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I’m a liberal retired CSI from a large Ca. City. Paramedic before that. I dedicated over 30 yrs to the people of my city and loved every minute. I hope I live long enough to experience a sane government again.
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Staffers at the nation’s cybersecurity agency whose job is to ensure the security of US elections have been placed on administrative leave by Homeland Security, jeopardizing critical support provided to state and local election offices across the country. apnews.com/article/elec...

submitted 11 days ago • 15 comments

Lisa Murkowski voted yes, on Tulsi Gabbard

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk, DOGE, and MAGA are back to lying about FEMA disaster funds going to immigrants. The SSP program gives grants to shelters to house migrants and immigrants. That funding was passed by Congress. It's separate from FEMA's disaster funds for hurricanes, also funded by Congress.

submitted 13 days ago • 30 comments

State of New York: May 2025 is ME/CFS Awareness Month Adopted resolution: www.nysenate.gov/legislation/... #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

submitted 15 days ago • 684 comments

Big ups to @signal.org @meredithmeredith.bsky.social for allowing usernames instead of phone numbers last year (signal.org/blog/phone-n...). Washington basically runs on Signal right now and that one change has made reporting and whistleblowing way more private and secure.

submitted 15 days ago • 50 comments

#Syria: Our teams haven’t been to east Ghouta, Syria, in over a decade. We recently returned to the area. This is what we saw, and what our teams are doing to support people who have been neglected for so long. www.msf.org/msf-mobile-c...

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

With all due respect, you're a United States Senator and that's a rent-a-cop from a private security firm with no authority to stop you. You can't just take no for an answer here.

submitted 16 days ago • 416 comments

Is David Hogg here on Bluesky? I can’t find him and I want to congratulate him!

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they *done* yet but the level of …

submitted 21 days ago • 593 comments

"We have fought and died alongside you....During your darkest hours...we were always there. Standing with you, grieving with you, the American people.” I’ve had my differences with Justin Trudeau, for sure, but he rose to the occasion here.

submitted 21 days ago • 136 comments

#Sudan: @chrislockyear.msf.org describes "a scene of utter devastation and carnage" after yesterday's attacks in the Khartoum area. Some hospitals just a few kilometers away remain unreachable by our teams due to difficulties crossing the front line. #TalkAboutSudan soundcloud.com/msf_canada/s...

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.

submitted 21 days ago • 969 comments