EmJ
@bassoonemj.bsky.social
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EmJ
@bassoonemj.bsky.social
· Nov 17
If I ever misgender you, use the wrong pronouns, or use your deadname, please tell me. If I fuck up I need to know about it so I can fix it.
#LGTQIA
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For Trump’s second term, Vought’s Center for Renewing America created plans that included invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy troops to U.S. cities to put down protestors and freezing billions in federal funds without congressional approval.
(Published Oct. 2025 with @newyorker.com)
(Published Oct. 2025 with @newyorker.com)
Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President
From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...
www.propublica.org
January 23, 2026 at 9:15 PM
For Trump’s second term, Vought’s Center for Renewing America created plans that included invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy troops to U.S. cities to put down protestors and freezing billions in federal funds without congressional approval.
(Published Oct. 2025 with @newyorker.com)
(Published Oct. 2025 with @newyorker.com)
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Trump LIED when he said he had nothing to do with Project 2025.
He LIED when he said he wouldn't execute its agenda.
Now, ICE/DHS- at his direction- is carrying out Project 2025's anti-immigrant, anti-rights agenda line by line.
Surprising? I think not.
He LIED when he said he wouldn't execute its agenda.
Now, ICE/DHS- at his direction- is carrying out Project 2025's anti-immigrant, anti-rights agenda line by line.
Surprising? I think not.
January 28, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Trump LIED when he said he had nothing to do with Project 2025.
He LIED when he said he wouldn't execute its agenda.
Now, ICE/DHS- at his direction- is carrying out Project 2025's anti-immigrant, anti-rights agenda line by line.
Surprising? I think not.
He LIED when he said he wouldn't execute its agenda.
Now, ICE/DHS- at his direction- is carrying out Project 2025's anti-immigrant, anti-rights agenda line by line.
Surprising? I think not.
And unfortunately we will probably sit by and let this happen
I'm a journalist and attorney, not an activist, so I've no answers on what Americans should do right now.
I only know this: Donald Trump is attempting to incite a civil war so he can cancel all future elections, and he will keep executing citizens until that outcome is achieved.
I only know this: Donald Trump is attempting to incite a civil war so he can cancel all future elections, and he will keep executing citizens until that outcome is achieved.
January 25, 2026 at 2:49 AM
And unfortunately we will probably sit by and let this happen
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National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
January 22, 2026 at 8:25 PM
National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
Clearly he didn't learn the first time. Maybe the voters should stop electing him.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was spotted earlier today, January 20, 2026, on a plane heading to Laguna Beach as the state of Texas braces for a rare ice threat and arctic cold front.
January 23, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Clearly he didn't learn the first time. Maybe the voters should stop electing him.
Notice how we stopped talking about the Epstein files????
January 17, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Notice how we stopped talking about the Epstein files????
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a realization you have pretty quickly as a trans person is that nobody likes being in the bathroom and that everyone is trying their hardest not to notice the other people in there
December 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
a realization you have pretty quickly as a trans person is that nobody likes being in the bathroom and that everyone is trying their hardest not to notice the other people in there
Policy decisions that will literally kill people and our planet.
Sweeping science cuts in 2025 halted clinical trials, erased public health data and forced researchers into impossible choices.
“This year nearly broke me as a scientist,” one writes.
Six researchers share their stories: buff.ly/u2MHIQo 🧪
“This year nearly broke me as a scientist,” one writes.
Six researchers share their stories: buff.ly/u2MHIQo 🧪
‘This year nearly broke me as a scientist’ – US researchers reflect on how 2025’s science cuts have changed their lives
US science lost a great deal in 2025, including tens of billions of dollars of federal funding, entire research agencies and programs, and a generation of researchers.
buff.ly
December 29, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Policy decisions that will literally kill people and our planet.
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Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
October 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
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centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.
October 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.
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You can’t get into Heaven if you go around arresting innocent people and pardoning guilty ones.
October 10, 2025 at 12:04 AM
You can’t get into Heaven if you go around arresting innocent people and pardoning guilty ones.
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I love that all the copies in the interlibrary loan system are checked out and there's a hold waitlist.
#Booksky
#NonFiction
#Resist
#NoKings
#Booksky
#NonFiction
#Resist
#NoKings
September 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I love that all the copies in the interlibrary loan system are checked out and there's a hold waitlist.
#Booksky
#NonFiction
#Resist
#NoKings
#Booksky
#NonFiction
#Resist
#NoKings
US/European policy & Treaty of Versailles after WW1 led to WW2.
US policy in Central America in the 1970s contributed to the current immigration process.
US policy is currently contributing to the #Genocide in #Palestine
Maybe white people colonialism is the problem.
#Resist
#NoKings
#FreePalestine
US policy in Central America in the 1970s contributed to the current immigration process.
US policy is currently contributing to the #Genocide in #Palestine
Maybe white people colonialism is the problem.
#Resist
#NoKings
#FreePalestine
September 24, 2025 at 3:45 AM
US/European policy & Treaty of Versailles after WW1 led to WW2.
US policy in Central America in the 1970s contributed to the current immigration process.
US policy is currently contributing to the #Genocide in #Palestine
Maybe white people colonialism is the problem.
#Resist
#NoKings
#FreePalestine
US policy in Central America in the 1970s contributed to the current immigration process.
US policy is currently contributing to the #Genocide in #Palestine
Maybe white people colonialism is the problem.
#Resist
#NoKings
#FreePalestine
Since the rapture didn't happen today, it's definitely happening tomorrow. Right???? *dripping sarcasm*
September 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Since the rapture didn't happen today, it's definitely happening tomorrow. Right???? *dripping sarcasm*
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AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.
September 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.
A woman protesting outside the ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, was brutally assaulted by goons who used mace and sting balls on her.
September 20, 2025 at 1:41 AM
September 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM