Reposted by Nausicaa242Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 03/01/2026The legal justification the WH gave us for attacking Venezuelan boats in int’l waters without Congressional approval was weak, and exposes the WH and military staff to domestic and international criminal prosecution. They have not even sought to justify strikes within Venezuela. 622367570
Reposted by Nausicaa242Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Can’t believe the guy whose love language is hate speech didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize 10423149
Reposted by Nausicaa242vexipupusnarkyboo.bsky.social @vexipupusnarkyboo.bsky.social · 18/07/2025The True Face of the G.O.P. 095
Reposted by Nausicaa242Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Best Twitter riposte of the day. 28747260
Reposted by Nausicaa242Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Better Living Through Chemistry 424643
Reposted by Nausicaa242Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 30/04/2025NEW: The Justice Department is quietly dismantling its voting section and redirecting it to target voter fraud, marking an alarming departure from the department’s longstanding purpose of protecting ballot access. From: @mattdcohen.bsky.socialdemocracydocket.comTrump’s DoJ to Focus on Voter Fraud, Not Voting RightsRead more here. 35242120
Nausicaa242 @nausicaa242.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Delaware governor Matt Myer speaks about the dangers of Medicaid cuts to Delawareans at ‘No Kings’ protest at Rehoboth Beach, DE. Also confronts some attending MAGA to remind them they are hurt too 192
Reposted by Nausicaa242Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Don't be afraid to call things by what they are. MAGA is a terrorist organization, ICE is a secret police force conducting Ethnic Cleansing, Elon Musk is an oligarch, and Trump is a foreign backed coup d'état figurehead. This is not an administration, this is a regime, and your country is occupied. 410143395454
Reposted by Nausicaa242Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 23/03/2025To preserve democracy our Founders set up 3 separate branches of government – the Executive, the Legislature & the Judiciary. Two are already corrupted. The last pillar standing is the Judiciary - the rule of Law. Trump is now intent on rendering it powerless so that he will have unfettered power 1421280414
Reposted by Nausicaa242Emily Peck @emilypeck.bsky.social · 19/03/2025From @russcontreras.bsky.social www.axios.com/2025/03/18/t...axios.comTrump administration ends "segregated facilities" ban in federal contractsThe Civil Rights Act of 1964 still outlaws segregation in business, but the move is symbolic. 055
Reposted by Nausicaa242Ali Adair @aliadair22.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Re-posting this important article 🚨 🇭🇺 Hungarians who lived through Viktor Orbán’s 2010 power grab warn Americans: Act now, before it’s too late. www.vox.com/politics/398...vox.comTheir democracy died. They have lessons for America about Trump’s power grab.Hungarians who lived through Viktor Orbán’s 2010 power grab warn Americans: Act now, before it’s too late. 8171129
Reposted by Nausicaa242Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 15/03/2025"DOGE is not about efficiency. It is about erasure. Democracy is being deleted in slow motion, replaced by proprietary technology and AI models. It is a coup, executed not with guns, but with backend migrations and database wipes." www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-a...notesfromthecircus.comThe Plot Against AmericaHow a Dangerous Ideology Born From the Libertarian Movement Stands Ready to Seize America 722394
Reposted by Nausicaa242Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Ever dangerous and despicable, Elon Musk amplified a defense of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler — claiming that “public sector workers,” not Hitler, murdered millions of people. Indisputably, Hitler was, in fact, a genocidal murderer. However, Musk supports the outrageous claim that the German… 771004393
Reposted by Nausicaa242Hang Solo @hangsolonm.bsky.social · 13/03/2025This is what the Space Nazi wants- the desolate landscape of Mars, here on Earth. 462
Reposted by Nausicaa242Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 12/03/2025HAPPENING NOW: Judge Reyes has kicked off a crucial hearing President Trump's effort to ban transgender people from serving in the military. She is beginning by pressing DOJ lawyer on the changes in military policy toward transgender people beginning in 2017. 211686343
Reposted by Nausicaa242Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/03/2025Christine, 33, explains that young scientists will be hit hardest by these cuts. "If you don't get grants and bring in money, you're not seen as a viable scientist, and so that's the career to becoming a professional and being able to stay in the field."youtube.comScience March: "If you don't get grants and bring in money, you're not seen as a viable scientist."YouTube video by Mother Jones 23713147
