MadCityMoondancer
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Childless cat lady. Never tRumper. Lover of poetry. Emerging potter. Disillusioned with the US, but I’ll recover. 🫘🇺🇦💀🐈🐈⬛🐈🐈
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Trump is reportedly urging the Postal Service to hire a board member from FedEx — a leading USPS competitor — as the next Postmaster General.
This is an alarming step towards privatization, which would make USPS more expensive and less reliable for the millions who rely on it.
This is an alarming step towards privatization, which would make USPS more expensive and less reliable for the millions who rely on it.
May 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Trump is reportedly urging the Postal Service to hire a board member from FedEx — a leading USPS competitor — as the next Postmaster General.
This is an alarming step towards privatization, which would make USPS more expensive and less reliable for the millions who rely on it.
This is an alarming step towards privatization, which would make USPS more expensive and less reliable for the millions who rely on it.
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The Trump administration’s newly proposed regulation, dubbed “Schedule Policy/Career” is really just a rebrand of Project 2025’s “Schedule F” – turning the non-partisan civil service into political loyalists.
Here’s what you need to know ↓
Here’s what you need to know ↓
May 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The Trump administration’s newly proposed regulation, dubbed “Schedule Policy/Career” is really just a rebrand of Project 2025’s “Schedule F” – turning the non-partisan civil service into political loyalists.
Here’s what you need to know ↓
Here’s what you need to know ↓
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My story breaking this news exclusively was 7K+ words and had almost all of this in it, and more:
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
April 18, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Keep talking about the Signal security lapse at the Pentagon. The media may have forgotten about it, but the voters have not.
April 12, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Keep talking about the Signal security lapse at the Pentagon. The media may have forgotten about it, but the voters have not.
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This was officially confirmed yesterday in our meeting. Both the offices that handled press and public relations have been dissolved entirely, and all public announcements will be done on Musk's site from now on.
For those asking for confirmation, here you go. I confirmed it yesterday with leadership but now there is news to corroborate.
federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-overs...
federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-overs...
SSA shifts to X posts for official messaging after cuts to communications staff
SSA is once again walking back plans that would have limited the agency's level of phone support to beneficiaries.
federalnewsnetwork.com
April 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This was officially confirmed yesterday in our meeting. Both the offices that handled press and public relations have been dissolved entirely, and all public announcements will be done on Musk's site from now on.
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Almost all NOAA Research websites that rely on cloud services - including Amazon, Google and WordPress - are poised to disappear at midnight ET Saturday after a contract was targeted for "early termination." Labs may also feel the effects.
Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):
Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):
US Weather Agency Websites to Vanish Under Planned Contract Cuts
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency is poised to eliminate most websites tied to its research division under plans for the cancellation of a cloud web services contract, a move that could s...
www.bloomberg.com
April 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Almost all NOAA Research websites that rely on cloud services - including Amazon, Google and WordPress - are poised to disappear at midnight ET Saturday after a contract was targeted for "early termination." Labs may also feel the effects.
Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):
Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):
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"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
April 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
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Elon LOST big time tonight!
Apparently billionaires trying to buy local elections doesn’t fly.
Let’s F*CKING go!!!
Apparently billionaires trying to buy local elections doesn’t fly.
Let’s F*CKING go!!!
April 2, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Elon LOST big time tonight!
Apparently billionaires trying to buy local elections doesn’t fly.
Let’s F*CKING go!!!
Apparently billionaires trying to buy local elections doesn’t fly.
Let’s F*CKING go!!!
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Have y'all seen this?
"It's staggering hypocrisy," the career official was put on leave for sharing information that was not classified, "while political appointees leak classified war plans and face zero consequences. This isn’t just a double standard it’s reckless and dangerous."
#ProudBlue
"It's staggering hypocrisy," the career official was put on leave for sharing information that was not classified, "while political appointees leak classified war plans and face zero consequences. This isn’t just a double standard it’s reckless and dangerous."
#ProudBlue
A DHS staffer faces serious punishment for accidentally adding a reporter to a group email
The episode, which hasn't been previously reported, raises questions about unequal punishment for inadvertent leakers in the Trump administration.
www.nbcnews.com
March 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Have y'all seen this?
"It's staggering hypocrisy," the career official was put on leave for sharing information that was not classified, "while political appointees leak classified war plans and face zero consequences. This isn’t just a double standard it’s reckless and dangerous."
#ProudBlue
"It's staggering hypocrisy," the career official was put on leave for sharing information that was not classified, "while political appointees leak classified war plans and face zero consequences. This isn’t just a double standard it’s reckless and dangerous."
#ProudBlue
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“Lawmakers voted to invalidate a rule adopted last year by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It now moves to the House.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u...
Senate Overturns Rule Limiting Bank Overdraft Fees to $5
Lawmakers voted to invalidate a rule adopted last year by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It now moves to the House.
www.nytimes.com
March 28, 2025 at 3:43 AM
“Lawmakers voted to invalidate a rule adopted last year by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It now moves to the House.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u...
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🚨 Wisconsin Supreme Court Race: Why It Matters
📌 This court could overturn a future election
📌 lock in GOP gerrymandering and
📌enforce a near-total abortion ban.
