@ttipton.bsky.social
Former Montessori school owner & teacher. Peaceful solutions, human rights, simple pleasures, living & dying with dignity. Currently waiting for a lung transplant 🌎🕊️
Doge illegally forced their way in, fired all the staff, shredded documents, canceled contracts, took down the website, wiped out the IT system, seized funding and abandoned the building which allowed rodents to occupy it. And oops, they left behind a bag of pot 🤯
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW7t...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW7t...
'Pure pointlessness and waste': Musk legacy seen in botched, illegal grab of independent group
YouTube video by MSNBC
www.youtube.com
June 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Doge illegally forced their way in, fired all the staff, shredded documents, canceled contracts, took down the website, wiped out the IT system, seized funding and abandoned the building which allowed rodents to occupy it. And oops, they left behind a bag of pot 🤯
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW7t...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW7t...
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This was today… Sotally tober… NYT clearly way off base…
May 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This was today… Sotally tober… NYT clearly way off base…
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Leavitt claims that with Elon Musk departing, "the DOGE leaders are each and every member of the president's cabinet and the president himself"
May 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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stop writing that he’s leaving DOGE without mentioning that just a few days ago the solicitor general told the United States Supreme Court that he is not part of DOGE
Editors, please assign a deep dive piece on the grave damage musk & doge have done to the United States, rather than how he’s feeling about it.
May 29, 2025 at 2:56 AM
stop writing that he’s leaving DOGE without mentioning that just a few days ago the solicitor general told the United States Supreme Court that he is not part of DOGE
Every day Trump news worse than the day before. Now luxury golf complex on fast track to destroy a 5 generation cemetery and centuries-old rich farmland in Vietnam. Residents might get half of what their land is worth.
thttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/world/asia/trump-vietnam-golf-project.html
thttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/world/asia/trump-vietnam-golf-project.html
Why Vietnam Ignored Its Own Laws to Fast-Track a Trump Family Golf Complex
www.nytimes.com
May 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Every day Trump news worse than the day before. Now luxury golf complex on fast track to destroy a 5 generation cemetery and centuries-old rich farmland in Vietnam. Residents might get half of what their land is worth.
thttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/world/asia/trump-vietnam-golf-project.html
thttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/world/asia/trump-vietnam-golf-project.html
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MERKLEY: Are you gonna launch an investigation of the reported violation of the due process of several hundred people?
P: It is not for me to call the balls & strikes
M: You haven't read the Constitution? It says 'all persons'...it concerns me you're not familiar w/the core concept of due process
P: It is not for me to call the balls & strikes
M: You haven't read the Constitution? It says 'all persons'...it concerns me you're not familiar w/the core concept of due process
May 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
MERKLEY: Are you gonna launch an investigation of the reported violation of the due process of several hundred people?
P: It is not for me to call the balls & strikes
M: You haven't read the Constitution? It says 'all persons'...it concerns me you're not familiar w/the core concept of due process
P: It is not for me to call the balls & strikes
M: You haven't read the Constitution? It says 'all persons'...it concerns me you're not familiar w/the core concept of due process
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Just posted a new video with @rgoodlaw.bsky.social breaking down the declassified memo that contradicts DOJ claims about Venezuela and TDA. The implications are serious. Watch here: youtu.be/HZKCrEHTOyA
#Declassified #RuleOfLaw #DOJ #ImmigrationLaw #AndrewWeissmann #RyanGoodman
#Declassified #RuleOfLaw #DOJ #ImmigrationLaw #AndrewWeissmann #RyanGoodman
BREAKING: Declassified Memo Undermines Trump Immigration Claims About Venezuela & TDA |@RGoodLaw
YouTube video by Andrew Weissmann
youtu.be
May 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Just posted a new video with @rgoodlaw.bsky.social breaking down the declassified memo that contradicts DOJ claims about Venezuela and TDA. The implications are serious. Watch here: youtu.be/HZKCrEHTOyA
#Declassified #RuleOfLaw #DOJ #ImmigrationLaw #AndrewWeissmann #RyanGoodman
#Declassified #RuleOfLaw #DOJ #ImmigrationLaw #AndrewWeissmann #RyanGoodman
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If you took the time to use image descriptions, think about how much more accessible your posts would be. This is a great excerpt and I’m totally in agreement with the message, but so many big accounts forget to make their image posts accessible. Please - be one of the good ones!
