zara 🐿️
@zaramc.bsky.social
she/her
📍chicago & nyc
public policy masters student & reality tv enthusiast
📍chicago & nyc
public policy masters student & reality tv enthusiast
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President Trump is attempting to get away with the biggest, most illegal budgetary ploy in U.S. history. CAP's @bbkogan.bsky.social explains in @MSNBC.com:
Why a judge shut down Trump's latest budget stunt
A president can’t sign something into law and then immediately ignore parts of it. But that’s exactly what Trump is doing.
www.msnbc.com
September 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
President Trump is attempting to get away with the biggest, most illegal budgetary ploy in U.S. history. CAP's @bbkogan.bsky.social explains in @MSNBC.com:
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Stop silencing survivors in order to make perpetrators more comfortable.
September 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Stop silencing survivors in order to make perpetrators more comfortable.
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congrats to pizzagate for making the main epstein guy president
September 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
congrats to pizzagate for making the main epstein guy president
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I can't believe I need to have an AI policy! I made it pretty short though: Using AI is cheating, yourself mostly. In addition to the environmental blight created by AI, it makes no sense to use it in your intellectual and creative work. Why would you outsource your innate intelligence?
September 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I can't believe I need to have an AI policy! I made it pretty short though: Using AI is cheating, yourself mostly. In addition to the environmental blight created by AI, it makes no sense to use it in your intellectual and creative work. Why would you outsource your innate intelligence?
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As the Trump administration ramps up its anti-immigrant campaign, activists like Ron Gochez of @UniondelBarrio are showing how to resist.
Watch now: interc.pt/42gQA9f
Watch now: interc.pt/42gQA9f
September 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
As the Trump administration ramps up its anti-immigrant campaign, activists like Ron Gochez of @UniondelBarrio are showing how to resist.
Watch now: interc.pt/42gQA9f
Watch now: interc.pt/42gQA9f
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no surprised that brett ”almost certainly flunked his remedial classes” kavanaugh thinks the constitution authorizes a race-based federal “papers please” regime. quick, someone ask him what he thinks of the fugitive slave act.
This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:
September 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
no surprised that brett ”almost certainly flunked his remedial classes” kavanaugh thinks the constitution authorizes a race-based federal “papers please” regime. quick, someone ask him what he thinks of the fugitive slave act.
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Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
August 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
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Dem electeds want influencers in media to say stuff like "I sure do approve of the job our wonderful Dem electeds are doing" when the thing Dems need influencers to actually say is like "the shitty economy is really shit right now huh"
August 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Dem electeds want influencers in media to say stuff like "I sure do approve of the job our wonderful Dem electeds are doing" when the thing Dems need influencers to actually say is like "the shitty economy is really shit right now huh"
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come and take it (my lexapro)
RFK Jr on the mass shooting in Minnesota: "We're launching studies on the potential contribution of some of the SSRI drugs and some of the other psychiatric drugs that might be contributing to violence."
August 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
come and take it (my lexapro)
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ah yes, vital that we have housing for cars and not people
Here’s the clip of CM Padilla bragging about reducing the size of a 100% affordable housing project in her district and increasing the amount of parking while arguing against the transit oriented upzoning bill SB 79.
(ED 1 is an affordable housing program in LA.)
(ED 1 is an affordable housing program in LA.)
August 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
ah yes, vital that we have housing for cars and not people
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My grandfather is 101. He was a doctor and researcher for generations. In his life he’s seen near-miracles of medical science come to fruition. To this day he reads Nature and Science and keeps up with the latest discoveries.
He tells me he is deeply worried about public health.
He tells me he is deeply worried about public health.
It won’t fit in screen shots but linking here the full letter of resignation posted by one of the departing CDC officials, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who ran the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and led efforts to fight COVID, monkeypox, and bird flu
x.com/dr_demetre/s...
x.com/dr_demetre/s...
August 28, 2025 at 12:10 AM
My grandfather is 101. He was a doctor and researcher for generations. In his life he’s seen near-miracles of medical science come to fruition. To this day he reads Nature and Science and keeps up with the latest discoveries.
He tells me he is deeply worried about public health.
He tells me he is deeply worried about public health.
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Trump now at 37% approve/55% disapprove. On July 16, was at 40%/54%.
Voters are gradually moving away from Trump. But elites continue to accommodate and acquiesce to him. So his authoritarian project marches ahead.
poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
Voters are gradually moving away from Trump. But elites continue to accommodate and acquiesce to him. So his authoritarian project marches ahead.
poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
Majority Of Voters Oppose Deploying National Guard To D.C.,
Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds;
Support Drops For U.S. Military Aid To Israel As 50% Think Israel Is
Committing Genocide In G...
"Posting the National Guard in D.C. to fight local crime gets faint support, with independent voters giving the deployment a big thumbs down," said Quinnipiac University Polling Analyst Tim Malloy.
poll.qu.edu
August 27, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Trump now at 37% approve/55% disapprove. On July 16, was at 40%/54%.
Voters are gradually moving away from Trump. But elites continue to accommodate and acquiesce to him. So his authoritarian project marches ahead.
poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
Voters are gradually moving away from Trump. But elites continue to accommodate and acquiesce to him. So his authoritarian project marches ahead.
poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
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NEW QUINNIPIAC POLL:
Trump approval rating: 37%
Trump's handling of:
Crime: - 12
Russia/Ukraine: -12
Foreign Policy: -16
Economy: -18
Trade: -18
Israel/Hamas/Gaza: -19
Sending weapons to Israel: -28
National Guard to DC: -15
Epstein files: -48
Smithsonian: -27
poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
Trump approval rating: 37%
Trump's handling of:
Crime: - 12
Russia/Ukraine: -12
Foreign Policy: -16
Economy: -18
Trade: -18
Israel/Hamas/Gaza: -19
Sending weapons to Israel: -28
National Guard to DC: -15
Epstein files: -48
Smithsonian: -27
poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
Majority Of Voters Oppose Deploying National Guard To D.C.,
Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds;
Support Drops For U.S. Military Aid To Israel As 50% Think Israel Is
Committing Genocide In G...
