@rdmesser6.bsky.social
Also feel seen. Actually conversation with my Dr.
August 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Also feel seen. Actually conversation with my Dr.
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From the same article in the WSJ:
April 7, 2025 at 11:24 AM
From the same article in the WSJ:
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One of the keys to doing so, he said, was to appeal to the vanity of drug users. “You lose your look,” he said. “Everyone’s vain. They don’t want to lose their look.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/u...
In Speech to Justice Dept., Trump Airs Grievances Against His Enemies
The president, once the target of federal prosecution, says he wants to combat “weaponization” of the department, even as he uses its powers to punish enemies and reward allies.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
One of the keys to doing so, he said, was to appeal to the vanity of drug users. “You lose your look,” he said. “Everyone’s vain. They don’t want to lose their look.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/u...
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On Tuesday night, co-presidents Trump and Musk fired half of the workers at the Education Department.
On Wednesday, FAFSA - the financial aid application for millions of kids who want to go to college - went down.
That’s their idea of efficiency.
On Wednesday, FAFSA - the financial aid application for millions of kids who want to go to college - went down.
That’s their idea of efficiency.
How Education Department layoffs hit student loans, testing, civil rights
The layoffs call into question how agency will be able to handle major operations such as student loans, FAFSA, the Nation’s Report Card and civil rights complaints.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
On Tuesday night, co-presidents Trump and Musk fired half of the workers at the Education Department.
On Wednesday, FAFSA - the financial aid application for millions of kids who want to go to college - went down.
That’s their idea of efficiency.
On Wednesday, FAFSA - the financial aid application for millions of kids who want to go to college - went down.
That’s their idea of efficiency.
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If you live in NC, call every Republican politician you know. Call every farmer you know and ask them to do the same
When money walks , voters talk. Make sure they know this effects everyone in their town and state
www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...
When money walks , voters talk. Make sure they know this effects everyone in their town and state
www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...
USDA cancels $11 million in federal funding for North Carolina food banks
The USDA has notified the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services that it would terminate the agreement for the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program, which is one of the progr...
www.wunc.org
March 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
If you live in NC, call every Republican politician you know. Call every farmer you know and ask them to do the same
When money walks , voters talk. Make sure they know this effects everyone in their town and state
www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...
When money walks , voters talk. Make sure they know this effects everyone in their town and state
www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...
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This is it, y'all.
Thomas Merton’s extended discussion of propaganda in his 1966 •Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander• (of which this paragraph is a part) is so very good and, well, prescient.
March 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
This is it, y'all.
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Trump has issued an order purporting to bar lawyers he does not like from federal courthouses. I assume he'll lose the ensuing litigation.
But take the order as a confession of malign intent-and understand that he will seek similarly illegal ways to deny voting rights in 2026.
But take the order as a confession of malign intent-and understand that he will seek similarly illegal ways to deny voting rights in 2026.
March 7, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Trump has issued an order purporting to bar lawyers he does not like from federal courthouses. I assume he'll lose the ensuing litigation.
But take the order as a confession of malign intent-and understand that he will seek similarly illegal ways to deny voting rights in 2026.
But take the order as a confession of malign intent-and understand that he will seek similarly illegal ways to deny voting rights in 2026.
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“Those nasty Canadians are ripping us off and are controlled by Mexican cartels. They’re poisoning us with fentanyl and need to become the 51st state or they will pay a high price” is a belief that literally ZERO Americans had six weeks ago. It’s entirely invented from scratch.
March 6, 2025 at 2:23 AM
“Those nasty Canadians are ripping us off and are controlled by Mexican cartels. They’re poisoning us with fentanyl and need to become the 51st state or they will pay a high price” is a belief that literally ZERO Americans had six weeks ago. It’s entirely invented from scratch.
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Watch Trump’s hand gesture and smirk when Macron corrects him. This is likely how he responds any time some aide tries to correct his bullshit.
February 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Watch Trump’s hand gesture and smirk when Macron corrects him. This is likely how he responds any time some aide tries to correct his bullshit.
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The “stop the hate” commercial featuring two celebrities who support the President who began his career by calling Mexicans rapists and whose biggest campaign donor recently gave a Hitler salute and rehired the “I was racist before it was cool” guy was….a choice.
February 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
The “stop the hate” commercial featuring two celebrities who support the President who began his career by calling Mexicans rapists and whose biggest campaign donor recently gave a Hitler salute and rehired the “I was racist before it was cool” guy was….a choice.
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An American flag built on the backs of Black people...
Black music protesting white political terror in registers they never hear; reminiscent of ancestral spirituals embedded with instructions for runaways
All this in New Orleans... What a moment
Black music protesting white political terror in registers they never hear; reminiscent of ancestral spirituals embedded with instructions for runaways
All this in New Orleans... What a moment
February 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
An American flag built on the backs of Black people...
Black music protesting white political terror in registers they never hear; reminiscent of ancestral spirituals embedded with instructions for runaways
All this in New Orleans... What a moment
Black music protesting white political terror in registers they never hear; reminiscent of ancestral spirituals embedded with instructions for runaways
All this in New Orleans... What a moment
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we love attentive blocking
February 10, 2025 at 1:41 AM
we love attentive blocking
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this is the sort of thing you post when you’re ramping up to defying lawful court orders
February 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
this is the sort of thing you post when you’re ramping up to defying lawful court orders
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This administration is proving they are not sane or competent. NIH funding of research has saved so many lives. I have family with a current NIH grant. And another with VA grant. These are brilliant young people doing work that can benefit the world. What a loss for us all. 😐 More calls to reps!
