Jill Standish
@jillstandish.bsky.social
🌈 Tech enthusiast - history and politics are my jam with a passion for engines and home reno. 🏳️🌈 🧬 Direct descendant of Pilgrims and American Patriots, always fighting for what's right. 🇺🇸🐴💙 Member of NCPH, OAH, AHA, AASLH, SHEAR, and CLGBTH.
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USAID’s website has been deleted, all that is left is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home. Completely illegal, no act of congress or even executive order was signed to dismantle the agency
February 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
USAID’s website has been deleted, all that is left is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home. Completely illegal, no act of congress or even executive order was signed to dismantle the agency
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“Today, we find ourselves in the middle of a battle of our own, as good people are being walked out of the F.B.I. and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and F.B.I. policy.” -- James E. Dennehy, NYC’s top FBI agent.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
Top F.B.I. Agent in New York Vows to ‘Dig In’ After Removals at Agency
James E. Dennehy, the highly respected leader of the largest and most important field office in the bureau, said in an email to staff that the F.B.I. was in “a battle of our own.”
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2025 at 1:10 AM
“Today, we find ourselves in the middle of a battle of our own, as good people are being walked out of the F.B.I. and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and F.B.I. policy.” -- James E. Dennehy, NYC’s top FBI agent.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
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It’s alarming that Elon Musk has access to government payment systems used to deliver Social Security and Medicare benefits.
He also drove out the senior career official at Treasury responsible for preventing a potential default on U.S. debt.
Congress must investigate.
He also drove out the senior career official at Treasury responsible for preventing a potential default on U.S. debt.
Congress must investigate.
Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury’s Payments System
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It’s alarming that Elon Musk has access to government payment systems used to deliver Social Security and Medicare benefits.
He also drove out the senior career official at Treasury responsible for preventing a potential default on U.S. debt.
Congress must investigate.
He also drove out the senior career official at Treasury responsible for preventing a potential default on U.S. debt.
Congress must investigate.
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“What started as a purge of the security services accelerated Friday into a full-blown coup, as technical units aligned w/ oligarch Elon Musk moved to seize key systems at Treasury, block outside access to personnel records, & take offline comms networks.”
Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government
Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 1, 2025 at 10:21 PM
“What started as a purge of the security services accelerated Friday into a full-blown coup, as technical units aligned w/ oligarch Elon Musk moved to seize key systems at Treasury, block outside access to personnel records, & take offline comms networks.”
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WHO IS ATTACKING US? There should be a public effort to identify any Musk/DOGE staffers in OMB, Treasury & OPM.
Take their photos, badges & get identifying info.
This attack cannot be allowed to happen in secrecy.
It’s NOT a game.
We have a RIGHT to know who is in our computers & private files.
Take their photos, badges & get identifying info.
This attack cannot be allowed to happen in secrecy.
It’s NOT a game.
We have a RIGHT to know who is in our computers & private files.
Contrary to some info I've seen, 19-yr-old Doge staffer "BigBalls" Edward Coristine did not delete his X account, it's just renamed and is private.
Wired reported that govt tech workers had to defend their work to the Neuralink intern in an Office Space-esque scene.
/ more for Canadians
Wired reported that govt tech workers had to defend their work to the Neuralink intern in an Office Space-esque scene.
/ more for Canadians
February 2, 2025 at 10:13 PM
WHO IS ATTACKING US? There should be a public effort to identify any Musk/DOGE staffers in OMB, Treasury & OPM.
Take their photos, badges & get identifying info.
This attack cannot be allowed to happen in secrecy.
It’s NOT a game.
We have a RIGHT to know who is in our computers & private files.
Take their photos, badges & get identifying info.
This attack cannot be allowed to happen in secrecy.
It’s NOT a game.
We have a RIGHT to know who is in our computers & private files.
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Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.
February 2, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.
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This is your mission. We take our power back now at the local and state level. Stop waiting for a national hero. It’s you. Get to work.
January 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
This is your mission. We take our power back now at the local and state level. Stop waiting for a national hero. It’s you. Get to work.
