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rhewett.bsky.social
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Extortion. Again.

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

www.threads.net/@rhewett11/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

It is both shocking and tragic that we have to have a piece like this. But it is excellent. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/o...

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

🚨🚨🚨 This is wildly infuriating. There are scores of doctors, scientists and institutions solely focused on the safety, efficacy, and protocols of medications. The suggestion that a man without degrees or experience in medicine, healthcare or science knows better than these specialists is MADNESS.

submitted 5 days ago • 154 comments

The Washpost, which is bleeding millions of dollars and shrinking its staff, accepted -- and then rejected -- a $115,000 ad that criticized Elon Musk. Anyway, here's the ad that the Post's business side didn't want its readers to see ⤵️ thehill.com/media/514849...

submitted 5 days ago • 135 comments

“Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service is seeking access to a heavily-guarded Internal Revenue Service system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country, according to two people familiar with the activities, sparking alarm within the tax agency.”

submitted 6 days ago • 82 comments

Neo-Nazi terrorist and convicted mass murderer Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011, cited this same Napoleon quote in his manifesto.

submitted 7 days ago • 495 comments

It’s tempting to compare Republican Senators to the Prussian politicians who ushered in Hitler. But it’s unfair. The Prussian politicians were more responsible. They faced a country in crisis, with hyper-inflation, rising Communist influence, breakdown in social order.

submitted 9 days ago • 48 comments

Acting AG Emil Bove tried to reassign Mayor Adams’ case to the public integrity unit at Main Justice in DC. Upon learning of this, senior DOJ officials resigned. The heroes are here.

submitted 9 days ago • 165 comments

It’s crucial in this utterly lawless and corrupt administration that we recognize the people who acted with integrity and remember, forever, those who did not.

submitted 9 days ago • 38 comments

The Trump administration is as corrupt as they come. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Exclusive: Seven witnesses tell me that CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp allegedly engaged in lewd conduct and allegedly sexually assaulted a man at a bar on Saturday night near a property he owns in north-central Virginia. My Story: bit.ly/4b1XMJO

submitted 9 days ago • 269 comments

I really wish rather than saying, "Kash Patel is bad," Dems would say, "If Kash Patel kills investigations into corruption, right wing terrorism, and Russian spying, you will be responsible."

submitted 9 days ago • 96 comments

At least six independent inspectors general fired by Trump all have one thing in common: their agencies investigated Elon Musk's corporations. Musk's crusade against the government isn't about "waste" or "efficiency." It's about shielding himself from accountability.

submitted 10 days ago • 23 comments

Always read @gregsargent.bsky.social: newrepublic.com/article/1914...

submitted 10 days ago • 31 comments

Please read all of this. It's true. Although our Foreign Service personnel are now back in our systems this chaos puts their lives at risk. #USAIDfacts www.politico.com/news/magazin...

submitted 12 days ago • 45 comments

Why do they keep insisting we were sending condoms to Hamas and funding spring break for terrorists? The truth is we were supplying health care clinics to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS. Our compassion is essential to our soft power. To destroy us, they must destroy everything good about us.

submitted 13 days ago • 193 comments

Nike ad is the best!

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

YUP. Puppy bowl is great. Elon is not.

submitted 13 days ago • 31 comments

Amidst the chaos and the law-breaking the most important thing to remember/focus on is that they are doing these things illegally because they know they don't have the votes to do it by passing laws, even in a GOP controlled Congress.

submitted 13 days ago • 64 comments

Elon Musk and Donald Trump are now ordering the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop protecting consumers from unfair fees, fraud, and scams. They have cut off funding to the agency.

submitted 13 days ago • 506 comments

This song seems appropriate right now. James Brown FTW youtu.be/ObdMpqvha_g?...

submitted 13 days ago • 457 comments

We know what’s going on here.

submitted 14 days ago • 1018 comments

WTF?

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

The White House cited eight examples of objectionable spending by USAID to justify dismantling the agency. But Leavitt’s descriptions of the awards were largely inaccurate for five of the eight examples she listed. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...

submitted 14 days ago • 30 comments

I just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze. I worked at an organization that -helped veterans who have lost a limb -Assisted elderly and disabled people -Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs

submitted 15 days ago • 941 comments

Stop the Thiel!

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Super important piece by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social for @justsecurity.org on neon alarm bells (it's so bad I'm mixing metaphors) with regard to Kash Patel's nomination. A key point here, for everyone to remember ⬇️ www.justsecurity.org/107507/senat...

submitted 16 days ago • 56 comments

www.instagram.com/reel/DFbQnGL...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

To America’s 2.3 million federal employees: Don’t accept a buyout. Neither Musk nor even Trump has the legal authority to make such an offer. And even if they did, would you trust them to follow through on it? Sincerely, Robert Reich Former U.S.Secretary of Labor

submitted 17 days ago • 156 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal employee unions, in a case brought by Democracy Forward, asked court to stop illegal "Fork Directive" on emergency basis. Follow Democracy Docket breaking news. www.democracydocket.com

submitted 17 days ago • 142 comments

It's mostly obvious. But it's worth saying explicitly and this is an example. Under the heading of "DEI" they're not simply banning some new things from the last decade but also what is simply civil rights enforcement and even (as here) the mere recognition & expression of racial & ethnic identity.

submitted 17 days ago • 49 comments

And now this! contrarian.substack.com/p/musks-stat...

submitted 17 days ago • 157 comments

It’s a coup. Musk and his gang are breaking laws. They should be arrested. This is not complicated.

submitted 17 days ago • 214 comments

This right here.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Ed Martin, acting as Acting US Attorney, signed the letter dismissing the still-active case against his client, police assailant Jose Padilla. I've been waiting for the first obvious case of enormous conflict. www.reuters.com/world/us/top...

submitted 17 days ago • 42 comments

How to force Dems to SHUT. DOWN. THE. SENATE. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

submitted 17 days ago • 34 comments

“I don’t think the United States Senate should vote for a single nominee until this is over!” - @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

submitted 18 days ago • 1784 comments

Remind me when George Soros or his son Alexander Soros shut down government agencies, hijacked the Treasury Department, and stole our social security numbers?

submitted 17 days ago • 249 comments

All the Government’s Data open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

submitted 17 days ago • 44 comments