Smylikat
@smylikat.bsky.social
A Mom, grandma, wife, hard working employee, open minded human, believer that more love, empathy & compassion & less hate, greed & fear could change the world.
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SCOOP: The top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its efforts to aid states in securing elections. The move represents the first major example of the country’s cyber defense agency accommodating Trump’s false claims of election fraud and online censorship.
Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen efforts to aid states in securing elections, according to an internal memo viewed by WIRED
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February 15, 2025 at 3:34 AM
SCOOP: The top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its efforts to aid states in securing elections. The move represents the first major example of the country’s cyber defense agency accommodating Trump’s false claims of election fraud and online censorship.
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The Department of Government Efficiency isn't interested in efficiency. Or transparency, or cutting costs. It's real goal is to destroy the federal civil service. In other words, regime change. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing
How regime change happens in America
www.theatlantic.com
February 13, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The Department of Government Efficiency isn't interested in efficiency. Or transparency, or cutting costs. It's real goal is to destroy the federal civil service. In other words, regime change. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Face of Courage open.substack.com/pub/joycevan... by @joycewhitevance.bsky.social
The Face of Courage
You only need to read one thing today, and this is it.
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February 15, 2025 at 4:26 AM
The Face of Courage open.substack.com/pub/joycevan... by @joycewhitevance.bsky.social
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Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.
February 15, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.
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More details on this shockingly sloppy episode.
Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say | CNN
Some of the fired probationary employees included on-the-ground staff at facilities where nuclear weapons are built.
www.cnn.com
February 15, 2025 at 3:35 AM
More details on this shockingly sloppy episode.
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“I emphasize the import of civil society, including groups that have been preparing for these legal challenges for months. As others have pointed out, the battle over fascism often centers on the battle over pre-existing networks of civil society, networks that often are not themselves political”
Judge AliKhan Didn't Halt Trump's Funding Freeze Alone, Democracy Forward Did Too
www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/29/j...
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Judge AliKhan Didn't Halt Trump's Funding Freeze Alone, Democracy Forward Did Too - emptywheel
Coverage of the halt Judge Loren AliKhan ordered on Trump's cuts to federal funding focus on her actions. But the lawsuit itself arises from the kind of civil society networks that are crucial to batt...
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January 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
“I emphasize the import of civil society, including groups that have been preparing for these legal challenges for months. As others have pointed out, the battle over fascism often centers on the battle over pre-existing networks of civil society, networks that often are not themselves political”
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Instead of watching RFK Jr’s confirmation hearing, watch A SHOT IN THE ARM, my friend Scott’s doc about the anti vax movement that shows how Kennedy prompted a measles outbreak in Samoa.
www.pbs.org/show/shot-in...
www.pbs.org/show/shot-in...
Shot in the Arm
SHOT IN THE ARM explores vaccine hesitancy historically and in the context of Covid-19.
www.pbs.org
January 29, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Instead of watching RFK Jr’s confirmation hearing, watch A SHOT IN THE ARM, my friend Scott’s doc about the anti vax movement that shows how Kennedy prompted a measles outbreak in Samoa.
www.pbs.org/show/shot-in...
www.pbs.org/show/shot-in...
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In this age of increased terrorist threats and actions, we strongly need an FBI run by seasoned and competent leaders, not political hacks like Kash Patel.
January 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
In this age of increased terrorist threats and actions, we strongly need an FBI run by seasoned and competent leaders, not political hacks like Kash Patel.
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French onion soup, a dish traditionally eaten after a night of revelry as a nourishing restorative, is the perfect recipe to share with you for New Year’s Eve.
Still my most popular post, and what I’ll be making for tonight’s New Years Eve celebration 🥳
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Still my most popular post, and what I’ll be making for tonight’s New Years Eve celebration 🥳
jamieschler.substack.com/p/authentic-...
Authentic French Onion Soup
Top off your New Year’s Eve revelry the traditional French way.
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December 31, 2024 at 1:45 PM
French onion soup, a dish traditionally eaten after a night of revelry as a nourishing restorative, is the perfect recipe to share with you for New Year’s Eve.
Still my most popular post, and what I’ll be making for tonight’s New Years Eve celebration 🥳
jamieschler.substack.com/p/authentic-...
