Bad news for disaster recovery: renewal of FEMA term employees (the majority of the staff) now have to be approved by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, a process that before had been routine. I'm sure that hurricane, tornado, and fire season will go just fine anyway 😱. www.reddit.com/r/fema/comme...

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.

Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.

Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.

TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

So Trump has essentially set up a way for foreign governments to directly bribe him and to enrich himself off of his office more than anyone in history using crypto.

Good legislation would get to the heart of the issue of mass data surveillance. In my opinion, this (one-off ban on TikTok) ain’t it.

Message with an intended audience of one. Very similar message/strategy to a video that TikTok served me, from their official account, featuring their CEO, last night. Isn’t this what Harris explained on the debate stage? Flattery as foreign policy.

So this is social media on the eve of Trump 2.0:
- X: controlled by dude who would be a Trump official but for the ethics disclosures
-Meta: controlled by obsequious dork prepared to do anything to save his own butt
-TikTok: owned by a foreign govt that just completed its biggest influence op yet

To my fellow Bluesky newbies: if you want to see the comments on a post, you have to click on the *blank space* next to the comment icon at the bottom left. 🤷‍♀️

As expected, WCK is in LA feeding the responders and the displaced alike. You can donate here: