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Retired enjoying life as a free spirit. 2024 was not a good year. My health declined, my company went bankrupt. That was February, everything has settled personally, and the abortion of the election has dramatically impacted my commitment to politics.
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Here is what ChatGPI thinks of the big beautiful Bill. x.com/charise_lee/...

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RFK Jr., the foolish kook splashing about in raw sewage, is in charge of protecting our health. These are monumentally stupid times we are living in.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

We strongly advise the public not to do this, it’s unsafe. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted photos of himself and his grandkids swimming in Rock Creek, a Washington waterway so contaminated with sewage runoff that swimming has been banned citywide for over 50 years.

Aaaand there it is.

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

Hands Off Protest Boston! April 5, 2025 Boston Common

The battle between Trump's DOJ and the courts has reached a worrisome level. New @economist.com analysis of last weekend's lawless deportations from @arynbraun.bsky.social and me, with insights from @stevevladeck.bsky.social www.economist.com/united-state...

He couldn’t even run a charity without breaking the law—Now he believes he’s in charge of the Supreme Court, Congress, our rights, and the U.S. justice system. Who’s going to stop him?!

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“‘The man who has sworn to faithfully execute the laws and the Constitution of the United States has declared war on both, and declared war on everybody who is standing up for the laws and the Constitution of the United States,’ Conway said. ‘That’s what's going on here.’”

I bought a Tesla because it was fast like a rocket ship. But now every time I drive it, I feel like a rolling billboard for a man dismantling our government and hurting people. So Tesla, you’re fired! New ride coming soon.

The provision of the 14th amendment that the Supreme Court unanimously wrote out of the constitution existed for a reason. Its drafters knew what would happen if you allowed insurrectionists back into power.

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

Schumer is trying to justify his vote on Jake Tapper right now, saying if they had let the government shut down "they could fire half the workers in the federal government." WHAT DO YOU THINK THEY'RE DOING RIGHT NOW CHUCK

Congratulations to @schumer.senate.gov and the others who just played into the hands of an insane dictator who just said it's illegal for cnn and msnbc to criticize him

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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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Only purposely ignorant individuals do not understand the difference between a defined benefit, retirement plan and an entitlement. MAGA and our current co-kings are using the term entitlement to falsely defend the actions they are taking!

Social Security is a defined benefit retirement account. If you do not understand the difference between that and an entitlement, you are being blindly, purposely ignorant!

Women in combat www.facebook.com/share/p/1GuP...

A senior Justice Department attorney who was fired on Friday afternoon gave an extraordinary series of interviews this week, saying she was ousted after refusing to back restoring gun ownership rights to the actor Mel Gibson, a supporter of President Donald Trump.

We all should’ve sold mid February – – my tiny savings have dropped almost 20% since the high in mid February.

Kee Malesky, NPR's research librarian for more than 20 years, has died at age 74. She left NPR in 2014. She's remembered for her love of facts, and here's another irrefutable one: She will be missed.

Pro Tip: If the reason Democrats don’t want to storm out of the SOTU in protest is they’re worried about Republicans taking their seats, yell “shotgun!” on the way out.

Adam Schiff is bringing a California fire captain to the SOTU. Elissa Slotkin is bringing a marine veteran who was fired from the VA because of DOGE. Chuck Schumer is bringing cancer survivors who relied on Medicaid. Speaker Mike Johnson’s guest? Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh.

You really don’t have to watch the SOTU. Anything wild that happens will be available in clip form. The rest of it will be psychic self-harm

Watching Felon 47 at the SOTU gives him legitimacy, in the way him meeting with Jong-un did. I’m going to watch something more dignified; something like Faces of Death, Two Girls One Cup, or a cockroach wrestling match.

The Social Security angle: the IRS collects payroll taxes, too. You know, the $$$ that pays for the Social Security benefits you know & love. In fact, 3/4 taxpayers pay more in payroll taxes than income taxes. Obviously they’re trying to help rich tax cheats. But this hurts Social Security, too.

“A reduction in force of tens of thousands of employees would render the IRS dysfunctional.” Which, of course, is Trump and Musk’s goal. People of color make up 56% of the IRS workforce, and women represent 65%.

Is it safe to assume that Russia itself now has access to computers inside the US Treasury, IRS, FAA, FBI, CIA, etc.?

Is it safe to assume that Russia itself now has access to computers inside the US Treasury, IRS, FAA, FBI, CIA, etc.?

I guess most people don’t know that when the IRS cuts personnel for audits, they increase the audits on lower income returns cuz the rich people’s taxes are too hard to work with less personnel. But hey at least it’s something else to be wrong & angry about, right?

They try to silence us, hold us back, and strip away our rights, but women always fight back. This #WomensHistoryMonth, we’re doubling down, because when women lead, we all move forward.

Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.

Today in Politics, Bulletin 84. 3/4/25. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

NEW: A former top Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) official sued the Trump administration Tuesday claiming she was unlawfully fired without cause last month. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

While impeachments are unlikely, the calls and resolutions are clearly meant to intimidate judges who have ruled against recent Trump policies or judges who may hear future challenges against the administration, Paul Grimm, a retired U.S. district judge, told Democracy Docket.

NEWS Pete Buttigieg met with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer last week to discuss a possible Senate bid in Michigan. Full Story: politi.co/4i0TW6f

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