@laurablum
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It's beyond bizarre that trump signs EOs directing DOJ investigations. Remember how nervous Bill Barr got when then-Senator Harris asked him if Trump even *suggested* he open an investigation? Now they're just televised executive orders. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktdi...
William Barr stumped by Kamala Harris' question
YouTube video by CNN
www.youtube.com
April 9, 2025 at 10:52 PM
It's beyond bizarre that trump signs EOs directing DOJ investigations. Remember how nervous Bill Barr got when then-Senator Harris asked him if Trump even *suggested* he open an investigation? Now they're just televised executive orders. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktdi...
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You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.
April 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.
"They're so incompetent they can't even fail properly" - #RachelMaddow #truth
April 10, 2025 at 1:32 AM
"They're so incompetent they can't even fail properly" - #RachelMaddow #truth
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OMB is freezing student loans. No disbursements to colleges.
It wasn’t enough to hamstring the research.
Now he’s kneecapping the kids.
The culmination of a 50-year Koch project to disembowel institutions of higher learning. What they couldn’t do intellectually, they’ll do through bankruptcy.
It wasn’t enough to hamstring the research.
Now he’s kneecapping the kids.
The culmination of a 50-year Koch project to disembowel institutions of higher learning. What they couldn’t do intellectually, they’ll do through bankruptcy.
January 28, 2025 at 4:16 AM
OMB is freezing student loans. No disbursements to colleges.
It wasn’t enough to hamstring the research.
Now he’s kneecapping the kids.
The culmination of a 50-year Koch project to disembowel institutions of higher learning. What they couldn’t do intellectually, they’ll do through bankruptcy.
It wasn’t enough to hamstring the research.
Now he’s kneecapping the kids.
The culmination of a 50-year Koch project to disembowel institutions of higher learning. What they couldn’t do intellectually, they’ll do through bankruptcy.
I'd support Buttigieg running for anything.
HUGE BREAKING NEWS:
Pete Buttigieg is seriously considering running for Senate in Michigan after Gretchen Whitmer says she wouldn’t run for the open seat.
Smash that RT if you agree Secretary Buttigieg would make a FANTASTIC Senator!! 💙💙
Pete Buttigieg is seriously considering running for Senate in Michigan after Gretchen Whitmer says she wouldn’t run for the open seat.
Smash that RT if you agree Secretary Buttigieg would make a FANTASTIC Senator!! 💙💙
January 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I'd support Buttigieg running for anything.
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Thank you @jimacosta.bsky.social for refusing to comply in advance and standing up for democracy and freedom of the press!
THIS is what EVERY journalist, news anchor and political analyst should be doing!
Don't give in to the fear. Don't give in to the lies.
THIS is what EVERY journalist, news anchor and political analyst should be doing!
Don't give in to the fear. Don't give in to the lies.
January 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Thank you @jimacosta.bsky.social for refusing to comply in advance and standing up for democracy and freedom of the press!
THIS is what EVERY journalist, news anchor and political analyst should be doing!
Don't give in to the fear. Don't give in to the lies.
THIS is what EVERY journalist, news anchor and political analyst should be doing!
Don't give in to the fear. Don't give in to the lies.
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Hey Judd..
Have you seen this one..
Italy for Italian
Frances for the French
Elon is on a nazi tour in Europe..
bsky.app/profile/thes...
Have you seen this one..
Italy for Italian
Frances for the French
Elon is on a nazi tour in Europe..
bsky.app/profile/thes...
Elon Musk: "race mixing is bad. Italy for Italians!"
*woman next to him moves as far away as possible*
*woman next to him moves as far away as possible*
January 27, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Hey Judd..
Have you seen this one..
Italy for Italian
Frances for the French
Elon is on a nazi tour in Europe..
bsky.app/profile/thes...
Have you seen this one..
Italy for Italian
Frances for the French
Elon is on a nazi tour in Europe..
bsky.app/profile/thes...
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Good work, everybody! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
TV viewing figures fall for Trump’s inauguration
Six million fewer US viewers tuned in than for his first inauguration – and nine million fewer people than for Biden in 2021
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Good work, everybody! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
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This is an excellent, in-depth article on what leaving the Paris Climate agreement means for the US by @borenbears.bsky.social
One conclusion: "Several experts say the US will lose out on a trillion dollar plus renewable energy boom, leaving other countries like China to rule the green economy."
One conclusion: "Several experts say the US will lose out on a trillion dollar plus renewable energy boom, leaving other countries like China to rule the green economy."
