WhileRomeBurns
WhileRomeBurns
@zfiddle.bsky.social
I do a lot of different things, to varying degrees of expertness. Cheese. Unrepentant cat lady. Likes to stay in touch, especially with reality, but you do you. (PS: If you contact or reply with $ requests, you’ll be ignored/blocked.)
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To those fighting for democracy in LA: 🔟 PROTEST LESSONS from Hong Kong ’19 1️⃣ BE LIKE WATER. Flow, never freeze. One Telegram ping, dozens flood a location, form a blockade with debris, and disperse instantly. Re-emerge blocks away. Keep them chasing shadows. Spread them thin using multiple fronts.
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Wait, what now?
David Pogue: “I’m wondering what your thought is on the ban on foreign students, the proposal. I mean, you were one of those kids, right?” Elon Musk: “Yeah. I mean, I think we wanna stick to, you know, the subject of the day, which is, like, spaceships, as opposed to, you know, presidential policy"
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Less than 2 weeks until the official start of the hurricane season, FEMA has rescinded their strategic plan. But don't worry, it's been replaced with... (checks notes) Nothing. An internal FEMA assessment acknowledges that the agency “is not ready” to handle catastrophic storms this summer.
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Read down the thread, because it’s hilarious. Go, Sen. Alsobrooks!
Senator Alsobrooks: You’ve been unable to address specific questions about your agency. Can you name which office the Safe to Sleep program operates out of? RFK Jr.: Guesses wrong 5 times Alsobrooks: It is the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD.
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The DOJ memo approving Trump’s Qatari jet? Written by Pam Bondi. Her last job? Lobbying for Qatar. efile.fara.gov/docs/6415-Ex...
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www.businessinsider.com/trump-told-o... Glad someone would tell Miller to shut up—is there anyone left now who can?
Wait…isn’t ED Rx like Viagra “gender affirming care”?!
"The judge overseeing the case against the Defense Department's firing of transgender service members revealed that the military spends eight times more on erectile dysfunction medication than on gender affirming care." - www.newsweek.com/us-military-...
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🇺🇸 “Rolling Stone reached out to all 53 GOP senators after the president said he didn't know whether he needs to honor the nation's founding document. None replied.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
What can you do right now? This.
It's a productive question to which I don't think anyone knows the complete answer as nothing like this has ever happened before. But some of what comes to mind: Ruin Tesla, discredit Musk, build social consensus that what's happening is wrong. Bring court cases. Later, strengthen the Privacy Act.
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I've been a doomer about DOGE data grabbing, but I'll admit it never occurred to me Musk could fire his way to stealing all copyrighted material ever
Holy shiitake! Trump fired Shira Perlmutter, the Director of the US Copyrights Office apparently because she refused to let Elon Musk raid the place to steal author’s intellectual property rights democrats-cha.house.gov/media/press-...
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All the people I know around US ports are saying there’s little to no traffic happening. www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
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Your Family: 3 dolls and 5 pencils Trump’s Family: $2.9 billion Any questions?
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"Pertussis, or whooping cough, is now spreading at a rate the U.S. hasn’t seen since vaccines were introduced in 1948." It's No Coincidence. Public health funding is being slashed. Vaccine misinformation is spreading. Fewer people are getting vaccinated. This is the result.
It's not just measles. Major leadership failure by RFK Jr and pertussis is raging! Op Ed nurses @donnagaffney.bsky.social and @nurseteria.bsky.social published today in @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social @justin-gill.bsky.social @defendpublichealth.bsky.social www.seattletimes.com/opinion/add-...
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