Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10/06/2025 1482165046639
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 11/06/2025I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law. 136910264721942
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Trump doesn't want legit international students, but he's ok with peddling access to foreigners paying into his crypto biz! It's un-American & its wrong I discussed @cnn @erinburnett.bsky.social @cnn.com 24661166
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Scores of staffers at the White House National Security Council have been abruptly dismissed as part of a sweeping overhaul that slashes the staff from over 300 to just 50. The move shifts the NSC’s role from policymaking to simply carrying out the president’s directives. 47998603904
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 23/05/2025The cruelty is the point. 2909262588623
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 22/05/2025“What the heck’s the commissioner of Social Security?" That's a real question from Frank Bisignano...the commissioner of Social Security. Millions of Americans depend on Social Security. They should be able to trust that the head of the agency even knows what the job is.abcnews.go.comNew head of Social Security, hired from Wall Street, tells staff he had to Google the job when he was offered itNewly sworn-in Social Security chief Frank Bisignano, who previously was a Wall Street executive, told staffers he had to Google the SSA job when it was offered to him. 59291623239
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Watch what they do, not what they say. 785144824892
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 22/05/2025 1206279106121
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙jim06880.bsky.social @jim06880.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Autogenocide is a word nerd's word, no doubt. But it is remarkably descriptive of the situation we find ourselves in. Credit to Heather Marsh for "insisting" that this is the right word. 926199
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Emergency #3E protest: May 22, in Washington D.C., at every State Capitol, City Hall, and Town Hall. "A bill that strips people of food and health care is not a tax policy, it is autogenocide." "They are stealing from the bottom 10% and transferring it to the top 10%" #3E #StopTheBillionaireBailout 30986451
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Speaker Pro Tempore: You are to direct your comments to the chair. Jeffries: You know what's interesting? Every time I come on this floor, I can use sharp language, he can use sharp language, you choose to admonish me. I don't work for you sir. I work for the American people. 634205725601
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Here’s an idea: Stop acting like the Gestapo. 1572222384683
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Warnock: You literally have, in real time, the leader of another nation-state—in this case, South Africa—there to talk to him about trade, and he’s saying, “Sorry, Mr. President, we don’t have a plane to offer you.” And you see why we have an Emoluments Clause in the first place. 407195925128
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 22/05/2025To understand what the GOP is forcing through at midnight: •Gutting $880 billion from Medicaid •Gutting $500 billion from Medicare •Gutting funding for SNAP (food assistance) •Gutting clean energy protections, which will also cost 400,000 jobs 1/2 13634041793
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙Randall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social · 21/05/2025"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again. 207168184863
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Frost: Tonight the people stealing are not folks with tattoos and hoodies but people wearing suits and ties and congressional pins sitting in the capitol now, not in some alley wrapped in darkness but the United States congress wrapped in the flag. It is disgusting and we will never forget this. 581321799887
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙Fired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition) @firedbutfighting.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Our team of CDC'ers and public health supporters, thought this moment was notable, too! We are proud to have you, @drtomfrieden.bsky.social, with us in the fight for public health and CDC. #CDCsaveslives #saveCDC 16973208
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/05/2025BREAKING: MeidasTouch, the nation’s top independent pro-democracy media network, is proud to announce that attorney and renowned legal analyst Katie Phang has launched a brand-new YouTube channel in partnership with MeidasTouch. Subscribe now: youtube.com/@katiephangnews 693281925640
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 21/05/2025That's Exactly What He Did And It Was All Illegal!! 55495534066
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 22/05/2025 1092152495507
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/05/2025So you’re telling us the radical transparency people are against… transparency? www.politico.com/news/2025/05... 579117264485
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 22/05/2025MUST WATCH: They didn’t just burn Tulsa — they burned proof. Black wealth. Black futures. Gone. And now they’re banning books so you never learn it happened. 📚 ERASED tells the truth they’re scared of. Read it before they erase that too: stan.store/gxldsociety/... 385128624851
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Hayes: Every provision in this program is cruel and they know it. That's why none of them spoke on it in committee. That's why they have no response. That's why they don't hold town halls. That's why they don't answer questions. All they do is tweet, repeat, and hide in the back until they vote yes 243142254832
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Federal judge dresses down Alina Habba: "Your role is not to secure convictions at all costs, nor to satisfy public clamor, nor to advance political agendas. Your allegiance is to the impartial application of the law, to the pursuit of truth and to the upholding of due process for all." 1230364718495
