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Aging Liberal, Forever Flowerchild, blue dot in a very red Florida. After all we’ve been through since the 60’s…now this?? WTF?? Well, as they say, “They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.”
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Former Defense Chiefs Call for Congressional Hearings on Trump's Firing of Senior Military Leaders: Five former secretaries of defense are calling on Congress to hold immediate hearings on President Donald Trump’s recent firings of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and several other senior…

WHY would we trust a known dictator?? Is Ukraine just supposed to just give up,  give in, and GIVE AWAY its resources? Peace shouldn’t have a price tag. www.npr.org/2025/02/27/n...

impressive esp since Mattis has been silent on Trump issues so far

This will be the real State of the Union

🚨 This U.S. Coast Guard Veteran, dedicated to fighting waste, fraud, and abuse, was fired from the Federal Acquisition Service. If the government was serious about accountability, they’d be hiring more experts—not purging them. Watch her story:

5 former Secretaries of Defense call on Congress to exercise oversight responsibility on Trump-Hegseth firing of senior military leaders: The "dismissals raise troubling questions about the administration’s desire to politicize the military and to remove legal constraints on the President’s power."

6,700 IRS employees fired during tax season, rescinded terminations, bungled buyouts, and cuts that increase costs rather than save money. DOGE is ignoring the basic realities of government & the damage is piling up. Max Stier sounds the alarm.

BREAKING: A federal judge in California has ordered OPM to rescind memos calling for the mass termination of probationary employees, saying the agency overstepped its legal authority and must inform other agencies it lacked the authority to issue such a directive.

I love this for that Nazi twat. $29 billion in contracts lost.

Because you need to see how a mama squirrel rolls her baby into a ball to make it easy to carry 🖤 🎥 tt|seemarhalim

Ready Fire Aim is a lousy way to govern.

It would be a real shame if the racist transphobic ableist portal enddei.ed.gov got flooded with garbage and spam.

BREAKING: Donald Trump announces massive tariffs set to go into effect on March 4th, Elon Musk begs air traffic controllers to come out of retirement, MAGA infighting is rising between the FBI and DOJ, and more. Please subscribe if you can! open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

1/ The nascent Tesla boycott movement got me thinking back to the 80s anti-apartheid movement. How it took off and literally changed the world. If the South African apartheid regime could be brought down, perhaps one South African oligarch could be? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Very good thread, and worth reading my piece that, in part, deals with why they went after USAID first/so hard: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

They just fired hundreds of FAA employees.

The chaos created by Zeldin is continuing to deprive schools of funding for clean school buses. This bipartisan program means clean air for kids on their way to school and American jobs making clean buses. Zeldin must release all funds now. www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-r...

Maybe instead of purging the Social Security workers who make sure seniors get their checks on time, we should be expanding benefits to make life a little easier for your parents and grandparents.

Laura is right….Pam Bondi is going to deal with the fallout. Obviously Trump will never deal with it. But Pam will be the fall woman unless she finds something fast that makes Trump look good.

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge ordered Trump officials with knowledge of the workings of billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to testify under oath in a lawsuit challenging the faux agency’s access to sensitive governmental databases. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

🚨 CRINGEWORTHY: For the second time in just two days, a world leader had to call out Trump to his face for lying about Ukraine. First, it was French President Emmanuel Macron. Today, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer had to do the exact same thing. Humiliating!

Yes, there's a big difference between the parties. One is working FOR Americans And one is working AGAINST us. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory #Opposition

Rep Tom Suozzi: “Very simple. Putin is a dictator. Zelenskyy is not.” What’s so hard to understand about that?

Pritzker: "We're talking about the death of a constitutional republic. That's what happened in Germany in 1933, 1934. And we're seeing today that we've got an administration in Washington that's ignoring court orders."

Elon Musk and his 19-year-olds have now disrupted the approval of medical devices that save lives. Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.

"This is something that does not belong to the president or the White House. It belongs to the American people.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

"The increase to Musk's wealth since Trump was elected president three months ago is greater than all of the American aid given to Ukraine over the last three years."-- @timothysnyder.bsky.social

"No shells? We’ll take up rifles. No rifles? We’ll grab shovels.” apnews.com/article/ukra...

Noem said the president told her, “I want the first ad, I want you to thank me..." Noem then claimed, “I said, ‘Yes, sir, I will thank you..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

We are witnessing a historic and frequently illegal dismantling of the government by the richest man in the world. Lets check in on the Congressional committee whose job it is to monitor what is happening in the executive branch:

and on day 36 in shambolistan... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/s...

1400 more firings at Veterans Affairs: "Officials said specifically that Veterans Crisis Line responders were not affected by the dismissals. But workers within the department said that support staff for the crisis line were among the workers let go..." www.militarytimes.com/veterans/202...

only the best. www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...

@warren.senate.gov @aoc.bsky.social @jasmineforus.bsky.social @housebudgetdems.bsky.social @budget.senate.gov

Jon Stewart Reworks Trump & Elon’s Sweeping DOGE Budget Cuts youtu.be/utl2uLh1wVI

Jon whips out his trusty calculator to identify where America’s waste, fraud, and abuse really is

If DOGE can't get their numbers right, can America really trust them to rework budgets?

Is the guy wielding a chainsaw the best person to be in charge of federal budget cuts?

“You’re terminated because…?” Fired federal employees are telling their stories—no deep state, just career public servants tossed aside. DOGE’s mass firings aren’t about efficiency—they’re gutting expertise, wrecking lives, and calling it “reform.”

I have decided to cancel my show at The Kennedy Center on May 11, 2025 and move it to The Anthem.

Anyone want to bet that no one looks at the email responses that Musk asked for ? It requires too much manpower and organization. Even w/AI He will hold them in the event he has an interaction with someone. If so, he can look up their response or lack of, and use it as cause for action.

Courage and honor come in many forms.