TriciaG (born at 310 ppm)
@triciagerr.bsky.social
Active in fighting to protect the San Pedro River in SE Arizona, a biological gem. If you enjoy birdwatching, this place is a must on your list.
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So...the president is going to order Texas to invade Illinois? What if Illinois says no, you can't invade us? And if Texas insists, and Illinois fights back, isn't that literally a civil war?
Does anyone know what's happening here?
Does anyone know what's happening here?
this is almost certainly under Title 32 authorities (meaning the TX guard will be nominally under TX state control but on a federal mission), meaning the posse comitatus issues that came up in California will not apply. that said, it raises a whole lot of other legal problems
BREAKING: Gov. JB Pritzker says the Trump administration has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, awaiting orders to deploy to Chicago.
Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social
Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 4:28 AM
So...the president is going to order Texas to invade Illinois? What if Illinois says no, you can't invade us? And if Texas insists, and Illinois fights back, isn't that literally a civil war?
Does anyone know what's happening here?
Does anyone know what's happening here?
Me too. He's speaking up and seems to be pretty darned smart. He'll be tested when the National Guard "invades". OMG.
I like JB Pritzker.
September 3, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Me too. He's speaking up and seems to be pretty darned smart. He'll be tested when the National Guard "invades". OMG.
Wow. Feeling guilty much?
The White House has made it clear that any Republicans considering joining Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) in his bipartisan push to force a vote on the full release of the Epstein files will be treated as committing a “very hostile act to the administration,”
September 3, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Wow. Feeling guilty much?
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oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop
man. if Eric Schmitt's speech to NatCon isn't a sign of the times, i don't know what is
!["America is not a 'universal nation.' ... [American] principles are not abstractions. They are living, breathing things — rooted in a people and embodied in a way of life."
Senator Eric Schmitt got a standing ovation at Nat Con DC for saying America as a nation is the property of a distinct ethnic people.
Americans are a mix of “the most adventurous, the most courageous, the most curious and innovative” of the English, Scotch-Irish, and continental Europeans, who came as settlers and have spent hundreds of years building, fighting, and dying for "a homeland for themselves and their descendants."
"We’re a nation of settlers, explorers, and pioneers — born on the ocean waters that carried the first ships to our shores and forged in the crucible of a wild frontier. Our people tamed a continent, built a civilization from the wilderness, and wrote our nation’s name in history.
"Our ancestors were driven here by destiny, possessed by urgent and fiery conviction, by burning belief, devoted to their cause and their God."
"The Continental Army soldiers dying of frostbite at Valley Forge, Pilgrims struggling to survive in the hard winter soil of Plymouth, pioneers striking out from Missouri for the wild and dangerous frontier, [and] outnumbered Kentucky settlers, repelling wave after wave of Indian war band attacks from behind their stockade walls, would be astonished to hear that they were only fighting for a 'proposition.'
"They believed they were forging a nation — a homeland for themselves and their descendants."
"America, in all its glory, is their gift to us, handed down across the generations.
"It belongs to us. It’s our birthright, our heritage, our destiny.
"If America is everything and everyone, then it is nothing and no one at all."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreif3x7re3lubuj7kzurj3ayotcnq2l46kwb2p5hp2zid2dagzth5nu@jpeg)
September 3, 2025 at 12:15 AM
oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop
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Thank you on this labor day!!
September 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Thank you on this labor day!!
Gawd. "I have determined there is cause". Translation - you're a Black woman. That's probably enough but then she's also not doing what he wants. Another lawsuit for the books.
President Trump said he was removing Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve's board of governors, an extraordinary step that could undermine the central bank's independence and seeks to oust the first Black woman to serve on the board. Legally, a president may only dismiss a governor “for cause.”
Trump Says He Is Firing Lisa Cook From Fed Board of Governors
“I have determined that there is sufficient cause to remove you from your position,” Mr. Trump said in a letter. Her dismissal threatened to touch off a landmark legal battle over the Fed’s independence.
nyti.ms
August 26, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Gawd. "I have determined there is cause". Translation - you're a Black woman. That's probably enough but then she's also not doing what he wants. Another lawsuit for the books.
