Tammie Visintainer

Cool, thanks!

Wow, I don’t follow this but I love how completely different these guys are than I would’ve assumed. This guy pictured is MJF? Thanks for the intro!

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are

his net worth is $253.2 billion.
so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire
and then do it again tomorrow
and again the day after that
and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months

'We want our kids to be happy': School staff react to release of 5-year-old from ICE NPR's Leila Fadel speaks to two staff members of the Minnesota school attended by Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old boy who made headlines when he was detained by ICE.

This interview! How the principal and teachers at Liam Ramos’s elementary school are navigating the ICE invasion. I love the community-based practices they use, adapted by age group. Teachers do so much to create safety and community for students! Shout out to Leila Fadel @npr.org 🫶🏼

JD Vance is unrecognizable to his former friend, who shared their emails and texts Sofia Nelson — a former friend and law school classmate of JD Vance — has made public dozens of email and text exchanges with the vice presidential candidate.

JD Vance is what you get when you have a human and you remove their soul. He is such a grifter - trying to cover up his fragile ego and insecurity that he became a bully with massive unearned power who skis in jeans and can't order a doughnut like a human. It sounds like at one point he was kind....

Thank you for your work and advocacy! Appreciate you standing up, let’s gooooo!!! 💪🏼🫶🏼

As a science educator - scientific literacy and critical thinking could save us, if we let it

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE

I’m sharing Aliya’s entire opening statement. We owe it to her, and those who no longer have a voice, to watch. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...

Thank you for sharing this, it must be watched! My shoulders are at my ears - the absolute vile inhumanity of the many agents, the worst of us waging indignities on the best of us. Her composure throughout and how she calls out the decades of abuse of Black and Indigenous ppl, such grace

It's a liquor license in the MIDWEST. I grew up in Wisconsin -- the pain of this action is indescribable 💪 🫶

Love this creative resistance! As someone who grew up in Wisconsin, I understand what a liquor license means to a Midwest hotel and how much this hurts, fight like hell from all angles! And, thank you for your epic reporting throughout this crisis - you are informing the nation and world!

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Gen-X here too! 🙌

At Cambridge Analytica, Wylie created personality surveys to determine who was susceptible to radicalization by ISIS in order to intervene and prevent it. Bannon comes in and uses the surveys to determine who can be radicalized in order to RADICALIZE THEM into culture war MAGA monsters!

I'm OBSESSED with this piece! It says everything about where we are today - including but not limited to the role of big tech - META - in enabling this disaster. Bannon understood that politics flows downstream from culture - if you want to shift politics you shift culture - enter culture wars!

I am so sorry that you experienced this abuse and trauma! Fight like hell!

#DeleteMeta!

Whistleblower Explains How Cambridge Analytica Helped Fuel U.S. 'Insurgency' In 2014, Christopher Wylie resigned from his position as Cambridge Analytica's research director. He later exposed the company's role in the Trump presidential campaign and the Brexit referendum.

I revisit this interview all the time about the 2016 campaign and how bannon and trump tapped into grievances of white men who could no longer sexually abuse and harass women in the work place - couldn’t just be themselves anymore - and radicalized them to create exactly what maga is today!

Whistleblower Explains How Cambridge Analytica Helped Fuel U.S. 'Insurgency' In 2014, Christopher Wylie resigned from his position as Cambridge Analytica's research director. He later exposed the company's role in the Trump presidential campaign and the Brexit referendum.

I revisit this interview all the time about the 2016 campaign and how bannon and trump tapped into grievances of white men who could no longer sexually abuse and harass women in the work place - couldn’t just be themselves anymore - and radicalized them to create exactly what maga is today!

It’s wild when it’s the HEAD OF NIH too that’s doing the science dancing. I do think he felt like he lost that bit though, his face afterwards to me says so

holy shit

Shout out to Melinda Gates for her vulnerability and grace, I hope she uses her massive power for good. And excellent interview by Rachel Martin of @npr.org.

And: when will we LISTEN TO GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN AND WOMEN!!!!!!

The power of mocking Trump’s pathetic monsters It's impossible to ignore the administration's blend of violent repression and overwhelming cringe.

That is one helluva sentence! 🫡
Reminds me of this great piece I read yesterday by @annamerlan.bsky.social - about the role and power of humor in these dangerous times💪🏼🫶🏼

It’s wild when it’s the HEAD OF NIH too that’s doing the science dancing. I do think he felt like he lost that bit though, his face afterwards to me says so

It’s all part of the patronizing, racists, misogynistic performance. Some day there will be reckoning - these god, guns, country frauds must know that

We need YOU to be asking him questions, not folks who are uninformed and give him a wide platform to lie and gaslight and laugh like a creep

Exactly this, and what is that creepy laugh he and others do after the question?! It’s another way to demean the reporter and pretend the question is ridiculous - when it’s actually the legit U.S. CONSTITUTION.

My friend grew up on a cattle ranch and I had the honor to witness border collies working - herding, moving, guiding huge animals so much bigger than them. Of course they can learn words. They can follow directions, make decisions etc. Has anyone studied dogs doing what they were bred to do?

bari weiss is so small and petty and insecure that instead of letting anything resembling morals or ethics or EVIDENCE guide her, she uses her unearned power in a position she is not qualified for (and also bombing) to do whatever is opposite of the "woke mob" even if we're right and she knows it

This is so well written and interesting that I stopped what I was doing and read it in its entirety. Such a thought provoking piece on the role and power of humor and “laughtivism” as we fight for democracy in these dangerous and profoundly weird times. Thank you! 💪🏼🫶🏼