Tom😸
@tomkat57.bsky.social
Scientist, retired; chemist, traveler, RPG/board gamer, SF fan, genealogist, investor, UU humanist, progressive.
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There’s only one way to leave an abusive relationship: utterly and finally.
That doesn’t make it easy—on the contrary, it’s among the hardest things anyone can ever do.
It’s just as hard for a nation or group of nations.
It’s time for Europe to abandon America. Cut us off until we save ourselves.
That doesn’t make it easy—on the contrary, it’s among the hardest things anyone can ever do.
It’s just as hard for a nation or group of nations.
It’s time for Europe to abandon America. Cut us off until we save ourselves.
January 24, 2026 at 3:31 AM
There’s only one way to leave an abusive relationship: utterly and finally.
That doesn’t make it easy—on the contrary, it’s among the hardest things anyone can ever do.
It’s just as hard for a nation or group of nations.
It’s time for Europe to abandon America. Cut us off until we save ourselves.
That doesn’t make it easy—on the contrary, it’s among the hardest things anyone can ever do.
It’s just as hard for a nation or group of nations.
It’s time for Europe to abandon America. Cut us off until we save ourselves.
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America does not have an Attorney General, an FBI Director, a Deputy Attorney General, a Solicitor General, a General Counsel for the Office of Legal Counsel...
...we have Trump personal lawyers who are *occupying* those positions *as Trump personal lawyers*.
Until media gets this, we are screwed.
...we have Trump personal lawyers who are *occupying* those positions *as Trump personal lawyers*.
Until media gets this, we are screwed.
January 24, 2026 at 5:30 AM
America does not have an Attorney General, an FBI Director, a Deputy Attorney General, a Solicitor General, a General Counsel for the Office of Legal Counsel...
...we have Trump personal lawyers who are *occupying* those positions *as Trump personal lawyers*.
Until media gets this, we are screwed.
...we have Trump personal lawyers who are *occupying* those positions *as Trump personal lawyers*.
Until media gets this, we are screwed.
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Um...
"Stop calling ICE the Gestapo! ICE is nothing like the Gestapo. Now, let me innumerate all the many ways ICE is exactly like the Gestapo. Thank you for your attention to this matter."
January 22, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Um...
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Trump is selling pardons every week to people who pay $1-2 million to his PAC and is approaching 2,000 corrupt and disgusting pardons less than a year into his term, but yeah “no one is above the law.”
January 17, 2026 at 2:52 AM
Trump is selling pardons every week to people who pay $1-2 million to his PAC and is approaching 2,000 corrupt and disgusting pardons less than a year into his term, but yeah “no one is above the law.”
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I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.
January 9, 2026 at 2:15 PM
I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.
Imagine these idiots finding out (FAFOing) that government actually does stuff and exists for a reason. 😆
September 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Imagine these idiots finding out (FAFOing) that government actually does stuff and exists for a reason. 😆
Maybe Rudy can hock it for a few bucks, since Trump refuses to pay him millions in owed legal fees. Might as well, since the Medal is a joke now, ever since Trump gave it to Rush Limbaugh.
September 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Maybe Rudy can hock it for a few bucks, since Trump refuses to pay him millions in owed legal fees. Might as well, since the Medal is a joke now, ever since Trump gave it to Rush Limbaugh.
Is it sad that I read this headline as oldsters fighting over today’s creamed corn special at the Senate cafeteria?
September 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Is it sad that I read this headline as oldsters fighting over today’s creamed corn special at the Senate cafeteria?
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After ten years of MAGA havoc, the grand American Experiment is getting dangerously close to being at an end.
reasonreststop.com/america-afte...
reasonreststop.com/america-afte...
August 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
After ten years of MAGA havoc, the grand American Experiment is getting dangerously close to being at an end.
reasonreststop.com/america-afte...
reasonreststop.com/america-afte...
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I was glad to appear on MSNBC to discuss this subject. We don't need to dumb down Oklahoma's curriculum with Prager material.
I was glad to appear on MSNBC to discuss this subject. We don't need to dumb down Oklahoma's curriculum with Prager material.
‘They have a 50 state strategy’: PragerU’s ‘insidious’ alternative to PBS hits U.S. classrooms
PragerU has found an ally in the White House and is presenting itself as the “conservative” option to PBS. The media company currently has partnerships with 10 states but MSNBC’s Antonia Hylton, who h...
www.msnbc.com
August 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...
I was glad to appear on MSNBC to discuss this subject. We don't need to dumb down Oklahoma's curriculum with Prager material.
I was glad to appear on MSNBC to discuss this subject. We don't need to dumb down Oklahoma's curriculum with Prager material.
