Eric
@astrocatsguy.bsky.social
Very Amateur Astronomer and manservant to a clowder of weird cats.
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If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.
March 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.
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Government abductions are unconstitutional.
Denying anyone the right to due process in America is unconstitutional.
If you’ve rationalized your silence or support for any of it because it’s happening to those you disagree with, give it a minute…
They’ll get to you soon enough.
Denying anyone the right to due process in America is unconstitutional.
If you’ve rationalized your silence or support for any of it because it’s happening to those you disagree with, give it a minute…
They’ll get to you soon enough.
March 27, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Government abductions are unconstitutional.
Denying anyone the right to due process in America is unconstitutional.
If you’ve rationalized your silence or support for any of it because it’s happening to those you disagree with, give it a minute…
They’ll get to you soon enough.
Denying anyone the right to due process in America is unconstitutional.
If you’ve rationalized your silence or support for any of it because it’s happening to those you disagree with, give it a minute…
They’ll get to you soon enough.
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When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.
March 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.
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This is what happens when you have an entire cabinet full of folks who would NEVER pass a regular security clearance.
Led by a president who would never be able to pass one either.
Led by a president who would never be able to pass one either.
March 26, 2025 at 2:50 AM
This is what happens when you have an entire cabinet full of folks who would NEVER pass a regular security clearance.
Led by a president who would never be able to pass one either.
Led by a president who would never be able to pass one either.
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The US has become a lawless Country Governed by a Crime Syndicate.
March 3, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The US has become a lawless Country Governed by a Crime Syndicate.
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NEW: A source tells me that response teams for FEMA set to deploy to the South Carolina wildfires are unable to travel because their government issued travel cards have had their limits reduced to $1. FEMA response team cards were supposed to be exempt.
March 4, 2025 at 1:37 AM
NEW: A source tells me that response teams for FEMA set to deploy to the South Carolina wildfires are unable to travel because their government issued travel cards have had their limits reduced to $1. FEMA response team cards were supposed to be exempt.
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Trump just helped bring Andrew Tate — who is literally charged with rape and human trafficking — into our country.
March 3, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Trump just helped bring Andrew Tate — who is literally charged with rape and human trafficking — into our country.
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“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”
February 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”
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The husband of an Indian-American wife and the father of 3 Indian-American kids wants to bring back the staffer who posted “normalize Indian hate.”
February 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The husband of an Indian-American wife and the father of 3 Indian-American kids wants to bring back the staffer who posted “normalize Indian hate.”
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We are in the midst of an administrative coup the like of which we have never seen - or even imagined - in our lifetimes.
Every day brings new abuses, new scandals, which can’t just be undone or fixed.
We are in a very dark place as a country and as a constitutional republic right now.
Every day brings new abuses, new scandals, which can’t just be undone or fixed.
We are in a very dark place as a country and as a constitutional republic right now.
February 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
We are in the midst of an administrative coup the like of which we have never seen - or even imagined - in our lifetimes.
Every day brings new abuses, new scandals, which can’t just be undone or fixed.
We are in a very dark place as a country and as a constitutional republic right now.
Every day brings new abuses, new scandals, which can’t just be undone or fixed.
We are in a very dark place as a country and as a constitutional republic right now.
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"If the 'DOGE' endeavor is working, why can’t the White House just tell the truth about what it's doing?"
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
February 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
"If the 'DOGE' endeavor is working, why can’t the White House just tell the truth about what it's doing?"
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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Hungarians who lived through Viktor Orbán’s 2010 authoritarian power grab warn Americans: Act now, before it’s too late.
Their democracy died. They have lessons for America about Trump’s power grab.
Hungarians who lived through Viktor Orbán’s 2010 power grab warn Americans: Act now, before it’s too late.
www.vox.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Hungarians who lived through Viktor Orbán’s 2010 authoritarian power grab warn Americans: Act now, before it’s too late.
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Help spot the pattern…
❌Banned clubs at West Point: Black, Asian, Hispanic, women, and Native American heritage clubs
✅Not banned at West Point Military Academy: German, French, and Polish clubs
Can’t quite put my finger on it…
❌Banned clubs at West Point: Black, Asian, Hispanic, women, and Native American heritage clubs
✅Not banned at West Point Military Academy: German, French, and Polish clubs
Can’t quite put my finger on it…
February 6, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Help spot the pattern…
❌Banned clubs at West Point: Black, Asian, Hispanic, women, and Native American heritage clubs
✅Not banned at West Point Military Academy: German, French, and Polish clubs
Can’t quite put my finger on it…
❌Banned clubs at West Point: Black, Asian, Hispanic, women, and Native American heritage clubs
✅Not banned at West Point Military Academy: German, French, and Polish clubs
Can’t quite put my finger on it…
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Pitch for a new spy movie: a CIA agent spends years getting close to a terrorist suspect then just before he gets the crucial piece of evidence he’s fired and replaced with a teenager who doesn’t speak any foreign languages but does have a lot of followers on X.
Everybody dies.
Everybody dies.
February 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Pitch for a new spy movie: a CIA agent spends years getting close to a terrorist suspect then just before he gets the crucial piece of evidence he’s fired and replaced with a teenager who doesn’t speak any foreign languages but does have a lot of followers on X.
Everybody dies.
Everybody dies.
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Absolutely unbelievable. Just imagine if this had happened on Biden’s watch. The Republicans and the media would be in an uproar — and rightfully so.
But it’s on Trump’s watch, so crickets. 🦗
But it’s on Trump’s watch, so crickets. 🦗
February 5, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Absolutely unbelievable. Just imagine if this had happened on Biden’s watch. The Republicans and the media would be in an uproar — and rightfully so.
But it’s on Trump’s watch, so crickets. 🦗
But it’s on Trump’s watch, so crickets. 🦗
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If you don't think America is corrupt, Pam Bondi, the Florida Attorney General who took a bribe, was sworn in as the US Attorney General by Clarence Thomas, a SCOTUS Justice who routinely takes bribes.
February 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
If you don't think America is corrupt, Pam Bondi, the Florida Attorney General who took a bribe, was sworn in as the US Attorney General by Clarence Thomas, a SCOTUS Justice who routinely takes bribes.
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So much evil in one photo it is actually staggering
February 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
So much evil in one photo it is actually staggering
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they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government
Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”
Federal health workers terrified after ‘DEI’ website publishes list of ‘targets’
The site calls out workers who have been involved with DEI initiatives. A majority are Black.
www.nbcnews.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:06 AM
they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government
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The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.
February 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.
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This is a crisis response app. If a diplomat is in danger, for any reason, this sends their whereabouts to diplomatic security in country and DC
USAID employees overseas are no longer able to access their government security app, which gives them this error code (images provided to me by USAID worker)
February 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This is a crisis response app. If a diplomat is in danger, for any reason, this sends their whereabouts to diplomatic security in country and DC