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

You don’t get to be HHS Sec unless the Senate allows it. I will never understand why we just rolled over and let Rs install all these comic villains.

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

What dictators do, not presidents: “the new, striking artwork depicting Mr. Trump drew criticism from some presidential historians, who could not recall another president hanging a painting of himself during his term in the White House.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

submitted 22 hours ago • 236 comments

15,000 people RSVP’d for this monumental event. OVER 36,000 people stepped up and showed up to be part of the Fighting the Oligarchy event in L.A. on Saturday!! Our movement is absolutely massive, and building by the day!!

submitted 15 hours ago • 76 comments

Trump administration opens half of National Forests to logging. An emergency order lifts protections on over half of U.S. Forest Service lands as the Trump pushes to increase timber production.

submitted 1 day ago • 526 comments

The human race is perpetuating itself just fine; natalist anxieties only make sense if you’re concerned about the growth of certain demographics relative to others, which of course is the far right’s entire concern.

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

Health care providers serving veterans across Virginia say they are missing thousands of dollars due to stalled Tricare reimbursements. It's due to a change to Tricare’s billing system that makes counselors meet new requirements for their claims to be reimbursed. www.stripes.com/veterans/202...

submitted 22 hours ago • 4 comments

Backbone it turns out is a hell of a thing. I appreciate leaders, lawyers, schools, and healthcare institutions showing it these days.

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

WATCH: “We can’t feed ourselves. We don’t have enough food. We can’t just stop trade.” mtsu asst prof Dr. Tarpey tells NC5 we can’t cut ourselves off from the world— reminds us last time a depression shortly followed. #TrumpTradeWar Full: www.newschannel5.com/plus/inside-...

submitted 15 hours ago • 30 comments

Someone should check which Trump allies and members of Congress bought Apple/tech stock on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/12/t...

submitted 1 day ago • 183 comments

Trump’s already skirting due process. Now he’s musing about deporting citizens | Moira Donegan

submitted 5 hours ago • 21 comments

Wannabe dictator.

submitted 21 hours ago • 129 comments

full-blown kleptocracy was always the plan

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

DOGE Is Far Short of Its Goal, and Still Overstating Its Progress Elon Musk now says his group will produce only 15 percent of the savings it promised. But even that estimate is inflated with errors and guesswork. Gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...

submitted 4 hours ago • 78 comments

submitted 5 hours ago • 53 comments

The same newspaper that gleefully profiles "MAGA fashionistas" also ponders how Palestinian emergency workers "ended up" in a mass grave. They ended up in a mass grave because Israeli war criminals put them there. That's your headline. It's maddening how the Post is rapidly turning into Fox News.

submitted 11 hours ago • 6 comments

When they say they’re sick of being taken advantage of, it’s not about politics. It’s projection. It’s about their masculine insecurity. He might as well be saying he’s jealous because Usha is clearly smarter than he is.

submitted 11 hours ago • 9 comments

LIHEAP helps roughly 6 million people survive freezing winters and blistering summers, many of whom face greater risks now that the year’s warm season has already brought unusually high temperatures.

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on praying with her staff: "My faith is incredibly important to me." Ironic from the woman who repeatedly breaks the 9th Commandment by lying to the American people.

submitted 23 hours ago • 558 comments

So maybe this isn’t real, or it WAS real until a grownup found out about DOGE’s latest.

submitted 1 day ago • 295 comments

us government went from telling miners “learn to code” to telling coders “learn to mine” in less than ten years

submitted 16 hours ago • 79 comments

THREAD: Some folks have asked why Donald doesn’t just pick up the phone and bring Abrego Garcia back. Besides the cruelty, what’s the point of defying the lower court’s order? Basically, he wants to see if he can get away with it. 1/

submitted 1 day ago • 343 comments

The real impact.

submitted 22 hours ago • 76 comments

This is Pete Hegseth in a nutshell.

submitted 21 hours ago • 84 comments

Senator Sanders and Reps. Ocasio-Cortes, Jayapal, and Khanna rising to the occasion.

submitted 15 hours ago • 74 comments

‘His ability to switch from a loving partner to a monster kept me in a permanent state of stress’

submitted 5 hours ago • 8 comments

Reminder: Trump’s crypto coin is an obvious avenue for bribery, and everyone should be horrified — Good explanation 👇🏽 (And everyone who wanted Biden charged for bribery is silent 🤐 as Trump moves to free the informant who lied to the FBI about it)

submitted 13 hours ago • 25 comments

the transfer to El Salvador of US deportees is, per Pres Bukele, a straight up contract that has “nothing to do w/foreign policy.” The fees we are paying makes their entire prison system “sustainable.” Don’t see how US can make argument that bringing A-G back is some sensitive foreign policy matter

submitted 17 hours ago • 310 comments

You can’t do “mass” deportation and give due process, and what conclusion you draw from that says important stuff about your commitment to law.

submitted 21 hours ago • 38 comments

If they had anyone worth noting, their face would be plastered across state media. They don’t. This is human trafficking.

submitted 17 hours ago • 99 comments

I pray you’ll read my latest. We are being challenged as a nation and this is a test we must pass. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

submitted 19 hours ago • 133 comments

Is there any link between the Trump admin’s “deal” with El Salvador and Bukele’s plan for a “Bitcoin City,” which was going to be scaled back in order to receive loans from the IMF — and Trump admin’s plans to use gold reserves to buy Bitcoin? Or all just coincidence theweek.com/business/eco...

submitted 15 hours ago • 92 comments

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze funds intended for a Maine child nutrition program that were suspended amid a disagreement between the state and the president over transgender athletes.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

MTG is the dumbest person on the planet.. except when it comes to the stock market? 🤔

submitted 1 day ago • 428 comments

Wishing everyone a peaceful evening as we continue to fight for our democracy.

submitted 18 hours ago • 71 comments

Megyn Kelly roasting Kristi Noem for her hair extensions and makeup is peak hypocrisy. They’re both insufferable.

submitted 22 hours ago • 294 comments

Patel lied, and the Senate believed him www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 66 comments

NEW: The Trump regime continues to defy court orders, and lawyers for Abrego Garcia - the Maryland father illegally disappeared to El Salvador - have initiated contempt proceedings. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/contempt-p...

submitted 18 hours ago • 170 comments

STAND and DEMAND the immediate return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. BRING HIM HOME! Abrego Garcia is a SMART Local 100 first-year apprentice who was working full-time to support his young family — before he was brutally abducted and illegally deported to El Salvador. SMART General President…

submitted 12 hours ago • 188 comments

He’s got a point. After his stint working in the government I’d like him to go work in the mines.

submitted 17 hours ago • 367 comments