Kate Sheridan
@katesheridan.bsky.social
#Resistance #TeamPete Retired journalist, economics & political writer, researcher, photographer. Homesteader, homebody, gardener. Lover of woods, wetlands & wild places #gardening #breadsky
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Acknowledging the reality! Amen.
New in PN: Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism
“'I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable,' Judge Young fumed. 'I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.'
*More of this, please*"
“'I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable,' Judge Young fumed. 'I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.'
*More of this, please*"
Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism
You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a rancid bigot.
www.publicnotice.co
June 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Acknowledging the reality! Amen.
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Ya, can't quite figure out why Canadians don't want to travel there, or do business. 🙄🤦🏼♀️😡
“A U.S. citizen!” And now he’s missing.
Adrian Martinez tried to defend a man ICE was harassing. Video shows six agents swarming him. He struggles but doesn’t lay hands on them. They take him to the ground & shove him into a CBP vehicle.
Abuse of power. Keep recording. Don’t stop.
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Adrian Martinez tried to defend a man ICE was harassing. Video shows six agents swarming him. He struggles but doesn’t lay hands on them. They take him to the ground & shove him into a CBP vehicle.
Abuse of power. Keep recording. Don’t stop.
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June 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Ya, can't quite figure out why Canadians don't want to travel there, or do business. 🙄🤦🏼♀️😡
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MSNBC dug up the clip of former Trump Sec Def Mark Esper saying that Trump asked him in 2020 to shoot protesters -- an order Pete Hegseth wouldn't rule out following if Trump asked him to do it today
June 18, 2025 at 9:10 PM
MSNBC dug up the clip of former Trump Sec Def Mark Esper saying that Trump asked him in 2020 to shoot protesters -- an order Pete Hegseth wouldn't rule out following if Trump asked him to do it today
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Library of Congress staff just showed what resistance looks like. After Trump abruptly fired Dr. Carla Hayden, the respected Librarian of Congress, he tried to install Todd Blanche, his former personal lawyer and current Deputy Attorney General, as acting librarian. Staff weren’t having it.
May 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Library of Congress staff just showed what resistance looks like. After Trump abruptly fired Dr. Carla Hayden, the respected Librarian of Congress, he tried to install Todd Blanche, his former personal lawyer and current Deputy Attorney General, as acting librarian. Staff weren’t having it.
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Q: Who said this?
"Musk ... is a HIGH-RANKING government official. ... The White House has designated Musk a 'special government employee' IN CHARGE OF Establishing and Implementing the President's Department of Government Efficiency ('DOGE')."
Ans: Musk's own attorneys in a Delaware court filing.
"Musk ... is a HIGH-RANKING government official. ... The White House has designated Musk a 'special government employee' IN CHARGE OF Establishing and Implementing the President's Department of Government Efficiency ('DOGE')."
Ans: Musk's own attorneys in a Delaware court filing.
March 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Q: Who said this?
"Musk ... is a HIGH-RANKING government official. ... The White House has designated Musk a 'special government employee' IN CHARGE OF Establishing and Implementing the President's Department of Government Efficiency ('DOGE')."
Ans: Musk's own attorneys in a Delaware court filing.
"Musk ... is a HIGH-RANKING government official. ... The White House has designated Musk a 'special government employee' IN CHARGE OF Establishing and Implementing the President's Department of Government Efficiency ('DOGE')."
Ans: Musk's own attorneys in a Delaware court filing.
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“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
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DOJ is removing experienced, non-political career lawyers in key positions. Yesterday was ethics. Today, it’s national security. This does not bode well for good government or public safety.
March 9, 2025 at 2:55 AM
DOJ is removing experienced, non-political career lawyers in key positions. Yesterday was ethics. Today, it’s national security. This does not bode well for good government or public safety.
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Enormous response to Mike’s post. If you haven’t read it…
Some of his readers have asked Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social why his technology news site, Tech Dirt, has been covering politics so intensely lately. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...
I cannot recommend Mike's reply enough. It's exactly what readers need to hear, what journalists need to do.
I cannot recommend Mike's reply enough. It's exactly what readers need to hear, what journalists need to do.
March 9, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Enormous response to Mike’s post. If you haven’t read it…
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5-4 was absurd. This was a clear 9-0.
Worry about the Court.
Worry about the Court.
This week’s 5-4 win for federal funding was less notable for the 5 than for the 4.
This was payment for contracts the government had agreed to where the work contracted for had been properly performed. How was that not 9-0?
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This was payment for contracts the government had agreed to where the work contracted for had been properly performed. How was that not 9-0?
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March 9, 2025 at 3:54 AM
5-4 was absurd. This was a clear 9-0.
Worry about the Court.
Worry about the Court.
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just taking tonight to really appreciate all these years of journalistic tut-tut-tutting about how over-the-top it was for anyone to focus on trump's affinity for russia and putin.
March 9, 2025 at 5:09 AM
just taking tonight to really appreciate all these years of journalistic tut-tut-tutting about how over-the-top it was for anyone to focus on trump's affinity for russia and putin.
