is a pamphlet in 1950 calling on the public to help challenge these deportations.
Ch. 5 in "Threat of Dissent" 🗃️
March 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
In the late 1940s into the 1950s, the US sought to ideologically deport individuals, including those who had lived in the US for most of their lives.
"Should Miss Liberty Be Deported?" is a pamphlet in 1950 calling on the public to help challenge these deportations.
Ch. 5 in "Threat of Dissent" 🗃️
"Should Miss Liberty Be Deported?" is a pamphlet in 1950 calling on the public to help challenge these deportations.
Ch. 5 in "Threat of Dissent" 🗃️
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A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order preventing the Trump administration from withdrawing $14 billion in climate grant funding from Citibank accounts.
March 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order preventing the Trump administration from withdrawing $14 billion in climate grant funding from Citibank accounts.
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WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works — and how DOGE is doing the opposite.
‘It’s a Heist’: Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by DOGE
WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.
www.wired.com
March 18, 2025 at 10:29 PM
WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works — and how DOGE is doing the opposite.
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The Trump administration plans to eliminate the EPA’s scientific research arm and lay off more than 1,000 chemists, biologists, and other scientists.
March 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The Trump administration plans to eliminate the EPA’s scientific research arm and lay off more than 1,000 chemists, biologists, and other scientists.
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Well, Kirsten, you shouldn’t have empowered Trump by voting for the CR. Just sayin’.
March 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Well, Kirsten, you shouldn’t have empowered Trump by voting for the CR. Just sayin’.
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R.I.P. Jesse Colin Young (The Youngbloods frontman, "Get Together" singer) 😿
Jesse Colin Young, Youngbloods’ Frontman and “Get Together” Singer, Dies at 83
His biggest hit called for everyone to “smile on your brother” and “try to love one another right now.”
www.hollywoodreporter.com
March 18, 2025 at 3:14 AM
R.I.P. Jesse Colin Young (The Youngbloods frontman, "Get Together" singer) 😿
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Ernest Hemingway wrote this in 1935…
March 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Ernest Hemingway wrote this in 1935…
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Email list for all DOGE employees
Please ReSkeet!
Please ReSkeet!
March 7, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Email list for all DOGE employees
Please ReSkeet!
Please ReSkeet!
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DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA.
Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.
Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.
See how this works?
Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.
Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.
See how this works?
February 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA.
Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.
Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.
See how this works?
Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.
Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.
See how this works?
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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
clarksvillenow.com
February 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
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My take on what happened to the NEH and what it means for public history.
And my call to Ken Burns to step up. The NEH made his career, He is the single largest recipient of NEH (and taxpayer) funds. Ever.
And he now has his a foundation.
Will he fund the banned projects?
youtu.be/Mpzunb1kPSs
And my call to Ken Burns to step up. The NEH made his career, He is the single largest recipient of NEH (and taxpayer) funds. Ever.
And he now has his a foundation.
Will he fund the banned projects?
youtu.be/Mpzunb1kPSs
NEH
YouTube video by Tad Stoermer
youtu.be
February 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
My take on what happened to the NEH and what it means for public history.
And my call to Ken Burns to step up. The NEH made his career, He is the single largest recipient of NEH (and taxpayer) funds. Ever.
And he now has his a foundation.
Will he fund the banned projects?
youtu.be/Mpzunb1kPSs
And my call to Ken Burns to step up. The NEH made his career, He is the single largest recipient of NEH (and taxpayer) funds. Ever.
And he now has his a foundation.
Will he fund the banned projects?
youtu.be/Mpzunb1kPSs
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@johnjharwood.bsky.social points out that LBJ in 1965 foreshadowed Trump/Musk in 2025:
“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice that you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, he'll empty his pockets for you.”
“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice that you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, he'll empty his pockets for you.”
Republican Lawmakers Are Cowards. Here's Why
The moral and intellectual collapse of the Republican Party is the gaping chest wound of America.
zeteo.com
February 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
@johnjharwood.bsky.social points out that LBJ in 1965 foreshadowed Trump/Musk in 2025:
“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice that you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, he'll empty his pockets for you.”
“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice that you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, he'll empty his pockets for you.”
I have always argued that the U.S. is a country and laws and they will win out in the end. I am still hoping this is true but where are the leaders of the Democratic Party and why aren't they screaming to the top of their lungs about this crap?
February 9, 2025 at 10:46 AM
I have always argued that the U.S. is a country and laws and they will win out in the end. I am still hoping this is true but where are the leaders of the Democratic Party and why aren't they screaming to the top of their lungs about this crap?
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So, Trump wants two million Palestinians to be relocated from battle-leveled Gaza to new homes elsewhere so that the US could send troops to the Strip, take ownership and build the “Riviera of the Middle East.”
Is anyone in favor of sending US troops to Gaza? Anyone at all?
Is anyone in favor of sending US troops to Gaza? Anyone at all?
Analysis: Trump’s Gaza ‘Riviera’ plan is the most outlandish idea in the history of US Middle East peacemaking | CNN Politics
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu couldn’t keep the smirk off his face.
www.cnn.com
February 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
So, Trump wants two million Palestinians to be relocated from battle-leveled Gaza to new homes elsewhere so that the US could send troops to the Strip, take ownership and build the “Riviera of the Middle East.”
Is anyone in favor of sending US troops to Gaza? Anyone at all?
Is anyone in favor of sending US troops to Gaza? Anyone at all?
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While Trump has been distracting America with everything else, Elon Musk’s staffers are quietly taking over NOAA and the Department of Labor. They are also using AI to help rewrite a significant portion of the federal government’s computer systems.
February 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
While Trump has been distracting America with everything else, Elon Musk’s staffers are quietly taking over NOAA and the Department of Labor. They are also using AI to help rewrite a significant portion of the federal government’s computer systems.
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📍RSVP to join our April symposium (in-person in NYC & online) examining the risks that advanced #AI systems pose to democratic freedoms, co-hosted with the Institute's Senior AI Advisor @sethlazar.org. Final agenda & speakers to be announced. Learn more here: www.eventbrite.com/e/artificial...
February 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
📍RSVP to join our April symposium (in-person in NYC & online) examining the risks that advanced #AI systems pose to democratic freedoms, co-hosted with the Institute's Senior AI Advisor @sethlazar.org. Final agenda & speakers to be announced. Learn more here: www.eventbrite.com/e/artificial...
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Article 1
Section 8
CONGRESS shall have the power...
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations
NOT THE PRESIDENT. NOT DOGE.
Section 8
CONGRESS shall have the power...
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations
NOT THE PRESIDENT. NOT DOGE.
February 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Article 1
Section 8
CONGRESS shall have the power...
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations
NOT THE PRESIDENT. NOT DOGE.
Section 8
CONGRESS shall have the power...
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations
NOT THE PRESIDENT. NOT DOGE.
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U.S. Marshalls threatening agency personnel with arrest have no authority to do so. They are following an illegal command. Stand Your Ground!
February 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
U.S. Marshalls threatening agency personnel with arrest have no authority to do so. They are following an illegal command. Stand Your Ground!
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I’m old enough to remember when we had 3 branches of government. Forget checks and balances. I guess we are a Muskocracy now.
February 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I’m old enough to remember when we had 3 branches of government. Forget checks and balances. I guess we are a Muskocracy now.
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Education Department employees have been placed on leave for attending diversity training. Meanwhile, Republicans have introduced a bill to eliminate the Department of Education.
February 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Education Department employees have been placed on leave for attending diversity training. Meanwhile, Republicans have introduced a bill to eliminate the Department of Education.
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Murphy: "This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is."
February 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Murphy: "This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is."