@hillaryleitch.bsky.social
Reposted
Oh. The. Irony.
From @reuters.com: President Donald Trump's sweeping foreign aid freeze has stalled a United Nations program in Mexico aimed at stopping imported fentanyl chemicals from reaching the country's drug cartels, according to eight people familiar with the situation.
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
February 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Oh. The. Irony.
Reposted
The DOGE people don’t know what they’re doing and consistently get the numbers wrong. Don’t take their word without fact checking.
Source: x.com/electricfutu...
Source: x.com/electricfutu...
February 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The DOGE people don’t know what they’re doing and consistently get the numbers wrong. Don’t take their word without fact checking.
Source: x.com/electricfutu...
Source: x.com/electricfutu...
Reposted
Journalists at the national and local level should be clear-eyed about the challenges of political accountability reporting today. We should be equally clear that we won’t be dissuaded from that reporting.
February 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Journalists at the national and local level should be clear-eyed about the challenges of political accountability reporting today. We should be equally clear that we won’t be dissuaded from that reporting.
Reposted
Wednesday, an NCAA committee recommended adding flag football to its emerging women’s sports program.
It's a significant step toward it becoming an officially sponsored championship sport in all three divisions.
http://dlvr.it/THyP0m
It's a significant step toward it becoming an officially sponsored championship sport in all three divisions.
http://dlvr.it/THyP0m
February 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Wednesday, an NCAA committee recommended adding flag football to its emerging women’s sports program.
It's a significant step toward it becoming an officially sponsored championship sport in all three divisions.
http://dlvr.it/THyP0m
It's a significant step toward it becoming an officially sponsored championship sport in all three divisions.
http://dlvr.it/THyP0m
Reposted
How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million.
How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65
Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?
How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65
Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?
February 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million.
How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65
Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?
How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65
Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?
Reposted
Reposted
SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Kash Patel Took $25,000 From Russia-Linked Firm to Appear on an Anti-FBI TV Series
The documentary was produced by a filmmaker tied to Russian propaganda efforts.
www.motherjones.com
February 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Reposted
Exclusive: President Trump's nominee as Air Force Secretary, currently a top official at the national spy satellite agency, arranged a multibillion-dollar contract solicitation in a way that favored Elon Musk's SpaceX, according to seven people familiar with the contract reut.rs/4b7MUKt
Exclusive: Trump Air Force nominee arranged satellite contract in manner that favored Musk's SpaceX, sources say
President Donald Trump's nominee as Air Force Secretary, currently a top official at the national spy satellite agency, arranged a multibillion-dollar contract solicitation in a way that favored Elon Musk's SpaceX, according to seven people familiar with the contract.
reut.rs
February 7, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Exclusive: President Trump's nominee as Air Force Secretary, currently a top official at the national spy satellite agency, arranged a multibillion-dollar contract solicitation in a way that favored Elon Musk's SpaceX, according to seven people familiar with the contract reut.rs/4b7MUKt
Reposted
The House Republicans listed below are vulnerable in 2026. They will only vote to cut our benefits if they think no one is watching.
If you live in these districts, or know anyone who does, CALL NOW and tell them to keep their hands off Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid!
If you live in these districts, or know anyone who does, CALL NOW and tell them to keep their hands off Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid!
February 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The House Republicans listed below are vulnerable in 2026. They will only vote to cut our benefits if they think no one is watching.
If you live in these districts, or know anyone who does, CALL NOW and tell them to keep their hands off Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid!
If you live in these districts, or know anyone who does, CALL NOW and tell them to keep their hands off Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid!
Reposted
Reposted
(10) The Republicans gleefully cheering on Musk—several of whom were thirsting for attention in these X threads—act as if they always disliked and doubted USAID. But many had records of praising USAID. Check out all the stuff our Joe Perticone dug up yesterday about Marco Rubio ❤️ing USAID.
Musk’s USAID Shutdown: ‘This Is What the Beginning of Dictatorship Looks Like’
Plus: Don Jr. shoots the wrong ducks in Italy.
www.thebulwark.com
February 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
(10) The Republicans gleefully cheering on Musk—several of whom were thirsting for attention in these X threads—act as if they always disliked and doubted USAID. But many had records of praising USAID. Check out all the stuff our Joe Perticone dug up yesterday about Marco Rubio ❤️ing USAID.
Reposted
Casar: "I don't know why Republican members even show up to this committee or Congress when it's clear who's really in charge of the federal govt right now, and that's Elon Musk."
February 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Casar: "I don't know why Republican members even show up to this committee or Congress when it's clear who's really in charge of the federal govt right now, and that's Elon Musk."
Reposted
I'd love to speak with USAID workers and contractors about how the evacuations will impact the countries & communities they are being forced to leave behind.
get in touch w/ me at @abbyvesoulis.09 on signal, avesoulis@motherjones.org, or abbyvesoulis@proton.me.
