Profile avatar
disavow.bsky.social
Well-known in 1 corner of the ‘Net bitd (but now happily not). I live in the PNW & am trying to cope w/ … is it 1933, 1984, 2025? I ❤️ my husband, gems &—in theory—huskies. Important: 1st Amendment, civil/voting rights, a woman’s bodily autonomy & vaccines.
163 posts 103 followers 161 following
Prolific Poster
Conversation Starter

Scary stuff here. In addition to a government suing a paper for libel, THERE WAS NO HEARING! In neither case is that a thing. www.clarionledger.com/story/news/l... #pressfreedom #unconstitutional

Medicare will "stop covering most #telehealth services (phone and video visits)" from the beginning of April. We’re going BACKWARDS, America! www.snopes.com/news/2025/02... #healthpolicy #virtualcare #medsky

3 interesting trackers to, er, keep track of: @lawfare.bsky.social's Trump litigation tracker: www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-ser... Federal workers writing stories abt federal work: www.wethebuilders.org @trumpgolftrack.com keeping tabs on POTUS golfing (plus egg/gas prices) trumpgolftrack.com

BREAKING: @pogo.org sued Trump and DOGE in federal court in D.C. today over the administration's efforts to treat DOGE records as presidential records not subject to FOIA for now. Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I’m not saying we should all panic. But maybe the government shouldn’t shut down all the systems we have for monitoring this situation. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Make sure to read the original ProPublica story: www.propublica.org/article/texa...

Didn’t Elon say “fun is back” or some such in that ketamine-fueled interview? Guess nobody told X.

The Post is so notoriously pro-Trump that this is surprising. True, of course—though they didn’t hear it from John Barron.

Hope the youngin’s realize the “Brennan” here was liberal SCOTUS judge known for, among others, NYT v Sullivan, requiring “actual malice” in defamation suits involving public officials and powerful people. Much investigative journalism would not take place today w/out this decision.

We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State. H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladder—affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.

"North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary... "Tillis ultimately provided the crucial 50th vote to confirm." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

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.

www.mediaite.com/online/elon-...

This is not how federal criminal investigations work. —me (former federal criminal investigator)

Link: "How Trump’s Apparatchik Told a Judge: We Are the Masters Now" www.thedailybeast.com//how-trumps-...

In court Wed, Bove said the govt might overlook crimes by public officials to further its political interests, adding it might nix charges even against someone who was running for public office if the case threatened to influence an election in an unfavorable way. (Daily Beast) #autocrat #corrupt

This is despicable and cruelty IS the point. OTOH, I noticed they made a point of saying the contract is terminated not for performance. Weird how they said the opposite for people fired this past 10 days. apple.news/AwGzJnhCzQ2a...

His State of the State speech was just so good. I watched this part of it yesterday. He also has a sense of humor, which Trump lacks.

DOGE incompetence IS the point. Part of what all these changes being made by Trump in his EO’s & by DOGE is to fuck everything up so badly that when they break the government, it will be that much harder to fix it. It is all nihilism with these people, like they are crashing toy cars. #DOGE #Musk

"Elon Musk is the undisputed champion of making money for Elon Musk. As effectively the CEO of the United States of America? Very bad. Embarrassing, honestly..." www.wired.com/story/doge-i...

This is an amazing program and cutting the funding is asinine. i’m glad Dolly called him out! We need to be a helluva lot louder.

Assuming Trump calling himself king was misdirection for something truly heinous, what was what we did not hear enough about today? #Trump #misdirection

NEW: WIRED can confirm that Edward "Big Balls" Coristine is now listed as a staffer at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which is exactly what it sounds like, along with another DOGE technologist. This is by @kimzetter.bsky.social

A new Missouri bill would create a registry of pregnant women "at risk for seeking an abortion." If that wasn’t bad enough, the bill would also give people interested in adopting access to this registry of pregnant women. More in the newsletter: jessica.substack.com/p/missouri-b...

Shoutout to my yoga teacher

From @maryharris.bsky.social: The illegal mass purge of federal workers is one of the most grievous labor disasters of our time. It calls for nothing short of a general strike✊ slate.com/news-and-pol...

SCOOP: DOGE says it wants to make the government more efficient, but it ended the The Famine Early Warning Systems Network, a data-driven initiative that predicted famines and ensured food aid was as cost-effective as possible, @knibbs.bsky.social reports www.wired.com/story/usaid-...

I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths

No conflicts here. Move along. #Musk #Doge www.thedailybeast.com/doge-purges-...

Math is hard

Does this track logically, or just greedily? “You go to Canada and all of the drugs are much less expensive,” Trump said in an interview. He added he was probably going to put tariffs on pharmaceuticals.

We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston is temporarily closed after Elon Musk fired members of its staff.

So Trump is now saying that the Federal Election Commission, which was an independent regulatory agency, "must be supervised and controlled by the people's elected President."