Peggy Schaffer
@peggyschaffer.bsky.social
Former political activist, broadband leader, community organizer. Now mostly retired. Knowledge base 5 miles wide, 3 feet deep. Smart and opinionated.
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Another Starlink outage just as the Trump regime is making states re-do their broadband expansion plans to move $$ away fr fiber builds to lining Elon’s pockets with tax dollars for satellite Internet
And they call it they’re calling it the “benefit of the bargain” with a straight face 🙄
And they call it they’re calling it the “benefit of the bargain” with a straight face 🙄
Starlink back up after brief outage in US, Downdetector shows reut.rs/45UsJhP
Starlink back up after brief outage in US, Downdetector shows
Elon Musk's Starlink was back up for users in the U.S. after a brief outage on Monday, according to tracking website Downdetector.com.
reut.rs
August 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Another Starlink outage just as the Trump regime is making states re-do their broadband expansion plans to move $$ away fr fiber builds to lining Elon’s pockets with tax dollars for satellite Internet
And they call it they’re calling it the “benefit of the bargain” with a straight face 🙄
And they call it they’re calling it the “benefit of the bargain” with a straight face 🙄
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The Sec of Defense is not the job for “rookies”.
www.rawstory.com/hegseth-2671...
www.rawstory.com/hegseth-2671...
Hegseth's Signal leak is 'raising serious questions' as 'rookie mistakes' pile up: NYT
According to a report from the New York Times, Pete Hegseth's tenure as defense secretary can, at best, be described as a series of "stumbles," with the latest scandal over blurting extraordinary sens...
www.rawstory.com
March 26, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The Sec of Defense is not the job for “rookies”.
www.rawstory.com/hegseth-2671...
www.rawstory.com/hegseth-2671...
I hope Greenland gives Vance a Vermont welcome.
March 26, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I hope Greenland gives Vance a Vermont welcome.
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Call your Senator. Ask them to put Schumer in a nursing home.
March 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Call your Senator. Ask them to put Schumer in a nursing home.
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HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT?
Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.
Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.
March 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT?
Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.
Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.
Obeying in advance. No longer part of the resistance.
The Nature Conservancy, the country’s largest and wealthiest conservation nonprofit, chose to change references to the Gulf of Mexico on its website to President Convicted Felon's "Gulf of America." (Maybe they should be named The Nature Compliancy.) www.yahoo.com/news/nature-...
The Nature Conservancy’s Embarrassing Capitulation to Trump
In changing the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America” on its website, the major green group has caved even as other environmental groups, and also the Associated Press, hold firm.
www.yahoo.com
February 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Obeying in advance. No longer part of the resistance.
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Last night: I watched this video into the wee hours. Took notes. Triggered more insomnia.
Today: Amplifying in every way I can.
Please watch. May it shape your entire outlook and approach to fighting the fascist Regime 2.0 like it did for me.
We are the opposition. We must own it.
Today: Amplifying in every way I can.
Please watch. May it shape your entire outlook and approach to fighting the fascist Regime 2.0 like it did for me.
We are the opposition. We must own it.
The month of moping ends now.
Here is an incredibly practical plan for fighting fascism. And it involves you acting, not waiting for Democratic spinal growth.
Let’s go. Watch and share Anat Shenker-Osorio’s brilliance.
open.substack.com/pub/anandwri...
Here is an incredibly practical plan for fighting fascism. And it involves you acting, not waiting for Democratic spinal growth.
Let’s go. Watch and share Anat Shenker-Osorio’s brilliance.
open.substack.com/pub/anandwri...
WATCH: An *actual* plan to beat fascism
A masterclass from political sage Anat Shenker-Osorio on how you can fight back against Trump II, create "social proof," mobilize your community, stop waiting for Democrats, and start getting it DONE
open.substack.com
February 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Last night: I watched this video into the wee hours. Took notes. Triggered more insomnia.
Today: Amplifying in every way I can.
Please watch. May it shape your entire outlook and approach to fighting the fascist Regime 2.0 like it did for me.
We are the opposition. We must own it.
Today: Amplifying in every way I can.
Please watch. May it shape your entire outlook and approach to fighting the fascist Regime 2.0 like it did for me.
We are the opposition. We must own it.
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Reposted by Peggy Schaffer
“Where does it end? In America, the President is neither a King nor a dictator, as much as this one tries to act like it—and it is the rule of law that prevents him from being so.”
—the defiant Maine Gov. Janet Mills
www.americaamerica.news/p/what-does-...
—the defiant Maine Gov. Janet Mills
www.americaamerica.news/p/what-does-...
What Does Defiance Look Like?
A Saturday Prompt
www.americaamerica.news
February 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“Where does it end? In America, the President is neither a King nor a dictator, as much as this one tries to act like it—and it is the rule of law that prevents him from being so.”
—the defiant Maine Gov. Janet Mills
www.americaamerica.news/p/what-does-...
—the defiant Maine Gov. Janet Mills
www.americaamerica.news/p/what-does-...
@senjoniernst.bsky.social You got played….
