Julie Meier Weigbt
@juliemeierwright.bsky.social
Former California Secretary of Trade and Commerce, former Republican. Appreciate pragmatic policymaking, willingness to compromise, role of science and objective data. Never Trump. Vote only for character, integrity, and experience.
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Who would have believed you even a few years ago that "personal liberties and free markets" would be code for "cozying up to *Donald Trump*"?
The Washington Post and Autocracy’s Asymmetric Advantage
Liberalism is afraid to take its own side.
www.thebulwark.com
March 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Who would have believed you even a few years ago that "personal liberties and free markets" would be code for "cozying up to *Donald Trump*"?
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How dare Ukraine invade itself using poor innocent Russian soldiers
February 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
How dare Ukraine invade itself using poor innocent Russian soldiers
Good question!
For the first time this week, we had a friend ask if she could get some eggs from us. It wasn't that they were expensive, they just weren't available. She'd sent her husband to 3 different stores. If you voted for Trump to get cheaper eggs, how's that working out for you?
February 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Good question!
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A peaceful country next to Russia heard this same thing before from them.
February 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
A peaceful country next to Russia heard this same thing before from them.
Elon Musk is an exceedingly dangerous.
Elon Musk just called the current cabinet the greatest cabinet ever assembled. He then spoke to not only dead people getting paychecks but also fictional people too. And if there's one thing he knows about, it's fiction.
February 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Elon Musk is an exceedingly dangerous.
Outstanding news. The judiciary is the last bulwark.
Breaking
A federal judge will NOT pause his order giving the Trump admin a deadline of 11:59 p.m. tonight to pay all invoices for foreign development funds for contracts completed before Feb. 13.
Doc https://buff.ly/3EWALvP
A federal judge will NOT pause his order giving the Trump admin a deadline of 11:59 p.m. tonight to pay all invoices for foreign development funds for contracts completed before Feb. 13.
Doc https://buff.ly/3EWALvP
February 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Outstanding news. The judiciary is the last bulwark.
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Remarkable: Trump's own pollster just found that in swing House districts, Dems lead by 5 points and voters want tax policy to prioritize working people, per Politico.
Yet GOP is about to brutally slash the safety net and give the rich huge tax cuts!
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1918...
Yet GOP is about to brutally slash the safety net and give the rich huge tax cuts!
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1918...
Trump’s Own Pollster Just Hit Him with Very Bad News—and a Warning
A poll of swing-district voters is already showing heaps of warning signs for Republicans bent on helping billionaires. That was fast.
newrepublic.com
February 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Remarkable: Trump's own pollster just found that in swing House districts, Dems lead by 5 points and voters want tax policy to prioritize working people, per Politico.
Yet GOP is about to brutally slash the safety net and give the rich huge tax cuts!
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1918...
Yet GOP is about to brutally slash the safety net and give the rich huge tax cuts!
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1918...
It is high time that Congress complies with every single law they pass for the rest of us.
Demand your GOP congressman cut their budget and lay off some staff.
Congress spends 6.4billion/year on their own operations.
Congress spends 6.4billion/year on their own operations.
February 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
It is high time that Congress complies with every single law they pass for the rest of us.
Just appalling! Why don’t more people protest the selling out of our beloved country to Vladimir Putin?
Wait. It gets worse: "The new document states that the revenues will be directed to a fund in which the United States holds 100 percent financial interest, and that Ukraine should contribute to the fund until it reaches $500 billion....The US has allocated $119 billion for aid to Ukraine."
This is extortion of an ally: “The terms of the new proposal … call for Ukraine to relinquish half of its revenues from natural resources, including minerals, gas and oil, as well as earnings from ports and other infrastructure.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/w...
February 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Just appalling! Why don’t more people protest the selling out of our beloved country to Vladimir Putin?
Amen!!
February 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Amen!!
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Действительно, очень большие яички!!
NEW — 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga.
www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...
www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...
Prominent DOGE Staffer Is Grandson Of Turncoat KGB Spy
Edward “Big Balls” Coristine happens to be the descendant of Valery Martynov, a KGB agent who spied for the US.
www.jacobsilverman.com
February 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Действительно, очень большие яички!!
It is an outrage that these kids, many of whom have very questionable backgrounds, have access to anything in the federal government.
Completely nuts.
Big Balls’s past gets more scrutiny — including the internship where he was terminated.
“You’re willing to risk our entire network to a 17-year-old?” one frustrated executive asked the company’s CEO in 2022. “Are you for real right now?”
@cnn.com
www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...
“You’re willing to risk our entire network to a 17-year-old?” one frustrated executive asked the company’s CEO in 2022. “Are you for real right now?”
@cnn.com
www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...
February 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
It is an outrage that these kids, many of whom have very questionable backgrounds, have access to anything in the federal government.
I hope Zelenskyy will not go along.
Remember when Trumpland denied softening the 2016 GOP platform position on Russia?
"Washington reviewed the Ukrainian proposed resolution and 'demanded to make some changes to make it weaker,' including “pro-Russian” language in the document. Then Washington proposed a new resolution and demanded Kyiv withdraw its version..." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
February 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I hope Zelenskyy will not go along.
Reprehensible! These are not partisan positions.
A profile of Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Navy's top officer, who spent roughly half of her 40-year career at sea, commanding a destroyer, two carrier strike groups and the U.S. Sixth Fleet, & whom current Defense Secretary and former Fox & Friends co-host Pete Hegseth fired tonight.
Pete Hegseth Fires Adm. Lisa Franchetti, Navy’s Top Officer
Adm. Lisa Franchetti spent roughly half of her 40-year career at sea, commanding a destroyer, two carrier strike groups and the U.S. Sixth Fleet.
www.nytimes.com
February 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Reprehensible! These are not partisan positions.
