Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Breaking: TORONTO (AP) - Canadian province of Ontario applies 25% electricity surcharge to U.S. in response to Trump's tariff war. 1444252858
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialAmanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Hegseth's "DEI" purge at Defense is so broad that photos of the Enola Gay got flagged. That tidbit is funny. The larger story is grotesque, including Hegseth ending the policy barring racial segregation in the workplace. www.salon.com/2025/03/10/e...salon.com"Enola Gay will henceforth be known as Enola Straight": Pete Hegseth's DEI paranoia knows no limitsTrump’s Defense Secretary ended a 1965 policy barring racial segregation from contract facilities 37613202
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10/03/2025I thought I should let you all know what is going on over at Twitter ASAP Spread the word: Elon Musk is indeed deportation-eligible 38679273306
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/03/2025The Trump-Musk Regime is reportedly planning to cut as much as 50% of the IRS workforce. Make no mistake: this will starve the government of revenue by making it easier for the rich to evade taxes — which the top 1% already do to the tune of $163 billion a year. Hello? 22671352097
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/03/2025This Sunday, the whole country needs to spring forward from 1939. 791494417700
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/03/2025"Antisemitism in the Oval Office: A confrontation seen with a historian's eye" snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...snyder.substack.comAntisemitism in the Oval OfficeA confrontation seen with a historian's eye 641426447
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Bribes. They’re known as bribes. 46696832014
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Well said! 12127588319037
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialJeff Rudd 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 🇵🇸 @jeffrudd.bsky.social · 05/03/2025The destruction of real free speech and democracy. 011
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/03/2025This is ugly: Trump's DOJ has effectively informed immigration judges in a new memo that they can no longer rely on rules that protect against arbitrary firing. This lays groundwork for removing them if they rule the "wrong" way too often. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1923...newrepublic.comTrump’s Rage Over “Low” Deportations Suddenly Gets More UnnervingA new DOJ memo argues that immigration judges can be stripped of civil-service protections. That could lay the groundwork for firing them if they don’t rule the “right” way. 711833966
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/03/2025"Party of law and order." www.npr.org/2025/01/30/n...npr.orgCriminal records of Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump include rape, domestic violenceDozens of Jan. 6 defendants who received pardons from President Trump had past criminal convictions for charges including rape, manslaughter, domestic violence and drug trafficking. 542187598
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad 485238738210
everettgirl.bsky.social @everettgirl.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Did anyone else get a SSI payment that was lower than your used to getting? 000
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialLauren Parlett, PhD @laurenparlett.com · 03/03/2025🧪 Repost to spread the word! 23214
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialMU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 03/03/2025👇 #StandUpForScience 🧪 March 7th #ScienceIsPeople Science belongs to EVERYONE! 14314
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialDorian J. Burnette @djburnette.com · 03/03/2025A powerful statement from @ametsoc.org: "Recent terminations within the government workforce for science are likely to cause irreparable harm and have far-reaching consequences for public safety, economic well-being, and the United States' global leadership." 🧪ametsoc.orgThe U.S. Weather Enterprise: A National Treasure at RiskThe AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service. 23622
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialBotany One @botany.one · 03/03/2025New research reveals how drought affects wildflower traits and influences bee foraging preferences. Findings suggest climate change could disrupt plant-pollinator relationships wp.me/pdRZhH-lMS #Botany #PlantScience 🧪 1187
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialPaul Bierman @paul-bierman.bsky.social · 03/03/2025excellent to see! 🧪 03910
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/03/2025Chris Murphy: "Everyone who signs up to work for Donald Trump is signing up for one single project, and that is the transition of American democracy to a kind of kleptocratic oligarchy in which the billionaires rule and get to steal from regular Americans." 451173214996
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialInequality Media Civic Action @imcivicaction.bsky.social · 02/03/2025 23719252
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialJohn Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 01/03/2025I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org18f.orgWe're not done yet | 18F 31689268130846
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialChicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 01/03/2025President Donald Trump’s administration has begun terminating grants to organizations that enforce the Fair Housing Act by taking complaints, investigating and litigating housing discrimination cases for Americans across the country.chicagotribune.comTrump administration to slash funding for enforcement of fair housing lawsPresident Donald Trump’s administration has begun terminating grants to organizations that enforce the Fair Housing Act by taking complaints, investigating and litigating housing discrimination cas… 28218150
