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barryzigas.bsky.social
Long time affordable housing advocate and policy wonk. Proud grandfather, parent and husband living in San Francisco.
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This certainly seems like the right time to gut the CDC, cut biomedical research funding and carry out indiscriminate, wholesale firings at FDA, CDC and USDA. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Every Republican who voted for Kash Patel owns the assault on liberty, freedom of speech, secuity and safety that will now follow. Spare us all your thoughts and prayers -- every one of them is complicit.

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Trump touts the “fairness” of his reciprocal tariff plan, but in reality the tax will hit low-income households the hardest and cost the average American household around $2,000.

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

More outrageous and egregious behavior by DC US Atty. Breathlessly waiting for him to send a threatening letter to Trump, Vance and everyone else in the Admin who has said threatening things about...everybody. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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The Cryptocurrency Scam That Turned a Small Town Against Itself www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/m... Thank goodness Musk/Trump are working hard to neuter bank regulators and "liberate" crypto.

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“Elon Musk’s 28 False Claims Get 825.2 Million Views. From $50 million taxpayer dollars for condoms in Gaza to a 40% pay increase for Congress, Musk is correct that some of his claims are ‘incorrect’”

submitted 3 days ago • 82 comments

I can’t remember where I read this, but it’s important: Why is it that when people think about traveling to the past, they worry about doing something small that will drastically change the present, but no one in the present thinks that doing something small today can drastically change the future?

submitted 3 days ago • 664 comments

Donald Trump lying about Ukraine starting the war with Russia makes me ashamed to be an American. I have done a 2 man patrol at night through Fallujah to extract and intubated COVID patients long before a vaccine. I've killed people for America and I've saved people for America. I am ashamed.

submitted 4 days ago • 93 comments

Elon Musk --who is in business with the Chinese Communist Party--now has access to our IRS and Social Security data. If Musk were an app, he would be banned like Tik Tok. But because he is Trump's top funder, he can access our data. If Musk shared it with China, Trump would protect Musk.

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

Please tell me again how this Admin is focused on deficit and debt reduction? Michael A. Peterson, CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation: "Unfortunately, this resolution sets the stage for adding trillions more in new deficits and debt... 1/2

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Reup, for @petebuttigieg.bsky.social's easy linking. Trump Fired Inspectors General Who Identified $183.5 Billion in Waste, Fraud, and Abuse www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/12/t...

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments