Pat McGuffin
@ciccijr.bsky.social
A proud Military Brat, an Italian/Acadian-American grandmother, strongly opinionated, vocal, with a life filled with people tired of hearing it. I'm told I was born "woke." I thank my parents for nurturing that spirit.
Just finished "Burn Order" by @maddow.bsky.social, and it's excellent work. I can hardly wait for the next "Rachel Maddow Presents:" always worth a listen!
December 15, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Just finished "Burn Order" by @maddow.bsky.social, and it's excellent work. I can hardly wait for the next "Rachel Maddow Presents:" always worth a listen!
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Find you somebody who looks at you like Donald Trump looks at Zohran Mamdani.
November 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Find you somebody who looks at you like Donald Trump looks at Zohran Mamdani.
"Things happen," applies to missing the bottom step or tripping over the area rug and falling in the foyer, slipping on a wet spot, random bruises, flat tires, and getting stuck at a railroad crossing when the train is long and slow-- not being murdered, dismembered, and carried out in suitcases.
November 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM
"Things happen," applies to missing the bottom step or tripping over the area rug and falling in the foyer, slipping on a wet spot, random bruises, flat tires, and getting stuck at a railroad crossing when the train is long and slow-- not being murdered, dismembered, and carried out in suitcases.
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Such extremism! So much terror!
October 18, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Such extremism! So much terror!
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Reminder: Tariffs aren't paid by other countries, no matter what Trump says.
A tariff is an import tax, raising the price of almost everything we buy.
Tariffs are also regressive — taking a higher percentage out of the paychecks of working people than out of the wealthy.
A tariff is an import tax, raising the price of almost everything we buy.
Tariffs are also regressive — taking a higher percentage out of the paychecks of working people than out of the wealthy.
August 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Reminder: Tariffs aren't paid by other countries, no matter what Trump says.
A tariff is an import tax, raising the price of almost everything we buy.
Tariffs are also regressive — taking a higher percentage out of the paychecks of working people than out of the wealthy.
A tariff is an import tax, raising the price of almost everything we buy.
Tariffs are also regressive — taking a higher percentage out of the paychecks of working people than out of the wealthy.
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As numerous women recounted losing dangerous amounts of blood during miscarriage, our reporters searched for a way to gain a broader understanding of how abortion restrictions have impacted care.
Here's how we conducted our analysis.
By @andreasuozzo.com, Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser
Here's how we conducted our analysis.
By @andreasuozzo.com, Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser
Miscarriage Is Increasingly Dangerous for Women in Texas, Our Analysis Shows. Here’s How We Did It.
Using seven years of hospital discharge data, we found that the number of blood transfusions during emergency room visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54% since Texas banned abortion.
www.propublica.org
July 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
As numerous women recounted losing dangerous amounts of blood during miscarriage, our reporters searched for a way to gain a broader understanding of how abortion restrictions have impacted care.
Here's how we conducted our analysis.
By @andreasuozzo.com, Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser
Here's how we conducted our analysis.
By @andreasuozzo.com, Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser
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This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
Is it any wonder so many feel abandoned by our economy? People lose faith, and a demagogue fills the void.
This is why we must fix the system.
Is it any wonder so many feel abandoned by our economy? People lose faith, and a demagogue fills the void.
This is why we must fix the system.
June 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
Is it any wonder so many feel abandoned by our economy? People lose faith, and a demagogue fills the void.
This is why we must fix the system.
Is it any wonder so many feel abandoned by our economy? People lose faith, and a demagogue fills the void.
This is why we must fix the system.
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“No one is watching, no one will hold them accountable, so they can just do what they want,” said one HUD attorney. “The civil rights laws that people marched for and fought for, ... it’s not happening. And people are really being harmed by it.”
By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
How the Trump Administration Is Weakening the Enforcement of Fair Housing Laws
Starting with cases involving sexual orientation and identity, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is hobbling enforcement of the Fair Housing Act. Said one HUD attorney: “People are…
www.propublica.org
May 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
“No one is watching, no one will hold them accountable, so they can just do what they want,” said one HUD attorney. “The civil rights laws that people marched for and fought for, ... it’s not happening. And people are really being harmed by it.”
By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
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Russell Vought, acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to introduce new rules designed to limit the ability of US data brokers to sell Americans’ most sensitive data, credit history, and Social Security numbers.
CFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers
Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data.
wrd.cm
May 18, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Russell Vought, acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to introduce new rules designed to limit the ability of US data brokers to sell Americans’ most sensitive data, credit history, and Social Security numbers.
