Butterfly Lady

Things are not going well.

I'll delete my 23+me I guess. But I am not really sure what the problem is. Any entity who wants all that data probably already has it. Law enforcement has been testing everyone they encounter for just as long.

If we are deporting all men who have extremist tattoos without hearings, this dude would be in El Salvador by now.

The stock markets tanked so hard this week many people even lost their daylight savings.

I can't believe anyone would fall for the lie of gold being stolen from fort knox. But you know the magas will believe it.

Fun Fact! Tonight’s designated survivor is Vladimir Putin

AI is amazing.

No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*.

www.tracieching.com/defend-feder...

Ready Fire Aim is a lousy way to govern.

ELON WANTS TO KNOW FIVE THINGS YOU DID LAST WEEK

If you rely on fed services such as social security, Medicare/Medicaid, airline safety, clean air & water, disaster response, search & rescue, or enjoy things like national parks, you *really* need to contact all of your congressional reps. These services are people dependent & in very real danger.

Federal employees - are you tired of Elon Musk trying to contact you? Have you tried pretending to be the mother of his children?

Trump’s Justice Department Deletes Database Tracking Federal Police Misconduct Source: Black Enterprise

5 bullet points for elon musks email: 1. Person. 2. Woman. 3. Man. 4. Camera. 5. TV.

If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.

The US Digital Service (USDS) - now the US DOGE Service - is being weaponized by the Trump administration to target career federal employees, dismantle safeguards, and enable corruption. 👀 Read more on our site. 🔗 wethebuilders.org #DefendDemocracy #SaveOurServices #AltUSDS #fedworkers

Move fast and break democracy.

Lawyers should report every instance of enforced disappearance to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances here. They can help liaise and put pressure on the US gov to say where they are hiding people. www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...

Let me ask Republicans: If Obama or Biden had published such a statement -- or Hillary or Kamala -- what would you have said? Whatever it is, please consider saying it now.

Electoral college is DEI for Red States.

I've told this story about my early education on fascism before but not on Bluesky. I vividly recall doing a project in school about history. Maybe I wanted to do the Korean War because I was a big MASH fan. That I don't recall. My physics teacher arranged for me to do a live interview... 🧵

BREAKING WAPO: Elon Musk's DOGE is seeking access to a heavily-guarded IRS system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit in the country — sparking alarm within the tax agency. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

Jose Barco, a decorated U.S. Army veteran once based out of Fort Carson who served 2 tours in Iraq, was taken into custody last month by ICE because his citizenship papers, which were supposed to be processed while he was in the Army, were lost. Read his story:

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

Be sure to add the words, 'ICE', 'immigration', 'border', and 'migrant' to the end of all your posts from now on. Give ICE and its AI monitoring tool so many posts to analyze that they can't find anything useful.

Feel so bad for up to 200,000 hard-working federal employees who got fired today for no reason. The largest layoff in history before now was 60,000 people. Think what this will do to the unemployment system, the working of government, and to all of those individuals and families.

I know the “imagine if a Democrat did this” is overplayed, but if a Democratic president had given George Soros access to government personnel details and Treasury payments I’m pretty sure we’d have a literal civil war.

A lot of my moots are following this trump supporter. See if you're one of them.

A historic graphic of corruption. The 11 federal agencies so far targeted for firings or dismantling by Elon Musk have more than 30 ongoing investigations into his companies. (📸 Malika Khurana for NYT)

Getting rid of medicaid, suing blue states. Are we great again yet?

If you make 50k a year, the taxes you pay for the year break down to: $248 for DEFENSE $4 to FEMA $23 for UE insurance $37 for food stamps $7 for "welfare" $44 retirement and disability to government workers $236 for Medicare $4,000 in corporate subsidies #USDemocracy

A quick resistance task: 1. Google Gulf of Mexico 2. “Gulf of America" is the top 3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it 4. Select "Send Feedback" 5. Click on "Gulf Of America" 6. Select "Inaccurate content" 7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"

Mike Pence texting JD Vance today

We might have figured out a way to get Trump to shut up

Why do they say we're close to a constitutional crisis? Aren't we already there?

Normalize pronouncing DOGE as DOUCHE.

I have never given less of a fuck about the Super Bowl.

Trump sold America to Elon Musk for 300 million dollars.

US farmers sold $2 billion of food to USAID. Not any more. - US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID - $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes. - Food stranded in Houston - Aid stopped in transit. The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.

As always, the best way to frame this is to ask yourself what the press would say if this were Ukraine. If Trump were proposing that all Ukranians should just be moved out of Ukraine.

I wrote about Musk and this bureaucratic coup as plainly as I could. There's reporting in here & the particulars are overwhelming but what's happening is so clear: He's not trying to run the federal govt like a software company He's trying to turn it into a political weapon. (gift link)