Heather jo🪴
@realheatherjo.bsky.social
I know a little bit about a lot of things. Enough to make me a menice. My youngest child is a Finnish Lapphund. The other two are humans, but you won't see them here.
She/Her
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When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.
February 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.
She's after my snacks!
February 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
She's after my snacks!
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More of this. Resigning in protest has little significance anymore. Say no, throw a fit, make waves. Politicize the public in favor of the civil service. We are in danger without it.
February 2, 2025 at 2:39 AM
More of this. Resigning in protest has little significance anymore. Say no, throw a fit, make waves. Politicize the public in favor of the civil service. We are in danger without it.
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The revolution may need violence. That is a possibility.
But it also needs healers.
It needs gardeners.
It needs leaders.
It needs managers.
It needs cooks.
It needs farmers.
It needs tailors.
It needs educators.
It needs journalists.
It needs artists.
It needs builders.
You are not useless.
But it also needs healers.
It needs gardeners.
It needs leaders.
It needs managers.
It needs cooks.
It needs farmers.
It needs tailors.
It needs educators.
It needs journalists.
It needs artists.
It needs builders.
You are not useless.
February 2, 2025 at 5:12 AM
The revolution may need violence. That is a possibility.
But it also needs healers.
It needs gardeners.
It needs leaders.
It needs managers.
It needs cooks.
It needs farmers.
It needs tailors.
It needs educators.
It needs journalists.
It needs artists.
It needs builders.
You are not useless.
But it also needs healers.
It needs gardeners.
It needs leaders.
It needs managers.
It needs cooks.
It needs farmers.
It needs tailors.
It needs educators.
It needs journalists.
It needs artists.
It needs builders.
You are not useless.
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The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.
HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻
archive.org/details/2025...
HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻
archive.org/details/2025...
February 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.
HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻
archive.org/details/2025...
HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻
archive.org/details/2025...
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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We need more of this!!
There has been this sentiment that we need to comply until we get validation that these EOs are illegal.
Do the opposite. Put the burden on the White House to prove they have legal standing. Don’t comply with something that we know should be transparently illegal.
There has been this sentiment that we need to comply until we get validation that these EOs are illegal.
Do the opposite. Put the burden on the White House to prove they have legal standing. Don’t comply with something that we know should be transparently illegal.
California DOE fires back against Trump's executive order:
"It does nothing"
"It is against federal law for the White House to dictate what educators can and cannot teach"
Will not comply.
"It does nothing"
"It is against federal law for the White House to dictate what educators can and cannot teach"
Will not comply.
February 1, 2025 at 1:21 AM
We need more of this!!
There has been this sentiment that we need to comply until we get validation that these EOs are illegal.
Do the opposite. Put the burden on the White House to prove they have legal standing. Don’t comply with something that we know should be transparently illegal.
There has been this sentiment that we need to comply until we get validation that these EOs are illegal.
Do the opposite. Put the burden on the White House to prove they have legal standing. Don’t comply with something that we know should be transparently illegal.
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I don’t want to hear about rushing them a donation, I want to see pictures of Senators getting arrested for civil disobedience in the capitol complex. Ante the fuck up.
February 1, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I don’t want to hear about rushing them a donation, I want to see pictures of Senators getting arrested for civil disobedience in the capitol complex. Ante the fuck up.
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This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
I know. I was there in those camps.
January 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
I know. I was there in those camps.
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His goal is the complete and total destruction of the United States of America.
Elon Musk is locking government workers out of computer systems at U.S. agencies.
This unelected freak is burning down our government.
www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
This unelected freak is burning down our government.
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 8:18 PM
His goal is the complete and total destruction of the United States of America.
Timeline cleanse! Lumi watching her favorite movie, Togo. Please interact so I can temporarily avoid seeing how my government is trying to dehumanize people I love!
January 30, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Timeline cleanse! Lumi watching her favorite movie, Togo. Please interact so I can temporarily avoid seeing how my government is trying to dehumanize people I love!
