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

It only takes 3% of the population to make a change to the government! We are in desperate times! Over 72 million people will be affected by cuts to Medicaid alone. That does not include all the other cuts that are included in the budget cuts! That does not include the job losses that will happen

submitted 46 minutes ago • 2 comments

Elon Musk and his 19-year-olds have now disrupted the approval of medical devices that save lives. Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.

submitted 16 hours ago • 582 comments

Here’s the question I would ask every MAGA cretin: What is Trump doing or planning to do to make your life tangibly better? Because gutting the federal government, deporting migrants, and letting you say the n-word freely don’t actually improve your life.

submitted 3 hours ago • 11 comments

submitted 13 hours ago • 263 comments

Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.

submitted 10 hours ago • 6532 comments

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Reporter: Who is the administrator of DOGE? White House secretary: “I’m not going to reveal the name of that person from this podium…”

submitted 20 hours ago • 2594 comments

Little by little, after an initial period of stunned confusion, the broader resistance to President Donald Trump is beginning to wake up.

submitted 2 hours ago • 70 comments

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

submitted 2 days ago • 1050 comments

The resignation letter from the 20+ DOGE staffers, comprised mostly of highly skilled engineers. This is a grave warning to all Americans about how this new government operates. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

#BlueCrew #BlueCircleFamily🌈🦋 #BluePetPatrol💙🐾 #ProudBlue #Resist #Resistance #TruthWarriors #antitrump #antimaga

submitted 14 hours ago • 8 comments

Plus Joy and Lester Holt? Looks like the slide deck of a Power Point presentation at an employment discrimination webinar. Not a good look @msnbc.com Not a good look at all. A betrayal of your loyal audience & a disaster for your network. www.thedailybeast.com/new-msnbc-bl...

submitted 1 day ago • 862 comments

REPORTER: Would a Russian oligarch be eligible for a gold card? TRUMP: Yeah, possibly. Hey. I know some Russian oligarchs that are very nice people.

submitted 16 hours ago • 931 comments

“…House Republican leaders are urging lawmakers to stop engaging in [townhalls] altogether…”

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Pritzker: "We're talking about the death of a constitutional republic. That's what happened in Germany in 1933, 1934. And we're seeing today that we've got an administration in Washington that's ignoring court orders."

submitted 17 hours ago • 668 comments

Just going to leave this here should it become useful to anyone…

submitted 1 day ago • 588 comments

As plane crashes are happening on a near-daily basis, Elon Musk now appears to be saying he wants to interfere with flight paths because he thinks he knows better than pilots. What could go wrong 🤷‍♂️

submitted 17 hours ago • 620 comments

This seems bad

submitted 1 day ago • 2084 comments

Trump just put U.S. citizenship on sale for $5 MILLION. Buy his new “Gold Card,” and you get a Green Card. When asked if Russian oligarchs could buy in, he said, “Of course.” America is officially a business, and he’s selling it to the highest bidder. You CANNOT make this shit up.

submitted 12 hours ago • 12 comments

Twenty-one members of the United State DOGE Service have resigned, they said in an anonymous letter, citing DOGE's ongoing work dramatically reshaping the federal government.

submitted 20 hours ago • 211 comments

MUST WATCH: Rep. Melanie Ann Stansbury just BLEW THE ROOF OFF the House floor—calling out Republicans for their $4 TRILLION heist. They’re gutting Medicaid, SNAP, housing, school lunches, and Meals on Wheels—while funneling billions to the rich. THIS IS HAPPENING TODAY. Raise hell.

submitted 17 hours ago • 11 comments

Remarkable resignation letter from the Justice Department's chief information officer in the immigration review division — a disabled veteran. Obtained by @propublica.org's Brett Murphy:

submitted 17 hours ago • 271 comments

#BlueCrew #BlueCircleFamily🌈🦋 #BluePetPatrol💙 #ProudBlue #Thisiswhywefight #Resist #TruthWarriors #ImpeachTrumpNOW

submitted 14 hours ago • 6 comments

NYT: “DOGE deleted the top five highest savings claims on its ‘wall of receipts’ leaderboard after variousnews outlets pointed out multiple errors in its calculations…” newrepublic.com/post/191973/...

submitted 15 hours ago • 455 comments

submitted 12 hours ago • 94 comments

DOGE savings (WSJ): $2.6b TSLA subsidies (10 years): $15b Annual increase in deficit: $900b Cuts to Medicare: $880b

submitted 15 hours ago • 163 comments

We dare Mike Johnson to give that answer at a town hall in front of his constituents

submitted 23 hours ago • 2287 comments

You first.

submitted 18 hours ago • 5238 comments

$19,000,000,000,000.00

submitted 15 hours ago • 1472 comments

submitted 3 days ago • 210 comments

submitted 4 days ago • 764 comments

President Donald Trump on Thursday again raised the prospect of serving an unconstitutional third term, asking a crowd at a White House event whether he should run again. The Constitution’s 22nd Amendment limits presidents from holding the office more than twice.

submitted 4 days ago • 195 comments

NEW: Trump’s DoJ Chief of Staff has filed a complaint against Judge Reyes because she bench slapped their bigoted asses into the sun three days ago.

submitted 4 days ago • 271 comments

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 4 days ago • 1876 comments

In a new development, the Department of Justice said Trump's pardon of Jan. 6 defendants should apply more broadly and include separate gun charges, as well.

submitted 4 days ago • 173 comments

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

submitted 5 days ago • 600 comments

A story as old as time: Republicans inherit a strong economy from Democrats then totally tank it by being utterly reckless, power-hungry and greedy.

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

ProPublica has released another study related to the effects of abortion bans in the U.S., this time showing a spike in sepsis cases in Texas following the implementation of that state's "heartbeat" abortion ban in 2021.

submitted 4 days ago • 521 comments

When even the New York Post has to publish this, you know you fucked up.

submitted 4 days ago • 677 comments

BREAKING: USCP is arresting Enrique Tarrio for swiping his hand at a counterprotester who got in his face.

submitted 4 days ago • 2560 comments

the stock market is now below where it was when Joe Biden left office

submitted 4 days ago • 254 comments

Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds. Gov Mills: See you in court

submitted 4 days ago • 2304 comments

We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State. H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladder—affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.

submitted 5 days ago • 590 comments

submitted 5 days ago • 264 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 5 days ago • 863 comments

Carville: USAID spent $41 billion the federal budget is 6 trillion. Actually comes to something like .014%. So take that and put it against the 6 trillion and see what you have done when your president is responsible for more federal debt than any president in the history of the United States.

submitted 5 days ago • 668 comments

In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

submitted 5 days ago • 1249 comments