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blballard.bsky.social
DC area local, OH native. IR background, and experience in government solutions and innovation. Still love democracy, and will miss it.
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Russian stooges are literally running (said another way, ‘burning down’) America.

Listen to @radiofreetom.bsky.social! "Now that Trump has captured the intelligence services, the Justice Department, and the FBI, the military is the last piece he needs to establish the foundations for authoritarian control of the U.S. government."

Even Elon Musk's own AI knows what Musk is really doing.

Re: Martial Law; Insurrection Act… we’re quickly approaching the end game.

He has no intention of leaving; once he has full control of the military, politically, we will start seeing him openly defying the courts…

Elon now also a firehose of Kremlin lies. Not by accident.

This went out

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

The poster child for white male mediocrity, Pete Hegseth, is firing qualified Black men and women from the military.

This is in one of the most conservative districts in Wisconsin ⤵️

AZ AG Kris Mayes: This is a coup by Trump against our Constitution, because they are violating not only the separation of powers but also the court orders We have federal judges saying to Donald Trump and Elon Musk, “Stop this now,” and yet we believe they are violating those orders.

Just like we shouldn’t be firing FAA employees when commercial airliners are flipping upside down.

Wow! Congrats to Bluesky for passing the milestone of 32 MILLION users. Spread the word!! 💙🦋 bsky-users.theo.io

He nails it.

“I’m in West Virginia — My insulin went from $6 to $80”

It feels like people are waking up

BREAKING - The Dow just had its worst drop since March 2020 — at the beginning of Covid Back then it was a pandemic mismanaged by Trump Now it’s tariffs and inflation mismanaged by Trump Watch out — Trump is giving America economic Covid

I’m telling you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, please watch this. This is the energy. Not egg prices and book tours and strongly worded letters. It’s time to take the gloves off.

Cuts to NSF expected to be at 50% reduction in force for an independent agency that fuels discovery and innovation. "The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]." This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

Yo DOGE, Found your waste! 👇🏼

He’s doing a golf cart parade at his own club. What a pathetic jackass.

Never forget.

Trump and Musk’s “pointless bloodbath” at the FAA is even worse than you think. The Trump administration fired several FAA lawyers tasked with helping keep reckless and drunk pilots out of the skies — and officials are baffled.

Hillary was right about this fucking puppet.

Is it too much to ask to want the government to stop the president from doing the illegal stuff?

Trump wants to slash your Social Security while he LITERALLY spends $11 million in our tax dollars playing golf in first month of his second term.

So they told us what they were going to do to ALL of us. Here is a tracker on their progress in destroying our country: www.project2025.observer

They’ve already been trying to cover these numbers up; and they’ll dig in further in the coming months. It’s all the more important to get this information out.

@jenpsaki.msnbc.com: "Inspectors general are a headache for everyone. You know why? Because they're investigating every agency and they find stuff! Including waste and fraud and abuse! They wouldn't be firing them if they cared about waste, fraud, and abuse."

Dear third-party voters, you’ve been awfully quiet. What’s up? What’s the game plan for the next 3 years and 11 months? Asking for 75,017,626 friends who did the right thing because we wanted to avoid all of this shit!!!

NEW: DOGE technologists Edward Coristine—the 19-year-old known online as “Big Balls”—and Kyle Schutt are now listed as staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

The more you know*

The execution of expertise

The same way his cabinet picks were to neuter Congress, these EO’s are not so subtly meant to be a thumb in the eye of Judiciary. They are to say I alone rule. Make no mistake.

Not according to Marbury v. Madison.

It’s always been about profits.

This is the way Block all government Tesla and SpaceX contracts

Brazil shows that it can be done. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

Any normal person trying to get a security clearance with his background would be pulled.

True words.

theintercept.com/2025/02/17/e...

The incompetent engineers at SpaceX who create aircraft that explode after takeoff are going to take control of the FAA to make aviation safer. Nothing to see. Everything is fine. GIRL, TAKE GREYHOUND!!!