@vttrunks.bsky.social
Retired Legal Aid attorney and health care advocate
Agencies from Social Security to the IRS store sensitive data on millions of Americans. Here's what the government knows about us – and what's at risk as DOGE seeks access to the data.
11.03.2025 11:26 — 👍 5680 🔁 2340 💬 235 📌 138Bernie Sanders: "I think this is a prelude not only to cutting benefits, but to privatizing Social Security ... why do you lie so much about Social Security? Why do you make it look like it's a broken system? The reason is to get people to lose faith in the system so you can give it over to Wall St"
11.03.2025 00:14 — 👍 20328 🔁 6081 💬 487 📌 351
Measles isn’t just a rash. Sure it can be sometimes, but it can also lead to death.
The 1st death has been recorded in West Texas outbreak.
I commend the many parents coming forward now and getting their kids protected. It’s never too late to get a vaccine.
apnews.com/article/meas...
Sec. Kennedy, you're incorrect. This *is* an unusual year for measles. This year has already passed 8 out of the past 15 years' *annual* counts. And we are only 2.5 months into 2025.
Rather than falsehoods, you should publicly state support for MMR. Today marks the first measles death in 10 years.
“Though both Hitler and Hugenberg were fiercely anti-Communist, antidemocratic, anti-immigrant, and anti-Semitic, their attempts at political partnership failed spectacularly and repeatedly.”
Timothy W. Ryback on Hitler's relationship with his oligarchs: theatln.tc/Hy5fsNe5
The People's Union USA, a grassroots group, is calling on Americans to join a national boycott by not shopping for 24 hours on Friday.
28.02.2025 03:35 — 👍 37669 🔁 11673 💬 1080 📌 827
@kkjetelina.bsky.social
#medsky
H5N1 Update February 28, 2025 from Your Local Epidemiologist
If this figure doesn’t make you nervous, you’re not paying attention.
Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.”
There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.
Thought we were attempting to reduce the federal deficit? Instead, Trump’s proposed budget plan is projected to significantly increase it.
26.02.2025 22:27 — 👍 6710 🔁 1022 💬 150 📌 44NOAA is an absolute mess, and it’ll be worse tomorrow. Please help us. There have already been over 1,000 terminations. It’s not just layoffs—Elon Musk and his staffers are trying to completely dismantle us. Today, there were tons of firings, and more are coming tomorrow.
28.02.2025 01:45 — 👍 15051 🔁 4166 💬 500 📌 279Tomorrow, February 28, let’s disrupt the status quo by spending ONLY at businesses that uplift our communities.
That means:
🚫 No gas from corporate giants
🚫 No fast food chains
🚫 No big-box retailers (Target, Walmart, Amazon, etc.)
HOW YOU CAN HELP:
✅ Spend your money at small businesses, especially those owned by underrepresented entrepreneurs
✅ Share this message with your networks—word of mouth is powerful
✅ Stand together in financial solidarity to create real economic change
Sharp as a tack. Thank goodness we sent that old guy back to Delaware
28.02.2025 10:02 — 👍 5180 🔁 893 💬 332 📌 46
Some adults should consider getting revaccinated. That includes older adults who were born after 1957 and were vaccinated before 1968. The CDC recommends that anyone vaccinated before 1968 get at least one dose of the live attenuated vaccine.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Want to learn more about the General Strike? Here’s our Welcome Packet. We’re so happy you’re here! #USprotests
docs.google.com/presentation...
Flyers for general strike U.S. saying if he can do it, so can we (referencing fElon’s net worth versus 11million people)
Think 11 million is a big number? It is… but we are CAPABLE. We’re smart, we all have different skills to contribute. And together, we can reach our goal. #generalstrike #uspolitics
13.02.2025 15:45 — 👍 4044 🔁 1126 💬 71 📌 56
Dept of Transportation memo ordering all personnel to "identify and eliminate" every order, policy, funding arrangement, or program that even mentions climate change, diversity, or environmental justice
Department of Transportation orders all personnel to "identify and eliminate" every order, directive, rule, regulation, policy, notice, guidance document, funding arrangement, or program that even mentions climate change, diversity, or environmental justice
www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.go...
Kash Patel raised money for January 6 insurrectionists who attacked law enforcement.
I asked him to look those officers in the eye and tell them he was proud of what he did.
He couldn't.
It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too.
Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more.
Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.
yyyyyeah maybe we shouldn’t just “relax”
29.01.2025 17:40 — 👍 17206 🔁 4407 💬 809 📌 213Check out this quote from Dr Michael E Mann: "There's nothing worse, as a climate scientist, than seeing your predictions play out... This is the face of climate change. It's not subtle anymore. It's not far off, distant. It's here now." #ClimateActionNow
25.01.2025 17:50 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0WOW! You've got to watch all of this.
A priest just confronted Trump's fascism to his face. She's so incredibly brave.
NEW: The legal fights against Donald Trump's executive orders has begun and Skye Perryman, president and CEO of @democracyforward.bsky.social is leading the charge!
I discuss with her the landscape and the road ahead.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQJQ...
bsky.app/profile/amys...
18.01.2025 21:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bernie Blasts Trump For Moving Inauguration Inside: “Wear Some Fucking Mittens”
www.borowitzreport.com/p/bernie-bla...
Greedy Billionaires are Screwing You!
open.substack.com/pub/grassroo...
