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It's a fucking coup. Not an impending coup, or a possible coup, or whatever. A coup. It's underway right now. This is not a constitutional crisis, it's a constitutional failure. A coup.
March 20, 2025 at 5:25 AM
It's a fucking coup. Not an impending coup, or a possible coup, or whatever. A coup. It's underway right now. This is not a constitutional crisis, it's a constitutional failure. A coup.
Share please.
March 20, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Share please.
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If Tom McClintock in California is your rep-he hasn’t had a real town hall where he has appeared in a very long time. Please sign this petition plus call him, every day, with your concerns. please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/ho...
Host a Town Hall During Recess: Tom McClintock
Recess is a time for members of Congress to return to their home states. They should be using this week to meet with their constituents, give space for their concerns, and take that back to D.C.
Inst...
sign.moveon.org
March 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
If Tom McClintock in California is your rep-he hasn’t had a real town hall where he has appeared in a very long time. Please sign this petition plus call him, every day, with your concerns. please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/ho...
If this holds, libraries could shutter everywhere. Research at the Smithsonian will stop. Help for the homeless will cease. Read it, Share it. Call your reps.
This, by the by, is an effing disaster if it holds up. The number of public libraries that will go under if IMLS is shuttered is mind-boggling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
March 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
If this holds, libraries could shutter everywhere. Research at the Smithsonian will stop. Help for the homeless will cease. Read it, Share it. Call your reps.
Russia is in the house.
"The White House ordered a stop to the background check investigations after they deemed the process too intrusive..."
abcnews.go.com/Politics/sto...
abcnews.go.com/Politics/sto...
'Highly unusual': White House halts FBI background checks for senior staff, shifts them to Pentagon: Sources
The White House has quietly told the FBI to halt background checks on dozens of the president's top staffers and has transferred the process to the Pentagon, sources say.
abcnews.go.com
March 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Russia is in the house.
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To all my sisters and to the brothers who support us. Happy women’s day!
March 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
To all my sisters and to the brothers who support us. Happy women’s day!
Saving to read later.
Donald Trump, hard at work honoring America's veterans by cracking down on waste, like for example the **sterilization of medical instruments** at the VA:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
March 7, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Saving to read later.
Doing taxes
For a government
That hates me and my family.
American haiku.
There are too many syllables.
For a government
That hates me and my family.
American haiku.
There are too many syllables.
i have eaten
all the ice cream
that was in the freezer
and which
was probably
intended to last
several days
forgive me
everything
is fucked
all the ice cream
that was in the freezer
and which
was probably
intended to last
several days
forgive me
everything
is fucked
March 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Doing taxes
For a government
That hates me and my family.
American haiku.
There are too many syllables.
For a government
That hates me and my family.
American haiku.
There are too many syllables.
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Just stop buying from Temu. It is that easy. Temu does not sell legitimate merchandise and rips off small creators constantly. If you support small businesses don't buy on Temu.
March 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Just stop buying from Temu. It is that easy. Temu does not sell legitimate merchandise and rips off small creators constantly. If you support small businesses don't buy on Temu.
We’re just living in the upside down right now, aren’t we?
"None of the employees with security clearances for nuclear secrets were properly debriefed, the current DOE source said...
"Those employees could be targeted by foreign adversaries for nuclear espionage...
"They have lost their source of income..."
www.reuters.com/world/us/fir...
"Those employees could be targeted by foreign adversaries for nuclear espionage...
"They have lost their source of income..."
www.reuters.com/world/us/fir...
Exclusive: Fired US government workers with top security clearances were not given exit briefings, sources say
The lack of so-called "read outs" for workers with clearances dismissed by Musk's DOGE could raise security risks, experts say.
www.reuters.com
March 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
We’re just living in the upside down right now, aren’t we?
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(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
March 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
Not even sure if I should post this. Are we being blueanon?
March 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Not even sure if I should post this. Are we being blueanon?
Loss of representation another aspect of an authoritarian fascist society.
The chair of the House GOP's campaign arm told Republican lawmakers to stop holding in-person town halls amid a wave of angry backlash over the cuts undertaken by President Donald Trump's administration.
