Reposted by JazzthecatThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/02/2025PSA: They’re killing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau because it protects you from them. 16296763365
Reposted by JazzthecatRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/02/2025So the only asylum seekers the US will now admit are White people from former apartheid South Africa. 2382926936
Reposted by JazzthecatAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/02/2025Veterans Benefits Administration getting into a little good trouble by honoring black history month in an agency-wide email. 172134062590
Reposted by JazzthecatAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/02/2025We need to call out the blatant lie being pushed by the Trump administration—that Elon’s staffers have only “read-only” access. It has been confirmed across departments that they have “administrative” access to computer systems. 274146353579
Reposted by JazzthecatJust Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Civil disobedience will not be enough. 3145107670
Reposted by JazzthecatDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/02/2025This is a de facto massive budget cut to research universities. We are talking Great Recession size impacts. 8836631243
Reposted by JazzthecatRep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 07/02/2025👋🏽 here’s what @thedemocraticparty.bsky.social did today! 1581687499
Reposted by JazzthecatJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 07/02/2025He seems to think he’s King 2702688448
Reposted by JazzthecatMaxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 08/02/2025I remember when right-wing media said that I wasn’t qualified to be a member of Congress because of my credit card debt. My debt was nowhere near $1.2 million. Do they think the same of RFK Jr? Or does that standard only apply to young people? We know the answer. 26289912025
Reposted by JazzthecatAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/02/2025A non-government business that contracts with the federal government received notice today that in order to do business with the government they must certify that they don’t participate in DEI. So it’s not just the feds, it’s any private biz that contracts with the feds. Here’s the message they got: 1628144726658
Reposted by JazzthecatMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/02/2025The next Kennedy Center Honorees. Then, the Center and its awards will be renamed for a more recent president, the current one, and the woke rainbow ribbon design of the award will be replaced with bedazzled gold lamé. 70856671028
Reposted by JazzthecatRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Not a coincidence that the thing on the right happened right after the thing on the left came out. 1152125022640
Reposted by JazzthecatJenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 02/02/20256/ “A Tesla Cybertruck burned down at Tesla lot in Atlanta, battery fire suspected” 1/2/25 electrek.co/2025/01/02/a...electrek.coA Tesla Cybertruck burned down at Tesla lot in Atlanta, battery fire suspectedA Tesla Cybertruck caught on fire in the lot of a Tesla store in North Decatur, Georgia, near Atlanta. The... 29223
Reposted by JazzthecatDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/02/2025America is increasingly run by rich people who have a strong opinion about what the law *should be* and just act accordingly *by breaking the law.* You can't impound appropriations or stop payments on contracts because you dislike the spending. 351246219
Reposted by JazzthecatDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/02/2025I cannot tell you fucking dumb these statements are. The US govt spends a ton on contractors (including NGOs) to do stuff. Anything deemed not inherently governmental *by law* is legally required to be outsourced (see Circular A-76). This is how we have structured out govt forever! 1152980553
Reposted by JazzthecatPoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Our government is wasting no time telling us who matters… youtube.com/shorts/J2svy...youtube.comIntelligence LeaksYouTube video by PoliticsGirl 701739573
Reposted by JazzthecatGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 02/02/2025it is extremely important that we figure out how to get normies to understand that their car sauce got exponsive and toilet paper became a luxury good because trump unilaterally decided canada should be the 51st state, a thing no one asked for and that he cannot make happen even through trade war 331669366
Reposted by JazzthecatJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 02/02/2025This language describes a coup. You have to be a government employee, subject to the rules & procedures that bind gov employees, to do this kind of work. This is a blatant abuse of the public trust by the Trump administration, a true 5-alarm fire. www.wired.com/story/elon-m... 914213448148
Reposted by JazzthecatIndivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 02/02/2025Democrats aren’t powerless against Trump’s blitzkrieg power-grab. Senate rules are designed to protect the rights of the minority and Democrats have tools at their disposal to grind Senate business to a halt if Republicans try to ram through Trump’s extremist agenda: indivisible.org/resource/how... 9927941120
Reposted by JazzthecatAshley Lake @ashleylatke.bsky.social · 02/02/2025This Fiona Apple narrated explainer PSA on how to film (and release footage from, not livestream) ICE arrests is exactly what we need from people with production skills right now and is worth about 3 million celebrity “imagine” covers in terms of survival utilityvimeo.comWe Have Rights: When Documenting ICE ArrestsThis is "We Have Rights: When Documenting ICE Arrests" by MediaTank on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. 8466563418
Reposted by JazzthecatDevin Nunes' Alt-Mom @nunesalt.bsky.social · 02/02/2025I don't think people are really understanding that Elon Musk now controls the United States government. 28453109
Reposted by JazzthecatAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/02/2025Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US" 316512425834269
Reposted by JazzthecatBolts @boltsmag.org · 02/02/2025A nonprofit secured funding to open Grants Pass’s first low-barrier shelter after years of debate. Weeks later, the city’s new leadership killed it, citing a last-minute building inspection. Their plan for sheltering unhoused residents? There isn’t one.boltsmag.org/grants-... boltsmag.orgThis City Inspired A New National Standard for Policing Homelessness. Now It’s Cracking Down Even More.Months after a landmark Supreme Court ruling, the Oregon city of Grants Pass elected new leaders who immediately moved to reduce campsites available to unhoused residents. 24715
