Todd Erickson
@schusfuster.bsky.social
they/them. Autistic Baking Nerd, Christianity-adjacent, Leftist
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I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
September 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
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"We have to cancel kristallnacht 2.0 because the guy was one of the people we were grooming to take part in it" is a heck of a twist to be sure
September 13, 2025 at 8:57 AM
"We have to cancel kristallnacht 2.0 because the guy was one of the people we were grooming to take part in it" is a heck of a twist to be sure
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Also note the double standard for conservative and liberals: you can say anything offensive on air as a conservative it will be defended as your right to free speech. If you say a true thing that happens to be impolite as a liberal, you get shitcanned
MSM is showing its whole ass right now. They know Kirk wasn’t a good dude, yet they’re bending over backwards to sanitize him, leaving out his entire racist and white nationalist record.
Mathew Dowd was fired by MSNBC for even the mildest of truths.
Mathew Dowd was fired by MSNBC for even the mildest of truths.
September 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Also note the double standard for conservative and liberals: you can say anything offensive on air as a conservative it will be defended as your right to free speech. If you say a true thing that happens to be impolite as a liberal, you get shitcanned
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Y'know that Guardian article which cited an anonymous friend of Tyler Robinson claiming he was the only "leftist" in his family?
It just got updated after the "verified source" decided he couldn't remember his "relationship" with the accused shooter well enough to be quoted
It just got updated after the "verified source" decided he couldn't remember his "relationship" with the accused shooter well enough to be quoted
September 13, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Y'know that Guardian article which cited an anonymous friend of Tyler Robinson claiming he was the only "leftist" in his family?
It just got updated after the "verified source" decided he couldn't remember his "relationship" with the accused shooter well enough to be quoted
It just got updated after the "verified source" decided he couldn't remember his "relationship" with the accused shooter well enough to be quoted
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So Pulte accidentally implicated three Trump cabinet members and his own dad, but not the black woman he was trying to help Trump fire.
The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters.
Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence.
These docs show she did not.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...
Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence.
These docs show she did not.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...
Exclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as “vacation home,” documents show
A loan estimate for an Atlanta home purchased by Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor accused of mortgage fraud by the Trump administration, shows that Cook had declared the property as a “vacation home,” according to a document reviewed by Reuters.
www.reuters.com
September 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
So Pulte accidentally implicated three Trump cabinet members and his own dad, but not the black woman he was trying to help Trump fire.
As a former Evangelical, watching the Evangelical church support the current models for the Anti-Christ and the Beast moving forward is just horrifically fascinating. You played yourselves.
February 6, 2025 at 3:25 AM
As a former Evangelical, watching the Evangelical church support the current models for the Anti-Christ and the Beast moving forward is just horrifically fascinating. You played yourselves.
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I have read the email from OPM. It is not what has been reported. IT IS NOT A BUY OUT.
It is an exemption from the partially unenforceable return to the office EO until end of the Fiscal Year. You may have to work every single workday until the end of the FY. No guarantees. All discretionary.
It is an exemption from the partially unenforceable return to the office EO until end of the Fiscal Year. You may have to work every single workday until the end of the FY. No guarantees. All discretionary.
January 29, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I have read the email from OPM. It is not what has been reported. IT IS NOT A BUY OUT.
It is an exemption from the partially unenforceable return to the office EO until end of the Fiscal Year. You may have to work every single workday until the end of the FY. No guarantees. All discretionary.
It is an exemption from the partially unenforceable return to the office EO until end of the Fiscal Year. You may have to work every single workday until the end of the FY. No guarantees. All discretionary.
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It's been less than 10 days and we already might need to discuss Trump-induced food shortages in the United States
January 28, 2025 at 9:22 AM
It's been less than 10 days and we already might need to discuss Trump-induced food shortages in the United States
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by freezing all federal grants, trump is fundamentally transforming the relationship between the executive and congress. he is asserting dictatorial authority over federal spending, transforming congress's lawmaking powers into advisory authority. it is a constitutional crisis
January 28, 2025 at 2:53 AM
by freezing all federal grants, trump is fundamentally transforming the relationship between the executive and congress. he is asserting dictatorial authority over federal spending, transforming congress's lawmaking powers into advisory authority. it is a constitutional crisis
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I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going
January 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going
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A few years ago on Twitter a guy was complaining about how there were no white people on morning shows anymore and posted a picture of a black weatherman. I told him all the other people on that show were white and he said “but ‘they’ wish they weren’t” and I feel like that explains current politics
January 26, 2025 at 3:55 AM
A few years ago on Twitter a guy was complaining about how there were no white people on morning shows anymore and posted a picture of a black weatherman. I told him all the other people on that show were white and he said “but ‘they’ wish they weren’t” and I feel like that explains current politics
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“Refugees for thee not for me.”
January 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
“Refugees for thee not for me.”
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(Thumps hood of Tesla)
"You can fit so much Lebensraum in one of these babies."
"You can fit so much Lebensraum in one of these babies."
BREAKING: Elon Musk is reportedly furious people keep calling Tesla vehicles “swasticars.”
So don't do that.
#swasticars
So don't do that.
#swasticars
January 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
(Thumps hood of Tesla)
"You can fit so much Lebensraum in one of these babies."
"You can fit so much Lebensraum in one of these babies."
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I'm thinking of these words from a pastor in Texas, who'd worked to defeat a far-right sheriff who has overseen a surge of deaths in his custody. The sheriff won reelection.
