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ritamelindared.bsky.social
non-fascist genx (i was adhd when adhd wasn't cool), geek-chic science freak, 45wpm but touchtyping imposs 4 me😩, deep south escapee, pro-democracy, pro-lgbtq, pro-teacher, pro-all the beautiful shades of skin, pro-ukraine, pro-freedom 4 all she/her
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These two psychos have access to all your personal data, by the way.

Personally if *I* had spent $240 million American Dollars to get a pedophile elected I would not mention it on the World Wide Web.

I have it on good authority Musk was calling some Republican members of Congress today to push impeachment.

AOC: The girls are fighting aren’t they

David Jolly, Joe Walsh becoming dems

AOC: ā€œThe girls are fighting, aren’t they?ā€

Let’s Not Lose Focus….

Musk sees Trump’s authoritarianism as a threat to capitalism and innovation. Trump sees Musk as disloyal. It shows how quickly loyalty within the MAGA orbit dissolves when power is challenged. Also shows how fragile these alliances are when they’re built on self-interest, not shared principles #3E

Republicans got 72 hours out of Obama saluting with a coffee cup. Nobody on their team called it a distraction, they called it winning.

Do we think he can be talked into nationalizing SpaceX and Starlink

We got another update on Jonathan Joss’ murder in San Antonio. The SAPD are walkkng back on their statatement that his murder was not a hate crime. I’m glad the attention to this case is forcing the police department to investigate this as what it was. A hate crime. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Thou shalt release the Epstein files. If Elon is telling the truth, it is likely Trump had Epstein killed.

NEW: Harvard amends its lawsuit against the govt to challenge the new Trump proclamation purporting to block Harvard's international students from entering the United States. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Remember: If unions didn’t matter, powerful corporations wouldn’t spend millions of dollars every year to stop workers from organizing. Keep up the fight.

The argument that Musk might face *personal* liability for some of the shit he did in government should get renewed interest right about now.

NASA has gotten to space without SpaceX and can and SHOULD do it again. Let's not overstate the range of possibilities.

If you are curious about what’s really going on

Trump is being accused of Epstein ties by his own megadonor. He’s a criminal. A fraud. A moral black hole. And somehow, JD Vance, Pam Bondi, Stephen Miller, and the rest still think riding his coattails leads to glory. Spoiler: it doesn’t. It leads straight into a dumpster fire.

Democrats need to fucking run straight to the end zone with that Musk tweet about Epstein

I love that we now have both the most beastmode resistlibs and Musk's little Eichmanns agreeing the assassination was faked.

@Reuters: A controversial US-backed Gaza aid body named as its executive chairman an American evangelical Christian leader who has publicly backed President Trump's proposal for the US to take over the Palestinian enclave https://t.co/BoPM6lnscG

Don't let these men and their pissing match distract from the fact Republicans are still trying to rip away healthcare and food from actual children.

Good news, I now have a "Measles Toolbox" I can refer to at work. I haven't needed a refresher on Measles in the past, because I never saw it. Absolute fuckery.

This is actually the 7th person confirmed infected from one measles flier. Measles is one of the most contagious diseases that exists, and a lot of people in North America have it right now. People can be contagious days before developing any symptoms, and it can be spread simply through breathing.

No, This ls Not Exaggeration! We Went All Over The Place..

On one hand good for air safety given this year. On the other hand, come on www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Democrats should be doing two things right now: 1) Demanding the release of all the Epstein files, and calling for hearings 2) Calling for canceling all SpaceX contracts

Least surprising breakup since Stephen Miller and his suit made of human skin

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Parents and teachers in southern California are urgently asking for help to find a fourth grader who is being ā€œheld captiveā€ by immigration authorities in Texas.

See how quickly that escalated… We put fragile, emotionally underdeveloped narcissists in power …and then we wonder how wars start.

Trump's inability to imagine that the democratically-elected chancellor of Germany would identify with the allies rather than the Nazis is an incredibly telling glimpse into MAGA psychology.

Night of the long knives but literally there’s no plan and everyone is just stabbing each other wildly and the stabbing is quote-poasting

Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now

i'm not proud of this thought but it does occur to me it'd be very rewarding to see DOGE employees posted around the district in stockades because of all this

wrote about what we all knew was coming

BREAKING: Tesla stock still plummeting after market close. 16.63% is lost, but the real number is likely 25%+.

I'd put this a bit more sharply than @steveinskeep.bsky.social probably can: Trump simply does not understand any boundary between himself and the government. He has no sense of the public interest and believes the government is an extension of himself personally. open.substack.com/pub/steveins...

Sorry to step away from the catfight, but we’ve got a win! A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to dismantle AmeriCorps halting the termination of grants and its volunteer network!

The rules that Trump’s EPA wants to eliminate are projected to save more than 30,000 lives and $275 billion every year. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin says the rollback will "put a dagger through the heart of climate-change religion" and spark a "Golden Age" for the American economy.

The Polish foreign minister, a writer and journalist who covered the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, clearly knows a thing or two about a patiently-timed response.

this is about the time you'd retreat from the forum to the irc channels where you and your specific friend group would wait out the mod drama. we did not plan an additional remove from this because we didn't think it would ever be of national importance

In the face of attacks on research, education, and humanity, we're stronger together than we are on our own. So, I'm deeply grateful to get to be part of the ASA leadership team, to serve alongside Dr. Young, and to help members build solidarity and champion the essential work of sociology.

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Might be a lesson here somewhere about outsourcing capacity for key government services to a guy who lives in a lair under a volcano

Trump can threaten SpaceX and Musk. But US government needs SpaceX almost more than SpaceX needs US government. DOD is addicted to SpaceX, as is NASA. Starlink is surging in profits anyway faster than SpaceX launch. Yes, Musk gets massive fed contracts. But DOD needs to get to space. So does NASA

A federal judge issues a preliminary injunction preventing the US government from arresting, detaining or relocating a green card holder who was born in Sputh Korea and has been part of a campus protest movement at Columbia University. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.639187