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Writer and media relations consultant for several organizations, but all ravings here are strictly mine. Known troublemaker, transplanted from California to Hilo […] [bridged from https://mas.to/@BruceMirken on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Minnesota Senator Tina Smith bringing the thunder 🔥

submitted 10 hours ago • 237 comments

It’s not hyperbole to say that American science is being destroyed before our eyes. https://wapo.st/4hOuZed

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

WSJ: “DOGE touts $55 billion in cuts - WSJ counts $2 billion if spending levels remain constant, and only 2% were DEI-related… majority of cuts were research, including Alzheimer’s & traumatic brain injury and education…” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 9 hours ago • 26 comments

#TeslaTakedown is now expanding to other countries! We have many upcoming #TeslaTakedown protest events, including the UK's flagship Tesla store in London! Join an event or create your own at TeslaTakedown.com!

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Every single federal worker should respond to #ElonMusk's "justify your existence" letter with an identical response telling him to stick it in his #WankPanzer.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

It should be obvious now that what #Trump and #Musk are doing has nothing to do with "efficiency" or reform or any other potentially laudable goal. It's destruction. It's sabotage. It's an attempt to dismantle the U.S. system of government before anyone can stop them. Act accordingly.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

#TeslaTakedown SF winding down for today, but with announcement, "We'll be back every Saturday, noon to 2."

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

You know how #Trump always claims to be such a great defender of #Christians? Well, when they flee persecution and death in #Iran, he sends them away. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/20/iranian-christians-asylum-seekers-deported-panama/79217451007/

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

"U.S. District Judge Adam B. Abelson in the District of Maryland on Friday said Trump's orders promote 'textbook viewpoint-based discrimination.'" https://www.commondreams.org/news/dei-ruling #DEI #Trump

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Keep ‘em coming Via Bloomberg: The #EU is exploring more aggressive ways to seize part of #Russia's frozen central bank assets— $280 billion —amid signs the US will pare back assistance.

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

My father served in World War II, but was disappointed that the Army sent him to the Pacific. "I wanted to go to Europe and kill Nazis," he told me. For some reason I've been thinking about that a lot lately.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

"Being a therapist who provides #GenderAffirmingCare in 2025 is frightening. I have made friends with the security guards at the hospital entrance. I check my phone regularly to make sure I still have the quick dial to the nearest police station, a number I saved in 2022. I always go to the […]

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

"It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. All I’m saying is when the five-alarm fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of […]

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This isn't economy or efficiency. It's wasted effort and money in service of pettiness and stupidity. https://insideevs.com/news/751500/trump-gsa-ev-chargers/ #TrumpAdministration #ElectricVehicles

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#BankruptMeta Meta approves bonuses of up to 200% of company executives’ salaries a week after laying off 3,600 employees https://fortune.com/2025/02/21/meta-approves-bonuses-200-company-executives-salaries-laying-off-3600/

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#Trump said today, "I have the highest poll numbers of any Republican president ever." If you believe that, I have a Trump #MemeCoin to sell you. 😂

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Okay, maybe someone out there who understands the mysteries of marketing can explain this to me: Today in the toilet paper aisle of my local store I noticed a product, with packaging that seemed to be trying very hard to look macho, called "Dude Wipes." WTF? I mean, seriously, WTF????

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“They are absolutely gambling with the public’s health,” @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social, an epidemiologist at the University of Arizona and founder of the grassroots group @defendpublichealth.bsky.social, told Truthout. “We’re at the roulette table and hoping that nothing blows up before we can […]

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Marcy Wheeler @emptywheel is explaining how Russ #Vought at #OMB went to Elon for the cuts but they are a disaster because "Musk knows f*** all about what he is looking at." Listen live 5pm ET/2PT youtu.be/ujbBoolsiWo, nicolesandler.com, emptywheel.net […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-sink-as-consumers-start-to-sour-on-us-economy-143049685.html #FAFO update, #WallStreet edition.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This just went down: 1. US has spent 114.2 billion on aid to Ukraine — far less than European countries. 2. Trump pulls the imaginary number 500 billion out of a hat, and demands Ukraine pay this sum back to the US by letting the US take control of mines in Ukraine. 3. Zelenskyy says no […]

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

My former hometown of #SanFrancisco has a few thoughts about #ElonMusk https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/federal-workers-protest-elon-musk-doge-20178455.php

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Gee, what could be done about this, anti-vaxxers? Think. Think real hard. "Tip of the iceberg... #Texas #measles outbreak nears 100 cases, raising concerns about undetected spread" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-measles-outbreak-cases-undetected-spread/

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The #StockMarket is imploding today. The #TrumpRecession is coming.

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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/inflation-fears-surge-in-february-as-consumer-sentiment-plunges-over-tariff-uncertainty-164702389.html News from the Dept. of #FAFO: "What we're seeing is a very broad-based conclusion or opinion among consumers that #inflation is going to pick up in the year […]

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Ain't it funny how the "great business minds" now trashing our government keep putting out completely fake statistics? It's almost like they're hiding something. 🤔 […]

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I see the #StockMarket is down again today. Maybe #WallSteet finally is figuring out that #Trump is about to crash the economy.

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“chaotic and disturbing.” #EPA suddenly fires scientists and others, then just as suddenly rehires a few of them. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20022025/trump-reinstates-some-fired-chicago-epa-workers/

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This is an excellent, fact-filled article with video segments to answer questions about Trump & Putin’s “illegitimate president” propaganda war against Zelensky.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Dallas Morning News BOGUs (look it up) for the Trump regime: https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/public-editor/2025/02/19/why-the-news-dropped-doonesbury-from-sunday/ Pathetic cowards.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

“MAGA is profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti-democracy, and, most importantly, MAGA is explicitly a Nazi movement. You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that is what it is.” — Former NFL player Chris Kluwe, protesting a MAGA plaque at public library in Huntington Beach […]

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

So apnews.com is banned from the WH for refusing to use Newspeak and the rest of the WH press corps is cowardly, of course. How about we all create accounts on apnews.com (no $$ required) and use their links instead of less brave publications, to share information? Give AP the traffic. They've […]

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Being a fucking idiot has consequences. Unfortunately, they’re for everybody.

submitted 2 days ago • 189 comments

Don’t EVER tell me public pressure doesn’t work. Yet another reversal. “Following a loud public outcry about job cuts at the National Parks Service — and a relentless media campaign from outdoors enthusiasts across the country — it looks like the #Trump administration has blinked. A plan to […]

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The real victims of #RFKJr will be those with weakened or damaged immune systems, as my @defendpublichealth.bsky.social colleague Elizabeth Jacobs explained to 19th News: “Refusing #vaccines is withdrawing from the community health bank without depositing anything back into it,” Jacobs said. “A […]

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Sooner or later, the US will face another #PublicHealth crisis. Thanks to #Trump, #Musk and #DOGE, we'll be completely screwed. https://newrepublic.com/article/191721/trump-firing-spree-public-health?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tnr_daily

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