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@northernlight2024.bsky.social

Retired public policy analyst, philosophy major; enthusiastic about almost anything, except paperwork. I am “living with” two maladies, and doing well. Studying to be a Feldenkrais practitioner, and still finding paths toward tikkun olam.

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Latest posts by northernlight2024.bsky.social on Bluesky

Post image 23.08.2025 02:07 — 👍 25205    🔁 7207    💬 799    📌 374

There are now massive sabotage forces infiltrating Bluesky. Purity narratives will only increase. Because 1) systematically propagated by bots and geopolitical actors and 2) then these narratives are pushed by the people they were meant to radicalize. Geopolitical actors know what they’re doing!

22.08.2025 01:07 — 👍 68    🔁 26    💬 12    📌 4

Plea for fellow reporters: can we stop reflexively referring to everyone the feds randomly arrest as “undocumented” or “in the country illegally?” We frankly have no idea who they’re detaining or what their status is most of the time, and there are *many* reports of people with status being detained

21.08.2025 02:04 — 👍 742    🔁 215    💬 26    📌 6
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Are you listening, @kenmartin.bsky.social and @democrats.org?

Kowtowing to the antisemitic far left has left American Jews, the 2nd most reliable Democratic voting bloc after Black Americans, feeling politically homeless.

Get the party's shit together.

21.08.2025 05:31 — 👍 47    🔁 15    💬 6    📌 1
The deli/weapons of mass destruction section at the grocery store

The deli/weapons of mass destruction section at the grocery store

oh shit oh fuck

15.08.2025 05:11 — 👍 193    🔁 4    💬 6    📌 1
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I think both these things can be true:

-Moves by Trump himself are 99% performative, destructive, bluffing, bigoted, bottomlessly stupid, usually fail even on their own terms.

-Meanwhile what Musk, Vought, FBI/DOJ/State et al are doing is genuinely ominous IMO.

04.02.2025 01:19 — 👍 1131    🔁 236    💬 38    📌 13
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Taking an axe to the federal government I heard from a VA psychologist friend today...

A VA psychologist friend reached out today. Her job is at a VA in the heartland. Her job, in my view, is helping veterans with post traumatic stress stay alive. She is one of the hundreds of thousands of federal employees who has been encouraged to resign…

open.substack.com/pub/jaketapp...

04.02.2025 02:09 — 👍 4744    🔁 1412    💬 388    📌 62
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🔥 The newest Rep from Maryland came out swinging at todays press conference…

Rep. Elfreth: "Elon Musk has called USAID a criminal organization, and yet, he is the one who came in the dark of night in a takeover that is illegal."

03.02.2025 22:27 — 👍 4109    🔁 1234    💬 108    📌 38
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ACOG Endorsed The following documents have ACOG’s endorsement and are listed in order of endorsed date.

The American College of OB/GYN’s website is now hosting the critical documents purged by the CDC

This is what every professional medical organization should be doing right now

#MedSky

www.acog.org/clinical/cli...

04.02.2025 02:16 — 👍 5597    🔁 2225    💬 46    📌 83
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It’s good for the moose! 🫎

04.02.2025 04:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Chris Coleman: What ‘sanctuary city’ means, and doesn’t mean, in St. Paul Words matter. But they also can confuse. In the aftermath of the presidential election, the phrase “sanctuary city” has found its way into the national conversation. The problem is that there is no…

A reminder and reassurance that Saint Paul has had a Separation Ordinance on the books since 2004. No employee of the City, including SPPD officers will ever ask for a resident's immigration status. We do not and will not enforce federal immigration policy.
www.twincities.com/2016/11/20/c...

30.01.2025 15:47 — 👍 57    🔁 19    💬 1    📌 0

Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

04.02.2025 02:17 — 👍 19075    🔁 8207    💬 895    📌 959

Now would be a good time to freeze your credit, if you haven’t done so.

04.02.2025 03:53 — 👍 237    🔁 38    💬 14    📌 5

Absolutely a nightmare

04.02.2025 03:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

musk is running the govt. Trump is a feeble figurehead

03.02.2025 19:32 — 👍 1130    🔁 235    💬 72    📌 10

Let the young people in your life know that Costco has generic planb for $5.99.

You don’t need a membership to go to the pharmacy there.

04.02.2025 02:14 — 👍 4149    🔁 1894    💬 28    📌 41

UPDATE: 8 Dems voted today to confirm yet another Trump nominee during Musk's coup: Bennett (CO), Gallego (AZ), Hassan (NH), Heinrich (NM), Hickenlooper (CO), King (ME), Lujan (NM), Shaheen (NH). If you're a constituent, don't just call - write an op-ed, protest their office, make clear you care.

04.02.2025 00:54 — 👍 3604    🔁 1561    💬 226    📌 276

Convo with my friend from Hungary tonight who left after Orban’s election.

She said “your head will spin with all the wild stuff they try to pull, new things every day, but don’t take your eyes off the money. It’s all about the money, and what they’re stealing, and for whom.”

03.02.2025 22:39 — 👍 14643    🔁 5113    💬 197    📌 288

YES! Bigger guns!

04.02.2025 02:18 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Call him before Congress, start reading out his SSN and those of everyone in his family, and ask him when he wants it to stop.

03.02.2025 19:18 — 👍 2555    🔁 692    💬 27    📌 20

Honestly someone needs to let the dean of the college know that one of their students is actively violating several federal laws. I am certain that violates the student code of conduct and university disciplinary action might be the only enforcement mechanism we have right now

03.02.2025 23:16 — 👍 3058    🔁 715    💬 84    📌 19

And 👏👏👏

04.02.2025 02:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

👏👏👏

04.02.2025 02:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Please be careful and protect sources, esp civil servants holding on to protect us

04.02.2025 02:01 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Of course we are

04.02.2025 01:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Today’s front page of the largest newspaper in Quebec, Canada and they nailed it 🤣🎯

04.02.2025 00:23 — 👍 30192    🔁 7298    💬 773    📌 475

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