January 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
This is an excellent, in-depth article on what leaving the Paris Climate agreement means for the US by @borenbears.bsky.social
One conclusion: "Several experts say the US will lose out on a trillion dollar plus renewable energy boom, leaving other countries like China to rule the green economy."
One conclusion: "Several experts say the US will lose out on a trillion dollar plus renewable energy boom, leaving other countries like China to rule the green economy."
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Great just great😡😡😡😡
So you voted and Breonna Taylor and George Floyd
Died for nothing
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Because this freezes the investigation of the POLICE DEPARTMENTS
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
So you voted and Breonna Taylor and George Floyd
Died for nothing
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Because this freezes the investigation of the POLICE DEPARTMENTS
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
US Justice Dept asks civil rights division to halt Biden era litigation, WaPo reports
The U.S. Justice Department has ordered its civil rights division to pause any existing litigation left over from the administration of former President Joe Biden, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
www.reuters.com
January 23, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Great just great😡😡😡😡
So you voted and Breonna Taylor and George Floyd
Died for nothing
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Because this freezes the investigation of the POLICE DEPARTMENTS
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
So you voted and Breonna Taylor and George Floyd
Died for nothing
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Because this freezes the investigation of the POLICE DEPARTMENTS
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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“What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias. A perception of non-independence.”
“Ending them is a principled decision, and it’s the right one.”
— Jeff Bezos, in an op-ed in some newspaper that’s dying in darkness, Oct. 28, 2024
“Ending them is a principled decision, and it’s the right one.”
— Jeff Bezos, in an op-ed in some newspaper that’s dying in darkness, Oct. 28, 2024
Jeff Bezos yukking it up with Trump’s Cabinet at the Rotunda right now… what a look for the owner of the Washington Post.
January 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
“What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias. A perception of non-independence.”
“Ending them is a principled decision, and it’s the right one.”
— Jeff Bezos, in an op-ed in some newspaper that’s dying in darkness, Oct. 28, 2024
“Ending them is a principled decision, and it’s the right one.”
— Jeff Bezos, in an op-ed in some newspaper that’s dying in darkness, Oct. 28, 2024
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Blocking Nazis, trolls, and fascists doesn’t make it an “echo chamber.” People need to stop gaslighting us into thinking we have to listen to Nazis and debate trolls in order to be informed.
November 17, 2024 at 12:52 AM
Blocking Nazis, trolls, and fascists doesn’t make it an “echo chamber.” People need to stop gaslighting us into thinking we have to listen to Nazis and debate trolls in order to be informed.
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Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens.
Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”
Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”
November 17, 2024 at 9:23 AM
Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens.
Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”
Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”
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Artist unknown to me
November 15, 2024 at 5:06 PM
Artist unknown to me
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Libraries need to reclassify 1984 from fiction to nonfiction.
November 15, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Libraries need to reclassify 1984 from fiction to nonfiction.
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Good afternoon, everyone…
Sometimes… if just for a moment … the best you can do is not obsess on everything going on .. all the craziness. Do your best… do what you can …then hope for the best… but always prepare yourself for the worst.
Stay safe… stay strong… stay in the moment
And #Breathe
Sometimes… if just for a moment … the best you can do is not obsess on everything going on .. all the craziness. Do your best… do what you can …then hope for the best… but always prepare yourself for the worst.
Stay safe… stay strong… stay in the moment
And #Breathe
November 16, 2024 at 6:15 PM
Good afternoon, everyone…
Sometimes… if just for a moment … the best you can do is not obsess on everything going on .. all the craziness. Do your best… do what you can …then hope for the best… but always prepare yourself for the worst.
Stay safe… stay strong… stay in the moment
And #Breathe
Sometimes… if just for a moment … the best you can do is not obsess on everything going on .. all the craziness. Do your best… do what you can …then hope for the best… but always prepare yourself for the worst.
Stay safe… stay strong… stay in the moment
And #Breathe
Shocking no one, but saddening many, we now have Nazis marching in the Short North. Be gone, #naziscum. www.10tv.com/article/news...
'Your hate isn't welcome': Columbus leaders condemn neo-Nazi march in Short North
Columbus Division of Police Sgt. Joseph Albert said no arrests were made out of the incident and there were no uses of force by police.
www.10tv.com
November 17, 2024 at 1:45 AM
Shocking no one, but saddening many, we now have Nazis marching in the Short North. Be gone, #naziscum. www.10tv.com/article/news...