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Brooklyn Jenne

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Anxious/Depressed GenX. Breaking cycles. Fighting the good fight. Doing it for the kids. Good mom. Ok Spouse. Doing my best every day.

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Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫

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Millions of dollars is being spent to militarize Washington, D.C. so government agents can stand around and get paid to stand around and do nothing.

The few officers actually doing something is just giving out fix it tickets.

This is why children can’t have free school lunches.

August 23, 2025 at 2:14 PM

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Alt National Park Service

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The decision now protects more than 30 cities across the country often called “sanctuary cities” because of their local laws that restrict helping federal immigration agents.

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August 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM

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Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫

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The Dong family became the first Chinese American family to purchase real estate in Coronado, California, in 1955, after renting a home from a Black entrepreneurial couple, Emma and Gus Thompson, who defied the city's racially restrictive housing laws.

#AAPIHistory
#BlackHistory

August 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM

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Eric Alper

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July 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM

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Mrs. Betty Bowers

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Instead of being solely preoccupied with unnecessary foreign wars, maybe we should have spent more time worrying about the United States government going to war against its own people.

July 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM

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Hakeem Jeffries

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Keep your hands off Social Security and Medicare.

January 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM

Brooklyn Jenne

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I'm leaving this here so I can read it after teaching. I think my kinders and 1sts understand government better.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Nov 20

Here is the text of the op-ed that Musk and Ramaswamy published in the Wall St Journal.
Lots of claims here about legal authority of the President to do big things. Really appreciate some responses that identify problems with these claims (admin law scholars, talking to you especially).

Our nation was founded on the basic idea that the people we elect run the government. That isn’t how America functions today. Most legal edicts aren’t laws enacted by Congress but “rules and regulations” promulgated by unelected bureaucrats—tens of thousands of them each year. Most government enforcement decisions and discretionary expenditures aren’t made by the democratically elected president or even his political appointees but by millions of unelected, unappointed civil servants within government agencies who view themselves as immune from firing thanks to civil-service protections.

This is antidemocratic and antithetical to the Founders’ vision. It imposes massive direct and indirect costs on taxpayers. Thankfully, we have a historic opportunity to solve the problem. On Nov. 5, voters decisively elected Donald Trump with a mandate for sweeping change, and they deserve to get it.

President Trump has asked the two of us to lead a newly formed Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, to cut the federal government down to size. The entrenched and ever-growing bureaucracy represents an existential threat to our republic, and politicians have abetted it for too long. That’s why we’re doing things differently. We are entrepreneurs, not politicians. We will serve as outside volunteers, not federal officials or employees. Unlike government commissions or advisory committees, we won’t just write reports or cut ribbons. We’ll cut costs.

We are assisting the Trump transition team to identify and hire a lean team of small-government crusaders, including some of the sharpest technical and legal minds in America. This team will work in the new administration closely with the White House Office of Management and Budget. The two of us will advise DOGE at every step to pursue three major kinds of reform: regulatory rescissions, administrative reductions and cost savings. We will focus particularly on driving change through executive action based on existing legislation rather than by passing new laws. Our North Star for reform will be the U.S. Constitution, with a focus on two critical Supreme Court rulings issued during President Biden’s tenure.

In West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (2022), the justices held that agencies can’t impose regulations dealing with major economic or policy questions unless Congress specifically authorizes them to do so. In Loper Bright v. Raimondo (2024), the court overturned the Chevron doctrine and held that federal courts should no longer defer to federal agencies’ interpretations of the law or their own rulemaking authority. Together, these cases suggest that a plethora of current federal regulations exceed the authority Congress has granted under the law.

DOGE will work with legal experts embedded in government agencies, aided by advanced technology, to apply these rulings to federal regulations enacted by such agencies. DOGE will present this list of regulations to President Trump, who can, by executive action, immediately pause the enforcement of those regulations and initiate the process for review and rescission. This would liberate individuals and businesses from illicit regulations never passed by Congress and stimulate the U.S. economy.

