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donnyboye.bsky.social
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merit is back baby

Wow. The Trump admin is now telling French companies to drop their diversity programs if they want to keep U.S. contracts. The U.S. Embassy in Paris sent out letters demanding compliance with Trump’s anti-DEI order, basically forcing American rules on Europe.

We are currently living in The Age of Incompetent Hypocrites.

🇨🇦 “I’m so proud of you. Never take that hat off.” A Blue Jays fan escorted out for wearing a “Canada is not for sale” hat gets an appreciative call from Ontario Premier Doug Ford

Just in NIH grants, It looks like beautiful Iowa City, home of the U of Iowa, will lose $71m in funding. That's almost $1k per resident. And that's before all the other cuts to SSA, FDA, etc. Anyone in Iowa City that can offer more insight? scienceimpacts.org H/T to Prathima !

Casar: One of the most important things I learned is how so many of the most right-wing elected officials break things, do not want services to work, and then campaign on them being broken in order to gain political power.

Gosh. If only there were an historical analogue we could study to learn about the horrors of rounding people up without due process and sending them to torture camps in other countries.

Hiring your brother is the original affirmative action for white people.

RFK is a eugenics freak first and foremost and everything falls downstream from that. he *wants* excess deaths. he thinks that only the "fit" should survive.

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bring woke back www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/u...

“The Bureau employs some 2,000 people in the city of 29,000.” The Red Rural Recession. www.thedailybeast.com/maga-junkie-...

He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.

The concentration of wealth in the hands of an elite few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, the American people don't have a voice. The result? Demagoguery and corruption.

Here is the email I am sending to DOJ Criminal Division this morning. The way this country is going, I may be locked up for this.

We will not be distracted. We will not be discouraged. We’ve got our eyes on the prize. And we will build the prosperous, free nation for all that we deserve. The time to organize is now. OcasioCortez.com

Keep the Congressional switchboard number handy these days: (202) 224-3121

📣 Milwaukee pay attention‼️

Pilot to Hegseth: "You’re going to kill somebody.” For the safety of our troops, Hegseth has got to go.

Another Republican.... www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/27/n...

h/t @peff.com

More Lawmakers Call For Hegseth’s Resignation as Signal Scandal Intensifies time.com/7272007/pete...

1. Remember, you morons, the Internet is written in indelible ink 2. Chief Moron Mike Waltz set the Signal group texts to disappear in 4 weeks www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u...

Wow! Read the whole tread.

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The massive cuts at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Health and Human Services Department could affect teams that respond to outbreaks and help with insurance coverage.

Wilmer Hale partners now have a choice. Disgrace yourself or fight. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Military mom here: fire every one of the assholes who endangered the lives of American troops with a Signal chat.

Not a historian, but to my knowledge, this is the first time a sitting US Senator — or member of Congress, generally — or perhaps any senior US gov’t official — has included an f-bomb in an official press release. www.duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-r...

What a hero 🙄 🦸

if ever there was a time to throw your (much vaunted!) weight around, this is it... www.aarp.org/politics-soc...

Who could have seen this coming? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u...

What the actual fuck:

"In accordance with the New York State Shield Law, I have refused this filing and will refuse any similar filings that may come to our office..." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h... clerk.ulstercountyny.gov/news/countyc...

The 🍊🍕💩 should be thankful... I thank you, from your REAL American friends.

Good question. Why DOES Pete Hegseth have a Russian phone number? 🤨

JUST IN: The 9th circuit court of appeals won’t clear the way for the mass firing of probationary employees at six key federal departments, leaving in place a lower court’s order reinstating thousands of terminated workers.

Of course they are.