"We are in this work not because we thought we would win elections, but because it’s the right thing to do."
"We are in this work not because we thought we would win elections, but because it’s the right thing to do."
A Scandal-Plagued Sheriff Wins Another Term in North Texas
Fort Worth advocates who have spent years protesting and demanding outside intervention over rising jail deaths say they’ll keep pursuing other paths for accountability.
boltsmag.org
January 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I'm thinking of these words from a pastor in Texas, who'd worked to defeat a far-right sheriff who has overseen a surge of deaths in his custody. The sheriff won reelection.
"We are in this work not because we thought we would win elections, but because it’s the right thing to do."
"We are in this work not because we thought we would win elections, but because it’s the right thing to do."
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if they want to go back to the 1950s, we’re bringing the cuisine back to the 1950s too. you put me in the kitchen, I will spend 100% of my time in there finding how much horseradish and shrimp I can put in Jello before God personally comes down here to stop me.
January 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
if they want to go back to the 1950s, we’re bringing the cuisine back to the 1950s too. you put me in the kitchen, I will spend 100% of my time in there finding how much horseradish and shrimp I can put in Jello before God personally comes down here to stop me.
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Very moving @nhpr.bsky.social interview with a Jan 6er from Keene, NH, who rejected Trump’s pardon and sounds like he has grown tremendously in 4 years. “One thing I did not believe in was change before this experience…And now I believe change is necessary for survival.” www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
Keene man arrested for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6 rejects Trump’s pardon
On his first day in office this week, President Donald Trump pardoned all rioters at the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Jason Riddle served time in jail for his participation in the 2021 riot.
www.nhpr.org
January 25, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Very moving @nhpr.bsky.social interview with a Jan 6er from Keene, NH, who rejected Trump’s pardon and sounds like he has grown tremendously in 4 years. “One thing I did not believe in was change before this experience…And now I believe change is necessary for survival.” www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
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This is such a great thread.
Let me add that there is nothing that you, an individual, can do, that will scale because you are one person. The people arguing that you should only do things that “scale” are justifying not doing anything.
Let me add that there is nothing that you, an individual, can do, that will scale because you are one person. The people arguing that you should only do things that “scale” are justifying not doing anything.
January 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
This is such a great thread.
Let me add that there is nothing that you, an individual, can do, that will scale because you are one person. The people arguing that you should only do things that “scale” are justifying not doing anything.
Let me add that there is nothing that you, an individual, can do, that will scale because you are one person. The people arguing that you should only do things that “scale” are justifying not doing anything.
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the answer to this sort of insipid bullshit is always to shift focus to the politicians failing to reach those voters. the democrats could have won, laughably easily, with different tactics. they could have not sent bombs to be dropped on kids for a year, for a start. but they didn't want to change
I’ll never get over that all of this was avoidable and our kids could’ve had a better future had voters just made the obviously rational choice in November. It’s water under the bridge now. But what the fuck, people.
January 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
the answer to this sort of insipid bullshit is always to shift focus to the politicians failing to reach those voters. the democrats could have won, laughably easily, with different tactics. they could have not sent bombs to be dropped on kids for a year, for a start. but they didn't want to change
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The more I see how the US population reacts to Trump, the more I understand the German population under the Nazi regime and the more confident I am in calling them Nazi.
January 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The more I see how the US population reacts to Trump, the more I understand the German population under the Nazi regime and the more confident I am in calling them Nazi.
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Really is infuriating how we kept being told by Dems that there was nothing Biden could do about abortion or trans folks for years and now Trump is basically making himself king of the US via executive fiat.
January 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Really is infuriating how we kept being told by Dems that there was nothing Biden could do about abortion or trans folks for years and now Trump is basically making himself king of the US via executive fiat.
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keep seeing commentary on elon morks nazi gesture questioning wether hes just being immature troll or actually has fascist belief. this analysis is the classic 'EVIL OR DUMB?' dichotomy (are they evil, or are they just dumb?) but these commentary folks fail to grasp the obvious answer: elon is both
January 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
keep seeing commentary on elon morks nazi gesture questioning wether hes just being immature troll or actually has fascist belief. this analysis is the classic 'EVIL OR DUMB?' dichotomy (are they evil, or are they just dumb?) but these commentary folks fail to grasp the obvious answer: elon is both
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📽️ WATCH: At ProPublica, we’ll be devoting a significant part of our staff to detailing the second Trump administration.
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January 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
📽️ WATCH: At ProPublica, we’ll be devoting a significant part of our staff to detailing the second Trump administration.
If you are a federal employee and have tips, documents, data or stories you can share that the public should know about, reach out: www.propublica.org/tips/
If you are a federal employee and have tips, documents, data or stories you can share that the public should know about, reach out: www.propublica.org/tips/
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the democrats lost because they hid biden was going senile, didn't do a primary, delayed kicking him out while doing a bunch of embarrassing infighting, promoted an unpopular candidate, & had her run as a conservative palling around with the fucking cheneys. they fucked it all by themselves
January 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
the democrats lost because they hid biden was going senile, didn't do a primary, delayed kicking him out while doing a bunch of embarrassing infighting, promoted an unpopular candidate, & had her run as a conservative palling around with the fucking cheneys. they fucked it all by themselves
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How it started. How it’s going.
January 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
How it started. How it’s going.