Cindy Smith Bottoms

Thank you @barackobama.bsky.social for your work and dedication to ACA. It came just in time for me to get insurance for my cancer treatment!

Overflow crowd for Bernie/AOC rally in Greeley, CO — the small one today, big one is in Denver later

Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.

when Elon Musk started recruiting for DOGE last November, he said the work would be “tedious” and “compensation is zero"

now it turns out some DOGE operatives are earning six-figure salaries, one as high as $195,200, as much as a civil servant can legally make

www.wired.com/story/doge-g...

What do you do when you are home sick and it's economic boycott day? I am boycotting Meta for the day as well.

He sold it to ebay yrs ago. I thought the same

He won't be gone until he dies.

Normalize pronouncing DOGE as DOUCHE.

Tweet: Reporter: "So to be clear - unelected government officials are dangerous, but unelected billionaires making policy decisions are fine?" Mike Johnson: "That's not what I said" Reporter: "Right, but it's what's happening. You're handing major government functions to a private citizen with no oversight. If he were in the EPA you'd be calling him a deep state bureaucrat" Mike Johnson: "I think you're misunderstanding the situation" Reporter: "No, I think I'm just describing it out loud"

Mikey is a teensy bit inconsistent.

Joker had to have his own journal/puppy book for all of his stuff. He has truly been the best therapy.

Panama rejects U.S. claim it dropped canal fees after Rubio visit Panama’s president said the State Department’s declaration that tolls have been eliminated was a “falsehood.”

“Panama communicates to the world my absolute rejection of this method of managing bilateral relations on the basis of lies and falsehoods.” —President Mulino

(gift link) wapo.st/3WTA50b

No conflict, no interest, as the tech bros like to say.

The struggle is real.

I find myself extremely disappointed in people who agree with what Trump, et al are doing. I don't even want to associate with them because they must have a totally different value system than I do and it's at such a deep level that I can't get past it.

Make America Highly Pathogenic Again If RFK Jr. gets to helm HHS, global health is at risk.

Out today in @foreignpolicy.com: I wrote about what will happen if there is an H5N1 pandemic with Robert F Kennedy, Jr. in charge of safeguarding the health of Americans.

If H5N1 begins spreading human to human, the deaths will be counted in millions.🧵👇
foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/30/r...

Sad when it's your own Governor who gets called out for looking like a fool.

If you are a federal worker being offered a buyout, I would advise against taking it.

Of course, this is a personal decision for everyone and it’s your choice.

But these offers are a rush job. The legality is questionable and this admin does not keep to its word.

They aren’t firing for a reason.

I have been working on my boho journal and wanted to make some interesting paper for clusters and decorating my pages. I made this and now I am absolutely obsessed with it! I don't even want to tear it up to use.

I had to get him a cat bed because the dog beds are all too big. At least it's a place for him to light besides in between my feet. He still needs a name.

I enjoy PBS news.

Hey Wendy. I can't answer for the platform but I welcome you. I have been enjoying your YouTube videos and missing Fodder school.

Here are more great science communicators to follow!

@enirenberg.bsky.social
@johnmcmd.bsky.social
@pauloffit.bsky.social
@jonathanstea.bsky.social
@drjanicekirsch.bsky.social
@drjonl.bsky.social
@debunk-the-funk.bsky.social
@helenp-h.bsky.social
@vickicrabb.bsky.social

Speaking of healthcare. Let's make @bsky.app the platform that fights misinformation. Some great follows are @drsusanoliver.bsky.social @jsm2334.bsky.social @therealtruther.bsky.social

Let's get them more followers and engagement than other platforms and let health science accounts find a home

My new baby! He is a Rottweiler in his own mind. I am thinking Legend may be his name.

I enjoyed the book although I did think it was a bit...weird but I read fantasy so I sm used to weird.

I think their news outlets like to sensationalize things and cause it against people who are not like them. I don't know, I have been trying to figure out how seemingly rational people can believe the things they do

Ebay works. Same sellers, usually sell for less on ebay.

Someone told me that it was fear based.

Today is our national day of shame as our incoming president pardons the rabble that stormed our capital and assaulted police officers while threatening our congress with bodily harm.

It never really mattered until I started doing morning pages and 3 pages of writing makes a difference