Char Stockwell
@char4100.bsky.social
Retired government physicist.
Masked ice agents have begun raiding Spanish speaking AA meetings. There are meeting lists online in every community in America. This is lower than low and more despicable than imaginable. Attendees won’t record these events to protect anonymity. When will this stop.
December 13, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Masked ice agents have begun raiding Spanish speaking AA meetings. There are meeting lists online in every community in America. This is lower than low and more despicable than imaginable. Attendees won’t record these events to protect anonymity. When will this stop.
Is it possible that the financial insecurity resulting from on again off again tariffs is the point? Perhaps the whole idea is to crash the market so that he can cause it to a spike and then crash it again and invest on the low points just to personally make money
April 22, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Is it possible that the financial insecurity resulting from on again off again tariffs is the point? Perhaps the whole idea is to crash the market so that he can cause it to a spike and then crash it again and invest on the low points just to personally make money
The world is grateful for the service of Pope Francis. He urged us to be kind and welcoming to refugees, to end the death penalty, and to accept LGBTQ+ individuals as children of god. He was a leader for peace around the world. I am saddened by his passing. Thank you Francis.
April 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM
The world is grateful for the service of Pope Francis. He urged us to be kind and welcoming to refugees, to end the death penalty, and to accept LGBTQ+ individuals as children of god. He was a leader for peace around the world. I am saddened by his passing. Thank you Francis.
The reason we don’t run the federal government like a business is because it would allow the president to get rid of anyone who didn’t agree with him like he is doing now. We need subject matter experts and dedicated professionals to manage the government. Not cronies and bootlickers.
April 18, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The reason we don’t run the federal government like a business is because it would allow the president to get rid of anyone who didn’t agree with him like he is doing now. We need subject matter experts and dedicated professionals to manage the government. Not cronies and bootlickers.
More waste fraud and abuse ripe for cutting. $93 million for a military parade honoring a draft dodger. How about $100 million in weekly golf trips to Florida.
April 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
More waste fraud and abuse ripe for cutting. $93 million for a military parade honoring a draft dodger. How about $100 million in weekly golf trips to Florida.
Impeach him now… before it’s too late
April 17, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Impeach him now… before it’s too late
MAGA when you voted for the candidate who promised to end the HIV epidemic, did you expect him to do that by ending all data collection on numbers of cases, which treatments are most effective, which populations are most at risk? Many would argue that it makes everyone more vulnerable to infection.
April 16, 2025 at 11:09 AM
MAGA when you voted for the candidate who promised to end the HIV epidemic, did you expect him to do that by ending all data collection on numbers of cases, which treatments are most effective, which populations are most at risk? Many would argue that it makes everyone more vulnerable to infection.
In less than 3 months, he has tanked the economy, fired the scientists, gutted education, deported legal residents, and plans to balloon the deficit by $6Trillion while giving massive tax cuts to billionaires and destroying our international standing. He certainly has turned everything around. 2/2
April 12, 2025 at 11:22 AM
In less than 3 months, he has tanked the economy, fired the scientists, gutted education, deported legal residents, and plans to balloon the deficit by $6Trillion while giving massive tax cuts to billionaires and destroying our international standing. He certainly has turned everything around. 2/2
I stand corrected. Trump has long said that he alone could turn the country around. Only he could turn around the economy, health, education, immigration, and the national budget. And I argued that he was lying and that he could not do these things. I WAS WRONG AND I APOLOGIZE. 1/2.
April 12, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I stand corrected. Trump has long said that he alone could turn the country around. Only he could turn around the economy, health, education, immigration, and the national budget. And I argued that he was lying and that he could not do these things. I WAS WRONG AND I APOLOGIZE. 1/2.
If egg prices spiked because flocks had to be euthanized due to bird flu, then the only way to reduce egg prices is to wait for new flocks to hatch and grow to maturity (this takes 6-18 months) or to stop testing laying hens for bird flu. I wonder which path the Trump administration took?
April 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
If egg prices spiked because flocks had to be euthanized due to bird flu, then the only way to reduce egg prices is to wait for new flocks to hatch and grow to maturity (this takes 6-18 months) or to stop testing laying hens for bird flu. I wonder which path the Trump administration took?
I guess we shouldn’t be surprised. Trump didn’t just want to destroy our government infrastructure. He clearly wants to crater the global economy as well. This toddler bully is taking a hammer to all the toys. If he can’t have it all, he’ll make sure no one gets to play.
April 3, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I guess we shouldn’t be surprised. Trump didn’t just want to destroy our government infrastructure. He clearly wants to crater the global economy as well. This toddler bully is taking a hammer to all the toys. If he can’t have it all, he’ll make sure no one gets to play.
