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Sean Spratley
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Meteorologist at RTS, Iowa State Cyclones and Chicago Bears fan, Neurodivergent, He/Him/His, Opinions are my own
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Call your reps and tell them we don’t want to go to war with Venezuela!
December 17, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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katmabu.bsky.social
The blockade of Venezuela is a disgusting echo of U.S. imperialism in Latin America. We were lied to about Iraq and WMDs, and an entire generation paid the price.

Here we are again.

We cannot let a wannabe dictator drag us into another forever war.

www.axios.com/2025/12/17/t...
Trump orders oil tankers blockade in Venezuela, labels Maduro regime a "terrorist" group
The escalation exerts unprecedented pressure on the Maduro regime, threatening to bankrupt Venezuela's already struggling economy.
www.axios.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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altnps.bsky.social
Waste. Fraud. Abuse.
December 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
seanspratley.bsky.social
Got to see the Looking Glass Falls and the Moore Cove Falls today!
November 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Organizers have reported 7 million attendees at the No Kings events and we’re happy to confirm 7 million and counting! More events are still happening across the country today, so we’ll need additional time to fully certify the final numbers.
October 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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“If you look 40 to 50 years ago, the tornadoes that were happening in places like Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas are kind of happening there with less frequency, and we’re seeing more tornadoes in places like Birmingham, Little Rock and Memphis,” he said.

Kind of misleading statement. I'll explain...
EF5 tornado that killed 3 in North Dakota was the nation's first in 12 years
Meteorologists say a deadly tornado in North Dakota this summer has been upgraded to a top-of-the-scale EF5, and was the first on American soil in 12 years.
apnews.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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katmabu.bsky.social
Trump’s order to deploy Texas National Guard troops to Chicago is illegal, immoral, and must be stopped by the courts. ICE is already wreaking havoc in our communities. Let’s call this what it is: an invasion by out-of-state troops coming here only with the purpose of tormenting Chicagoans.
October 7, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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democracyactionnet.bsky.social
The White House budget office is instructing federal agencies to prepare reduction-in-force plans for mass firings during a possible government shutdown, specifically targeting employees who work f...
White House to agencies: Prepare mass firing plans for a potential shutdown
In memo, the Trump administration says the Reduction-in-Force plans would go beyond standard shutdown furloughs.
www.politico.com
September 25, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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September 6, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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katmabu.bsky.social
Trump’s plan to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War shows (once again) that his self-characterization as the “pro-peace” candidate was complete bullshit.
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
White House Moves Forward on Plans for a Department of War
Trump’s goal of renaming the Defense Department might require congressional action, but his administration is looking at other ways to rebrand the military.
www.wsj.com
August 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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democracyactionnet.bsky.social
THE REGIME ORDERED FRIDAY THAT ALL CONSTRUCTION STOP ON REVOLUTION WIND, A $4 BILLION WIND FARM OFF THE COAST OF RHODE ISLAND THAT IS ALREADY MOSTLY BUILT. VIA THE NEW YORK TIMES:
THE 65-TURBINE P...
Insane King Don Continues His Pathetic War On Wind And Sun
And guess who pays for it?
crooksandliars.com
August 25, 2025 at 2:03 AM
seanspratley.bsky.social
Little late, but I finally got around to watching Twisters!
July 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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altnps.bsky.social
WTF?!? Border Czar Tom Homan claimed that ICE and Border Patrol agents don’t need probable cause to detain people they suspect are undocumented, saying they can do so based on factors like physical appearance. This is straight-up racial profiling, not law enforcement.
July 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
seanspratley.bsky.social
Fine. Let him waste his money
democracyactionnet.bsky.social Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · Jul 7
After leaving DC, with his business empire suffering, his relationship with President Donald Trump fractured, and his DOGE efforts deemed broadly unpopular, Elon Musk is not quietly ret...
Elon Musk is back in politics with the new America Party
"This will be super fun!"
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July 7, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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While it's not great that this bill passed the Senate, it's not a done deal yet.
www.cbsnews.com/news/house-t...
House prepares to take up Senate version "big, beautiful bill" as some GOP lawmakers express skepticism
The House is planning to vote on the Senate-passed version of President Trump's "big, beautiful bill" as soon as Wednesday morning.
www.cbsnews.com
July 2, 2025 at 2:24 AM
seanspratley.bsky.social
While many are rightly worried about the "Big Beautiful Bill" for the time-being, please pay attention to this. It's not too early to start calling your reps and telling them to oppose this as well
zacklabe.com Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Jun 30
What a tragedy this is even being proposed on paper... 💔

