Marti Pratt
@sparky1943.bsky.social
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The shock and awe Musk, Vought, Bannon and Trump — are bringing will backfire if we’re smart about it. Make clear that DOGE is the Dept of Govt Extermination, not Efficiency. Let people see that their taxes are no longer paying for vital public services but to fatten the richest people on earth.
February 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The shock and awe Musk, Vought, Bannon and Trump — are bringing will backfire if we’re smart about it. Make clear that DOGE is the Dept of Govt Extermination, not Efficiency. Let people see that their taxes are no longer paying for vital public services but to fatten the richest people on earth.
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That people now see the typical person Silicon Valley has produced through decades long juvenilizing and coddling of young men and the persistent sidelining of women is an important thing except it’s also too late. These toxic adult toddlers are grown and cloning more.
"One theme in the young DOGEbros’ rampage through the federal government—taking over offices, demanding access to hypersensitive computer systems, threatening civil servants—is their combination of blithering ignorance and swaggering self-assurance."
www.thebulwark.com/p/why-elon-w...
www.thebulwark.com/p/why-elon-w...
Why Elon Will Be Trump’s Undoing
And a request to the DOGE Bros: Please read a f***ing book.
www.thebulwark.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
That people now see the typical person Silicon Valley has produced through decades long juvenilizing and coddling of young men and the persistent sidelining of women is an important thing except it’s also too late. These toxic adult toddlers are grown and cloning more.
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Far Worse Than The Saturday Night Massacre.
February 5, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Far Worse Than The Saturday Night Massacre.
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The point about Trump’s deranged comments about Gaza is that we’re wasting precious seconds talking about Trump’s deranged comments about Gaza and not unelected Elon Musk’s coup to dismantle our government.
February 5, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The point about Trump’s deranged comments about Gaza is that we’re wasting precious seconds talking about Trump’s deranged comments about Gaza and not unelected Elon Musk’s coup to dismantle our government.
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What this long and detailed NYT piece calmly calls an “extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual” is in fact a blatantly unconstitutional usurpation of Congress’s Article I powers and delegation of the President’s Article II duties.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
Elon Musk’s Blitz Shakes U.S. Government as He Sweeps Through Agencies
The billionaire is creating major upheaval as his team sweeps through agencies, in what has been an extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual.
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
What this long and detailed NYT piece calmly calls an “extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual” is in fact a blatantly unconstitutional usurpation of Congress’s Article I powers and delegation of the President’s Article II duties.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
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“I have seen…in my experience as a university professor how diversity enriches experience, deepens and expands knowledge, and increases the quality of life & our capacity to confront an increasingly complex world where real solutions require diverse thinking.” www.americaamerica.news/p/how-has-di...
How Has Diversity Affected Your World?
A Saturday prompt
www.americaamerica.news
February 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
“I have seen…in my experience as a university professor how diversity enriches experience, deepens and expands knowledge, and increases the quality of life & our capacity to confront an increasingly complex world where real solutions require diverse thinking.” www.americaamerica.news/p/how-has-di...
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The unintended consequences of Trumpism are ***almost*** more worrying than the intended consequences of Trumpism
February 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The unintended consequences of Trumpism are ***almost*** more worrying than the intended consequences of Trumpism
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In the summer of 2023, unnamed aides to then-President Joe Biden’s campaign publicly criticized my approach to protecting voting rights through aggressive litigation. I look forward to working with the DNC's new chair @kenmartin.bsky.social to change course.
February 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
In the summer of 2023, unnamed aides to then-President Joe Biden’s campaign publicly criticized my approach to protecting voting rights through aggressive litigation. I look forward to working with the DNC's new chair @kenmartin.bsky.social to change course.
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You know, all the people who soiled their reputations working for Trump‘s first administration but aren’t working in his second have to be thinking right now, “Man, this buffoon is making us look really good by doing all the crazy shit we kept him from doing last time!”
February 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
You know, all the people who soiled their reputations working for Trump‘s first administration but aren’t working in his second have to be thinking right now, “Man, this buffoon is making us look really good by doing all the crazy shit we kept him from doing last time!”
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THIS is how you communicate, folks
BREAKING: AOC blames crash on Trump / Elon
“I represent LGA Airport as well as workers for JFK. Trump gutted the Aviation Safety committee last week. Air traffic controllers, already understaffed, got Trump’s “buyout” this wk with a 1 wk ultimatum to decide. It’s not DEI - it’s him. And Elon too.”
“I represent LGA Airport as well as workers for JFK. Trump gutted the Aviation Safety committee last week. Air traffic controllers, already understaffed, got Trump’s “buyout” this wk with a 1 wk ultimatum to decide. It’s not DEI - it’s him. And Elon too.”