Lumi has a mission to capture all crows! It's so loud in this little enclosed space! 🫨
January 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Lumi has a mission to capture all crows! It's so loud in this little enclosed space! 🫨
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Time to post this again
January 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Time to post this again
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Sarah McBride is the perfect trans woman politican for the current moment: one who is willing to reassure liberals that ignoring the unprecedented assault on trans people's safety, rights, and dignity is not only acceptable but necessary to address the "real" issues.
Rep. Sarah McBride:
"When they're going after trans people, with their right hand they're picking the pocket of American workers, they're fleecing seniors, they're undermining unions. And this is all part of that politics of misdirection and distraction and division."
NAILED IT!
🔥
"When they're going after trans people, with their right hand they're picking the pocket of American workers, they're fleecing seniors, they're undermining unions. And this is all part of that politics of misdirection and distraction and division."
NAILED IT!
🔥
January 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Sarah McBride is the perfect trans woman politican for the current moment: one who is willing to reassure liberals that ignoring the unprecedented assault on trans people's safety, rights, and dignity is not only acceptable but necessary to address the "real" issues.
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I think this is going to turn into a Lumi stan account for a bit. Maybe I can distract myself from the wildness that is the US.
January 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I think this is going to turn into a Lumi stan account for a bit. Maybe I can distract myself from the wildness that is the US.
In case anyone needs a momentary doomscroll stop. This is Lumi she went to doggy daycare for the first time today. I think she had fun. I've never seen her this asleep!
January 21, 2025 at 1:18 AM
In case anyone needs a momentary doomscroll stop. This is Lumi she went to doggy daycare for the first time today. I think she had fun. I've never seen her this asleep!
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Fuck anyone who tries to tell you that you or your friends no longer have the right to exist.
January 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Fuck anyone who tries to tell you that you or your friends no longer have the right to exist.
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ICE is planning immigration raids starting Tuesday. Please amplify.
January 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
ICE is planning immigration raids starting Tuesday. Please amplify.
I'm going to go back eventually. Only to make sure I've followed my favorite people elsewhere. Then I'll delete it. Like Facebook and Instagram, it's too late. The trust is beyond broken.
I would be interested in hearing from any TikTok refugees who are here.
What do you think the next 90 days will look like? Would you stay on the app if it were owned by someone Trump had selected, whose plan was to turn it into a video version of Elon Musk's now thoroughly broken, N*zified Twitter?
What do you think the next 90 days will look like? Would you stay on the app if it were owned by someone Trump had selected, whose plan was to turn it into a video version of Elon Musk's now thoroughly broken, N*zified Twitter?
January 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I'm going to go back eventually. Only to make sure I've followed my favorite people elsewhere. Then I'll delete it. Like Facebook and Instagram, it's too late. The trust is beyond broken.
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want to be excruciatingly clear about this: TikTok didn't have to go dark last night and it didn't have to turn back on this morning.
both of those were voluntary moves that the law does not directly touch.
both of those were voluntary moves that the law does not directly touch.
January 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
want to be excruciatingly clear about this: TikTok didn't have to go dark last night and it didn't have to turn back on this morning.
both of those were voluntary moves that the law does not directly touch.
both of those were voluntary moves that the law does not directly touch.
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democrats gave an unimaginable w to trump by pulling this insanely incompetent and unpopular decision. can’t believe that trump who wanted ban tiktok initially is now getting the most expensive free ad by being credited as its savior to 170million americans. master class.
January 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
democrats gave an unimaginable w to trump by pulling this insanely incompetent and unpopular decision. can’t believe that trump who wanted ban tiktok initially is now getting the most expensive free ad by being credited as its savior to 170million americans. master class.
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I feel the need to make clear that would 300% rather a foreign govt have my data than my own. I was mildly concerned about the idea of Meta buying tiktok. I am severely concerned about the idea of Donald Trump buying it.
January 19, 2025 at 6:08 AM
I feel the need to make clear that would 300% rather a foreign govt have my data than my own. I was mildly concerned about the idea of Meta buying tiktok. I am severely concerned about the idea of Donald Trump buying it.