NOAA FY2026 Congressional Justification: www.noaa.gov/sites/defaul...
Termination of OAR’s Climate Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes (-$102,292, -204 FTE/ -216 Positions) –NOAA will continue to support high priority ocean and weather research programs in NOS and NWS. In coordination with the requested terminations for Weather Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes (see OAR-10) and Ocean Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes (see OAR-19), NOAA will close the Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) in Miami, FL; the Air Resources Laboratory (ARL) in College Park, MD, Idaho Falls, ID, and Oak Ridge, TN, as well as a nation-wide network of soil moisture sensors; the Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL) in Boulder, CO; the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) in Princeton, NJ; the Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML) in Boulder, CO, Utqiaġvik, AK, Mauna Loa, HI, Hilo, HI, Big Island, HI, American Samoa, and the South Pole; the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) in Seattle, WA; and the Physical Sciences Laboratory (PSL) in Boulder, CO.
July 1, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Each time a remotely progressive candidate wins office in the US, the rich declare they're going to leave town. What do they actually do? Nothing. A 2016 study found only 0.04% of millionaires move in a given year due to tax increases. Rich people talk to feel important. Please properly tax them.
June 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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As if the cuts to NOAA and NWS staff weren't bad enough, now they seem to be going after some of the tools they use as well. Also mind-boggling that they did this right as we're going into hurricane season.
michaelrlowry.substack.com/p/critical-h...
Critical Hurricane Forecast Tool Abruptly Terminated
U.S. Department of Defense announced Tuesday it would no longer process and deliver data essential to most hurricane forecasts
michaelrlowry.substack.com
June 27, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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katmabu.bsky.social
Trump’s attack against Iran is illegal and immoral. And any leader who tells you otherwise is lying to you.
June 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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theverge.com
Last November, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that, as secretary of health and human services, he would not “take away anybody’s vaccines.” If you believed him, you were duped.

Read more from @laurenleffer.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/health/68850...
A vaccine vial sits behind a crosshair. A headline from The Verge reads "RFK Jr. is coming for your vaccines"
June 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
With everything else going on, the Senate sent the Big 💩 Bill back to the House, and made some changes. Here’s one:
June 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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democracyactionnet.bsky.social
RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines ...

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines and pledged to replace them with his own picks. Major physicians groups criticized the move to oust all 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. Kennedy, who was one of the nation’s leading anti-vaccine activists before becoming the nation’s top health official, has not said who he would appoint to the panel, but said it would convene in just two weeks in Atlanta. Related | Anti-vaxxer RFK Jr. manages to shock with new anti-vax chaos Although it’s typically not viewed as a partisan board, the Biden administration had installed the entire committee. “Without removing the current members, the current Trump administration would not have been able to appoint a majority of new members until 2028,” Kennedy wrote. “A clean sweep is needed to re-establish public confidence in vaccine science. ” Kennedy, in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece, said the committee members had too many conflicts of interest. Committee members routinely disclose any possible conflicts at the start of public meetings. Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, called Kennedy's mass ouster "a coup.” “It’s not how democracies work. It’s not good for the health of the nation,” Benjamin told The Associated Press. Benjamin said the move raises real concerns about whether future committee members will be viewed as impartial. He added that Kennedy is going against what he told lawmakers and the public, and the public health association plans to watch Kennedy “like a hawk." “He is breaking a promise,” Benjamin said. “He said he wasn’t going to do this." Dr. Bruce A. Scott, president of the American Medical Association, called the committee a trusted source of science- and data-driven advice and said Kennedy’s move, coupled with declining vaccination rates across the country, will help drive an increase in vaccine-preventable diseases. “Today’s action to remove the 17 sitting members of ACIP undermines that trust and upends a transparent process that has saved countless lives,” Scott said in a statement. The committee had been in a state of flux since Kennedy took over. Its first meeting this year had been delayed when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services abruptly postponed its February meeting. Kennedy recently took the unusual step of changing COVID-19 recommendations without first consulting the panel. The webpage that featured the committee’s members was deleted Monday evening, shortly after Kennedy’s announcement. Campaign Action
June 10, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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NEW: The tactic has been used by autocrats the world over — including in Turkey, Hungary and El Salvador — to erode perceptions of the courts’ legitimacy and weaken the rule of law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump’s New Plan to Undermine Judges: ‘Court-Baiting’
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
June 8, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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I don't know how he can in good conSCIENCE do this
altnps.bsky.social Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Jun 3
On May 23, President Trump signed an executive order he’s calling a “restoration of gold standard science.” But don’t be fooled, this is not about scientific integrity. It’s about political control.

The order gives Trump’s political appointees sweeping power over federal science. They can now:
June 4, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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altnps.bsky.social
Good News! The National Weather Service is hiring again, after DOGE’s “brilliant” decision to lay off essential staff. Apparently, round-the-clock weather alerts don’t send themselves. Who would’ve guessed?
June 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM