Rat Attack Possum
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Appalachia, music, books about same
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I genuinely cannot believe how many Democrats are spending their energy on destroying Mamdani when the GOP is trying to turn ICE into a full on secret police by drastically raising their budget
June 29, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I genuinely cannot believe how many Democrats are spending their energy on destroying Mamdani when the GOP is trying to turn ICE into a full on secret police by drastically raising their budget
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Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.
June 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.
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I am begging people not to look to the NYT for coverage of what's happening. The BBC, Le Monde, Ajazeera and others will have more truthful coverage.
June 22, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I am begging people not to look to the NYT for coverage of what's happening. The BBC, Le Monde, Ajazeera and others will have more truthful coverage.
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What could have been. I’m so tired of these people who choose to be pummeled, convinced that standing up for themselves might offend some imaginary voter, and of how their defenders make excuses for them and trash internal critics who want the party to be better. www.offmessage.net/p/boycott-th...
March 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
What could have been. I’m so tired of these people who choose to be pummeled, convinced that standing up for themselves might offend some imaginary voter, and of how their defenders make excuses for them and trash internal critics who want the party to be better. www.offmessage.net/p/boycott-th...
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look, i am not qualified for, frankly, much, but i am absolutely well qualified to tell you that this is a man is who under the influence of a staggering amount of amphetamines
Asked to respond to people who say he's orchestrating a hostile takeover of government, Elon Musk lies that "a majority of the public voted for President Trump"
February 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
look, i am not qualified for, frankly, much, but i am absolutely well qualified to tell you that this is a man is who under the influence of a staggering amount of amphetamines
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Why do I feel that our European, African, Asian, Australian and South American descendants will be saying, “my American grandparents came here with nothing…”
February 9, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Why do I feel that our European, African, Asian, Australian and South American descendants will be saying, “my American grandparents came here with nothing…”
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Do I have this right? Elon Musk - the guy in charge of preventing wasteful spending - dropped $40M on a Super Bowl ad?
We could permanently house 800 homeless veterans for $40M. Or provide five million meals to the hungry. Or replace lead pipes in 8,500 homes.
We could permanently house 800 homeless veterans for $40M. Or provide five million meals to the hungry. Or replace lead pipes in 8,500 homes.
February 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Do I have this right? Elon Musk - the guy in charge of preventing wasteful spending - dropped $40M on a Super Bowl ad?
We could permanently house 800 homeless veterans for $40M. Or provide five million meals to the hungry. Or replace lead pipes in 8,500 homes.
We could permanently house 800 homeless veterans for $40M. Or provide five million meals to the hungry. Or replace lead pipes in 8,500 homes.
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also tom cotton, another “constitutional conservative,” eagerly working to makes his branch of government utterly supine. but then these people imagine they have found a cheat code to let them rule forever
February 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
also tom cotton, another “constitutional conservative,” eagerly working to makes his branch of government utterly supine. but then these people imagine they have found a cheat code to let them rule forever
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Three Democrats are saying Ro Khanna was given a heads-up about the vote to subpoena Elon Musk, and accusing him of intentionally missing the vote in the House Oversight Committee. (Khanna, who has ties to Musk, has said he was unaware.)
www.politico.com/live-updates...
www.politico.com/live-updates...
House Democrats try, and fail, to subpoena Musk
Notably missing the vote was Rep. Ro Khanna, who is close to Musk.
www.politico.com
February 6, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Three Democrats are saying Ro Khanna was given a heads-up about the vote to subpoena Elon Musk, and accusing him of intentionally missing the vote in the House Oversight Committee. (Khanna, who has ties to Musk, has said he was unaware.)
www.politico.com/live-updates...
www.politico.com/live-updates...
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this is the most loser shit I’ve ever read
February 6, 2025 at 5:14 AM
this is the most loser shit I’ve ever read
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Really disappointed to find out despite all the movies & tv shows ever made a bunch of law enforcement pros who look like cocaine sweaty Gerard Butler aren’t strapping on bulletproof vests, loading 12 gauge shotguns & doing press checks on their pistols in a speeding SUV headed to the Treasury Dept.
February 2, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Really disappointed to find out despite all the movies & tv shows ever made a bunch of law enforcement pros who look like cocaine sweaty Gerard Butler aren’t strapping on bulletproof vests, loading 12 gauge shotguns & doing press checks on their pistols in a speeding SUV headed to the Treasury Dept.
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Hi all, We’re still here at OPM.
We have a situation where we MIGHT, and I do mean, MIGHT have four of Elon’s people blocked from the building.
Can we get press or a member of Congress down here? We’ve blocked them for two hours and they keep coming back and trying to go in.
We have a situation where we MIGHT, and I do mean, MIGHT have four of Elon’s people blocked from the building.
Can we get press or a member of Congress down here? We’ve blocked them for two hours and they keep coming back and trying to go in.
February 2, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Hi all, We’re still here at OPM.
We have a situation where we MIGHT, and I do mean, MIGHT have four of Elon’s people blocked from the building.
Can we get press or a member of Congress down here? We’ve blocked them for two hours and they keep coming back and trying to go in.