I guess Cory Booker has begun in his 2028 Presidential campaign. I’m all in. The complete absence of moral controversy, smart, Yale educated lawyer, and a moral vegan for over a decade. My kinda guy.
April 2, 2025 at 9:35 AM
I guess Cory Booker has begun in his 2028 Presidential campaign. I’m all in. The complete absence of moral controversy, smart, Yale educated lawyer, and a moral vegan for over a decade. My kinda guy.
I am so proud to share the world with Cory Booker today. Thank you Senator. You are my pick for ‘28
April 1, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I am so proud to share the world with Cory Booker today. Thank you Senator. You are my pick for ‘28
With all the federal workers that have been terminated, do we have any way of determining the demographic makeup of this group? Early on there were intimations that the first firings were predominantly women and people of color, the disabled, and veterans.
March 28, 2025 at 11:11 AM
With all the federal workers that have been terminated, do we have any way of determining the demographic makeup of this group? Early on there were intimations that the first firings were predominantly women and people of color, the disabled, and veterans.
The question I haven’t seen is — since when are we at war with Yemen?
March 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
The question I haven’t seen is — since when are we at war with Yemen?
Reposted by Char Stockwell
Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant
March 26, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant
Being WOKE means you value treating people like you want to be treated more than you want a tax cut for millionaires and billionaires.
March 26, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Being WOKE means you value treating people like you want to be treated more than you want a tax cut for millionaires and billionaires.
It is up to Congress to hold accountable those who lie under oath in congressional hearings. But from Supreme Court nominees (Cavanaugh, Gorsitch, Scalia, and Thomas) to virtually all Trump political appointees, they are shown to be absolutely lying time and time again and congress does nothing.
March 26, 2025 at 1:29 AM
It is up to Congress to hold accountable those who lie under oath in congressional hearings. But from Supreme Court nominees (Cavanaugh, Gorsitch, Scalia, and Thomas) to virtually all Trump political appointees, they are shown to be absolutely lying time and time again and congress does nothing.
Reposted by Char Stockwell
You wanna fix social security? Do these two thing:
1. Repay the $ trillions Congress has “borrowed” from the fund.
2. Eliminate the cap. Right now, if you earn $150,000 in a year, you pay $9000. If you make $259,000,000 you also pay $9000. That can be fixed.
1. Repay the $ trillions Congress has “borrowed” from the fund.
2. Eliminate the cap. Right now, if you earn $150,000 in a year, you pay $9000. If you make $259,000,000 you also pay $9000. That can be fixed.
March 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
You wanna fix social security? Do these two thing:
1. Repay the $ trillions Congress has “borrowed” from the fund.
2. Eliminate the cap. Right now, if you earn $150,000 in a year, you pay $9000. If you make $259,000,000 you also pay $9000. That can be fixed.
1. Repay the $ trillions Congress has “borrowed” from the fund.
2. Eliminate the cap. Right now, if you earn $150,000 in a year, you pay $9000. If you make $259,000,000 you also pay $9000. That can be fixed.
WRTthe deportation of alleged gang members, the question is so clear that anyone with a 7th grade education can interpret it. Are we 1) at war with Venezuela? OR 2) Have we been invaded by the army of the government of Venezuela? The answer is no to both. The Alien Enemies Act does not apply.
March 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
WRTthe deportation of alleged gang members, the question is so clear that anyone with a 7th grade education can interpret it. Are we 1) at war with Venezuela? OR 2) Have we been invaded by the army of the government of Venezuela? The answer is no to both. The Alien Enemies Act does not apply.
So the administration invades and ransacks government offices. Then courts order that they put it all back. They may or may not do that. We will see. Is anybody worried about whatever cookies they are leaving behind? Will Musk or Putin have back door access to our computers or hidden surveillance?
March 19, 2025 at 9:25 AM
So the administration invades and ransacks government offices. Then courts order that they put it all back. They may or may not do that. We will see. Is anybody worried about whatever cookies they are leaving behind? Will Musk or Putin have back door access to our computers or hidden surveillance?
I just heard that our local chapter of The League of Women Voters has been banned by Facebook.
March 18, 2025 at 9:48 AM
I just heard that our local chapter of The League of Women Voters has been banned by Facebook.
The law isn’t stopping Trump and DOGE. The courts are ordering they stop and they refuse. Congress has abdicated its responsibility. Protests have yet to be effective in encouraging the administration to follow the law. It appears we are almost at the end of the democracy playbook. What is next?
March 18, 2025 at 9:42 AM
The law isn’t stopping Trump and DOGE. The courts are ordering they stop and they refuse. Congress has abdicated its responsibility. Protests have yet to be effective in encouraging the administration to follow the law. It appears we are almost at the end of the democracy playbook. What is next?