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I'm the aunt your parents warned you about. The Konza via SW Pennsylvania.
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Silver lining: Europe became a Union yesterday. 🇪🇺

What a difference the world might be now if Americas 2024 election hadn't been corrupted!

I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.

Bad move, elrayo x. Really, worse than usual.

Federal prosecutors are not the president’s lawyers. Prosecutors take an oath to support and defend the Constitution, not to implement the president’s agenda faithfully. My thoughts in @MSNBCDaily.

This is bad theater.

Who else would be rooting for Caligula's Praetorian Guard?

aint no way we cut medicaid and housing assistance so jeff bezos could buy this shirt

Rest in Perfection 💔

Your regular reminder McConnell could have taken care of this in January 2021

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

Do this. Say this. 👇🏻

👀 NEW: the current under secretary of State for Management, Ambassador Tibor Nagy, has sent an email regarding OPM's request for five accomplishments: "No employee is obligated to report their activities outside of their department chain of command."

They want us to be afraid. They want us to hesitate. They want us to fear their next move. Fuck that shit. We are just getting started fighting.

“Zelensky survived a dozen Russian assassination attempts including a special forces assault on his presidential complex.He stood up to Trump. I’m sure he’ll be deeply impressed to learn our Congressional Republicans live as terrified hostages of their own party leader.” ~ @michaeldweiss.bsky.social

Pack the officer corps with Trump loyalists to subvert the Constitutionalists.

Ok that made me laugh

Tcha, tcha, tcha....

A reminder: Vladimir Putin could end the war in Ukraine right now, just by ordering his soldiers to go home. No need for treaties or negotiations.

2024-YR4 is approximately the same height as the Statue of Liberty. Could leave a mark.

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

I personally will continue to use "Gulf of Mexico" because our president is a wrathful felonious nincompoop with the intellect of paramecium and I do not consent to his cartographic buffoonery

The author of this piece was an associate WH counsel under Reagan. He has a very polite way of explaining that what Trump is doing with DOGE is a coup. wapo.st/4hSE7Ox

i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

1/ The medical community is fighting back! In the Doctors for America lawsuit in DC, a judge has just ordered that at least for now, HHS, CDC, & FDA must restore public health webpages taken down. by midnight tonight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Here it is in a nutshell: 1. Trump is an authoritarian. 2. With the GOP controlling Congress, courts are key to protecting democracy. 3. So far, courts are doing a good job on #2. 4. GOP will next attack election rules like they did in 2021. Don't let the cynics convince you not to fight. FIGHT!

We are in a constitutional crisis right here and now www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

"Why isn't anyone doing anything?" Oh, many many people ARE doing A LOT. But the press isn't reporting it. So, start doing things yourself.

I am begging Democratic elected officials to stop fucking talking about the cost of guacamole. For fucks sake.

Kamala Harris was not planning an ethnic cleansing to pave the way for golf course courses… Both sides were never the same.

Damn is this country filled with fragile white men. How scared are you of people of another race? It’s laughable, but I get it, your daddy gave you 400 million and you lost it, went bankrupt six times and had to borrow your way out of failure after failure, you feel like a loser… cuz you are.

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

Elon Musk is not a Federal employee or a political appointee. DOGE is not a real department. None of their activities are legal. This is a coup. The Republicans in Congress are willing participants in it. At what point do Democrats in DC get that and start acting like it? It’s not the price of eggs!

I am not a marching guy. Having said that it’s time to peacefully and loudly fill the streets. Let them know we do not accept this. Any of it.

NEWS: 180 Republicans voted AGAINST funding the FAA, the agency that keeps planes from crashing. Trump selected eight of them to serve in his administration. Read our new research—and yes, we name names.

Did you know? In 1968, 24 Black men in Pittsburgh revolutionized emergency medicine. The Freedom House Ambulance Service was established to provide emergency medical care to underserved Black neighborhoods—creating the world’s first paramedics.

i think an important thing for people outside the US to understand is that elon musk seized control of the government today and most americans don’t even realize it happened.

Remember that many of his executive orders are in direct conflict with existing law. He can't just wave a magic wand and undo laws that Congress has passed. The shock and awe is the point. It is his wish list. He wants to see what we let him get away with. We can challenge & ignore unlawful orders.

AOC spot on , this is what leadership looks like.

Want to know what a federal funding freeze does? It takes money from families that just lost their home in a wildfire. It takes resources away from vets. It leaves 72M Americans without access to healthcare. Trump, Elon, & their billionaire buddies laugh their way to the bank while Americans suffer.

Never forget that first and foremost, Trump is a criminal enterprise that uses fake culture war outrage and bogus religiosity as a smoke screen as they raid the public coffers, run scams, and privatize/auction our infrastructure to their corporate buddies.

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It was never about "criminals" at all. It's about scooping up as many brown people as possible, meeting arrest quotas, and getting video of them being herded on to planes. Just take a step back and imagine it in black and white but a railroad car instead of a C-17.

I was a dedicated hater of the Tom Brady Patriots. I am a lifelong dedicated hater of the New York Yankees. Why? I hated how often they beat the Chiefs and Royals. It never once occurred to me to claim that those teams won because the NFL or the MLB ordered referees and umpires to fix games. 😂