Tom😸
@tomkat57.bsky.social
Scientist, retired; chemist, traveler, RPG/board gamer, SF fan, genealogist, investor, UU humanist, progressive.
Imagine these idiots finding out (FAFOing) that government actually does stuff and exists for a reason. 😆
September 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Imagine these idiots finding out (FAFOing) that government actually does stuff and exists for a reason. 😆
Maybe Rudy can hock it for a few bucks, since Trump refuses to pay him millions in owed legal fees. Might as well, since the Medal is a joke now, ever since Trump gave it to Rush Limbaugh.
September 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Maybe Rudy can hock it for a few bucks, since Trump refuses to pay him millions in owed legal fees. Might as well, since the Medal is a joke now, ever since Trump gave it to Rush Limbaugh.
Is it sad that I read this headline as oldsters fighting over today’s creamed corn special at the Senate cafeteria?
September 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Is it sad that I read this headline as oldsters fighting over today’s creamed corn special at the Senate cafeteria?
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After ten years of MAGA havoc, the grand American Experiment is getting dangerously close to being at an end.
reasonreststop.com/america-afte...
reasonreststop.com/america-afte...
August 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
After ten years of MAGA havoc, the grand American Experiment is getting dangerously close to being at an end.
reasonreststop.com/america-afte...
reasonreststop.com/america-afte...
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I was glad to appear on MSNBC to discuss this subject. We don't need to dumb down Oklahoma's curriculum with Prager material.
I was glad to appear on MSNBC to discuss this subject. We don't need to dumb down Oklahoma's curriculum with Prager material.
‘They have a 50 state strategy’: PragerU’s ‘insidious’ alternative to PBS hits U.S. classrooms
PragerU has found an ally in the White House and is presenting itself as the “conservative” option to PBS. The media company currently has partnerships with 10 states but MSNBC’s Antonia Hylton, who h...
www.msnbc.com
August 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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I was glad to appear on MSNBC to discuss this subject. We don't need to dumb down Oklahoma's curriculum with Prager material.
I was glad to appear on MSNBC to discuss this subject. We don't need to dumb down Oklahoma's curriculum with Prager material.
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Hey #MSM, a quote in a story in the #TulsaWorld this morning. You can use it as an example of what the press can/should do
"The public is just learning of this proposal, and we are receiving more input from constituents now that media reports have raised their awareness of the proposed changes
"The public is just learning of this proposal, and we are receiving more input from constituents now that media reports have raised their awareness of the proposed changes
August 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Hey #MSM, a quote in a story in the #TulsaWorld this morning. You can use it as an example of what the press can/should do
"The public is just learning of this proposal, and we are receiving more input from constituents now that media reports have raised their awareness of the proposed changes
"The public is just learning of this proposal, and we are receiving more input from constituents now that media reports have raised their awareness of the proposed changes
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Trump now has the “warfighters” picking up trash near the White House. www.fox5dc.com/news/nationa...
August 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Trump now has the “warfighters” picking up trash near the White House. www.fox5dc.com/news/nationa...
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"We Americans....are characters in this living book of democracy. But we are also its author. It falls upon us now to say whether the chapters that are to come will tell a story of retreat or a story of continued advance." FDR, 1940
August 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
"We Americans....are characters in this living book of democracy. But we are also its author. It falls upon us now to say whether the chapters that are to come will tell a story of retreat or a story of continued advance." FDR, 1940
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I salute the workers who refused to be complicit in RFK's assault on science and health. He is now the head of the Center FOR Disease.
CDC leaders on why the left: “I resigned because I could not be part of the weaponization of public health and CDC… we should always be questioning - but you shouldn’t have a preconceived idea before you have the data.”
August 29, 2025 at 10:32 AM
I salute the workers who refused to be complicit in RFK's assault on science and health. He is now the head of the Center FOR Disease.
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There you have it.
August 12, 2025 at 1:14 AM
There you have it.
Release the Epstein Files. You know, the ones with all those “democrats” in them. And which exist/don’t exist. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
August 19, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Release the Epstein Files. You know, the ones with all those “democrats” in them. And which exist/don’t exist. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
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The president just issued an executive order asserting new and wide-ranging authority over the issuance of federal grants. This will have huge repercussions for the daily operations of US science. 🧪
Also, lawyers are gonna be lawyering.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Also, lawyers are gonna be lawyering.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal
www.whitehouse.gov
August 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The president just issued an executive order asserting new and wide-ranging authority over the issuance of federal grants. This will have huge repercussions for the daily operations of US science. 🧪
Also, lawyers are gonna be lawyering.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Also, lawyers are gonna be lawyering.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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💸 🏛️ 🧪
The Impoundment Control Act authorizes the head of GAO to file a lawsuit if the agency finds the President illegally impounded funds (as it did here).
It has not yet done so, despite four findings of illegal impoundment this year.
Republicans are working to stop the GAO from doing so, NYT reports.
It has not yet done so, despite four findings of illegal impoundment this year.
Republicans are working to stop the GAO from doing so, NYT reports.
