Sherry Monie
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Sherry Monie
@samiam443.bsky.social
Baby boomer forged by the 60's. UCSB alumni, US Forest Service retiree. Progressive, nature-loving wife, mother and grandmother. Twitter (X) refugee following the blue wave to BlueSky and Threads (@smonie443).
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Just saw a representative for federal workers, Chris Dols, on CNN. What a wonderful spokesperson with a powerful message. We need their service and we must support them. He nailed musk and the billionaire class for the uncaring predators they are.
February 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
State Department Contract Document Edited to Remove 'Tesla' After Media Scrutiny www.commondreams.org/news/musk-te...
State Department Contract Document Edited to Remove 'Tesla' After Media Scrutiny | Common Dreams
"This is what the tech oligarchy looks like," one writer said of a forecasted $400 million contract for the Elon Musk-owned company.
www.commondreams.org
February 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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This is as straight-up totalitarian (and also batshit crazy) as Stalin making himself the ultimate arbiter of culture in the USSR. Is he going to start writing music and theater reviews next? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
Trump Says He Will Install Himself as Kennedy Center Chairman
The move by the president, whose authority to make the changes was not clear, is the latest attempt to bring a Washington institution under his control.
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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"POLITICO has never been a beneficiary of government programs or subsidies — not one cent, ever, in 18 years," the news outlet's chiefs Goli Sheikholeslami and John Harris wrote in a memo tonight. They're responding to rampant right-wing misinformation... www.cnn.com/2025/02/05/m...
White House says it will cancel $8 million in Politico subscriptions after a false right-wing conspiracy theory spreads | CNN Business
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, responding Wednesday to a question about a right-wing conspiracy theory, announced that the federal government would cancel $8 million worth of Politico s...
www.cnn.com
February 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Elon Musk has shared this fake E! News video on X, which claims USAID has paid millions to Hollywood celebrities to visit Ukraine.

The clip, now community noted, is the work of a well-known Russian disinformation campaign that creates fake videos of news outlets to push anti-Ukrainian narratives.
February 5, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Elon Musk is so close to finally killing California high-speed rail — a goal he’s pursued for over a decade — even though his alternative the Hyperloop is an absolute joke.

Killing HSR is about keeping people trapped in cars and planes.
Trump wants to halt the high-speed rail project that would cut travel time between SF and LA from 9 hours to under 3 hours.

From the oval office here just said: "We're going to start a big investigation on that.. it wasn't even necessary, I would have said, you don't buy it. You take an airplane.”
February 4, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Breaking the oath of office and of doctors in one fell swoop
he folded like an origami frog
February 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Now of all times Susan Collins picks to support Tulsi Gabbard, an unfit and dangerous nominee. Collins is the worst judge of character and ability I have ever witnessed. Everyone from Kavanaugh to Gabbard gets her ok. Maine- kick her out in 2026
February 4, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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This is Acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll. Last Friday he refused Justice Department order to identify & assist in firing all agents involved in Jan. 6 riot cases, He is said to have pushed back forcefully.
Thank you Brian Driscoll!🇺🇸
February 4, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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WIRED is tracking numerous reports of Musk-related shenanigans across the federal govt.

We're looking for fed employees open to discussing the activity they're seeing or to help confirm other reports. Anonymity offered.

Please use @signal.org (contact dell.3030). Do not use work networks/devices.
February 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Shutting down USAID is not about efficiency—it’s about undermining America’s global leadership. USAID counters extremism, fights diseases, and creates more markets for U.S. exports. This is reckless and dangerous.
February 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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The universe speaks in mysterious ways.
February 2, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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okay so what legal authority does elon musk have to commandeer the office of personnel management and access reams of sensitive data? www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
www.reuters.com
January 31, 2025 at 8:17 PM
history has shown that prosecuting librarians or educators is one of the hallmarks of an oppressive regime that seeks to control knowledge and suppress dissent.

