Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/04/2025Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about strikes in Yemen to a second unclassified Signal group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said. nyti.ms/4jBQ1wV 1537150934593 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialHeather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 21/04/2025April 20, 2025heathercoxrichardson.substack.comApril 20, 2025Yesterday, on the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord at the beginning of the Revolutionary War, Americans across the country protested against President Donald J. 231294313 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialHeather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 03/04/2025April 2, 2025heathercoxrichardson.substack.comApril 2, 2025 (Wednesday)Just five months ago, on October 19, 2024, The Economist ran a special report on America’s economy. 482503622 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialHeather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 31/03/2025March 30, 2025heathercoxrichardson.substack.comMarch 30, 2025On the Fox News Channel this morning, Director of the National Economic Council Kevin Hassett said: “President Trump has a long run vision of a golden age of America and we’re working really, really h... 361444386 0
danjurman.bsky.social @danjurman.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Money = Speech. Some people have more "Speech" than others. Thanks to the Supreme Court, we're now living in Orwell's "Animal Farm," where some animals are more "equal" than others. 000 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialHeather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 29/03/2025March 28, 2025heathercoxrichardson.substack.comMarch 28, 2025“Another wipeout walloped Wall Street Friday,” Stan Choe of the Associated Press wrote today. 362080561 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialHeather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 27/03/2025March 26, 2025heathercoxrichardson.substack.comMarch 26, 2025Monday’s astounding story that the most senior members of President Donald Trump’s administration planned military strikes on Yemen over an unsecure commercial messaging app, on which they had include... 651631468 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialDeb Cares 4 Iowa @debcares4iowa.bsky.social · 23/03/2025The Measles outbreak is moving closer to #Iowa 2018479 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialJoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 23/03/2025So… the very same Republicans who said they were cutting SNAP because hunger could be “addressed by food banks”, just cut $500 MILLION in funding for… You guessed it. Food banks. 377113973776 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22/03/2025So look at that. DOGE has cost the US Treasury fucking half a trillion dollars. HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS. This is your cost savings. 18497894157 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/03/2025TIME MAG has a piece by a reporter embedded at the El Salvadoran prison who watched as Andry, a gay asylum-seeking Venezuelan barber they said is a gang member but is not, was slapped and screamed for his mother as they held him down. Horrific. time.com/7269604/el-s... 19440791706 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialBlanche Devereaux II @gingerkap23.bsky.social · 22/03/2025I try not to post his face or voice but this video by @thedailyshow.com is pretty good 21814347 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialHeather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 23/03/2025March 22, 2025heathercoxrichardson.substack.comMarch 22, 2025Perhaps in response to the growing outcry over last weekend’s rendition of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under a legal justification a federal judge has found questionable, President Donald Trump... 441731438 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialHeather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Important. Either Trump is so far gone mentally he doesn’t know what he’s doing, or people are acting in his name without his knowledge. This was an order with enormous implications, and the President of the United States says he didn’t do it. 75565512305 0
danjurman.bsky.social @danjurman.bsky.social · 22/03/2025For those who've followed my COVID journey since December 2019, when my pancreas was damaged by the virus and I became a type 1 diabetic - I'm no longer a type 1. My pancreas has healed enough that I have gone a week now with no insulin injections for the first time in four years. Feeling good! 010 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/03/2025The Trump regime is threatening to shut down the Social Security Administration in response to a court ruling blocking DOGE from further infiltrating the agency. If your Social Security check is late or doesn't arrive at all, remember who is to blame.bloomberg.comSocial Security Says DOGE Ruling Could Force Agency to Shut DownThe Trump administration is threatening to all but shut down the Social Security Administration in response to a judge’s ruling blocking activities by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency — an action that could delay payments to millions of beneficiaries caught in the middle of the legal battle. 28642931665 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Trump’s Commerce Secretary told people to buy Tesla stock last night. The White House announced that it will use Starlink internet earlier this week. And Trump held a Tesla showcase at the White House last week. The robber barons of the first Gilded Age would be jealous. 21550181175 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialHeather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 21/03/2025March 20, 2025heathercoxrichardson.substack.comMarch 20, 2025It seems as if the Trump administration is rushing to tear apart as much as it can as opponents of its wholesale destruction of the United States government organize to stop them. 541648482 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/03/2025The FTC has pending lawsuits against Amazon, Meta, & Google. Trump is trying to gut the FTC by firing two Democratic commissioners. The NLRB is fighting against Amazon & SpaceX in court for violating workers' rights. Trump tried to gut the NLRB. See the problem here? 13955401702 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialHeather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 20/03/2025March 19, 2025heathercoxrichardson.substack.comMarch 19, 2025On the Fox News Channel’s The Five yesterday, the panel of Fox personalities expressed outrage that federal judge James Boasberg had ordered the Trump administration to stop its deportation of migrant... 481663427 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialTris @trisresists.bsky.social · 18/03/2025RFK Jr. & his brain worm would just like to remind everyone that he doesn’t give a flying fuck. ‘If H5N1 were to be allowed to run through a flock of 5 million birds, “that’s literally 5 million chances for that virus to replicate or to mutate,” Dr. Hansen said.😱 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/h...nytimes.comRFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let It SpreadThe health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say. 56582882650 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 18/03/2025amazing putin and this host guy laugh about trump being a huge cuck live on camera here, as he reminds putin that trump is waiting by the phone 681559475 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialThe Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 18/03/2025This is not cutting waste, fraud and abuse. This is chaos and anarchy. 