@cynthiaryan.bsky.social
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I got back to my office after the vote last night and recorded this. There's no way to sugarcoat what happened. And my fear is that Trump gets stronger, not weaker, because of this acquiescence. I'm angry - like you. But I choose to keep fighting.
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I got back to my office after the vote last night and recorded this. There's no way to sugarcoat what happened. And my fear is that Trump gets stronger, not weaker, because of this acquiescence. I'm angry - like you. But I choose to keep fighting.
If this administration is truly concerned about reducing the deficit then WHY would they reduce the ability to generate revenue? www.propublica.org/article/how-...
How DOGE’s Cuts to the IRS Threaten to Cost More Than DOGE Will Ever Save
The Trump administration claims gutting federal agencies will save money, but cutting the IRS means the government collects less taxes. “If you’re interested in the deficit and curbing it, why would y...
www.propublica.org
March 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
If this administration is truly concerned about reducing the deficit then WHY would they reduce the ability to generate revenue? www.propublica.org/article/how-...
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February 25, 2025
February 25, 2025
On Friday, February 21, former transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg posted: “A defining policy battle is about to come to a head in this country.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
February 26, 2025 at 6:04 AM
February 25, 2025
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This, this, a thousand times this.
🔥 @aoc.bsky.social : “The numbers don’t add up. $880 BILLION is a devastating cut to Medicaid, and an attack on Medicare. Anyone who votes for this budget is voting to cut Medicaid and gut health care for Medicare recipients in 🇺🇸.”
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGg7cr0...
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGg7cr0...
February 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
This, this, a thousand times this.
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“You’re terminated because…?”
Fired federal employees are telling their stories—no deep state, just career public servants tossed aside.
DOGE’s mass firings aren’t about efficiency—they’re gutting expertise, wrecking lives, and calling it “reform.”
Fired federal employees are telling their stories—no deep state, just career public servants tossed aside.
DOGE’s mass firings aren’t about efficiency—they’re gutting expertise, wrecking lives, and calling it “reform.”
February 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
“You’re terminated because…?”
Fired federal employees are telling their stories—no deep state, just career public servants tossed aside.
DOGE’s mass firings aren’t about efficiency—they’re gutting expertise, wrecking lives, and calling it “reform.”
Fired federal employees are telling their stories—no deep state, just career public servants tossed aside.
DOGE’s mass firings aren’t about efficiency—they’re gutting expertise, wrecking lives, and calling it “reform.”
The Dems need to get off their backside and fight. Rolling over like Carville suggests is what got us here
www.theframelab.org/carvilles-pl...
www.theframelab.org/carvilles-pl...
Carville's 'play dead' plan: A death knell for democracy
Carville’s call for Democratic retreat is a losing strategy. To counter authoritarianism, Democrats must fight, reframe, and lead—not surrender.
www.theframelab.org
February 26, 2025 at 4:12 AM
The Dems need to get off their backside and fight. Rolling over like Carville suggests is what got us here
www.theframelab.org/carvilles-pl...
www.theframelab.org/carvilles-pl...
Yes, Dan Bongino once wrote 'cold civil war' warning to 'scumbag commie libs' www.snopes.com/fact-check/b...
Yes, Dan Bongino once wrote 'cold civil war' warning to 'scumbag commie libs'
The May 2024 post resurfaced as a screenshot in February 2025, after U.S. President Donald Trump announced Bongino as the new FBI deputy director.
www.snopes.com
February 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Yes, Dan Bongino once wrote 'cold civil war' warning to 'scumbag commie libs' www.snopes.com/fact-check/b...
Cutting funding for science can have consequences for the economy, US technological competitiveness
theconversation.com/cutting-fund...
theconversation.com/cutting-fund...
Cutting funding for science can have consequences for the economy, US technological competitiveness
The jury’s out on whether the US is still at the top of global science. Proposed cuts to major agencies could mean completely ceding that title.
theconversation.com
February 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Cutting funding for science can have consequences for the economy, US technological competitiveness
theconversation.com/cutting-fund...
theconversation.com/cutting-fund...
Firing civil servants and dismantling government departments is how aspiring strongmen consolidate personal power – lessons from around the globe
theconversation.com/firing-civil...
theconversation.com/firing-civil...
Firing civil servants and dismantling government departments is how aspiring strongmen consolidate personal power – lessons from around the globe
Whether by shuffling agency personnel, creating new agencies, or limiting their capacity for oversight, a common tactic among power-hungry leaders is establishing control over the country’s bureaucrac...
theconversation.com
February 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Firing civil servants and dismantling government departments is how aspiring strongmen consolidate personal power – lessons from around the globe
theconversation.com/firing-civil...
theconversation.com/firing-civil...
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Governor Mills doesn’t suffer fools lightly, and it appears she has even less tolerance for bullies. (And as a former attorney general, she knows what she’s talking about.)
Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws
Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds.
Gov Mills: See you in court
Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds.
Gov Mills: See you in court
February 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Governor Mills doesn’t suffer fools lightly, and it appears she has even less tolerance for bullies. (And as a former attorney general, she knows what she’s talking about.)
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The dismissal of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff came as part of a broader shake-up that has rattled national-security officials, who fear they could be next, report @shaneharris.bsky.social and @jonlemire.bsky.social:
Trump’s Military Purge Has Washington Asking ‘Who’s Next?’
