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Retired Law Enforcement, Former US Army 4th Inf Div, Enjoy playing Rhythm Guitar Blues, Christian Rock and Classic Rock, Married. #NeverTrump
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The services and support that our government provides —  and that you spent decades helping administer — are critical to innumerable people. In our new Dear Civil Servant column, we offer new resources plus a chronicling of the impact of your work.

Fanone: “F*cking traitors” are now running the show

New edition of The Entrenchment Agenda - Grant Tudor and @amandacarpenter.bsky.social detail the large role paramilitary forces have historically played in the entrenchment of authoritarians & the dangerous consequences of their alliances with these leaders.

Attention Canadian Friends!🇨🇦🍁

Migrants deported from the US were locked in a hotel and held at a remote camp in Panama, lawyers say: cnn.it/3X7LGbZ

NEW: Our Dear Civil Servant team has another edition for you. We memorialize the impact your critical work has on real people, right now, across all 50 states, PR and DC. We hope the country is beginning to better appreciate what your service means.

Leaders of the Social Security Administration had just opened an investigation into a career employee they believed was improperly sharing information with DOGE when Trump elevated the employee this week to acting commissioner www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Arctic fox.. 😊

I have decided to call @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social EVERY DAY to tell him to fight harder. The days of being cautious and timid have led us to fascism. I will remind him he works for us and that he needs to ramp it up. I called and left a message today. Please join me. His number: 202-225-5936

"In the face of the Trump II purge of the federal workforce, Protect Democracy has created a resource for federal workers on what to do, what rights they have, and what sources of support exist outside of government."

There is zero ambiguity here. It’s nauseating.

Trump Has Already Spent $10.7 Million Of Taxpayer Money Playing Golf. Somehow, the expense has flown under the radar of the waste, fraud and abuse experts at DOGE.🫤 shorturl.at/bK6Vy

What the hell? Eight percent defense cut per year, for five years? Say goodbye to military readiness. Say goodbye to modernization. This cannot stand: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

“Many will follow their depraved conduct and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories.” 2 Peter 2:2-3, NIV #presidentsday

"You wouldn’t think it possible that a Federalist Society member and former clerk for the archconservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia would show more grit in the face of Trumpism than the entire leadership of the national Democratic Party, but here we are" www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

We all do little man. We all do. Now wipe that booger on him.

To the contrary Podcast with Conservative Host @sykescharlie.bsky.social Great first episode with @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social THESE are the voices #Democrats need to list to. They understand #Republicans and #Conservatism because they’ve been so their whole life. They just said #tothecontrary

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is carrying up to $1.2 million in credit card debt, according to recent financial disclosures. www.cnbc.com/2025/02/07/w...

MAGA morality: Put thousands of federal employees on leave, cut aid that sustains countless lives, demonize your opponents, and then enjoy the suffering of your enemies. But then - when one DOGE worker is fired for vicious racism -say, "Where's the grace and mercy in this country?"

And there it is — next shoe dropping. Steal the bank, control the military and then silence the media

Currently the 2 most fraudulant and corrupt things in the US Federal Government are trump and musk!

It's hard for me to grasp the sheer cruelty of wrapped up in the story below. I fully support taking a close look at grant programs to make sure we're not wasting money, but this is what blanket freezes do. It's thoughtless. It's senseless. It's malicious. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.

Dear Democratic Leaders: here’s a free idea, send members of congress into the buildings where Elons people are and see what they’re doing. Dare them to stop you. Do something

What he said!

Kash Patel has suggested that the FBI "planned" January 6, has portrayed violent rioters as victims of the justice system, and has openly questioned whether the pipe bomb outside the DNC was a "government ruse." One word for it all: disqualifying.