bit.ly/3WtYPMs via @everylibrary.bsky.social
Arresting Librarians Has NEVER Led to More Liberty and Freedom. 
History has shown that prosecuting librarians or educators is one of the hallmarks of an oppressive regime.
bit.ly
January 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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It seems that Karen Pence still holds a grudge against Donald Trump for leaving her husband to the January 6 mob.
Watch: Mike Pence’s Wife Snubs Trump at Jimmy Carter Funeral
Karen Pence appears to want nothing to do with the man who supported hanging her husband.
newrepublic.com
January 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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This is why myself and experts like @brooklynmarie.bsky.social and others spoke extensively about the dangers of misinformation
Facebook, Instagram and Threads have started tagging posts about project 2025 as “partly false information,”citing right wing propaganda “The Dispatch” as a “fact checker.”
July 12, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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awesome that regulations now get to be made by elite law brained dipshits without so much as a Wikipedia-skim level of subject matter expertise www.forbes.com/sites/alison...
Supreme Court Corrects EPA Opinion After Gorsuch Confuses Laughing Gas With Air Pollutant
The error came in an opinion blocking an EPA policy meant to improve air pollution.
www.forbes.com
June 29, 2024 at 2:27 AM
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I agree with this thread. Takeaway:

"More Dems need to step up and say clearly that Trump's threats to prosecute enemies without cause disqualifies him from the presidency, just as his criminal convictions do."
Media is being too credulous about Trump's threats to prosecute Dems "for revenge." This implies he's just threatening to do what is being done to him. That's deception: He's vowing evidence-free prosecutions, which is *not* what's happening to him. 1/

Link:
newrepublic.com/article/1824...
Trump’s Bizarre Moments With Dr. Phil and Hannity Should Alarm Us All
Earth to media: The criminal prosecutions of Trump are legitimate. The “revenge” he’s promising would be wholly illegitimate. Time to make that a whole lot clearer.
newrepublic.com
June 8, 2024 at 5:55 PM
Just curious, can a convicted felon vote in Florida? ;-)
May 30, 2024 at 9:29 PM
As I listen to the nightly news, just wondering, did anyone else naively assume The Handmaid's Tale was an unimaginably apocalypic cautionary tale that could never happen in the USA?
May 23, 2024 at 2:27 AM
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Don't let DeSantis gaslight you on Covid.

Florida has a higher per capita death rate than CA; has had a majority of its deaths since vaccines, unlike CA & NYC; & has a higher per capita death rate than other states with similar elderly populations.

I brought receipts:
https://youtu.be/dj0s_TTArYo
The truth about DeSantis’ awful record on covid
Ron DeSantis is officially in the 2024 race, leaning on his partisan and polarizing approach to the Covid-19 pandemic. But, Mehdi says, his actual Covid record is nothing to brag about, and we shouldn’t let DeSantis rewrite the history of the pandemic in the Sunshine State. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc Follow MSNBC Show Blogs MaddowBlog: https://www.msnbc.com/maddowblog ReidOut Blog: https://www.msnbc.com/reidoutblog MSNBC delivers breaking news, in-depth analysis of politics headlines, as well as commentary and informed perspectives. Find video clips and segments from The Rachel Maddow Show, Morning Joe, The Beat with Ari Melber, Deadline: White House, The ReidOut, All In, Last Word, 11th Hour, and Alex Wagner who brings her breadth of reporting experience to MSNBC primetime. Watch “Alex Wagner Tonight” Tuesday through Friday at 9pm Eastern. Connect with MSNBC Online Visit msnbc.com: http://on.msnbc.com/Readmsnbc Subscribe to the MSNBC Daily Newsletter: MSNBC.com/NewslettersYouTube Find MSNBC on Facebook: http://on.msnbc.com/Likemsnbc Follow MSNBC on Twitter: http://on.msnbc.com/Followmsnbc Follow MSNBC on Instagram: http://on.msnbc.com/Instamsnbc #DeSantis #Florida #GOP
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May 27, 2023 at 1:32 AM