lessbkake.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

"It’s not clear how or why Geier, who is not a physician and has an undergraduate degree from the Univ. of Maryland at Baltimore County, was chosen... "He was disciplined by Maryland regulators over a decade ago for practicing medicine without a license... www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 11 hours ago • 764 comments

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:

submitted 21 hours ago • 1386 comments

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

The legislature need to stand up for us and stand up to trump.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Yosemite National Park's annual budget is around $30 million. About $25 million was blown just so a certain someone could attend the Super Bowl and Daytona 500. Instead of shutting down the parks, just sit him in front of a TV.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

So… the very same Republicans who said they were cutting SNAP because hunger could be “addressed by food banks”, just cut $500 MILLION in funding for… You guessed it. Food banks.

submitted 3 days ago • 396 comments

They are cutting social security by requiring in-person appointments and then firing so many caseworkers that the social security office cancels those appointments. We already have reports of several cancelled appointments. Seniors deserve better.

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

President Trump directed federal agencies to revoke security clearances for more than a dozen of his perceived political enemies, including former Vice President Kamala Harris and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: cnn.it/41SJzKY

submitted 3 days ago • 93 comments

Paul Weiss and Columbia are taking exactly the wrong actions in acceding to Trump, and they are among the entities most well-positioned to fight back. These are legacy-shaming decisions by the leadership of both, and those far less powerful will now, and surely in short order, pay the price.

submitted 4 days ago • 140 comments

Undocumented immigrants pay nearly $100B in taxes and receive no benefits or representation. Trump is about to explode the deficit by using the SSA to find and deport them. www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/20...

submitted 3 days ago • 288 comments

“I don’t know when it was signed, because I didn’t sign it,” Trump told reporters Friday evening. So… (1) Trump is lying & he signed it? (2) Trump is senile & doesn’t remember signing it? (3) Trump had Marco Rubio use the autopen to sign it? www.cnn.com/2025/03/21/p...

submitted 4 days ago • 825 comments

The US Department of Agriculture has halted $500 million in deliveries to food banks nationwide that the Biden administration announced last year, multiple food banks told CNN: cnn.it/4iKaGzb

submitted 3 days ago • 84 comments

Trump is taking your healthcare. Trump is taking your education. Trump is taking you life.

submitted 3 days ago • 122 comments

JUST IN: Trump pulls security clearances of more political/legal adversaries — some of these were previously known but new list includes: -Kamala Harris -Liz Cheney -Joe Biden + Biden family -Fiona Hill

submitted 4 days ago • 397 comments

BREAKING: Right-wing influencer Ricci Wynne has just been indicted for allegedly forcing minors to make child p*rn that he filmed on his phone. He is also facing human trafficking charges. Only the best people! 🤡

submitted 3 days ago • 281 comments

The Trump administration's efforts to end DEI programs is hitting some unexpected targets, including a nationwide effort planting shade trees in neighborhoods to reduce extreme heat.

submitted 3 days ago • 148 comments

GSK has made it too expensive for parents to buy inhalers for their kids. It's wrong. Children are already facing dangerous consequences. I'm calling for an investigation.

submitted 3 days ago • 143 comments

submitted 3 days ago • 238 comments

An NPR investigation uncovered 40,000 vets facing foreclosure due to a VA mistake. A rescue program is helping many of them, but others fear being left out if Congress cuts this new lifeline.

submitted 3 days ago • 148 comments

“I will get to the bottom of whether they violated my order, who ordered this and what the consequences will be,” District Judge James Boasberg said during a court hearing Friday.

submitted 3 days ago • 84 comments

BREAKING: Donald Trump has asked Boeing to design a new military jet and he’s naming it after himself. The contract is worth more than $20 billion. This comes a time when his commerce secretary talks about social security being on the chopping block. 🤡

submitted 3 days ago • 604 comments

NEW: Trump directs AG Pam Bondi to inform the White House of "frivolous" lawsuits against the admin or agencies -- as she sees fit -- so Trump can consider punitive exec orders that revoke security clearances as he did against Paul Weiss, Perkins Coie and Covington, per new memo

submitted 4 days ago • 82 comments

submitted 3 days ago • 504 comments

Fuck Stephen Miller and Tom Homan to hell. Goddamn bastards, both of them.

submitted 3 days ago • 2276 comments

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Thanks, Trump and Musk! 🤬

submitted 4 days ago • 312 comments

Not to lib out but he's literally doing everything in this stupid document

submitted 4 days ago • 68 comments

Columbia has an endowment of $14.8 billion. I simply don't understand this.

submitted 4 days ago • 37 comments

If Trump is saying Elon wasn’t briefed on military plans for a possible war with China it means that Elon was briefed on military plans for a possible war with China.

submitted 4 days ago • 459 comments

The Trump administration wants to shut down all of Social Security over a ruling blocking 11 DOGE workers from sticking their fingers in your private data. 11 DOGE workers. 73 million Americans. This is illegal. If it happens, will force millions of seniors into poverty.

submitted 4 days ago • 283 comments

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

AP publishes state-by-state list of social security offices trump is closing despite a new requirement he's imposing "that will require millions of social security recipients and applicants to visit field offices rather than interact with agency employees by phone..." apnews.com/article/soci...

submitted 5 days ago • 138 comments

NEW! Sworn declarations filed last night confirm the Trump admin sent INNOCENT people to rot in prison El Salvador, including a professional soccer player jailed and tortured by the Maduro regime, who entered this country LEGALLY to seek asylum, and who has NO CRIMINAL RECORD in either country.

submitted 5 days ago • 431 comments

Maybe it’s just confirmation bias, but really feels like there is one of these every day.

submitted 5 days ago • 893 comments

SCOOP: Hooded ICE agents snatched Indian-born Georgetown postdoc Badar Suri from Rosslyn street Monday, per court filing. Like Khalil, linked to pro-Palestinian views & Rubio 'foreign policy' power, lawyer says. Then whisked to Louisiana. w/ @kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

submitted 6 days ago • 226 comments

Millions of seniors who rely on Social Security as a lifeline could see their benefits disrupted once DOGE cuts crucial phone services. Why the cuts? To address fraud that amounts to less than 0.00625% of what the government sends out in benefits each year. Hello?

submitted 5 days ago • 384 comments

The machinery of mass deportation is meant to be impossible to stop. But any machine can be brought to a halt, if only we understand how the apparatus actually works.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

submitted 5 days ago • 4970 comments

DOGE plans to fire 430 workers at the IRS Taxpayer Advocate Service — which helps low-income and small business filers. Meanwhile, its wider agency layoffs will make it even easier for the rich to get away with skirting what they owe. See what DOGE is really about?

submitted 5 days ago • 236 comments

The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

submitted 6 days ago • 3353 comments

Recently, the Trump administration quietly made three moves to restrict reproductive healthcare — all of which were ripped from the pages of Project 2025.

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

“It makes it very hard to imagine a leader ‘meeting the moment’ if they don't believe the moment is here,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on Chuck Schumer saying democracy is not at stake—yet.

submitted 6 days ago • 150 comments