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 22/05/2025@warren.senate.gov: "They're fighting over how many children should go hungry so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island." 323201676066
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Adriana Smith’s story MUST be told so America can understand what’s at stake when draconian abortion laws like the one in GA keep a brain dead pregnant woman on life support just so the fetus can be delivered. What kind of dystopian hellscape has Dobbs created? m.youtube.com/watch?v=wNYT...m.youtube.comGOP Bill Faces INTESE SCRUTINY Amidst Shocking TRAGEDYYouTube video by Katie Phang 25260332089
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 20/05/2025Is it too much to ask for an IRS Commissioner who understands the law? 1279369948060
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 21/05/2025This is perhaps the best essay on this sad and fateful mess www.politico.com/news/magazin...politico.comOpinion | All the President's EnablersThree books on Joe Biden’s presidency jointly paint a devastating portrait of an ailing, geriatric leader surrounded by mendacious aides and grasping family members. 28242787
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Fact checking alone isn't enough when these people speak Fact-twist-checking is the new gold standard. Sheesh. 394159395780
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/05/2025McGovern: "This is not a governing philosophy. It is a scam. I wasn't sent here to vote for trash. I can't understand why you'd choose a career of public service to do this -- to rip away the healthcare & food assistance of working & middle class Americans. Is that really what you came here to do?" 588231887434
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/05/2025The entire federal government has been mobilized for SeashellGate. It’s all hands on deck. 153595601833
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 15/05/2025If people don’t get *preventative* care, they will have worse health outcomes because, hear me out here, they will develop issues that were PREVENTABLE. Healthcare isn’t a right just for those with money, it’s a human right. 1365092
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 16/05/2025www.thedailybeast.com/kid-rocks-re...thedailybeast.comKid Rock’s Restaurant Closes to Avoid Trump’s ICE RaidsKid Rock’s Big A-- Honky Tonk Rock N’ Roll Steakhouse in Tennessee shuttered reportedly closed on Saturday to avoid being caught by ICE. 1322162454254
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/05/2025AOC: If anyone is breaking the law in this situation, it’s not members of Congress — it’s DHS. It’s people like Tom Homan and Secretary Kristi Noem. You lay a finger on Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman or any of the Representatives that were there… we’re going to have a problem. 666287107317
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/05/2025MERKLEY: Are you gonna launch an investigation of the reported violation of the due process of several hundred people? P: It is not for me to call the balls & strikes M: You haven't read the Constitution? It says 'all persons'...it concerns me you're not familiar w/the core concept of due process 1911325778946
Truth Seeking Librarian💙 @btaboh.bsky.social · 09/05/2025DISGRACEFUL! IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME... To get rid of the supposed DEI hire and replace Hayden, the first African American and woman to hold that position, with most likely a right-wing conservative white guy loyal to the ideology of the Felon-In-Chief www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...npr.orgPresident Trump fires Librarian of Congress Carla HaydenHayden, who became the first woman and the first African American to serve as the Librarian of Congress when she was appointed in 2016, was abruptly fired via email late Thursday. 020
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Mark Zuckerberg’s charity quietly cuts funding for affordable housing, homelessness groupsmercurynews.comMark Zuckerberg’s philanthropy quietly cuts funding for affordable housing, homelessness groupsMany Bay Area housing orgs were caught up in the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s push to end ‘social advocacy’ grants in the wake of DEI scrutiny. 86364353790
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 03/05/2025“Do not mock us.” 2882422738941
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 02/05/2025This isn't hypothetical. The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president. 9263503310492
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 02/05/2025We must fight to save PBS and NPR. 540137183661
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Trump’s EO defunding PBS and NPR will likely be struck down as an abuse of executive power, but it is another example of Trump’s attack on the free press. www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...washingtonpost.comPublic media ready to fight ‘unlawful’ Trump order defunding PBS, NPRThe Trump executive order instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to halt indirect funding of NPR and PBS through grants to local stations. 461660363
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/05/2025AOC: Tom Homan said he was going to refer me to DOJ because I’m using my free speech rights in order to advise people of their constitutional protections… to that I say: Come for me… Do I look like I care? There’s nothing illegal about it and if they want to make it illegal, they can come take me. 11015171611309
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 30/04/2025 580185304419
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 30/04/2025Elon Musk and DOGE have spent the past 100 days threatening the nonpartisan civil service who deliver essential services to all Americans. We’ve spent the past 100 days in court, bringing 59 legal actions against the Trump administration. And we’re just getting started. 742174
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Walz: You have a situation where the Secretary of Health basically said it and was speaking with the language of eugenics, that some people just don't matter. People like Deanna's son or my son or those of you listening tonight. So look, this is a fight we must win. 222195995245
Reposted by Truth Seeking Librarian💙José Orta @orta69.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Thank you Greyhound! 7255173411763