@nomad1667.bsky.social
Optimist, retired attorney. “Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted.”
Yes
This. They’ve been racists for decades (see Reagan’s “welfare queens”), and Newt Gingrich led the charge against any bipartisanship in the ‘90s, but Obama really broke them completely.
July 14, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Yes
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As @MarshaBlackburn & @RepTimBurchett try to gaslight you into believing Trump’s Trillions Transfer helps regular people, the reality:
July 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM
As @MarshaBlackburn & @RepTimBurchett try to gaslight you into believing Trump’s Trillions Transfer helps regular people, the reality:
Health care is a fundamental right. Sick people cannot work or take care of their families. So the economy will suffer, and this ugly law will hurt everyone in different ways.
Rep. @aoc.bsky.social on ny1 : “People are going to get sick and go hungry… They’re giving people crumbs and taking away the whole loaf… One of the saddest days in 🇺🇸 history.”
July 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Health care is a fundamental right. Sick people cannot work or take care of their families. So the economy will suffer, and this ugly law will hurt everyone in different ways.
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Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit." - Ronald Reagan
🚨 Republicans love to talk about slashing the benefits we earned and paid into our whole lives — all in the name of “fixing the deficit.” But that’s a BIG LIE.
✅ Even Reagan spoke the truth.
#HandsOffMySocialSecurity
🚨 Republicans love to talk about slashing the benefits we earned and paid into our whole lives — all in the name of “fixing the deficit.” But that’s a BIG LIE.
✅ Even Reagan spoke the truth.
#HandsOffMySocialSecurity
April 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit." - Ronald Reagan
🚨 Republicans love to talk about slashing the benefits we earned and paid into our whole lives — all in the name of “fixing the deficit.” But that’s a BIG LIE.
✅ Even Reagan spoke the truth.
#HandsOffMySocialSecurity
🚨 Republicans love to talk about slashing the benefits we earned and paid into our whole lives — all in the name of “fixing the deficit.” But that’s a BIG LIE.
✅ Even Reagan spoke the truth.
#HandsOffMySocialSecurity
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Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act.
With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
March 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act.
With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
And so it begins and ends.
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
March 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
And so it begins and ends.
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Is it not enough that right wing media controls most of the local so-called “trusted” TV stations with their local anchors being dictated to by Trump loving owners such as Sinclair Group controlling over 200 TV stations in the largest markets penetrating 75% of America’s Households 👇
March 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Is it not enough that right wing media controls most of the local so-called “trusted” TV stations with their local anchors being dictated to by Trump loving owners such as Sinclair Group controlling over 200 TV stations in the largest markets penetrating 75% of America’s Households 👇
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With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
March 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
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For the umpteenth time: No way should our allies share their intelligence with us. No fucking way. Trump can’t be trusted with our allies’ intelligence. He’s not on their side. He’s on Putin’s side. www.mediaite.com/tv/cia-direc...
CIA Director Reveals U.S. Has Cut Off Intelligence Support to Ukraine After Trump-Zelensky Clash
Ratcliffe revealed Trump halted intelligence support as part of his decision to withhold military aid to Ukraine following last week’s Oval Office confrontation.
www.mediaite.com
March 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
For the umpteenth time: No way should our allies share their intelligence with us. No fucking way. Trump can’t be trusted with our allies’ intelligence. He’s not on their side. He’s on Putin’s side. www.mediaite.com/tv/cia-direc...
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Trudeau: The tariffs have nothing to do with fentanyl but are designed to collapse the Canadian economy in order to make it "easier to annex us."
Let that sink in.
This is TERRIFYING. Americans, listen to Trudeau's address to get the Canadian perspective on this.
Let that sink in.
This is TERRIFYING. Americans, listen to Trudeau's address to get the Canadian perspective on this.
Trudeau: "Now I want to speak directly to one specific American. Donald...it's not in my habit to agree with the WSJ, but Donald, they point out that even though you're a very smart guy, this is a very dumb thing to do. We friends fighting is exactly what our opponents around the world want to see."
March 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Trudeau: The tariffs have nothing to do with fentanyl but are designed to collapse the Canadian economy in order to make it "easier to annex us."
Let that sink in.
This is TERRIFYING. Americans, listen to Trudeau's address to get the Canadian perspective on this.
Let that sink in.
This is TERRIFYING. Americans, listen to Trudeau's address to get the Canadian perspective on this.
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Neguse: I can certainly assure you that my constituents who are seeing their 401K balances vanish in real time would not describe your policies as common sense
March 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Neguse: I can certainly assure you that my constituents who are seeing their 401K balances vanish in real time would not describe your policies as common sense
Ron Filipkowski … Stephanie Ruhle yesterday. Very clear explanation of the grift.