“This abrupt change..will have devastating consequences on medical science. Many people will lose jobs, clinical trials will halt, and this will slow down progress toward cures for cancer and effective prevention of illness”
“A sane government would never do this”
apple.news/AuphtalGfSpy...
“A sane government would never do this”
apple.news/AuphtalGfSpy...
NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately — The Washington Post
Researchers say it would hurt facilities that work on medical issues such as cancer research and heart disease. Elon Musk contends the old policy was ‘a ripoff.’
apple.news
February 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
This administration is proving they are not sane or competent. NIH funding of research has saved so many lives. I have family with a current NIH grant. And another with VA grant. These are brilliant young people doing work that can benefit the world. What a loss for us all. 😐 More calls to reps!
Absolutely.
"We need to say, over and over: They did this." @katherinestewart.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...
Opinion | Now Will We Believe What Is Happening Right Before Our Eyes? (Gift Article)
There can be no appeasement. None.
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Absolutely.
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Journalism, thy name is @wired.com. Thank you, @lmatsakis.bsky.social. www.wired.com/story/kash-p...
Trump’s FBI Pick Kash Patel Took Up to $5M in Stock From Chinese Ecommerce Giant Shein
Donald Trump’s pick for FBI director told senators he has no plans to divest his shares, which his financial disclosure form says were received in exchange for consulting services.
www.wired.com
February 7, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Journalism, thy name is @wired.com. Thank you, @lmatsakis.bsky.social. www.wired.com/story/kash-p...
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Real tinpot dictator stuff here
February 8, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Real tinpot dictator stuff here
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if you were an unreconstructed segregationist from jim crow alabama, what would you do differently than this administration with regard to civil rights enforcement?
Breaking from me and @mjsdc.bsky.social : Newly installed AG Pam Bondi sent out more than a dozen memos in a 15 minute period on Wednesday. One of them told staffers to come up with "proposals for criminal investigations" of large companies that have DEIA initiatives. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Pam Bondi Instructs Trump DOJ to Criminally Investigate Companies That Do DEI
Civil rights advocates may well file suit immediately against the Justice Department to secure an injunction.
slate.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:09 AM
if you were an unreconstructed segregationist from jim crow alabama, what would you do differently than this administration with regard to civil rights enforcement?
Read. Listen. open.substack.com/pub/kristind...
The projection of strength obscures the reality of weakness
The pushback is starting
open.substack.com
February 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Read. Listen. open.substack.com/pub/kristind...
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no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 2:34 AM
no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person
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For a photo op & a bragging media post, Trump minions at the USACoE have thrown away millions of gals of #water farmers were relying on for later this year. This water will not be captured, will not be useful for cities or farms or firefighting. It is now lost.
www.latimes.com/environment/...
www.latimes.com/environment/...
Acting on Trump's order, federal officials opened up two California dams
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers just opened up two California dams. A spokesperson says the flows are 'controlled' and being coordinated with local officials.
www.latimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 1:25 AM
For a photo op & a bragging media post, Trump minions at the USACoE have thrown away millions of gals of #water farmers were relying on for later this year. This water will not be captured, will not be useful for cities or farms or firefighting. It is now lost.
www.latimes.com/environment/...
www.latimes.com/environment/...
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Happening in North Carolina right now: A Republican who just lost a state supreme court election is using a horseshit legal theory cooked up by Republican activists to ask the Republican majority *on the same court he wants to join* to overturn his loss and make him a justice anyway
Republicans Do Not Think People Are Entitled to Elections Anymore
In North Carolina, Republican state supreme court justices will soon decide whether to overturn an election to seat a Republican who lost it.
ballsandstrikes.org
January 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Happening in North Carolina right now: A Republican who just lost a state supreme court election is using a horseshit legal theory cooked up by Republican activists to ask the Republican majority *on the same court he wants to join* to overturn his loss and make him a justice anyway
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On what legal basis do Republicans claim the right to “condition” federal disaster relief on political fealty?
Their efforts to do so are a monstrous violation of societal and governmental norms and must be condemned, obliterated, and used as a political sledge hammer against GOP candidates forever.
Their efforts to do so are a monstrous violation of societal and governmental norms and must be condemned, obliterated, and used as a political sledge hammer against GOP candidates forever.
January 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
On what legal basis do Republicans claim the right to “condition” federal disaster relief on political fealty?
Their efforts to do so are a monstrous violation of societal and governmental norms and must be condemned, obliterated, and used as a political sledge hammer against GOP candidates forever.
Their efforts to do so are a monstrous violation of societal and governmental norms and must be condemned, obliterated, and used as a political sledge hammer against GOP candidates forever.
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On Wild Card this week, Kate Bowler opens up about how she wants to waste her time, her feelings about God and how she talks about death with her child.
Kate Bowler wants to have more 'uncounted, completely-wasted, doesn't-matter time'
On Wild Card this week, Kate Bowler opens up about how she wants to waste her time, her feelings about God and how she talks about death with her child.
www.npr.org
January 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
On Wild Card this week, Kate Bowler opens up about how she wants to waste her time, her feelings about God and how she talks about death with her child.