J-J
@socialsynapse.bsky.social
Behavioral Scientist, Health Services, Professor, Mentor, and Advocate for an informed, empathic, and educated society. "Views are my own."
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"The immediate results suggest whatever confidence this president enjoyed is now crumbling amid a record length government shutdown, a camouflaged cascade of federal kidnappings, a tariff-battered economy, and the systemic demolition of democratic norms," @jimsaksa.com reports on election night.
Voters Rebuke Trump In Resounding Win for Democracy
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:33 AM
"The immediate results suggest whatever confidence this president enjoyed is now crumbling amid a record length government shutdown, a camouflaged cascade of federal kidnappings, a tariff-battered economy, and the systemic demolition of democratic norms," @jimsaksa.com reports on election night.
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I think Trump needs to keep telling people from his gilded palace that grocery prices are way down, housing and electricity prices are down, and everything is great because of his genius. They seem to like that.
November 5, 2025 at 4:36 AM
I think Trump needs to keep telling people from his gilded palace that grocery prices are way down, housing and electricity prices are down, and everything is great because of his genius. They seem to like that.
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Tonight proves what I’ve been saying since last November. It destroys the narrative that Gen Z is conservative. Obliterates the idea that Gen Z is MAGA.
Young people will vote for those who promise them a brighter future — and they’ll punish those who don’t deliver.
See you next year, Donald.
Young people will vote for those who promise them a brighter future — and they’ll punish those who don’t deliver.
See you next year, Donald.
November 5, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Tonight proves what I’ve been saying since last November. It destroys the narrative that Gen Z is conservative. Obliterates the idea that Gen Z is MAGA.
Young people will vote for those who promise them a brighter future — and they’ll punish those who don’t deliver.
See you next year, Donald.
Young people will vote for those who promise them a brighter future — and they’ll punish those who don’t deliver.
See you next year, Donald.
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Not just HHS: this is in response to an executive order to make loyalty to Trump a key performance evaluation metric for all of the Senior Executive Service
NEW: The Trump administration is using a new metric for assessing HHS employees in their annual performance reviews: whether they are sufficiently loyal to Trump’s policy agenda www.huffpost.com/entry/hhs-em...
HHS Employees Now Being Measured By Loyalty To Trump's Policies
In annual performance reviews, federal workers will be assessed on whether they “clearly and demonstrably support implementation” of Trump’s agenda.
www.huffpost.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Not just HHS: this is in response to an executive order to make loyalty to Trump a key performance evaluation metric for all of the Senior Executive Service
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Gavin Newsom is right
June 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Gavin Newsom is right
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“We urge you as NIH Director to restore grants delayed or terminated for political reasons so that life-saving science can continue.”
Over one hundred NIH employees publish a letter of dissent to Trump administration attacks on medical research, the “Bethesda Declaration.” 🧪
Over one hundred NIH employees publish a letter of dissent to Trump administration attacks on medical research, the “Bethesda Declaration.” 🧪
June 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
“We urge you as NIH Director to restore grants delayed or terminated for political reasons so that life-saving science can continue.”
Over one hundred NIH employees publish a letter of dissent to Trump administration attacks on medical research, the “Bethesda Declaration.” 🧪
Over one hundred NIH employees publish a letter of dissent to Trump administration attacks on medical research, the “Bethesda Declaration.” 🧪
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The crazy part is that even this is incomplete:
This leaves out NIH, HHS, and NSF, which affect Elon’s business interests in Neuralink, Twitter, and AI.
Let billionaires accumulate enough wealth and eventually they see they need to buy politics and gov’t to keep accumulating power.
This leaves out NIH, HHS, and NSF, which affect Elon’s business interests in Neuralink, Twitter, and AI.
Let billionaires accumulate enough wealth and eventually they see they need to buy politics and gov’t to keep accumulating power.
May 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The crazy part is that even this is incomplete:
This leaves out NIH, HHS, and NSF, which affect Elon’s business interests in Neuralink, Twitter, and AI.
Let billionaires accumulate enough wealth and eventually they see they need to buy politics and gov’t to keep accumulating power.
