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If you voted for the Orange Felon, Democracy's death is on YOU. Retired HR Analyst & band judge. OK blue dot. Proud Army Mom! 3 kids, 6 grandkids, 1 partner, 1 cat.
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“A video shared by Tarrio on social media on Saturday showed him following the officers, Michael Fanone, Harry Dunn and Aquilino Gonell, through … a Washington hotel that was hosting the Principles First summit, a conference where one of the officers received a ‘profile in courage’ award.”

Via RollingStone; The Trump administration fired several FAA lawyers tasked with helping keep reckless and drunk pilots out of the skies.

The @principlesfirst.bsky.social conference was just evacuated due to a bomb threat. This is after Enrique Tarrio and members of the Proud Boys showed up and tried to disrupt the conference yesterday.

Borrowing words from AOC here We have to run from the bottom up. We must run for or vote in our local elections. We can crumble the castle from the foundation up. @stevenfulop.bsky.social 4 NJ Governor is enabling competition in our primary. ✔️this out. #DemVoice1 stevenfulop.com/meet-candida...

Family values, y'all, family values. I wonder how his wife felt reading about how he abuses young women in the luxury condo in DC? Maybe we need to drain the swamp, get rid of these dirty alligators.

One thing DOGE has gutted is an effort to REFORM how the US divvies up donated organs. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

TAX THE CHURCHES TAX THE RICH REMOVE THE CAP FROM SOCIAL SECURITY CONTRIBUTIONS HANDS OFF OF SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDICARE, MEDICAID AND SNAP AGREE? ✋

Quite the detailed 🧵 - take a look: 👇

Why is he being let in!!????

"The call to action — or rather inaction — is asking that American consumers refrain from making any purchases at major retailers on Friday, Feb 28"

So basically, in response to Musk's weekend email to federal employees; FBI Director Kash Patel told him to go fuck himself. I'm no fan of Patel, but this is gonna get interesting. I need some tea and plenty of popcorn. ☕️🍿 #ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited #USDemocracy

Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

Please welcome & follow @altnps.bsky.social !!! Let's let them know we stand beside & behind them.

Reminder of who the Pope liked vs who he didn’t like.

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If you’re cheering for a South African sociopath to fuck over US military veterans then you should probably stop with that America first bullshit.

trump, by the numbers: 3 days since flood 2 days of golfing 11 laps in Daytona $5 million taxpayer dollars 14 dead in Kentucky 77 Truth Social posts ZERO posts about the Kentucky victims. NOT. ONE.

NSF fired 168 employees, leaving the agency less equipped to fund a wide range of scientific research.

Stephen Miller just said on CNN that DOGE staff are employees of the government and are properly authorized. Where is there oath of office and background investigation?

Dark Pence is back.

"One USDA bird flu scientist kept a job but had to say goodbye to ... colleagues. “We all work on high pathogenicity avian influenza—seems like an absolutely reckless time to fire qualified scientists...directly involved in monitoring and responding to this virus right now,” the scientist wrote."

How much is Congress cutting from their $6.5 billion/year budget? Don’t you think congress can operate on say, maybe, $5 Billion? And each congressman has 18 staff, they could operate on say, 14? What about the White House?

RIP Yosemite National Park. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

After ceding power of the purse to Trump, Republican senators are now begging Cabinet secretaries and other Trump officials to let money flow back into their states. What will these weak-willed lawmakers be willing to do for Trump in return?

#FAFO: 'Biggest mistake of my life': Regret sets in for Trump voters as Republican politicians panic. Pass the sparkling schadenfreude! L'Chaim! #WTYS www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

It's just not possible to uncover & define "government waste" in less than a month, especially by some untrained geeks. Period. Prove me wrong.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has been hit as Elon Musk’s DOGE makes more dangerous, indiscriminate cuts to government agencies. Trump administration incompetence has led to more dire consequences. The USDA admits to the accidental firings of employees working on the..

SHAMEFUL! The truth behind teacher pay in Florida: Florida ranks second-to-last for teacher pay at an average salary of just over $53,000 a year. That’s $16,000 less than the national average&$7,000 less than the salary of an average Florida worker. cbs12.com/news/local/t...

In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan had an oft-quoted line: "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'" Americans are now going to experience what life will be like without a government to help.

TRUMP LIES: Tens of millions of dead people aren't getting Social Security checks, despite Trump and Musk claims apnews.com/article/soci...

Indeed.

Meet the disabled vets, cancer researchers, and nuclear techs fired by the worlds richest man