Congressman @beyer.house.gov will be going to USAID today with colleagues to shine a light on what is happening there, I think others will join us. Figuring out details now and will share but flagging now for press and public in the area
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Hey @pkryan.bsky.social are you a part of this?
I called your office this morning and told them that you need to GET LOUD AND SHINE A LIGHT ON THIS COUP!
Schumer crowing about how he can sit back and wait for Trump to screw up is infuriating. What about the civil servants? What about foreign partners and aid recipients?
I’m following Rep. Beyer. He’s doing something about the tariffs (he and a colleague introduced a bill) and communicating with his constituents. I’m not one of them but I approve of what he’s doing on their (all Americans’) behalf!
please don't let musk do this. does he even work for the federal government . He's having people removed . can't he be arrested please speak out about this.
PS DID You Bother to Vote? Did You Believe Trump's 1 Millionth LIE when He Lied @ Not Knowing A Thing About #Project25? #DidYouVOTEforCheaperEggs? Trump Said on DAY1 He Can't DO ANYTHING About EGG PRICES!! Were YOU One Of The #10Million Who Didn't EVEN BOTHER To VOTE? Or Voted #GOP SENATE or REP??
Bc if YOU #VotedForTrump YOU DID THIS!! AND IF You #VOTED For ONE Of The ABOVE #YOUDIDThis so Stop Whining About DEM Pols to Do Something when THEY CAN'T Do Anything In the #Minority!! So #VOTE For #DEMS In The #SpecialElections For #HouseReps & #FLSenator
FIND LITERALLY *ANY* LEO'S WHO ARE STILL IN SERVICE AFTER GETTING ROCKED AT J6 AND HAVE THEM THERE, THIS IS THE ONLY THING OUR CARCERAL SYSTEM IS GOOD FOR. ARRESTING THEM WILL SLOW THEM DOWN.
Even IF the people and congress wanted USAID stopped, you don't do it without notice, there are people in the world whose lives and health depend on this aid!!
@chelliepingree.bsky.social needs to go, too !! All democratic representatives need to step up to the plate and make some noise about what is happening!!
Please @wyden.senate.gov I'm a constitute of yours and have appreciated you speaking out. Please join these in person fact finding missions and protests. @jeff-merkley.bsky.social and @repbonamici.bsky.social as well.
You cannot seriously just can and shutter a entire aid organisation in 24 hours. Prior obligations must be met and people gently let down. And that's assuming there was a valid reason for shuttering it. Which there isn't!
Also: no excuse like it being a waste of money applies here. For all the good it does, USAID spends not even 1% of GDP. An even more efficient form of goodwill and soft power than any military power the US can field.
"Waste" had always been a lie, designed to appeal to Fox watchers who believe it when they're told things like foreign aid is 25% of the federal budget.
Of course this creates an adversarial relationship with many people i should be respecting if not liking... but respect to them, many of them just shrug and nod like that's exactly what they want of me.
I have sympathy for people who are busy with their lives and don't check things that don't directly affect them, because in a sane world we wouldn't have to. But not those who put effort into believing false things that are easily checked.
Musk got away with exactly this shit at xitter. He still hasn’t paid the severance he promised, because he’s nothing but a lying con. He’s Trumpian in that he never seems to get actual punishment. 🤬
These people are accumulating Karma in a very dangerous way. If they die without making amends or even apologising for real this might be their last life as humans for a very very long time.
Not my country thank God. If america collapses we might have some issues but the USD Is a small part of the basket of currencies we benchmark against so hopefully the other options in it hold it mostly steady.
Top Dems are partly to blame. They don't have the power to stop this, but they have a platform where they could shine a sport light on it and forcefully explain why it's so bad. Most MSM would cover that. But Schumer is off posting about tomatoes and Jeffries is posting about God. They are AWOL.
Same lessons after the election still apply. Start local and inject sanity. Go to town meetings. Go to local community events. Talk to people. In person is what we need. You can use nextdoor to digitally reach neighbors, but use that to help you increase in-person contact.
Legacy media is being muzzled by rich owners, prioritizing 💵 over truth. With the possibility of GOP-led deregulation/tax breaks, corporate interests = #1. New DNC leaders like Ken Martin & David Hogg, in just 1 day, have shifted resistance tactics, & I see smarter candidate campaigns. #Resist v. 2?
We will be left with a country that is broke and unsafe with no top secrets left. He will be in Russia with his criminals living on our social security money laughing it up.
Putin is having his guys tweet praises to musk. On X of course. I am sure the hard drives are being sent to him or they plan on skipping out of the country with them after they burn it all down. They will all flee to Russia on trumps plane. That my thought.
The fact that they're removing all consumer protections while selling our data to the worst bad actors opens the door for them to realistically financially ruin anyone they want with that information and there will be zero recourse available. It's terrifying.
Yeah. It has been a few *days* of a fire hose while they take care of constituent work and hearings and new leadership. Most go back to their districts over the weekend.
