Kate Runy
@kateruny.bsky.social
Just a girl trying to be on all the platforms. I’m from the Baronies.
Reposted by Kate Runy
Employees at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency tell WIRED they’re struggling to protect the US while the administration dismisses their colleagues and poisons their partnerships.
‘People Are Scared’: Inside CISA as It Reels From Trump’s Purge
Employees at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency tell WIRED they’re struggling to protect the US while the administration dismisses their colleagues and poisons their partnerships.
wrd.cm
March 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Employees at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency tell WIRED they’re struggling to protect the US while the administration dismisses their colleagues and poisons their partnerships.
Reposted by Kate Runy
All of the Republicans who for years railed about "unelected bureaucrats" destroying the government are awfully quiet as an unelected bureaucrat destroys the government.
March 5, 2025 at 2:55 AM
All of the Republicans who for years railed about "unelected bureaucrats" destroying the government are awfully quiet as an unelected bureaucrat destroys the government.
Reposted by Kate Runy
"I could find a cure to the most devastating diseases" and Democrats still wouldn't be happy, Trump says.
Trump has frozen all government research into cures for cancer and Alzheimer's.
Trump has frozen all government research into cures for cancer and Alzheimer's.
March 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
"I could find a cure to the most devastating diseases" and Democrats still wouldn't be happy, Trump says.
Trump has frozen all government research into cures for cancer and Alzheimer's.
Trump has frozen all government research into cures for cancer and Alzheimer's.
Nothing like seeing the First Union shirt in the #WhiteLotus premiere to drive home that yes, that family is from my home state. Good job costume team.
February 18, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Nothing like seeing the First Union shirt in the #WhiteLotus premiere to drive home that yes, that family is from my home state. Good job costume team.
Reposted by Kate Runy
these are the worst people and deserve worse fates than can be comfortably imagined
so special ed programs are getting gutted because their internal documentation used the term "transition" when talking about helping disabled kids enter the working world. they're literally striking at that word wherever they see it.
the richest man in the world has decided that your kids don't deserve special education programs
February 17, 2025 at 2:42 AM
these are the worst people and deserve worse fates than can be comfortably imagined
Reposted by Kate Runy
“All autocracies attempt to control the past in order to control the future.”
The Trump Administration Just Deleted Part of American History. If They Get Away With It, We Could Be Headed to a Very Dark Place.
This is far more serious than the loss of a few letters.
slate.com
February 17, 2025 at 3:37 AM
“All autocracies attempt to control the past in order to control the future.”
Reposted by Kate Runy
American institutions—from the media to Congress—continue to underreact to the unraveling of our democracy. Overseas our media would not hesitate to call what we’re living through a full-blown autocratic coup. Here's my attempt at the story they should write: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...
Musk, Trump Establish New Era of Kleptocracy in America
A third dispatch comparing how the US media would cover this moment if it was happening overseas
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
American institutions—from the media to Congress—continue to underreact to the unraveling of our democracy. Overseas our media would not hesitate to call what we’re living through a full-blown autocratic coup. Here's my attempt at the story they should write: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...
Reposted by Kate Runy
This is the first time a Pulitzer Prize winner has headlined the Super Bowl halftime show.
February 10, 2025 at 1:29 AM
This is the first time a Pulitzer Prize winner has headlined the Super Bowl halftime show.
Reposted by Kate Runy
NASA Ordered to Remove Anything About 'Women in Leadership' From Its Websites: Report https://gizmodo.com/nasa-ordered-to-remove-anything-about-women-in-leadership-from-its-websites-report-2000559596
NASA Ordered to Remove Anything About 'Women in Leadership' From Its Websites: Report
"This is a drop everything and reprioritize your day request."
gizmodo.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
NASA Ordered to Remove Anything About 'Women in Leadership' From Its Websites: Report https://gizmodo.com/nasa-ordered-to-remove-anything-about-women-in-leadership-from-its-websites-report-2000559596
Reposted by Kate Runy
The Nazis burned books they considered subversive. The #Trump administration is conducting a "digital book burning" according to researchers--destroying information from federal agencies on the web on topics they consider subversive but are essential for public health. www.npr.org/2025/02/05/n...
Scientist calls the disappearance of federal health data a 'digital book burning'
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Nancy Krieger, a social epidemiologist at Harvard University, about her efforts to preserve federal health data that recently disappeared from government websites.
www.npr.org
February 6, 2025 at 1:43 AM
The Nazis burned books they considered subversive. The #Trump administration is conducting a "digital book burning" according to researchers--destroying information from federal agencies on the web on topics they consider subversive but are essential for public health. www.npr.org/2025/02/05/n...
Reposted by Kate Runy
The U.S. Military Academy at West Point ordered 12 officially sanctioned clubs for women and ethnic or racial groups to shut down immediately, in a drive to comply with the Trump administration’s directives on diversity, equity and inclusion, the academy said on Wednesday.
