Imagine these idiots finding out (FAFOing) that government actually does stuff and exists for a reason. π
25.09.2025 04:00 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@tomkat57.bsky.social
Scientist, retired; chemist, traveler, RPG/board gamer, SF fan, genealogist, investor, UU humanist, progressive.
Imagine these idiots finding out (FAFOing) that government actually does stuff and exists for a reason. π
25.09.2025 04:00 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Premium shouldnβt go up due to a given medication, just the copay. I heard the BBB Medicaid cuts were going to raise Medicare premiums but that % increase is ridiculous.
19.09.2025 12:34 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Maybe Rudy can hock it for a few bucks, since Trump refuses to pay him millions in owed legal fees. Might as well, since the Medal is a joke now, ever since Trump gave it to Rush Limbaugh.
02.09.2025 14:28 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Is it sad that I read this headline as oldsters fighting over todayβs creamed corn special at the Senate cafeteria?
02.09.2025 14:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0After ten years of MAGA havoc, the grand American Experiment is getting dangerously close to being at an end.
reasonreststop.com/america-afte...
www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...
I was glad to appear on MSNBC to discuss this subject. We don't need to dumb down Oklahoma's curriculum with Prager material.
Hey #MSM, a quote in a story in the #TulsaWorld this morning. You can use it as an example of what the press can/should do
"The public is just learning of this proposal, and we are receiving more input from constituents now that media reports have raised their awareness of the proposed changes
We may not hear lies from Vance as often as Trump, but his lies are HUGE.
02.09.2025 11:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Trump now has the βwarfightersβ picking up trash near the White House. www.fox5dc.com/news/nationa...
26.08.2025 23:48 β π 4565 π 1296 π¬ 741 π 231Then he needs to get the troops out of American cities and refocus them on the reason they exist.
02.09.2025 11:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"We Americans....are characters in this living book of democracy. But we are also its author. It falls upon us now to say whether the chapters that are to come will tell a story of retreat or a story of continued advance." FDR, 1940
28.08.2025 12:41 β π 15 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0Are there still any folks on the right who will listen without threats and dismissive name calling? If so, they seem to be in hiding. Taxes or economics are the only areas where Iβve *sometimes* managed to have an actual substantive online conversation with them, for several years now.
02.09.2025 11:12 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I salute the workers who refused to be complicit in RFK's assault on science and health. He is now the head of the Center FOR Disease.
29.08.2025 10:32 β π 14 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0There you have it.
12.08.2025 01:14 β π 6869 π 2900 π¬ 499 π 246Well Putin is certainly taking advantage of him like the mental child that he is. EPSTEIN FILES!
19.08.2025 13:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Release the Epstein Files. You know, the ones with all those βdemocratsβ in them. And which exist/donβt exist. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
19.08.2025 11:20 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The president just issued an executive order asserting new and wide-ranging authority over the issuance of federal grants. This will have huge repercussions for the daily operations of US science. π§ͺ
Also, lawyers are gonna be lawyering.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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07.08.2025 21:51 β π 15 π 6 π¬ 1 π 0"I've written before that Kennedy's anti-sci. campaign against vaccination β or more properly, his science-free campaign β has set the stage for a public health crisis in the US... Kennedy's actions are potentially deadly, and the CDC has the data to prove it." ππ§ͺπ·
29.06.2025 05:32 β π 102 π 39 π¬ 7 π 1Trump has broken America and has set his sight on breaking the world
18.06.2025 13:43 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Always doing the thing he accuses others of
22.06.2025 04:25 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0I do not think @stephenking.bsky.social could not have written a more horrifying story.
GOP votersβ fealty to Trump makes it 'politically safe to take away their benefits' www.alternet.org/donald-trump...
Truth.
28.06.2025 19:19 β π 18 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0A "veritable landslide" when the victor got less than 50% of the vote.π
I'm so tired of these gaslighters.
πΉ Rest and peace, Mark and Melissa Hortman.
πΉ These are very troubling and scary times we are living in, and now you are gone for having the gall to try to make things better.
πΉ We won't forget you, and will honor your lives and your service to our country ...