Robyn Todd
@wickedyetkind.bsky.social
Reader | Recovering CA healthcare lawyer now in NoVA | Patent holder | Photographer Nikon Z7II | Int'l travel | Snow lover | Kindest misanthrope you'll ever meet | UCLA Microbio & Molecular Genetics | UC Berkeley Law | Woke AF |Philly lover | Absurdity
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Robyn Todd
@wickedyetkind.bsky.social
· Feb 1
A desperate 🧵
We are undergoing a revolution by illegal actors. And the Democratic party can’t recognize it, and mainstream media won’t report it. 1/
We are undergoing a revolution by illegal actors. And the Democratic party can’t recognize it, and mainstream media won’t report it. 1/
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The SAVE Act, a.k.a the Save the Republicans' Asses Act, is a shameless attempt to block Americans—especially married women—from voting. Requiring birth certificates to cast a ballot? That’s not election security. That’s voter suppression.
April 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The SAVE Act, a.k.a the Save the Republicans' Asses Act, is a shameless attempt to block Americans—especially married women—from voting. Requiring birth certificates to cast a ballot? That’s not election security. That’s voter suppression.
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The SAVE Act would be the worst voting bill ever passed by Congress. Lawmakers should be protecting the freedom to vote — not restricting it. We urge Congress to reject the SAVE Act. 4/
April 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
The SAVE Act would be the worst voting bill ever passed by Congress. Lawmakers should be protecting the freedom to vote — not restricting it. We urge Congress to reject the SAVE Act. 4/
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Spoiler: It is absolutely market manipulation
Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"
April 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Spoiler: It is absolutely market manipulation
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The most corrupt administration in American history wants you to look the other way from this.
We can't. We need answers.
We can't. We need answers.
April 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The most corrupt administration in American history wants you to look the other way from this.
We can't. We need answers.
We can't. We need answers.
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Exclusive: Researchers at the US National Institutes of Health were told they can't attend scientific conferences and meetings without official permission, even if they pay their way and go during time off, current and former NIH scientists told Reuters reut.rs/4j7rFLT
Exclusive: US NIH scientists barred from attending conferences on their own time and dime
Researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health have been told they cannot attend scientific conferences and meetings without official permission, even if they pay their own way and go during time off, three current and former NIH scientists told Reuters.
reut.rs
April 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Exclusive: Researchers at the US National Institutes of Health were told they can't attend scientific conferences and meetings without official permission, even if they pay their way and go during time off, current and former NIH scientists told Reuters reut.rs/4j7rFLT
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“The impact of Booker’s effort remains to be seen, but to judge it through a strictly political lens is to miss a grittier athletic drama—and overlook how sports science might help a future senator extend 'filibusterthon' endurance,” writes Alex Hutchinson:
Cory Booker, Endurance Athlete
The New Jersey senator broke congressional records by speaking for more than 25 hours. How?
bit.ly
April 6, 2025 at 11:15 AM
“The impact of Booker’s effort remains to be seen, but to judge it through a strictly political lens is to miss a grittier athletic drama—and overlook how sports science might help a future senator extend 'filibusterthon' endurance,” writes Alex Hutchinson:
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I'm so glad I was introduced to Howard Zinn. Can't be neutral on a moving train shaped my political thought.
“Historically, the most terrible things—war, genocide, and slavery—have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.” —Howard Zinn
April 6, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I'm so glad I was introduced to Howard Zinn. Can't be neutral on a moving train shaped my political thought.
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“In the past eight weeks, life for working-class Americans has deteriorated in real ways. And the pundits and politicians, on all sides, will watch it from a safe, comfortable distance,” Xochitl Gonzalez writes:
The Comfort Class
People with generational wealth control a society that they don’t understand.
www.theatlantic.com
April 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM
“In the past eight weeks, life for working-class Americans has deteriorated in real ways. And the pundits and politicians, on all sides, will watch it from a safe, comfortable distance,” Xochitl Gonzalez writes:
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WOW.
Dismantling the Department of Education will have GENERATIONAL impacts on our kids and workforce.
Repost if you stand with TEACHERS and STUDENTS!
#HandsOffEducation
Dismantling the Department of Education will have GENERATIONAL impacts on our kids and workforce.
Repost if you stand with TEACHERS and STUDENTS!
#HandsOffEducation
HANDS OFF EDUCATION: "Teachers are PISSED" —AFT President, Randi Weingarten, IN-STUDIO!
YouTube video by The Dangerous Ones
youtu.be
April 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
WOW.
Dismantling the Department of Education will have GENERATIONAL impacts on our kids and workforce.
Repost if you stand with TEACHERS and STUDENTS!
#HandsOffEducation
Dismantling the Department of Education will have GENERATIONAL impacts on our kids and workforce.
Repost if you stand with TEACHERS and STUDENTS!
#HandsOffEducation
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The end of the Biden era is tragic, and you don't have to be a personal fan of Biden to acknowledge this. Something good was happening, and people just said, nah. I want worse.
One of the most unrecognized aspects of the current tragedy: We have not just lost the economic "status-quo." Biden had laid a *groundwork.* The economy wasn't just going to "stabilize;" it was projected to "boom." He really was trying to shape the economy in a transformative direction.
April 6, 2025 at 2:05 AM
The end of the Biden era is tragic, and you don't have to be a personal fan of Biden to acknowledge this. Something good was happening, and people just said, nah. I want worse.
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These are not serious people.
TAPPER: You're imposing a 10% on the Heard and MccDonald islands. They have zero human inhabitants. Why are you putting tariffs on islands entirely populated by penguins?