Reposted by Nausicaa242Po Murray @pomurray.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Musk’s baby DOGE team is paying themselves 6-figure salaries with our tax dollars while firing federal workers. Jeremy Lewin is making >$167,000. Kyle Schutt is making $195,200. Nate Cavanaugh is making >$120,500. www.wired.com/story/doge-g...wired.comSome DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government SalariesEngineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting. 48713499
Reposted by Nausicaa242Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 04/02/2025NASA workers were told to "drop everything" and spend their time scrubbing mentions of women in leadership, indigenous people, and environmental justice from the web: www.404media.co/nasa-dei-dro...404media.coWorkers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites"This is a drop everything and reprioritize your day request," a directive "per NASA HQ direction" stated. 22335142012
Reposted by Nausicaa242Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Nick Allen belongs to Frontier Foundation, which promotes Trump “Freedom Cities.” He owns a place in Prospera (a tech colony in Honduras backed by Peter Thiel & Marc Andreessen) & founded Sovereign House in NYC whose first 3 events platformed Thiel/Andreessen ally Curtis Yarvin (founder of Urbit) 1/ 31523307
Reposted by Nausicaa242birchcraft.bsky.social @birchcraft.bsky.social · 05/03/2025After last night I desperately needed some comic relief. This really fit the bill. 011
Reposted by Nausicaa242Iraq War Vet @corgwynmom.bsky.social · 04/03/2025MINNESOTA CONSTITUENTS www.politico.com/live-updates... 53136223302
Reposted by Nausicaa242Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2025Criminalizing protest is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes 1027165964800
Reposted by Nausicaa242Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 04/03/2025📣 New State Added: I've completed pie charts breaking out total population enrollment in Medicaid, CHIP, Medicare & ACA exchange plans for every Congressional District in #FLORIDA: acasignups.net/cd-pie-chart...acasignups.netCongressional District Enrollment: FloridaNOTE: THIS IS AN ONGOING PROJECT; IT WILL TAKE SEVERAL DAYS TO ADD EVERY STATE. CHECK BACK SOON. Over the past couple of months I've compiled a master spreadsheet breaking out enrollment in ACA plans ... 1117684
Reposted by Nausicaa242WIRED @wired.com · 02/03/2025This article might dampen your weekend mood, but it's a must read. The situation in the US government is already dire, but trying to comprehend what comes next is even more unsettling.buff.lyThe DOGE Takeover Is Worse Than You ThinkWhat’s happening to the US government right now is bad. What comes next is worse. 801415539
Reposted by Nausicaa242God @thegodshow.com · 27/02/2025We should be writing Project 2029—defining the society we want, clearly and publicly. Let’s start today.thegodpodcast.comAnnouncing Project 2029The Progressive Blueprint for a Fairer, Stronger Future. 1320282045903
Reposted by Nausicaa242John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 26/02/2025I wonder if FIFA told the US it had to be a dictatorship with a poor human rights record before it was allowed to host the World Cup. 222026497
Nausicaa242 @nausicaa242.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Keep it up USA!! Small acts of civil disobedience goes a long way to fight fascism. DO NOT COMPLY!! 010
Reposted by Nausicaa242DrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 24/02/2025"When a leader disregards constitutional order (s)he gives up legitimacy and the people have the right to treat him like a robber and thief." -John Locke "This is the most dangerous threat to our Constitution." -Sen. Angus King (Maine) open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...open.substack.comFebruary 23, 2025Something is shifting,” scholar of authoritarianism Timothy Snyder posted on Bluesky yesterday. 12751225
Reposted by Nausicaa242Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social · 30/01/2025What’s old is new again 8452135
Reposted by Nausicaa242Sabo-Katt @resistokatt.bsky.social · 23/02/2025There's going to be news about a woman illegally detained and being forcely removed from a Coeur d'Alene Idaho Town Hall meeting taking place at the high school by men that would not identify themselves wearing plain clothes because she opposed the republican viewpoints. youtube.com/shorts/hhJdH...youtube.comKCRCC Town Hall in Coeur d'Alene Idaho woman illegally detainedYouTube video by Devin Prewett 62750332647
Reposted by Nausicaa242The Verge @theverge.com · 21/02/2025Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGEbuff.lyFederal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGEWe the Builders aims to explain why DOGE’s data access matters. 6745301574
