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I’m a tech/finance writer. Former journalist. Elder-ish millennial. I have AuDHD and HEDs. I’m queer and mixed. 🏳️‍🌈🍉✊🏽 Here to resist and disobey.
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Merica! Fuck yeah! Keep pushing! Get louder!

Happy Black History Month! Here’s another great black inventor many of us don’t know. Alice Parker!

Sharing more townhall videos today because they’re giving me hope. THIS is good trouble! Who is this man? I want to shake his hand and buy him a drink.

We asked Senate Republicans: is there any millionaire or billionaire rich enough who doesn't need another tax giveaway? $10M a year? No. $100M a year? No. $500M a year? No. $1 BILLION a year? No. With Republicans in control: Billionaires win, families lose.

One month in, and voters aren’t buying Trump's mismanagement of the economy. He promised to lower prices, but 66% say he isn’t even trying. Instead, he’s letting Musk raid Social Security and Medicare to fund more tax giveaways for the wealthy and corporations. @alexsjacquez.bsky.social

Another massive scoop from @marisakabas.bsky.social on how Musk’s DOGE squad now has a middle-manager with a questionable background (to be charitable) who was about to be put on administrative leave this time last week - in charge of social security administration.

Hey MAGA...Did you vote for cuts to farmers? Head start? Universal pre-k? Meals on Wheels? SNAP? School lunch? Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security? For massive layoffs? To have your personal data accessed? Did you vote to turn US into Russia? Or have billionaires in charge?

. Social Security chief under investigation for allegedly leaking data to DOGE after being tapped by Musk’s team. With 41 jobs cut and 10 offices closed, these missteps impact 73M+ lives. Big mistakes are happening and the consequences will be severe. #SocialSecurity #Medicare #Consequences .

New: Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be significant for millions of the most vulnerable Americans. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

DOGE has also canceled leases for ten Social Security offices, a vast majority of which are in states Trump carried. Really screwing over Trump’s own voters. Green Bay WI White Plains NY Logan WV Carlsbad CA Batesville AR Columbus OH Okemos MI Nacogdoches TX Las Vegas NV Roanoke Rapids NC

“New Social Security chief was being investigated when Musk team tapped him” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Bullyyyyyyy.

Republicans- 2008 “This is government overreach! Municipal and state governments are independent of the federal system!!” Republicans- today “We are gonna openly extort Mayors and Governors to force our agenda onto them.”

When I think about comparisons to the National Socialist Party I don’t think about their slaughter of millions because that hasn’t begun, yet. But this completely mirrors what the 1920s looked like in Germany.

Go Bernie!

Love that so many elected representatives are afraid to even see their constituents. /s 🤮 very unamerican of them

Brown had to go - he was serving his country while black.

For a US government that hates DEI, it's curious that the Secretary of State is Cuban, the FBI director is Indian, the DNI head is Samoan-Indian, and the President is South African.

KEEP SHOWING UP! Keep telling your reps how you feel! Keep letting them know you’re not going to stand by and watch this happen!

This made me so angry I have to not actually say what it made me think.

We are arms dealers to terrorists.

This weekend, join the #TeslaTakedown! We have dozens of protests all over the country and worldwide. Find one in your area or create an event at the link 👇

So let's get this straight: The U.S. and Elon are now extorting Ukraine and threatening to turn off their Starlink Internet access unless they give their critical rare earth minerals to the United States? Staggering levels of corruption.

They put Trump Organization accountants in charge of calculating DOGE savings. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

BREAKING: The USDA has confirmed five additional dairy herds in California have tested positive for the virus, raising the total to 732. Currently, 74% of the state's dairy herds are infected with H5N1.

OREGON: “The house & senate are totally abdicating their responsibilities.” @RepBentz (R) is the latest Republican to get confronted by constituents at a town hall. (Tennessee folks— town halls are these things where senators/reps show up and you can talk to them in person)

“What merit means to them” General Brown’s record, which Hegseth questioned for obvious reasons: www.af.mil/About-Us/Bio...

www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...

BREAKING: Donald Trump just fired General CQ Brown (left) and has replaced him with the less qualified Lt. General Dan Caine. DEI isn’t a problem if you’re white.

This part. Also, 1/3rd of the federal workforce are veterans and (in 2021) 87% of those veterans had preferential status — DEI. Of veteran employees, 53% (in 2021) were disabled — double DEI.

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Secretary Turner wants to cancel HUD programs that serve seniors and people with disabilities. Harming seniors and vulnerable Americans does not make our government more efficient. Senator Warren, Senator Smith, and I are holding this Administration accountable.

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This is messed up. Trump is a Russian asset.

From United Humanists on FB

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

🫡🇺🇸 "Americans do not swear an oath to a king, a tyrant or a dictator. We swear an oath to the Constitution and the idea of ​​America, for which we are willing to die," — Mark Milley ❗️He said that every US military member gives his life to protect the Constitution, not to individuals.

A must watch moment: Republican Sen Tom Tillis shows he may have a spine after all. I know it’s hard to believe, but he actually calls out Putin 👀 Thanks to @reallyamerican.bsky.social