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Duffy’s full of it. Pete Buttigieg and Dems pushed to modernize our air traffic control system under Biden—Republicans in Congress blocked it.
The Trump administration’s been too busy blaming DEI instead of fixing the real problems.
The Trump administration’s been too busy blaming DEI instead of fixing the real problems.
May 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Duffy’s full of it. Pete Buttigieg and Dems pushed to modernize our air traffic control system under Biden—Republicans in Congress blocked it.
The Trump administration’s been too busy blaming DEI instead of fixing the real problems.
The Trump administration’s been too busy blaming DEI instead of fixing the real problems.
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Donald Trump’s termination of Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter, is a brazen, unprecedented power grab with no legal basis.
It's surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.
It's surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.
May 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Donald Trump’s termination of Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter, is a brazen, unprecedented power grab with no legal basis.
It's surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.
It's surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.
Habemus Papam! I do hope he will be a compassionate pope who will lead with an open heart and mind.
Live updates: A new pope has been chosen. White smoke rises from the Sistine Chapel
White smoke streamed out of the Sistine Chapel, signaling that a new pope has been chosen. Faithful await to see who is the new pope.
apnews.com
May 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Habemus Papam! I do hope he will be a compassionate pope who will lead with an open heart and mind.
Protesting in the Rotunda is not allowed:
Trump pardoned the riotous protestors.
Will he pardon the prayerful clergy? Only 100 days in, and I am sickened by this regime.
Trump pardoned the riotous protestors.
Will he pardon the prayerful clergy? Only 100 days in, and I am sickened by this regime.
April 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Protesting in the Rotunda is not allowed:
Trump pardoned the riotous protestors.
Will he pardon the prayerful clergy? Only 100 days in, and I am sickened by this regime.
Trump pardoned the riotous protestors.
Will he pardon the prayerful clergy? Only 100 days in, and I am sickened by this regime.
“You can't manage what you don't measure,” business management expert Peter Drucker said. In the Trymp administration, many efforts to collect data are being abandoned. Important story. @alecmac.bsky.social
Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose con...
www.propublica.org
April 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Just a legal historian here reminding everyone that “high crimes and misdemeanors” do not need to be felonies.
They can include political abuses and stupidity, like, hypothetically, destroying the economy and wiping out people’s savings in 3 days.
They can include political abuses and stupidity, like, hypothetically, destroying the economy and wiping out people’s savings in 3 days.
April 7, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Just a legal historian here reminding everyone that “high crimes and misdemeanors” do not need to be felonies.
They can include political abuses and stupidity, like, hypothetically, destroying the economy and wiping out people’s savings in 3 days.
They can include political abuses and stupidity, like, hypothetically, destroying the economy and wiping out people’s savings in 3 days.
What's next, a MAGA version of Taktion4?
"Each year, newborn screening helps identify approximately 14,000 babies with serious conditions.[1] Elimination of the ACHDNC risks the preventable death and suffering of children with treatable rare disorders." rarediseaes.org/ceo-statemen...
"Each year, newborn screening helps identify approximately 14,000 babies with serious conditions.[1] Elimination of the ACHDNC risks the preventable death and suffering of children with treatable rare disorders." rarediseaes.org/ceo-statemen...
NORD CEO Statement on the Termination of the Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children - National Organization for Rare Disorders
The sudden termination of the Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children (ACHDNC) raises serious concerns for the rare disease community and families nationwide.
rarediseases.org
April 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
What's next, a MAGA version of Taktion4?
"Each year, newborn screening helps identify approximately 14,000 babies with serious conditions.[1] Elimination of the ACHDNC risks the preventable death and suffering of children with treatable rare disorders." rarediseaes.org/ceo-statemen...
"Each year, newborn screening helps identify approximately 14,000 babies with serious conditions.[1] Elimination of the ACHDNC risks the preventable death and suffering of children with treatable rare disorders." rarediseaes.org/ceo-statemen...
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At his rally in Wisconsin, South African billionaire Elon Musk says he will put an end to the Federal Reserve Bank and the US Dollar so that he, Peter Thiel and David Sacks (the South African broligarchs) can introduce a new cryptocurrency based financial system.
March 31, 2025 at 1:36 AM
At his rally in Wisconsin, South African billionaire Elon Musk says he will put an end to the Federal Reserve Bank and the US Dollar so that he, Peter Thiel and David Sacks (the South African broligarchs) can introduce a new cryptocurrency based financial system.