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I found out my immediate family members, who are college-educated & vote in every election, did not know about:

- Kilmar Abrego García
- 278 men imprisoned in El Salvador w/o due process
- DOGE likely sending data from NLRB to Russia
- Cory Booker’s filibuster

The media ecosystem is deeply broken.

Welcome. It's more a replacement for Xitter than FB, so I don't use it much, but I stop by to say hi and scream into the void sometimes :)

Hawaiian Volcano Observatory Evicted Amid Federal Cuts Observatory leaders have assured local emergency officials their public service will continue, but questions linger about how and where that work will happen.

GOP's DOGE pillagers shut down another vital government service
www.civilbeat.org/2025/03/hawa...

Poster for the #TeslaTakedown protests showing ones in the puget sound area: - Lynnwood (12-2pm) - SEATTLE (SOUTH LAKE UNION) - 10-12pm - SEATTLE (U-VILLAGE) - 10-12pm - BELLEVUE-10-12pm - RENTON-10-12pm - TACOMA (Fife) - 10-12pm

Let's make Musk pay for his illegal attacks on working people!

This Saturday, join the #TeslaTakedown protest at the U Village Tesla Showroom in Seattle: actionnetwork.org/events/tesla...

Not in North Seattle? There are more protests across the state, find one near you!

A government that wants to dismantle the CDC,
is a government that wants to kill its own people. To believe otherwise is to ignore
your own eyes and ears.

Saw this suggestion elsewhere - great idea for focusing light on all these urgent issues. The Dems need their own Press Secretary, with name recognition & gravitas, even if it's not @petebuttigieg.bsky.social :)

VA hospital surgeons now can't purchase surgical supplies to care for American Veterans!!!!

Thanks to @courtneymilan.com for this thread on how high egg prices in the US are because of illegal price fixing, not the bird flu.

It’s not the fucking bird flu. That would cause some price fluctuations, but not a lot.

It’s the fact that bird flu provides an excuse for massive corporations to reap unheard of profits by working together to fix prices.

Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say The move threatens to upend trillions of dollars in e-commerce business and the 250-year-old Postal Service.

This is extremely bad. Think of all the business conducted by mail. Now think of all the voting done by mail — entire states! Now think of the entire postal system being run by a political appointee instead of a career civil servant.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Musk has threatened to cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals.

"It's almost impossible to believe he exists.
It's as if you took everything that was bad about America, scraped it off the floor, put it in an old hot dog skin & taught it to make noises with its mouth"

#PRESIDEMENTIA

LOL

As Musk works to slash federal spending, his own firms have received billions in government contracts As Elon Musk has led an effort to slash government spending, his own companies have, over the last few years, received billions of dollars in government contracts.

pretty sure I could help DOGE find some government waste: abcnews.go.com/US/musk-work...

Extreme MAGA Republicans spent last year promising to lower costs.

And lying about their connection to Project 2025.

They have spent this year implementing the extreme Project 2025 agenda.

And haven’t done a damn thing to lower the high cost of living.

This is my surprised face 🙄

New Crowd Control Law Includes Few Restrictions on Use of "Less-Lethal Weapons" - PubliCola By Erica C. Barnett The Seattle City Council approved legislation yesterday that retroactively authorizes the Seattle Police Department to adopt…

New Crowd Control Law Includes Few Restrictions on Use of "Less-Lethal Weapons"
A council majority rejected several proposed guardrails, including an amendment that would have allowed the council to reject new weapons in the future.
publicola.com/2025/02/12/n...

Hey, here’s some of what @thedemocraticparty.bsky.social did today 👋🏽

In case there was any question...

Seattle Nice: Banishment Orders and Housing Bans - PubliCola By Erica C. Barnett Municipal Court judges have only issued one Stay Out of Drug Area order so far, raising…

Seattle Nice: Banishment Orders and Housing Bans

On this week's podcast, we discuss SODA orders, "prostitution loitering" arrests, and the possibility of housing in Seattle's stadium district.

publicola.com/2025/02/10/s...

Only if they'll take Washington & Oregon too!

likewise, but I don't see "Learn from this App" as a setting - is that an iPhone thing?

FFS people vaccinate!!!

My guy Cory is standing up!

pushback works, part infinity:

apnews.com/article/immi...

Musk and his team of dodgy 18-year-olds went into sensitive government networks, hooked up their own storage systems, and downloaded the personal information of every American.

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