Dem bashing for clicks is popular with the masses tho. So carry on.
It wouldn't have been right to do any of this over the weekend - best to do it on a work day - today was the 1st one since all the announcements on Friday.
I didn’t call you an asshole, but I do think we can do multiples things at the same time. They sure as hell are. They aren’t taking weekends off. Sunday morning shows matter.
I certainly think Dem party is assholes for waiting. Do it every damn day! Also the idea that they waited for eyeballs and aren't just inept, slow moving and have know idea what to do is ridiculous. Did you not watch the election unfold? They changed candidates a few months before the election!!
Gosh, I hope he sends a sternly-worded message to Trump!
-I have zero faith in elected Democrats to do anything. They are all part of the same hypocrisy. We need to start over with new people and banish the representatives of the ancien regime.
Trump authorized Musk to beak in and hack secure government networks. The f’ing damage is done and Congress now reacts! So much for them protecting us from fascism. Why are we even paying them?
This is good. Will there be a forensics team to determine what tech systems have been installed, where data is now flowing, and the threat level to security?
Agreed, bring in secops from FBI, or Pentagon and secure the premises from invasion by those without security authorized by Congress. Then lock down their comms, subpoena all cellphone records. Treat it as a national security breach of the highest order.
Kinda don't care if the congressman "shines a light" on what's happening at USAID. I think we know what's happening there. How about the Congressman stop what's happening there. Pronto. How about stop this as fast as it started.
@raskin.house.gov I too am a Maryland constituent who works for a non profit that is impacted by shuttering USAID. Where is the public outcry from our elected leaders about all of this????
I saw a press release saying both Raskin and Van Hollen will be there. I saw it too late to get there. Is there someplace to find out when anti-Trump protests are happening in DC?
WTF did the Senators & Rep let a Hired By Musk STOP Them from ENTERING aThe DAMN OFFICES??? The @GOP Sent Their Piss Ant DC Male Staffers To FL in 2000 to #StopTheCount of Chad Ballots & They Got The ILLEGAL JOB DONE🔥😱💀 @raskin.house.gov @booker.senate.gov @aoc.bsky.social @ericswalwell.bsky.social
@foushee.house.gov You should go as well. Would have actually loved it if you'd gone this weekend, but the best time to plant a tree is yesterday, but the second best time is now.
Everyone in the US House and Senate needs to be in front of this building. Someone needs to bring federal agents and remove Elon Musk's people from the building. If Marco Rubio is actually in charge of the state dept., he should be speaking out against this. #USAID
More of this Dem leadership/ more of this… pressers everywhere that Elon has tainted. We want to see you out there telling the country about the Take Over of our government.
@beyer.house.gov Take law enforcement. DOGE is not a legal Department. Elon is not an elected official. His team needs to be dragged out and hauled off.
Thankfully *one* elected official thinks this is important. @schumer.senate.gov thinks waiting for Trump to “screw up” is a strategy. We need new leadership. Now.
Americans were sleep-marched into fascism:
Americans have no lived experience of what happens when oligarchs sink their fangs into a country. https://www.salon.com/2025/02/03/a...
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I called your office this morning and told them that you need to GET LOUD AND SHINE A LIGHT ON THIS COUP!
Schumer crowing about how he can sit back and wait for Trump to screw up is infuriating. What about the civil servants? What about foreign partners and aid recipients?
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social
This @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social are so PASSIVE
What a dreadful idea you said.
Are you going too?
America has been compromised and not one Democrat rep acted on this.
Disgraceful.
you should go to Om
B and treasury
Stop all Cabinet hearings in Senate
https://bsky.app/profile/marklemley.bsky.social/post/3lhbmwfn2qc2n
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/politics/trump-temporary-security-clearances/index.html
Blackmail material
Dem bashing for clicks is popular with the masses tho. So carry on.
Is that it?
https://bsky.app/profile/ryanjreilly.com/post/3lhc2i2pugk23
But - some ppl don't have wide enough vision to understand there are alternate possibilities - especially at extraordinary times such as these.
(Some of us have a bit of advert training.)
https://bsky.app/profile/maya-18.bsky.social/post/3lhc66guotk2a
-I have zero faith in elected Democrats to do anything. They are all part of the same hypocrisy. We need to start over with new people and banish the representatives of the ancien regime.
Fight for fuck's sake
#Brrrro
https://bsky.app/profile/vanhollen.senate.gov/post/3lhc65xmqlc2d
Start acting to protect American Democracy!
https://bsky.app/profile/fritschner.bsky.social/post/3lh532xa5u22c
Great that you took some time off.
"You haven't lost your mind. This is wrong, it's illegal, and it is dangerous."
Stop it.
Basically they went into the weekend when Musk took over the institutions
🙄
Americans have no lived experience of what happens when oligarchs sink their fangs into a country.
https://www.salon.com/2025/02/03/a...