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Hey #MSM, a quote in a story in the #TulsaWorld this morning. You can use it as an example of what the press can/should do
"The public is just learning of this proposal, and we are receiving more input from constituents now that media reports have raised their awareness of the proposed changes
"The public is just learning of this proposal, and we are receiving more input from constituents now that media reports have raised their awareness of the proposed changes
August 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Hey #MSM, a quote in a story in the #TulsaWorld this morning. You can use it as an example of what the press can/should do
"The public is just learning of this proposal, and we are receiving more input from constituents now that media reports have raised their awareness of the proposed changes
"The public is just learning of this proposal, and we are receiving more input from constituents now that media reports have raised their awareness of the proposed changes
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Trump now has the “warfighters” picking up trash near the White House. www.fox5dc.com/news/nationa...
August 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Trump now has the “warfighters” picking up trash near the White House. www.fox5dc.com/news/nationa...
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"We Americans....are characters in this living book of democracy. But we are also its author. It falls upon us now to say whether the chapters that are to come will tell a story of retreat or a story of continued advance." FDR, 1940
August 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
"We Americans....are characters in this living book of democracy. But we are also its author. It falls upon us now to say whether the chapters that are to come will tell a story of retreat or a story of continued advance." FDR, 1940
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I salute the workers who refused to be complicit in RFK's assault on science and health. He is now the head of the Center FOR Disease.
CDC leaders on why the left: “I resigned because I could not be part of the weaponization of public health and CDC… we should always be questioning - but you shouldn’t have a preconceived idea before you have the data.”
August 29, 2025 at 10:32 AM
I salute the workers who refused to be complicit in RFK's assault on science and health. He is now the head of the Center FOR Disease.
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There you have it.
August 12, 2025 at 1:14 AM
There you have it.
Release the Epstein Files. You know, the ones with all those “democrats” in them. And which exist/don’t exist. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
August 19, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Release the Epstein Files. You know, the ones with all those “democrats” in them. And which exist/don’t exist. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
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The president just issued an executive order asserting new and wide-ranging authority over the issuance of federal grants. This will have huge repercussions for the daily operations of US science. 🧪
Also, lawyers are gonna be lawyering.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Also, lawyers are gonna be lawyering.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal
www.whitehouse.gov
August 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The president just issued an executive order asserting new and wide-ranging authority over the issuance of federal grants. This will have huge repercussions for the daily operations of US science. 🧪
Also, lawyers are gonna be lawyering.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Also, lawyers are gonna be lawyering.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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The Impoundment Control Act authorizes the head of GAO to file a lawsuit if the agency finds the President illegally impounded funds (as it did here).
It has not yet done so, despite four findings of illegal impoundment this year.
Republicans are working to stop the GAO from doing so, NYT reports.
It has not yet done so, despite four findings of illegal impoundment this year.
Republicans are working to stop the GAO from doing so, NYT reports.
White House Leads Push to Block Watchdog’s Inquiries Into Spending Cuts
www.nytimes.com
August 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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"I've written before that Kennedy's anti-sci. campaign against vaccination — or more properly, his science-free campaign — has set the stage for a public health crisis in the US... Kennedy's actions are potentially deadly, and the CDC has the data to prove it." 🛟🧪😷
Hiltzik: Contradicting RFK Jr., CDC says the COVID vaccine protects pregnant women, babies, and children
RFK Jr. turned the CDC's vaccine committee into an anti-vaccine panel, but it still heard evidence that his campaign against vaccinating pregnant women was a huge mistake.
www.yahoo.com
June 29, 2025 at 5:32 AM
"I've written before that Kennedy's anti-sci. campaign against vaccination — or more properly, his science-free campaign — has set the stage for a public health crisis in the US... Kennedy's actions are potentially deadly, and the CDC has the data to prove it." 🛟🧪😷
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Trump has broken America and has set his sight on breaking the world
June 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Trump has broken America and has set his sight on breaking the world
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Always doing the thing he accuses others of
June 22, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Always doing the thing he accuses others of
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I do not think @stephenking.bsky.social could not have written a more horrifying story.
GOP voters’ fealty to Trump makes it 'politically safe to take away their benefits' www.alternet.org/donald-trump...
GOP voters’ fealty to Trump makes it 'politically safe to take away their benefits' www.alternet.org/donald-trump...
GOP voters’ fealty to Trump makes it 'politically safe to take away their benefits'
Senate and House Republicans appear to hope unswerving voter devotion in red states will blunt blowback from extreme cuts they’re planning for the nation’s safety net. And a New York Times analysis su...
www.alternet.org
June 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I do not think @stephenking.bsky.social could not have written a more horrifying story.
GOP voters’ fealty to Trump makes it 'politically safe to take away their benefits' www.alternet.org/donald-trump...
GOP voters’ fealty to Trump makes it 'politically safe to take away their benefits' www.alternet.org/donald-trump...
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Truth.
GOP Senator Rand Paul:
“Once this bill votes, and this debt ceiling goes through, the debt is owned by the GOP, and there is no more campaigning and saying 'This is the Democrats.' It will be owned by the Republicans”
“Once this bill votes, and this debt ceiling goes through, the debt is owned by the GOP, and there is no more campaigning and saying 'This is the Democrats.' It will be owned by the Republicans”
June 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Truth.