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"Attorneys, he said, 'don’t resign because you disagree with the policies, but because you are being asked to do something you believe is ethically, morally or legally improper'...”

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Mass resignation marks a new kind of defiance in the second Trump era
The Trump team has rarely if ever faced such resistance from within the government, a move that may pave the way for further defiance.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 17, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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They have already blown past their own authority. The courts must enjoin them now.
February 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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AP Breaking News banner over a March 19, 2024 AP story.
February 5, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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@chrislhayes.bsky.social: Trump "appeared to announce a completely unprecedented American policy towards Gaza and the people that live there that on its face would violate international law and be seen by millions around the world as the U.S. backing explicit ethnic cleansing.”
February 5, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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“It's never happened before, and just the cost will be astronomical” to move 1500+ people.

A USAID career foreign service officer and union rep for agency employees spoke with me for @scrippsnews about what evacuating employees abroad would entail. www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/logi...
'Logistical nightmare': Future uncertain for USAID employees abroad as Trump, Musk eye cuts
In what has been a tumultuous few days for the U.S. Agency for International Development, employees working abroad are now worried they may soon be evacuated out of countries they're stationed.
www.scrippsnews.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:25 AM
January 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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It appears that Trump is fixated on punishing the agencies and individuals (Dr Fauci) he blames for his own failures during the the COVID pandemic -- failures that cost him re-election. Now he's lashing out by essentially canceling all federally backed research. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
What the Hell Is Going on at NIH?
Scientists sound the alarm about Trump’s unprecedented “Big Brother” research crackdown.
www.motherjones.com
January 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
January 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
@cmkorsgaard.bsky.social
- I was thinking of you this week as we discussed deontological ethics and teleological ethics in a class I'm in. Didn't get far before Kant was mentioned, re: Kingdom of Ends, &etc.
Happy New Year, Cuz.
January 15, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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There is no winning here.
Meghan And Harry Hit With Bizarre Backlash For Volunteering To Help Victims Of L.A. Wildfires
Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
www.comicsands.com
January 15, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Simpering sycophants, the whole lot.
January 13, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Took forever, but this finally came yesterday.
As scarcity looms, by clinging to privilege, we allow the narrative of scarcity to harm not only ourselves, but those we are called to serve.
Brueggemann calls us back to the witness of the abundance of God's grace.
November 24, 2024 at 3:15 PM
"I just want to live according to God's will and to go home when He calls me..."
~Denzel Washington

Me too, Denzel, me too...
November 24, 2024 at 3:00 PM
Matt Gaetz can best be described as a clumsily thrown-together Neanderthal stone club.
Pam Bondi, on the other hand, is a sharp, Italian Stiletto.
~KDJ
November 23, 2024 at 5:40 PM