This leaves out NIH, HHS, and NSF, which affect Elon’s business interests in Neuralink, Twitter, and AI.
Let billionaires accumulate enough wealth and eventually they see they need to buy politics and gov’t to keep accumulating power.
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But remember, *you* can only have two dolls and five pencils
ABC reports Trump to take “flying palace” from Qatar and use it as temporary Air Force 1 before converting it to a personal possession.
May 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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"The local police arrived to prevent the community from protecting their neighbor from an unlawful kidnapping. They succeeded, and in the process arrested two of the people who tried to stop it." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“They’re trying to kidnap someone”
On the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts.
www.motherjones.com
May 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
"The local police arrived to prevent the community from protecting their neighbor from an unlawful kidnapping. They succeeded, and in the process arrested two of the people who tried to stop it." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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When Laura Loomer is the voice of reason, democracy’s officially on life support.
May 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
When Laura Loomer is the voice of reason, democracy’s officially on life support.
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It’s especially galling that AG Pam Bondi personally wrote the memo approving the gift of the Qatari airplane. Her last job was as a lobbyist for Qatar! efile.fara.gov/docs/6415-Ex...
May 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
It’s especially galling that AG Pam Bondi personally wrote the memo approving the gift of the Qatari airplane. Her last job was as a lobbyist for Qatar! efile.fara.gov/docs/6415-Ex...
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Linda McMahon wrote Harvard a letter to which they responded by noting areas that are in need of corrections and then posted it on social media.
Great job Harvard!👏👏👏
Great job Harvard!👏👏👏
May 6, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Linda McMahon wrote Harvard a letter to which they responded by noting areas that are in need of corrections and then posted it on social media.
Great job Harvard!👏👏👏
Great job Harvard!👏👏👏
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Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter.
They graded it.
Bwahahaha.
They graded it.
Bwahahaha.
May 7, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter.
They graded it.
Bwahahaha.
They graded it.
Bwahahaha.
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"they are going to end cancer research and kill its top scientists" is the kind of thing that would get you laughed out of the writer's room on saturday morning cartoons and it is literally what's happening
one of the world's top cancer scientists, who works for Harvard, is at risk of deportation to Russia where she might be killed for criticizing Putin, because she allegedly failed to disclose carrying frog embryos at the border. it's upending American medical research: prospect.org/health/2025-...
April 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
"they are going to end cancer research and kill its top scientists" is the kind of thing that would get you laughed out of the writer's room on saturday morning cartoons and it is literally what's happening
I'm attending Indivisible's event, “JOIN TESLA PROTEST - PASADENA” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
JOIN TESLA PROTEST - PASADENA · Indivisible
This a local Indivisible event! Join our Tesla Takedown protest at the Pasadena Tesla Dealership.
www.mobilize.us
April 24, 2025 at 4:27 AM
I'm attending Indivisible's event, “JOIN TESLA PROTEST - PASADENA” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
Awful news. Another casualty of this fascist administration.
The Womens Health Initiative study has been canceled. 🫥
April 24, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Awful news. Another casualty of this fascist administration.
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Al Gore ripped the Trump administration to shreds in a speech Monday at a climate week event in San Francisco.
April 23, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Al Gore ripped the Trump administration to shreds in a speech Monday at a climate week event in San Francisco.
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JUST IN: The MeidasTouch Podcast Tops Charts for Third Straight Month with 107.3 Million Downloads—More Than Joe Rogan, Candace Owens, and Ben Shapiro COMBINED, per Podscribe Data
April 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
JUST IN: The MeidasTouch Podcast Tops Charts for Third Straight Month with 107.3 Million Downloads—More Than Joe Rogan, Candace Owens, and Ben Shapiro COMBINED, per Podscribe Data
@maddow.msnbc.com Nooo! It's been great seeing Rachel five nights a week again. The reporting has been excellent and informative.
April 24, 2025 at 3:43 AM
@maddow.msnbc.com Nooo! It's been great seeing Rachel five nights a week again. The reporting has been excellent and informative.
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Dow Down 2200+ Points
Fox:
Fox:
April 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Dow Down 2200+ Points
Fox:
Fox: