Celeste Perry

#Signalgate Oh boy. @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social goes a little bit farther down the road about his relationship with Mike Waltz in his interview w/ Walter Isaacson. 1/3

Look familiar?

A person who spreads a lie that blames dead people for a nonexistent “problem” is a very particular kind of creepy.

Be brave otherwise those tyrannical tools get their way.

Text only, white on blue background: WHAT DEMOCRATS DID TODAY February 12, 2025 Every single Senate Democrat voted against confirming Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence Senator Raphael Warnock introduced the Capping Prescription Costs Act to cap all out-of-pocket costs on prescription drugs Arkansas Senate Democrats successfully voted down a bill to allow municipalities to remove fluoride from their water systems A coalition of 191 House and Senate Democrats sent a letter demanding the removal of Elon Musk's operatives from the CFPB Democrat Ken Jenkins won a special election for Westchester County Executive, soundly defeating his Trump-backed opponent

While I was having my digestive system looked at from the inside, here's what Democrats were doing:

Measles Outbreak Hits Town in Texas As of Tuesday, 22 children and two adults had been infected, all of whom were unvaccinated, local officials said.

A worsening measles outbreak has taken root in Texas, sickening two dozen and hospitalizing nine on the western edge of the state, where childhood vaccination rates have dwindled in recent years.

Cruelty is their brand.

Buffoonery alert from @gtconway.bsky.social

Trump signs executive order to create sovereign wealth fund U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday ordering the U.S. Treasury and Commerce Departments to create a sovereign wealth fund.

I think it’s called state-run media. Just like clockwork, we race towards autocracy

www.reuters.com/markets/weal...

Anne knows. @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

“The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.” Martin Luther King
Also read @hcrichardson.bsky.social today about heroes.

On today’s Red Wine & Blue zoom
@hcrichardson.bsky.social reminded us to not let them steal joy from our lives. Exactly what I vowed to do once we knew the election results. I signed up for an abstract/collage workshop and found joy in messy paints, papers and good old Mod Podge.

Solid explainer post from @mcuban.bsky.social 👏🏼

The Volksempfänger, The People’s Receiver used to spread nazi propaganda. With X, Tik Tok and Meta aligned with Trump we have concentrated media in the hands of a powerful few and that’s never a good thing.

How my dog Lucy responds to the word inauguration.

This brings me too close to tears.

The TrumpCoin is the democratization of kleptocracy.

A Who’s Who at Peter Thiel’s Trump Party: Zuckerberg, Adelson and More The party symbolized the euphoria of the tech industry on the cusp of the Trump presidency. The guest list included Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Miriam Adelson and the vice president-elect, JD Vance.

Guests included Mr. Thiel’s $15 million pocket pet J.D. Vance.

Are you sending this to Elon so he can “post” your performance on X? Awwww.

What Is a Barndominium? Anything You Want It to Be. Barndos, large, open-plan structures, have surged in popularity with the recent exodus from urban to rural areas.

Isn’t this just a loft in the woods? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/r...

Forever Never Trump My Response To Bret Stephens

@therickwilson.bsky.social “We’ll stand, as we always have, against the gravitational pull of a man and a movement intent on hollowing out our Republic from within.”

Short of banning luggage, abortions and mifepristone, they’ll probably just attach trackers to our bags and follow us with Elon’s Starlink satellites.

Speed dating for the neo-fascist set.

He danced on stage to the Village People to entertain you while he and his billionaire buddies were making plans to rip you off.

How One of the World’s Richest Men Is Avoiding $8 Billion in Taxes The chief executive of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, has taken advantage of popular loopholes in the federal estate and gift taxes, which have quietly been eviscerated.

“The richest Americans are able to pass down approximately $200 billion each year without paying estate tax on it, thanks to the use of complex trusts and other avoidance strategies”

Investigators of C.E.O.’s Killing Are Questioning a Man in Pennsylvania A law enforcement officer said a suspect had been identified by someone who spotted him in a restaurant in Altoona.

www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...

Litman: I think there is no other inference but the owner of the LA Times has decided to curry favor with Trump.. I think they cowered and are worried about their personal holdings.. that is a really shameful capitulation. I felt I couldn't be a part of it and had to resign.