No more in-person town halls, NRCC chief tells House Republicans
Rep. Richard Hudson issued the edict after a spate of testy episodes.
www.politico.com
March 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Loss of representation another aspect of an authoritarian fascist society.
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So much going on is demanding (rightfully) that people disrupt things. Protest. Put sand in the gears. Be a mischief maker. Yell. Make a scene. If you must comply, make it malicious.
Critical stuff!
But this is a thread for those who, like me, don't have a rule breaking bone in their bodies.
Critical stuff!
But this is a thread for those who, like me, don't have a rule breaking bone in their bodies.
March 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
So much going on is demanding (rightfully) that people disrupt things. Protest. Put sand in the gears. Be a mischief maker. Yell. Make a scene. If you must comply, make it malicious.
Critical stuff!
But this is a thread for those who, like me, don't have a rule breaking bone in their bodies.
Critical stuff!
But this is a thread for those who, like me, don't have a rule breaking bone in their bodies.
Now this song will be in my head all day.
Tin soldiers and Trump coming
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drumming
Four dead in _____________
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drumming
Four dead in _____________
March 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Now this song will be in my head all day.
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It’s almost as if Russian agents are eliminating all our defenses: intelligence, military, defense against outbreaks, defense against weather events, financial defense, cyber defense…
March 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
It’s almost as if Russian agents are eliminating all our defenses: intelligence, military, defense against outbreaks, defense against weather events, financial defense, cyber defense…
Sharing to read later. You should read it too, tell me what you think.
Reupping my Russia Russia Russia post where I show that Trump is quite simply picking up where he left off when Mike Flynn investigation held things up in 2017.
It's the very same quid pro quo.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/02/r...
It's the very same quid pro quo.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/02/r...
Russia Russia Russia - emptywheel
Those expressing bewilderment about why Trump might be rushing to deliver Ukraine to Russia have somehow missed that Trump picked up right where such coordination halted in 2017 when the FBI caught wi...
www.emptywheel.net
March 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Right? And now he’s let the Tate brothers into the country. Bet he’ll make up cabinet positions for them.
February 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Right? And now he’s let the Tate brothers into the country. Bet he’ll make up cabinet positions for them.
The first horseman of the apocalypse is pestilence, and sometimes the anti christ.
Although he is not usually pictured as orange.
Although he is not usually pictured as orange.
This administration wants mass death and views it as a cost savings.
SCOOP > The Trump administration is weighing pulling Moderna's contract to create bird flu shots, part of a bigger effort to question spending on messenger RNA-based vaccines
Madison Muller, @rileyraygriffin.bsky.social and @ikeswetlitz.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Madison Muller, @rileyraygriffin.bsky.social and @ikeswetlitz.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
February 27, 2025 at 7:54 AM
The first horseman of the apocalypse is pestilence, and sometimes the anti christ.
Although he is not usually pictured as orange.
Although he is not usually pictured as orange.
Unbelievable.
It's unbelievable how this entire country just folds when it comes to this guy. Never accountable. Never held to any standards. No responsibility. We just take it. Every. Single. Time. Unbelievable that this where/who we are.
February 26, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Unbelievable.
NFL NBA Taylor Swift
Do I have your attention?
Trimp just fired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Charles Q Brown and nominated an unqualified retired pilot to that position, the highest-ranking and most senior military advisor in our armed forces.
The Senate confirms this position. 1/2
Do I have your attention?
Trimp just fired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Charles Q Brown and nominated an unqualified retired pilot to that position, the highest-ranking and most senior military advisor in our armed forces.
The Senate confirms this position. 1/2
February 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
NFL NBA Taylor Swift
Do I have your attention?
Trimp just fired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Charles Q Brown and nominated an unqualified retired pilot to that position, the highest-ranking and most senior military advisor in our armed forces.
The Senate confirms this position. 1/2
Do I have your attention?
Trimp just fired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Charles Q Brown and nominated an unqualified retired pilot to that position, the highest-ranking and most senior military advisor in our armed forces.
The Senate confirms this position. 1/2