Pete Hegseth Fires Adm. Lisa Franchetti, Navy’s Top Officer
Adm. Lisa Franchetti spent roughly half of her 40-year career at sea, commanding a destroyer, two carrier strike groups and the U.S. Sixth Fleet.
www.nytimes.com
February 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
@senjoniernst.bsky.social You got played….
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Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!
Trump: "If you notice, every country that has the death penalty has no drug problem. They execute drug dealers. And when you think about it, it's very humane, because every drug dealer on average they say kills at least 500 people ... I don't know if our country is ready for it. I am ready for it."
February 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!
The good people running our government for the people.
Verified & Vetted #AltGov
February 15, 2025 at 10:51 PM
The good people running our government for the people.
Maybe I missed it, but AI development isn’t free. Who is paying to develop the AI for all the systems Musk and his teenage werewolves are putting in place?
February 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Maybe I missed it, but AI development isn’t free. Who is paying to develop the AI for all the systems Musk and his teenage werewolves are putting in place?
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Blumenthal: "It would be one thing if we had some disinterested, impartial business person -- highly successful -- looking at ways to make our govt more efficient and save money. That's not what's happening here. Elon Musk is doing a power grab & information heist, the biggest in American history"
February 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Blumenthal: "It would be one thing if we had some disinterested, impartial business person -- highly successful -- looking at ways to make our govt more efficient and save money. That's not what's happening here. Elon Musk is doing a power grab & information heist, the biggest in American history"
They lie. All. The. Time.
"If the 'DOGE' endeavor is working, why can’t the White House just tell the truth about what it's doing?"
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
February 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
They lie. All. The. Time.
Democrats message: Republicans get NO help until the law breaking stops and you get Musk’s hands out of the till and our social security benefits. No help at all.
February 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Democrats message: Republicans get NO help until the law breaking stops and you get Musk’s hands out of the till and our social security benefits. No help at all.
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“Make no mistake, what’s happening right now is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private agency operating with a broad mandate and no concerns for the stability of the United States or the interests of the average American.”
Hostile Takeover
“Department of Government Efficiency” Hijacks The Federal Government
www.avindman.com
February 3, 2025 at 8:58 AM
“Make no mistake, what’s happening right now is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private agency operating with a broad mandate and no concerns for the stability of the United States or the interests of the average American.”
The leaders of the coup.
February 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The leaders of the coup.
Did anyone notice we did a bomb strike in Somalia today?
February 2, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Did anyone notice we did a bomb strike in Somalia today?
Speaking the truth.
Trump team is sabotaging our government. OMB nominee Russell Vought has said he wants to put career civil servants “in trauma,” so that when “they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains.” Why? Privatize and monetize!
The Senate should reject Russell Vought’s nomination to be Director at OMB - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Russell Vought should not be confirmed as Director at OMB since he was a central figure in attempting to implement Schedule F.
buff.ly
January 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Speaking the truth.
Amen. The R’s have tossed out the traditional rule book. Time for the D’s to act like a minority party and block, block block. Everything. Just say no.
For the next 4 years, it's time for Democrats to stop being so eager to play nice and appease Republicans.
They're not really Republicans any more. They are MAGA.
If your name isn't Donald trump, they're not interested. They're not playing by the same rules.
They're not playing by ANY rules.
They're not really Republicans any more. They are MAGA.
If your name isn't Donald trump, they're not interested. They're not playing by the same rules.
They're not playing by ANY rules.
January 17, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Amen. The R’s have tossed out the traditional rule book. Time for the D’s to act like a minority party and block, block block. Everything. Just say no.
A great summation of Musk, Zuckerberg and Trump.
In sum:
Socially awkward sperm donor to 12 bastard children &wannabe bond villain who never created anything meets antisocial twatwaffle who stole both the idea AND algorithm that made him rich & together the psychopathic narcissists manipulate an incompetent predator with dementia
You're welcome
Socially awkward sperm donor to 12 bastard children &wannabe bond villain who never created anything meets antisocial twatwaffle who stole both the idea AND algorithm that made him rich & together the psychopathic narcissists manipulate an incompetent predator with dementia
You're welcome
January 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
A great summation of Musk, Zuckerberg and Trump.
Why would a state ban a predominantly cleaneconomic engine creating jobs and investing capital?
scoop: will oklahoma be the first state to ban renewable energy? its becoming increasingly likely.
as investments from the inflation reduction act flow into red states, we're seeing backlash. republicans are disliking renewables *more* than before.
cc @heatmap.news
heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...
as investments from the inflation reduction act flow into red states, we're seeing backlash. republicans are disliking renewables *more* than before.
cc @heatmap.news
heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...
The Growing Push to Ban Renewable Energy in Oklahoma
Will this renewable energy powerhouse become the first state to ban renewable energy?
heatmap.news
January 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Why would a state ban a predominantly cleaneconomic engine creating jobs and investing capital?
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dear journalists - want to follow up my reporting on the movement in Oklahoma to ban all renewable energy?
here’s a full video of the rally for the ban at the state capitol yesterday
youtu.be/DYQxBaUhSwU
here’s a full video of the rally for the ban at the state capitol yesterday
youtu.be/DYQxBaUhSwU
Lets Rally At The Oklahoma Capitol - Jan 7th, 2025
YouTube video by Have Camera Will Travel
youtu.be
January 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM