Joan V
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The presidency doesn't change who you are. It reveals who you are~Michelle Obama #3boysmom #louisianagirl #doglover #knitter #politicallyhopeful #🟦
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CARTOON OF THE DAY
March 23, 2025 at 11:19 PM
CARTOON OF THE DAY
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Ask yourself:
Why would anyone who wasn’t an asset of the Russian government do this?
Why would any decent human being do this?
Why would anyone who wasn’t an asset of the Russian government do this?
Why would any decent human being do this?
March 19, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Trump’s abrupt firing of both Democrats on the FTC ends a 90-year tradition of independence at the agency, sending a message of “complete control” by the White House. Our story: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Two Democratic commissioners fired from FTC
Rebecca Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya, the two Democrats of the Federal Trade Commission, were fired from their positions on the agency, which is supposed to be independent.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 19, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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I have no doubt that a result of Trump’s illegal firings today will be higher prices for American consumers because the FTC cop is now off the beat.
Trump’s descent into dictatorship continues unabated. robertreich.substack.com/p/more-of-tr...
Trump’s descent into dictatorship continues unabated. robertreich.substack.com/p/more-of-tr...
More of Trump’s descent into dictatorship
Two illegal firings that will increase prices for consumers and concentrate more power in Trump’s hands — unless the courts stop him.
robertreich.substack.com
March 19, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I have no doubt that a result of Trump’s illegal firings today will be higher prices for American consumers because the FTC cop is now off the beat.
Trump’s descent into dictatorship continues unabated. robertreich.substack.com/p/more-of-tr...
Trump’s descent into dictatorship continues unabated. robertreich.substack.com/p/more-of-tr...
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It’s probably worth noting Facebook CEO Zuckerberg has been sitting for depositions over the last week in a lawsuit he’s named for settling with FTC for $5B to allegedly protect him personally. Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen were also deposed. All three have Trump 2.0’s ear.
March 19, 2025 at 3:02 AM
It’s probably worth noting Facebook CEO Zuckerberg has been sitting for depositions over the last week in a lawsuit he’s named for settling with FTC for $5B to allegedly protect him personally. Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen were also deposed. All three have Trump 2.0’s ear.
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It. Is. Bezos. Shitting. On. The. Front. page. Of. His. Once. Great. Paper.
March 17, 2025 at 12:26 PM
It. Is. Bezos. Shitting. On. The. Front. page. Of. His. Once. Great. Paper.
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Kash Patel’s FBI is flipping the script—ignoring neo-Nazis to target left-wing protesters.
1,500 agents relocated. Antifa and BLM in the crosshairs. The far right? Getting a pass.
This isn’t law enforcement. It’s political warfare.
1,500 agents relocated. Antifa and BLM in the crosshairs. The far right? Getting a pass.
This isn’t law enforcement. It’s political warfare.
March 13, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Kash Patel’s FBI is flipping the script—ignoring neo-Nazis to target left-wing protesters.
1,500 agents relocated. Antifa and BLM in the crosshairs. The far right? Getting a pass.
This isn’t law enforcement. It’s political warfare.
1,500 agents relocated. Antifa and BLM in the crosshairs. The far right? Getting a pass.
This isn’t law enforcement. It’s political warfare.
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A top Democratic congressman goes off during a DOGE hearing and calls out Elon for trying to cut Social Security.
More of this please.
More of this please.
March 12, 2025 at 7:26 PM
A top Democratic congressman goes off during a DOGE hearing and calls out Elon for trying to cut Social Security.
More of this please.
More of this please.
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Everyone should be screaming like this! More of this, now please!
March 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Everyone should be screaming like this! More of this, now please!
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Make no mistake: Trump is taking a chainsaw to our Constitution, with the help of his MAGA allies! 📣
March 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Make no mistake: Trump is taking a chainsaw to our Constitution, with the help of his MAGA allies! 📣
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Rep. John Larson is absolutely right — Elon Musk and DOGE are NOT ABOVE THE LAW.
HANDS OFF OUR SOCIAL SECURITY!
Rep. John Larson is absolutely right — Elon Musk and DOGE are NOT ABOVE THE LAW.