May 3, 2025 at 3:30 AM
If you took the time to use image descriptions, think about how much more accessible your posts would be. This is a great excerpt and I’m totally in agreement with the message, but so many big accounts forget to make their image posts accessible. Please - be one of the good ones!
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More cuts - until there is nothing left to cut.
Not hard to envision no jobs, no safety net, disease, and massive suffering for the most of us. AND extraordinary, obscene wealth for the few. That's the world they (Trumpers) want to live in? Apparently so.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...
Not hard to envision no jobs, no safety net, disease, and massive suffering for the most of us. AND extraordinary, obscene wealth for the few. That's the world they (Trumpers) want to live in? Apparently so.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...
Trump Budget to Take Ax to ‘Radical’ Safety Net Programs
A draft document outlines steep cuts or the elimination of funding for programs that provide child care, housing assistance, foreign aid and health research.
www.nytimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
More cuts - until there is nothing left to cut.
Not hard to envision no jobs, no safety net, disease, and massive suffering for the most of us. AND extraordinary, obscene wealth for the few. That's the world they (Trumpers) want to live in? Apparently so.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...
Not hard to envision no jobs, no safety net, disease, and massive suffering for the most of us. AND extraordinary, obscene wealth for the few. That's the world they (Trumpers) want to live in? Apparently so.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...
🤯 1. Trump says bringing Garcia back and retrying him wouldn't bother him. Wouldn't bother him??? Retrying???
🤯 2. Bukele returning Garcia. Trump: "I haven't ask him positively, but he said he wouldn't." It's a person's life for f sake.
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
🤯 2. Bukele returning Garcia. Trump: "I haven't ask him positively, but he said he wouldn't." It's a person's life for f sake.
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Trump says he’s ‘not defying the Supreme Court’ amid standoff over wrongly deported man
Trump’s pledge to respect the judiciary conflicts with mounting concerns over his administration's compliance with court orders.
www.politico.com
April 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
🤯 1. Trump says bringing Garcia back and retrying him wouldn't bother him. Wouldn't bother him??? Retrying???
🤯 2. Bukele returning Garcia. Trump: "I haven't ask him positively, but he said he wouldn't." It's a person's life for f sake.
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
🤯 2. Bukele returning Garcia. Trump: "I haven't ask him positively, but he said he wouldn't." It's a person's life for f sake.
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Yes! Push back matters! www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Trump administration reverses abrupt terminations of foreign students’ US visa registrations
DOJ announced the reversal in federal court after weeks of intense scrutiny by courts and dozens of restraining orders issued by judges.
www.politico.com
April 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Yes! Push back matters! www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Trump, the pledged "fertilization president", and team now taking ideas for how to encourage higher birth rates (I mean, if you're white and christian). How about this for starters: Stop killing our government, our democracy, and our social safety net.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...
Trump Aides Solicit Ideas to Raise Birthrate, From Baby Bonuses to Fertility Planning
Baby bonuses and menstrual cycle classes are among the ideas pitched to Trump aides as they consider plans to try boosting the birthrate.
www.nytimes.com
April 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Trump, the pledged "fertilization president", and team now taking ideas for how to encourage higher birth rates (I mean, if you're white and christian). How about this for starters: Stop killing our government, our democracy, and our social safety net.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...
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So all 9 members of the Supreme Court, then?
JUST IN: Deputy Assistant to the President and "Counterterrorism Czar" Sebastian Gorka says anyone advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be viewed as "aiding and abetting a terrorist" and be federally charged. (h/t Philip Germain)
April 17, 2025 at 4:13 AM
So all 9 members of the Supreme Court, then?
Now stephen miller 🤮 says Garcia wasn’t mistakenly deported to El Salvador, even though they admitted in court that he was. How can there be so much lying? And so much disregard for a person’s life?