West Point Disbands Clubs for Women and Minorities After Trump DEI Orders
The military academy ordered the closure of a dozen clubs for students affiliated with its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion office.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 4:01 AM
The U.S. Military Academy at West Point ordered 12 officially sanctioned clubs for women and ethnic or racial groups to shut down immediately, in a drive to comply with the Trump administration’s directives on diversity, equity and inclusion, the academy said on Wednesday.
Reposted by Kate Runy
"News outlets aren’t ignoring Trump’s disturbing actions, but they’re failing to present the extreme measures coming out of Washington as an urgent crisis," writes @oliverdarcy.bsky.social.
www.status.news/p/trumpocaly...
www.status.news/p/trumpocaly...
Trumpocalypse Now
It’s not that news outlets are ignoring Donald Trump’s actions — it’s that they’re failing to present the totality of the extreme measures coming out of Washington an urgent crisis.
www.status.news
February 6, 2025 at 4:15 AM
"News outlets aren’t ignoring Trump’s disturbing actions, but they’re failing to present the extreme measures coming out of Washington as an urgent crisis," writes @oliverdarcy.bsky.social.
www.status.news/p/trumpocaly...
www.status.news/p/trumpocaly...
Reposted by Kate Runy
For some clarification here when Trump releases the executive order to eliminate the Department of Education, it does not eliminate the Department of Education. Congress needs to do that and they do not (currently) have the votes or support to do so.
BREAKING: The White House is preparing an executive order to eliminate the Department of Education, two sources familiar with the plans tell NBC News.
White House preparing executive order to abolish the Department of Education
The planned order follows years of campaign promises from President Donald Trump to abolish the federal Education Department.
www.nbcnews.com
February 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
For some clarification here when Trump releases the executive order to eliminate the Department of Education, it does not eliminate the Department of Education. Congress needs to do that and they do not (currently) have the votes or support to do so.
Reposted by Kate Runy
Crucial angle on Elon Musk's takeover of Treasury's payment systems that people are missing: It's happening as a debt ceiling crisis looms, when you need nonpartisan people monitoring outgoing payments.
Former Treasury and OMB officials explain this to me here:
newrepublic.com/article/1910...
Former Treasury and OMB officials explain this to me here:
newrepublic.com/article/1910...
February 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Crucial angle on Elon Musk's takeover of Treasury's payment systems that people are missing: It's happening as a debt ceiling crisis looms, when you need nonpartisan people monitoring outgoing payments.
Former Treasury and OMB officials explain this to me here:
newrepublic.com/article/1910...
Former Treasury and OMB officials explain this to me here:
newrepublic.com/article/1910...
Reposted by Kate Runy
Musk has rejected Congress's powers and appointed himself illegally as the sole arbiter of federal spending.
What makes it even scarier: He's crowdsourcing his ideas of what to cut to the Hitler fanboys and QAnoners that make up his Twitter following.
www.salon.com/2025/02/04/h...
What makes it even scarier: He's crowdsourcing his ideas of what to cut to the Hitler fanboys and QAnoners that make up his Twitter following.
www.salon.com/2025/02/04/h...
"Hitler actually had some good ideas": Musk's covert coup is guided by the nastiest Twitter trolls
Musk's illegal government takeover is scary on its own, but the people he's bringing along are even worse
www.salon.com
February 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Musk has rejected Congress's powers and appointed himself illegally as the sole arbiter of federal spending.
What makes it even scarier: He's crowdsourcing his ideas of what to cut to the Hitler fanboys and QAnoners that make up his Twitter following.
www.salon.com/2025/02/04/h...
What makes it even scarier: He's crowdsourcing his ideas of what to cut to the Hitler fanboys and QAnoners that make up his Twitter following.
www.salon.com/2025/02/04/h...
Reposted by Kate Runy
This story says Musk’s team passed “the necessary background checks” and were “approved” to access millions of Americans’ private records including bank account information. Approved by whom? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
Warren Questions Bessent Over Musk Access to Treasury Payment System
In a letter to the Treasury secretary, the Democratic senator warned against meddling with a system that processes trillions of dollars of transactions.
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
This story says Musk’s team passed “the necessary background checks” and were “approved” to access millions of Americans’ private records including bank account information. Approved by whom? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
Reposted by Kate Runy
An unelected billionaire gleefully shutting down the world’s largest provider of food assistance, an agency started 60 years ago by JFK with 10,000 employees in 100 countries www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump moves to wrest control of USAID as Musk says ‘we’re shutting it down’
Billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk said early Monday that his DOGE team is in the process of closing USAID, the world’s largest provider of food assistance.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
An unelected billionaire gleefully shutting down the world’s largest provider of food assistance, an agency started 60 years ago by JFK with 10,000 employees in 100 countries www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Reposted by Kate Runy
Withholding foreign aid was what Trump was impeached for! The laws have not changed. But he wasn’t convicted so now he is doing it on a much greater scale!
