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Jan_M_ac

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Follow govt.-politics 35+ yrs. Science over snake oil every damn time. Vote for qualified people with integrity and experience. We are the oversight and must demand to be heard. (Retired nurse married to an educator) I use Typo Font. Twitter @Jan_M_ac

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Jan_M_ac @stayinalive2.bsky.social · Apr 29

Senators/Representatives take note when they hear from voters by the hundreds or thousands. It only takes a few minutes. We need to flood their email/office phone # with our opinions, and do so daily/weekly. Find them here: www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

Jan_M_ac @stayinalive2.bsky.social · 17h

One of the MANY reasons I have lost ALL trust in the current Executive branch, GOP led Congress. Totally incompetent, making zero decisions with any discernment.
It's a flaming puppet show. Trump is the lead puppet, Russell Vought and Stephen Miller pull the strings.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/12/h...

More than half of CDC staffers recently fired by Trump administration have been reinstated | CNN

Hundreds of staff fired from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention late Friday have been reinstated, according to the American Federation of Government Employees.

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 1d

This.💯

Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 2d

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

Jan_M_ac @stayinalive2.bsky.social · 1d

Not legal. Legislature bill requires all furloughed get back pay.
The Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019 signed by trump no less, guarantees workers get paid. Russell Vought is trying to redefine it, IRS now backtracked on promise to pay their workers.

Jan_M_ac @stayinalive2.bsky.social · 2d

Looky here at all the maga's, including US ambassador to the UN and trump's very own Sec of State endorsing Maria Machado for the Nobel Peace Prize. Sorry about that trump. www.alternet.org/trump-nobel-...

Trump is raging against the Nobel Peace Prize winner. His own secretary of state endorsed her

As MAGA raged over the fact that President Donald Trump was passed up for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, a letter from Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other MAGA ...

www.alternet.org

Jan_M_ac @stayinalive2.bsky.social · 2d

No similarity between the trump's oval office and a king's palace. 😂

Jan_M_ac @stayinalive2.bsky.social · 2d

Vought is all about 'maximum pain'. He does not care how many Americans are affected, just that he and trump admin can coerce and intimidate other officials to do their bidding.
That is not the sign of free republic, but very definitely a sign of a free republic in decline.

Jan_M_ac @stayinalive2.bsky.social · 2d

One of the most dangerous men to our Republic, Speaker Johnson continues to refuse to swear in Grijalva (D), AZ Rep. He said not while Congress in pro forma session but did that VERY THING for 2 recently elected republicans.

His SILENT GOP peers are complicit; trashing OUR right to representation!

Jan_M_ac @stayinalive2.bsky.social · 2d

abcnews.go.com/US/tennessee...

Multiple people dead in 'devastating blast' at explosives manufacturer in Tennessee: Sheriff

Accurate Energetic Systems manufactures explosives and energetic devices for aerospace, defense, demolition and mining industries, according to its website.

Jan_M_ac @stayinalive2.bsky.social · 2d

Indeed.

Jan_M_ac @stayinalive2.bsky.social · 2d

February 20, 1939-22,000 U.S. citizen Fascists rally Madison Square Gardens. George Washington banner displayed with Nazi/U.S. flags both sides. They booed FDR, cheered “Heil Hitler!”. 100,000 anti-Nazi (ANTIFA) American counter-protesters gathered outside.
We learn from history. Don't go back

Jan_M_ac @stayinalive2.bsky.social · 2d

I hear the WH kitchen just ordered extra ketchup.

Jan_M_ac @stayinalive2.bsky.social · 2d

Did the Nobel committee just list the democracy destructive actions of Trump that Maria Corina Machado peacefully fights against in Venezuela? Division; authoritarianism; lack or judicial independence, of human rights, humanitarian aid; the militarization of their streets; economic crisis, etc.

Jan_M_ac @stayinalive2.bsky.social · 2d

Bondi is despicable. She, Patel, Hegseth, Kennedy, all behave as though they answer to no one. We need to remind them, they answer to the People, beginning in the chambers of Congress.
Each will go down in the flames of historians pens for their complicity in destroying our democratic republic.

Jan_M_ac @stayinalive2.bsky.social · 2d

It read like the Nobel committee ticked off all the anti-democratic things trump is doing here (our budding Maduro), that Machado is working against in Venezuela. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...

Nobel Peace Prize 2025

The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transi...

www.nobelprize.org

Jan_M_ac @stayinalive2.bsky.social · 2d

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...

Nobel Peace Prize 2025

The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transi...

www.nobelprize.org

Jan_M_ac @stayinalive2.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations Maria Corina Machado, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for "her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela...meets all three criteria stated in Alfred Nobel’s will...resisting the militarization of society... support for a peaceful transition to democracy."

Jan_M_ac @stayinalive2.bsky.social · 3d

thank you. I am overextended on subscriptions and wish I had room for The Atlantic.

Jan_M_ac @stayinalive2.bsky.social · 3d

That is the best statement I have read all day....thanks 😂

Jan_M_ac @stayinalive2.bsky.social · 3d

I think I may need to see a therapist. Marjorie Taylor Greene is now sounding like the voice of reason. www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

Marjorie Taylor Greene blames Republican leaders for government shutdown | CNN Politics

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) joins CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and Pam Brown to discuss the government shutdown.

Jan_M_ac @stayinalive2.bsky.social · 3d

Swelling in the legs, weird breathing can be signs of congestive heart failure...just sayin'

Jan_M_ac @stayinalive2.bsky.social · 3d

I'd like to know where the $50,000 of taxpayer dollars that was recorded as being given to Border Tsar, Tom Homan.
How much money is the U.S. giving away to corrupt govt employees.

Jan_M_ac @stayinalive2.bsky.social · 3d

federalnewsnetwork.com/government-s...

IRS shutters ‘most operations,’ furloughs employees as shutdown continues

A notice sent to all IRS employees states that furloughed and excepted IRS employees will receive back pay once the shutdown ends.

federalnewsnetwork.com

Jan_M_ac @stayinalive2.bsky.social · 3d

"Big Balls" Edward Coristine now working in the Social Security Admin.(SSA). Recent high school grad, accused of leaking corp proprietary info. to competitor, of uploading SSA Data to insecure cloud server. He created online services that deal with Russia.
WTF is wrong with our Exec branch?!

Jan_M_ac @stayinalive2.bsky.social · 3d

IRS furloughed 1/2 it's staff just when late filers are expected to file their returns.
Guess who IS EXEMPT from being furloughed...DOGE.
Several DOGE have been hired into permanent positions in multiple agencies at top of the pay scale. All while those who give yrs of service sent home, no pay.

Jan_M_ac @stayinalive2.bsky.social · 4d

Dear ICE, Trump is NOT paying your wages, Noem is NOT paying your wages. The very people you are tear gassing, shooting with rubber bullets, throwing to the ground, are PAYING YOUR WAGES.
End of Jan__ Talk.