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Just a reminder of some of the context around the TikTok ban: In 2020, Trump tried to ban it via executive order a couple months after K-pop fans used it to organize fake signups to Trump’s Tulsa rally, which led him to publicly overestimate how large the crowd size would be.
January 19, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Just a reminder of some of the context around the TikTok ban: In 2020, Trump tried to ban it via executive order a couple months after K-pop fans used it to organize fake signups to Trump’s Tulsa rally, which led him to publicly overestimate how large the crowd size would be.
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again: he is going to reinstate the app he led the charge on banning, it will come back with an algorithm that heavily promotes right wing content, and most people will eat it up just like they did those damn stimulus checks. this country is doomed.
January 19, 2025 at 3:46 AM
again: he is going to reinstate the app he led the charge on banning, it will come back with an algorithm that heavily promotes right wing content, and most people will eat it up just like they did those damn stimulus checks. this country is doomed.
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P R O P A G A N D A
November 19, 2024 at 5:37 PM
P R O P A G A N D A
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Kerry Kennedy, sister of RFK Jr. and daughter of Robert Kennedy, on her brother:
"I am disgusted by my brother’s obscene embrace of Donald Trump. And I completely disavow and dissociate myself from Robert Kennedy Jr. and his flagrant efforts to desecrate my father's memory."
"I am disgusted by my brother’s obscene embrace of Donald Trump. And I completely disavow and dissociate myself from Robert Kennedy Jr. and his flagrant efforts to desecrate my father's memory."
November 14, 2024 at 9:52 PM
Kerry Kennedy, sister of RFK Jr. and daughter of Robert Kennedy, on her brother:
"I am disgusted by my brother’s obscene embrace of Donald Trump. And I completely disavow and dissociate myself from Robert Kennedy Jr. and his flagrant efforts to desecrate my father's memory."
"I am disgusted by my brother’s obscene embrace of Donald Trump. And I completely disavow and dissociate myself from Robert Kennedy Jr. and his flagrant efforts to desecrate my father's memory."
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Fanatical evangelicals say the problem is that Christianity is not taught in schools, when the real problem is that Christianity is not taught in churches.
November 15, 2024 at 9:38 PM
Fanatical evangelicals say the problem is that Christianity is not taught in schools, when the real problem is that Christianity is not taught in churches.
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Delaying trials for January 6 defendants even before the new administration is sworn in provides a harmful normalizing effect if and when Trump’s DOJ ultimately dismisses these cases and pardons defendants. Judges should resist putting efficiency of their own dockets above the rule of law.
One of the important principles of resisting authoritarianism is that one should not prospectively comply with the wishes of authoritarian leaders.
So this is bad.
www.newsweek.com/jan-6-trial-...
So this is bad.
www.newsweek.com/jan-6-trial-...
Jan. 6 defendant gets legal win from Obama judge because of Trump's victory
Defendant William Pope had argued that holding his trial now could cause more issues once the president-elect takes office.
www.newsweek.com
November 14, 2024 at 9:08 PM
Delaying trials for January 6 defendants even before the new administration is sworn in provides a harmful normalizing effect if and when Trump’s DOJ ultimately dismisses these cases and pardons defendants. Judges should resist putting efficiency of their own dockets above the rule of law.
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Good news: The Senate just confirmed David Huitema as the permanent head of the Office of Government Ethics.
That's an important step to safeguard ethics compliance ahead of a second Trump administration that threatens to be even more corrupt than the first.
That's an important step to safeguard ethics compliance ahead of a second Trump administration that threatens to be even more corrupt than the first.
Senate confirms Biden’s ethics czar, who will remain under Trump
Senate Democrats use dwindling floor time to confirm a new head for the government's ethics office, with whom Trump administration often butted heads in his first term.
www.govexec.com
November 14, 2024 at 7:20 PM
Good news: The Senate just confirmed David Huitema as the permanent head of the Office of Government Ethics.
That's an important step to safeguard ethics compliance ahead of a second Trump administration that threatens to be even more corrupt than the first.
That's an important step to safeguard ethics compliance ahead of a second Trump administration that threatens to be even more corrupt than the first.