The executive branch does not have the legal right to cancel appropriated spending or eliminate agencies created by Congress.
Trump and Musk are doing both. Entirely lawless and unconstitutional.
The world's largest provider of food assistance shut down.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump and Musk are doing both. Entirely lawless and unconstitutional.
The world's largest provider of food assistance shut down.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
![“I went over it with him in detail, and he agreed that we should shut it down,” Musk said. “And I actually checked with him a few times [and] said ‘are you sure?’”
The answer was yes, he said.
“And so we’re shutting it down,” Musk said.
USAID staffers were told that the agency’s headquarters in Washington will be closed Monday amid the turmoil.
In an email to staff early Monday, the agency’s leadership said: “Agency personnel normally assigned to work at USAID headquarters will work remotely … with the exception of personnel with essential on-site and building maintenance functions individually contacted by senior leadership.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2rrp7amblhg3xoly5n5huiqv/bafkreihfrxbqqzx6xoeoudgfglj52il2ts26n2dkmxhq6ulwdbt7thegzy@jpeg)
February 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Withholding foreign aid was what Trump was impeached for! The laws have not changed. But he wasn’t convicted so now he is doing it on a much greater scale!
Reposted by Kate Runy
Reminder - shuttering USAID may cause millions of people to die throughout the developing world in the next few weeks. Whatever else he thinks he’s doing madman Musk may about to become a mass murderer.
open.substack.com/pub/simonwdc...
open.substack.com/pub/simonwdc...
"The U.S. President Is Quietly Killing So Many Lives" - Holding Trump To Account For The Chaos, Disruptions, Recklessness And Malevolence
We need to keep fighting The Unacceptable 4 - Gabbard, Kennedy, Patel, Vought
open.substack.com
February 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Reminder - shuttering USAID may cause millions of people to die throughout the developing world in the next few weeks. Whatever else he thinks he’s doing madman Musk may about to become a mass murderer.
open.substack.com/pub/simonwdc...
open.substack.com/pub/simonwdc...
Reposted by Kate Runy
USAID being unlawfully dismantled. DOGE member has closed HQ. New tranche of workers cut off email.
Staff tell me, "It is frightening being inside USAID right now. Our checks and balances failed. Congress has abdicated its responsibilities.”
And Sec. Rubio has abdicated his.
Staff tell me, "It is frightening being inside USAID right now. Our checks and balances failed. Congress has abdicated its responsibilities.”
And Sec. Rubio has abdicated his.
New — USAID staff received an email just a few minutes ago letting them know HQ would be closed to all personnel Monday. It’s likely some employees will miss the overnight email, show up and be turned away.
It was sent by Gavin Kliger, one of the young guys at DOGE doing Musk’s bidding.
It was sent by Gavin Kliger, one of the young guys at DOGE doing Musk’s bidding.
February 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
USAID being unlawfully dismantled. DOGE member has closed HQ. New tranche of workers cut off email.
Staff tell me, "It is frightening being inside USAID right now. Our checks and balances failed. Congress has abdicated its responsibilities.”
And Sec. Rubio has abdicated his.
Staff tell me, "It is frightening being inside USAID right now. Our checks and balances failed. Congress has abdicated its responsibilities.”
And Sec. Rubio has abdicated his.
Reposted by Kate Runy
What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.
February 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.
Reposted by Kate Runy
"A modern-day book burning," a "five-alarm fire": Groups decry the CDC taking data offline, and the CDC's advisory board demands answers, acknowledging it may be their last act.
“We all discussed that,” said one board member. “We expect to be fired.”
New from @statnews.com this evening:
“We all discussed that,” said one board member. “We expect to be fired.”
New from @statnews.com this evening:
CDC advisers push agency to explain data removal, say when info will be restored
Information on topics such as gender, teens' behavior, and infectious diseases was removed from the CDC's website.
www.statnews.com
February 2, 2025 at 12:58 AM
"A modern-day book burning," a "five-alarm fire": Groups decry the CDC taking data offline, and the CDC's advisory board demands answers, acknowledging it may be their last act.
“We all discussed that,” said one board member. “We expect to be fired.”
New from @statnews.com this evening:
“We all discussed that,” said one board member. “We expect to be fired.”
New from @statnews.com this evening:
Reposted by Kate Runy
I know why! I know why! Pick me!
(We’ve decided viruses are something we ignore, no matter how materially they affect our lives)
(We’ve decided viruses are something we ignore, no matter how materially they affect our lives)
Kind of weird how much we've separated egg prices from the h5n1 virus. Like we get that's why eggs are expensive? Because we've failed to contain it and farmers have had to cull large amounts of chickens leading to a reduction in production?
February 3, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I know why! I know why! Pick me!
(We’ve decided viruses are something we ignore, no matter how materially they affect our lives)
(We’ve decided viruses are something we ignore, no matter how materially they affect our lives)
