@btaboh.bsky.social
Still figuring it out... but have my MLS Means I know how to fact check Can distinguish between truth over lies It really does matter....
I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving.
There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.
They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.
Trump doesn't want legit international students, but he's ok with peddling access to foreigners paying into his crypto biz!
It's un-AmericanΒ & its wrong
I discussed @cnn @erinburnett.bsky.social @cnn.com
Scores of staffers at the White House National Security Council have been abruptly dismissed as part of a sweeping overhaul that slashes the staff from over 300 to just 50. The move shifts the NSCβs role from policymaking to simply carrying out the presidentβs directives.
24.05.2025 02:44 β π 9953 π 3938 π¬ 488 π 267The cruelty is the point.
23.05.2025 21:54 β π 26548 π 8707 π¬ 2960 π 992βWhat the heckβs the commissioner of Social Security?"
That's a real question from Frank Bisignano...the commissioner of Social Security.
Millions of Americans depend on Social Security. They should be able to trust that the head of the agency even knows what the job is.
Watch what they do, not what they say.
22.05.2025 23:54 β π 14629 π 4948 π¬ 801 π 249Autogenocide is a word nerd's word, no doubt. But it is remarkably descriptive of the situation we find ourselves in. Credit to Heather Marsh for "insisting" that this is the right word.
23.04.2025 01:04 β π 265 π 102 π¬ 9 π 7EMERGENCY 3E PROTEST #3E #STOPTHEBILLIONAIREBAILOUT CAPITOL BUILDING IN WASHINGTON, D.C A BILL THAT STRIPS PEOPLE OF FOOD AND HEALTH CARE IS NOT A TAX POLICY, IT IS AUTOGENOCIDE. WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL, CITY HALL, AND TOWN HALL THURSDAY, MAY 22, 9AM THEY ARE STEALING FROM THE BOTTOM 10% AND TRANSFERRING IT TO THE TOP 10% END IMPUNITY END AUTOGENOCIDE END OLIGARCHY
Emergency #3E protest: May 22, in Washington D.C., at every State Capitol, City Hall, and Town Hall.
"A bill that strips people of food and health care is not a tax policy, it is autogenocide." "They are stealing from the bottom 10% and transferring it to the top 10%" #3E #StopTheBillionaireBailout
Speaker Pro Tempore: You are to direct your comments to the chair.
Jeffries: You know what's interesting? Every time I come on this floor, I can use sharp language, he can use sharp language, you choose to admonish me. I don't work for you sir. I work for the American people.
Hereβs an idea: Stop acting like the Gestapo.
21.05.2025 20:32 β π 22510 π 4729 π¬ 1610 π 380Warnock: You literally have, in real time, the leader of another nation-stateβin this case, South Africaβthere to talk to him about trade, and heβs saying, βSorry, Mr. President, we donβt have a plane to offer you.β And you see why we have an Emoluments Clause in the first place.
22.05.2025 00:51 β π 19812 π 5172 π¬ 411 π 228To understand what the GOP is forcing through at midnight:
β’Gutting $880 billion from Medicaid
β’Gutting $500 billion from Medicare
β’Gutting funding for SNAP (food assistance)
β’Gutting clean energy protections, which will also cost 400,000 jobs
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"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.
21.05.2025 12:54 β π 17044 π 4939 π¬ 212 π 179Frost: Tonight the people stealing are not folks with tattoos and hoodies but people wearing suits and ties and congressional pins sitting in the capitol now, not in some alley wrapped in darkness but the United States congress wrapped in the flag. It is disgusting and we will never forget this.
22.05.2025 04:05 β π 32560 π 9998 π¬ 596 π 507Our team of CDC'ers and public health supporters, thought this moment was notable, too! We are proud to have you, @drtomfrieden.bsky.social, with us in the fight for public health and CDC. #CDCsaveslives #saveCDC
21.05.2025 21:06 β π 977 π 208 π¬ 16 π 3BREAKING: MeidasTouch, the nationβs top independent pro-democracy media network, is proud to announce that attorney and renowned legal analyst Katie Phang has launched a brand-new YouTube channel in partnership with MeidasTouch.
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That's Exactly What He Did And It Was All
Illegal!!
So youβre telling us the radical transparency people are againstβ¦ transparency?
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
MUST WATCH: They didnβt just burn Tulsa β they burned proof.
Black wealth. Black futures. Gone.
And now theyβre banning books so you never learn it happened.
π ERASED tells the truth theyβre scared of.
Read it before they erase that too: stan.store/gxldsociety/...
Hayes: Every provision in this program is cruel and they know it. That's why none of them spoke on it in committee. That's why they have no response. That's why they don't hold town halls. That's why they don't answer questions. All they do is tweet, repeat, and hide in the back until they vote yes
22.05.2025 04:45 β π 14387 π 4882 π¬ 248 π 230Federal judge dresses down Alina Habba:
"Your role is not to secure convictions at all costs, nor to satisfy public clamor, nor to advance political agendas. Your allegiance is to the impartial application of the law, to the pursuit of truth and to the upholding of due process for all."
@warren.senate.gov: "They're fighting over how many children should go hungry so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island."
22.05.2025 03:44 β π 20398 π 6132 π¬ 331 π 186Adriana Smithβs story MUST be told so America can understand whatβs at stake when draconian abortion laws like the one in GA keep a brain dead pregnant woman on life support just so the fetus can be delivered.
What kind of dystopian hellscape has Dobbs created?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=wNYT...
Is it too much to ask for an IRS Commissioner who understands the law?
20.05.2025 20:36 β π 37435 π 8141 π¬ 1303 π 364This is perhaps the best essay on this sad and fateful mess www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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