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Tesa

@tesa44.bsky.social

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Left of center, progressive liberal with no more f*cks to give Clinical Researcher and Vaccine Advocate Sometimes knitter and avid audiobook lover

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Tesa @tesa44.bsky.social · Jan 18

Farewell Facebook... My last post. A remembrance for myself.

I joined FB back in 2008 just to play Scrabulous with Christopher Gillen. I thought it was stupid, but I stayed, and I stayed, and I stayed. I met up with old friends and made new friends, and I stayed. Schmucky Penguin Fucker Mark

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7h

Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo!

I know how hard you worked for this.

Red Trump-style graphic with images of Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo.

At the top it says, "I'm going to pick [Cuomo]." - Donald Trump, 60 Minutes Interview, 11-2-25

Then beneath it

TRUMP ENDORSES CUOMO

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Tesa @tesa44.bsky.social · 7h

I've been thinking about this everyday for months now. Between ICE, CBP, and Nat Guard the intimidation is impossible to miss. We need escorts like Planned Parenthood has or something.

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Lois Norder @gainvestigate.bsky.social · 2d

JAMA: More than 11,000 physicians were sponsored for H-1b visas last year. Rural and low-income areas accounted for larger shares. That's why the prohibitive increase Trump imposed on visa fees will hit those areas the hardest, worsening the rural health crisis: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Health Care Professionals Sponsored for H-1B Visas in the US

This national study evaluates the percentage of US health care professionals sponsored for H-1B visas in fiscal year 2024 across occupation groups and county characteristics.

jamanetwork.com

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Tesa @tesa44.bsky.social · 2d

Is that a promise!?!

Tesa @tesa44.bsky.social · 2d

If you're building concentration camps in Florida to keep them in cages then it was never about the border.

If you're spending billions to do this then it was never about the economy.

And if you're doing all this in the name of a 34 time convicted felon, then it was never about following the law

Tesa @tesa44.bsky.social · 2d

If you are showing up at courthouses, then it was never about
getting them to "do it the right way".

If you are kidnapping women and children, then it was never about criminals.

If you're refusing to give them due process, then it was never about the Constitution.

Tesa @tesa44.bsky.social · 2d

Credit to @ianlightfoot on TikTok. It needs to be repeated over and over

If you are using undocumented immigrants' tax records to find and kidnap them, then it was never about them paying taxes.

If you are showing up at their place of employment, then it was never about them not working.

Tesa @tesa44.bsky.social · 3d

He absolutely can file them. They may not be voted on, but Al Green has been doing it. It's called making a point. A point that servers a better purpose than snarky letterhead.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 3d

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

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Tesa @tesa44.bsky.social · 3d

When will you be filing Articles of Impeachment?

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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 5d

Karoline Leavitt officially announced the "Launch of a large-scale investigation to find the people behind 'No Kings.'"

I've saved her some time.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 5d

This by the way accounts for 80% of GDP growth in the US this year. The US is in a deep recession, this bubble and these people sharing their money around is the only thing hiding that fact.

Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 5d

This is how you do wash trading. All these companies are investing in each other paying each other bits of the same trillion dollars in order to make it look like they’re so close to AGI so investors will keep giving them money to lose.

This is also known as a Junkie’s promise.

A chart showing where the 15 main AI companies get and spend their money. The arrows show that the money flows out and back to themselves.

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Tesa @tesa44.bsky.social · 5d

Ms Rachel teaching adults how to be adults.

amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 5d

Ms Rachel just called Andrew Cuomo a raggedy old racist bitch

Ms Rachel via Instagram:

I've eaten rice the way Zohran Mamdani does. A friend made me a meal years ago & showed me that way of eating rice. I thought it was cool.
Teachers in NYC teach students to be kind & respectful toward other students' cultures. It's one of our learning standards to help children feel proud of who they are.
It's disappointing that some adults can't model the same decency & kindness that students in NYC show every day.
They would rather model something none of our religions teach us - racism and attacking our neighbors instead of loving them.

Tesa @tesa44.bsky.social · 5d

Reps end up ahead in potential seats if all states do this. But some of these places are so gerrymandered they run the risk of diluting the power of once safe seats. They're foolish if they think there is no risk. An angry, motivated electorate won't be good for the Party of Pedophiles.

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World Central Kitchen @wck.org · 7d

WCK is serving free meals for furloughed federal workers impacted by the U.S. government shutdown. These meals are available to federal employees and their families. Below are locations and hours. #ChefsForFeds (1/2)

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Tesa @tesa44.bsky.social · 9d

And the answer to both questions is no and no.

Tesa @tesa44.bsky.social · 9d

Who needs MAGA when you have Andrew Cuomo?

Tesa @tesa44.bsky.social · 9d

An act of domestic terrorism.

🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 10d

If a foreign power had done this we would have used nukes by now

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Gerardo Martí @gerardomarti.bsky.social · 9d

Found on Instagram

The Instagram post shows a digitally altered image in which a large, dome-shaped structure is under construction immediately next to the White House, dwarfing the East Wing and surrounding grounds. The partially built sphere clearly resembles the Death Star from Star Wars, with detailed scaffolding visible where the structure is incomplete and a distinctive circular indentation at the top, similar to the superlaser dish on the Death Star. The massive construction dominates the scene.

The accompanying caption declares: “BREAKING: areal photograph reveals Donald Trump’s new $250M ‘ballroom’ is nearing completion.”

This image and caption together depict the fictional scenario of President Trump destroying and rebuilding part of the White House (specifically the East Wing) to construct a gigantic Death Star—an unmistakable reference to the iconic planet-destroying weapon and battle station from Star Wars. The visual and textual elements serve as a pointed comment on presidential power and the willingness to remake historical landmarks with grand, controversial projects by inserting a symbol of authoritarian rule and destruction into the heart of American democracy.

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Tesa @tesa44.bsky.social · 9d

It would also explain why there's been no real mitigation for aesbestos exposure.

Tesa @tesa44.bsky.social · 9d

Do we even know if the workers doing the demolition are paid employees and not detainees from ICE camps? The only people I think capable of this level of destruction are either enslaved people who are forced to, or pardoned J6ers who've already demonstrated their love for neoclassical architecture.

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Tesa @tesa44.bsky.social · 9d

Why even bother at this point? Who cares, it's clear he's not Jeffries' 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 100th choice. At this point I'd have more respect for Jeffries' just saying it outright. This is not leadership. The NY delegation has too many feckless fuckwits in high levels of "leadership" for this moment.

Tesa @tesa44.bsky.social · 10d

And it wasn't even fully implemented until 2014.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10d

ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...

Satellite view of the White House showing an image on the left where the East Wing is still standing and an image on the right where it's completely demolished

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 10d

“How DARE Cracker Barrel change their logo 😡🤬😡🤬 I’ll never eat there again!”

“Destroy the White House harder, daddy 🥵🤤”

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