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Patty
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I like to do fun things.
It’s still amazing outside in Boston! Go look! #aurora #Boston
November 12, 2025 at 4:50 AM
@universalhub.com northern lights in West Roxbury tonight.
November 12, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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The United States was the leading destination for top scientists from all over the world.

That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness.

And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
youtu.be
November 1, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Gavel! 66-32 stablecoin bill advances.

16 Democrats voted to advance the stablecoin bill

Alsobrooks
Blunt Rochester
Booker
Cortez Masto
Fetterman
Gallego
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Lujan
Ossoff
Padilla
Rosen
Schiff
Slotkin
Warner

Two Republicans voted no:

Moran
Rand Paul
May 20, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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I hate "Nobody voted for..." framing. I understand it, but people did vote for it. They ignored information readily available to them. They can't change the past, but if they are mad and regretful, they can help change the future.
March 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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The outlines of a White House plan to produce a government science report that highlights the "benefits" of climate change is coming together. The intent is to expand presidential power, target regulations and fight litigation filed against fossil fuel companies. www.eenews.net/articles/tru...
Trump’s next climate move: Show global warming benefits humanity
A new federal report downplaying or denying climate change could drive a reversal of climate rules and expansion of executive authority.
www.eenews.net
March 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The GOP plans are clear, break apart institutions, install loyalists, cutoff funding, rebuild so the GOP dictate everything, plant moles everywhere….workers live in fear.
March 9, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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And in other news, the Trump administration is dropping US cyber defenses against Russia.
It’s almost as if Trump is colluding with Putin.
@adamkinzinger.bsky.social @clairelehmann.bsky.social @claireberlinski.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats
Recent incidents indicate US is no longer characterizing Russia as a cybersecurity threat, marking a radical departure: ‘Putin is on the inside now’
www.theguardian.com
February 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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My question for Stephen Lynch during his town hall tonight: why did I never even get a response when I asked him for help saving my job?
Here is the email I sent my congressman, Stephen Lynch, on February 1 begging for help saving my job. I never received a reply.

On February 13, I was fired from the CFPB.
February 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Back in the day, @attackerman.bsky.social and I exposed for @wired.com a cabal of folks inside the US govt who wanted America to functionally declare war on Islam.

www.wired.com/2012/05/tota...

Today, Trump nominated one of those people to a senior Pentagon post.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
U.S. Military Taught Officers: Use 'Hiroshima' Tactics for 'Total War' on Islam
Before the U.S. military suspended a course for senior officers on Islam, instructors lectured that a "total war" would be necessary to protect the United States from an Islamic menace. "Islam must ch...
www.wired.com
February 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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The 50501 Movement has planned protests at all 50 state capitols and the U.S. Capitol on Presidents’ Day at noon. While mainstream media isn’t covering it, many YouTubers have stepped up to provide coverage.
February 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Last night, we broke the news that the top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its election security work and is reviewing everything it has done to help state and local officials secure their elections for the past eight years. https://wrd.cm/3QkfGh3
Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen efforts to aid states in securing elections, according to an internal memo viewed by WIRED.
wrd.cm
February 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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The Trump administration dismissed many CDC staff members today, including everyone in the Epidemic Intelligence Service, first responders to outbreaks.
This leaves us ill prepared to contain and deal with future outbreaks.
It makes America less healthy.
The 1st year class of Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) fellows is being terminated today. We don't know the fate of 2nd years nor the future of the EIS program. CDC’s 2-yr EIS fellowship recruits talent from across the world and trains MDs, PhDs, nurses, vets, and others in field epidemiology.
February 15, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Hagan Scotten, who wrote this spectacular resignation letter, was an army ranger for 8 years, top of his law school class (Harvard) & a John Roberts law clerk. Not exactly a candidate for Trump’s liberal deep state.
February 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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The CFPB will begin deleting agency data as soon as today. Meanwhile, the Trump administration and Musk staffers are rewriting history on U.S. government websites and erasing data from databases nationwide—removing information that doesn’t align with their political agenda.
February 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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According to contractors and staffers at federally-funded healthcare agencies, the CDC has a deadline of 5 PM today to remove "all references to gender ideology" from cdc.gov or the site will be taken down. They've told not to communicate about this in writing.
www.garbageday.email/p/the-scramb...
January 31, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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The real scam: making you fear the “the other” while the rich rob you blind. I wish every American understood this.
February 6, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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OKAY, I’m back.

GOOD NEWS!

On 2/11 at 4pm EST my dear friend @roxanegay.bsky.social is coming to visit me here at Harvard! We’re going to read some new work and have a conversation AND YOU CAN JOIN VIA ZOOM!!!! harvard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
February 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.
February 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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The guy overseeing USAID was identified two years ago as a Jan. 6 participant who entered the Capitol through a broken window.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
Marco Rubio empowers State Department official Pete Marocco to run USAID
Marocco held several national security positions during the first Trump administration, including at USAID, where he tried to consolidate power and slash funding.
www.nbcnews.com
February 4, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Call and email your senators:
February 2, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Here is a link for GS cookies if you still need them: www.erininthemorning.com/p/2025-trans...
2025 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
www.erininthemorning.com
January 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
@universalhub.com the roads are bad out there. I saw a guy drive in reverse to get out of the BU traffic circle.
December 20, 2024 at 10:06 PM