@susankraemer
Science reporter covering R&D in concentrated solar energy for solar fuels, CSP, and thermal storage for the IEA at SolarPACES.org Kiwi obsessing over my adopted nation going fascist but trying to let it go. I like finding out ways to make things better
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"Omits marriage certificates from the list of approved documents"
To prove married women are who they were born as (in the US) but now has her husband's surname, they would need to show both birth certificate AND marriage certificate with maiden name/married name
I hope this doesn't mean you lose control of the ethics as the last bastion of non-compromised social media sites
No change...I don't think congress has passed any recently or has the ability to pass any anyway. It's the Unitary galactic Overlord Trump Show
Democrats want to get TSA agents paid, but we won't help Republicans cut a blank check to help Stephen Miller terrorize Americans.
And I won’t let Trump blackmail Democrats into funding rogue ICE agents just because he started a war with Iran.
If there's a draft, ICE agents should be first in line.
Every single professional journalist who uses the phrases “Department of War” or “Secretary of War” without scare quotes should be lined up on a public viewing stage and bopped on the head with a giant inflatable hammer that says DUMB DUMB on the handle and makes fart sounds.
bsky.app/profile/susa...
We can remember...
Top Trump officials rush to purchase nuclear war-proof bunkers after Iran attack: report
⚡️Zelensky shares new update on liberated Ukrainian territory, says Kyiv 'more positive' than at end of 2025.
Ukrainian forces have liberated up to 435 kilometers of Russian-occupied territory in the south, thwarting Moscow's efforts to mount a southern offensive, President Zelensky claimed.
perplexity.ai does a much better job than today's google (even aside from the obtrusive AI and sponsored results) for searches of relevant data and cites the orgs and academic papers and news sites it cites for the fact finding. No sponsored results.
evac was just 8 miles to Copenhagen for the hospital. Many US residents live 8 miles or more from a good hospital. So not indicative of any need for any 'hospital ship'...
The Trump administration fired Alexis Goldstein for confronting members of DOGE last year over access to sensitive personal information of U.S. residents at a key watchdog agency. Now she's running for Congress.
Nyt push alert "the US military has mixed into place for possible strikes in Iran, leaving President Trump with high-stakes choices."
It's so crazy how the US military just does things—completely leaderless, an unaccountable black box—and keeps putting the dear anti-war President in sticky situations
I had been trying to find out more regarding this civil contempt in Minnesota, and an update in the Fox9 report from Paul Blume (whose tweets are below) suggests the gov't miraculously found the man's ID documents quickly after the civil contempt finding. www.fox9.com/news/federal...
from a tactical pov this change in approach suggests these thugs are not the complete morons they look like - they are capable of recognising their victims' weak spot - that as kind helpful neighbors they will come out to lend a hand when people are in trouble.
The WoRst oF thE wOrst
do you mean make it a law to require a passport to buy groceries?
I'd expect today's higher costs of homeowner insurance to be due to the increasing number of climate catastrophes destroying homes, but not in IL, more in the South and West.
excellent expose of fascist ICE preying on those following the rules at the New Yorker
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
We need to rein in ICE and CBP.
We need to call out the avalanche of lies.
And most importantly, we need to stand up for our communities—because they are being terrorized by their own government.
The American people are demanding Congress meet this moment.
The Nobel people have leverage. Use it!. Tell Trump exactly how to win a Nobel Prize. Promise you will now be the bigliest Peace President. No more masked hooligans smashing car windows and dragging women on the ground. Apologize to the American people. Withdraw all the troops attacking us
I was impressed by how he safeguarded you all from ICE with a clever legal win I can't recall exactly which at the mo, on accountability for murder? or a no mask requirement? or ejecting Trump Nat Guard nonsense - that MN was not able to do.
NPR uncovered an unbelievably scammy payday loan to help desperate businesses pay these new upfront tarifffs to stay in biz. That charge 90% interest!! Too bad there's no more CFPB.
www.npr.org/2026/02/09/n...
218 congressmen (mostly men) in the GOP House majority blatantly ignore the facts. From the Heritage Foundation even, that shows that illegal voting is virtually non existent -77 in 24 years - to appease a fascist and in hopes of disenfranchising women because we vote for competent government.
"Roberts does not perceive the same danger. Immersed in the same media environment as his colleagues, he does not see Trumpism as a sustained assault on democracy. He sees criticism as overheated, institutions as fundamentally sound, and the courts as neutral guardians"
Last week: "The two shooters during the killing of Alex Pretti in Minnesota on January 24 were Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents from South Texas. The same place I’m from."
"As I went outside...that tear gas got into me. And I’m breathing in, and it kind of felt like glass shards in my nose and my throat."
Remember when he said there won't even be any Blue states (for the next election) I immediately thought he'd be fine with getting California nuked.
