Tatyanna Patten
@zippyhyena.bsky.social
Nonprofit manager and development consultant. Married, in Virginia. So Gen-X, I'm still vomiting pop rocks.
Big books, short naps, good cooks, all cats.
Bold hues, melodies, new moons, leafy trees.
Big books, short naps, good cooks, all cats.
Bold hues, melodies, new moons, leafy trees.
Putting this Trump Actions Tracker here, for reference.
www.trumpactiontracker.info?
www.trumpactiontracker.info?
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October 5, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Putting this Trump Actions Tracker here, for reference.
www.trumpactiontracker.info?
www.trumpactiontracker.info?
ICYMI, Jon Stewart's excellent Monday night monologue with a particularly great send-up and rant about Colbert's cancellation.
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Jon Stewart Reacts to Colbert's Cancellation & Trump's "Bawdy" Epstein Doodles | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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July 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
ICYMI, Jon Stewart's excellent Monday night monologue with a particularly great send-up and rant about Colbert's cancellation.
youtu.be/TwOLo_U6bTw?...
youtu.be/TwOLo_U6bTw?...
Nice of CBS to free Stephen Colbert up so he can run for office (I wish)...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/b...
CBS Canceling ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ After Next Season
www.nytimes.com
July 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Nice of CBS to free Stephen Colbert up so he can run for office (I wish)...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/b...
Life in the USA, 2025 Edition.
July 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Life in the USA, 2025 Edition.
I've been having several ongoing convos about the Trump/Project 2025 War on Higher Education and all the ways they could come for it. I didn't predict this one. Buried at the bottom of the NYT digital front page.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/n...
Columbia Cyberattack Appears Politically Motivated, University Says
www.nytimes.com
July 2, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I've been having several ongoing convos about the Trump/Project 2025 War on Higher Education and all the ways they could come for it. I didn't predict this one. Buried at the bottom of the NYT digital front page.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/n...
Brush up on your Constitution bona fides for free: Harvard is offering an online course on American Government: Constitutional Foundations. Learn more or sign up to audit it at pll.harvard.edu/course/ameri...
American Government: Constitutional Foundations | Harvard University
Learn how early American politics informed the U.S. Constitution and why its promise of liberty and equality has yet to be fully realized.
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July 1, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Brush up on your Constitution bona fides for free: Harvard is offering an online course on American Government: Constitutional Foundations. Learn more or sign up to audit it at pll.harvard.edu/course/ameri...
Totally riveting anti-RFKj rant, but marked NSFW (don't watch if you are sensitive to F-bombs).
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June 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Totally riveting anti-RFKj rant, but marked NSFW (don't watch if you are sensitive to F-bombs).
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Looking at Trump's cult of personality: www.facebook.com/share/r/16ZF...
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June 29, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Looking at Trump's cult of personality: www.facebook.com/share/r/16ZF...
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I’m really worried about this. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...
Opinion | Our Foreign Students Are Terrified, and They’re Right to Be (Gift Article)
The immigration crackdown has come to America’s campuses.
www.nytimes.com
April 20, 2025 at 11:41 AM
I’m really worried about this. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...
ICYMI, THE CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS IS HERE. If you were waiting for some kind of Bat Signal to take action, now is the time to suit up and fight.
www.courthousenews.com/the-constitu...
www.courthousenews.com/the-constitu...
‘We are in a moment of constitutional crisis’
The constitutional confrontation has been brought on by a Supreme Court majority unwilling to put the executive branch in its place, one legal expert said.
www.courthousenews.com
April 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
ICYMI, THE CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS IS HERE. If you were waiting for some kind of Bat Signal to take action, now is the time to suit up and fight.
www.courthousenews.com/the-constitu...
www.courthousenews.com/the-constitu...
WTAF? I understand the why of it (to make everyone sign up for X and boost a Musk company), but there is no way X will ever be the right platform for this kind of use.
www.wired.com/story/social...
www.wired.com/story/social...
The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X
The SSA’s shift to Elon Musk’s X comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent, WIRED has learned.
www.wired.com
April 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
WTAF? I understand the why of it (to make everyone sign up for X and boost a Musk company), but there is no way X will ever be the right platform for this kind of use.
www.wired.com/story/social...
www.wired.com/story/social...