My best recommendation to huge legacy media companies right now is to hire a reporter who understands crypto, the law, and politics - and how they are currently intersecting in an incredibly corrupt way that almost everyone is ignoring.
March 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Ron Filipkowski … Stephanie Ruhle yesterday. Very clear explanation of the grift.
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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
Also, sending emails on weekends to terrorize and cause unnecessary stress and anxiety. As others have said, “The cruelty is the point.”
The goal is to terrorize federal workers into quitting. That’s it. Constant changes. Canceling work from home then closing offices. Laying off probationary employees. It’s designed to break the government. Then privatize it for profit. It’s not efficiency. It’s collapse. Only peasants will suffer.
February 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Also, sending emails on weekends to terrorize and cause unnecessary stress and anxiety. As others have said, “The cruelty is the point.”
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Elon Musk, who has said the beneficiaries of federal spending are a "parasite class," runs businesses that have pocketed $38 billion in taxpayer-funded subsidies, loans and contracts www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
February 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Elon Musk, who has said the beneficiaries of federal spending are a "parasite class," runs businesses that have pocketed $38 billion in taxpayer-funded subsidies, loans and contracts www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
Is this from the Onion?
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February 15, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Is this from the Onion?
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Ooooh well played.
February 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Ooooh well played.
Closing USAID (illegally) is like cutting off your nose to spite your face. Sadly, lives are being ruined.
Oops, the unintended (or under-reported) consequences of the Billionaire Blitzkrieg of our government and country.
The new Trump “Hate State” administration is already hurting American farmers and the poor- both domestically and abroad- all at once.
It’s time to speak up and speak out!!!
The new Trump “Hate State” administration is already hurting American farmers and the poor- both domestically and abroad- all at once.
It’s time to speak up and speak out!!!
US farmers sold $2 billion of food to USAID. Not any more.
- US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID
- $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes.
- Food stranded in Houston
- Aid stopped in transit.
The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.
- US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID
- $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes.
- Food stranded in Houston
- Aid stopped in transit.
The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.
February 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Closing USAID (illegally) is like cutting off your nose to spite your face. Sadly, lives are being ruined.
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What this long and detailed NYT piece calmly calls an “extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual” is in fact a blatantly unconstitutional usurpation of Congress’s Article I powers and delegation of the President’s Article II duties.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
Elon Musk’s Blitz Shakes U.S. Government as He Sweeps Through Agencies
The billionaire is creating major upheaval as his team sweeps through agencies, in what has been an extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual.
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
What this long and detailed NYT piece calmly calls an “extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual” is in fact a blatantly unconstitutional usurpation of Congress’s Article I powers and delegation of the President’s Article II duties.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
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For the people telling us USAID was not created by an act of Congress: Google is your friend
www.justsecurity.org/107267/can-p...
www.justsecurity.org/107267/can-p...
February 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
For the people telling us USAID was not created by an act of Congress: Google is your friend
www.justsecurity.org/107267/can-p...
www.justsecurity.org/107267/can-p...
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Sigh! All the crazy things happening with the US gov't now would not be happening if the press had accurately reported Trump's deteriorated mental state. But no. Only Biden's modest cognitive decline, not Trump's collapse was drumb-beat news.
February 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Sigh! All the crazy things happening with the US gov't now would not be happening if the press had accurately reported Trump's deteriorated mental state. But no. Only Biden's modest cognitive decline, not Trump's collapse was drumb-beat news.
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It's not hysteria. It's not exaggeration. It's not premature. Where we are is a place we have never been in this country and threat we face is one that is by no means certain that we can survive. But let's do what we can, whatever we can, something precious and fragile is at dire risk of being lost.
February 1, 2025 at 1:10 AM
It's not hysteria. It's not exaggeration. It's not premature. Where we are is a place we have never been in this country and threat we face is one that is by no means certain that we can survive. But let's do what we can, whatever we can, something precious and fragile is at dire risk of being lost.
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I’m going to put my rich guy hat on and say I hope that Mexico and Canada issue equal, retaliatory tariffs and stick to them for an extended period.
I apologize to all the people it will cost money and the businesses it will hurt.
But it’s the only way for tariffs to be seen for what they are
I apologize to all the people it will cost money and the businesses it will hurt.
But it’s the only way for tariffs to be seen for what they are
February 2, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I’m going to put my rich guy hat on and say I hope that Mexico and Canada issue equal, retaliatory tariffs and stick to them for an extended period.
I apologize to all the people it will cost money and the businesses it will hurt.
But it’s the only way for tariffs to be seen for what they are
I apologize to all the people it will cost money and the businesses it will hurt.
But it’s the only way for tariffs to be seen for what they are