@raysipenc.bsky.social
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Hey y'all, if you would like to apologize and express support to the Ukrainian Embassy, here's the number.
202-349-2963
If you want to email it instead, don't forget to cc: your Congresspeeps.
emb_us@mfa.gov.ua
202-349-2963
If you want to email it instead, don't forget to cc: your Congresspeeps.
emb_us@mfa.gov.ua
March 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Hey y'all, if you would like to apologize and express support to the Ukrainian Embassy, here's the number.
202-349-2963
If you want to email it instead, don't forget to cc: your Congresspeeps.
emb_us@mfa.gov.ua
202-349-2963
If you want to email it instead, don't forget to cc: your Congresspeeps.
emb_us@mfa.gov.ua
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Heather Cox Richardson's newsletter summed up the happenings today quite well, just as you did Liz Cheney.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribe
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribe
Subscribe to Letters from an American
A newsletter about the history behind today's politics. Click to read Letters from an American, by Heather Cox Richardson, a Substack publication with millions of subscribers.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
March 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Heather Cox Richardson's newsletter summed up the happenings today quite well, just as you did Liz Cheney.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribe
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribe
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History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.
February 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.
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Trump ran on a pledge to immediately lower prices and now admits his policies will inflict “PAIN” on Americans in the form of higher prices but it will be “worth the price”
February 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Trump ran on a pledge to immediately lower prices and now admits his policies will inflict “PAIN” on Americans in the form of higher prices but it will be “worth the price”
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Please, everyone, drop what you’re doing and read this:
I go to @timothysnyder.bsky.social and @hcrichardson.bsky.social for historical perspective and contemporary context about the dystopia we're experiencing. Snyder's post today has both, plus real actionable guidance. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
open.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Please, everyone, drop what you’re doing and read this:
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It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives
Trump funding freeze a blatant violation of Constitution, federal law: Legal experts
The Constitution, federal law and court decisions make it clear: President Donald Trump's order to pause federal funding is against the law, legal experts tell ABC News.
abcnews.go.com
January 31, 2025 at 4:54 AM
It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives
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Have you ever wondered why Germans didn’t do anything about Hitler? Well, the rest of the world is wondering exactly that about Americans and Trump.
January 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Have you ever wondered why Germans didn’t do anything about Hitler? Well, the rest of the world is wondering exactly that about Americans and Trump.
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"We, too, have our plagues. Today’s climate-driven disasters are the result of more than a century of extracting & burning fossil fuels, which emit greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide & methane into the atmosphere." ~Maya Golden-Krasner, deputy director of the Center’s Climate Law Institute.
Destroyed Pasadena Synagogue Holds a Message: Make Polluters Pay for Their Plague
'Today’s climate driven disasters are the result of more than a century of extracting and burning fossil fuels,' says Altadena-based climate lawyer Maya Golden-Krasner, deputy director of the Center for Biological Diversity’s Climate Law Institute
lamag.com
January 15, 2025 at 11:54 PM
"We, too, have our plagues. Today’s climate-driven disasters are the result of more than a century of extracting & burning fossil fuels, which emit greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide & methane into the atmosphere." ~Maya Golden-Krasner, deputy director of the Center’s Climate Law Institute.
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BREAKING: President Biden is warning of the dangerous consequences of the consolidation of power, and that an oligarchy is taking shape in America.
January 16, 2025 at 1:10 AM
BREAKING: President Biden is warning of the dangerous consequences of the consolidation of power, and that an oligarchy is taking shape in America.
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President Biden has a message to people who feel things are "exhausting and even disillusioning," in his farewell address to the nation from the Oval Office:
"We have to stay engaged in the process. I know it's frustrating."
Fact.
"We have to stay engaged in the process. I know it's frustrating."
Fact.
January 16, 2025 at 1:29 AM
President Biden has a message to people who feel things are "exhausting and even disillusioning," in his farewell address to the nation from the Oval Office:
"We have to stay engaged in the process. I know it's frustrating."
Fact.
"We have to stay engaged in the process. I know it's frustrating."
Fact.
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Like Marc Elias, we ARE more powerful than Musk and all Trump’s minions who fear him! We can say whatever we want about Trump! We ALL can and there’s power in numbers!!
January 16, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Like Marc Elias, we ARE more powerful than Musk and all Trump’s minions who fear him! We can say whatever we want about Trump! We ALL can and there’s power in numbers!!
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Biden: "I want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern. That's the dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultra wealthy people and the dangerous consequences if their abuse of power is left unchecked. Today, an oligarchy is taking shape"
January 16, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Biden: "I want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern. That's the dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultra wealthy people and the dangerous consequences if their abuse of power is left unchecked. Today, an oligarchy is taking shape"
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“Now it’s your turn to stand guard - may you all be the keeper of the flame. May you keep the faith.”
