Tara Marchand

Screenshot of a Mastodon post by @DeliaChristina@sfba.social on Jan 28, 2025 at 06:45 AM via https://sfba.social/@DeliaChristina/113904395673138483 A friend who's a fed employee sent me a msg about what's happening in their agency and it is so much worse than I thought. It's not just that the Trump administration is breaking shit. They're literally building their own dark infrastructure inside the one that exists. They brought their own personnel, yes -- personnel who aren't even being cleared. They just come straight from Heritage or Musk, and they're setting up shop. They're bringing their own servers - so there are no communications that can be traced through 'the system.' This goes against every rule. They're all going through their own offline channels. That's what all that stuff about the meta data on those memos is about. No trace back to the WH. The Heritagers + Muskovites have purged all the senior folks and sending memos in the name of powerless juniors who remain. I don't want to sound alarmist but it's literally like those movies about evil fuckers taking over. It's another Jan 6 but with memos and communiques vs guns. It's a coup.

"It's a coup." -- sfba.social/@DeliaChrist...

I kept this screenshot assuming someday we might be asked to forget.

Sin of empathy? Damn.

Thank you. It seems we'll get little to no federal assistance, so we gotta do what we gotta do. Best state.

Did she somehow mistake Obama for the orange fool?

Republicans hate the military and our country.

Kevin is so beautiful!

Pretty sad when you have to correct the ADL about a Hitler salute.

No, so many saw who that guy is and wanted it. What those people have lost sight of is others' basic humanity.

Not much to see here, just Mark Zuckerberg making sure that Stephen Miller, of all people, greenlights Facebook's new hiring policies.

Gift link to this excellent NYT piece: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/u...

Not a good neighbor.

This is precisely why we're stuck with Trump again.

A group of men sit in front of a chart that incorrectly spells "military" as "miltary."

GOP members complaining about reduction of military standards while using a chart that misspells the word military!

Morning pussies! It is a NEW DAWN for this top banker, who is liberated to call us all retards at LAST

Interesting. My father was French-Canadian and was in the US Air Force. From Massachusetts, though. There's a Gagnon from the 1800s in the tree I've cobbled together on Ancestry.

Love this! Hello from a fellow queer Marchand. My wife’s family is in west LA, and I’ve spent a lot of time there, and I’ve been following this closely. Ridiculous that people lie and try to politicize this.

Rumors and debunking of disinformation/misinformation which is propagating about California's fires (on other platforms -- fortunately, that is not happening here)

https://gavinnewsom.com/california-fire-facts/

#wildfires #CAwx #California

Sen Adam Schiff has set up
this link to accept donations in the wake of the catastrophic Los Angeles area fires split equally among LA Fire Department Foundation, United Way of Greater LA & LA Regional Food Bank

secure.actblue.com/donate/q1202...

#StrongerTogether #LAProud

But wouldn’t Woods agree that the insurance industry shouldn’t be regulated, so it should be fine to cancel people’s policies? Free market!

You will read countless times today that the LA mayor cut the LA Fire Department's budget by $23 million.

That is a lie.

The budget was actually *increased* by $50 million.

I’m not going to use anything from Meta anymore, and it’d be awesome if others would do the same.

Firefighters for me, but not for thee!

Not helpful, and actually insulting.

No more Instagram for me!

Zuckerberg is so terrible and disappointing.

Musk told him to do it?

An excellent song!

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public.

He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit.

Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

What a garbage person.

Americans are really stupid.