Placing legal migrants' Social Security numbers in a "dead" file or database closes down any account associated with the number. Drivers licenses, mortgages, loans, checking/savings, CCs, insurances, the list of essentials that are attached to one's SSN goes on.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
Pressuring Migrants to ‘Self-Deport,’ White House Moves to Cancel Social Security Numbers
By placing migrants in Social Security’s “death master file,” the Trump administration is seeking to cut off their access to credit cards, bank accounts and other financial services.
www.nytimes.com
April 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Placing legal migrants' Social Security numbers in a "dead" file or database closes down any account associated with the number. Drivers licenses, mortgages, loans, checking/savings, CCs, insurances, the list of essentials that are attached to one's SSN goes on.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
Of course he did. And he'll reinstate them as soon as someone close to him wants another stock to buy up cheaply. This has nothing to do with benefiting the economy and everything to do with lining certain pockets while causing the most havoc.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
Trump Tariff Live Updates: Markets Soar After 90-Day Tariff Pause
The S&P 500 rose 9.5 percent after President Trump announced he would pause his “reciprocal” tariffs for 90 days, but economists warned that American importers were not out of danger.
www.nytimes.com
April 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Of course he did. And he'll reinstate them as soon as someone close to him wants another stock to buy up cheaply. This has nothing to do with benefiting the economy and everything to do with lining certain pockets while causing the most havoc.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
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Reposted by Tatyanna Patten
It’s so tiring to always think that whatever you are hearing, the opposite is true.
April 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
It’s so tiring to always think that whatever you are hearing, the opposite is true.
Being a Trump supporter has less to do with supporting Trump than you might think. Click for a psychological breakdown of how the evolution of human social behavior reinforces Trumpism (and offers a glimmer of hope on how to address it).
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April 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Being a Trump supporter has less to do with supporting Trump than you might think. Click for a psychological breakdown of how the evolution of human social behavior reinforces Trumpism (and offers a glimmer of hope on how to address it).
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Senator Cory Booker's live stream filibuster. This is what it means to have passion for civil service.
www.youtube.com/live/-tQnm19...
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WATCH LIVE: Sen. Cory Booker protests Trump’s agenda in marathon Senate speech
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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April 1, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Senator Cory Booker's live stream filibuster. This is what it means to have passion for civil service.
www.youtube.com/live/-tQnm19...
www.youtube.com/live/-tQnm19...
It's the same damn scheme since 2016, in your head, in your head, he's still lying...
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The Rock Orchestra - Zombie (The Cranberries) Feat. Erin Fox
YouTube video by The Rock Orchestra
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March 30, 2025 at 3:22 AM
It's the same damn scheme since 2016, in your head, in your head, he's still lying...
youtu.be/6VyMZ976u4s?...
youtu.be/6VyMZ976u4s?...
Ugh. Mammograms. I swear being female should come with a warning sign: "Ritual humiliation will not stop at menopause." If men had to have their sex organs squashed between two plates in 4 different configurations as part of their routine preventive care, this practice would never have taken hold.
March 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Ugh. Mammograms. I swear being female should come with a warning sign: "Ritual humiliation will not stop at menopause." If men had to have their sex organs squashed between two plates in 4 different configurations as part of their routine preventive care, this practice would never have taken hold.
Bring a birth certificate and, if you married and took your husband's name, marriage certificate. A current passport and social security card may not be sufficient. (sarcasm)
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Trump signs order seeking to overhaul US elections, including requiring proof of citizenship
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Trump signs order seeking to overhaul US elections, including requiring proof of citizenship
Trump signs order seeking to overhaul US elections, including requiring proof of citizenship
President Donald Trump has signed a sweeping executive action to overhaul elections in the United States.
apnews.com
March 26, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Bring a birth certificate and, if you married and took your husband's name, marriage certificate. A current passport and social security card may not be sufficient. (sarcasm)
apnews.com/article/voti...
Trump signs order seeking to overhaul US elections, including requiring proof of citizenship
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Trump signs order seeking to overhaul US elections, including requiring proof of citizenship
So many shoes, when can I stop waiting for them all to drop?
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump will order a plan to shut down the US Education Department
President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order calling for the shutdown of the Education Department.
apnews.com
March 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
So many shoes, when can I stop waiting for them all to drop?
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...