Kirsikka Neskowin
@kirsikka-neskowin.bsky.social
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Trump’s #Signal chats weren’t about safety in #Portland, they were about optics. Now judges, governors, and protesters are pushing back while he plays dictator with the Guard. #uspolitics #martiallaw #authoritarianism #kakistocracy
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Paratroopers, Pepper Spray, and Political Theater
Trump’s Signal chats, Portland’s courtroom victory, and Chicago’s forced Guard deployment expose a presidency built on optics, not safety.
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October 5, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Trump’s #Signal chats weren’t about safety in #Portland, they were about optics. Now judges, governors, and protesters are pushing back while he plays dictator with the Guard. #uspolitics #martiallaw #authoritarianism #kakistocracy
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Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.
March 4, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.
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Just yesterday while on PBS News Hour I said that I will have confidence that federal vaccine policy is uncompromised as long as the external advisory committees continue to meet. Now meetings for both VRBPAC and ACIP have been cancelled. I don't like this.
I joined PBS News Hour to discuss the measles outbreak in Texas and vaccine hesitancy. My comments build on a point I made in a NYT essay: vaccine hesitancy and resulting outbreaks are a serious problem. But we should also remember that vaccines are popular, actually! www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
West Texas measles outbreak spreads amid vaccine hesitancy in some communities
There are now more than 120 confirmed measles cases linked to an outbreak in western Texas, the largest such outbreak the state has seen in over 30 years. It's raising questions about vaccine hesitanc...
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February 27, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Just yesterday while on PBS News Hour I said that I will have confidence that federal vaccine policy is uncompromised as long as the external advisory committees continue to meet. Now meetings for both VRBPAC and ACIP have been cancelled. I don't like this.
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Arizona AG Kris Mayes, New Mexico AG Raul Torrez, and Oregon AG Dan Rayfield will begin holding Community Impact Hearings — a national series of townhalls "to hear from the public about the impact of federal firings and DOGE funding freezes across the country."
The first will be in Phoenix March 5.
The first will be in Phoenix March 5.
February 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Arizona AG Kris Mayes, New Mexico AG Raul Torrez, and Oregon AG Dan Rayfield will begin holding Community Impact Hearings — a national series of townhalls "to hear from the public about the impact of federal firings and DOGE funding freezes across the country."
The first will be in Phoenix March 5.
The first will be in Phoenix March 5.
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In some cases, authoritarians will hand you what seems like a tool to criticise them or exercise your rights.
Whenever they do this, they are in fact handing you the tools to let them monitor and police you remotely. #tiktok
Whenever they do this, they are in fact handing you the tools to let them monitor and police you remotely. #tiktok
January 20, 2025 at 1:04 AM
In some cases, authoritarians will hand you what seems like a tool to criticise them or exercise your rights.
Whenever they do this, they are in fact handing you the tools to let them monitor and police you remotely. #tiktok
Whenever they do this, they are in fact handing you the tools to let them monitor and police you remotely. #tiktok
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It’s the job of every congressional democrat to grind the gears of government to a stop.
Right now. Block everything. Slow walk every committee. Call every vote. Filibuster every post office name change.
State Dems need to build parallel institutions to protect the people at home. GET TO WORK.
Right now. Block everything. Slow walk every committee. Call every vote. Filibuster every post office name change.
State Dems need to build parallel institutions to protect the people at home. GET TO WORK.
February 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
It’s the job of every congressional democrat to grind the gears of government to a stop.
Right now. Block everything. Slow walk every committee. Call every vote. Filibuster every post office name change.
State Dems need to build parallel institutions to protect the people at home. GET TO WORK.
Right now. Block everything. Slow walk every committee. Call every vote. Filibuster every post office name change.
State Dems need to build parallel institutions to protect the people at home. GET TO WORK.
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Just spitballing, but things that could happen today:
*Court injunction protecting USAID
*Dems demand hearings on Musk's role
*Someone introduce articles of impeachment
*Dem officeholders go to USAID offices with USAID workers
*Refuse to conduct any more Senate confirmations until this is resolved
*Court injunction protecting USAID
*Dems demand hearings on Musk's role
*Someone introduce articles of impeachment
*Dem officeholders go to USAID offices with USAID workers
*Refuse to conduct any more Senate confirmations until this is resolved
February 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Just spitballing, but things that could happen today:
*Court injunction protecting USAID
*Dems demand hearings on Musk's role
*Someone introduce articles of impeachment
*Dem officeholders go to USAID offices with USAID workers
*Refuse to conduct any more Senate confirmations until this is resolved
*Court injunction protecting USAID
*Dems demand hearings on Musk's role
*Someone introduce articles of impeachment
*Dem officeholders go to USAID offices with USAID workers
*Refuse to conduct any more Senate confirmations until this is resolved
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And you, too, @smith.senate.gov. And @schumer.senate.gov. And every Senate Democrat. We are counting on you. We need you to help us. Our families are at risk. A drug addled sociopath now has access to the entire federal payment system illegally. What are you going to do about it? @democrats.org
Please listen, @amyklobuchar.com.
We don't need to hear about the price of eggs or tomatoes. We already know and can adjust. What we *can't* adjust to is this lawless assault on our government and its resulting chaos. We need you to use whatever tools you have to protect us. Please.
We don't need to hear about the price of eggs or tomatoes. We already know and can adjust. What we *can't* adjust to is this lawless assault on our government and its resulting chaos. We need you to use whatever tools you have to protect us. Please.
