Connie Matthiessen
@cmatthiessen.bsky.social
Writer, editor, mother, environmentalist, feminist, progressive, optimist, idealist, dreamer, Twitter refugee (not necessarily in that order)
Hannity on AOC: Wow, she couldn’t answer a question about Taiwan! Hannity on Darline Graham: Why is everyone making a big deal about this question on Taiwan? People can’t event find it on a map!
Trump and his Republican co-conspirators want to crush all dissent in this country. Get everyone you know to vote against all Republicans in the midterms.
Trump Threatens Defamation Suit Over National Guard Report, Aiming to Intimidate a Critic (Gift Article)
It was the latest example of President Trump’s bid to use the legal system against those who voice unflattering facts and opinions generally protected by the First Amendment.
nytimes.com
California maintains school vaccine rules despite Trump order edsource.org?page_id=764500
California maintains school vaccine rules despite Trump order
Despite a new executive order from President Donald Trump regarding the childhood immunization schedule, California officials affirmed that the state will maintain its existing vaccination requirement...
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The company has lost $160 million, isn’t profitable, and its stock price has cratered 99% since it went public in 2023. But Junior has made a ton of money from it.
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/u...
Homeland Security Made a Big Claim About Noncitizen Voting. Now It Can’t Prove It. (Gift Article)
The Department of Homeland Security told Nevada election officials that it identified 185 “potential” noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls, not the nearly 16,000 it claimed last month.
nytimes.com
Thanks for speaking up! Tomorrow, there will be even more of us!
This would not be happening if people remained silent.
A family separation could not stop three California siblings from getting UC diplomas edsource.org?page_id=764410
A family separation could not stop three California siblings from getting UC diplomas
These siblings’ college dreams were nearly derailed by President Trump’s “public charge” immigration policy. But they made it to graduation, all at the same time.
edsource.org
The Bureau of Land Management is rounding up thousands of mustangs around the U.S. and quietly selling them on the cheap to buyers who are exporting them for slaughter abroad, an examination of government records by The New York Times found. nyti.ms/4grb8Co
Ossoff: I'm trying to make sure that folks in Georgia know the truth about this administration. And apparently in the White House, the truth hurts.
It only took 19 months for RFK Jr to turn the once safe US food supply into a game of gastrointestinal Russian Roulette.
Jared Kushner yesterday on Fox: “Iran is engaging in a very strong way and that is quite positive … We are having very positive and active conversations. Probably more robust than it’s maybe ever been.”
@timmiller.bsky.social on a pregnant family that followed every rule, voluntarily came forward to be deported, and is now being held in conditions their lawyers describe as hell: “They did everything right. Our government is torturing them.”
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: An attorney says his client suffered a brain bleed and traumatic brain injury after a violent ICE apprehension, then woke up in a hospital with no memory of what happened. His family didn't know where he was for days. Now his lawyer is demanding answers.
Lawyer Says ICE Detainee Suffered Brain Bleed After Violent Apprehension, Was Guarded by Agents Instead of Given Private Medical Care
MeidasTouch has obtained a detailed narrative from the attorney representing Jose Mejia Hernandez, describing a violent apprehension by immigration
meidasnews.com
Elephants have a real thank-you gesture, a head nod with the trunk curled up, seen when humans help a herd cross safely
Julia Curlee was the first CIA officer to transition openly and keep working at the agency. The Trump White House needed her—until her identity became public. She recounts her time in service in The Atlantic’s October issue: theatln.tc/siKCHgiR
I am almost without words for what has become of this once proud newspaper. I will only say this: Support independent media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket. demdock.com/4w6emld
I’d feel extremely safe on this flight because I already know they had to work twice as hard, be twice as good and make half as many mistakes just to get into those seats. Black women make up less than 1% of professional pilots. Yeah, I’d sleep good on this flight. ✈️
Because of global cuts to foreign aid, the Gates Foundation has predicted that 2025 will be the first year this century where child deaths will increase.
USAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dying
The U.S. government has repeatedly insisted that no one — and, particularly, no children — have died because of its funding cuts. But the AP has documented the deaths of women and children from Myanmar to Nigeria.
nbcnews.to
NEW: Measles Used to Be in Our Rearview Mirror. Now Cases Are Reaching Record Highs. In other parts of the world that have let their guard down to vaccine-preventable diseases, long-forgotten scourges have roared back and killed and disabled children.
Measles Used to Be in Our Rearview Mirror. Now Cases Are Reaching Record Highs.
In other parts of the world that have let their guard down to vaccine-preventable diseases, long-forgotten scourges have roared back and killed and disabled children.
propublica.org
“Based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un, of N Korea, I am not happy with the fact that the United States has, long ago, agreed to participate in Joint Military Exercises with S Korea.” This man is failing to defend the United States. This man is a traitor. This man should be removed.
