Diana Bishop
fitzbishop.bsky.social
Diana Bishop
@fitzbishop.bsky.social
Progressive advocate, exhausted educator, average knitter, and a decent human being.
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Hands off Atlanta Rally! #handsoff #HandsOff2025 #handsoffatlanta
April 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.
April 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
How to support Ukraine? Signed, horrified American.
February 28, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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every pandemic, every security leak, every military screw up is on Republicans for entrusting serious jobs to fools, flakes and fanatics.
February 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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It’s a coup. Musk and his gang are breaking laws. They should be arrested. This is not complicated.
February 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Collins: Is there a tangible concession in your view?

Davidson: Yeah, absolutely. It’s a commitment from Trudeau to help with fentanyl

Collins: He announced that plan six weeks ago.

Davidson: Well, at least he's reiterated it
February 4, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Raskin: "Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payments systems of the Treasury, but you don't control the money of the American people. The US Congress does that under Article 1 of the Constitution ... we don't have a fourth branch of government called 'Elon Musk'"
February 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Should the richest man in the world be able to shut down a federal program because he wants to?

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
February 3, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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What could possibly go wrong now that Elon Musk has gained access to all US Treasury payments? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Elon Musk may now have unique sway over the US Treasury
What could possibly go wrong with giving the tech mogul access to US payments?
www.motherjones.com
February 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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This would be nuts even if they were gov’t employees with clearances: “Three of the sources said the DOGE personnel wanted to gain access to security systems and personnel files. Two of those sources said also they wanted access to classified information.” www.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...
Senior USAID security officials put on leave after refusing Musk’s DOGE access to agency systems | CNN Politics
Two top security officials at the US Agency for International Development were put on administrative leave Saturday night after refusing to allow officials from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Ef...
www.cnn.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Control of the entire federal purse is being stolen in the middle of the night by a Nazi. There has never been anything like this.
this is theft on an unimaginable scale
3/ different pieces fit together. There also seems to be a significant amount of downloading government data onto private servers, etc, totally outside any cybersecurity regime. Additionally it’s unclear to the people inside whether the people doing these things actually work for the US govt…
February 2, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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“We must sound the alarm on why Elon Musk, a private citizen, wields such access to all our critical data. This is yet another wake-up call that Trump and Musk are rapidly dismantling U.S. institutions—a step ever closer to authoritarian control.”

trumptyrannytracker.substack.com/p/trump-tyra...
Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 12
January 31, 2025
trumptyrannytracker.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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This is a national emergency:
February 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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This is such a massive violation of basic privacy rights, and every elected Democrat in Congress should be screaming about the illegality of it and demanding accountability. apnews.com/article/dona...
Elon Musk's DOGE commission gains access to sensitive Treasury payment systems: AP sources
The Department of Government Efficiency, run by President Donald Trump’s billionaire adviser and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has gained access to sensitive Treasury data including Social Security and Medicar...
apnews.com
February 2, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Trump's administration announced late on Jan. 31 it would remove four media organizations including the New York Times, NPR, & Politico. (Source: Reuters)

In their place, it would give dedicated office space to the New York Post, One America News Network, Breitbart News Network and HuffPost News.
February 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Musk’s taken the reins.
Exclusive: Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the US government human resources agency locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials reut.rs/3CuCEPs
Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
reut.rs
January 31, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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I sent this to our school this morning and got an immediate and very positive response that the school will continue to protect, welcome and support all students regardless of identity.

Encourage all parents to use this script to send to your principal and/or vice principal.
Here's the letter. Copy and paste, fill in the details, add your flair if you want. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
January 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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"Americans cannot afford to import this experiment."

Sen. Wyden speaks at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s confirmation hearing

www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1RH...
January 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM