Barbara Waxer 🌈
@barbara-waxer.bsky.social
Copyright & Finding Media educator trainer. Award-winning author. Creative Commons & Space exploration fiend. ILC Breast Cancer. Native Detroiter, now Abq. No DMs.
The judge is fed up with DOJ's "who's on first" attempt to evade accountability: JUDGE: Just get someone on the phone who can give me a date. Otherwise the court will be forced to impose a date.
JUDGE: Just get someone on the phone who can give me a date. Otherwise the court will be forced to impose a date. DOJ: I understand, and if the court imposes a date... JUDGE: That's not my preference DOJ: I'm not able to represent a date 23/
Taiwan is giving its coast guard an expanded role in national security as part of a defense strategy that is focused on keeping China’s landing forces from reaching its shores and warning Beijing of the difficulties it will encounter if it invades. www.wsj.com/world/asia/t...
Taiwan Weaponizes Coast Guard to Prepare for Battle With China
Antiship missiles and naval drills intensify Taipei’s effort to improve defense and deter Beijing.
wsj.com
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 25-year-old Argentinian biologist Pilar Ferrer has developed an injectable gel that helps repair damaged heart tissue after a heart attack
As Karoline Leavitt steps down, one question stands out: does the Press Secretary role still serve a purpose in Trump 2.0?
I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure raping children is an impeachable offense.
Stephen Miller gives cruel pusillanimous schmucks a bad name apnews.com/article/ice-...
AP Exclusive: ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks that are intended to gain compliance from combative individuals.
apnews.com
Over 400 women have reportedly faced arrest for pregnancy related outcomes since Roe v. Wade was overturned. Meanwhile, powerful men continue to avoid accountability. Justice should never depend on your gender, your power or your politics. #WomenMatter #Accountability #SheShed
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Stephen Miller on Laura Ingraham in June. There is NEVER enough when your greed is linked to privilege. Think W Bush not criticizing Trump in 2016 b/c he didn't want to lose his status in the Dallas social scene.
Cassidy lost his primary in May. Came in third. No reelection to protect, no donors to please, no future in that building. He had the freest vote of his entire career and he used it on Todd Blanche. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-came...
As of this morning, the WNBA has been mentioned on Fox News 163 times since last Monday. During that same timeframe, they have only mentioned Max Miller's name 5 times.
Great article on this, the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki. Fun fact: you can buy Fat Man and Little Boy keychains, earrings, and wine corks in the Nuclear Museum Gift Store in Albuquerque. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
They openly admit their election crimes & are actively doing everything they can to undermine & outright steal the Midterm Elections. Any surprise he fired the remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission? He knows if he loses he's headed for a 3rd Impeachment & an orange jumpsuit. 🤞 👍
One America, where the man on the left is so ignorant he had to pay someone else to take the SAT for him. Another America, where the man on the right is a Rhodes Scholar.
I remember watching this when it aired live in September, 1976, the Muppet Show's first season. I didn't know who Rita Moreno was, only that she was amazing. She won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program. Happy Sunday Funday! 🥵
Judge Emmet Sullivan has scheduled Thursday hearing for Todd Blanche & Justice Dept to answer concerns from Judge Sullivan about Blanche’s handling of Epstein Files and why Blanche hasn't turned over more of the records sought in suit by @katiephang.bsky.social Katie explains what's next
Stephen Miller said the quiet part loud: Senator’s need "consequences" for stepping out of line and since many of them have "a life they want after the Senate," foundations, corporate boards, that's exactly where the leverage lives.
You're probably familiar with the events in Selma, Alabama, that helped secure the Voting Rights Act. But you might not know the story of how the Voting Rights Act then transformed Selma and the rest of the South. New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS:
Work in Progress: Implementing the VRA
Work in Progress is a recurring feature on CAMPAIGN TRAILS, in which I share some of the more interesting materials I’ve uncovered in my book-in-progress on the work of John Doar and the Civil Rights ...
campaign-trails.ghost.io
New in PN: How everyday Americans are forced to fund Trump's corruption "A Public Notice-American Doom analysis shows Trump is spending nearly $1.8 billion in taxpayer dollars to fund his many renovation projects. Meanwhile, Trump and his family’s crypto schemes have raked in more than $2.25b."
How everyday Americans are forced to fund Trump's corruption
On top of his self-dealing, taxpayers are spending billions on his vanity projects.
publicnotice.co
Under Trump & RFK Jr.: -22,000 cyclospora cases and 2 deaths -Multiple ongoing salmonella outbreaks -Measles cases at 35-year high -New "forever chemical" pesticides in our food supply How the hell is any of this Making America Healthy Again?
The Trump administration has said it would go ahead with a proposed plan to remove most of HeadStart federal requirements. Head Start is an antipoverty program aimed at helping the nation’s most impoverished young children. and the plan would r... TAT: [Weakening civil rights | Attacking education]
Trump Administration to Deregulate Head Start, Antipoverty Program Created Under R.F.K. Jr.’s Uncle
While administration officials say the changes will save money by lifting onerous requirements, advocates fear the anti-poverty program will be gutted.
nytimes.com
Take the sore-loser wrecker shit that's still coming off Jasmine Crockett and contrast it with Haley Stevens' literal embrace of the opponent who beat her in a much uglier race just a day later.
Jasmine Crockett Dumps Cold Water on James Talarico’s Texas Polling Surge: ‘Looks Like Status Quo’
Rep. Jasmine Crockett "doesn't buy" James Talarico's surge in the polls and believes he will still lose his Senate race to Republican Ken Paxton, NBC reported
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BREAKING: Court orders Todd Blanche to appear in court next week to provide missing docs supporting key redactions of alleged victims, to explain why handwritten FBI interview notes of an alleged victim of Donald Trump remain withheld, & to provide a date when he’ll give the missing redaction log.
MeidasTouch: Sen. Martin Heinrich & the NM congressional delegation are demanding answers from Pete Hegseth after a Defense Department GPS jamming exercise contributed to a medical plane crash, killing 4 crew members & igniting a wildfire that burned nearly 32,000 acres. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed