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arubamas.bsky.social
Lover of travel, history, academia, etc. My opinions are my own and can be abrasive, especially when discussing the current hellscape that is American politics. @ArubaaJamaica on Twitter
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firing for "too much DEI" is plainly firing a woman and a Black man on the presumption only white men can be qualified. this is disgusting biogtry.

submitted 15 hours ago • 233 comments

I prefer they waste time with this dumb sh*t.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, ProPublica’s analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

submitted 1 day ago • 536 comments

Mitch McConnell announced his retirement after 40 years of working hard to make Kentucky one of the poorest, most under-educated, and unhealthy states in the US.

submitted 1 day ago • 414 comments

DOGE is not about waste and fraud. This is about gutting government services without any evaluation of their need. Americans have decided to have and fund an effective National Park Service. Trump and Musk are trampling on democracy to do whatever the hell they want.

submitted 1 day ago • 75 comments

Canadians on here actually being like "I can't believe how bad things are getting in the US" without acknowledging Alberta just passed some of the harshest anti-LGBTQ+ laws and are about to vote Doug Ford back into power. Wakeup because the far right are in inside the building

submitted 1 day ago • 324 comments

Crockett: "Down in Alabama, who's broke. Down in Louisiana, who's broke. I can go through pretty much the entire south and tell you that they're broke and rely on a lot of welfare from the government. To be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states...we're in the find out phase"

submitted 2 days ago • 1346 comments

For the last two days, Sean Duffy has been blaming Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden, the Democrats, and anyone else he can think of for the fact that under *HIS* watch, planes are crashing on a near-daily basis. Maybe fewer joyrides to the Daytona 500 and a little more attention paid to transportation.

submitted 3 days ago • 365 comments

"Trump (with his inability to nominate anyone competent) owns this. Elon (with his insistence on gutting the government of talent) owns this. And all of those spineless Republicans Senators (who greenlit Sean Duffy for fear of asserting their autonomy as a co-equal branch of government) own this."

submitted 3 days ago • 164 comments

“A walking conflict of interest… $20 Billion in 🇺🇸 government contracts…” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 197 comments

Math is hard

submitted 3 days ago • 2032 comments

DOGE is lying about the money they’re “saving,” but we already knew that. It’s a distraction from the $4.5 trillion billionaire welfare scheme the Republicans are pushing through Congress. To make you believe they’re cutting, when they’re borrowing like a kid with their mom’s credit card. SCAM!

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

How do we even know that Elon's DOGE hackers aren't using their computer skills to peel money off of everyone's Social Security accounts? WE DON'T KNOW. There is no transparency. All we know is Elon's goal was to *find* 2 trillion dollars without touching Social Security, and that's impossible.

submitted 3 days ago • 386 comments

Let me speak to the DOGE audit language. Many people who work in both the Treasury and specifically the IRS are CPAs. Most audit firms hire CPAs. A 19yo coder has absolutely no idea how to accurately identify waste or fraud. Calling what DOGE is doing as a audit, is a flat out lie.

submitted 4 days ago • 167 comments

@aoc.bsky.social rocks!

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 4 days ago • 8248 comments

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submitted 3 days ago • 111 comments

trump, by the numbers: 3 days since flood 2 days of golfing 11 laps in Daytona $5 million taxpayer dollars 14 dead in Kentucky 77 Truth Social posts ZERO posts about the Kentucky victims. NOT. ONE.

submitted 3 days ago • 733 comments

USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 3 days ago • 804 comments

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post would not run this ad. This is the power of oligarchy.

submitted 4 days ago • 838 comments

Steve Bannon unloads on Elon Musk: "Musk is a parasitic illegal immigrant. He wants to impose his freak experiments and play-act as God without any respect for the country’s history, values, or traditions.” Let them fight.

submitted 3 days ago • 323 comments

First IRS, Now DOGE Busts Its Way Into the Social Security Administration

submitted 4 days ago • 231 comments