Notices by Spocko (spocko@mastodon.online), page 2

@GottaLaff here is the video

@Nonilex I want you to know I appreciate you. I'm grateful you are covering CPAC. The craziest stuff was always said there, it's now coming true.
Sunday, post Musk's Federal government emails from OPM, will be the hot topic on the morning talk shows, but what Trump said today will be more ominous because no one is challenging him.

@Nonilex I don't know much about you or your background, but your feed was recommend to me by @GottaLaff who I do know & adore. I know that posting gets to her too. I want people know that their work doesn't fall on deaf ears. I try to use what I learn here for action.
Today I have a post up at @crooksandliars about how the cuts are hurting vets & suggesting a way to share stories that can reach the left & right in media & social media so we can stop the madness.

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/02/vets-lives-are-being-destroyed-federal

Musk & Trump will use OMB & his nominee, Russell Vought, to shut off the money to punish groups they don't like.
That includes #USAID, #LGBTQ & #Trans groups, even though Congress has approved their funding.

Here's #Vought describing to #TuckerCarlson how the Office of Management & Budget uses #OMB to "tame" the bureaucracy.

THIS is why #indivisible
@indivisibleteam suggested to people meet with Senators to block the confirmation of Vought.
#elonmusk

Rep. Jamie Raskin: "Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payments systems of the Treasury, but you don't control the money of the American people. The US Congress does that under Article 1 of the Constitution ... we don't have a fourth branch of government called 'Elon Musk'"

#ElonMusk #Raskin #USAID @uspolitics
UPDATED to add subtitles & full text in ALT.
YouTube link to video at @nicolesandler page
https://youtu.be/r_l-eg8ZFm8?si=9YO1f474Iuti7537

@cavyherd Thank you for doing that. It's a message for Senators too.
They need to make it stop first and then hold investigations. This can't be Government as usual. What Musk's employees are doing is illegal and dangerous in multiple ways.

I told my Senators to use their positions on their various committees to call for hearings. Even though they aren't in charge of the committees, they can make a BIG DEAL about what's happening.

@RiaResists Thank YOU FOR ALWAYS CALLING!
One of the things I learned from the very effective Indivisible groups is that Congressional offices keep track & notice certain types of actions. One of them is phone calls.
What I did before I called was make a short script that connected my concerns as a constituent to their committees.
I also told them the action that I would like them to take.
This gives the staff a way to categorize the ask & an action that I want them to take.

@cavyherd

@cavyherd HA! I do that too! One thing I have learned about most voice mail systems have a way to erase and rerecord a message. (often pushing the * star button will give your the process. Sometimes I spend 6 minutes & 2 or 3 tries to get it right.)
@RiaResists

@cavyherd Some people like Romulan Ale but I like prune juice. As Worf said, "A Warrior's drink."
#StarTrek #Worf #StarTrekTNG @RiaResists

Just called my Rep, Nancy #Pelosi.
I just learned from Reuters & it was confirmed by Sen Wyden that Elon Musk & his NON-FEDERAL employees have taken control of the federal payment system, which means they can stop checks to any private individual in the country including my Medicare & social security payments.
This is unacceptable & needs to be stopped immediately!

PLEASE call for an emergency hearing to stop this & investigate.

Make a HUGE deal out of this on SM NOW!

https://www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-news/wyden-demands-answers-following-report-of-musk-personnel-seeking-access-to-highly-sensitive-us-treasury-payments-system

This is what MAGAts say when you talk about their illegal actions.
They don't care. They WON.
We can suck it.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy quit Congress because he said couldn’t live on $174K a year.

The boring “Follow the money” people pointed out,
“That since 2019 Duffy has accepted almost $1 millions from BRG Group to lobby for the airlines, & transportation companies”
Link to Duffy & OpenSecrets lobbying profile. https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/lobbyists/summary?id=Y0000056699L

But nobody cared because It’s totally legal..
More on #Duffy & why he called Buttigieg incompentent. https://digbysblog.net/2024/12/19/questions-for-sal-gentile-and-emily-erotas-about-the-a-closer-look-back-podcast-spocko-bsky-social/
#DCA crash

BREAKING: Trump administration rescinds order attempting to freeze federal aid spending

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-administration-rescinds-order-attempting-freeze-federal-aid-spen-rcna189852

of course @GottaLaff got to it first 🙂

@alexproe
"Haven’t we got audio of the tangerine tyrant denying all knowledge of #Project2025? Can it be broadcast 24 hours a day?"
Sure. I'm not being snarky, but if the premise is, "If people knew Trump lied about Project 2025 then..."
They already know that.

The infomation WE NEED now is to see that Project 2025 IS being implemented. Here is by WHOM.
EG James Sherk is the author of other OMB OPM memo that got sent out (in metadata) He's behind destroying Civil service.
@GottaLaff @timo21

@GottaLaff On the other hand they still advertise handguns on YouTube, which is against Google's policy! I screenshot them and report them.
#Facebook

Bishop Budde to #Trump
In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian & transgender children in Democratic, Republican & independent families, some who fear for their lives.
The people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms & meat packing plants... They may not be citizens or have the proper documentation, but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals.
https://www.c-span.org/program/white-house-event/pres-trump-vice-pres-vance-attend-national-prayer-service/654719

Did Elon Musk make a Nazi salute?
OR
Did he give the salute from the Terran Empire in the Mirror Mirror episode of #StarTrek?
Compare #Musk #NaziSalute with #EvilSpock #MirrorUniverse salute.

#ElonMusk #DarkestTimeline #MirrorMirror written by Jerome Bixby
1967. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708438

What Dems SHOULD be doing with confirmation hearings. Advice from @cliffschecter & @emptywheel when she was on the @nicolesandler show.
https://digbysblog.net/2025/01/20/no-ms-bondi-i-expect-you-to-lie-what-dems-should-be-doing-with-confirmation-hearings-spocko-bsky-social/
@GottaLaff
@lolgop
#PamBondi #Bondi
#Hegseth #ConfirmationHearings

@GottaLaff
#Ruby #Freeman & Shaye Moss were DRIVEN from their HOMES by the death threats based on DEFAMATION by Rudy, OAN, Gateway Pundit & Trump. They had to go into HIDING because people were POUNDING on their doors & pushed their way into their homes to confront them.

“I want people to understand this: money will never solve all of my problems. I can never move back to the house I called home. I miss my home, I miss my neighbors, and I miss my name.” Miss Ruby

https://digbysblog.net/2024/11/18/rules-for-fighting-and-winning-this-century

Remember, #Ruby #Freeman & Shaye Moss were DRIVEN from their HOMES by the death threats based on DEFAMATION by #Giuliani, OAN, Gateway Pundit & Trump.

They had to go into HIDING because people were POUNDING on their doors & pushed their way into their homes to confront them.

“I want people to understand this: money will never solve all of my problems. I can never move back to the house I called home. I miss my home, I miss my neighbors, & I miss my name.” Miss Ruby

https://digbysblog.net/2024/11/18/rules-for-fighting-and-winning-this-century