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Gen X supermom of super kids (and two rescued Jack Russell terriers), lawyer, public Ed advocate, bon vivant, balabusta, voracious reader, wordsmith, smart ass, disability advocate, tip of the spear. Not necessarily in that order. She/her.
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PLEASE: Watch what happened in Coeur d'Alene Idaho today. This is fascism. Unmarked cops. 1A violations. RESIST.

Because surely anyone who spent Valentine’s Day at Twin Peaks is going to want to heed public safety warnings

I can’t compete with this

Five things I did last week: 1. Kept children, husband, and dogs alive, fed, clothed, and prepared for work and school 2. Attended hearings and represented clients’ interests 3. Called my state AG to discuss the 504 lawsuit 4. Attended League of Women Voters meeting re public Ed 5. Made this cake

Pay attention to Tim Snyder.

Starlink, Space X, Tesla and X are both economic and political vehicles created not just to enrich but empower their owner. He is an ignorant, racist, rogue, narcissist who supports America's enemies and an anti-democratic, white supremacist agenda. Supporting those companies in any way at all...

Is there a full list of major colleges/universities that have scrubbed diversity mentions from their websites in the last few weeks?

“Jabs”? Can we not?

One month after starting work as White House Assistant, Stan Woodward remembered that he was still representing Walt Nauta. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

What's the argument against every Democrat refusing to vote for any bill that funds the government while Trump violates the law? No funding for a coup makes sense to me.

“Filed by Acting U.S. DOGE Administrator” WHOMST?????????

news.gallup.com/poll/656891/...

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is resigning.

Marcy makes a very nice point here. If Trump asserted that Special Counsel Jack Smith—who was in charge of just two cases against basically one person—was a principal officer who required Senate confirmation, then how could Co-President Musk—who’s remaking the *entire* government—be anything less?

JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered the reinstatement of Cathy Harris atop the Merit Systems Protection Board, ruling that Trump's decision to fire her exceeded his authority. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

1. One is arguably a threat to free speech, the other a clear threat to free press. 2. They were both put equally with each other in the very 1st Amendment for a reason. 3. JD has spent 90% of his time as VP as a social media troll.

Every Republican who were fervent supporters of USAID and the crucial role they play, should be hounded daily and shamed for their now silence. What is happening to these foreign service workers and their families is nothing short of human rights abuses. Abandoned by their own government, shameful

Between the Bove/Sassoon/Adams contretemps and Attorney General Bondi’s preposterous letters to Apple and Google, Thursday was about as bad a day for the Department of Justice’s credibility as we’ve seen in generations. Me, via “One First”: www.stevevladeck.com/p/124-the-th...

The DOGE website is reportedly hosted on non-government servers, not secured against database attacks and can be easily defaced, 404 reports www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

"When they actually did the claw back, it caused the account to overdraft by $79.5 million," says NYC Comptroller Brad Lander on Trump yanking back funds from NYC. "Citibank charged us a $15,000 overdraft fee. I'm happy to say, I reached out to Citibank, and they have refunded the overdraft fee."

NEW: At least three more DOJ Public Integrity Unit senior officials have resigned after meeting with Emil Bove on the Eric Adams case. Five in Public Integrity overall. That’s six officials who resigned, triple the number that happened during the Saturday Night Massacre.

Whenever I see stories like this, I can’t help but remember just how many people *ridiculed* me for poring over What to Expect when I was pregnant with my first because they “don’t need a book to tell them how to be a mom.” Beg to differ!

Interesting: the State Department’s procurement forecast detailing a $400 million order for "armored Tesla" has now been edited to "armored electric vehicles." The document shows the edit was made tonight at 9:12 p.m. -- after it was highlighted in reports

Relatable

Genuine legal question: Why has no lawyer tested whether Elon is government or not with a lawsuit about his many false claims? He is slandering people and it is losing them their jobs. Sure, maybe he's protected as DOGE. But that would have massive implications for 1A claims Re Xitter.

If you have a child with a 504 plan or IEP please watch. If you don’t…watch anyway because if you’re reading this, you know someone who does. Please call your representatives and tell them to stop this nonsense! Children need advocates to protect them. Please be one. Part 1

SCOOP: Dozens of workers at the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau have been fired in an after-hours blitz. The emails they received were not even personalized.

The public broadcaster says it is closing its Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) office to comply with a recent executive order from President Donald Trump.

Once again admitting they have been lying for days.

The Department of Education asked the NCAA and a key high-school sports organization to restore titles, awards and records it says have been “misappropriated by biological males competing in female categories.”

Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private email server or Elon Musk giving full access to all government information to a nineteen-year old named Big Balls with ties to a child pornography collective known for its extortion techniques, both sides have played loose with security.

The Coast Guard is conducting regional flights to shuttle migrants to expulsion hubs where Air Force cargo planes await to remove them from the United States. Read more:

A senior official at the FEMA ordered employees to place financial holds on a range of the agency’s grant programs, in defiance of a federal judge’s restraining order against the Trump administration’s sweeping funding freeze.

New filings from the Trump administration in a DOGE lawsuit are jammed full of details about Musk allies Thomas Krause/Marko Elez's access to Treasury systems. They say they erroneously gave Elez read *and* write privileges but don't think he knew it. t.co/iY9E51WycH

Seems like a big deal

Tonight, DOJ filed two (2) "notice of correction" filings: 1. USAID/DOGE/Rubio litigation: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 2. DC-based Treasury/DOGE/Bessent litigation: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Dude has 9 kids

Excellent, chilling piece by a current OPM employee giving an inside view of the reckless (and frequently illegal) Musk/Trump assault against the federal workforce. slate.com/news-and-pol...

My three-year-old was reading Wired when she turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why are the shitlibs doxxing the nice DOGE kids?" And when I told her "Because they are luddites who fear the AI revolution," she started crying.

SCOOP: The US Treasury claimed a DOGE's Marco Elez didn’t have ‘write access,’ when he actually did. Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

CNN with an absolutely gigantic story: "Elon Musk’s top lieutenants at the Treasury Department asked its acting secretary, a career civil servant, to immediately shut off all USAID payments using the department’s own ultra-sensitive payment processing system." edition.cnn.com/2025/02/06/p...

Worth a read: on “state capture” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...