😭
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January 16, 2025 at 1:20 AM
“Now it’s your turn to stand guard - may you all be the keeper of the flame. May you keep the faith.”
😭
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I don’t know who did this, but thank you 🤣
January 16, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I don’t know who did this, but thank you 🤣
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My heart is broken. Mostly I've been angry lately, but today I'm just very very sad.
We are losing everything that makes America great and replacing it with hate and stupidity.
The America I know and love will never be the same.
I'm so very very sad. This is a tragic loss.
We are losing everything that makes America great and replacing it with hate and stupidity.
The America I know and love will never be the same.
I'm so very very sad. This is a tragic loss.
January 16, 2025 at 1:29 AM
My heart is broken. Mostly I've been angry lately, but today I'm just very very sad.
We are losing everything that makes America great and replacing it with hate and stupidity.
The America I know and love will never be the same.
I'm so very very sad. This is a tragic loss.
We are losing everything that makes America great and replacing it with hate and stupidity.
The America I know and love will never be the same.
I'm so very very sad. This is a tragic loss.
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Nothing to worry about, just the pro-Putin president getting the anti-Putin intelligence committee chair who does oversight removed from his position
Turner is one of the most pro-Ukraine, anti-Putin Republicans and as intelligence chair has access to the gritty details of what our adversaries are up to.
This is an intra-party purge in the service of opponents of our democracy — and a preview of what’s coming when Trump takes power in five days.
This is an intra-party purge in the service of opponents of our democracy — and a preview of what’s coming when Trump takes power in five days.
January 16, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Nothing to worry about, just the pro-Putin president getting the anti-Putin intelligence committee chair who does oversight removed from his position
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Carrie Underwood, Jason Aldean, Rascal Flatts, Kid Rock, Billy Ray Cyrus, The Village People (didn't know they were still alive), Lee Greenwood (also didn't know he was still alive), Christopher Macchio (whoever tf that is). They're all cult members now.
January 16, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Carrie Underwood, Jason Aldean, Rascal Flatts, Kid Rock, Billy Ray Cyrus, The Village People (didn't know they were still alive), Lee Greenwood (also didn't know he was still alive), Christopher Macchio (whoever tf that is). They're all cult members now.
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Let me state this more clearly: If Dems can't make a stink out of fact that Aileen Cannon is preventing Dick Durbin from learning info directly relevant to Kash Patel's suitability to be FBI Director, they wouldn't make use of any report that gets released anyway.
www.emptywheel.net/2024/12/15/k...
www.emptywheel.net/2024/12/15/k...
Kash Patel Also Lied about Trump's Personalization of US Intelligence - emptywheel
The lies Kash Patel has told are likely to be aired at his confirmation hearing, but at unlikely to dissuade Republicans to vote against his confirmation to be FBI Director. The most important lies pe...
www.emptywheel.net
January 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Let me state this more clearly: If Dems can't make a stink out of fact that Aileen Cannon is preventing Dick Durbin from learning info directly relevant to Kash Patel's suitability to be FBI Director, they wouldn't make use of any report that gets released anyway.
www.emptywheel.net/2024/12/15/k...
www.emptywheel.net/2024/12/15/k...
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Schiff: "I've been in Congress a long time approving aid after disasters. I never once even considered 'is this hurricane hitting a red or blue state?' ... we need the incoming president to view it that way."
January 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Schiff: "I've been in Congress a long time approving aid after disasters. I never once even considered 'is this hurricane hitting a red or blue state?' ... we need the incoming president to view it that way."
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If we have enough money to buy another country then we have enough money to ensure nobody is homeless or goes hungry.
January 11, 2025 at 3:06 AM
If we have enough money to buy another country then we have enough money to ensure nobody is homeless or goes hungry.
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CNN interviewed more than a dozen experts, and they said that no fire hydrants would have been able to stop the LA wildfires with the high winds. “I don’t know a water system in the world that is that prepared for this type of event,” said one expert.
No ‘water system in the world’ could have handled the LA fires. How the region could have minimized the damage | CNN
Widespread destruction from the L.A. fires was inevitable, given the drought and winds. Still, the region could have been better prepared.
www.cnn.com
January 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
CNN interviewed more than a dozen experts, and they said that no fire hydrants would have been able to stop the LA wildfires with the high winds. “I don’t know a water system in the world that is that prepared for this type of event,” said one expert.
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“A mere 57 oil, gas, coal and cement producers are directly linked to 80% of the world’s global fossil CO2 emissions since the 2016 Paris climate agreement”
Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016
Analysis reveals many big producers increased output of fossil fuels and related emissions in seven years after Paris climate deal
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
“A mere 57 oil, gas, coal and cement producers are directly linked to 80% of the world’s global fossil CO2 emissions since the 2016 Paris climate agreement”