Reposted by Nausicaa242Dylan Williams @dylanwilliams.bsky.social · 19/02/2025“Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you." — Abraham Lincoln 0176
Reposted by Nausicaa242Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Sometimes you have to harmonize to keep from crying. 😓🎶 Original song by @agiftfromtodd.bsky.social 10655137
Reposted by Nausicaa242Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Authoritarian expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat: It's time to take our country back from Trump/Musk—and here is how. My new article based on my interview of Ruth who offers some very important lessons: deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/authoritar...deanobeidallah.substack.comAuthoritarian expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat: It's time to take our country back from Trump/Musk—and here is how.Resistance is not futile! 11296116
Reposted by Nausicaa242Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 16/02/2025"Keisha Bross, an economic strategist at the NAACP, says they are not calling for a 'boycott' of companies but instead encourage consumers to 'buy-in' on companies that back their values." apnews.com/article/blac...apnews.comNAACP lists companies that dump DEI in its tactical spending guide for Black AmericansThe NAACP wants Black Americans to steer their buying power toward corporations that haven’t pulled back from diversity programs under conservative pressure. 17126
Reposted by Nausicaa242Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Make your calls. Go to your town halls. Ask your state and local officials what they are doing under state and local law. Rest. Hydrate. Make soup for the hungry. Don’t let people tell you that you’re doing it wrong. Not a sprint. Not a marathon. A relay. Find your team. Thank you. 478280556987
Reposted by Nausicaa242News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 16/02/2025The outside of the US Department of Justice vs. the inside of the White House. 181075425
Reposted by Nausicaa242Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social · 15/02/2025When “doing your own research” means Googling the cost of child-size coffins 9537174
Reposted by Nausicaa242emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Trump Fired Inspectors General Who Identified $183.5 Billion in Waste, Fraud, and Abuse www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/12/t...emptywheel.netTrump Fired Inspectors General Who Identified $183.5 Billion in Waste, Fraud, and Abuse - emptywheelThe lawsuit by eight of the Inspectors General Trump fired on his fourth day on the job -- who claim they've identified $183.5 billion in potential waste, fraud, and abuse during their tenure as IGs -... 8231011408
Reposted by Nausicaa242Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 09/02/2025"Continued access to any payment systems by DOGE members, even ‘read only,’ likely poses the single greatest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.” From a Treasury threat intelligence dept email www.wired.com/story/treasu...wired.comA US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.” 266111034009
Nausicaa242 @nausicaa242.bsky.social · 09/02/2025A Treasury dept worker explains at a Louden County Town Hall with their representative Subramanyam (D-VA) what DOGE is doing at his dept. Silenced leadership, 15 min meetings with DOGE children to justify jobs, and Musk lieutenant and family sleeping in the building. Entire town hall is great tooyoutu.beRep. Suhas Subramanyam's Town Hall (2/3/25)YouTube video by lowkell 010
Reposted by Nausicaa242Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 08/02/2025“Two weeks into a fast-moving coup by a South African tech oligarch, the USA hangs suspended this weekend in a liminal state between the constitutional republic it has been for 249 years and an authoritarian regime akin to Europe’s fallen democracy, Hungary.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/white-nati...doomsdayscenario.coWhite Nationalist Forces Consolidate Power Alongside Musk’s JuntaA second update on Elon Musk's coup from our intrepid imaginary foreign correspondent 16548260
Nausicaa242 @nausicaa242.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Spot on reporting on the roots of DOGE and disturbing for democracythenerdreich.com'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator PlaybookIn 2022, one of Peter Thiel's favorite thinkers envisioned a second Trump Administration in which the federal government would be run by a “CEO” 000
Reposted by Nausicaa242Larry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Propublica has complied this list of Musk's techbro hackers & wrecking crew at DOGE projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...projects.propublica.orgElon Musk’s Demolition CrewElon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing. 10180118