White House Leads Push to Block Watchdog’s Inquiries Into Spending Cuts
www.nytimes.com
August 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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"I've written before that Kennedy's anti-sci. campaign against vaccination — or more properly, his science-free campaign — has set the stage for a public health crisis in the US... Kennedy's actions are potentially deadly, and the CDC has the data to prove it." 🛟🧪😷
Hiltzik: Contradicting RFK Jr., CDC says the COVID vaccine protects pregnant women, babies, and children
RFK Jr. turned the CDC's vaccine committee into an anti-vaccine panel, but it still heard evidence that his campaign against vaccinating pregnant women was a huge mistake.
www.yahoo.com
June 29, 2025 at 5:32 AM
"I've written before that Kennedy's anti-sci. campaign against vaccination — or more properly, his science-free campaign — has set the stage for a public health crisis in the US... Kennedy's actions are potentially deadly, and the CDC has the data to prove it." 🛟🧪😷
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Trump has broken America and has set his sight on breaking the world
June 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Trump has broken America and has set his sight on breaking the world
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Always doing the thing he accuses others of
June 22, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Always doing the thing he accuses others of
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I do not think @stephenking.bsky.social could not have written a more horrifying story.
GOP voters’ fealty to Trump makes it 'politically safe to take away their benefits' www.alternet.org/donald-trump...
GOP voters’ fealty to Trump makes it 'politically safe to take away their benefits' www.alternet.org/donald-trump...
GOP voters’ fealty to Trump makes it 'politically safe to take away their benefits'
Senate and House Republicans appear to hope unswerving voter devotion in red states will blunt blowback from extreme cuts they’re planning for the nation’s safety net. And a New York Times analysis su...
www.alternet.org
June 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I do not think @stephenking.bsky.social could not have written a more horrifying story.
GOP voters’ fealty to Trump makes it 'politically safe to take away their benefits' www.alternet.org/donald-trump...
GOP voters’ fealty to Trump makes it 'politically safe to take away their benefits' www.alternet.org/donald-trump...
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Truth.
GOP Senator Rand Paul:
“Once this bill votes, and this debt ceiling goes through, the debt is owned by the GOP, and there is no more campaigning and saying 'This is the Democrats.' It will be owned by the Republicans”
“Once this bill votes, and this debt ceiling goes through, the debt is owned by the GOP, and there is no more campaigning and saying 'This is the Democrats.' It will be owned by the Republicans”
June 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Truth.
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A "veritable landslide" when the victor got less than 50% of the vote.🙄
I'm so tired of these gaslighters.
I'm so tired of these gaslighters.
Ackman asserts that when he claimed he and a few billionaire friends could buy the NYC mayor’s election he really wasn’t saying that he and a few billionaire friends can buy the NYC election.
June 29, 2025 at 1:44 AM
A "veritable landslide" when the victor got less than 50% of the vote.🙄
I'm so tired of these gaslighters.
I'm so tired of these gaslighters.
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🌹 Rest and peace, Mark and Melissa Hortman.
🌹 These are very troubling and scary times we are living in, and now you are gone for having the gall to try to make things better.
🌹 We won't forget you, and will honor your lives and your service to our country ...
🌹 These are very troubling and scary times we are living in, and now you are gone for having the gall to try to make things better.
🌹 We won't forget you, and will honor your lives and your service to our country ...
June 29, 2025 at 2:35 AM
🌹 Rest and peace, Mark and Melissa Hortman.
🌹 These are very troubling and scary times we are living in, and now you are gone for having the gall to try to make things better.
🌹 We won't forget you, and will honor your lives and your service to our country ...
🌹 These are very troubling and scary times we are living in, and now you are gone for having the gall to try to make things better.
🌹 We won't forget you, and will honor your lives and your service to our country ...
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so we are freeing and giving a visa to a guy with an actual criminal history of being a danger to those around him so he can testify against a dude with no record who got picked up kinda by mistake
The Trump admin has freed Jose Hernandez Reyes because he can testify against Abrego Garcia.
Hernandez, who has been deported 5 times, has also been arrested for:
—DUI w/ a handgun;
—cocaine possession;
—illegally transporting migrants; and
—drunkenly firing a gun.
Free link: wapo.st/40i4Ttt
Hernandez, who has been deported 5 times, has also been arrested for:
—DUI w/ a handgun;
—cocaine possession;
—illegally transporting migrants; and
—drunkenly firing a gun.
Free link: wapo.st/40i4Ttt
Star witness against Kilmar Abrego García was due to be deported. Now he’s being freed.
Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes is a three-time felon released early from federal prison to a halfway house in exchange for testifying against Kilmar Abrego García.
wapo.st
June 29, 2025 at 3:54 AM
so we are freeing and giving a visa to a guy with an actual criminal history of being a danger to those around him so he can testify against a dude with no record who got picked up kinda by mistake
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Completely accurate. Let’s not add the current President of the United States didn’t even bother to offer condolences.
I can't tell if it's because I'm too NYC focused but does it feel like the news cycle spent more time crashing out on the fact that NYC picked a brown Muslim dude as is primary candidate then it did on a right wing extremist who shot 2 Minnesota legislators killing one, her husband and dog?
June 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Completely accurate. Let’s not add the current President of the United States didn’t even bother to offer condolences.