HANDS OFF OUR SOCIAL SECURITY!
A top Democratic congressman goes off during a DOGE hearing and calls out Elon for trying to cut Social Security.
More of this please.
More of this please.
March 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Rep. John Larson is absolutely right — Elon Musk and DOGE are NOT ABOVE THE LAW.
HANDS OFF OUR SOCIAL SECURITY!
Rep. John Larson is absolutely right — Elon Musk and DOGE are NOT ABOVE THE LAW.
HANDS OFF OUR SOCIAL SECURITY!
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Ranking member of the Social Security Sub-Committee under Ways & Means in Congress, Rep. John Larson, is one of OUR heroes of the program. I have fought alongside him for YEARS.
Rep. Larson KNOWS: SOCIAL SECURITY IS OUR MONEY & the SUPER wealthy contribute NOTHING!
larson.house.gov/media-center...
Rep. Larson KNOWS: SOCIAL SECURITY IS OUR MONEY & the SUPER wealthy contribute NOTHING!
larson.house.gov/media-center...
Many Rich Americans Have Already Paid Their 2025 Social Security Taxes
Shortly After Midnight On New Year’s Eve, 229 Americans Have Already Paid Their Social Security TaxEarnings over $176,100 per year, which is the cap on earnings taxed by Social Security, escape tax. A...
larson.house.gov
March 9, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Ranking member of the Social Security Sub-Committee under Ways & Means in Congress, Rep. John Larson, is one of OUR heroes of the program. I have fought alongside him for YEARS.
Rep. Larson KNOWS: SOCIAL SECURITY IS OUR MONEY & the SUPER wealthy contribute NOTHING!
larson.house.gov/media-center...
Rep. Larson KNOWS: SOCIAL SECURITY IS OUR MONEY & the SUPER wealthy contribute NOTHING!
larson.house.gov/media-center...
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Rep. John Larson lights up Elon Musk! who can’t be bothered to appear and explain all the fraud and abuse he’s found! 🔥
March 12, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Rep. John Larson lights up Elon Musk! who can’t be bothered to appear and explain all the fraud and abuse he’s found! 🔥
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Rep. Larson rips into Elon Musk over wanting to privatize Social Security.
March 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Rep. Larson rips into Elon Musk over wanting to privatize Social Security.
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🔥 WATCH: “WHERE’S ELON MUSK?? If he found so much waste and fraud, why isn’t he here explaining it? You know why… because he’s out to privatize social security.”
Rep Larson lights up the DOGE con in committee.
Rep Larson lights up the DOGE con in committee.
March 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
🔥 WATCH: “WHERE’S ELON MUSK?? If he found so much waste and fraud, why isn’t he here explaining it? You know why… because he’s out to privatize social security.”
Rep Larson lights up the DOGE con in committee.
Rep Larson lights up the DOGE con in committee.
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Rep John Larson - Connecticut:
March 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Rep John Larson - Connecticut:
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This is the state of the media today:
If you state the simple, obvious truth—that the president of the United States is mentally unstable and engages in mentally unstable behavior injurious to the nation and the world—you have to fear for your job.
Pathetic.
If you state the simple, obvious truth—that the president of the United States is mentally unstable and engages in mentally unstable behavior injurious to the nation and the world—you have to fear for your job.
Pathetic.
A top economics reporter goes off script on national TV: “I am going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane.”
March 12, 2025 at 12:46 PM
This is the state of the media today:
If you state the simple, obvious truth—that the president of the United States is mentally unstable and engages in mentally unstable behavior injurious to the nation and the world—you have to fear for your job.
Pathetic.
If you state the simple, obvious truth—that the president of the United States is mentally unstable and engages in mentally unstable behavior injurious to the nation and the world—you have to fear for your job.
Pathetic.
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“Conway opines as to why Biglaw firms aren’t collectively working together to fight what Trump is doing and protect the legal system as we know it, and he chalks a lot of it up to cowardice.”
Trump Is Coming After Biglaw, Too Bad They're 'A Bunch Of Pussies' Just Like Republican Senators - Above the Law
George Conway gets real about Biglaw's reaction to the Trump II reign.
abovethelaw.com
March 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
“Conway opines as to why Biglaw firms aren’t collectively working together to fight what Trump is doing and protect the legal system as we know it, and he chalks a lot of it up to cowardice.”