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Hundreds of NOAA employees are being fired by Trump and DOGE. The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US. A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans. Again, this isn't about efficiency. 26784582345
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialAshley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Donald Trump has betrayed Ukraine. His abhorrent actions today have embarrassed and weakened this country in the eyes of the world. 772704690
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Since I offered you 10 reasons for modest optimism last week, discontent with the Trump-Musk regime has surged even further. America appears to be waking up. Here’s the latest evidence — 10 more reasons for modest optimism. robertreich.substack.com/p/more-rea…robertreich.substack.com10 more reasons for modest optimismFriends, 602058430
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialJeff Rudd 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 🇵🇸 @jeffrudd.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Due to the capitalist narture of America where unions are tried blocked by Amazon, etc, workers holidays are a disgrace, the health system is about financial exploitation, politicians are bought off by bribing lobbyists & the basic rate of pay per hour is kept oppressively low, this is what you get! 142
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Cartoon by Nick Anderson 17997482872
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 26/02/2025The large clinical trial of a new Covid vaccine pill (not shot) was halted by RFK Jr www.aol.com/multimillion... The Covid nasal vaccines may be next up to be axed.aol.comMultimillion-dollar Biden-era COVID-19 vax project halted by Trump’s HHSDepartment of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. paused a $240 million contract to create a new coronavirus vaccine. 39246522866
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Important: A *Republican* Congressman, Austin Scott, just wrote to Marco Rubio urging him to address the problems I reported on below that are putting lifesaving treatment for severely malnourished children abroad at risk. He joins Dem Rep Seth Magaziner. Horrific stuff: 661492538
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Per @thetransitguy.bsky.social: “This is what the Cuyahoga River looked like before the EPA and Clean Water Act, btw. The river used to catch on fire.” 631299552
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 26/02/2025“I’ve been tracking these races for many years. I’ve never seen this much interest in a state supreme court election coming directly from the White House.” The GOP is going to unprecedented lengths to seize power over state courts in North Carolina and Wisconsin.motherjones.comRepublicans and Elon Musk are also causing a constitutional crisis in the statesThe GOP is going to unprecedented lengths to seize power over state courts in North Carolina and Wisconsin. 31473225
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 26/02/2025"A woman is like a child": MAGA quickly turns its sights on stripping Republican women of powersalon.com"A woman is like a child": MAGA turns its sights on stripping Republican women of powerConservative women believe complicity will save them, but an emboldened far-right is gunning for their rights 2081393643
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Trump is now proposing to sell a $5 million "gold card" that will provide a fast-track to citizenship for the ultra-wealthy. He's doing this as he tries to place restrictions on certain forms legal immigration, including pausing admission to refugees displaced by violence. 2021414424
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/02/2025As Elon Musk guts entire government agencies and fires thousands of federal workers that deliver vital services to the country, remember that his corporations have received at least $38 billion in government contracts over the past 20 years. Yet will any of this be touched by DOGE? Of course not. 782280871
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/02/2025@rbreich.bsky.social: “For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13. For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26. Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency. It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.” 309148465150
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialLibby Whittemore @libbage55.bsky.social · 24/02/2025#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British… 5014036211339
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/02/2025While you weren't looking, Trump rolled back Biden's ethics rules prohibiting executive branch employees from accepting major gifts from lobbyists. So much for "drain the swamp."apnews.comTrump has canceled Biden's ethics rules. Critics call it the opposite of 'drain the swamp'Donald Trump took office eight years ago pledging to “drain the swamp” of the dominance of Washington influence peddlers. 26858802034
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/02/2025A reminder that Elon Musk's corporations were promised $3 billion across nearly 100 different contracts last year with 17 federal agencies. While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall. 13253561733
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/02/2025The wages of the richest 1% have skyrocketed 182% since 1979. Meanwhile, the wages of the bottom 90% have seen just 44% growth. Trickle down economics was always a hoax. 518202415358
Reposted by everettgirl.bsky.socialAdam Zyglis @adamzyglis.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Relax everyone, he’s just trolling us… 9550251253