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A federal judge warned Kari Lake, an outspoken Trump ally who oversaw the effective shutdown of Voice of America, that she could be held in contempt for failing to comply with his directive to resume broadcasts at the taxpayer-funded news outlet.
Judge orders Trump administration to explain why order to restore Voice of America wasn't followed
A U.S. District Court judge ordered the Trump administration to explain why it is apparently not following his order to restore operations at the government-run Voice of America.
apnews.com
August 26, 2025 at 1:38 AM
A federal judge warned Kari Lake, an outspoken Trump ally who oversaw the effective shutdown of Voice of America, that she could be held in contempt for failing to comply with his directive to resume broadcasts at the taxpayer-funded news outlet.
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Every dictator in history has claimed that they’ll only use their powers to go after the worst of the worst.
Every dictator in history has lied.
Donald Trump is no different.
Every dictator in history has lied.
Donald Trump is no different.
August 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Every dictator in history has claimed that they’ll only use their powers to go after the worst of the worst.
Every dictator in history has lied.
Donald Trump is no different.
Every dictator in history has lied.
Donald Trump is no different.
August 23, 2025
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August 23, 2025
“It is my Great Honor to report that the United States of America now fully owns and controls 10% of INTEL, a Great American Company that has an even more incredible future,” President Donald Trump wr...
open.substack.com
August 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
August 23, 2025
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open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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The clearest picture of corporate greed in this country is CEO-to-worker pay ratios.
At the 100 lowest-paying major US companies, CEO pay averaged $17.2M in 2024.
Median worker pay at these companies was just $35,570.
That’s a ratio of 632 to 1.
How can anyone defend this?
At the 100 lowest-paying major US companies, CEO pay averaged $17.2M in 2024.
Median worker pay at these companies was just $35,570.
That’s a ratio of 632 to 1.
How can anyone defend this?
August 21, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The clearest picture of corporate greed in this country is CEO-to-worker pay ratios.
At the 100 lowest-paying major US companies, CEO pay averaged $17.2M in 2024.
Median worker pay at these companies was just $35,570.
That’s a ratio of 632 to 1.
How can anyone defend this?
At the 100 lowest-paying major US companies, CEO pay averaged $17.2M in 2024.
Median worker pay at these companies was just $35,570.
That’s a ratio of 632 to 1.
How can anyone defend this?
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School boards are ground zero for anti-DEI bigots and the Christian nationalist movement. Tomorrow at 12p(PST) we'll discuss navigating the tricky politics of school boards with #Arizona State University professor Dr. Carrie Sampson.
Details and RSVP here: secularaz.org/single-event...
Details and RSVP here: secularaz.org/single-event...
Dr. Carrie Sampson - Navigating School Board Politics: A Framework for Advancing Equity - Secular AZ
Join us on August 22 at noon (AZ Time) as special guest Carrie Sampson, PhD, discusses her book Navigating School Board Politics: A Framework for Advancing Equity.At a time when school boards are grou...
secularaz.org
August 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
School boards are ground zero for anti-DEI bigots and the Christian nationalist movement. Tomorrow at 12p(PST) we'll discuss navigating the tricky politics of school boards with #Arizona State University professor Dr. Carrie Sampson.
Details and RSVP here: secularaz.org/single-event...
Details and RSVP here: secularaz.org/single-event...
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More real-time fact checking of the Liar in Chief please!
August 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
More real-time fact checking of the Liar in Chief please!
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The woman petitioning SCOTUS to overturn marriage equality in the name of the sanctity of marriage is on her fourth husband.
August 13, 2025 at 4:55 AM
The woman petitioning SCOTUS to overturn marriage equality in the name of the sanctity of marriage is on her fourth husband.
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A Project 2025 author with a Nazi ship on the wall behind him. This ain’t subtle, folks.
August 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
A Project 2025 author with a Nazi ship on the wall behind him. This ain’t subtle, folks.
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Fanone: There’s absolutely no legitimate justification for the way that many of these agents are behaving and the military-style show of force.