"Posting the National Guard in D.C. to fight local crime gets faint support, with independent voters giving the deployment a big thumbs down," said Quinnipiac University Polling Analyst Tim Malloy.
poll.qu.edu
August 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
NEW QUINNIPIAC POLL:
Trump approval rating: 37%
Trump's handling of:
Crime: - 12
Russia/Ukraine: -12
Foreign Policy: -16
Economy: -18
Trade: -18
Israel/Hamas/Gaza: -19
Sending weapons to Israel: -28
National Guard to DC: -15
Epstein files: -48
Smithsonian: -27
poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
Trump approval rating: 37%
Trump's handling of:
Crime: - 12
Russia/Ukraine: -12
Foreign Policy: -16
Economy: -18
Trade: -18
Israel/Hamas/Gaza: -19
Sending weapons to Israel: -28
National Guard to DC: -15
Epstein files: -48
Smithsonian: -27
poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
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Online age verification is not like "showing ID to buy alcohol" because
a) the liquor store doesn't get to scan your ID and store a digital copy of it forever in a database that will inevitably get hacked
b) you don't have to show ID to go to the library because they have cocktail recipe books
a) the liquor store doesn't get to scan your ID and store a digital copy of it forever in a database that will inevitably get hacked
b) you don't have to show ID to go to the library because they have cocktail recipe books
August 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Online age verification is not like "showing ID to buy alcohol" because
a) the liquor store doesn't get to scan your ID and store a digital copy of it forever in a database that will inevitably get hacked
b) you don't have to show ID to go to the library because they have cocktail recipe books
a) the liquor store doesn't get to scan your ID and store a digital copy of it forever in a database that will inevitably get hacked
b) you don't have to show ID to go to the library because they have cocktail recipe books
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we see very clearly in public polling that people in california and D.C. hate the deployments and that americans broadly disapprove of them, but here we have an assertion that the smart strategy is to avoid any discussion of the situation in favor of a pivot to, you guessed it, kitchen table issues.
If you’re mad about Dems avoiding talking about DC, you can blame the Democratic quants, as demonstrated in this memo from David Shor’s Blue Rose Research
August 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
we see very clearly in public polling that people in california and D.C. hate the deployments and that americans broadly disapprove of them, but here we have an assertion that the smart strategy is to avoid any discussion of the situation in favor of a pivot to, you guessed it, kitchen table issues.
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they desperately want footage of soldiers shooting americans
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered National Guard troops patrolling the streets of Washington, D.C., to be armed
National Guard Members On DC Streets Will Be Armed, Military Says
The Pentagon and the Army said last week that troops would not carry guns.
www.huffpost.com
August 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
they desperately want footage of soldiers shooting americans
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Tesla paid $0 in taxes in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2024 despite reporting $6.7B in profit.
SpaceX has likely paid little to no federal income taxes since 2002.
Elon Musk’s net worth is $364B.
Our tax laws are written to benefit billionaires.
www.muskwatch.com/p/how-spacex...
SpaceX has likely paid little to no federal income taxes since 2002.
Elon Musk’s net worth is $364B.
Our tax laws are written to benefit billionaires.
www.muskwatch.com/p/how-spacex...
How SpaceX avoids paying taxes
Despite receiving billions of dollars in federal contracts and subsidies, SpaceX, Elon Musk's rocket and satellite company, has reportedly taken advantage of a benefit from President Trump's first ter...
www.muskwatch.com
August 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Tesla paid $0 in taxes in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2024 despite reporting $6.7B in profit.
SpaceX has likely paid little to no federal income taxes since 2002.
Elon Musk’s net worth is $364B.
Our tax laws are written to benefit billionaires.
www.muskwatch.com/p/how-spacex...
SpaceX has likely paid little to no federal income taxes since 2002.
Elon Musk’s net worth is $364B.
Our tax laws are written to benefit billionaires.
www.muskwatch.com/p/how-spacex...
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one question to ask the editorial board is whether there is a minimum bar for what constitutes "american democracy." if most people in most states are gerrymandered out of effective political representation, is that democracy?
August 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
one question to ask the editorial board is whether there is a minimum bar for what constitutes "american democracy." if most people in most states are gerrymandered out of effective political representation, is that democracy?
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it is genuinely maddening to see pundits and reporters say things like “well trump has an advantage on crime” while the public consistently says “we think this guy sucks on crime”
Trump and Stephen Miller's military occupations are UNPOPULAR.
Pew: 56% don't trust Trump to manage law enforcement
Reuters: Only 42% approve his handling of crime
WaPo: 79% of DCers oppose invasion
On the pod, @monicapotts.bsky.social and I urge Dems to engage:
newrepublic.com/article/1993...
Pew: 56% don't trust Trump to manage law enforcement
Reuters: Only 42% approve his handling of crime
WaPo: 79% of DCers oppose invasion
On the pod, @monicapotts.bsky.social and I urge Dems to engage:
newrepublic.com/article/1993...
Stephen Miller Erupts in Manic Fascist Rant—and Reveals a Big Weakness
As Miller unleashes a wild tirade about Trump’s D.C. takeover, a sharp observer of his military occupations explains how he’s ominously consolidating power right before our eyes—and how Dems must figh...
newrepublic.com
August 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
it is genuinely maddening to see pundits and reporters say things like “well trump has an advantage on crime” while the public consistently says “we think this guy sucks on crime”