George Mead
@leinieman.bsky.social
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Destruction of the White House East Wing began today. Here it is in better times with better residents.
October 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Destruction of the White House East Wing began today. Here it is in better times with better residents.
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/de...
Defend Public Broadcasting!
Public broadcasting provides Americans with access to local news, educational programming, and independent journalism without corporate and political influence. Public broadcasters like PBS and NPR ar...
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May 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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There’s been zero explanation for this given but it seems exceedingly likely it’s pure retaliation for the Maine governor challenging Trump. Really sick.
www.pressherald.com/2025/03/06/s...
www.pressherald.com/2025/03/06/s...
Social Security now requires Maine parents to visit an agency office to register newborns
The change — immediately criticized by pediatric health advocates — eliminates a program that allowed parents to fill out a form at the hospital to secure a Social Security number for their children.
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March 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
There’s been zero explanation for this given but it seems exceedingly likely it’s pure retaliation for the Maine governor challenging Trump. Really sick.
www.pressherald.com/2025/03/06/s...
www.pressherald.com/2025/03/06/s...
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I promise you. PROMISE YOU, that in four years nobody among us will ever admit to supporting Trump in mixed company.
“Big Balls” good Lord America
“Big Balls” good Lord America
February 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I promise you. PROMISE YOU, that in four years nobody among us will ever admit to supporting Trump in mixed company.
“Big Balls” good Lord America
“Big Balls” good Lord America
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I can tell you that the vast majority of civil servants I’ve had the honor of working with are dedicated and hardworking.
For the richest person in the world to be given a bully pulpit in the Oval Office to impugn their integrity is beyond shameful. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/fraud
For the richest person in the world to be given a bully pulpit in the Oval Office to impugn their integrity is beyond shameful. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/fraud
Fraud and Musk
Friends,
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February 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I can tell you that the vast majority of civil servants I’ve had the honor of working with are dedicated and hardworking.
For the richest person in the world to be given a bully pulpit in the Oval Office to impugn their integrity is beyond shameful. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/fraud
For the richest person in the world to be given a bully pulpit in the Oval Office to impugn their integrity is beyond shameful. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/fraud
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In the past few weeks, the Trump administration replaced the CIOs of the OMB, OPM, and Department of Energy with Elon Musk- and Peter Thiel-aligned executives (Makena Kelly/Wired)
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February 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
In the past few weeks, the Trump administration replaced the CIOs of the OMB, OPM, and Department of Energy with Elon Musk- and Peter Thiel-aligned executives (Makena Kelly/Wired)
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@capokid.bsky.social Welcome to the club Ray!
January 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
@capokid.bsky.social Welcome to the club Ray!
These measures will destroy the federal workforce.
Trump aides prep executive orders aimed at federal workforce
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Trump aides prep executive orders aimed at federal workforce
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Trump aides prep executive orders aimed at federal workforce
Congressional Republicans are also gearing up to enact major changes for government workers, including cuts to employee benefits
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January 20, 2025 at 3:52 AM
These measures will destroy the federal workforce.
Trump aides prep executive orders aimed at federal workforce
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Trump aides prep executive orders aimed at federal workforce
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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The Linux Foundation launches an initiative to fund the development of projects in the Chromium ecosystem, with support from Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Opera (Kevin Purdy/Ars Technica)
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January 10, 2025 at 1:55 AM
The Linux Foundation launches an initiative to fund the development of projects in the Chromium ecosystem, with support from Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Opera (Kevin Purdy/Ars Technica)
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I will post this everyday for the next 4 years as a reminder that Jan 6th was a day of insurrection.
December 19, 2024 at 8:21 PM
I will post this everyday for the next 4 years as a reminder that Jan 6th was a day of insurrection.
Here's a real eye opener for you. Know your media or become its victim. www.opb.org/article/2024...
AI slop is already invading Oregon’s local journalism
The Ashland Daily Tidings — established as a newspaper in 1876 — ceased operations in 2023, but if you were a local reader, you may not have known because of an elaborate scam using artificial intelli...
www.opb.org
December 13, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Here's a real eye opener for you. Know your media or become its victim. www.opb.org/article/2024...
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Pick up a copy today.
December 9, 2024 at 3:27 PM
Pick up a copy today.
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More birthright citizenship knowledge:
The Fourteenth Amendment's Birthright Citizenship provision was intended to address--and repudiate--the Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott, which said that those descended from African slaves were not citizens, regardless of where they were born.
The Fourteenth Amendment's Birthright Citizenship provision was intended to address--and repudiate--the Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott, which said that those descended from African slaves were not citizens, regardless of where they were born.
Please arm yourself with knowledge. Birthright citizenship is not a policy choice it is a constitutional imperative (14th Amendment). It can no more be signed away by Executive Order than the First Amendment.
Now that attacking birthright citizenship has become a Day 1 project for the incoming Trump admin, I dug out this rather comprehensive piece I wrote in 2011. It includes the source of Sen. Lindsay Graham’s emergence as the pitch man on this issue. politicalresearch.org/2011/03/01/c...
December 9, 2024 at 11:18 AM
More birthright citizenship knowledge:
The Fourteenth Amendment's Birthright Citizenship provision was intended to address--and repudiate--the Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott, which said that those descended from African slaves were not citizens, regardless of where they were born.
The Fourteenth Amendment's Birthright Citizenship provision was intended to address--and repudiate--the Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott, which said that those descended from African slaves were not citizens, regardless of where they were born.
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NEWS FLASH: tax cuts for the rich and big corporations only help the rich and big corporations.
December 2, 2024 at 11:32 PM
NEWS FLASH: tax cuts for the rich and big corporations only help the rich and big corporations.
Cable television is about to go away.
November 23, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Cable television is about to go away.
November 23, 2024 at 4:07 PM
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Current mood.
November 16, 2024 at 12:18 AM
Current mood.
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“A prominent historical model for Schedule F (the plan to replace career civil servants with loyalists) is the so-called "Career Civil Service Act", with which the Nazis did exactly the same thing shortly after taking power…”
November 14, 2024 at 6:32 AM
“A prominent historical model for Schedule F (the plan to replace career civil servants with loyalists) is the so-called "Career Civil Service Act", with which the Nazis did exactly the same thing shortly after taking power…”
Hey, check it out!
November 12, 2024 at 8:03 PM
Hey, check it out!