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"A great purge is necessary to cleanse the government of those who sabotage progress"
- Stalin
"We don’t want generals who are too good at their jobs. We want generals who are loyal."
— Stalin
"I need the kind of generals that Hitler had." - Trump
- Stalin
"We don’t want generals who are too good at their jobs. We want generals who are loyal."
— Stalin
"I need the kind of generals that Hitler had." - Trump
February 22, 2025 at 3:06 AM
"A great purge is necessary to cleanse the government of those who sabotage progress"
- Stalin
"We don’t want generals who are too good at their jobs. We want generals who are loyal."
— Stalin
"I need the kind of generals that Hitler had." - Trump
- Stalin
"We don’t want generals who are too good at their jobs. We want generals who are loyal."
— Stalin
"I need the kind of generals that Hitler had." - Trump
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KEEP PUSHING! If they won’t do a town hall DEMAND ONE
February 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
KEEP PUSHING! If they won’t do a town hall DEMAND ONE
@gtconway.bsky.social has a very interesting idea. The only thing that Trump understands is raw power.
If any of our former NATO or Five Eyes allies have intelligence data and assessments, which surely they must, about the background of the leader of their new strategic adversary, the United States, now is as good a time as any to release them, subject to protection of methods and sources, of course.
February 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
@gtconway.bsky.social has a very interesting idea. The only thing that Trump understands is raw power.
Americans need to rise up and say that Trump and President Musk’s actions are completely unacceptable. We need to expect that elected members of Congress in the GOP will grow their spines back
No doubt last night’s purge reflects racism and misogyny.
But those wrongs are just a cover for the far more serious evils and dangers that exist here.
But those wrongs are just a cover for the far more serious evils and dangers that exist here.
"A great purge is necessary to cleanse the government of those who sabotage progress"
- Stalin
"We don’t want generals who are too good at their jobs. We want generals who are loyal."
— Stalin
"I need the kind of generals that Hitler had." - Trump
- Stalin
"We don’t want generals who are too good at their jobs. We want generals who are loyal."
— Stalin
"I need the kind of generals that Hitler had." - Trump
February 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Americans need to rise up and say that Trump and President Musk’s actions are completely unacceptable. We need to expect that elected members of Congress in the GOP will grow their spines back
Absolutely. And the countries we are throwing under the bus will have long memories.
Extortion, pure and simple.
"U.S. negotiators pressing Kyiv for access to Ukraine's critical minerals have raised the possibility of cutting the country's access to Elon Musk's vital Starlink satellite internet system, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters."
February 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Absolutely. And the countries we are throwing under the bus will have long memories.
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These people all have actual conflicts of interest that should keep them from working on any investigations like this. It's a measure of how tainted and corrupt this Justice Department is becoming and it breaks my heart. I hope it doesn't break our country. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
DoJ investigation into cases against Trump marked by vested interests
From Pam Bondi to Ed Martin, the tangle of possible conflicts of the investigators is acute
www.theguardian.com
February 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
These people all have actual conflicts of interest that should keep them from working on any investigations like this. It's a measure of how tainted and corrupt this Justice Department is becoming and it breaks my heart. I hope it doesn't break our country. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
It can’t happen fast enough for me. What they are doing is beyond dangerous, especially internationally.
Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)
February 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
It can’t happen fast enough for me. What they are doing is beyond dangerous, especially internationally.
More and more worrisome.
This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire
February 22, 2025 at 7:21 AM
More and more worrisome.
Amen.
To those GOP Senators being pressured to vote for unqualified candidates:
1. Get angry.
2. Remember that thing called "oath" that you took.
3. Speak publicly to the tactics - robocalls, threats ...
4. Join forces. Four of you can f*ck 'em up good.
5. Realize if all else fails, there's other jobs.
1. Get angry.
2. Remember that thing called "oath" that you took.
3. Speak publicly to the tactics - robocalls, threats ...
4. Join forces. Four of you can f*ck 'em up good.
5. Realize if all else fails, there's other jobs.
December 16, 2024 at 7:07 AM
Amen.
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The idea that the FBI is some tool of the Democratic Party is just ridiculous. Although many agents tend to lean conservative, the agency is non-partisan, a concept political types seem to have a hard time understanding. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/u...
Patel’s Warm Senate Welcome Reflects the G.O.P.’s Turn Against the F.B.I.
Senate Republicans have largely embraced President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick to run the bureau, demonstrating that his anti-F.B.I. stance is now party orthodoxy.
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2024 at 3:53 PM
The idea that the FBI is some tool of the Democratic Party is just ridiculous. Although many agents tend to lean conservative, the agency is non-partisan, a concept political types seem to have a hard time understanding. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/u...
I have always believed insurance companies should lead on climate change policy. They price risk in for floods like Miami (now dealing with subsidence; I wouldn’t want to live in their high-rises; remember the condo collapse?), hurricanes, floods, wildfires. Or perhaps the GOP fails economics.
Trump doesn’t believe in climate change, but your insurance company does.
Yikes, .8-3” of sinking, 2016-2023.“Globally, similar subsidence within such a large area has never been reported…this could be a sign that rising sea levels [are] accelerating the erosion of the limestone on which South Florida is built.” www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e...
December 16, 2024 at 5:34 AM
I have always believed insurance companies should lead on climate change policy. They price risk in for floods like Miami (now dealing with subsidence; I wouldn’t want to live in their high-rises; remember the condo collapse?), hurricanes, floods, wildfires. Or perhaps the GOP fails economics.