@bdmbe.bsky.social

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11 months ago
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Agency for older adults, people with disabilities to be shuttered under HHS cuts In 2022, the Administration for Community Living provided more than 261 million meals to older adults, assistance such as respite care to more than 1.5 million family caregivers, and independent-livin...

remember what i said about RFK Jr. being a eugenicist first and foremost? www.marketwatch.com/story/agency...

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Hi, BlueSky. It's Hillary.

I've joined up here to help get the word out about an important election in Wisconsin tomorrow, and other ways to defend our democracy against those who think votes can be bought.

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Pete, I’d love to see you everywhere as a face for democrats. We need strong voices constantly speaking out, hitting up all the media because you do it brilliantly.

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Hi Bluesky! Glad to be here.

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You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

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So after promising to focus on safety, they’ve gotten right down to work… on gender terminology?

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Project 2025 was unpopular because of things like the plan for Trump to shut down the CFPB, which helps you get your money back if a bank cheats you.

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Why does China get lighter tariffs than Mexico or Canada?

Why is USAID - the agency countering China's global influence - being shut down illegally?

Follow the money. Musk and his SV bros will do anything - even pledging allegiance to socialism - to make $$ in China.

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Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"

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I have news for you - we aren’t taking over Gaza.

But the media and the chattering class will focus on it for a few days and Trump will have succeeded in distracting everyone from the real story - the billionaires seizing government to steal from regular people.

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To me, it's simple.

I'm not going to vote for or expedite a single Trump nominee while this constitutional crisis persists and deepens.

That's just a component of real opposition, but it has to be the starting point.

No complicity. Fierce opposition.

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9/ You have a network. Sure maybe you're not going to convert a hardened MAGA friend. But many people are feeling impotent and need a push to get involved.

So organize a small group of friends into an "action circle". Make a plan of small actions. Hold each other accountable.

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8/ savethechildren.org
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I'm holding a citizen meeting in West Hartford to talk about what I'm doing and what people can do to fight back against Trump's seizure of government for the billionaire class.

1/ Unfortunately, we've maxed out the space, so here's a 🧵 on what you can do.

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The Senate GOP budget resolution is a clear betrayal of all working families

They're prepared to gut health care like Medicare & Medicaid, raise the cost of higher ed, jeopardize countless jobs

And that's all to pay for a costly tax giveaway to the ultra-wealthy & corporations

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Whistleblowers | Senate Democratic Leadership Senate Democratic Leadership

Today, I’m calling on our brave public servants:

I’m launching a new portal for anyone who wants to expose corruption, abuses of power, and threats to public safety with the legal protections of being a whistleblower.

www.democrats.senate.gov/whistleblowers

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LOL the Foxnews commercials say “For All America”

Hahahahhaha

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Are we just going to pretend Trumps face is normal?

Are we REALLY going to pretend this dude is “manly.” Makeup is so tough bro

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1 year ago
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The Case For USAID It does us, and others, a world of good

For a quick sugar high to “own the libs,” the attempts to shutter USAID would do long term damage that couldn’t be reversed for a generation. My latest:

adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-case-f...

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Weekend (Monday) Video USAID, an important soft power benefit.

USAID isn’t just foreign aid—it’s a powerful tool for America’s security, influence, and values. Cutting it weakens us while empowering our adversaries. I’ve seen its impact firsthand. Watch my video and share with those who care about America’s future. 🇺🇸👇

adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/weekend-mo...

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1 year ago
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Opinion | Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Jacob Lew, Janet Yellen: DOGE Is a Threat to U.S. Democracy. Former Secretaries Rubin, Summers, Geithner, Lew and Yellen argue that DOGE is a threat to America.

Five Former Treasury Secretaries: Our Democracy Is Under Siege
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...

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The co-author of Project 2025 and the Administration's new Budget Director, Russell Vought, ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop work.

This is a dangerous move by the Administration that will hurt consumers for the benefit of special interests.

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We are leading this fight in the courts, in Congress, and with our constituents by our side. Unconstitutional power grabs cannot go unchecked.

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At the end of last year, Chief Justice John Roberts made clear that disregarding federal court rulings is “dangerous” and “must be soundly rejected.”

The Administration cannot make unilateral power grabs. Courts are upholding the law.

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On the same day that 22 state attorneys general challenged the Trump admin’s attempt to derail lifesaving medical research, a federal judge halted this illegal action. The ruling only applies to those 22 states so the fight will continue. But this is an important victory.

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But a little help certainly wouldn't hurt, and it's what Musk's attachment to Trump - not to mention a perception that he is operating with authority and impunity - is starting to deliver. Behind the scenes, it's informing the price of his company's debt. Last August, the Wall Street Journal reported that the $13 billion borrowed for Musk's acquisition was "the worst merger-finance deal for banks since the 2008-09 financial crisis." In late January, the Journal reported that banks are hoping to offload $3 billion of senior loans - the safest ones, in other words — at "90-95 cents on the dollar," which obviously isn't ideal but could be a lot worse. "Musk's recent rise in power and alliance with President Trump," the Journal suggests, "have seemed to help change the narrative around X's fortunes."
Similarly, several advertisers that fled the platform
- which, again, is not just full of stuff that's objectively touchy for big cautious consumer brands who have millions of customers who are Not So Sure About All This, but also run by a guy who told them to fuck themselves after they left - are coming back. Some, like Apple and Amazon, are doing so out of what appears to be political expediency, a sort of shadow president equivalent of throwing a million-dollar token into Trump's inauguration slush fund. Others, however, might suddenly be taking Musk's longshot lawsuit against former advertisers claiming an illegal boycott
- amended to include Nestle, Tyson Foods, Shell, and others over the weekend! - a little more seriously than they did a few months ago. Providing coding assistance is one of the few early ways Al firms have figured out how to make real money, and they also invest a lot in acquiring or licensing non-public training data. Musk owns xAI, an OpenAI competitor that is mingled with X in the form of Grok.
It's raised a bunch of money, hired a bunch of talent, and made big steps to catch up with its more established competitors, including OpenAI, which Musk co-founded, split from, and has since been antagonizing.
Every big AI company is hungry for data and losing money; even within that context, xAI has a lot of catching up to do, especially now that OpenAI is getting its first government contracts. You know what might help with all that? A vague, broad push in Al across the federal government spearheaded by people who have worked at Musk's companies. Or maybe a right of first refusal for a wider range of tech and software contracts across agencies? Petabytes of government-sourced training data would be a bonus.

Elon Musk's government rampage is also a massive bailout happening in plain sight: For X, for Tesla, for xAI, for the man himself nymag.com/intelligence...

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