Still my most popular post, and what I’ll be making for tonight’s New Years Eve celebration 🥳
jamieschler.substack.com/p/authentic-...
Happy New Year! My wish for 2025 is for humans to be kinder, more compassionate & empathetic to others. To help lift each other up, help thy neighbor and a stranger, spread more joy and love. I pray for peace, the end of war, and hate so that we may all live in a more blessed world. I’m a dreamer!
January 1, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Happy New Year! My wish for 2025 is for humans to be kinder, more compassionate & empathetic to others. To help lift each other up, help thy neighbor and a stranger, spread more joy and love. I pray for peace, the end of war, and hate so that we may all live in a more blessed world. I’m a dreamer!
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This lovely quote
December 31, 2024 at 2:29 PM
This lovely quote
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Mary Fitzpatrick Prince was a young, Black woman wrongly convicted of murder in the Jim Crow south. A victim a court system rife with racial injustice, she was serving a life sentence in a Georgia prison.
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter believed deeply in Mary’s innocence.
With the Carters’…
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter believed deeply in Mary’s innocence.
With the Carters’…
December 31, 2024 at 9:30 AM
Mary Fitzpatrick Prince was a young, Black woman wrongly convicted of murder in the Jim Crow south. A victim a court system rife with racial injustice, she was serving a life sentence in a Georgia prison.
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter believed deeply in Mary’s innocence.
With the Carters’…
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter believed deeply in Mary’s innocence.
With the Carters’…
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“Though there is no way to know how often coverage gets cut off mid-treatment, ProPublica has found scores of lawsuits over the past decade in which judges have sharply criticized insurance companies for citing a patient’s improvement to deny mental health coverage.”
Her Mental Health Treatment Was Helping. That’s Why Insurance Cut Off Her Coverage.
Providers, patients and even some federal judges say progress-based insurance denials harm patients at key moments of mental health treatment.
www.propublica.org
December 31, 2024 at 2:30 PM
“Though there is no way to know how often coverage gets cut off mid-treatment, ProPublica has found scores of lawsuits over the past decade in which judges have sharply criticized insurance companies for citing a patient’s improvement to deny mental health coverage.”
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We have larger concerns heading into 2025, but I can't let go of the idea that the next season of Sesame Street could be its last. So I wrote about why the kids' TV institution is still vital after more than 50 years:
Can You Tell Me How to Get Someone to Save 'Sesame Street'?
With its Warner Bros. Discovery contract about to expire, TV critic Alan Sepinwall explains why the beloved children's series deserves to survive.
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December 30, 2024 at 5:10 PM
We have larger concerns heading into 2025, but I can't let go of the idea that the next season of Sesame Street could be its last. So I wrote about why the kids' TV institution is still vital after more than 50 years:
The world has lost a truly good, honorable, faithful man. May his soul be rejoicing in the heavens with God and his beloved. My deepest condolences to his family, friends and loved one. In our mourning let’s commit to also try live by his amazing example. ❤️💔❤️
December 30, 2024 at 12:13 AM
The world has lost a truly good, honorable, faithful man. May his soul be rejoicing in the heavens with God and his beloved. My deepest condolences to his family, friends and loved one. In our mourning let’s commit to also try live by his amazing example. ❤️💔❤️
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Undocumented immigrants paid $7 Billion in taxes last year.
Nearly all immigrants who are in the U.S. without permanent legal status pay social security payroll taxes without claiming benefits.
But sure, let’s mass deport them, then complain about SS viability.
www.marketwatch.com/story/your-s...
Nearly all immigrants who are in the U.S. without permanent legal status pay social security payroll taxes without claiming benefits.
But sure, let’s mass deport them, then complain about SS viability.
www.marketwatch.com/story/your-s...
Social Security depends on immigrants — especially those in the U.S. unlawfully
How immigrants subsidize Social Security for the rest of us.
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December 27, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Undocumented immigrants paid $7 Billion in taxes last year.
Nearly all immigrants who are in the U.S. without permanent legal status pay social security payroll taxes without claiming benefits.
But sure, let’s mass deport them, then complain about SS viability.
www.marketwatch.com/story/your-s...
Nearly all immigrants who are in the U.S. without permanent legal status pay social security payroll taxes without claiming benefits.
But sure, let’s mass deport them, then complain about SS viability.
www.marketwatch.com/story/your-s...
