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artemesia44.bsky.social
retired professor, studied political socialization and researched service-learning and how to help students develop critical thinking skills. (a life wasted apparently)
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every single public facing person in this administration is just a different variation on baghdad bob

Chicago. March 8

@aoc.bsky.social: "Tax cuts cost money. We have to pay for them. So every dollar that you spend in federal taxes is going to pay for some rich person's G-Wagon. And it's also going to cut an 8-year-old kid with autism's ability to access Medicaid. That's what they are putting on the table."

wusses like you Tom are the reason the Democratic party has a 21% approval rating. Do SOMETHING besides sit and cower.

Oh myyy

I caught Dr. Francis Collins playing his guitar on the National Mall and it gave me some hope. My latest on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...

I think that’s fair 🤭🤣 #SheShed

now how about turning it into something that might make a difference -- aggressive on the ground efforts to register voters including helping those without appropriate paperwork to get it especially in red states working to disenfranchise voters.

but for his hubris and failure to pull out early and allow the Democrats to select a candidate timely, we might not be in this free fall of Democracy.

Mark your Calendar! A virtual zoom town hall that anyone can attend w/TX Reps. @repjasmine.bsky.social @juliejohnsontx.bsky.social @jamestalarico.bsky.social txdem.co/Townhall

I was right

Bernie is on FIRE!🔥

“What’s transpired over the last three or four days just takes it to a whole new level of cruelty and inhumanity and, frankly, a whole new level of stupidity in doing this is the most non-strategic way.” Tens of thousands of people will die as a result of this action. www.salon.com/2025/02/28/a...

👏👏👏 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Tesla’s German sales fell 76% in February to 1,429 cars, a steeper decline than the 60% drop in January.

Okay hear me out, instead of springing forward an hour, what if we did four years.

MAGA is big mad at an MSNBC panelist saying “The Ukrainians are the noble good guys…They are more American than we are!" MAGA traitors hate facts. He was spot on! 🍿

Trump has successfully assured that America is no longer leader of the free world and no longer the pre-eminent scientific leader. Some of us will die because of it. All of us will live in a diminished country because of it.

It is time to stop marching around and to put the work in to register voters including helping those who need it get the documentation they need. I marched yesterday but frankly these marches are feckless -- action to get people voting and support for lawsuits might make a difference.

Speaker Mike Johnson is living in a house with a right-wing preacher, owned by a right-wing car dealer magnate who made his fourth wife watch films of him having sex with prostitutes to "train her." But Johnson avers he never talks policy with Pastor Berger, who has not registered as a lobbyist.

Resolute Square Founder @stuartpstevens.bsky.social has a message for his old party: "You inherited the legacy of the Greatest Generation only to ally with a mass-murdering tyrant invading a European democracy." "America executed the Rosenbergs for far less." newrepublic.com/article/1924...

Resource: Checking Presidential Impoundment of Federal Funds, explaining why the presidential impoundment of federal funds is unlawful, why courts can step in to remedy impoundments, and how to track apportionments in real time.

Senator Chris Murphy took to the Senate floor on Friday to break down the corruption flowing from the WH. He connects the dots, and makes a clear argument regarding who what where and why Shitler and Muskrat are destroying our govt!! This needs to be shared far and wide!! youtu.be/hycoCYenXls

Here is a disconnect at the heart of everything: Jesus was very woke! It was his whole thing!

Celebrate International Women's Day by interrupting men with your unsolicited opinions and taking credit for their work. If they get upset about it, be sure to tell them that they sound hysterical and should smile more.

so of course RFK Jr. is rushing cod liver oil and trying to shut down vaccine development for bird flu and flu.

The nature of a cult is that it will turn you against your own family. Your loved ones will cheer as you are led off to the camps because hurting even you is what is necessary to bring on the glorious nation. apnews.com/article/trum...

DOGE cut off payments for the electricity, cell phone, and internet service of U.S. government employees who work in a high-risk area in Central America. Meanwhile, DOGE apparently plans to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer for their own personal use in a federal office building in DC.

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did on J6

It’s borderline criminal.

Democrats should be organizing NOW not in 2027 to register voters and assist them in getting required documentation. NOW, not 60 days before an election.

I so appreciate @maxinefororegon.bsky.social with @maddow.msnbc.com talking about how the big town hall in her district moved her and convinced her to take stronger action in DC, walking out of the speech last night. Show up! Your reps are listening.

If only Luke Farritor were still interning at SpaceX rather than firing lifetime experts from govt, I'm sure Elon might have avoided that embarrassing crash.

“…if you really want to proceed to censure the gentleman from TX for talking about no mandate to cut Medicaid, then certainly we're going to have to move to censure the President for using a racial & ethnic slur against a sitting US Senator." 💥⁦‪ @raskin.house.gov

Democrats need a press conference a day spotlighting ONE example of hard working American screwed over by a Trump action e.g. Farmer not reimbursed for destruction of flock with bird flu as promised, agency not able to provide for veterans etc. Buttigieg would make a great spokesperson for this.

I can't begin to express how angry I am at these so-called centrist fuckers who let Al Green stand by himself.

Give you one guess

Democracy is burning, and we need sites like Bluesky more than ever. And Senator Durbin wants to repeal 230, which would massively stifle the ability of sites like Bluesky to exist, while massively empowering X and Meta. Why? It seems that someone in his office doesn't understand 230.

so it was a pump and dump?

Columbia called the cops on students— *like trump wanted*— & this is how Trump responds. One should never comply with evil, but if even your complicity with evil will not save you— & it will not— then why comply? Do not comply; not in advance, not at all. Fight for the right thing, no matter what.

Trump's Project 2025 wants to eliminate public schools. Biased, greedy businesses want personal profits & Christian Nationalism instead of free, non-religious education. Fight back against attempted destruction of federal education dept. Keep showing up! http://dlvr.it/TJPMDL