Kath Burns

Gun Companies Gave Customers’ Sensitive Personal Information to Political Operatives At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm…

At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians.

By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social
(Published Oct. 2024)

So sorry...My arm was sore for a week or so. Felt better in a couple days. Hope it passes soon! Good for you for getting it!

After 9th Circuit win, Trump says he’ll deploy military “should State and Local Police be unable, for whatever reason, to get the job done.” And masked federal agents seize people off streets, and Congress is set to appropriate tens of billions for detention and deportation.

The road to despotism.

Giannoulias Calls for Investigation After Suburban License-Plate Data Shared With Police in Texas Seeking Woman Who Had Abortion Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias asked the attorney general to review the matter. He also is creating an audit system to ensure police departments don’t run afoul of a 2023 law banning the distrib...

The Illinois secretary of state asked for an investigation into a suburban Chicago police department after learning that it violated state law by sharing data from automatic license-plate readers with a Texas sheriff seeking a woman who had an abortion.

'Time to cut that off': Newsom suggests withholding federal taxes from Trump admin California – the largest U.S. state by population and the world's fourth-largest economy by itself — is the largest payer of federal taxes of all the states. Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom is now entertaining the idea of depriving President Donald Trump's administration of that revenue.Politico re...

'Time to cut that off': Newsom suggests withholding federal taxes from Trump admin

Republicans can only lose 3 Senate votes on Trump's Big Ugly Bill — and these senators are the most vulnerable in 2026:

-Collins (ME)
-Tillis (NC)
-Sullivan (AK)
-Husted (OH)
-Moody (FL)
-Cornyn (TX)
-Ernst (IA)

If they represent you, tell them to vote NO. 

(202) 224-3121

Nooooooo!!!!! She's the best!!!!

J.F.C. and not your deceased father in law

Must-read thread from @phoebepetrovic.bsky.social 👇

What in the world is happening?

Erik Prince has proposed designating a section of a foreign prison as US territory to bypass American immigration laws.

If Prince is involved, it can't be good.

#ProudBlue

Iowa Republicans Want to Shield Pesticide Firms From Cancer Lawsuits A bill threading its way through the state legislature would make it almost impossible to sue pesticide companies for health complications caused by their products.

Iowa has the 2nd highest rate of cancer and the fastest-growing cancer rate in the country—it’s also one of the top states for pesticide use.

The US and Canada have long managed the Great Lakes together. That era could be ending. Political tensions are threatening the future of the largest freshwater ecosystem on Earth

Political tensions are threatening the future of the largest freshwater ecosystem on Earth.

I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold

I did not know this but it lines up with his earlier complaints that no one comes from the “good countries”

Use these in your sentences.

Shame on all of them.

Calls for mandatory death penalty for anyone who murders a police officer.
Dems loudly and vocally yell about Jan 6th and Capitol Police

Elon Musk has now set his sights on the U.S. gold reserves at Fort Knox, insisting on personally ensuring the gold remains intact. The vault was last opened to journalists and a congressional delegation in 1974.

It’s like “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”…with a burgeoning pandemic. Good times. Prepare accordingly.

What can I do to fight this coup? - Choose Democracy If you look, there are people resisting at every level. Blockades of freeways. American Bar Association urging an end to...

This is a great To Do list. This is now my road map.

choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/

A screenshot of two X posts in a thread. The first post is by 'Will Stancil' and reads: "Guys when Chris Rufo and Trump say 'We’re destroying DEI, we’re salting the earth underneath it' and they’re repealing regulations that reach back to 1965, they’re not talking about corporate diversity trainings. They are talking about civil rights." The second post is by 'Christopher F. Rufo' and includes a GIF of a muscular man with slicked-back hair, smiling confidently.

It’s out in the open and they admit it now.

A satirical timeline chart showing the evolution of the Twitter logo from 2006 to 2025. The timeline begins with a basic blue bird in 2006, evolving into a more detailed bird by 2009, and the familiar blue Twitter logo in 2010 and 2012. In 2023, the logo changes to a black "X." By 2025, the chart depicts a Nazi eagle emblem with a swastika, suggesting a provocative commentary on the platform's direction.

Devolution.

Trump removes US Coast Guard chief, official cites DEI focus The Trump administration has fired U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Linda Lee Fagan, the first female uniformed leader of an armed forces branch, the Department of Homeland Security said on Tuesday.

The Trump administration has fired US Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Linda Lee Fagan, the first female uniformed leader of an armed forces branch, the Department of Homeland Security said reut.rs/42kHuZV

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"

um

Brian Thompson's Cash Cow: Cancer Patients HELL Corporations raked in billions exploiting and overcharging cancer patients—and politicians on both sides of the aisle let them

We now know UnitedHealth—under Brian Thompson—illegally overcharged cancer patients by more than 1000%.

What we don't know is how many cancer patients died or were financially ruined as a result?

What we demand to know is why that act isn't also deemed murder?
www.qasimrashid.com/p/brian-thom...

Backlash to backlash to backlash

In case you're curious, this is the internal Meta "fuck DEI" announcement received by Meta employees