We need reform and judges who believe in upholding our constitution.
Stop Brad “Elon” Schimel.
Elect #JudgeSusanCrawford on April 1st!
📌 This court could overturn a future election
📌 lock in GOP gerrymandering and
📌enforce a near-total abortion ban.
We need reform and judges who believe in upholding our constitution.
Stop Brad “Elon” Schimel.
Elect #JudgeSusanCrawford on April 1st!
March 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
🚨 Wisconsin Supreme Court Race: Why It Matters
📌 This court could overturn a future election
📌 lock in GOP gerrymandering and
📌enforce a near-total abortion ban.
We need reform and judges who believe in upholding our constitution.
Stop Brad “Elon” Schimel.
Elect #JudgeSusanCrawford on April 1st!
📌 This court could overturn a future election
📌 lock in GOP gerrymandering and
📌enforce a near-total abortion ban.
We need reform and judges who believe in upholding our constitution.
Stop Brad “Elon” Schimel.
Elect #JudgeSusanCrawford on April 1st!
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YouGov poll:
74% Americans — including 60% of Republicans — say the Trump admin's use of the Signal chat to discuss military strikes is a serious problem.
74% Americans — including 60% of Republicans — say the Trump admin's use of the Signal chat to discuss military strikes is a serious problem.
March 27, 2025 at 11:50 PM
YouGov poll:
74% Americans — including 60% of Republicans — say the Trump admin's use of the Signal chat to discuss military strikes is a serious problem.
74% Americans — including 60% of Republicans — say the Trump admin's use of the Signal chat to discuss military strikes is a serious problem.
We lost our best boy, Freddie, today. He enriched our lives for many years. >^..^<
March 27, 2025 at 10:47 PM
We lost our best boy, Freddie, today. He enriched our lives for many years. >^..^<
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NEW BOMBSHELL REPORTING FROM DER SPIEGEL
Mobile numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to top Trump officials including Mike Waltz, Pete Hegseth, and Tulsi Gabbard have been found online, revealing an additional grave, previously unknown security breach at the highest levels. 1/
Mobile numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to top Trump officials including Mike Waltz, Pete Hegseth, and Tulsi Gabbard have been found online, revealing an additional grave, previously unknown security breach at the highest levels. 1/
Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online
Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including ...
www.spiegel.de
March 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
NEW BOMBSHELL REPORTING FROM DER SPIEGEL
Mobile numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to top Trump officials including Mike Waltz, Pete Hegseth, and Tulsi Gabbard have been found online, revealing an additional grave, previously unknown security breach at the highest levels. 1/
Mobile numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to top Trump officials including Mike Waltz, Pete Hegseth, and Tulsi Gabbard have been found online, revealing an additional grave, previously unknown security breach at the highest levels. 1/
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An ominous reminder of where we are.
This is a really bad sign on the side of the road we’re on. Can’t blame anyone who wants off at the next exit.
2 of the nations leading experts on fascism have left the country citing our unsafe politics & academic repression as the reason.
#DemVoice1
This is a really bad sign on the side of the road we’re on. Can’t blame anyone who wants off at the next exit.
2 of the nations leading experts on fascism have left the country citing our unsafe politics & academic repression as the reason.
#DemVoice1
This speaks volumes:
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
Stanley from Yale to Toronto
Jason Stanley (philosophy of language, epistemology, political philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, has accepted a senior offer from the University of Toronto, where he will be thr...
leiterreports.typepad.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
An ominous reminder of where we are.
This is a really bad sign on the side of the road we’re on. Can’t blame anyone who wants off at the next exit.
2 of the nations leading experts on fascism have left the country citing our unsafe politics & academic repression as the reason.
#DemVoice1
This is a really bad sign on the side of the road we’re on. Can’t blame anyone who wants off at the next exit.
2 of the nations leading experts on fascism have left the country citing our unsafe politics & academic repression as the reason.
#DemVoice1
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Say goodbye to your local library.
gohttps://newrepublic.com/post/193015/elon-musk-doge-library-musem-imls
gohttps://newrepublic.com/post/193015/elon-musk-doge-library-musem-imls
Elon Musk’s DOGE Moves to Gut Local Libraries While No One Is Looking
DOGE is seizing the Institute of Museum and Library Service.
newrepublic.com
March 22, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Say goodbye to your local library.
gohttps://newrepublic.com/post/193015/elon-musk-doge-library-musem-imls
gohttps://newrepublic.com/post/193015/elon-musk-doge-library-musem-imls
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MAGA billionaires like Elon Musk can't buy our elections or control our future
Vote Judge Crawford for WI Supreme Court to stop Musk
Vote by April 1st
#WISupremeCourt #BadBrad
Vote Judge Crawford for WI Supreme Court to stop Musk
Vote by April 1st
#WISupremeCourt #BadBrad
March 25, 2025 at 1:02 AM
MAGA billionaires like Elon Musk can't buy our elections or control our future
Vote Judge Crawford for WI Supreme Court to stop Musk
Vote by April 1st
#WISupremeCourt #BadBrad
Vote Judge Crawford for WI Supreme Court to stop Musk
Vote by April 1st
#WISupremeCourt #BadBrad
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I called Social Security Administration and you cannot stay on hold. The automated service just disconnects. “The estimate amount of wait time is 180 minutes or more. Please call back later. Good bye.”
