Burningbird
Comment at Substack Several of us watched in horror and anger as President Musk/Trump turned loose script kiddies with nicknames like “BigBalls” onto the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the General Services Administration (GSA), and USAID. We sat appalled when reading how these same script kiddies locked out government employees, accessed top-secret information, and then […]
Among the appalling, thoughtless, reckless, and inane executive orders trump issued on Day One, the one considered the most *bonkers is the one to end birthright citizenship. Yes, is it is true that for over a 130 years, courts have deemed that birthright citizenship is protected by the 14th Amendment, which states: All people born […]
It wasn’t difficult to quit X-witter years ago, and I really haven’t missed it. It also wasn’t difficult to quit Threads, and I’ve never been interested in Instagram. So far, Bluesky isn’t evil and I hope it stays this way. And Mastodon’s purely distributed and open nature prevents Mordor from claiming it. But Facebook… Zuckerberg […]
I was, and I was not, surprised by Trump’s re-election. I knew there were too many men who would normally vote Democrat who balk at electing a women to be Commander-in-Chief; particularly a Black/Asian woman. I knew that thanks to the rebound from COVID that prices are high—aided and abetted by corporations using COVID as […]