The Trump administration violates the Hatch act with web pages and out of office messages about the shutdown

They are lying too.

Go to hud.gov and use the website feedback button to tell them the website is for all Americans and to take down this partisan propaganda. #ThisIsTrumpsShutdown

— DrDinD.bsky.social (@drdind.bsky.social) 2025-10-02T07:52:02.596Z

Whoa! Employees at the SBA received a template for their suggested “out of office” email. They were advised to blame the Democrats.🚨 A clear violation of the Hatch Act

— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) 2025-10-02T14:02:54.319Z

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.Version of original on left, updated on right:

— Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) 2025-10-02T13:46:32.418Z
https://bsky.app/profile/costasamaras.com/post/3m26fzj65pk2x

Coal is dying

🧵Coal in the US was mostly dying because of cheap natural gas beginning in the 2000s. Then cheap renewables began to clobber it in the 2010s. It is a filthy power source and horrible emitter of greenhouse gases. There is zero economic justification for this & it will amount to corporate welfare.

— DrDinD.bsky.social (@drdind.bsky.social) 2025-09-29T15:16:07.943Z

👇World's fifth largest economy quits #coal:www.latimes.com/environment/…

— John Vaillant (@johnvaillant.bsky.social) 2025-10-02T14:41:33.497Z

"Government shouldn't pick winners and losers" goes out the window when they become one of the losers.

— David Roberts (@volts.wtf) 2025-10-05T23:36:09.516Z

Trump is screwing farmers. I have no sympathy for any farmer who voted for him

I bet part of this is to get small farmers to sell out to big companies.

Straight up: I’m not onboard with farmers getting another bailout when so many voted for Trump two and three times. But what Trump is doing to them is brutal. I want to believe they’ve learned their lesson this time, but I don’t.Watch all the way through.

— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) 2025-10-02T02:41:58.012Z

More pain for US farmers as government shutdown halts payments reut.rs/46Itt8Z

— Reuters (@reuters.com) 2025-10-01T22:35:11Z

Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers?

— Elizabeth Warren (@warren.senate.gov) 2025-10-01T20:30:15.868Z
https://bsky.app/profile/mcopelov.bsky.social/post/3m236bpzels26

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better."Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

— Sarah Taber (@sarahtaber.bsky.social) 2025-09-30T22:40:36.121Z

"This is just like setting the farm on fire and then sending in the firefighters. You solve the problem, but there's a much simpler way."– Me, on the coming bailout for farmers hurt by the trade war:

— Justin Wolfers (@justinwolfers.bsky.social) 2025-09-28T18:52:02.364Z

Farmers planted in April or May. They have to sell in the next couple months. There isn’t any way they can react to the Trump havoc. http://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b…

— Timothy Snyder (@timothysnyder.bsky.social) 2025-09-28T00:10:54.511Z

Instagram post on Sunset Strip billboards 1974-75

Sunset Strip billboards 1974-75

There is a book of Rock’N’Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip:

Rock 'n' Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip

There was an exhibit that accompanied the book. The website has photos:

Rock ‘N’ Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip: Photographs by Robert Landau

Another exhibit – see the link and videos above

The Sunset Strip’s Historic Rock ‘n’ Roll Billboards

Sunset Strip billboards through the lens of legendary photographer Henry Diltz, 1968-1980.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DT_A99Mjuxv/?img_index=3&igsh=MXdweGNnN3QwZmxoZg==

The Supreme Court lets Trump do whatever he wants

The ignore laws and precedent to give Trump a blank check.

Supreme Court rules 6-3 that congressional appropriations are optional: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p…

— Matt Ford (@mford.bsky.social) 2025-09-26T21:19:51.146Z

My reply has over 300 likes and some good comments

Why doesn’t the Supreme Court save us time and tell us if there’s anything Trump isn’t allowed to do? I bet they would even approve of him shooting someone on 5th Avenue. Alito and Thomas would blame the victim for being in the way of the bullet.

— Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2025-09-26T21:34:32.566Z