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No one should be critical of Sullivan & Cromwell for helping Elon.
Remember, it’s essential for the rule of law in America that chainsaw-waving, ketamine-utilizing, Roman-saluting billionaires be entitled to deal counsel of their choice, no matter what harm they inflict on their adopted country.
Remember, it’s essential for the rule of law in America that chainsaw-waving, ketamine-utilizing, Roman-saluting billionaires be entitled to deal counsel of their choice, no matter what harm they inflict on their adopted country.
“Sullivan & Cromwell’s work on the deal further cements the firm’s relationship with Musk, who has been working closely with President Donald Trump …. Trump also turned to the Manhattan law firm to appeal his criminal conviction for hiding a $130,000 payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels.”
Sullivan & Cromwell Aided Musk's X in $4.74 Billion Loan Deal
Sullivan & Cromwell helped Morgan Stanley and six other banks unload $4.74 billion of X Holdings Corp. debt tied to Elon Musk’s 2022 purchase of the social media platform then known as Twitter.
news.bloomberglaw.com
March 12, 2025 at 11:07 AM
No one should be critical of Sullivan & Cromwell for helping Elon.
Remember, it’s essential for the rule of law in America that chainsaw-waving, ketamine-utilizing, Roman-saluting billionaires be entitled to deal counsel of their choice, no matter what harm they inflict on their adopted country.
Remember, it’s essential for the rule of law in America that chainsaw-waving, ketamine-utilizing, Roman-saluting billionaires be entitled to deal counsel of their choice, no matter what harm they inflict on their adopted country.
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I cannot overstate how much I love the fact that Williams & Connolly put *14* individual lawyers’ names in the signature block of their complaint.
W&C is sending a clear message: We are not afraid.
BRAVO.
W&C is sending a clear message: We are not afraid.
BRAVO.
Perkins Coie, which helped defeat Trump's attempts to subvert the 2020 election, fights Trump's order targeting the firm as a violation of the 1st, 5th and 6th Amendments and the separation of powers.
"Perkins Coie cannot allow its clients to be bullied." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"Perkins Coie cannot allow its clients to be bullied." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
March 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I cannot overstate how much I love the fact that Williams & Connolly put *14* individual lawyers’ names in the signature block of their complaint.
W&C is sending a clear message: We are not afraid.
BRAVO.
W&C is sending a clear message: We are not afraid.
BRAVO.
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“Bezos said, … ‘You’ve probably grown in the last eight years. He has, too.’ Trump, he continued, ‘is calmer than he was the first time and more confident, more settled.’ This wasn’t the triumph of hope over experience; it was the elevation of willful self-delusion over all available evidence.”
“Here is the unavoidable truth: the Washington Post I joined, the one I came to love, is not the Washington Post I left.” @ruthmarcus.bsky.social writes about her decision to resign from the paper in the wake of editorial changes made by its owner, Jeff Bezos.
Why I Left the Washington Post
Owner Jeff Bezos wants to transform the Opinions section of the paper, where I worked for forty years. After the publisher killed my column disagreeing with that move—it appears here in full—I decided...
www.newyorker.com
March 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
“Bezos said, … ‘You’ve probably grown in the last eight years. He has, too.’ Trump, he continued, ‘is calmer than he was the first time and more confident, more settled.’ This wasn’t the triumph of hope over experience; it was the elevation of willful self-delusion over all available evidence.”
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wow
Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.
February 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
wow
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Trump’s new counterterrorism chief defended Jan. 6 rioters as “political prisoners.” Joe Kent paid a Proud Boy for consulting, spoke at a J6 rally, and now oversees U.S. intelligence on terrorism. Will he go after white nationalist threats—or protect them? Keep an eye on this.
February 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Trump’s new counterterrorism chief defended Jan. 6 rioters as “political prisoners.” Joe Kent paid a Proud Boy for consulting, spoke at a J6 rally, and now oversees U.S. intelligence on terrorism. Will he go after white nationalist threats—or protect them? Keep an eye on this.