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Retired HR Director who loves diversity, culture, travel, photography, history & books. Gigi x 2 & Boomer’s mom. Favorite color is blue, always has been and always will be 💙
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submitted 2 days ago • 57 comments

Cover of The Economist 😕🇺🇸

submitted 17 days ago • 50 comments

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submitted 37 days ago • 792 comments

Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator. In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

submitted 44 days ago • 1247 comments

Wisconsin residents are receiving text messages from a (202) D.C. area code, falsely urging them not to vote in the upcoming election. These messages are not legitimate.

submitted 46 days ago • 567 comments

Remember when we were worried about Musk’s access to the “tank” and war plans forcing? Seems like yesterday…well it almost was. And now today’s news. Hegseth factors in both. Needs to resign.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

I was genuinely disturbed by Clinton’s use of a private email server for government business, and now I feel ashamed of having cared at all. The objections were never sincere. The rules exist only to punish the enemy, whoever that happens to be

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

‼️“ONLY THE BEST” MAGA influencer Ricci Wynne was indicted by a federal grand jury on Tuesday for using minors to produce child pornography.

submitted 51 days ago • 152 comments

Republicans approve!

submitted 61 days ago • 3 comments

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. Thomas Jefferson

submitted 66 days ago • 37 comments

Don't mind him. He's not in charge of anything. He's just a general secretary.

submitted 67 days ago • 3 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 67 days ago • 1572 comments

NEW: A source tells me that response teams for FEMA set to deploy to the South Carolina wildfires are unable to travel because their government issued travel cards have had their limits reduced to $1. FEMA response team cards were supposed to be exempt.

submitted 69 days ago • 1695 comments

“start saving now” good, great

submitted 69 days ago • 6 comments

Sunday’s front pages in the UK. “We’ve got your back” Leadership.

submitted 70 days ago • 90 comments

Indeed she did.

submitted 71 days ago • 1707 comments

Tonight:

submitted 71 days ago • 317 comments

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

submitted 71 days ago • 3288 comments

🎁 Gift link share.inquirer.com/tJTs7n

submitted 71 days ago • 9 comments

Should I read Heather Cox Richardson’s letter tomorrow with a cup of coffee or a couple of bottles of vodka?

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Volodymyr Zelensky's Oval Office visit ended early when Donald Trump and JD Vance began angrily yelling at him. Here's why women like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton are too emotional to be president.

submitted 72 days ago • 147 comments

NEW: The first front pages of Saturday’s newspapers in the UK. “Ukraine Hero Ambushed” “Trump stuns world with vile rant at Zelensky” “A spectacle to horrify the world” Trump is obliterating the global reputation of the US.

submitted 72 days ago • 126 comments

NEW: Voice of America is in upheaval. Journalists are facing HR investigations for comments critical of Trump. One of VOA's highest-profile journalists was put on leave today after a Trump aide called him a traitor. And the White House bureau chief was reassigned. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/b...

submitted 72 days ago • 168 comments