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Masterfully done, Judge Ho: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is really something

A little substance about what the FBI does & historical context to help you articulate just how dangerous the confirmation of Kash Patel is. joycevance.substack.com/p/kash-patel...

Someone better tell DOGE there’s this guy working from home

He really put some thought into that manspread slouch I’ll bet.

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

THIS is how you communicate. Say it plain.

@raskin.house.gov gives advice to fired federal workers: "Federal workers need to stay in very close touch with their unions and with the litigation that's going on, because we're wining in almost every case. In more than a dozen cases, there have been TROs and PIs issued against the Trump admin."

asked about Trump selling out Ukraine, Rep. Mark Alford immediately changes the topic to bashing Joe Biden. I expect this will be the standard GOP deflection this week.

BREAKING: Trump is removing words from Veteran MEDICAL RECORD note templates. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/trump-orde...

"Republican Senators have in recent days made the case to Cabinet secretaries and other Trump officials... trying to finagle exceptions to Trump’s executive orders or cuts made by Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service that freeze hundreds of billions of dollars..." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Baldwin: "Last night, the president said 'I'm not touching Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, VA, I'm not touching them.' By this morning, he endorsed the House budget resolution which paves the way for massive cuts to Medicaid."

He played golf today. He played golf yesterday. He went to a car race the day before that. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Translation from Legalese: Your Honor, we have no idea WTF Elon is doing. Respectfully, The United States Department of Justice

Elon Musk fired a disabled Veteran with 3 tours of duty from his job serving other Veterans at the VA. Elon’s companies get billions from defense contracts. He’s happy to profit off our servicemembers - but when he can no longer make money off them, he kicks them to the curb.

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

@warren.senate.gov: "Elon is gonna do X Money... There's just one bump in the way and that's the CFPB... He doesn't like that... Move the bump out of the way before you start. It's like a bank robber saying, 'Before I go into the lobby with my sacks, I'm just going to fire the cops.'"

As the NYC Council Finance Chair, I don't see how the mayor can continue leading the city under such chaos and turmoil. Working families are struggling to get by, and nobody can afford a crisis of confidence. Too much at stake. Too much work to do. Mayor Adams must resign.

The Trump administration is going to criminally target political opponents and it's gonna be an A23 story

For those keeping track, @nytimes.com ran the story today on the bottom of page A22.

Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump say it should absolve their child-porn charges, too www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Elon Musk attacked me on the platform he owns. I will not back down from the fight for democracy. @briantylercohen.bsky.social and I discuss. I hope you watch. youtu.be/XsR4QzK4yZ4

how the f*ck playing at NASCAR makes him a leader?? he is not driving the f*cking car!

Is anyone of consequence willing to kick Stay-Puft Blofeld in the nuts?

@joycewhitevance.bsky.social this includes those of us that said the words along with a parent as they took the oath or sibling, spouse or child!

NEW: The CDC is currently removing all the influenza resources from their website during the worst flu season in decades.

The White House Press Corps needs to walk out.

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This is so unsurprising. Did anyone think Elon was doing all of this work just for fun?

While the aggressive attacks on federal agencies might normally raise an eyebrow at the Department of Justice or warrant an inquiry from the FBI, all heads are turned away for fear that even a glance at what Musk is doing might anger those in charge. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/elon...

This is the courage required of people who serve at the Justice Dept. Sassoon resigns, at no small personal cost, to protest the unjust order from DC to dismiss the case against Mayor Adams. Without fear of favor. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

This former US Atty supports the courage of Danielle Sassoon, the acting US Atty in SDNY, who put service ahead of self & refused to let politics interfere with prosecutions. True American hero. Thank you for your service, Danielle. You are the best of us. Who's with me?

"Even cutting 1 in every 4 government workers would only reduce federal spending by about 1 percent..." www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

this headline makes me barf, at no time in the history of this country has anyone wanted that "Donald Trump Says 'We Made the Presidency Hot' in Leaked Audio of Kennedy Center Board Meeting"

How many of us have to deal with lack of response at work? I mean how hard is it to reply " OK" or "Done" when sending emails of work request to do assignments?? and forget the "auto delete" on emails that you send out & a co-worker has decided he does not need to read/know anything you send out.

The complete failure of Republicans in Congress to exercise their power as a check on the executive branch is national disgrace. But the courts are doing their job and may yet protect democracy from Trump.

1/So, the guy who is supposedly fighting waste & corruption in government just got a $400 mil contract with that same government he’s supposedly overseeing for his trucks that get, let’s just say less than stellar reviews www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

“this is not a time for political theater” Said without irony by the “Jewish space lasers” congresswoman

Raskin: "Trump is suing CBS for $20b in damages because, check this out, he believes an interview with Kamala Harris produced too favorable an impression of her. That means I could sue Fox News because I think their interview with Trump produce too favorable an impression. I mean, this is lunacy."

Mitch McConnell voting no on terrible cabinet picks because he doesn’t have to run for reelection is all the proof you need that we must have term limits. You shouldn’t only have a spine because you don’t have to run again. We are breeding chicken shit power hungry electeds.

Sec 4 of the 14th Amendment, requiring the US to pay ALL the debts incurred by Congress, both renders the so-called “debt ceiling” unconstitutional and reinforces the ban on Executive Branch usurpation of Congress’s power of the purse — which is now underway as the White House defies a court’s TRO.

Elon Musk's government rampage is also a massive bailout happening in plain sight: For X, for Tesla, for xAI, for the man himself nymag.com/intelligence...

Having sidelines law enforcement, Musk is unchecked. His whim has taken on the force of law within the federal government. Only the courts stand in his way. And so far, they are holding. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/elon...

Federal judges, regardless of who appointed them, seem unimpressed by Trump's run at the Constitution. Sign up for my newsletter, Civil Discourse, for free. joycevance.substack.com

many people believe Biden signed 100 executive orders on day one - false! he signed 17 & no stopping the border wall was not #1 (it was #13) -#1 was a Mask mandate on Federal facilities. #truthmatters

The role of the executive branch is not to make determinations about which promises of federal funding made by Congress it will keep, and which it will not. Chief Justice Roberts wrote: “No area seems more clearly the province of Congress than the power of the purse.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...

If any party, including the government, doesn’t like a court order, it can appeal it. It doesn’t get to just disregard it. Vance took an oath to uphold the Constitution, just like Sen. Cotton did. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Warren: "Only Congress -- not Donald Trump, not Elon Musk, not some 22-year-old programmers -- only Congress can shut this agency down."