James Badham
jbinsbl.bsky.social
James Badham
@jbinsbl.bsky.social
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"This is what we were voting for!"

From a friend in academia:

>>I was with a public health professor from [major university] last weekend and he said that NIH is now euthanizing whole cohorts of animals from animal studies because there is nobody around to feed them<<

Great work.
May 24, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Socialism is what they called public power. 

Socialism is what they called social security. 
 
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
 
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952
May 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
@bluedotin.bsky.social thanks for the follow. Backatcha
May 2, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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April 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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4.5 million views for an outright lie.
February 26, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Wow. 20+ DOGE staffers just resigned en masse, saying they refuse to use their expertise to “dismantle critical public services.”

“We swore to serve the American people... However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments.”
21 federal technology staffers resign rather than help Musk and DOGE slash size of government
Twenty-one civil service employees have resigned from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, saying they're refusing to use their technical expertise to “dismantle ...
apnews.com
February 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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"North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary...

"Tillis ultimately provided the crucial 50th vote to confirm."

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
“They’re Scared Shitless”: The Threat of Political Violence Informing Trump’s Grip on Congress
With the president smashing norm after norm, even lawmakers within his party have feared for their personal safety, and at least one has told confidants that it has swayed his decision-making.
www.vanityfair.com
February 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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This is who Republicans just made FBI Director.

Kash Patel calls for “offensive operations” to jail Americans who they consider “the enemy.”

“We will go out and find the conspirators... Yes, we are going to come after the people in the media”
February 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Anyone who thinks we r not in serious, deep, five-alarm trouble is a sleep. When and how (at scale) does the civil disobedience begin?
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
February 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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“I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights,” he said. “I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.”
The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...
February 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
First post ought to be about why I’m here. Because I don’t want to support those billionaire Trumper fools. Is that clear, or too much nuance.
February 19, 2025 at 4:48 AM