ROLLINS: Whatever. Listen, the people leading this are serious, intentional, patriotic, the smartest I've ever worked with.
ROLLINS: Whatever. Listen, the people leading this are serious, intentional, patriotic, the smartest I've ever worked with.
April 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
These are not serious people.
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The American Dream of. . . working in a sweat-shop. That's the pitch. Sweat-shops.
Lutnick: "The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones -- that kind of thing is going to come to America."
April 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The American Dream of. . . working in a sweat-shop. That's the pitch. Sweat-shops.
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NEW: Political appointees have been baking chocolate chip cookies for Doug Burgum. He had them serve a multi-course lunch. A Park Police helicopter took him to AF1.
"Doug the diva," says source.
"Pathetic smears," says spokes. w/
@ashleyrparker.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
"Doug the diva," says source.
"Pathetic smears," says spokes. w/
@ashleyrparker.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Cabinet Secretary Who Likes His Cookies Fresh-Baked
The unusual requests made of Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s staff are raising concerns all the way to the White House.
www.theatlantic.com
April 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
NEW: Political appointees have been baking chocolate chip cookies for Doug Burgum. He had them serve a multi-course lunch. A Park Police helicopter took him to AF1.
"Doug the diva," says source.
"Pathetic smears," says spokes. w/
@ashleyrparker.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
"Doug the diva," says source.
"Pathetic smears," says spokes. w/
@ashleyrparker.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Estimates of total anti Trump/Musk turnout are between 3-5 million, on par with the 2017 Women’s March. And only the 1970 Earth Day protests are bigger for a single day.
(BLM, Vietnam, etc multi-day/week/month totals are higher)
Don’t let people tell you it doesn’t matter. It does.
(BLM, Vietnam, etc multi-day/week/month totals are higher)
Don’t let people tell you it doesn’t matter. It does.
April 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Estimates of total anti Trump/Musk turnout are between 3-5 million, on par with the 2017 Women’s March. And only the 1970 Earth Day protests are bigger for a single day.
(BLM, Vietnam, etc multi-day/week/month totals are higher)
Don’t let people tell you it doesn’t matter. It does.
(BLM, Vietnam, etc multi-day/week/month totals are higher)
Don’t let people tell you it doesn’t matter. It does.
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This Is the top story on @motherjones.com, as it should be on every news site. Millions of people turned out to oppose Tump/Musk/facism yesterday. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
You can stop asking where the mass opposition is. It's everywhere.
People poured out to protest not only what Trump has done—but what they fear he will do next.
www.motherjones.com
April 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This Is the top story on @motherjones.com, as it should be on every news site. Millions of people turned out to oppose Tump/Musk/facism yesterday. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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They are literally convening events right in front of us so people can stuff cash into the pockets of the President of the United States. NYT on "[t]he Trump family monetization weekend":
Even as the stock market crashed, President Trump was in Florida at his Doral golf resort and Mar-a-Lago club helping pump up family businesses, evidence that Trump continues to monetize the presidency. A NYT behind-the-scenes look with Theodore Schleifer and Zolan Kanno-Youngs nyti.ms/3XPqyIa
Trump Family’s Cash Registers Ring as Financial Meltdown Plays Out (Gift Article)
The party was on at a Saudi-backed LIV Golf tournament at the president’s Doral resort in Florida and a fund-raiser at Mar-a-Lago, even as markets tumbled.
nyti.ms
April 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
They are literally convening events right in front of us so people can stuff cash into the pockets of the President of the United States. NYT on "[t]he Trump family monetization weekend":
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New: HHS Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. said he wouldn’t take away childhood vaccines.
Then he cut $2 billion from state health programs that helps get them to kids.
Clinics canceled. Nurses fired. Immunizations stalled—all amid a measles outbreak.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Then he cut $2 billion from state health programs that helps get them to kids.
Clinics canceled. Nurses fired. Immunizations stalled—all amid a measles outbreak.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
How Kennedy is already weakening America's childhood vaccine system
The Department of Health and Human Services cut $2 billion from a program that supports vaccines for vulnerable children, forcing public health departments to lay off staff and cancel clinics.
www.nbcnews.com
April 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
New: HHS Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. said he wouldn’t take away childhood vaccines.
Then he cut $2 billion from state health programs that helps get them to kids.
Clinics canceled. Nurses fired. Immunizations stalled—all amid a measles outbreak.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Then he cut $2 billion from state health programs that helps get them to kids.
Clinics canceled. Nurses fired. Immunizations stalled—all amid a measles outbreak.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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JPMORGAN: “.. if sustained, this year’s ~22%-point tariff increase would be the largest US tax hike since 1968.
“.. The risk of recession in the global economy this year is raised to 60%, up from 40% earlier ..”
“.. The risk of recession in the global economy this year is raised to 60%, up from 40% earlier ..”
April 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
JPMORGAN: “.. if sustained, this year’s ~22%-point tariff increase would be the largest US tax hike since 1968.
“.. The risk of recession in the global economy this year is raised to 60%, up from 40% earlier ..”
“.. The risk of recession in the global economy this year is raised to 60%, up from 40% earlier ..”
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DOGE's access to federal systems continues to grow despite court rulings that ordered the government to cut DOGE off from specific records.
DOGE accesses federal payroll system and punishes employees who objected
Report: IT officials who fought DOGE access put on leave and under investigation.
arstechnica.com
April 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
DOGE's access to federal systems continues to grow despite court rulings that ordered the government to cut DOGE off from specific records.