Scaypgrayce
@scaypgrayce.bsky.social
Former factory rat, bartender, disc jockey, journalist, Senate staffer. Movies, music, theater, politics, vintage cars, bicycling, irony. Mallacht mo chait ort. Blog sometimes at scaypgrayce.wordpress.com
My mom would have had to update her voter registration and prove her citizenship 8 times under the SAVE Act, counting all her moves and name changes. That's just one tiny part of Trump's project to make govt exhausting, punitive and (for him) profitable. My latest www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-m...
Trump Is Making Government Worse on Purpose
Instead of seeking to simplify and improve citizens’ lives, this administration keeps creating new obstacles and burdens.
thebulwark.com
NEW from me: I think this is the perfect time to use Rachel Maddow’s oft-repeated phrase - ‘watch what they do- not what they say.’ Ignore Ellison's PR pitch, but look at what's happening at CBS News including directing reporters to add “facts” that did not exist. open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
David Ellison can’t be trusted with CNN
We've already seen how Ellison has wrecked CBS. Don't fall for his PR push on CNN.
open.substack.com
Sinister deliveries and death threats hound judge each time he rules against Trumpy. This is how the dictator takes over, by destroying the courts who rule against him. Make them too scared to rule against him. So, far, it's not working. Trumpy is our real threat. www.rawstory.com/donald-trump...
Sinister deliveries and death threats hound judge each time he rules against Trump: report
U.S. District Judge John McConnell received an unordered pizza delivery to his Rhode Island home addressed to a name that sent chills down his spine: Daniel Anderl.The name belonged to federal Judge E...
rawstory.com
‘If their ranges shift this dramatically, it signals profound changes across ecosystems.’ #anthropocene
Butterflies around the world are changing habitats – and experts say it’s ‘signalling a warning’
New research shows early-warning species is on the move, expanding or contracting geographic range and changing altitude
theguardian.com
Another GOP incumbent not seeking re-election. They’re all panicking about the midterms.
I’ll check Michigan in the morning. Good Night. (image: dana_wanderer)
Nope. Leftists broke that deal in 2016 and 2014. "Vote Blue No Matter Who" is deader than Roe v Wade. Our support has to be EARNED now.
On this day in 1944, the Gestapo found Anne Frank and her family in their Secret Annex. Her diary stands as a warning against hatred and persecution. Eighty years later, we should recognize the warning signs before it’s too late.🙂↕️
aje.news/w3wspp #USDemocracy #ProudBlue Trump Regime DOJ sends Election monitors to disrupt the voting in Michigan This is the first salvo in Trump’s plans to disrupt and challenge the results of Mid Terms We better be ready. Trump will do whatever he can to stop the Blue Tsunami coming his way
DOJ sends monitors to Michigan poll sites as lawmakers warn of partisan aim
While FBI poll monitoring not new, US lawmakers raise alarm amid Trump's years-long claims of election fraud.
aje.news
The NAACP has released a statement while the Tarrant County Commissioners Court considers a proposal today that would cut the number of Election Day polling locations nearly in half "Let's call this what it is… voter suppression"
"No amount of spin can sugarcoat the utter disaster of layoffs, creative consolidation, and sheer mediocrity that awaits if Richie Rich runs roughshod over the industry he claims to love so much." Get 'im, @mcastimovies.bsky.social!
Not only is David Ellison lying about his film plan, it's not even a good lie
Paramount Skydance CEO and heir apparent David Ellison is very upset that the media landscape can see right through him.
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America’s chain of command is just billionaires tugging on Trump’s leash from different directions.
The big story is that Black newspapers gave a lot of coverage to worker struggles and struggles against austerity throughout the 1990s and 2000s, and treated the attacks on public unions in 2011 as an issue important to Black people, as well as covering the later Occupy protests. 2/1
Black protests about workers and economic issues – Race, Politics, Justice
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Bessent is fine with deficits to fight needless wars, it’s only deficits to pay for healthcare or education that bother him
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 20h agoBREAKING: Republicans are no longer worried about deficits and debt Bessent: "I'm not as bothered by it ... if '26 is flat to slightly up, this isn't wasteful social spending "
Hans Piker because it's who they are Twitch streamer Hasan Piker attends an election night watch party of Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive candidate in Michigan's Democratic Senate primary, in Detroit, on Tuesday -CNN Piker's been with El Sayad through the campaign Piker: America deserved Sept 11
We can hardly wait. Our Congress passed a bill demanding that this happen, but they seem too corrupt/intimidated to follow up on it. We're hoping to replace most of them soon, but whatever you can do will be helpful & much appreciated. #ProudBlue
Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency
David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”
The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.
vox.com
it's not why *everything* sucks, but having all three branches of the federal government captured by thieves, abusers, bigots, and cowards is definitely why a lot of things suck
NEWS: For nearly 20 years, Epstein moved over $1B through the major banks. The banks looked away. Sen. Wyden’s 3-year probe exposes it all. But most damning? How Trump and the GOP tried to bury it.
Follow the Money: How Wall Street Bankrolled Epstein, and How the Trump Administration and CBS are Blocking The Truth
For nearly two decades, Jeffrey Epstein moved more than a billion dollars through some of the biggest banks in America. He withdrew millions in unexplained
meidasnews.com
Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
Trump endorsed both Ashley Moody and James Uthmeier in advance of the August 18 primary yesterday. Both are implicated in the suspected theft of $10M in Medicaid payments to use for political purposes--basically what Trump is trying to frame Tim Walz for. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/f...
People, like Stephen Miller’s cousin, Alisa Kasmer, who oppose Miller’s immigration agenda, including critics of family separation, expanded deportations, and other hardline measures feel that these same words accurately express their moral judgment.
60 Minutes Quietly Killed Story About Epstein’s Shady Banking Tactics Senator Ron Wyden sat for an interview with correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi about Jeffrey Epstein’s bank transactions. Alfonsi was fired for other reasons shortly after, & the story never aired. | TNR newrepublic.com/post/213927/...
60 Minutes Quietly Killed Story About Epstein’s Shady Banking Tactics
Senator Ron Wyden sat for an interview with correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi about Jeffrey Epstein’s bank transactions. Alfonsi was fired for other reasons shortly after, and the story never aired.
newrepublic.com
NEW/EXCLUSIVE: Deutsche Bank failed to promptly report to US authorities more than $250M in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein, including funds used to pay women in Russia & other Eastern European countries, according to a new report from @wyden.senate.gov 🎁 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says
Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...
bloomberg.com
