Patricia M Sears

Hide Reply is a miracle of modern social media. Thanks BlueSky.

One of perverse dynamics of Trumpism, how a frequently toadyish establishment press undergirds a system in which Trumpists regularly accuse Democrats of being “the Nazis” and we have frequent revelations in which Trump insiders tell each other “we’re the Nazis”

Along with the $20 billion U.S. taxpayer bailout to Argentina, the Trump admin announced another $20 billion for Argentina from private banks. But the banks won’t lend the money without a guarantee from the federal government. So it’s a $40B taxpayer bailout.

www.wsj.com/finance/arge...

Trump Administration Decimates Birth Control Office in Layoffs The layoffs have raised fears that the administration could be effectively ending an initiative that provides contraception for millions of low-income women.

The Trump administration has targeted a federal office that oversees a $300 million family planning program for layoffs, raising fears that it is effectively ending an initiative that provides contraception for millions of low-income women, according to people with knowledge of the events.

Still find it wild how they shut down USAID with no Congressional approval

This is a very good paragraph.

From "The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps" in The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

By Nancy A. Youssef

Before it was illegally destroyed by Musk and co., USAID had a budget of $35 billion (in 2024)

Pernicious

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

No one signs up for the National Guard thinking, “One day, I’ll invade Oregon.”

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

This is worth reading

I literally wrote earlier today that ICE and CBP are "a portrait of an authoritarian secret police that seems set to model itself on history’s worst fascist enforcers." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...

Case in point here:

Buttigieg: You’ve got a president and a Republican Congress who would rather see the entire government shut down than allow Americans to afford their healthcare.

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When we win by having someone else lose, we set up a conflict.
It’s clear, direct but not generative.
But when we win by confronting our fear, everyone benefits.
Often, people who choose to battle others are actually better off looking at their fear instead. - Seth Godin
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When we win by having someone else lose, we set up a conflict.
It’s clear, direct but not generative.
But when we win by confronting our fear, everyone benefits.
Often, people who choose to battle others are actually better off looking at their fear instead. - Seth Godin
linktr.ee/pmsears

Just to note. January 23, 2019 there was a vote to reopen government (HJ RES 28, roll call vote 46) when the govt had been shut down for 30 days.

Mike Johnson voted “no” on that.

They didn’t seem to mind shutdowns then

The Kavanaugh rule

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Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Top *eight* articles on NYT devoted to Charlie Kirk, top one asks if he will be remembered like MLK. This is a man who only a tiny percent of Americans had even heard of before his death, whose views are too nasty for NYT to detail. But they are trying so hard to turn into martyr.

Just because I saw someone mention it: There’s no reason to think that TPUSA/Kirk had a significant effect on the 2024 election. The turnout operation was non-existent and claims that they/he are the central (or even a major) cause of young voters moving right aren’t backed by any actual evidence.

Egregiously bad reporting by the Times here. The President’s “fury” is not justification or explanation for a spew of lies and libels. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...

Poland has completely closed its border with Belarus. Russia is currently conducting the West-2025 offensive military exercise in Belarus for a future invasion of Poland and the Baltics.

Minnesota shooting suspect had a list of dozens of potential Democratic targets, prosecutors say All of the politicians named in his writing were Democrats, including more than 45 state and federal officials in Minnesota, U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson said.

I call on media to REFUSE the framing pushed by right wing chaos agents like Cernovitch & Rufo on this act of what appears to be political violence. The Democratic former Speaker of the Minnesota House was assasinated along with/her husband. The killers was hunting Dems. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

FCPS asks appeals court to stop Trump administration from cutting off federal funds | FFXnow Fairfax County Public Schools is appealing the dismissal of its lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education. The school system asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit of Virginia y...

Thank you FCPS and Michelle Reid.
www.ffxnow.com/2025/09/10/f...

We must stand resolutely against political assassination and political violence of all kinds, and just as resolutely against everyone who exploits acts of violence as the pretext or excuse for political repression of political opponents.

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