J.McCloskey
@jmccloskey.bsky.social
Wife, Mom of 2, Photographer, Small business owner, german-American.
I deleted my twitter account today! I just dont recognize the platform anymore.
March 27, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I deleted my twitter account today! I just dont recognize the platform anymore.
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Europe's minerals should stay in Europe. Whatever Trump & co do with them, they will only be used to harm Europe and to harm the environment.
So, no to any minerals deal with the US.
So, no to any minerals deal with the US.
March 5, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Europe's minerals should stay in Europe. Whatever Trump & co do with them, they will only be used to harm Europe and to harm the environment.
So, no to any minerals deal with the US.
So, no to any minerals deal with the US.
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A White House spokesperson has defended a demand by DOGE to gain access to a database of sensitive, private financial data tied to millions of Americans, including:
Their tax returns, Social Security numbers, addresses, banking details and employment information.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/b...
Their tax returns, Social Security numbers, addresses, banking details and employment information.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/b...
Musk Team Seeks Access to I.R.S. System With Taxpayers’ Records
A White House spokesman said that the initiative called the Department of Government Efficiency needed to review data to fix waste within the agency.
www.nytimes.com
February 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A White House spokesperson has defended a demand by DOGE to gain access to a database of sensitive, private financial data tied to millions of Americans, including:
Their tax returns, Social Security numbers, addresses, banking details and employment information.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/b...
Their tax returns, Social Security numbers, addresses, banking details and employment information.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/b...
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Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service. Signal has been a primary method of communication for federal workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE. www.disruptionist.com/p/elon-musks...
Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service
Signal has been a primary method of communication for federal workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE.
www.disruptionist.com
February 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service. Signal has been a primary method of communication for federal workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE. www.disruptionist.com/p/elon-musks...
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“The Trump administration and DOGE’s actions have pushed our country to the brink of a constitutional crisis.”
Rep. Judy Chu & Rep. Gwen Moore write protecting the systems’ integrity is a matter of national security, economic security and personal privacy.
READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Rep. Judy Chu & Rep. Gwen Moore write protecting the systems’ integrity is a matter of national security, economic security and personal privacy.
READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | We confronted Speaker Johnson over DOGE. His response is cause for concern.
This is not a time where business as usual can be our strategy.
www.msnbc.com
February 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
“The Trump administration and DOGE’s actions have pushed our country to the brink of a constitutional crisis.”
Rep. Judy Chu & Rep. Gwen Moore write protecting the systems’ integrity is a matter of national security, economic security and personal privacy.
READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Rep. Judy Chu & Rep. Gwen Moore write protecting the systems’ integrity is a matter of national security, economic security and personal privacy.
READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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TPM reported on the DOGE demand for "extensive system access" to the IRS last week. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doge-ir...
February 17, 2025 at 1:06 PM
TPM reported on the DOGE demand for "extensive system access" to the IRS last week. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doge-ir...
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This WaPo piece has something valuable inside: the names of some of the grownups running DOGE behind the scenes. The Incels are a distraction.
These people are real. It'd be helpful for people in the agencies to ID anyone from DOGE for...reasons.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
These people are real. It'd be helpful for people in the agencies to ID anyone from DOGE for...reasons.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
February 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
This WaPo piece has something valuable inside: the names of some of the grownups running DOGE behind the scenes. The Incels are a distraction.
These people are real. It'd be helpful for people in the agencies to ID anyone from DOGE for...reasons.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
These people are real. It'd be helpful for people in the agencies to ID anyone from DOGE for...reasons.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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So, when Elon Musk defies our judges and shits on our constitution will people wake up?
Judge orders CDC, FDA to restore websites taken down after Trump gender order
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Judge orders CDC, FDA to restore websites taken down after Trump gender order
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Judge orders CDC, FDA to restore websites taken down after Trump gender order
U.S. District Judge John D. Bates granted a restraining order temporarily reversing the Trump administration’s moves to remove scientific data.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 13, 2025 at 2:14 AM
So, when Elon Musk defies our judges and shits on our constitution will people wake up?