We have a situation where we MIGHT, and I do mean, MIGHT have four of Elon’s people blocked from the building.
Can we get press or a member of Congress down here? We’ve blocked them for two hours and they keep coming back and trying to go in.
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modest annoyance: i don’t think calling tariffs “taxes” is gonna make a dent. “instead of taxing americans, we’re going to tax canadian companies.” there aren’t magic words here
February 2, 2025 at 10:52 PM
modest annoyance: i don’t think calling tariffs “taxes” is gonna make a dent. “instead of taxing americans, we’re going to tax canadian companies.” there aren’t magic words here
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“Separately, a directive prohibiting C.D.C. employees from holding scientific meetings or communicating with other organizations or the public was indefinitely extended on Saturday”
Scientists at the CDC were ordered late on Friday to withdraw any pending publications, at any scientific journal, that mention terms such as “transgender,” “immigrant,” “L.G.B.T.” or “pregnant people.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
Live Updates: Trump Signs Orders Imposing Steep Tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 12:48 AM
“Separately, a directive prohibiting C.D.C. employees from holding scientific meetings or communicating with other organizations or the public was indefinitely extended on Saturday”
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Today, Trump has:
-indicated he'll purge the FBI of everyone who isn't a fanatical loyalist
-allowed his crony to seize all government funding in an effective coup
-ripped the entire federal government off the internet
Today, Democrats have:
-done nothing
-said nothing
-tweeted about egg prices
-indicated he'll purge the FBI of everyone who isn't a fanatical loyalist
-allowed his crony to seize all government funding in an effective coup
-ripped the entire federal government off the internet
Today, Democrats have:
-done nothing
-said nothing
-tweeted about egg prices
January 31, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Today, Trump has:
-indicated he'll purge the FBI of everyone who isn't a fanatical loyalist
-allowed his crony to seize all government funding in an effective coup
-ripped the entire federal government off the internet
Today, Democrats have:
-done nothing
-said nothing
-tweeted about egg prices
-indicated he'll purge the FBI of everyone who isn't a fanatical loyalist
-allowed his crony to seize all government funding in an effective coup
-ripped the entire federal government off the internet
Today, Democrats have:
-done nothing
-said nothing
-tweeted about egg prices
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NEW: Elon Musk's friends have infiltrated the GSA and they're looking for ways to use White House credentials to access agency tech, potentially allowing them to remote into laptops, read emails, and more, sources say.
w/ @zoeschiffer.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
w/ @zoeschiffer.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Elon Musk's Friends Have Infiltrated Another Government Agency
Elon Musk’s former employees are trying to use White House credentials to access General Services Administration tech, giving them the potential to remote into laptops, read emails, and more, sources ...
www.wired.com
January 31, 2025 at 11:34 PM
NEW: Elon Musk's friends have infiltrated the GSA and they're looking for ways to use White House credentials to access agency tech, potentially allowing them to remote into laptops, read emails, and more, sources say.
w/ @zoeschiffer.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
w/ @zoeschiffer.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
January 31, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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USDA is scrubbing all of our signatures out of Outlook tonight. We are to recreate with style guides without any pronouns included.
January 31, 2025 at 10:16 PM
USDA is scrubbing all of our signatures out of Outlook tonight. We are to recreate with style guides without any pronouns included.
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okay so what legal authority does elon musk have to commandeer the office of personnel management and access reams of sensitive data? www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
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.
www.reuters.com
January 31, 2025 at 8:17 PM
okay so what legal authority does elon musk have to commandeer the office of personnel management and access reams of sensitive data? www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
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“Some of the same people who helped Musk take over Twitter more than two years ago are now registered as official GSA employees.”
Elon Musk’s lackeys have infiltrated another government agency - and they're trying to use White House credentials to access GSA tech, giving them the potential to remote into laptops, read emails, and more, sources say.
read @makenakelly.bsky.social + @zoeschiffer.bsky.social:
read @makenakelly.bsky.social + @zoeschiffer.bsky.social:
Elon Musk's Friends Have Infiltrated Another Government Agency
Elon Musk’s former employees are trying to use White House credentials to access General Services Administration tech, giving them the potential to remote into laptops, read emails, and more, sources ...
www.wired.com
January 31, 2025 at 11:34 PM
“Some of the same people who helped Musk take over Twitter more than two years ago are now registered as official GSA employees.”
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![Witness said a bus driver told an ICE agent to "gargle [his] balls" when the latter requested to enter the bus.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jky6uuetr73nlbaml6ytlzbi/bafkreibjh2gbp75z5bojibdoefdpfdwlclxwspai2i7qfjotajpraru3zm@jpeg)
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Pritzker: "When our agencies, reached out to the federal agencies, we literally were informed that they are not to speak with us"
Pritzker: "They are either lying to us or they are critically incompetent. This is what happens when you staff the federal government full of project 2025 contributors that don't have any experience governing and don't think that the laws apply to them."
Pritzker: "Donald Trump's administration is lying to you. The White House's attempt to walk back what they did today does not match what we saw on the ground."
January 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Pritzker: "When our agencies, reached out to the federal agencies, we literally were informed that they are not to speak with us"