January 30, 2025 at 10:57 PM
THIS is how you communicate, folks
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The fact is we can’t count on an official investigation into the Washington crash providing the truth, now that we are saddled with authoritarian “leadership” that never does anything wrong.
January 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The fact is we can’t count on an official investigation into the Washington crash providing the truth, now that we are saddled with authoritarian “leadership” that never does anything wrong.
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I cannot believe there are still people out there challenging those of us who call Elon Musk the American co-president. I do not use that term as a moniker or a calumny or a joke or a speculation. It is fact. The evidence points toward that conclusion as the only responsible one.
Musk team’s push to gut federal workforce bypassed key Trump officials
Billionaire Elon Musk has worked behind the scenes on an initiative aimed at depleting the civil service, prompting questions about its legality.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 30, 2025 at 8:51 AM
I cannot believe there are still people out there challenging those of us who call Elon Musk the American co-president. I do not use that term as a moniker or a calumny or a joke or a speculation. It is fact. The evidence points toward that conclusion as the only responsible one.
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If these Republicans advance RFK Jr., they're not just rolling the dice on a reckless nominee, they are telling the country they believe it's more important to appease Donald Trump than ensure Americans' health. Confirming this anti-vaxxer is not just about politics--it's a life-and-death decision.
January 30, 2025 at 2:25 AM
If these Republicans advance RFK Jr., they're not just rolling the dice on a reckless nominee, they are telling the country they believe it's more important to appease Donald Trump than ensure Americans' health. Confirming this anti-vaxxer is not just about politics--it's a life-and-death decision.
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“Forget the myths the media's created about the White House. The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.”
NEWS: Amid pressure from Senate Rs over funding freeze, Russ Vought held emergency meeting Tuesday w/ baffled/exasperated staff
Vought said they needed to clarify the memo only applied to funds affected by Trump EO
"Anybody who could read English" could see it didn't, one U.S. official told me
Vought said they needed to clarify the memo only applied to funds affected by Trump EO
"Anybody who could read English" could see it didn't, one U.S. official told me
January 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
“Forget the myths the media's created about the White House. The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.”
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Donald Trump nominated Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel because he wants to show Republicans that he is the boss. That he can strip them of their dignity by making them support terrible nominees.
Senate Republicans may be in the majority, but Trump controls them. That is the story.
Senate Republicans may be in the majority, but Trump controls them. That is the story.
January 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Donald Trump nominated Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel because he wants to show Republicans that he is the boss. That he can strip them of their dignity by making them support terrible nominees.
Senate Republicans may be in the majority, but Trump controls them. That is the story.
Senate Republicans may be in the majority, but Trump controls them. That is the story.
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Hey MAGA! Just because someone is a woman or a racial or sexual minority doesn’t mean they’re a DEI hire. Yes, there are unqualified people being appointed to government positions in the Trump administration, but they are mostly unqualified, straight white male idiots.
January 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Hey MAGA! Just because someone is a woman or a racial or sexual minority doesn’t mean they’re a DEI hire. Yes, there are unqualified people being appointed to government positions in the Trump administration, but they are mostly unqualified, straight white male idiots.
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I have applied to be Chief Corgi Content Editor of this excellent new publication.
“The startup’s tagline, ‘Not owned by anybody,’ is a pointed reference to billionaire Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos and other moguls who, in Rubin’s view, have ‘bent the knee’ to President-elect Donald Trump.”
Jen Rubin exits Washington Post, joins Norm Eisen to launch new outlet countering ‘authoritarian threat’ | CNN Business
Veteran opinion columnist Jennifer Rubin is becoming the latest in a long list of Washington Post figures to leave the troubled institution.
www.cnn.com
January 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I have applied to be Chief Corgi Content Editor of this excellent new publication.
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Last full week before we brace for Trump 2.0.
Rest up everyone, it's going to be long hard fight to protect democracy.
Rest up everyone, it's going to be long hard fight to protect democracy.
January 13, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Last full week before we brace for Trump 2.0.
Rest up everyone, it's going to be long hard fight to protect democracy.
Rest up everyone, it's going to be long hard fight to protect democracy.
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Schiff: "I've been in Congress a long time approving aid after disasters. I never once even considered 'is this hurricane hitting a red or blue state?' ... we need the incoming president to view it that way."
January 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Schiff: "I've been in Congress a long time approving aid after disasters. I never once even considered 'is this hurricane hitting a red or blue state?' ... we need the incoming president to view it that way."
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Keep in mind when you see Trump’s political attacks about the LA fires that he doesn’t understand the problems, care about the personal suffering or desire to learn what happened so he can do something to help. He just wants to exploit the tragedy to score points and fuel more conflict and division.
January 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Keep in mind when you see Trump’s political attacks about the LA fires that he doesn’t understand the problems, care about the personal suffering or desire to learn what happened so he can do something to help. He just wants to exploit the tragedy to score points and fuel more conflict and division.