April 14, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Now stephen miller 🤮 says Garcia wasn’t mistakenly deported to El Salvador, even though they admitted in court that he was. How can there be so much lying? And so much disregard for a person’s life?
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The best part?
It won’t cost $95 million.
It won’t cost $95 million.
April 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The best part?
It won’t cost $95 million.
It won’t cost $95 million.
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"Someone says oh my God, we have wrongfully deported somebody and they are in prison in a foreign country, what should we do about it? And the adult in the room is not saying 'get that person back here immediately.'"
@weissmann11.bsky.social talks cruelty and lawlessness with @timmiller.bsky.social
@weissmann11.bsky.social talks cruelty and lawlessness with @timmiller.bsky.social
April 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
"Someone says oh my God, we have wrongfully deported somebody and they are in prison in a foreign country, what should we do about it? And the adult in the room is not saying 'get that person back here immediately.'"
@weissmann11.bsky.social talks cruelty and lawlessness with @timmiller.bsky.social
@weissmann11.bsky.social talks cruelty and lawlessness with @timmiller.bsky.social
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"It's not left or right. It is right or wrong. America, this is a moral moment." -Senator Cory Booker
And indeed it is.
And indeed it is.
April 3, 2025 at 5:00 AM
"It's not left or right. It is right or wrong. America, this is a moral moment." -Senator Cory Booker
And indeed it is.
And indeed it is.
More crazy, destructive crap that is spreading. Today NPR played clips of Musk spouting off that empathy is a weakness that threatens civilization, followed by a discussion. Never mentioned that Musk is on the autism spectrum and people on the spectrum struggle with feeling empathy. I mean come on!
March 31, 2025 at 6:35 PM
More crazy, destructive crap that is spreading. Today NPR played clips of Musk spouting off that empathy is a weakness that threatens civilization, followed by a discussion. Never mentioned that Musk is on the autism spectrum and people on the spectrum struggle with feeling empathy. I mean come on!
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Being okay with the one on the left is a stone’s throw from being okay with the one on the right.
March 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Being okay with the one on the left is a stone’s throw from being okay with the one on the right.
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…and it affected their votes
That’s why it is imperative to maintain your integrity and credibility. It vital when speaking truth to power.
That’s why it is imperative to maintain your integrity and credibility. It vital when speaking truth to power.
That time Mr. Rogers went to the Senate to defend funding for public broadcasting
March 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
…and it affected their votes
That’s why it is imperative to maintain your integrity and credibility. It vital when speaking truth to power.
That’s why it is imperative to maintain your integrity and credibility. It vital when speaking truth to power.
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Conference Board measure of consumer confidence plummeted to weakest level in four years.
The bigger concern is an almost-10 point drop in consumer expectations, which leaves it at a 12-year low. That's now well below threshold that usually signals a recession ahead.
The bigger concern is an almost-10 point drop in consumer expectations, which leaves it at a 12-year low. That's now well below threshold that usually signals a recession ahead.
US Consumer Confidence
A monthly survey of US consumer attitudes, spending plans, and expectations for inflation, stock prices, and interest rates
www.conference-board.org
March 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Conference Board measure of consumer confidence plummeted to weakest level in four years.
The bigger concern is an almost-10 point drop in consumer expectations, which leaves it at a 12-year low. That's now well below threshold that usually signals a recession ahead.
The bigger concern is an almost-10 point drop in consumer expectations, which leaves it at a 12-year low. That's now well below threshold that usually signals a recession ahead.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Why are they struggling to find fraud? Because it's not there! Musk’s claims / lies, however, continue. The power of lies 🤯
Why are they struggling to find fraud? Because it's not there! Musk’s claims / lies, however, continue. The power of lies 🤯
Why DOGE is struggling to find fraud in Social Security
Claims of massive fraud by Elon Musk and President Trump are at odds with reams of audits and reports on the agency’s spending.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Why are they struggling to find fraud? Because it's not there! Musk’s claims / lies, however, continue. The power of lies 🤯
Why are they struggling to find fraud? Because it's not there! Musk’s claims / lies, however, continue. The power of lies 🤯