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On their 2020 income tax returns, Trump and his wife Melania paid no federal income taxes and claimed a refund of $5.47 million, according to the report by the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation. www.cnbc.com/2022/12/21/t...
Read how much Trump paid — or didn't pay — in taxes each year
Donald Trump has guarded his income tax returns from public disclosure. A House committee has voted to release them in redacted form.
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December 27, 2024 at 9:47 PM
On their 2020 income tax returns, Trump and his wife Melania paid no federal income taxes and claimed a refund of $5.47 million, according to the report by the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation. www.cnbc.com/2022/12/21/t...
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My neice, a PhD in Math, tried to explain this to me. I didn't understand. But this explanation seems much easier. Still not 100% sure I get it, but find this fascinating.
The part about people so sure they knew better was mind blowing
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The part about people so sure they knew better was mind blowing
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The Time Everyone “Corrected” the World’s Smartest Woman - Priceonomics
In 1990, Marilyn vos Savant correctly answered a probability puzzle in her column for Parade Magazine. And then, the world called her an idiot.
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December 27, 2024 at 2:19 PM
My neice, a PhD in Math, tried to explain this to me. I didn't understand. But this explanation seems much easier. Still not 100% sure I get it, but find this fascinating.
The part about people so sure they knew better was mind blowing
priceonomics.com/the-time-eve...
The part about people so sure they knew better was mind blowing
priceonomics.com/the-time-eve...
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Six little stories sum it up nicely... #goodness #wholesome
December 27, 2024 at 11:48 AM
Six little stories sum it up nicely... #goodness #wholesome
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Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Education has been flying below the radar screen. It’s time to put a stop to that. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Educate or Not
It’s no wonder that Project 2025 calls for putting an end to the Department of Education.
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December 27, 2024 at 3:35 AM
Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Education has been flying below the radar screen. It’s time to put a stop to that. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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December 27, 2024 at 2:45 PM
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Leaders in the Musk backed Germany’s #AfD party have called for revising history books in Germany to minimize the Holocaust and to stop shaming Germany by remembering the Holocaust.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
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Why an Influential Figure in Germany's Far-Right AfD Party Is Accused of 'Whitewashing' Nazi Crimes
Björn Höcke, of German far-right Alternative für Deutschland party, has criticized how Germany remembers the Holocaust. Watch an excerpt from FRONTLINE’s documentary, ‘Germany’s Enemy Within.’
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December 21, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Leaders in the Musk backed Germany’s #AfD party have called for revising history books in Germany to minimize the Holocaust and to stop shaming Germany by remembering the Holocaust.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
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Struggling to find the words for just how disturbing this is.
But suffice it to say that at one point, even Baldoni’s own publicist essentially says “thank goodness people hate women.” nyti.ms/3DoqZSq
But suffice it to say that at one point, even Baldoni’s own publicist essentially says “thank goodness people hate women.” nyti.ms/3DoqZSq
Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni and a Smear Campaign After ‘It Ends With Us’
Private messages detail an alleged campaign to tarnish Blake Lively after she accused Justin Baldoni of misconduct on the set of “It Ends With Us.”
nyti.ms
December 21, 2024 at 7:02 PM
Struggling to find the words for just how disturbing this is.
But suffice it to say that at one point, even Baldoni’s own publicist essentially says “thank goodness people hate women.” nyti.ms/3DoqZSq
But suffice it to say that at one point, even Baldoni’s own publicist essentially says “thank goodness people hate women.” nyti.ms/3DoqZSq
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Dr. Paul Offit, a leading pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases, on the dangerous nomination of RFK Jr. for HHS:
“He is about to do everything he can to destroy the vaccine program in this country. And I think it is a dangerous time to be a child in the US of America.”
“He is about to do everything he can to destroy the vaccine program in this country. And I think it is a dangerous time to be a child in the US of America.”
December 20, 2024 at 8:11 PM
Dr. Paul Offit, a leading pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases, on the dangerous nomination of RFK Jr. for HHS:
“He is about to do everything he can to destroy the vaccine program in this country. And I think it is a dangerous time to be a child in the US of America.”
“He is about to do everything he can to destroy the vaccine program in this country. And I think it is a dangerous time to be a child in the US of America.”