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makkie5.bsky.social
Originally from PA. In CA for over 30 years. Two wonderful grown daughters. Democrat and very disappointed and scared.
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NYT, Page One: “Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to ‘any city, any university I want,’ he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.” @nytimes.com

submitted 3 days ago • 412 comments

In Greek mythology, Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection in a pool of water.

submitted 5 days ago • 1855 comments

Scientists are already eyeing the exits; the hostility to international students could dry up a critical pipeline for a generation; and the balance of intellectual power could shift as other countries rush to fill the vacuum created by Trump’s nihilistic nativism. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

submitted 5 days ago • 47 comments

Immigration court arrests are likely going to continue this week, with dozens of people around the country each day who were doing exactly what the government asked being arrested and thrown in detention and stripped of their right to a hearing because ICE wants to juice the numbers.

submitted 11 days ago • 38 comments

Important lawsuit for people who care about free speech & the free press. NPR sues Trump admin over a basic constitutional principle: Congress, not POTUS controls the power of the purse & their fed’l funding www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/b...

submitted 11 days ago • 70 comments

Because you definitely won't hear anything this sincere today from Trump, here's a quote from Biden's 2024 Memorial Day speech 👇 Also, don’t forget to subscribe: www.dworkinsubstack.com/subscribe

submitted 12 days ago • 16 comments

Republican admits to taking $70 MILLION from Medicaid for anti-abortion centers. When asked which programs will lose funding, ‘I don’t have them in front of me’ is his response. Then they snicker when called shameful. This is how republicans treat their constituents in Texas.

submitted 18 days ago • 68 comments

"It's interesting. We are too strong for sports but too weak for the military." youtu.be/MVNoefJgPxk?...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

ELON MUSK ON HIS WAY OUT! Even by their own measure, DOGE is a disaster—and Elon Musk’s name is toxic. 🔘 Trump’s administration is spending more daily than Biden’s—so much for “government efficiency” 🔘 Trump made a fool of himself misreading Social Security data on live TV 1.

submitted 46 days ago • 101 comments

April 14, 2025

submitted 53 days ago • 50 comments

Federal spending is *up* under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings. Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 57 days ago • 133 comments

THIS is what we want from our Democratic leaders FIGHT MAGA has NOTHING on the Democrats Our ideas are better Our policies are better Our leaders are better And the country is ALWAYS demonstrably better after a Democrat is president @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social will prove it The Reformers

submitted 59 days ago • 41 comments

WE HAVE POWER This was a hell of a moment to witness. You could see the shift—the moment this constituent realized her voice had power. She spoke louder, stood taller, and owned that room. 🔥 Republican Rep Victoria Spartz’s SignalGate response did not land well with the crowd.

submitted 70 days ago • 417 comments

“Michael Waltz set disappearing message time to 4 weeks”

submitted 73 days ago • 40 comments

Oh wow, @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social did it

submitted 73 days ago • 553 comments

Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna stops in Norco, California, for a rally as the district’s Republican Congressman Ken Calvert hides from his own constituents.

submitted 75 days ago • 152 comments

Accurate.

submitted 75 days ago • 25 comments

Wait…this portrait was unveiled in 2019. Trump is just dialing up division politics as per usual, trying to blame “radical leftist” for a portrait hung 6 years ago. Old news. Don’t give him any attention 🥱

submitted 75 days ago • 34 comments

Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

submitted 77 days ago • 4447 comments

Important. Either Trump is so far gone mentally he doesn’t know what he’s doing, or people are acting in his name without his knowledge. This was an order with enormous implications, and the President of the United States says he didn’t do it.

submitted 77 days ago • 780 comments