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Spouse of retired USAF officer, settled in NH; love dachshunds, birds, cats, jigsaw puzzles and British mysteries. Ex-GOP and proudly Never Trump. (No DMs unless I knew you from Twitter.)
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This is how I would respond to the email Musk has had sent to government employees (not legal advice). 1. Refused to violate the law. 2. Refused to violate the Constitution. 3. Refused to bow or scrape. 4. Refused to bend a knee. 5. Deleted this stupid email.

There are 3 special elections coming up and those 3 seats are the keys to stopping the Congressional Republicans doing Trump & Musk’s evil bidding. We need just 1 seat to block them, 2 seats to stop them, and with all 3 we can FLIP THE HOUSE. Join us!! Monday 2/24 @7:30 EST. 👇👇 mobilize.us/s/Y9NrBb

He’s right about one thing. We do have our own problems, all courtesy of the man standing behind that podium.

The Pentagon is now pausing their mass firing of civilian employees in order to evaluate potential impacts on military readiness. I’m just spitballing here, but maybe a readiness assessment should have been the first step. 🤦‍♂️

I’m seeing a lot of cases of voters voting one way because they thought only other groups of people would be negatively affected. And then have regrets only when they realized that they’d be affected too. Maybe we could just save ourselves some time and be concerned about other people too?

Canadians are now referring to the United States as the 11th province

Just now picking up my daughter’s Claudia’s Corgi, Gracie, from her spaying procedure from Friendship Animal Hospital in northwest DC. It turns out they are doing something amazing for people victimized by the insane government purges 👉

A sovereign democracy in Europe was invaded by Putin. His forces have inflicted immeasurable destruction, pain and deaths upon Ukraine and its people. The notion that Ukraine should surrender land or pay US ANYTHING for providing help for Ukraine to defend itself is obscene.

Congressmen when they are asked if they will cut THEIR budgets and lay off staff as well:

This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.

“The ongoing measles outbreak in West Texas has doubled in size to 48 cases, mostly in children and teens, making it the state’s worst in nearly 30 years.” apnews.com/article/meas...

Oh my fucking God.

It’s cute he thinks Trump would read this. And care if he did.

This negotiation between the US and Russia, and cutting out Ukraine, is just like when Trump cut out Afghanistan and negotiated with Taliban. We see how that “good deal” turned out. Afghanistan was on Trump Every Trump deal fails

The words of the first American dictator.

It's heartening that today the leaders of the two major parties in Germany are unequivocally anti-Nazi and anti-fascist. It's horrifying that today the president and vice-president of the United States of America are not.

Convicted felon, Donald Trump, says what?

If a woman had 13 kids by four different men, used ketamine and spent all her time running a shadow presidency, I’m not sure our society would celebrate her.

Europe can’t rely on the strength of the transatlantic relationship to help contain Russia’s threat – it must lead from the front and be the true force of support that Ukraine needs. Not just for Ukraine’s sake, but for a free and sovereign Europe.

The disaster about to hit millions of Americans, many over on X and Facebook cheering their own destruction, is hard to contemplate. The entire thing will be almost impossible to comprehend but only matched by the mental gymnastics they will take to blame anyone but Musk, Trump, and themselves.

Man...he literally nuked them from orbit. Thank God some people still remember their duty.

This is just sheer brazen criminality by DOJ. Adams gets federal corruption charges dropped not because there isn’t overwhelming evidence, but because he agrees to help Homan round up migrants. And Homan says the charges will be refiled if Adams doesn’t “come through.”

The evil genius of the original Southern Strategy is that political hacks figured out they could use racial resentment to manipulate southerners into abandoning the party they supported at the Presidential level for a century largely out of spite. It’s morphed. www.nytimes.com/1970/05/17/a...

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Hey world, please wake up and accept this horrible truth: Donald Trump works for Putin. Trump is on Putin’s side. He always has been. The President of the United States is on Putin’s side. And world, please know that so many of us in the United States apologize for this horrible truth. We truly do.

The Soviet Union back in the day couldn’t have done a better job at ruining us.

They’re doing project 2025, just like we said they would

See, all it takes is a few people to say that their integrity as a public servant counts for more than the prestige of a job and a title.

NEW: Per this article, Ms. Sassoon chose to resign instead of being complicit in dropping the case against Eric Adams. Bravo to Ms. Sassoon for not bending the knee. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

There are already a lot of people who voted for Trump who regret doing so. And there will soon be many more. And my only question to them is the one important takeaway from any regret in life: did you learn anything? The folks who persuaded you he wasn’t gonna do Project 2025? Still listen to them?

REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!

Our government is being dismantled in a fast-moving coup because a bunch of ostensible adults are afraid of mean tweets from a spent 78 year old skin bag who wears Oompa Loompa makeup.

Yes! Why is the US even involved in these peace talks when Trump has made it clear we are not going to help Ukraine going forward. Giving us rare minerals for what? False promises? Why not negotiate with the rest of NATO? Give the rare minerals to the EU and exchange for security.

Is anyone’s head spinning yet?

Another clown added to the clown cabinet.

Thank goodness for the American Medical Association. Here is their YouTube page. Please share far and wide. Right now bird flu is spreading throughout our country and most people have no clue. Please stay updated and bookmark this page for your health and well-being. www.youtube.com/@americanmed...

This seems ... bad. www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

On Monday, there was undoubtedly some joy in Hell, where Warren Harding and Richard Nixon could be secure in the knowledge that they would never again be remembered as “the most corrupt president ever.” charliesykes.substack.com/p/making-ame...

Bernie Sanders: "They will use the enormous media operations they own to deflect attention away from the impact of their policies while they entertain us to death."

Dems should propose a law that immediately requires every fed agency to post on @bsky.app account, every outlay with a detailed description, $, and a link to existing gov sites with in depth details Rather than trying to keep Elon out, pre-empt him so he cant miss characterize spending.

Well… today I have my first DOGE subcommittee hearing along with a Judiciary hearing, all while DC is snowed in! If I had normal coworkers & the country wasn’t going to hell lead by DOGE Douchebags, I’d say, “nothing to see here,” but something tells me, today is going to be pure insanity…

“No American can be proud of a govt that carries out change in this way. Neither can these actions be rationalized by discussion of past grievances or appeals to efficiency. Everything can be more efficient, but adherence to the rule of law is paramount” www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

Yes! Do it Democrats!