This is just fucked up.
This is just fucked up.
March 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I called Social Security Administration and you cannot stay on hold. The automated service just disconnects. “The estimate amount of wait time is 180 minutes or more. Please call back later. Good bye.”
This is just fucked up.
This is just fucked up.
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Gifted link from Aaron Rupar about the Signal group chat that Hegseth, Vance, Gabbard and others put together and mistakenly invited the editor of The Atlantic to participate. They planned on deleting the group chat later - clearly illegal. Just stunning. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Gifted link from Aaron Rupar about the Signal group chat that Hegseth, Vance, Gabbard and others put together and mistakenly invited the editor of The Atlantic to participate. They planned on deleting the group chat later - clearly illegal. Just stunning. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA
The Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the...
talkingpointsmemo.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
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The first and most important thing to know about last night's Exec order is that it's intended to break current law and allow people throughout the federal gov look at yr tax returns. Beyond that it's intended to compel states to turn over all their data to the fed govt.
March 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The first and most important thing to know about last night's Exec order is that it's intended to break current law and allow people throughout the federal gov look at yr tax returns. Beyond that it's intended to compel states to turn over all their data to the fed govt.
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Right now, DOGE is dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services that funds our libraries/museums at 955 L'Enfant Plaza.
DHS is intimidating civil servants.
There's no media coverage today that I found, so go video if you're nearby.
@maddow.msnbc.com
theconversation.com/trump-admini...
DHS is intimidating civil servants.
There's no media coverage today that I found, so go video if you're nearby.
@maddow.msnbc.com
theconversation.com/trump-admini...
March 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Right now, DOGE is dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services that funds our libraries/museums at 955 L'Enfant Plaza.
DHS is intimidating civil servants.
There's no media coverage today that I found, so go video if you're nearby.
@maddow.msnbc.com
theconversation.com/trump-admini...
DHS is intimidating civil servants.
There's no media coverage today that I found, so go video if you're nearby.
@maddow.msnbc.com
theconversation.com/trump-admini...
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The United States of America is added to the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist due to threats to civic freedoms under Trump administration.
#BlueCrew #BlueCircleFamily🌈🦋
#Resistance
#Thisiswhywefight #Resist #TruthWarriors
#fucktrump
#mcblued
#bluestorm
#velveetavoldemort
#BlueCrew #BlueCircleFamily🌈🦋
#Resistance
#Thisiswhywefight #Resist #TruthWarriors
#fucktrump
#mcblued
#bluestorm
#velveetavoldemort
USA Watchlist 2025 - Civicus Monitor
USA added to CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist
monitor.civicus.org
March 12, 2025 at 7:21 AM
The United States of America is added to the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist due to threats to civic freedoms under Trump administration.
#BlueCrew #BlueCircleFamily🌈🦋
#Resistance
#Thisiswhywefight #Resist #TruthWarriors
#fucktrump
#mcblued
#bluestorm
#velveetavoldemort
#BlueCrew #BlueCircleFamily🌈🦋
#Resistance
#Thisiswhywefight #Resist #TruthWarriors
#fucktrump
#mcblued
#bluestorm
#velveetavoldemort
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The Chief Justice speaks out to protect democracy, at least as far as his own institution is concerned. Hopefully this signals an intent to stand for more. In the face of silence from the GOP, he has chosen to take this remarkable step of warning the president to back off.
March 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The Chief Justice speaks out to protect democracy, at least as far as his own institution is concerned. Hopefully this signals an intent to stand for more. In the face of silence from the GOP, he has chosen to take this remarkable step of warning the president to back off.
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#ProudBlue #Voices4Victory
Democrats are seeking an immediate hearing & copies of all agreements that DeJoy signed with DOGE & Musk.
Charges to USPS can only be made by Congress, not fotus or his billionaire backer who bought his way into the White House.
www.politicususa.com/p/top-democr...
Democrats are seeking an immediate hearing & copies of all agreements that DeJoy signed with DOGE & Musk.
Charges to USPS can only be made by Congress, not fotus or his billionaire backer who bought his way into the White House.
www.politicususa.com/p/top-democr...
Top Democrats Demand Investigation Into DeJoy's Secret Deal With Musk To Gut USPS
Top House Democrats overseeing the USPS are demanding an investigation into a deal struck between Louis DeJoy and Elon Musk to gut the Postal Service.
www.politicususa.com
March 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
#ProudBlue #Voices4Victory
Democrats are seeking an immediate hearing & copies of all agreements that DeJoy signed with DOGE & Musk.
Charges to USPS can only be made by Congress, not fotus or his billionaire backer who bought his way into the White House.
www.politicususa.com/p/top-democr...
Democrats are seeking an immediate hearing & copies of all agreements that DeJoy signed with DOGE & Musk.
Charges to USPS can only be made by Congress, not fotus or his billionaire backer who bought his way into the White House.
www.politicususa.com/p/top-democr...