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Happily Retired! School Committee (aka school board) member, old timers softball, ski racer, hiker, lapsed ballroom dancer, proud member of the loony left. If you’re looking to beef up your follow numbers, I’m not your guy.
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MAGA are mad at Zelenskyy for not wearing a suit for an official White House meeting. Meanwhile:

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Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

submitted 26 days ago • 425 comments

BREAKING: In case brought by Democracy Forward and @publiccitizen.bsky.social federal court will block Trump Admin's attempt to place 2200 #USAID employees on leave. This is a big win for our clients AFSA & AFGE and the rule of law. More details to follow.

submitted 32 days ago • 31 comments

The Office of Personnel Management, now overseen by Elon Musk, just issued a memo to all heads of federal agencies ordering a startling change in the status of CIOs. It signals Musk's potential move to take over the IT of the entire federal government.

submitted 33 days ago • 73 comments

Hope there’s good enforcement here.

submitted 33 days ago • 46 comments

Meet Edward "Big Balls" Coristine, a teenage DOGE engineer, who has access to sensitive federal data • Runs Tesla.Sexy, a company operating a Russian website • Worked at startup that hired convicted hackers • Someone using his Telegram handle solicited a cyberattack www.wired.com/story/edward...

submitted 34 days ago • 130 comments

Trump is letting the richest man in the world wreak havoc on our government. It's unconstitutional and it's dangerous. Democrats must fight back. And that starts by voting no on his nominees. I urge my colleagues to join me. We cannot confirm any more of Trump's chaos cabinet.

submitted 36 days ago • 334 comments

Absolutely brutal scroll on Fox.

submitted 37 days ago • 2779 comments

No number of pardons or lies will change what happened on January 6. Donald Trump can’t change history. It was domestic terrorism, it was treason, plain and simple.

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This is the GOP’s long con on full display.

submitted 51 days ago • 920 comments

The largest wildfire in Texas history just happened eleven months ago and destroyed thirty times more area than the one in Los Angeles

submitted 57 days ago • 347 comments

Merchan Says He Wanted to Spare Prison Guards Trauma of Strip-searching Trump

submitted 60 days ago • 18 comments

Shocked, shocked....

submitted 60 days ago • 62 comments

I don't want my fridge to have a camera or Wi-Fi. I don't want my dishwasher to be smart. I don't want my washing machine to text me. In fact, I kinda miss knobs and dials and knowing big appliances would last 20 years and could still be repaired.

submitted 65 days ago • 1383 comments

“As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that job. So I have decided to leave the Washington Post” — Ann Telnaes, after drawing this cartoon, which included the image of a supplicant Jeff Bezos

submitted 67 days ago • 334 comments

Elon seems perturbed

submitted 74 days ago • 1358 comments

Isn’t this exactly what Jesus did?

submitted 76 days ago • 169 comments

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all." Arthur C. Clarke

submitted 76 days ago • 297 comments

My God. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott spent $100,000 on billboards warning migrants they'll be r*ped if they cross the border illegally: “How much did you pay to have your daughter r*ped?” one billboard reads. "Your wife and daughter will pay for their trip with their bodies,” another reads. (1/2)

submitted 80 days ago • 1674 comments

Because they’re not serious about it, and anyone who thinks they were is naive at best and a compete sucker at worst.

submitted 82 days ago • 880 comments

The Trump attack on Social Security is coming, as Leader Jeffries warns. It will unmask Trump's populist GOP as a replay of George W Bush's GOP, as I discussed in Public Notice. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-cutt...

submitted 82 days ago • 19 comments

Retired federal judge Nancy Gertner writes there’s no question that the Supreme Court must have term limits or a mandatory retirement age.

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Texas is blocking the review of the deaths of pregnant women post-Dobbs to hide the consequences of their deadly law. Rep. Raskin, Rep. SummerLee, Rep. Pressley and I are calling on Texas HHS to explain why they're hiding the deaths of Texas women. www.texastribune.org/2024/12/19/t...

submitted 82 days ago • 154 comments

Make America White Again.

submitted 87 days ago • 94 comments

Today, #KashPatel sent a letter to my counsel @markzaidesq.bsky.social threatening to sue & demanding I retract my MSNBC comments on his unfitness to serve as FBI Director. This follows his threats against media & political opponents, showing how he might act if confirmed. I stand by my statements.

submitted 97 days ago • 4651 comments