36533179 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialThe Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 18/03/2025The Department of Justice argued Tuesday that President Donald Trump would be well within his authority to fire all agency chiefs who are women—or over the age of 40.thedailybeast.comDOJ Argues Trump Could Fire All Agency Heads Who Are Women or Over 40A Justice Department attorney made the argument in response to a hypothetical scenario posed by a federal judge. 54364167 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialHeather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 19/03/2025March 18, 2025heathercoxrichardson.substack.comMarch 18, 2025On Saturday, U.S. 392163546 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialHeather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 18/03/2025March 17, 2025heathercoxrichardson.substack.comMarch 17, 2025From 1942 to 1945, the Code Talkers were key to every major operation of the Marine Corps in the Pacific Theater. 762773803 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialWaldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 18/03/2025Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.nytimes.comElon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House ComplexTrump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office. 576182468045 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Trying to imagine Biden withholding disaster funds from red states unless they first instituted gun control 18563122195 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialPhysicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 16/03/2025@raskin.house.gov 341718368 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialLittle Fury Fellah @elnosnusk.bsky.social · 15/03/2025In case you doubted that he’s a russian asset, know that VOA was instrumental in keeping the hope of freedoms alive in the Soviet Union and is hated with a passion by putin for exactly that. This is no accident. 14724259 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialStaci D. Kramer @sdkstl.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Statement from VOA Director Michael Abramowitz, placed on admin leave this weekend and locked out his office along with more than 1300 other journalists, producers and support staff. Posted on personal FB 8427154 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialLynne @lynne-sails.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Test. Cases. Any little infraction. But don't think they can't make up infractions...they already are. 14434175 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialRachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 15/03/2025This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH 7072653710659 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 15/03/2025I'm not kidding that the word "equality," a word used in the Declaration of Independence, has been put on the verboten list by the Trump Administration. bsky.app/profile/pete... 20613217 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialMark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 15/03/2025If you live in NC, call every Republican politician you know. Call every farmer you know and ask them to do the same When money walks , voters talk. Make sure they know this effects everyone in their town and state www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...wunc.orgUSDA cancels $11 million in federal funding for North Carolina food banksThe USDA has notified the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services that it would terminate the agreement for the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program, which is one of the progr... 20175093019376 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16/03/2025It’s unreal - the DOD deleted its page for Charles Calvin Rodgers, a Medal of Honor recipient who was wounded three times while defending against three assaults on his base in Vietnam. Now the URL includes “DEI Medal of Honor.” There’s something about Rodgers I don’t even have to tell you 789184285609 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/03/2025I offer you these reasons for very modest hope not because I want you to deny the awfulness of what’s occurring, but because I want you to see we are not necessarily doomed. Here’s this week’s summary of 10 reasons for very modest optimism. robertreich.substack.com/p/even-more-...robertreich.substack.comEven more reasons for very modest optimismTen more. 912217575 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialHeather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 15/03/2025March 15, 2025heathercoxrichardson.substack.comMarch 14, 2025Today the Senate passed a stopgap measure from the House of Representatives to fund the government for six months through September 30. 722624640 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialKrassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 11/03/2025 1571236997465 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10/03/2025All roads lead to Russia. 652047477 0
danjurman.bsky.social @danjurman.bsky.social · 05/03/2025www.propublica.org/article/how-...propublica.orgHow DOGE’s Cuts to the IRS Threaten to Cost More Than DOGE Will Ever SaveThe Trump administration claims gutting federal agencies will save money, but cutting the IRS means the government collects less taxes. “If you’re interested in the deficit and curbing it, why would y... 000 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Thick hair, chiseled cheek, can’t lose. 233746127 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Get. Him. Out. Of. Our. Government. 27275767216292 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialSahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Trump voter who got laid off from IRS tells NBC10: “I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found [waste] instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason.” www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p... 133438103 0
danjurman.bsky.social @danjurman.bsky.social · 21/02/2025www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/06...vanityfair.comThe N.R.A. Spent $30 Million to Elect Trump. Was It Russian Money?Congressional Democrats, the F.B.I., and Robert Mueller want to know why Putin-tied oligarchs took such an interest in American gun ownership. 000 0
danjurman.bsky.social @danjurman.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. 000 0
danjurman.bsky.social @danjurman.bsky.social · 08/02/2025www.newsweek.com/usaid-elon-m...newsweek.comAlleged USAID probe into Starlink raises Elon Musk conflict concernsIn 2022, USAID and Starlink collaborated to provide 5,000 Starlink terminals to Ukraine amid its ongoing war against Russia. 000 0
danjurman.bsky.social @danjurman.bsky.social · 03/02/2025It's happening quickly, folks. An unelected, unaccountable billionaire from South Africa is reshaping the government in a way that benefits foreign enemies with whom he also meets and does business. 010 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/01/2025This was LBJ’s order of 1965 specifying non-discriminatory practices in federal government hiring and employment. 1093422675 0
Reposted by @danjurman.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Everyone was warned about this, and it’s happening just as we feared. 1220273646266 0
