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Diana Bishop

@fitzbishop.bsky.social

Progressive advocate, exhausted educator, average knitter, and a decent human being.

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Hands off Atlanta Rally! #handsoff #HandsOff2025 #handsoffatlanta

05.04.2025 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 8387    πŸ” 1639    πŸ’¬ 90    πŸ“Œ 114

The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.

04.04.2025 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 24884    πŸ” 9204    πŸ’¬ 791    πŸ“Œ 560

How to support Ukraine? Signed, horrified American.

28.02.2025 20:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Keep up the pressure.

13.02.2025 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

every pandemic, every security leak, every military screw up is on Republicans for entrusting serious jobs to fools, flakes and fanatics.

13.02.2025 16:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1841    πŸ” 429    πŸ’¬ 68    πŸ“Œ 19

It’s a coup. Musk and his gang are breaking laws. They should be arrested. This is not complicated.

05.02.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3752    πŸ” 1002    πŸ’¬ 207    πŸ“Œ 47
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Collins: Is there a tangible concession in your view?

Davidson: Yeah, absolutely. It’s a commitment from Trudeau to help with fentanyl

Collins: He announced that plan six weeks ago.

Davidson: Well, at least he's reiterated it

04.02.2025 02:33 β€” πŸ‘ 7797    πŸ” 1475    πŸ’¬ 471    πŸ“Œ 205
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Raskin: "Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payments systems of the Treasury, but you don't control the money of the American people. The US Congress does that under Article 1 of the Constitution ... we don't have a fourth branch of government called 'Elon Musk'"

03.02.2025 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 48924    πŸ” 14092    πŸ’¬ 2109    πŸ“Œ 1347
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Should the richest man in the world be able to shut down a federal program because he wants to?

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

03.02.2025 11:55 β€” πŸ‘ 7116    πŸ” 1938    πŸ’¬ 602    πŸ“Œ 161
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Elon Musk may now have unique sway over the US Treasury What could possibly go wrong with giving the tech mogul access to US payments?

What could possibly go wrong now that Elon Musk has gained access to all US Treasury payments? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

02.02.2025 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1097    πŸ” 456    πŸ’¬ 154    πŸ“Œ 45
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Senior USAID security officials put on leave after refusing Musk’s DOGE access to agency systems | CNN Politics Two top security officials at the US Agency for International Development were put on administrative leave Saturday night after refusing to allow officials from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Ef...

This would be nuts even if they were gov’t employees with clearances: β€œThree of the sources said the DOGE personnel wanted to gain access to security systems and personnel files. Two of those sources said also they wanted access to classified information.” www.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...

02.02.2025 18:31 β€” πŸ‘ 5671    πŸ” 2207    πŸ’¬ 354    πŸ“Œ 105

A private citizen who holds no office effectively stealing the U.S. government's checkbook is the kind of thing that's so audacious it doesn't even compute that's what is happening.

02.02.2025 08:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2386    πŸ” 506    πŸ’¬ 48    πŸ“Œ 19

Control of the entire federal purse is being stolen in the middle of the night by a Nazi. There has never been anything like this.

02.02.2025 06:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2259    πŸ” 504    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 7
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Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 12 January 31, 2025

β€œWe must sound the alarm on why Elon Musk, a private citizen, wields such access to all our critical data. This is yet another wake-up call that Trump and Musk are rapidly dismantling U.S. institutionsβ€”a step ever closer to authoritarian control.”

trumptyrannytracker.substack.com/p/trump-tyra...

02.02.2025 01:42 β€” πŸ‘ 3449    πŸ” 1173    πŸ’¬ 164    πŸ“Œ 64
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This is a national emergency:

01.02.2025 22:13 β€” πŸ‘ 37106    πŸ” 13295    πŸ’¬ 2129    πŸ“Œ 1211
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Elon Musk's DOGE commission gains access to sensitive Treasury payment systems: AP sources The Department of Government Efficiency, run by President Donald Trump’s billionaire adviser and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has gained access to sensitive Treasury data including Social Security and Medicar...

This is such a massive violation of basic privacy rights, and every elected Democrat in Congress should be screaming about the illegality of it and demanding accountability. apnews.com/article/dona...

02.02.2025 03:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1129    πŸ” 343    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 31

Trump's administration announced late on Jan. 31 it would remove four media organizations including the New York Times, NPR, & Politico. (Source: Reuters)

In their place, it would give dedicated office space to the New York Post, One America News Network, Breitbart News Network and HuffPost News.

01.02.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Musk’s taken the reins.

31.01.2025 20:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I sent this to our school this morning and got an immediate and very positive response that the school will continue to protect, welcome and support all students regardless of identity.

Encourage all parents to use this script to send to your principal and/or vice principal.

30.01.2025 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 108    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 7
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"Americans cannot afford to import this experiment."

Sen. Wyden speaks at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s confirmation hearing

www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1RH...

29.01.2025 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 272    πŸ” 54    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 3

The irony of her enormous gold cross . . . SMH.

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