Becca Gergely

Becca Gergely

@msrmg.bsky.social

🏳️‍⚧️ It's spelled: "LGBTQ+" in case you were wondering Mom. English teacher. Lover of books, teenagers, & especially teenagers with books; mtns, veggies, lakes, live music, soup, salad, knitting, my family, integrity & banned books.

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They want to keep it quiet, so you know what to do.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com

Trump: Gutting National Parks—And Hiding the Evidence National parks hit 331M visits, but Trump officials don’t want you to know. A leaked memo bans the Park Service from promoting the numbers—while firing rangers, closing visitor centers, and cutting safety. This won’t go well—we love our parks.

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Spending funds Congress has not appropriated literally violates the Constitution and to do so knowingly and willfully is a crime punishable by two years in prison. See 31 USC 1341(a) and 1350. uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?p...

Sam Halpert@samhalpert.bsky.social

No one wants a paper trail because spending funds Congress has not appropriated is colloquially known as “stealing from the US Treasury.”

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Sugarbush's official snow reporter got brave today! Her full post was taken down, but you can read it below!

Bill McKibben@billmckibben.bsky.social

We need to salute courage wherever it appears. The official snow reporter at Vermont's Sugarbush, where JD Vance came on a skiing vacation this weekend, pointed out in her snow report this a.m. that the Trump team is ignoring climate change. Her report was pulled down kottke.org/25/03/jd-van...

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there is really going to be no option but to prosecute these people the second they are out of power if we ever want a chance to fix this country

Philip Gourevitch@pgourevitch.bsky.social

Musk’s hackers burglarized "a vast trove of information about the entire federal workforce” on OPM computers even as Trump was being sworn in — that is "hours before Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, was officially created by an executive order.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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The number of non-citizens on Social Security is 0. The cost of printing out this stupid Executive Order is greater than the money received by non-citizens on Social Security—which again is $0. He's distracting his MAGA base to steal $800B in Medicaid & give billionaires trillions in tax cuts.

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In the past, when presidents tried to trim the number of government employees, the result was not lowering the cost of the government. This is because those jobs were often given to private contractors at higher rates. So it is no coincidence that a big private contractor is running this DOGE scam.

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Trump threatened to sue journalists, authors, and book publishers who use anonymous sources. Granting certain sources anonymity is a common journalistic practice, especially when sources fear retribution.

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As Elon Musk guts entire government agencies and fires thousands of federal workers that deliver vital services to the country, remember that his corporations have received at least $38 billion in government contracts over the past 20 years. Yet will any of this be touched by DOGE? Of course not.

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Medicaid covers nearly half of all children born in the country and around two-thirds of nursing home care for seniors. The Republican Party is voting today on a budget framework with will gut Medicaid to finance more tax cuts for the top 1%. "Party of family values."

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this action has already murdered ~14,000 adults and ~1,500 children pepfar.impactcounter.com bsky.app/profile/bran...

pepfar.impactcounter.comPEPFAR Impact TrackerTrack the impact of PEPFAR funding halt
Brandon Wolf@brandonwolf.bsky.social

Remember when the WH insisted that global HIV prevention & treatment was exempt from the freeze? When it seemed MAYBE they understood that cutting off medicine could put the entire planet at risk of drug resistant HIV strains? Wrong. Elon Musk’s interns were simply shutting payments off manually.

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Remember: Wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging our markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of billionaires.

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social What are you doing?????

Ken Klippenstein@kenklippenstein.bsky.social

JAKE TAPPER: Are House Democrats going to vote to keep the government open, or are you just going to let the Republicans be in charge of all of it? HAKEEM JEFFRIES: "We'll cross that bridge when we get to it ... What we do know is that the Republicans have the House, the Senate and the presidency."

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Elon Musk is stealing your tax dollars and putting them in his own pocket

The War on Cars@thewaroncars.bsky.social

"A former Biden White House official familiar with the State Department's plans told NPR the steps taken to advance $400 million worth of government business to Tesla appear to be intentional."

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DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

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Share and amplify. Tarrio tries to intimidate Capitol police officers who kept members of Congress safe on January 6.

Noelle@finallynoelle.bsky.social

Enrique Tarrio follows and insults officers who defended US Capitol on January 6. The Brown Shirts are getting bolder with their Führer sitting in the White House. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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“In some ways that’s even more chilling than firing the four stars,” Rosa Brooks, a professor at Georgetown Law. “It’s what you do when you’re planning to break the law: you get rid of any lawyers who might try to slow you down.” By NYT Greg Jaffe www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

nytimes.comHegseth Fires Military’s Top JAG Lawyers in Pursuit of ‘Warrior Ethos’The defense secretary has repeatedly derided the military lawyers for war crime prosecutions and battlefield rules of engagement.

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"It's almost impossible to believe he exists. It's as if you took everything that was bad about America, scraped it off the floor, put it in an old hot dog skin & taught it to make noises with its mouth" #PRESIDEMENTIA

BlueCrew community@libertyovergov.bsky.social

#BlueCrew #BlueCircleFamily🌈🦋 #BluePetPatrol💙🐾 #ProudBlue #Resist #TruthWarriors #antitrump #antimaga

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“Like how can you be a remotely competent historian without insisting upon a Great Man interpretation that actual historians rejected ages ago?”

Brian Beutler@brianbeutler.bsky.social

Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

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So far we have this, the Ukraine minerals extortion, the killing of CA high speed rail, the forced order of 400,000 cybertrucks for the military and many more scams. The world's biggest welfare queen took over the government and is eating good.

Tim O’Brien@timobrien.bsky.social

Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. apnews.com/article/musk...

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“Operation Whirlwind” What’s Happening Now? In 2025, Operation Whirlwind was launched under Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin to investigate alleged threats against employees of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

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Completely nuts.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

Big Balls’s past gets more scrutiny — including the internship where he was terminated. “You’re willing to risk our entire network to a 17-year-old?” one frustrated executive asked the company’s CEO in 2022. “Are you for real right now?” @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...