I can keep your identity anonymous.
get in touch w/ me at @abbyvesoulis.09 on signal, avesoulis@motherjones.org, or abbyvesoulis@proton.me.
I can keep your identity anonymous.
February 4, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I'd love to speak with USAID workers and contractors about how the evacuations will impact the countries & communities they are being forced to leave behind.
get in touch w/ me at @abbyvesoulis.09 on signal, avesoulis@motherjones.org, or abbyvesoulis@proton.me.
I can keep your identity anonymous.
get in touch w/ me at @abbyvesoulis.09 on signal, avesoulis@motherjones.org, or abbyvesoulis@proton.me.
I can keep your identity anonymous.
Reposted
Sydney Kamlager-Dove: "It's total corruption... to try to take control of our govt, to have access to our social security numbers, our medical benefits, all of the information we use when we're trying to get a motherfuckin' tax return. And you're gonna take our money? Homie don't play that."
February 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Sydney Kamlager-Dove: "It's total corruption... to try to take control of our govt, to have access to our social security numbers, our medical benefits, all of the information we use when we're trying to get a motherfuckin' tax return. And you're gonna take our money? Homie don't play that."
Reposted
Crockett: What we’re not going to do is stand around while they pull this bullshit that they’re trying to pull right now
February 4, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Crockett: What we’re not going to do is stand around while they pull this bullshit that they’re trying to pull right now
Reposted
"People are waking up. Our office's phones are overwhelmed today. This rally tonight to protest Musk and Trump's seizure of our personal data was supposed to have a few hundred people and 1000+ showed up."
- Chris Murphy U.S. Senator from Connecticut. #3E #USprotests #DOGE #UStreasury
- Chris Murphy U.S. Senator from Connecticut. #3E #USprotests #DOGE #UStreasury
February 4, 2025 at 11:36 PM
"People are waking up. Our office's phones are overwhelmed today. This rally tonight to protest Musk and Trump's seizure of our personal data was supposed to have a few hundred people and 1000+ showed up."
- Chris Murphy U.S. Senator from Connecticut. #3E #USprotests #DOGE #UStreasury
- Chris Murphy U.S. Senator from Connecticut. #3E #USprotests #DOGE #UStreasury
Reposted
NEW
CBS reports that Trump almost FLOODED the Central Valley of California by instructing the Army Corps of Engineers to release billions of gallons of water from two reservoirs in California's Central Valley.
1/
CBS reports that Trump almost FLOODED the Central Valley of California by instructing the Army Corps of Engineers to release billions of gallons of water from two reservoirs in California's Central Valley.
1/
February 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
NEW
CBS reports that Trump almost FLOODED the Central Valley of California by instructing the Army Corps of Engineers to release billions of gallons of water from two reservoirs in California's Central Valley.
1/
CBS reports that Trump almost FLOODED the Central Valley of California by instructing the Army Corps of Engineers to release billions of gallons of water from two reservoirs in California's Central Valley.
1/
Reposted
16 Democratic senators recently voted to confirm the Trump-appointed Treasury Secretary who just gave Musk’s team access to a Treasury payment system that disburses trillions and holds mass quantities of personal information. Food for thought. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
February 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM
16 Democratic senators recently voted to confirm the Trump-appointed Treasury Secretary who just gave Musk’s team access to a Treasury payment system that disburses trillions and holds mass quantities of personal information. Food for thought. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Reposted
There is absolutely no effort not to look bad
Nothing to see here, folks. Just would-be dictator Trump giving $800,000 to his handpicked FBI chief who has vowed to use federal power to punish Trump's enemies.
Trump Media gifts Patel, McMahon thousands of shares
Trump Media called the gifts in the filings "consideration for services provided" in 2024.
www.politico.com
February 1, 2025 at 2:43 AM
There is absolutely no effort not to look bad
Reposted
He did so back in 2011, along with nine other councillors, over concerns it was too expensive to pump the mineral into the drinking sources of Calgary, Alberta. Since then, the 1.4 million people who live there have been without fluoridated water, and it appears to have come at a cost.
January 31, 2025 at 9:25 PM
He did so back in 2011, along with nine other councillors, over concerns it was too expensive to pump the mineral into the drinking sources of Calgary, Alberta. Since then, the 1.4 million people who live there have been without fluoridated water, and it appears to have come at a cost.
Reposted
This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
www.reuters.com
January 31, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
Reposted
What would Republicans be saying if the Democratic president appointed a reality TV host as Secretary of Transportation at the same time that we experienced the first commercial airline craft in nearly 2 decades?
January 30, 2025 at 6:12 PM
What would Republicans be saying if the Democratic president appointed a reality TV host as Secretary of Transportation at the same time that we experienced the first commercial airline craft in nearly 2 decades?
Reposted
Not the banner you want seeing over this article from … checks notes … 8 days ago
January 30, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Not the banner you want seeing over this article from … checks notes … 8 days ago