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Retired teacher, optimist, lover of good books, beautiful music, gardens, and grandchildren. I’m still not going back. No matter what.
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Maybe "first Indian-American FBI director" is too DEI, so we'll be happy to go with "first FBI director who produced a song with cop-beaters and then apparently lied about it to Congress" www.thebulwark.com/p/what-trump...

As a result, she said, just three full-time employees remain in both the Yellowstone and Bozeman ranger districts to manage 19 rental cabins, 60 bathrooms, 21 campgrounds and other infrastructure spread across 1 million acres. www.bozemandailychronicle.com/townnews/wor...

We need to read these stories. We need to know more about the people willing to risk everything to come to America.

This is why so many Jews are skeptical of the national GOP claim of support — it rings hollow & opportunistic. Vance visits a Nazi concentration camp, lays a wreath at a statue stating “Never Again,” calls it an “unspeakable evil,” & then promptly meets with & promotes a German Nazi-aligned party.

For some reason, I keep thinking about how the Emperor Tiberius (the emperor who crucified Jesus) renamed the Sea of Galilee "Lake Tiberias" after himself as part of his brutal repression of the Jews. Renaming things is a powerful form of colonization and oppression of subject populations.

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

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.

Elon Musk to reporter: “We post our actions to the DOGE website. All of our actions are maximally transparent. I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the DOGE organization.” Here’s the doge.gov website IN ITS ENTIRETY. It’s literally a blank page!

I'm not sure that the mainstream media understands that the test run for much of what is happening right now was the Fundamentalist takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention in the 1980s. It has been the playbook for nearly 40 years.

Nearly $7 million has been “apportioned” over the past week to cover DOGE-related expenses.

The Chiefs can still be named Super Bowl champions if Mike Pence has the courage.

Note to President Musk: Woe to you who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Woe to you who are wise in your own eyes, and shrewd in your own sight! - Isaiah 5:20-21

SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

let me put this plainly: if NCMEC is shut down, then Donald Trump has effectively legalized child pornography

AG Pam Bondi ordered a halt to a years-old federal law enforcement effort to combat secret influence campaigns by China, Russia and other adversaries that try to curry favor and sow chaos in American politics.

5calls.org/issue/restor... CDC guidelines for contraception options for women with health issues like diabetes and high blood pressure have been removed. Make the call.

Make the call. 5calls.org/issue/educat...

If only there was some way these poor educators could have known that this is what Trump would do. Like if he said it or something…oh wait…

Leopards eating faces... in all other circumstances this would be funny and satisfying, but unfortunately we all will suffer.

5calls.org/issue/elon-m... CALL TODAY.

I hate it when I have to do the finding out because someone else wanted to f*ck around.

We are deep into finding out.

A foreign-born private citizen with unfathomable wealth & deep financial ties to our nation’s adversaries has seized control of our government and is currently canceling congressionally apportioned spending without a shred of authority. And no one seems to be able to stop him. So this is fine.

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I just subscribed to 5 Calls Newsletter! buttondown.com/5calls

REPORTER: Is there an acting FAA director? DUFFY: *walks away* (The FAA director resigned on the day of Trump's inauguration under pressure from Elon Musk)

Big Shoutout to the podcast Sons of Patriarchy. An excellent in-depth investigation into the Christian Nationalist efforts to take over Moscow, Idaho.

If you live in Colorado Springs, call Congressman Jeff Crank to lodge your concerns about Trump’s illegal executive actions. 202-225-4422.

Basic civics. Congress appropriates money. The Executive makes sure it’s spent according to Congress’s directives. The President cannot legally withhold funds to suit his personal agenda.

Republicans are anti-police.

Teach a man to fish and he’ll eventually claim he just always had that knowledge innately and then try to explain to you how fishing works

Muslims don’t recognize Jews as God's chosen people, Jews don’t recognize Jesus as the Messiah, Protestants don’t recognize the Pope as the leader of the Christian world, and Evangelicals don’t recognize each other at Hooters.