Senator Klobuchar said people just want members of Congress to find common ground. No, Senator, no. You can't find common ground with authoritarians who are dismantling democracy. You need to resist them at every turn.
February 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
And you, too, @smith.senate.gov. And @schumer.senate.gov. And every Senate Democrat. We are counting on you. We need you to help us. Our families are at risk. A drug addled sociopath now has access to the entire federal payment system illegally. What are you going to do about it? @democrats.org
HRC is saying that Musk’s people gaining access to ALL of our social security and other financial info, the whole payment system that the country uses to disperse money, is a coup.
Talk to your conservative friends and family. Call your representatives, especially if you live in a red state!
Talk to your conservative friends and family. Call your representatives, especially if you live in a red state!
February 3, 2025 at 10:52 AM
HRC is saying that Musk’s people gaining access to ALL of our social security and other financial info, the whole payment system that the country uses to disperse money, is a coup.
Talk to your conservative friends and family. Call your representatives, especially if you live in a red state!
Talk to your conservative friends and family. Call your representatives, especially if you live in a red state!
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Y’all. Right now: youtube.com/live/55yf3As...
We Choose to Fight Action Call
YouTube video by Indivisible
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February 3, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Y’all. Right now: youtube.com/live/55yf3As...
A reminder that this exists. Again, Heather Cox Richardson says we are in a constitutional crisis, and she is not an excitable person. This is serious. Call. 5calls.org/issue/omb-fe...
Block Trump's Unconstitutional Federal Funding Freeze ⭑ 5 Calls
UPDATE (01/29/25): A federal judge has temporarily blocked Trump’s funding freeze until Monday, February 3rd. During this brief pause demand …
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January 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A reminder that this exists. Again, Heather Cox Richardson says we are in a constitutional crisis, and she is not an excitable person. This is serious. Call. 5calls.org/issue/omb-fe...
Y’all. Listen to HRC. She is saying that this is a time of CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS, and she has a to do list for us here. Pass this on. www.facebook.com/share/v/163H...
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January 29, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Y’all. Listen to HRC. She is saying that this is a time of CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS, and she has a to do list for us here. Pass this on. www.facebook.com/share/v/163H...
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I'm just going to keep pointing out these small* moments of collective action until it starts to click with folks that if we stand together we have all of the power.
*this is actually a huge fricken deal, and it only took a couple clicks from a bunch of folks who collectively said No Fucking Nazis.
*this is actually a huge fricken deal, and it only took a couple clicks from a bunch of folks who collectively said No Fucking Nazis.
January 24, 2025 at 4:38 AM
I'm just going to keep pointing out these small* moments of collective action until it starts to click with folks that if we stand together we have all of the power.
*this is actually a huge fricken deal, and it only took a couple clicks from a bunch of folks who collectively said No Fucking Nazis.
*this is actually a huge fricken deal, and it only took a couple clicks from a bunch of folks who collectively said No Fucking Nazis.
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I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
January 9, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
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Well, I guess we’ll just never know whether it was a Nazi salute or not…
Musk joins German far right's opening rally remotely, instructs Germans to stop feeling guilty and reminds them how impressed Caesar had been with German tribes' ability to fight.
Could not make this up.
Could not make this up.
Elon Musk bei AfD-Wahlkampfauftakt in Halle (Saale) zugeschaltet
»Seid stolz, Deutsche zu sein«: Von einer Videoleinwand sprach der Techmilliardär Elon Musk zu AfD-Anhängern. Der Trump-Berater verbreitete seine Erkenntnisse über die »deutsche Kultur«, in der Messeh...
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January 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Well, I guess we’ll just never know whether it was a Nazi salute or not…
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When we watched the first episode of Handmaids Tale in April 2017, I sat in silence for some time then turned to my husband and said “we need to leave”.
We came to New Zealand for a visit later that year, and left the US permanently in July 2018.
Everyone said it was drastic.
We came to New Zealand for a visit later that year, and left the US permanently in July 2018.
Everyone said it was drastic.
January 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
When we watched the first episode of Handmaids Tale in April 2017, I sat in silence for some time then turned to my husband and said “we need to leave”.
We came to New Zealand for a visit later that year, and left the US permanently in July 2018.
Everyone said it was drastic.
We came to New Zealand for a visit later that year, and left the US permanently in July 2018.
Everyone said it was drastic.
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If you were one of many news stories who uncritically ran this, we’ll take an apology
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Donald Trump Disavows Project 2025
"I'm not an extremist at all," says Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. He disavows Project 2025, saying the authors of the text are part of the far-right.
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January 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
If you were one of many news stories who uncritically ran this, we’ll take an apology
www.c-span.org/clip/campaig...
www.c-span.org/clip/campaig...
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This is an embarrassment. I don't know what all these mediocre men need to do to get their ego in line but they sound like they're playing Warcraft from their mom's basement.
New US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has released a message to the troops. If you want, take some time to read the vast tract that lies between the lines. You’ll see where this is going.
January 26, 2025 at 2:19 AM
This is an embarrassment. I don't know what all these mediocre men need to do to get their ego in line but they sound like they're playing Warcraft from their mom's basement.
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Checked out from my local library today. Kudos to the librarian who choose a queer author's book to be displayed on the recommended reads shelf in this small Kansas town. #Booksky
January 26, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Checked out from my local library today. Kudos to the librarian who choose a queer author's book to be displayed on the recommended reads shelf in this small Kansas town. #Booksky