Judge orders CDC, FDA to restore websites taken down after Trump gender order
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Judge orders CDC, FDA to restore websites taken down after Trump gender order
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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Maybe it’s time to include the GOP in the blame rather than focussing on Trump and Musk. They are complicit by their silence and spinelessness. It’s time for all who voted GOP to be reminded the people they elected are tearing the country apart. Every elected Republican should be feeling the heat.
'Played for suckers': Kanas agriculture expert chides fellow farmers who voted for Trump: Multiple stories in recent days have highlighted the turmoil that President Donald Trump's policies of steep tariffs and the dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development have been…
'Played for suckers': Kanas agriculture expert chides fellow farmers who voted for Trump
Multiple stories in recent days have highlighted the turmoil that President Donald Trump's policies of steep tariffs and the dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development have been brining American farmers.
Ben Palen, a Kansas…
www.rawstory.com
February 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Maybe it’s time to include the GOP in the blame rather than focussing on Trump and Musk. They are complicit by their silence and spinelessness. It’s time for all who voted GOP to be reminded the people they elected are tearing the country apart. Every elected Republican should be feeling the heat.
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500,000 metric tons of food ia stuck on ships or in ports waiting to be shipped to starving people, because of Trump administration halting USAID. For perspective, that’s 20,000 semi loads. It could all spoil. Talk about government efficiency.
February 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
500,000 metric tons of food ia stuck on ships or in ports waiting to be shipped to starving people, because of Trump administration halting USAID. For perspective, that’s 20,000 semi loads. It could all spoil. Talk about government efficiency.
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“For now, the best we can do is send a message to the White House."
Toronto’s mayor takes a dig at Trump, and Musk, by ending license subsidies for new Tesla owners using their vehicles for hire.
Toronto’s mayor takes a dig at Trump, and Musk, by ending license subsidies for new Tesla owners using their vehicles for hire.
Toronto’s mayor takes a dig at Trump, and Musk, by ending license subsidies for new Tesla owners using their vehicles for hire
“For now, the best we can do is send a message to the White House,” Olivia Chow said about stopping subsidies for new Teslas used as vehicles for hire in response to the U.S. president’s tariff war.
www.thestar.com
February 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
“For now, the best we can do is send a message to the White House."
Toronto’s mayor takes a dig at Trump, and Musk, by ending license subsidies for new Tesla owners using their vehicles for hire.
Toronto’s mayor takes a dig at Trump, and Musk, by ending license subsidies for new Tesla owners using their vehicles for hire.
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Hi Bluesky! Glad to be here.
February 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Hi Bluesky! Glad to be here.
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You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
February 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
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The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse.
Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.
Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.
February 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse.
Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.
Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.
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I'll go anywhere on behalf of a good cause - and that means engaging people across all the different platforms.
Good to be connected here, @maddow.msnbc.com and @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com.
Good to be connected here, @maddow.msnbc.com and @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com.
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social's new bluesky account gets a shoutout from @maddow.msnbc.com !!!
February 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I'll go anywhere on behalf of a good cause - and that means engaging people across all the different platforms.
Good to be connected here, @maddow.msnbc.com and @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com.
Good to be connected here, @maddow.msnbc.com and @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com.
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and mass demonstrations, and walk outs. We need GOP voters to join in.
February 8, 2025 at 4:13 AM
and mass demonstrations, and walk outs. We need GOP voters to join in.
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So it has been reported that RFK Jr has $1.2MM in credit card debt. I guess he is as successful a lawyer as trump is a businessperson!
Clearly like the presidency the HHS will be for sale to pay off RFK's debts!
Clearly like the presidency the HHS will be for sale to pay off RFK's debts!
February 8, 2025 at 4:13 AM
So it has been reported that RFK Jr has $1.2MM in credit card debt. I guess he is as successful a lawyer as trump is a businessperson!
Clearly like the presidency the HHS will be for sale to pay off RFK's debts!
Clearly like the presidency the HHS will be for sale to pay off RFK's debts!
Unbelievable!
Pausing funds appropriated by Congress is a deliberate taunt to draw a legal challenge that the White House’s most radical architects think will give them unilateral spending power. prospect.org/politics/202...
