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Just reached 290,000 followers here on Bluesky, and, well: Wow. Thank you for being part of my experience here. To celebrate this really cool milestone, I've donated to Black Girls Do STEM, because we need diversity in STEM fields more than ever these days. Onward! bgdstem.com

submitted 19 hours ago • 57 comments

I'm dumb. I can't figure out how to end world hunger. But I do promise that I will continue to change healthcare in this country and make it more affordable, possibly setting a path towards Universal Healthcare.

submitted 23 hours ago • 3009 comments

Posting my embroidery so people can find me... 🐯 #embroidery #handembroidery

submitted 1 day ago • 1189 comments

And to think just four days ago, after lecturing the Europeans on free speech, JD Vance was in my Twitter replies lecturing me about free speech too. Oh the shamelessness! This is who they are:

submitted 2 days ago • 126 comments

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

submitted 2 days ago • 1973 comments

This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.

submitted 2 days ago • 987 comments

I've read most of the analyses of the DOGE 2025 "receipts" site. This, from NPR, is the best I've read so far. Some of what they claim to have cut haven't been cut, other "cuts" will incur costs down the road. NPR says DOGE has made $2B of cuts, not $55B. www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

submitted 3 days ago • 274 comments

“After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women, and minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends… what comes next?” - Gov. JB Pritzker

submitted 3 days ago • 476 comments

Fuck it. Run Reacher in 2028. FDR numbers

submitted 3 days ago • 66 comments

JUST IN: ICE van reportedly set on fire in Philadelphia

submitted 4 days ago • 996 comments

Interesting update (via @snopes.com) on last week's stories about the State Dept buying armored Teslas worth $400M: www.snopes.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Musk is an unelected, unconfirmed private citizen with access to classified information, financial systems, and federal policy decisions—all while running companies that directly profit from government contracts. This is corruption, plain and simple.

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

Favorite paragraph from this:

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

Dishonour.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

"Attorneys, he said, 'don’t resign because you disagree with the policies, but because you are being asked to do something you believe is ethically, morally or legally improper'...” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 6 days ago • 243 comments

If any parents of children with disabilities received similar emails like this, message me on Signal at emgarcia.85

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

hey for anyone who might want to actually own their kindle books instead of renting them, or who might be thinking of switching to kobo etc and will want to convert them to epubs, you now only have one week before amazon kills your ability to download its ebooks www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

submitted 6 days ago • 406 comments

again, this is the easiest political slam dunk in the world find a veteran with a lifetime of public service who has been fired for no reason and bring him on television with you do it again tomorrow with a different veteran, and again, and again show the human cost

submitted 6 days ago • 147 comments

Promoting diversity is not a crime.

submitted 6 days ago • 46 comments

Letters went out to federal workers this morning stating they were fired due to poor performance. However, all employees had been rated as “exceptional” performers by their supervisors. Please keep these records and pursue wrongful termination claims. Let the lawsuits begin.

submitted 6 days ago • 987 comments

1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

submitted 6 days ago • 2241 comments

Rep Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to ABC: “We were told that grocery prices would go down on day one, on January 20. Costs aren't lower, in fact, costs are increasing. The price of eggs is skyrocketing out of control”

submitted 6 days ago • 362 comments

From an FDA probationary employee: the firings are coming from outside the agency without cause and with zero input from supervisors (as promised.) More firings expected between now and Tuesday. Do not open the termination email before you download your documents and performance evals.

submitted 7 days ago • 291 comments

seems like it is a big deal that the unifying ideology of the doge team is neo nazism

submitted 7 days ago • 497 comments

Said every tyrant and dictator in human history to justify his actions.

submitted 7 days ago • 1307 comments

Dear the rest of the world: You should absolutely not see the US as reliable for anything at this point, shit, none of us on the inside think we're reliable for anything right now either, you're definitely not alone

submitted 8 days ago • 624 comments

AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.

submitted 8 days ago • 853 comments

“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw” Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start

submitted 9 days ago • 3235 comments

Siri, is pissing off the entire judicial organization that enabled your rise to power over decades a good idea

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

Help people learn about their rights. It makes fascist scum angry.

submitted 9 days ago • 78 comments