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Bravo! www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

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The Atlantic writer Anne Applebaum says President Trump's dismantling of the U.S. civil service system, and his attacks on judges and his opponents, are part of a playbook on undermining democracy. 🎧 tinyurl.com/3w32xujf

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.

This is how it’s done.

It sounds like Trump is defying the courts. Trump Administration Stalls Scientific Research Despite Court Ruling www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/s...

Let's say their names: * General CQ Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: FIRED FOR BEING BLACK * Admiral Lisa Franchetti, Chief of Naval Operations: FIRED FOR BEING FEMALE * Admiral Linda Fagan, Coast Guard Commandant: FIRED FOR BEING FEMALE All replaced by less qualified white guys.

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[Putin] said officials who took part in the talks described the U.S. delegation to him as ‘completely different people who were open to the negotiation process without any bias, without any condemnation of what was done in the past’ …” TRAITORS!!!

Trump has made a slew of rapid changes since he took office. So I ask you, ARE YOU BETTER OFF THAN YOU WERE FOUR WEEKS AGO?

All you need to know.

At some point MAGA folks will be devastated economically and will turn on Trump. It will surprise them when their Republican elected officials don’t speak up for them. At that moment they’ll realize they were played, that those elected officials were never afraid of Trump. They were 100% behind him.

NEW: The N.I.H. will cut about $4 Billion from federal research grants that support cancer, virus and heart disease research. #Project2025 called for the cuts to end subsidies to "leftist" university agendas. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

Newly confirmed OMB Director Russell Vought has strongly implied that his strategy “is to instill fear in the Supreme Court that the presidency is prepared to resort to outright defiance of its decisions.” executivefunctions.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

It's literally impossible to run the National Weather Service without talking to foreign partners. For example, the National Hurricane Center in Miami shares data with other nations in the Caribbean constantly to forecast storms. Everyone benefits. Weather doesn't stop at the borders.

“People will get sick. And, especially in cases like congenital syphilis where you cannot lose a day to treat, babies will die.” The appalling human cost of this insane exercise in gender censorship mustn’t be forgotten. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-std...

Without treatment, millions of people with H.I.V. would be at risk of severe illness and premature death. The loss of treatment also threatens the emergence of drug-resistant strains of H.I.V.; both outcomes could have a global impact, including in the United States. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/h...

What does “memorialize” mean?? Don’t believe anything the Trump Administration tells you. It’s all lies.

Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”

Why are we not hearing outcries from Federal workers who are Republicans? Why aren’t they organizing and mobilizing?

Elon Musk is attacking Lutheran Social Services and its programs. So faiths (i.e., churches) are now money laundering organizations?

The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

This is why Congressional Democrats should be breaking down the doors of whatever facility manages payments and seizing control of the federal treasury because people are going to die as a result of the budget they passed and the money they allocated not being distributed according to the law.

Nothing could please America’s enemies more than the ongoing destruction of the federal government.

It's a tragedy.