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Clerk of Courts, LGBTQ, Midwest through & through, parks lover, devoted to democracy & belief in potential of my fellow humans to do what's right
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DOGE is the SOURCE of waste, fraud, & abuse! #FireElon

Ramadan Mubarak to all who worship!

Today's the day! #EconomicBlackout

REMINDER - ECONOMIC BOYCOTT FRIDAY

Like & Share if you stand with Ukraine. 🇺🇦

🇺🇦 Today, February 24, marks three years since Russia’s unlawful and cruel invasion #putinistoblame

If you are wondering why the country that helped America with its recent forest fires is being punished with more tariffs than China, which never helps America, Elon Musk owns an enormous car manufacturing plant in Shanghai. With Elon and Donald, it all comes down to their dollars, not your lives.

He's too busy with sycophantic photo ops to serve his constituents.

Public schools saved my life, were long one of Ohio's great strengths, and have been denied full funding for too long. Ohio will not turn our direction around until we recommit to fully funding public schools in all corners of the state. And that begins with state budgets that do so.

MAGA please explain to me how this helps anyone who isn't already an oligarch.

Of course he is. Petty little man. Just like the orange man and the man with gender enhancement surgeries.

It’s better to be hated for what you stand for than loved for following the wrong crowd. #resist

“the United States is not a startup. The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits. (The vast majority of startups also fail, something the United States cannot afford to do.)”

I called our Senators Jon Husted ((202) 224-3353) and Bernie Moreno (see photo) - the shutout of the AP from White House briefings for saying Gulf of Mexico is a clear violation of the 1st Amendment of the Constitution, the document that they swore an oath to defend and protect.

🚨🚨🚨 Musk and Trump fired 1000 VA staff, including staff working the Veterans Crisis Line. That’s confirmed. Musk and Trump are firing Veterans across federal agencies. That’s confirmed. NOW is the time to make some noise. NOW is the time to stand firm. Make every day a living hell for them.

We all have to keep doing things that bring us joy to keep up the strength to fight. For me, that meant hiking in the bright sunshine along the Summit Metro Parks Bike & Hike trail, where I stopped to watch a beautiful hawk!

This is what our Transportation Secretary was doing yesterday as planes are crashing on a near-daily basis. I cannot remember a more dangerous time to fly and yet this reality TV actor-turned-Cabinet Secretary is busy watching cars drive laps at the Daytona 500.

Happy Presidents Day! 🇺🇸

If you don't know what's up with this, the National Park Service website for the Stonewall national monument has deleted the T and Q from any mention in the website. Transwomen were at the heart of the Stonewall riots and this deliberate erasure is ignorant and pathetic.

1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

This is extraordinarily dangerous. Tomorrow, the legacy media will ask Republican officials about this. Those officials will lie and obfuscate. And the legacy media will move on. That is part of the crisis we face.

From an FDA probationary employee: the firings are coming from outside the agency without cause and with zero input from supervisors (as promised.) More firings expected between now and Tuesday. Do not open the termination email before you download your documents and performance evals.

This is a graphic from Friday's PBS NewsHour . If this disturbs you, call your Congressperson and Senators. The Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121.

An important show!

Some federal employees who accepted Trump’s buyout offer are now being notified that their buyout has been denied, and they are being terminated instead.

I love this show - smart women, telling us like it is. Keep up the good work, ladies!

Our team reviewed the entire DOGE website. Nothing they have identified constitutes evidence of fraud or corruption—both of which are crimes. Feel free to audit us. The funds were allotted by Congress, and OIGs regularly reviewed expenditures for fraud.

Trump border czar Tom Homan on Eric Adams: “If he doesn’t come through, I’ll be back in New York City. And we won’t be sitting on a couch. I’ll be in his office, up his butt, saying where the hell is the agreement we came to.” Sure sounds like a quid pro quo.

Doing great 👍

This is a marathon, not a sprint, and hope is our fuel.

I don't know if you've been seeing these but I want you to know that as you call your Senators about these dangerous Cabinet picks and BS oligarchs, Democrats are working hard for our democracy and for us!

1. Donald Trump promised that, as president, he would drastically lower Americans' energy bills. But hundreds of Alabama residents are receiving a $100 surcharge on their energy bills as a direct result of Trump's actions in the White House.

If you are an elected official or if you were a candidate who followed the process to get on the ballot but wasn't successful, feel free to share this.

A simple chart to explain why Elon Musk spent $290 million to buy the election for Trump so he could take control of the government. It's not about cutting waste. It's about killing investigations.

Elon Musk spent $290 million to buy our government to be the shadow President, and is spending $400 million buying his own trucks — $110 million profit. Are you finally starting to understand why activists fought so hard to end dark and corporate money in politics?

I won’t stop posting this.

This isn't rocket science. It's basic corruption by a billionaire with more money than any of us will ever have.

We cannot ignore how shockingly abnormal it is for a private citizen — who himself has contracts with the federal government — to dispatch a private army of executives, data experts and recent high schoolers to dictate policies to federal agencies. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/elon...

Paul Martin, the inspector general for the USAID, has been fired after resisting the administration. Just a day ago, his office released a report warning that staff reductions and spending freezes put hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars at risk of misuse and waste. This is the way.

We’re done here. Right?

White House briefing, Feb. 5: Leavitt: "The president has made it clear that they [Palestinians] need to be temporarily relocated out of Gaza." Fox interview, aired Feb. 10: Would Palestinians be allowed to return to Gaza? Trump: "No, they wouldn't."

Priorities! Culture wars clearly take precedence over passenger safety!"🙄

For anyone looking to make good trouble in Parkersburg...

I learned a lot from this article regarding Black women and men and their leadership in organizing for labor rights. #BlackHistoryMonth www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

$1.2 million is bonkers for any man, but $1.2 in debt as a Kennedy is almost unfathomable.

a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job

Does “Golden Age” refer to a time when planes keep crashing, eggs cost $10–15 a dozen, the U.S. is being booed and protested by all our allies, workers are losing their jobs, and Americans’ personal data is being rummaged through by unelected oligarchs and their strange crew of 20-something incels?