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I want the smartest people running our country, not the richest people! 🌎 Ret Librarian, Mom & Noni. Amateur beekeeper, knitter & avid reader. 60 yrs of watching sports, I still like hometown baseball best. #TwitterQuitter 🌈❤️ #Resister
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submitted 2 hours ago • 256 comments

Snyder knows what he's talking about!

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

Demand your GOP congressman cut their budget and lay off some staff. Congress spends 6.4billion/year on their own operations.

submitted 2 hours ago • 427 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 14 hours ago • 995 comments

So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

submitted 14 hours ago • 147 comments

Todays hero

submitted 19 hours ago • 30 comments

Notice: “due to LOUD PUBLIC OUTCRY” ☎️ That’s YOU calling your Congresspeople. ☎️ YOU are stopping them. Keep up the good work!

submitted 14 hours ago • 5 comments

He's still a prepubescent bully, Mush is his 'Biff' buddy.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Kash Patel’s confirmation to head the FBI is quite a contrast to what happened with Richard Nixon’s first pick, L. Patrick Gray, who Congress rejected for being to partisan & too close to the president—the same characteristics Patel possesses. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

submitted 1 day ago • 210 comments

NEW: “The first nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal police officers has been shut down by President Donald Trump, the Justice Department confirmed.” Because who cares about accountability in law enforcement, amirite? www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 118 comments

Let’s not forget about the unconstitutional attack on public schools in Texas! Crooked Greg Abbott has removed duly elected school board officials and has replaced him with his pawns! These MAGA’s have NO SHAME!

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

People need to understand this: Trump did not leave office willingly the first time. If his health holds up, he will not leave office willingly this time. He is not joking about serving more than two terms.

submitted 1 day ago • 992 comments

Mush, trump, and Republicans are trying to undermine Social Security.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Murphy: "There's no separation between the Kremlin & the White House right now. The White House is a full-time Kremlin propaganda operation..there's a real probability American troops are going to have fight abroad to protect the global world order & our allies & perhaps American sovereignty itself"

submitted 1 day ago • 1130 comments

This is how many hours per week a person needs to work in order to escape poverty. The US is dead last. #Poverty #USA

submitted 1 day ago • 317 comments

McConnell Retires: “My Work Destroying this Country is Done” open.substack.com/pub/borowitz... Satire or blunt reality ?

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Three updates: 1. The Justice Department has deleted a database tracking federal police misconduct. The database was first proposed in 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd.

submitted 1 day ago • 240 comments

The abrupt firing of ATF Chief Counsel Hicks is chilling. ATF has historically been under-resourced, and we pay the price in our safety. Now, with Hicks removed from the agency charged with overseeing the gun industry, we are all at greater risk of gun violence.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

😂 Chip Roy's handpicked witnesses answered a resounding NO when asked if the Tax Scam would pay for itself.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau exists to protect Americans from predatory lenders, junk fees, and fraud. Shutting it down does nothing more than give sketchy companies a free pass to prey on the public. We’re not going to let that happen.

submitted 2 days ago • 73 comments

Dear third-party voters, you’ve been awfully quiet. What’s up? What’s the game plan for the next 3 years and 11 months? Asking for 75,017,626 friends who did the right thing because we wanted to avoid all of this shit!!!

submitted 2 days ago • 1404 comments

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

“the United States is not a startup. The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits. (The vast majority of startups also fail, something the United States cannot afford to do.)”

submitted 2 days ago • 228 comments

Keep in mind that the probationary federal employees who are now being fired are NOT just newly hired ones. If a long-term employee is promoted to a higher-level position, such as a supervisory or managerial role, then the employee may be subject to a probationary period for that new position.

submitted 2 days ago • 171 comments

No matter who is president, everyone living in the U.S. has certain basic rights under the U.S. Constitution – regardless of immigration status. Understanding and asserting our rights is a powerful way that we can protect ourselves and our communities.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

We need a work requirement for the Missouri GOP. They plagiarize bills, scroll on their phones all day, disrespect the voters, work 90 days a year, and walk away with taxpayer-funded healthcare and a state pension.

submitted 2 days ago • 88 comments

The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs. Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)

submitted 2 days ago • 577 comments