This means nothing. Useless. Empty words, zero action. Boycott his events. Refuse to cover his photo ops and propaganda signings. He’s addicted to coverage and hates being ignored. Until you band together and do something, these statements are utterly pointless & pathetic.
Look, I realize this is petty but now that I #boycottTarget I actually really enjoy seeing their commercials and laughing at them wasting their ad dollars on me.
“Ironically, we're standing in front of doors that said ‘Public Access,’ and we were denied,”
@repgwenmoore.bsky.social on members of Congress blocked from entering the Department of Education. #Velshi
A group of 19 mostly Democrat-led states sued President Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent for granting Elon Musk unprecedented access to personal data on millions of Americans.
Thank you, and I totally agree with your instincts. 🐀
A light yellow, long-haired cat is lying on his back in a square cat bed. He is in a vague C shape and his back and front paws are sticking up in the air in the picture of ultimate relaxation. Sunlight illuminates his fluffy tummy and front paws.
Well, just for a little balance of delight, here's an absolutely ridiculous picture of my cat.
Guys I keep reading the news and I shriek "WHAT?!!" and then I scroll to the next news item and the same thing happens and IDK how many WHATs I have in me but I guess I'm about to find out.
Most recent WHATs: DEI "targets," firing the entire CIA?, "owning" Gaza, leaving the UNHRC. Etc., etc., etc.
Hey it turns out we're getting rid of the CIA.
"The Central Intelligence Agency offered buyouts to its entire workforce Tuesday, in what officials said is a bid to bring the agency in line with President Trump’s priorities, including targeting drug cartels."
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Uhh wtf
President just withdrew my country from the UN Human Rights Council. TBH I'll take the rat. (Although I genuinely empathize with the horror you just witnessed.)
Listening to Edwidge Danticat's newest, "We're Alone". Always, always so thankful for Edwidge's work. (And for audiobooks, without which I would read approximately 1.3 books per year.) 💜
Withdrawing from the UNHRC is absolutely fucking terrifying. Taking "ownership" of Gaza is completely fucking horrifying.
And here I am making dinner and texting my kid to work on her homework. The dissonance is real.
Gonna download 5 Calls now. Anybody got a petition? JFC.
JUST IN: Judge Lamberth has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing provisions of Trump executive order that would require moving transgender inmates from women's to men's prisons.
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Getting hit with the surreality of living daily life while the state crumbles. Like I'm just over here taking my little vitamins, going to my little job, calling my little senators... Meanwhile Trump is terrorizing immigrants & Musk is dicking around with my SSN. Or whatever today's fuckery holds.
NEWS: Big crowd starting to gather outside @schumer.senate.gov office in Peekskill at this hour. Dems demanding total opposition: "Lie across the tracks." Very interesting development.
Please share this. As a survivor, I can't articulate the years of shame, self doubt and suffering these practices cause. Conversion therapy is abuse, emotionally, physically, spiritually.
So the FBI could surveil & then assassinate a 21 year old Civil Rights leader in 1969, but is powerless to take any steps to stop--checks notes--a 19 year old who goes by the name Big Balls from defunding and defrauding a $6 Trillion economy? Do I have that right?
The fuckery continues.
I can't believe I took these threats seriously enough to make a graph. But seriously, what a (sad) way to run a country.
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Everyone needs to be walking into your Congressional rep’s offices to demand answers.
Yes. Yes, I do. Thank you very kindly.
We are living, right now, at the most dangerous moment in American history. I say this without any intended hyperbole whatsoever. Also without hyperbole, let me ask you, in light of Trump's firing of dozens of prosecutors at DOJ last night, and his ongoing purge of FBI agents that may rise 1/14
Explain this to everyone — your uncle, sister, neighbor. Security chiefs were fired because they wouldn’t allow a civilian with no security clearance to have access to systems that control billions of dollars. Musk is committing espionage at least and treason at most and should be held to account.
Sigh. Timeless indeed. Send in the clowns.
SERIOUSLY. PLEASE. (This originally referenced the USAID debacle but actually applies to LITERALLY EVERYTHING that has happened since Jan. 20.)
i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
Elon Musk pushed out the FAA chief — who resigned 1 year into a 5 year term, last week.
Why? Because last year the FAA fined SpaceX $600,000 — for safety violations.
Now the FAA has no chief — and we just had the first commercial airline crash in 16 years.
💔 Rest in power.
➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