The dismissal of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff came as part of a broader shakeup throughout the military’s senior ranks.
www.theatlantic.com
February 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The dismissal of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff came as part of a broader shake-up that has rattled national-security officials, who fear they could be next, report @shaneharris.bsky.social and @jonlemire.bsky.social:
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It's not about Brown, or Caine, or other individuals. It's not about reforming DOD . What it's about, at DOD and DOJ and the FBI and the intelligence community, is breaking all institutional resistance to Trump, and ensuring as much as is possible personal fealty to Trump.
February 22, 2025 at 2:58 PM
It's not about Brown, or Caine, or other individuals. It's not about reforming DOD . What it's about, at DOD and DOJ and the FBI and the intelligence community, is breaking all institutional resistance to Trump, and ensuring as much as is possible personal fealty to Trump.
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Trump’s Pentagon purge has included the top military lawyers. Nobody should be surprised. Dictators politicize the military. Trump wants those with the biggest guns loyal to him, not the Constitution He says he’s demilitarizing it. I call BS. Orwellian to the core.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...
Trump Fires Joint Chiefs Chairman Amid Flurry of Dismissals at Pentagon
The decision to fire Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., a four-star fighter pilot, upends a tradition in which the Joint Chiefs chairman traditionally remains in place as administrations change.
www.nytimes.com
February 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Trump’s Pentagon purge has included the top military lawyers. Nobody should be surprised. Dictators politicize the military. Trump wants those with the biggest guns loyal to him, not the Constitution He says he’s demilitarizing it. I call BS. Orwellian to the core.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...
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Who wants spies who look like they could fit into other societies? What's the point of that?
The CIA has moved to dismiss an unspecified number of officers who were working on recruiting and diversity issues, according to former officials, in what would be one of the largest mass firings in the agency’s history.
The C.I.A. Is Planning Its Largest Mass Firing in Nearly 50 Years
The possible purge of officers working on recruiting and diversity comes as the agency moves to comply with the spirit of an executive order banning efforts to diversify the federal work force.
www.nytimes.com
February 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Who wants spies who look like they could fit into other societies? What's the point of that?
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firing for "too much DEI" is plainly firing a woman and a Black man on the presumption only white men can be qualified. this is disgusting biogtry.
February 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
firing for "too much DEI" is plainly firing a woman and a Black man on the presumption only white men can be qualified. this is disgusting biogtry.
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WaPo Page One:
“If you’re going to just yell at me, that’s not going to be an effective town hall,” McCormick said ..
“But we’re pissed!” a woman shouted. #GA07
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
“If you’re going to just yell at me, that’s not going to be an effective town hall,” McCormick said ..
“But we’re pissed!” a woman shouted. #GA07
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
February 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
WaPo Page One:
“If you’re going to just yell at me, that’s not going to be an effective town hall,” McCormick said ..
“But we’re pissed!” a woman shouted. #GA07
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
“If you’re going to just yell at me, that’s not going to be an effective town hall,” McCormick said ..
“But we’re pissed!” a woman shouted. #GA07
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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President Trump’s purge at the Pentagon is a major step toward creating an officer corps personally and absolutely loyal to him, @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes. theatln.tc/3oq1fmSh
February 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
President Trump’s purge at the Pentagon is a major step toward creating an officer corps personally and absolutely loyal to him, @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes. theatln.tc/3oq1fmSh
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This is how it’s done.
Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws
Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds.
Gov Mills: See you in court
Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds.
Gov Mills: See you in court
February 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
This is how it’s done.
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The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️
February 20, 2025 at 2:18 AM
The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️
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NEW: Trump tried to unlawfully fire Federal Election Committee chair and outspoken Trump critic, Ellen Weintraub (D), without cause. This move adds to growing concerns over the administration's disregard for the separation of powers.
Federal Elections Commission Chair Says Trump Tried to Illegally Fire Her
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
February 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM
NEW: Trump tried to unlawfully fire Federal Election Committee chair and outspoken Trump critic, Ellen Weintraub (D), without cause. This move adds to growing concerns over the administration's disregard for the separation of powers.
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NEW: President Trump's hiring freeze has stopped the onboarding of seasonal federal firefighters, including those who work for agencies called on to help battle the devastating L.A. fires, creating a potential shortfall ahead of the next fire season. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Trump's freeze stalls federal firefighter hiring
Crews helped battle the deadly Los Angeles-area wildfires, and now some worry a shortfall will weaken response capabilities as fire season approaches.
www.nbcnews.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:39 AM
NEW: President Trump's hiring freeze has stopped the onboarding of seasonal federal firefighters, including those who work for agencies called on to help battle the devastating L.A. fires, creating a potential shortfall ahead of the next fire season. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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NEW: Since Trump took office, Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has disrupted the federal government. Three lawsuits have been filed to determine if its actions are legal. Here's where the legal challenges stand.👇
The Legal Challenges to Elon Musk’s DOGE, Explained
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
February 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
NEW: Since Trump took office, Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has disrupted the federal government. Three lawsuits have been filed to determine if its actions are legal. Here's where the legal challenges stand.👇
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People will get sick and die. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
Health clinics face cuts, closures as Trump's funding fight ripples outside of Washington
A judge has blocked the funding freeze, but organizations say they are still unable to access money they urgently need to pay for salaries, utilities, supplies and other expenses.
www.nbcnews.com
February 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
People will get sick and die. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...