Cathy

Cathy

@covcat.bsky.social

Proud Democrat The Truth is Right in Front of your Eyes. What makes you think Republicans can govern?

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On 1/15 Merrill Edge sold our Amazon stock without contact or permission and closed our account. We are BofA Preferred for 35+ years. We are now liable for capital gains and are out years of profit since we weren’t going to sell. Needless to say will be severing this relationship. Consumer Beware!

Trump posts a stupid video and just like lemmings the media types post and repost it endlessly totally erasing the news of No Kings. You all got played.

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Pay attention, PLEASE ! What is going on in America ?

🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷@msgrumpybunny.bsky.social

ICE agents destroy the restaurant and steal food and supplies from Emiliano’s Mexican Restaurant in Pittsburg, PA while carrying out a raid. These thugs think they are beyond the law. Pay attention to the escalation of brazenness, the time to address it and stop it is now!

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one of the stranger phenomena in American life is that hate is supposed to flow in one direction (rural people get to hate urban people, Republicans get to hate Democrats) and if the hate goes the other way people pretend as if this is very upsetting.

Mike Masnick@masnick.com

The media made a HUGE deal out of "basket of deplorables" and "cling to their guns or religion." But, of course, it will totally ignore Trump saying he hates Democrats: "I hate them. I believe they hate their country."

Every time a leader caves the devil gets a W. Today UVA gets the L. Yesterday Harvard and Columbia. Tomorrow who knows. We need leaders who will fight no matter the consequences.

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I don’t want to read about a former President’s mental decline because a journalist got a book deal. I want to read a report about the current President’s mental decline by a journalist brave enough to speak out now.

So Jake Tapper is having George Clooney on his show today to (let me guess) talk about that bad bad guy Joe Biden. Tapper has a book to sell and Clooney has his reputation to fix. SMH

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He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. He’s defying the Supreme Court. Don’t you see what’s happening here?

"Subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

“‘It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies,’ Dr. Peter Marks wrote in a resignation letter referring to HHS Secretary RFK Jr.”

Sometimes I think the media and the political pundits slam the Democrats constantly just to take the focus off themselves and their complicity in a lot of this mess.

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Elon Musk is working to transform X, his social media platform, into a virtual wallet where people can send money to each other. Digital payment platforms have come under intense scrutiny by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but that is likely to ease.

nytimes.comElon Musk’s Attacks on CFPB Remove Obstacle to Building ‘X Money’Former officials at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Elon Musk’s payment-business aspirations were driving his efforts to hobble the agency.

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Here’s the thing about cruelty in public policy —> The point is to be mean and cruel, to exact some perceived notion of revenge and to embrace vindictiveness. That may work right now, but America thrives on positivity and idealism. Don’t give up the faith. Goodness will win.

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This is a public health nightmare in the works. Nobody voted for this. "The Trump administration has instructed organizations in other countries to stop disbursing H.I.V. medications purchased with U.S. aid, even if the drugs have already been obtained and are sitting in local clinics."

nytimes.comTrump Administration Halts H.I.V. Drug Distribution in Poor CountriesPEPFAR’s computer systems also are being taken offline, a sign that the program may not return, as Republican critics had hoped.

And it will get little to no attention.

Sam Schwartz@samuelschwartz.bsky.social

The Trump Administration has officially closed the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention. This is a crushing blow to all the significant and historic work we've made over the last 4 years. Biden's work on guns has saved thousands of lives- the Trump admin is trying to reverse that.

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Trump hated TikTok (because China) until it helped him win an election (as even he acknowledges) and now he’s going to save it and take a victory lap. So he’ll have X, TikTok, Insta, and Facebook all working on his behalf. That’s a big difference between now and 2017.

I wish someone would speak to all the good Democrats did over the past four years. It's all so negative just like the Democrats in Disarray era. Take Buttegieg and Haaland for example. Big time results for the People.

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At the time, everyone, including Republicans, understood how bad it was. Then, brick by brick, they built a foundation of lies to justify doing what they know, deep down, to be wrong. Trump betrayed the country. And so do they.

I couldn't agree with this more.

Wajahat Ali@wajali.bsky.social

Here's a sincere compliment for GOP and MAGA. They are a great opposition party. Really good at throwing sand in the gears, trolling, working the refs, and tanking Democratic policies. They are a terrible governing party. They're not built for that. I give you the past 40 years as proof.

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What worries me is that most Americans will simply ignore what is being done in Washington over the next couple of years. They'll turn on the football game, watch an episode of the Real Housewives of Someplace, and ignore it as fundamental freedoms and crucial institutions are carved away.

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Has there been a single corporate media story about MAGA reaching out to understand the frustrations of nearly half the Voters who went against Trump? Let me know. I've been waiting 9 years for that piece.