Reposted by JazzthecatRandi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 02/02/2025These are the Dem senators who voted to confirm Bessent, the dude who handed over YOUR personal/financial info/Social Security/Medicare/tax refund info- EVERYTHING - to Edolf Musk. Write to them. Call them. Now. Demand they do something and that they NOT confirm another single appointment. 36277143
Reposted by JazzthecatBarbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 02/02/2025BREAKING NEWS: 4:07 Anti-deportation protesters are blocking traffic on 101 Freeway in Los Angeles. They want to stop Trump’s deportations of illegal migrants 11174101984
Reposted by JazzthecatArif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 02/02/2025"No one ever thought this would happen" is dishonest and journalists not pointing that out are doing you all a disservice. Many people said word for word this would happen. You just didn't respect those people. And you need to be honest instead of the feigned surprise for sympathy. 9997332336
Reposted by JazzthecatMeagan Hatcher-Mays @importantmeagan.bsky.social · 02/02/2025look I’m no messaging expert but it seems like the American people might be interested to know that Donald Trump just gave our social security numbers to a teen called BigBalls 7573662771
Reposted by JazzthecatAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Mass demonstrations in Los Angeles, more that 10,000 people showed up to protest against Trump's ethnic cleansing and concentration camps. They gathered to protect the immigrant community which is being hunted down by ICE. #3E #USprotests #ICE "we shout for those who can't." 11362851634
Reposted by JazzthecatWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 02/02/2025The real story behind DC-collision jet pilot Jonathan Campos, a Brooklyn kid who soared to an American Dream of flight. His loved ones are pained by Trump's slurs about DEI in aviation A Puerto Rican pilot and the remarkable content of his character. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/jona...inquirer.comShort, remarkable life of DC pilot Jonathan Campos so much more than Trump’s hateful wordsThe true story of a Puerto Rican kid from Brooklyn and his American Dream of flight reveals the moral emptiness of the 47th president. 27973261
Reposted by JazzthecatLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Subscribe to WIRED. Seriously. Right now. Give them your money. 1827169
Reposted by JazzthecatMichael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Wired is doing the heavy-lift work we need on the biggest story of the moment (far bigger than the new tariffs, as big as that is). 817155
Reposted by JazzthecatJacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Contrary to some info I've seen, 19-yr-old Doge staffer "BigBalls" Edward Coristine did not delete his X account, it's just renamed and is private. Wired reported that govt tech workers had to defend their work to the Neuralink intern in an Office Space-esque scene. / more for Canadians 28150221653
Reposted by JazzthecatJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 02/02/2025USAID provides lifesaving humanitarian aid around the globe. Musk, the world's wealthiest man, is calling for its closure, describing it as a "criminal organization." And it looks like Musk will get his way. This is America. 1171555533
Reposted by JazzthecatIndivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 02/02/2025TONIGHT: Join us, @moveon.org, and @workingfamilies.org to talk about what comes next in our fight against Trump’s unconstitutional power grab and how you can make a difference. RSVP now: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/... 21526275
Reposted by JazzthecatSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 02/02/2025FAFO, senator. You did this. You made this monster. 1118131372896
Reposted by JazzthecatAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/02/2025Sean Duffy on Fox News Sunday suggests that "changing names from 'cockpit' to flightdeck'" undermined safety at the FAA 15303654760
Reposted by JazzthecatAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/02/2025Sean Duffy refuses to say under questioning from Jake Tapper that there's no evidence DEI had anything to do with the DCA disaster, even though he can't produce a shred of evidence to back up the notion it did 1380158563318
Reposted by JazzthecatShannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · 02/02/2025“Some federal employees at the Education Department have been placed on administrative leave for previously attending a diversity training.”politico.comEducation Department employees placed on leave for attending diversity trainingSeveral employees began receiving leave notices late Friday. 16430861470
Reposted by JazzthecatKara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 02/02/2025It is astonishing that mainstream media is covering this like it is a shruggie vibe 🤷♂️ 1920329157394
Reposted by JazzthecatMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 02/02/2025I was one of those warning how bad it would be and how Trump 2 would be much worse than anyone complacently assumed. But even I didn’t have ‘cancel all foreign aid, including to kids with HIV & malaria’ and also ‘let the world’s richest man get access to our private data’ on my 2025 bingo card. 22476451369
Reposted by JazzthecatMichael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 02/02/2025What the US is experiencing right now is fascism. There's no other word for it and pretending that it's verboten to say so diminishes the truth as much as they are diminishing the truth. It's fascism. It's arrived. 347149323399
Reposted by JazzthecatCREW @citizensforethics.org · 02/02/2025The Department of Justice’s removal of a database detailing criminal charges and convictions related to January 6th appears to be illegal. We're pushing for action.citizensforethics.orgDeletion of Jan 6 charges database appears to violate the law - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in WashingtonThe DOJ’s removal of a database detailing criminal charges and convictions related to the January 6th attack from its website appears to be illegal. The DOJ’s removal of a database detailing criminal ... 13236291418
