northernlight2024.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

I think both these things can be true: -Moves by Trump himself are 99% performative, destructive, bluffing, bigoted, bottomlessly stupid, usually fail even on their own terms. -Meanwhile what Musk, Vought, FBI/DOJ/State et al are doing is genuinely ominous IMO.

submitted 19 days ago • 39 comments

A VA psychologist friend reached out today. Her job is at a VA in the heartland. Her job, in my view, is helping veterans with post traumatic stress stay alive. She is one of the hundreds of thousands of federal employees who has been encouraged to resign… open.substack.com/pub/jaketapp...

submitted 19 days ago • 399 comments

🔥 The newest Rep from Maryland came out swinging at todays press conference… Rep. Elfreth: "Elon Musk has called USAID a criminal organization, and yet, he is the one who came in the dark of night in a takeover that is illegal."

submitted 19 days ago • 113 comments

The American College of OB/GYN’s website is now hosting the critical documents purged by the CDC This is what every professional medical organization should be doing right now #MedSky www.acog.org/clinical/cli...

submitted 19 days ago • 46 comments

Before you spread panic about imaginary issues with Signal, consider why these rumors might be going around right now and in whose interest it might be for them to do so

submitted 19 days ago • 26 comments

submitted 19 days ago • 210 comments

A reminder and reassurance that Saint Paul has had a Separation Ordinance on the books since 2004. No employee of the City, including SPPD officers will ever ask for a resident's immigration status. We do not and will not enforce federal immigration policy. www.twincities.com/2016/11/20/c...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

submitted 19 days ago • 927 comments

Now would be a good time to freeze your credit, if you haven’t done so.

submitted 19 days ago • 14 comments

musk is running the govt. Trump is a feeble figurehead

submitted 19 days ago • 78 comments

Let the young people in your life know that Costco has generic planb for $5.99. You don’t need a membership to go to the pharmacy there.

submitted 19 days ago • 29 comments

UPDATE: 8 Dems voted today to confirm yet another Trump nominee during Musk's coup: Bennett (CO), Gallego (AZ), Hassan (NH), Heinrich (NM), Hickenlooper (CO), King (ME), Lujan (NM), Shaheen (NH). If you're a constituent, don't just call - write an op-ed, protest their office, make clear you care.

submitted 19 days ago • 238 comments

Convo with my friend from Hungary tonight who left after Orban’s election. She said “your head will spin with all the wild stuff they try to pull, new things every day, but don’t take your eyes off the money. It’s all about the money, and what they’re stealing, and for whom.”

submitted 19 days ago • 207 comments

YES! Bigger guns!

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Call him before Congress, start reading out his SSN and those of everyone in his family, and ask him when he wants it to stop.

submitted 19 days ago • 27 comments

Honestly someone needs to let the dean of the college know that one of their students is actively violating several federal laws. I am certain that violates the student code of conduct and university disciplinary action might be the only enforcement mechanism we have right now

submitted 19 days ago • 84 comments

And 👏👏👏

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

👏👏👏

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Please be careful and protect sources, esp civil servants holding on to protect us

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Today’s front page of the largest newspaper in Quebec, Canada and they nailed it 🤣🎯

submitted 19 days ago • 804 comments

Is MSM/Fox running this? These non-feds have access to all of our private data. They only take orders from musk. They have no security clearances and are not carrying out any laws. They are cyber terrorists, except that musk/trump let them in the front door This needs to be all over news outlets

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

This. Shut Congress down, both houses.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I wrote about Musk and this bureaucratic coup as plainly as I could. There's reporting in here & the particulars are overwhelming but what's happening is so clear: He's not trying to run the federal govt like a software company He's trying to turn it into a political weapon. (gift link)

submitted 19 days ago • 93 comments

Oh, wow; I thought she actually said this; then I read “Borowitz” I mean, it’s not out of the realm of possibility

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I know you are likely on edge right now. You might even be terrified. I say this with as much conviction and authenticity as I can muster: This is not going to work out well for Donald Trump in the end. The NY FBI is leading the way with their refusal to comply. This will become contagious.

submitted 19 days ago • 312 comments

We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines. The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds. It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.

submitted 19 days ago • 505 comments

"One Trump official, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said Mr. Musk was widely seen as operating with a level of autonomy that almost no one can control."

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

A group of uncleared, unvetted, civilians have gained access to all of my federal records including military personnel, retirement and disability. They are reportedly feeding them into AI. I want them arrested and charged with federal crimes. Right fucking now! How is this even a discussion?

submitted 19 days ago • 557 comments

Murphy: "That's just fancy talk to say, 'we're gonna give money to people who pledge loyalty to Trump, and we're not gonna give money to people who don't pledge loyalty.' Today it may be government contracts, but tomorrow it may be your tax refund."

submitted 19 days ago • 387 comments

Al Gore pitched a sovereign wealth fund once, but he called it a “lockbox.” And it existed bc they’d taxed the wealthy a tiny bit, balanced the budget and had a surplus. And he only wanted the fund to protect Social Security for Americans who weren’t millionaires. So the GOP mocked it.

submitted 19 days ago • 201 comments

Brief break from hawking The Onion to tell everyone I just subscribed to Wired. Please support publications who do brave work right now. www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...

submitted 19 days ago • 273 comments

Dems’ focus areas in the House. It’s not complete, in terms of describing strategies; but that may not be appropriate to put in this kind of semi-public document, anyway. But it describes the scope, and lists some of the leads/actions Note Ariella’s suggestion to respectfully engage with them

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk claims to have "deleted" the office in the IRS which has enabled people to file their tax returns electronically, simply, and for free.

submitted 19 days ago • 544 comments

Reminder: Musk’s staffers are using space characters to identify information leakers. Before sharing any information, please use a checker to detect and remove these. Avoid directly leaking images; instead, request that the information be rewritten and the image recreated

submitted 19 days ago • 78 comments

“Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. He is trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him.” - Ezra Klein

submitted 19 days ago • 331 comments

Yes! Finally!

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Here’s what Trump does: 1. Creates a crisis that hurts a lot of people 2. Frames the crisis as a good thing 3. The crisis gets really bad 4. Trump then reverses his bad decision and takes credit for ending the crisis he created 5. MAGA eats it up Every. Single. Time.

submitted 19 days ago • 118 comments

Oh geez.. insane

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Apparently, allowing Americans to file their tax returns for free is a bad thing. A big gift to the Big Tax lobby and a big middle finger to Americans.

submitted 19 days ago • 1622 comments

DT knows nothing. So @claudia_shein used that to her advantage, and got the tariff delayed by a month. Mexico already has 15K troops at the border. prami.ibero.mx/informes-y-i... DT felt he won by requesting 10K troops at the border, who are already there www.cnbc.com/2025/02/03/t...

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

NEW: We uncovered more deleted tweets from Darren Beattie, the White House aide fired in 2018 for speaking at a conference alongside white nationalists who Trump just appointed to a top level State Department job. In purged tweets, Beattie cheered on Jan 6th riot. www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/p...

submitted 19 days ago • 133 comments

I am begging every Democratic committee, PAC, and candidate to get control of your damn email program right now and stop sending tone deaf fundraising emails that have nothing to do with what's happening. Stop listening to focus groups from a month ago. Stop the 2 approved talking points.

submitted 19 days ago • 811 comments

NEW: The board president of a small WV nonprofit says they haven't received their HHS funding since the Trump/Musk budget freeze. They had to lay off 3 of 5 employees on Friday. An 86-yr-old woman is counting on them to take her dialysis tomorrow. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 20 days ago • 444 comments