Trump’s Most Lawless Action Yet
Pausing funds appropriated by Congress is a deliberate taunt to draw a legal challenge that the White House’s most radical architects think will give them unilateral spending power.
prospect.org
January 29, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Unbelievable!
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I voted blue!
I am on medicaid!
Tried to print a form!
Unable to because of system error!
SW Washington State
@pattymurray.bsky.social @governorferguson.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social
I am on medicaid!
Tried to print a form!
Unable to because of system error!
SW Washington State
@pattymurray.bsky.social @governorferguson.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social
I hope you’re not on Medicaid because if you are you’re fucked.
Congratulations —
you just voted your healthcare away!
Congratulations —
you just voted your healthcare away!
January 29, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I voted blue!
I am on medicaid!
Tried to print a form!
Unable to because of system error!
SW Washington State
@pattymurray.bsky.social @governorferguson.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social
I am on medicaid!
Tried to print a form!
Unable to because of system error!
SW Washington State
@pattymurray.bsky.social @governorferguson.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social
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Does it matter Trump lied and said Muslim-Americans in the thousands cheered the destruction of the World Trade Center, to cause hate? (www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-ch...)
Analysis | Trump’s outrageous claim that ‘thousands’ of New Jersey Muslims celebrated the 9/11 attacks
There is absolutely no evidence of the celebration cited by Trump.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 29, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Does it matter Trump lied and said Muslim-Americans in the thousands cheered the destruction of the World Trade Center, to cause hate? (www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-ch...)
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President Biden has designated the Sáttítla Highlands as a 224,000-acre national monument, protecting Medicine Lake and its surrounding sacred lands.
Read more: tinyurl.com/BidenSattitla
Read the Official White House Brief Here: tinyurl.com/Medicine-Lake-Monument
Read more: tinyurl.com/BidenSattitla
Read the Official White House Brief Here: tinyurl.com/Medicine-Lake-Monument
January 29, 2025 at 1:41 AM
President Biden has designated the Sáttítla Highlands as a 224,000-acre national monument, protecting Medicine Lake and its surrounding sacred lands.
Read more: tinyurl.com/BidenSattitla
Read the Official White House Brief Here: tinyurl.com/Medicine-Lake-Monument
Read more: tinyurl.com/BidenSattitla
Read the Official White House Brief Here: tinyurl.com/Medicine-Lake-Monument
You think?
After a bit more than a week of trump being back, I’m starting to think he really does have the morals of an alley cat.
January 29, 2025 at 1:53 AM
You think?
Thank god.
UPDATE: Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans apnews.com/article/dona... #education #trump #grants #breakingnews
January 29, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Thank god.
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"I don't care!" Donald Trump has completely senile meltdown during Sean Hannity interview www.palmerreport.com/analysis/i-d...
"I don't care!" Donald Trump has completely senile meltdown during Sean Hannity interview
...
www.palmerreport.com
January 23, 2025 at 4:38 AM
"I don't care!" Donald Trump has completely senile meltdown during Sean Hannity interview www.palmerreport.com/analysis/i-d...
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The Danish Prime Minister tells Trump to fuck off over Greenland demands and intentions.
Thank God someone in politics has the actual balls to tell Trump what the thinking world actually feels and believes! 🇩🇰👍😁
youtu.be/ImtRaTjAF9Y?...
Thank God someone in politics has the actual balls to tell Trump what the thinking world actually feels and believes! 🇩🇰👍😁
youtu.be/ImtRaTjAF9Y?...
Danish MP tells Trump to f*** off over sale of Greenland
YouTube video by The Times and The Sunday Times
youtu.be
January 23, 2025 at 4:38 AM
The Danish Prime Minister tells Trump to fuck off over Greenland demands and intentions.
Thank God someone in politics has the actual balls to tell Trump what the thinking world actually feels and believes! 🇩🇰👍😁
youtu.be/ImtRaTjAF9Y?...
Thank God someone in politics has the actual balls to tell Trump what the thinking world actually feels and believes! 🇩🇰👍😁
youtu.be/ImtRaTjAF9Y?...