If we ever do right this ship, this organization has lost all credibility. I would hope we would completely abolish ICE.
If we ever do right this ship, this organization has lost all credibility. I would hope we would completely abolish ICE.
August 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Fanone: There’s absolutely no legitimate justification for the way that many of these agents are behaving and the military-style show of force.
If we ever do right this ship, this organization has lost all credibility. I would hope we would completely abolish ICE.
If we ever do right this ship, this organization has lost all credibility. I would hope we would completely abolish ICE.
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Yeah JD, we remember. We will never forget your boss was best friends with the guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring.
And then that guy was "silenced" forever.
And now we will just not talk about anything else until they...
#ReleaseThe_EPSTEIN_Files
And then that guy was "silenced" forever.
And now we will just not talk about anything else until they...
#ReleaseThe_EPSTEIN_Files
August 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Yeah JD, we remember. We will never forget your boss was best friends with the guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring.
And then that guy was "silenced" forever.
And now we will just not talk about anything else until they...
#ReleaseThe_EPSTEIN_Files
And then that guy was "silenced" forever.
And now we will just not talk about anything else until they...
#ReleaseThe_EPSTEIN_Files
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First it was troops in L.A., sent to provoke and assault peaceful protesters under the banner of “immigration enforcement.” Now it’s troops in our capital to disappear the homeless. See the pattern? Sooner or later, the monster comes for us all.
August 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
First it was troops in L.A., sent to provoke and assault peaceful protesters under the banner of “immigration enforcement.” Now it’s troops in our capital to disappear the homeless. See the pattern? Sooner or later, the monster comes for us all.
This ongoing extortion is appalling. It's like a crime syndicate is now in the White House.
Trump’s attempt to freeze UCLA grants is a billion dollar extortion scheme against one of the nation’s premier public universities.
And it will have real world consequences.
Breakthroughs in science stalled, talent lost, and cutting-edge innovation halted.
Real dictator stuff.
And it will have real world consequences.
Breakthroughs in science stalled, talent lost, and cutting-edge innovation halted.
Real dictator stuff.
August 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
This ongoing extortion is appalling. It's like a crime syndicate is now in the White House.
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The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy.
When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.
The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.
The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
August 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy.
When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.
The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.
The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
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Just a reminder that immigrants are good for society and the economy. https://youtu.be/LCl9-uaKzv8?feature=shared
The Truth About Immigrants and the Economy | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
youtu.be
August 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Just a reminder that immigrants are good for society and the economy. https://youtu.be/LCl9-uaKzv8?feature=shared
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Saw this article, thought "unprovoked? he was HUNTING this very buffalo! That is self-defense!" and came over here to see if Bluesky was Team Cape Buffalo (I was not disappointed).
www.huffpost.com/entry/millio...
www.huffpost.com/entry/millio...
Texas Millionaire Rancher Gored To Death By Buffalo During South African Hunting Safari
The safari company said he was killed in an "unprovoked attack."
www.huffpost.com
August 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Saw this article, thought "unprovoked? he was HUNTING this very buffalo! That is self-defense!" and came over here to see if Bluesky was Team Cape Buffalo (I was not disappointed).
www.huffpost.com/entry/millio...
www.huffpost.com/entry/millio...
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The Confederates always used "state's rights" when it was convenient and the feds to control the states when it wasn't.
We are still fighting the confederates...they weren't punished well enough and they never went away.
We are still fighting the confederates...they weren't punished well enough and they never went away.
August 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The Confederates always used "state's rights" when it was convenient and the feds to control the states when it wasn't.
We are still fighting the confederates...they weren't punished well enough and they never went away.
We are still fighting the confederates...they weren't punished well enough and they never went away.
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News: Another appeals court has upheld the law I led that allows Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices. Despite Big Pharma’s challenges, this is a big win for affordable health care and for seniors who will save money.
August 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
News: Another appeals court has upheld the law I led that allows Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices. Despite Big Pharma’s challenges, this is a big win for affordable health care and for seniors who will save money.