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If Russia wants peace, they should end the invasion.
March 5, 2025 at 3:54 AM
If Russia wants peace, they should end the invasion.
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More like this please
February 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
More like this please
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The elderly who’ve worked their entire lives to get $800 a month on Social Security aren’t bankrupting America. It’s tax-evading billionaires like Musk and Trump who are bleeding this country dry.
February 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The elderly who’ve worked their entire lives to get $800 a month on Social Security aren’t bankrupting America. It’s tax-evading billionaires like Musk and Trump who are bleeding this country dry.
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Medicaid has always been on the chopping block. MAGAts don't seem to get how much they are actually dependent on these programs. They see themselves as the deserving poor, not understanding that it doesn't work like that.
Republicans pushing forward on Medicaid changes, despite potential political fallout
House Republicans signaled they’re going full steam ahead on significant changes to Medicaid, despite pressure from Democrats and even some moderates in their party.
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February 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Medicaid has always been on the chopping block. MAGAts don't seem to get how much they are actually dependent on these programs. They see themselves as the deserving poor, not understanding that it doesn't work like that.
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The GOP passed a budget resolution last night that will gut Medicaid, SNAP, and other vital programs — as 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
Why? To finance tax cuts for the top 1%.
We have socialism in this country for the rich, harsh capitalism for everyone else.
Why? To finance tax cuts for the top 1%.
We have socialism in this country for the rich, harsh capitalism for everyone else.
February 26, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The GOP passed a budget resolution last night that will gut Medicaid, SNAP, and other vital programs — as 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
Why? To finance tax cuts for the top 1%.
We have socialism in this country for the rich, harsh capitalism for everyone else.
Why? To finance tax cuts for the top 1%.
We have socialism in this country for the rich, harsh capitalism for everyone else.
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". . . and that's why I voted to confirm the people he's duped to key national security and intelligence roles."
Russian President Vladimir Putin “is a war criminal who should be in jail for the rest of his life, if not executed,” says U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. Roger Wicker, a Mississippi Republican.
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February 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
". . . and that's why I voted to confirm the people he's duped to key national security and intelligence roles."
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MAGA R's can perpetrate any lie they like about the budget/reconcilliation. You know who doesn't buy it? The Fed. The bond market.
February 26, 2025 at 11:34 PM
MAGA R's can perpetrate any lie they like about the budget/reconcilliation. You know who doesn't buy it? The Fed. The bond market.
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What the ever loving fuck is going on?
Trump: "We're gonna be selling a gold card. You have a green card, this is a gold card. We're gonna put a price on that card of about $5 million and that's going to give you green card privileges, plus. It's gonna be a route to citizenship, and wealthy people will be coming into our country."
February 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
What the ever loving fuck is going on?
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I’ve been targeted for death in a bomb threat received at the Principles First Summit where I spoke today. To be clear, I’ve been threatened by far more capable people during my career. It won’t stop my advocacy for democracy and the Constitution: x.com/Acosta/statu...
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February 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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I’d say it is impossible to explain. No almost about it
It is almost impossible to explain the sheer insanity of Elon Musk apparently having the capability to email the entire federal government evidently without getting approval from anyone—and, apparently, against the wishes of most Cabinet departments.
DoD guidance is out: do not respond
February 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I’d say it is impossible to explain. No almost about it
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A reminder that Elon Musk's corporations were promised $3 billion across nearly 100 different contracts last year with 17 federal agencies.
While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall.
While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall.
February 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
A reminder that Elon Musk's corporations were promised $3 billion across nearly 100 different contracts last year with 17 federal agencies.
While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall.
While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall.
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The pinned post of Feb 22, 2025 in screenshot posted by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social below, was posted, and pinned, by Elon on the day before today’s election in Germany.
February 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The pinned post of Feb 22, 2025 in screenshot posted by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social below, was posted, and pinned, by Elon on the day before today’s election in Germany.
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Sitting in a full coffee shop in Ottawa and I have heard people at 4 or 5 different tables talk about what’s going on in the US, how they are buying Canadian, how proud they are to be Canadian, someone mentioned cancelled plans to Florida, and one very distinct “Fuck Trump” from an older lady. 🇨🇦
February 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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@ruthbenghiat.bsky.social What do you think? Because of you and others we have the knowledge needed...
Good that the Times is tracking his deeds and words like this. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Next level would be to organize all the known steps in democracy's replacement by authoritarian governance, and report it as news when he reaches them, so that we know where we are— and what remains.
Next level would be to organize all the known steps in democracy's replacement by authoritarian governance, and report it as news when he reaches them, so that we know where we are— and what remains.
February 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
@ruthbenghiat.bsky.social What do you think? Because of you and others we have the knowledge needed...
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Canada assumes leadership of The Free World.
Trudeau: "Canada will always stand up for Ukraine."
Trudeau to Zelensky: "Your fight is our fight."
Source: Politico
Trudeau to Zelensky: "Your fight is our fight."
Source: Politico
February 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Canada assumes leadership of The Free World.