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A drastic reduction in federal regulations provides sound industrial logic for mass head-count reductions across the federal bureaucracy. DOGE intends to work with embedded appointees in agencies to identify the minimum number of employees required at an agency for it to perform its constitutionally permissible and statutorily mandated functions. The number of federal employees to cut should be at least proportionate to the number of federal regulations that are nullified: Not only are fewer employees required to enforce fewer regulations, but the agency would produce fewer regulations once its scope of authority is properly limited. Employees whose positions are eliminated deserve to be treated with respect, and DOGE’s goal is to help support their transition into the private sector. The president can use existing laws to give them incentives for early retirement and to make voluntary severance payments to facilitate a graceful exit.

Conventional wisdom holds that statutory civil-service protections stop the president or even his political appointees from firing federal workers. The purpose of these protections is to protect employees from political retaliation. But the statute allows for “reductions in force” that don’t target specific employees. The statute further empowers the president to “prescribe rules governing the competitive service.” That power is broad. Previous presidents have used it to amend the civil service rules by executive order, and the Supreme Court has held—in Franklin v. Massachusetts (1992) and Collins v. Yellen (2021) that they weren’t constrained by the Administrative Procedures Act when they did so. With this authority, Mr. Trump can implement any number of “rules governing the competitive service” that would curtail administrative overgrowth, from large-scale firings to relocation of federal agencies out of the Washington area.

Finally, we are focused on delivering cost savings for taxpayers. Skeptics question how much federal spending DOGE can tame through executive action alone. They point to the 1974 Impoundment Control Act, which stops the president from ceasing expenditures authorized by Congress. Mr. Trump has previously suggested this statute is unconstitutional, and we believe the current Supreme Court would likely side with him on this question. But even without relying on that view, DOGE will help end federal overspending by taking aim at the $500 billion plus in annual federal expenditures that are unauthorized by Congress or being used in ways that Congress never intended, from $535 million a year to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and $1.5 billion for grants to international organizations to nearly $300 million to progressive groups like Planned Parenthood.

The federal government’s procurement process is also badly broken. Many federal contracts have gone unexamined for years. Large-scale audits conducted during a temporary suspension of payments would yield significant savings. The Pentagon recently failed its seventh consecutive audit, suggesting that the agency’s leadership has little idea how its annual budget of more than $800 billion is spent. Critics claim that we can’t meaningfully close the federal deficit without taking aim at entitlement programs like Medicare and Medicaid, which require Congress to shrink. But this deflects attention from the sheer magnitude of waste, fraud and abuse that nearly all taxpayers wish to end—and that DOGE aims to address by identifying pinpoint executive actions that would result in immediate savings for taxpayers.

November 21, 2024 at 1:25 PM

Brooklyn Jenne

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This is great!

Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · Nov 16

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So, hey...

If you're looking for a place to eat in Los Angeles...

I suggest you spend your money at places like Sage Regenerative Kitchen, where they actually give a shit about people.

SAGE REGENERATIVE KITCHEN, 1700 Sunset Blvd, LA - a receipt. Beneath the total reads, "Immigrants make America great. They also grew, cooked, and served your food today." I don't live in Los Angeles anymore, but if I DID, I would make it a point to visit this restaurant and give them my money. I strongly suggest that anyone who IS in the LA area try to get over there when they're looking for a place to eat. GIVE YOUR MONEY TO PEOPLE WHO DESERVE IT.

November 17, 2024 at 4:28 PM

Brooklyn Jenne

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Just Do It.

It’s Just Dionne @itsjustdionne.bsky.social · Nov 16

Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.

November 17, 2024 at 3:45 PM

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Kristin Bruning MD🪷

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November 16, 2024 at 8:07 PM

Brooklyn Jenne

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Hoping that the one job I have this holiday season is to bring The Drama.

November 16, 2024 at 4:37 PM

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Ron Filipkowski

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A frustrating thing for me right now is the media narrative that RFK Jr is just an “anti-vaxxer” when he has said so many crazy things about other stuff over the years. We compiled 10 nutty clips on various topics, which still barely scratches the surface. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...