@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social When you're "tough" on fundraising.
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Senator Lisa Murkowski just said that she and her colleagues are afraid & anxious because retaliation from the president is real. This is not normal or right. Our leader is a tyrant, but the same people who are scared, are the ones who could actually stop him. youtube.com/shorts/FNvbg...
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NEW: The CFPB has been gutted. More than 1,400 workers received RIF notices this afternoon, agency sources tell me. Around 200 employees are left. www.wired.com/story/cfpb-h...
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The demise of any semblance of respect for all constituents, regardless of whether they voted for you, is a serious problem. None of our politicians have all the right answers, no matter what they think. Listening and learning from everyone can bring about better outcomes.
Nevada Republican Governor Joe Lombardo said during a recent private dinner that his message to people who criticize him on social media is "fuck you."
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From a friend in Denmark: Trump is on TV channels in Denmark and Greenland DAILY stating "I will be the owner of Greenland - one way or another”. @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social @rbreich.bsky.social
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“Wall Street wants part of the $1.6 trillion that flows through the agency. There’s money to be made.”
NEW: Frank Bisignano, the nominee to run the Social Security Administration, is CEO of an oligopoly for back-office banking services, buoyed by at least 40 acquisitions in the last 40 years. SSA could be his latest conquest. prospect.org/health/2025-...
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Replying to @muellershewrote.com
Okay folks… we need 11 million Americans to show up April 5th! Find out what’s happening in your area and join! flip.it/JQjriY
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Replying to @sifill.bsky.social
Full speech (~ 4 min, very impressive, the title is of course clickbait and misleading, there is no chaos, just an empathic, honest speech) ->
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There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security. Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."
Elon Musk says he wants to “eliminate” programs like Social Security and Medicare: “Entitlements... That’s the big one to eliminate”
Japan Denies Trump’s Criticism Of Japan-U.S. Security Treaty: mil.in.ua/en/news/japa...
King Charles has just delivered a brutal double blow to US President Donald Trump as the world teeters on the brink of chaos: www.news.com.au/entertainmen...
Trump's Turnberry golf course vandalized with "Gaza is not 4sale": www.news.com.au/world/not-4-...
This video of French senator Claude Malhuret's speech is incredibly powerful:
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"The idiom "jumping the shark" [...] means that a creative work or entity has evolved and reached a point in which it has exhausted its core intent and is introducing new ideas that are discordant with or an extreme exaggeration (caricature) of its original theme or purpose." (from Wikipedia)
The US military has removed photos of the B-29 bomber “Enola Gay” — which dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan — apparently because it contains the word “gay,” which violates their new anti-DEI rules.
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