ahnorris.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Last night I stood up for those who need Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security. Democrats will never abandon the fight to make sure every American has a safe, healthy, and financially secure life. #ISaidWhatISaid

submitted 22 hours ago • 2424 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 1 day ago • 1437 comments

British PM Starmer hugged Zelenskyy. That’s how bad U.S. foreign policy has gotten—it’s driving the Brits to physical displays of emotion.

submitted 1 day ago • 360 comments

www.cpr.org/2025/03/03/h...

submitted 2 days ago • 483 comments

Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.

submitted 2 days ago • 101 comments

It is really hard to watch people willfully tear down an infrastructure that allowed us to double lifespans, drastically reduce poverty, and become one of the richest countries in the world.

submitted 7 days ago • 184 comments

It’s always gratifying (and harrowing) to read @sarahkendzior.bsky.social. But I especially enjoy it when amidst the stark truths about our crisis she turns out passages like this: open.substack.com/pub/sarahken...

submitted 7 days ago • 46 comments

Elon Musk and his 19-year-olds have now disrupted the approval of medical devices that save lives. Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.

submitted 9 days ago • 811 comments

“In a free country, leaders must not be able to choose their own press corps.” — WHCA president on PressSec’s bid for the White House to choose the press pool

submitted 9 days ago • 81 comments

Your regular reminder that the more often you own your mistakes, the easier it gets. It is like any muscle-- work it more and it gets stronger. All people mess up, and sometimes we do so publicly. It's not the end of the world to acknowledge that we missed the mark; it's how we clean up.

submitted 13 days ago • 40 comments

WOW "Seven western Wisconsin Republican lawmakers did not appear at an event hosted by the Wisconsin Farmers Union in Chippewa Falls Friday as farmers from the area said they were concerned about the effect that President Donald Trump’s first month in office is having on their livelihoods." ⤵️

submitted 13 days ago • 178 comments

I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me but You snooze You lose

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

submitted 16 days ago • 1224 comments

Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" has perhaps the most memorable opening line in all of Western literature: "I hope you motherfuckers like reading about whales"

submitted 18 days ago • 500 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

submitted 17 days ago • 2402 comments

When a judge stops the president from doing something illegal, that’s not a “threat to democracy,” that’s a check on the president’s power. That's the whole damn point.

submitted 17 days ago • 602 comments

Until we fought to the Supreme Court and won, the President shielded his tax returns from the people. Now, he’s given yours to the richest man in the world. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 17 days ago • 20 comments

1. OSHA has ordered the digital and physical destruction of 18 publications on workplace safety practices, according to an email obtained by Popular Information. The email says the publications have been removed from the web and tells staff that physical copies should be "disposed of or recycled"

submitted 17 days ago • 482 comments

no president has done more to make sure you get mangled and killed at work than donald trump

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.

submitted 19 days ago • 302 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 18 days ago • 384 comments

Legendary First Amendment lawyer James Goodale, who was involved in all four cases The New York Times took to the Supreme Court, didn't mince words when talking to @trevortimm.bsky.social about Trump's case against @cbsnews.com. "This suit is from mars."

submitted 19 days ago • 10 comments

my take is that your willingness to accept this gulf of america nonsense is an indicator of your willingness to accept much worse things coming from this administrator

submitted 19 days ago • 1163 comments

CISA – a federal agency that helps secure elections from foreign threats and disinformation – has placed its employees on administrative leave. The move puts the security and integrity of elections in the U.S. at risk.

submitted 19 days ago • 396 comments

In 3 days, the number of measles cases in a highly unvaccinated area of Texas has doubled. There are now 48 cases, all of whom are unvaccinated, and 13 of whom have been hospitalized so far, for a hospitalization rate of 27%. This is huge figure in epidemiology. This outbreak will keep spreading.

submitted 20 days ago • 557 comments

after the overturning of roe, black infant mortality has spiked nearly 11% in states with abortion bans: www.reuters.com/world/us/inf...

submitted 20 days ago • 1309 comments

looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.

submitted 21 days ago • 213 comments

Just heard from a Minnesota farmer who fronted her own money for some conservation work because USDA had a contractual agreement to reimburse her. Musk’s freeze means she’s out that money and USDA is refusing to reimburse.

submitted 22 days ago • 85 comments

All members of Congress swore allegiance to the Constitution. They didn't ask just Democrats to defend America against all enemies. The house is on fire, y'all. I'll do everything I can to extinguish that flame, but I am begging my Republican colleagues to remember their oath.

submitted 23 days ago • 98 comments

Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private email server or Elon Musk giving full access to all government information to a nineteen-year old named Big Balls with ties to a child pornography collective known for its extortion techniques, both sides have played loose with security.

submitted 23 days ago • 121 comments

Repost if you used an invite code to join this site

submitted 28 days ago • 106 comments

Discovering new things about myself like walking around the house and narrating my activities in the voice of the Heathrow Airport tram lady lowers my stress levels.

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

With the communication freeze for federal health agencies, two great resources for updates on bird flu are: cori.centerforhealthsecurity.org/resources/av...

submitted 26 days ago • 8 comments

is it woke to want to end cancer?

submitted 26 days ago • 790 comments

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

submitted 27 days ago • 6589 comments

For what it’s worth, when I spent years in Afghanistan and Iraq, the most powerful thing I ever saw was USAID digging wells & repairing schools. The most effective power we will ever have.

submitted 29 days ago • 73 comments

I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.

submitted 31 days ago • 523 comments

Anti-ICE protesters are blocking both sides of the 101 Freeway near the Alameda Street exit in DTLA. The CHP has since closed that portion of the freeway.

submitted 32 days ago • 46 comments

Reminder that if you see someone trying to figure out how to contact their reps, you now have the INCREDIBLY easy to remember URL to give to them: reps.fyi Tell your friends! Tell strangers! Print stickers and put them on things! Crash every voicemail every day. ❤️ (thank you @gregpak.net!)

submitted 32 days ago • 15 comments

"I want to speak directly to Americans," says Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. "This is a choice that will harm Canadians...but will have real consequences for you."

submitted 32 days ago • 506 comments

CBC's wall-to-wall coverage of this crisis is another great example of why we should value Canada's public broadcaster

submitted 32 days ago • 53 comments

Elon Musk granted full access to the U.S. Treasury Department's payment systems? What could go wrong?🤔

submitted 32 days ago • 130 comments