Blue Wave Earper
@blueearper.bsky.social
British TV watcher. Democracy enthusiast. Covid realist. #CovidIsNotOver Owned by a one-eyed orange cat named Spike. 🏳️🌈 (she/her) #KeepCaliforniaBlue #BlueWave2026 Los Angeles
Troy Jackson: "Sen. Collins keeps talking about all the power and authority she has, but she never has it unless it's for one of her donors"
Democracy depends on journalism. The @localnewsini.bsky.social is out with its annual State of Local News report and the # of news deserts is WAY up (+26). There are now 238 counties in the United States with no news outlets and 1,478 counties with only one. www.datawrapper.de/_/nPvAV/
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There are 238 counties in the United States with no news outlets. There are 1,478 counties with only one.
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Trump has cut off intelligence to Ukraine so that Putin can more easily bomb civilians including children.
For the umpteenth time: Hillary was 💯 spot on, absolutely correct about Donald Trump 10yrs ago.👇
“.. two dozen former #DOGE staffers have parlayed their government experience into relevant private-sector jobs .. looking to win government contracts .. .. at least six DOGE alumni have registered on Sam.gov, a government contracting portal ..” newrepublic.com/article/2165...
for as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty.
Top two stories on all three network newscasts tonight: Person killed on amusement park ride and Selma Blair arrested. (CBS and NBC led with the park accident; ABC led with Blair.) World is on fire —and this is what the Big Three think is most important.
The Omar story today and the Talarcio story yesterday are the same story of rat-fucking your opponents before an election. Except now the government does it, out in the open.
Seems relevant to me that the new White House press secretary, who supposed to convey accurate information, believes that elites in the Democratic Party and Hollywood are sexually trafficking kids and eating people. 24 hours later, it hasn’t made it into mainstream coverage of Zacharia.
New White House press secretary is a Pizzagate conspiracy theorist
Katie Zacharia, who was appointed White House press secretary by President Trump on Friday, repeatedly promoted the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy on social media, accusing elites from the Democratic P...
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If you are wondering why Anthropic aren't coming out and opposing statements like this, it's because they very genuinely do not care about climate responsibility and will burn absolutely whatever they can get their hands on to keep the grift going. www.capitalbrief.com/article/anth...
Annie Andrews didn’t just show up for the debate. She came ready to fight. Her campaign says the race in South Carolina has tightened, and it’s now pushing for its biggest 24-hour fundraising day yet. $10, $25, $50. Every contribution counts. secure.actblue.com/donate/aasc-...
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Coming back to this, a single Artemis crewed launch costs more than both the Curiosity and Perseverance rover budgets combined
Stuart Atkinson@stuartatkinson.bsky.social · 4d agoPersonally I think it is ridiculous that NASA's leaders swoon & obsess over their Fantasy League race to beat China to the Moon yet TOTALLY ignore the incredible work and REAL SCIENCE being done by the Mars rovers. This is Curiosity's latest view. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk/SA
is there anyone thinking/writing about the actual mechanics of disentangling the US government from elon musk?
When the Auschwitz Memorial has to fact check the new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia for being a nut.
It's great to see a Democratic politician speak of the deep disorders of the people running this country.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoOssoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."
Everything’s bigger in Texas. Even the blue wave. 🌊 𝓓𝓸𝓷'𝓽 𝓶𝓮𝓼𝓼 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓣𝓮𝔁𝓪𝓼 𝓬𝓵𝓲𝓶𝓪𝓽𝓮 𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓶𝓹𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼! From @ginafortexas.bsky.social at the top of the ticket, all the way down to county judge races, we're coming for as many seats as we can. Support JanePAC's Lone Star Slate 👉 JanePAC.com/Texas
A little preview from the Knock LA voter guide, dropping tonight.
CalMatters@calmatters.org · 3d agoGavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.
Hard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells
Everyone who is fighting to stop Prop 40 is your enemy, in a genuine physical sense
Aaron Bady@zunguzungu.bsky.social · 2w agoThere isn't a "debate" over Prop 40. There's an intellectual and moral test you get to decide whether or not to pass. You get to decide whether you want people to die, and whether you want to talk about what is actually happening or just shit billionaire propaganda out of your mouth-hole.
New developments on a Saturday night: Reports Trump’s DOJ will try to use the Sherman Antitrust Act to intimidate the free press. joycevance.substack.com/p/can-the-sh...
Can the Sherman Act Be Used To Silence the Press?
Apparently, Trump’s DOJ thinks so.
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The START of this clip made me do a double take: new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia sits on the board of White Rose Resistance, an organization that wants to *prosecute abortion patients for homicide* www.ms.now/opinion/abor...
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 4d agoWH Press Sec Katie Zacharia: The abortion pill has the same chemicals that they used in the extermination camps in Nazi Germany
Everything in life is really expensive right now and I know we’re all passing the same $20 back and forth through gofundme and Venmo and patreon but - @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social was sued for tweeting and needs to crowdfund her legal bills. If you’ve got a spare $20, she’s a good cause
Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq.@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 4d agoOkay so. Here’s what’s happened since my original post, and why I’m suddenly boosting this left and right again. www.gofundme.com/f/fund-me-if...
“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.
Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Brown University’s widget shows that the energy costs of the Iran war have just passed $1,000 per household iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu