@vmgbritt.bsky.social
It’s not 4 D chess. It’s not checkers. It’s not even leap frog. It’s repeatedly running headfirst into a wall (that Mexico didn’t pay for)
03.04.2025 02:47 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
03.04.2025 01:14 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Raskin: "This is what Viktor Orban has done in Hungary -- to clear out the civil service with real expert professionals and people devoted to the public interest and replace them with a bunch of party hacks and sycophants to the dear leader."
NOTE: If Trump/Musk really cared about identifying "waste, fraud, and abuse," they wouldn't have fired all the Inspector Generals, who actually have the expertise to do it
09.03.2025 19:18 — 👍 2680 🔁 512 💬 68 📌 14George Washington in 1796 on rising lawless and factionalism:
“cunning, ambitious and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”
NEW: Marocco has tried shutting down nearly all USAID programs & freezing foreign aid. He’s led the charge to place nearly all USAID staff on administrative leave.
Officials said they see the move as retribution against those who opposed his earlier work.
By @annamaria.bsky.social + Brett Murphy
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
15.02.2025 17:48 — 👍 26804 🔁 11797 💬 407 📌 548
If you’re a government employee, thank you for your service & here’s a resource you may find helpful. Stay strong. www.civilservicestrong.org
01.02.2025 16:17 — 👍 24766 🔁 8747 💬 333 📌 206Here’s the original version of the OpEd that reflects my actual arguments.
drive.google.com/file/d/1mNFm...
