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Late in life gypsy traveler. Living and loving life with gratitude and mercy. We are strong together. Let's work at resistance and survival.
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No doubt last night’s purge reflects racism and misogyny. But those wrongs are just a cover for the far more serious evils and dangers that exist here.

This is such condescending BS.

WTF?

Need to read...important info about the fact that these two were fired and more importantly the top lawyers at all three service branches were fired. Fred Wellman shares details about what those JAG firings mean.

And two highly distinguished military officials are ousted breakingdefense.com/2025/02/trum...

Racism for all to see...

Here's his lack of empathy for everyone to see

TRUMP'S GOING AFTER INDIE MEDIA @meidastouch.com @lincolnproject.us @thebulwark.bsky.social @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social @podsaveamerica.crooked.com @thewarningses.bsky.social @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social @glennkirschner.bsky.social @majorityreport.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5al...

Another loss of an important prosecutor

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

elon musk at cpac was so fucking weird you guys I know this reads like a parody but I literally just wrote down what happened www.theverge.com/elon-musk/61...

What we are losing: Stories and data trumpcostsamerica.com

Democratic leaders: I think it's abundantly clear at this point that simply going along to get along ain't gonna work. Trying to negotiate ain't gonna work. Being collegial ain't gonna work. What you're doing right now isn't working. Take your gloves off and punch back. Hard.

BREAKING: The US Internal Revenue Service will lay off about 6,700 employees on Thursday, in a restructuring that could strain the tax-collecting agency's resources during the critical tax-filing season, a person familiar with the matter said reut.rs/4gI5Ss4

President Trump has swiftly waged his war on the federal bureaucracy, defying norms and legal limits. He has terminated most of an estimated 200,000 government employees, and more layoffs are expected in the weeks ahead. These are the cuts and temporary removals we've confirmed. nyti.ms/4i6n9w4

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The are a lot of GOP voters who will be "surprised" and regret something about their vote. Was different when this American SOP involved countries they didn't have relatives in. #DemVoice1 bsky.app/profile/prog...

JD Vance owns AcreTrader, an app that lets wealthy—often foreign—investors buy up U.S. farmland. Guess who’s deliberately tanking farm economies so JD and his billionaire tech buddies can scoop it up for pennies. civileats.com/2024/09/18/j...

And another resignation www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

And another official resigns

Oopsie...

NEW: A government employee for Notify. gov, a system used by agencies to send mass texts to the public, has resigned in protest after an Elon Musk ally demanded root access to it. They said the system contains the public's phone numbers & private info: www.404media.co/musk-ally-de...

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

And another quits

Tell me they aren't after vindictive and damaging attacks on all levels of government...purging anyone not loyal IS PROJECT 2025 www.azfamily.com/2025/02/18/t...

NEW: The National Science Foundation fired nearly 170 workers this morning. They include people who had already cleared their one-year probationary period only to have it changed to two years earlier this month. @kimzetter.bsky.social reports for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/nation...

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More firings

I’m not sure the rest of the country fully grasps the panic and anger building in DC, MD, and VA. The entire economy of this area is about to collapse. Paychecks are stopping. Careers are ruined. Taxes are about to plummet. Yet no one seems able to stop this madness.

It appears that Trump/Musk are planning to pause all Social Security benefits claiming massive fraud in system. That will force YOU to hire a lawyer out of your own pocket to sue the government for your benefits. They know many won't have those funds and accept the loss.

And the hits just keep coming…how many jobs have been lost between the federal gov’t, now Honda/Toyota…what’s next?

Trump administration laying off more than 200,000 workers--in addition to 75,000 who took buyouts. How will this impact you? There will be NO ONE there to help you with Social Security issues, Medicare payments, veterans services, etc. All of this is to save $ for tax cuts for Trump's oligarchs.

“The Trump administration has begun firing hundreds of employees at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), including some who maintain critical air traffic control infrastructure, despite four deadly crashes since inauguration day.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Fired Department of Labor IG Larry Turner found $191B in improper COVID unemployment payments, much of it fraud, and was hunting down $135B more when he was fired. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Whoopsie!

It's the new 'Big Lie'. Push back with the truth. #Resist

Lots of good alternatives here. Ditch Amazon

#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue Beneath all the anger at the participants in this debacle, beneath all the frustration at the inaction of our elected officials, beneath the fear of what’s to come… #JoniMitchell has, once again, gotten to the crux of what I’m feeling.