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This one is not funny at all.
To state the very obvious, this would put an avowed anti-vaxxer in charge of vaccines, allowing him to thwart the development and approval of life-saving shots. It's almost too horrific to fathom—a potential death sentence for our families and children. It's lethal. www.politico.com/news/2024/11...
Trump expected to select Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead HHS
The choice will roil many public health experts after his years of touting debunked claims that vaccines cause autism.
www.politico.com
November 14, 2024 at 8:45 PM
This one is not funny at all.
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“We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. ‘Necessitous men are not free men.’ People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” - FDR in his 1944 State of the Union.
November 14, 2024 at 5:46 AM
“We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. ‘Necessitous men are not free men.’ People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” - FDR in his 1944 State of the Union.
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150 billionaire families spent $1.9B on the 2024 election through October.
It's a huge amount of money — but it represents just 0.07% of their overall wealth.
It essentially costs them nothing to drown our democracy in cash.
We must get big money out of our politics.
It's a huge amount of money — but it represents just 0.07% of their overall wealth.
It essentially costs them nothing to drown our democracy in cash.
We must get big money out of our politics.
November 14, 2024 at 6:02 AM
150 billionaire families spent $1.9B on the 2024 election through October.
It's a huge amount of money — but it represents just 0.07% of their overall wealth.
It essentially costs them nothing to drown our democracy in cash.
We must get big money out of our politics.
It's a huge amount of money — but it represents just 0.07% of their overall wealth.
It essentially costs them nothing to drown our democracy in cash.
We must get big money out of our politics.
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France knows how to deal with fascists:
“The Paris prosecutor on has requested a five-year prison sentence and a five-year ban from public office for far-right leader Marine Le Pen.”
“The Paris prosecutor on has requested a five-year prison sentence and a five-year ban from public office for far-right leader Marine Le Pen.”
Marine Le Pen: prosecutor recommends jail and 5 year ban from public office in EU embezzlement trial
Request from Paris prosecutor threatens to undermine the National Rally leader’s efforts to polish image ahead of 2027 elections
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2024 at 2:24 AM
France knows how to deal with fascists:
“The Paris prosecutor on has requested a five-year prison sentence and a five-year ban from public office for far-right leader Marine Le Pen.”
“The Paris prosecutor on has requested a five-year prison sentence and a five-year ban from public office for far-right leader Marine Le Pen.”
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I regret to inform you that even though the leopards will eat their faces, people will not actually realize that there were leopards or that they no longer have faces.
November 13, 2024 at 2:54 AM
I regret to inform you that even though the leopards will eat their faces, people will not actually realize that there were leopards or that they no longer have faces.
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the entire subject of raw milk makes me violently angry. like hulk out levels. there used to be a whole diagnosis called "cholera infantum" because thousands of babies shat themselves to death from raw industrial-dairy milk why would you want to bring that back!!!!
Oster writes that “With more information, we provide room for people to drink raw milk but also vaccinate their kids. Which is, basically, a reasonable choice.” Oster claims she is being far more nuanced, but I don’t think there’s enough nuance here. Raw milk is not “reasonable” for many people.
Opinion | How to Talk About Fluoride, Vaccines and Raw Milk
How to build trust and make America healthy again.
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2024 at 3:16 PM
the entire subject of raw milk makes me violently angry. like hulk out levels. there used to be a whole diagnosis called "cholera infantum" because thousands of babies shat themselves to death from raw industrial-dairy milk why would you want to bring that back!!!!
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People who say they care about women’s and girls’ sports are noticeably quiet about how eliminating the Department of Education would end federal oversight of Title IX enforcement of the equal existence of women’s and girls’ sports
November 13, 2024 at 12:56 AM
People who say they care about women’s and girls’ sports are noticeably quiet about how eliminating the Department of Education would end federal oversight of Title IX enforcement of the equal existence of women’s and girls’ sports
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An antivax secdef is crazy. Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of human civilization than disease.
November 13, 2024 at 11:04 AM
An antivax secdef is crazy. Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of human civilization than disease.