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JUST IN: Supreme Court lets Trump move forward with firing thousands of federal workers
Supreme Court lets Trump move forward with firing thousands of federal workers
The Supreme Court's stay, which allows the administration to execute the firings for now while it litigates in federal court, does not mean the terminations were lawful.
www.npr.org
April 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
JUST IN: Supreme Court lets Trump move forward with firing thousands of federal workers
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Vance is lying (again).
Social Security has repeatedly debunked this. The actual claim is that 40 percent of direct deposit fraud occurred via calls to the agency. That is wholly different, and massively less, than 40 percent of calls being fraudulent.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...
Social Security has repeatedly debunked this. The actual claim is that 40 percent of direct deposit fraud occurred via calls to the agency. That is wholly different, and massively less, than 40 percent of calls being fraudulent.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...
JD Vance straight up lies on Fox & Friends, claims 40 percent of people calling the Social Security hotline are "actually committing fraud."
April 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Vance is lying (again).
Social Security has repeatedly debunked this. The actual claim is that 40 percent of direct deposit fraud occurred via calls to the agency. That is wholly different, and massively less, than 40 percent of calls being fraudulent.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...
Social Security has repeatedly debunked this. The actual claim is that 40 percent of direct deposit fraud occurred via calls to the agency. That is wholly different, and massively less, than 40 percent of calls being fraudulent.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...
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I fucking hate to give this fucker any credit, but “I have a trade deficit with my grocery store” is as simple and straightforward as explaining why tariffs are bad gets. Dems need to run with this messaging.
Rand Paul: "The whole [tariffs] debate is so fundamentally backwards & upside down. It's based on a fallacy & the fallacy is this: that somehow in a trade, someone must lose. That somehow when you trade with someone, someone is taking advantage of you... I have a trade deficit with my grocery store"
April 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I fucking hate to give this fucker any credit, but “I have a trade deficit with my grocery store” is as simple and straightforward as explaining why tariffs are bad gets. Dems need to run with this messaging.
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If Trump can claim a "national emergency" to disappear legal residents without due process, what’s to stop him from doing the same to U.S. citizens who oppose him?
No one is safe — not even people legally in the country, possibly not even American citizens.
Fascism is here.
No one is safe — not even people legally in the country, possibly not even American citizens.
Fascism is here.
April 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
If Trump can claim a "national emergency" to disappear legal residents without due process, what’s to stop him from doing the same to U.S. citizens who oppose him?
No one is safe — not even people legally in the country, possibly not even American citizens.
Fascism is here.
No one is safe — not even people legally in the country, possibly not even American citizens.
Fascism is here.
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This is 💯 on Ebola Elon.
He caused this death.
And he lied when he said the funds were reinstated “quickly.” They were not, and all work remains stopped.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
He caused this death.
And he lied when he said the funds were reinstated “quickly.” They were not, and all work remains stopped.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Musk says DOGE ‘restored’ Ebola prevention effort. Officials say that’s not true.
USAID’s initiatives to fight Ebola and other diseases have been gutted, current and former agency officials said.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This is 💯 on Ebola Elon.
He caused this death.
And he lied when he said the funds were reinstated “quickly.” They were not, and all work remains stopped.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
He caused this death.
And he lied when he said the funds were reinstated “quickly.” They were not, and all work remains stopped.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Breaking News: President Trump signed an executive order placing stiff tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, setting the stage for a trade war. Follow live updates.
Trump Imposes Steep Tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China: Live Updates
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Breaking News: President Trump signed an executive order placing stiff tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, setting the stage for a trade war. Follow live updates.
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An unelected billionaire, with no actual Congressional authority or govt experience, has access to Treasury payment systems and sensitive information about millions of Americans who receive Social Security checks, tax refunds, and other payments.
What could go wrong? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
What could go wrong? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 12:51 AM
An unelected billionaire, with no actual Congressional authority or govt experience, has access to Treasury payment systems and sensitive information about millions of Americans who receive Social Security checks, tax refunds, and other payments.
What could go wrong? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
What could go wrong? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
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Russell Vought is the Project 2025 author that Trump wants to run OMB.
He also supports the illegal practice of impoundment — which Trump tried to use yesterday.
If Democrats want to be an actual opposition party, they'll do everything in their power to fight his nomination.
He also supports the illegal practice of impoundment — which Trump tried to use yesterday.
If Democrats want to be an actual opposition party, they'll do everything in their power to fight his nomination.
January 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Russell Vought is the Project 2025 author that Trump wants to run OMB.
He also supports the illegal practice of impoundment — which Trump tried to use yesterday.
If Democrats want to be an actual opposition party, they'll do everything in their power to fight his nomination.
He also supports the illegal practice of impoundment — which Trump tried to use yesterday.
If Democrats want to be an actual opposition party, they'll do everything in their power to fight his nomination.
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Trump fired the NLRB's pro-worker general counsel and its acting chair.
He's effectively gutted the agency tasked with defending the rights of workers to organize.
Guess who has recently filed lawsuits aimed at invalidating the agency altogether?
Amazon and SpaceX.
He's effectively gutted the agency tasked with defending the rights of workers to organize.
Guess who has recently filed lawsuits aimed at invalidating the agency altogether?
Amazon and SpaceX.
Trump fires US labor board member, hobbling agency amid legal battles
President Donald Trump has removed a Democratic member of the U.S. National Labor Relations Board from office, an unprecedented move that will escalate an ongoing legal battle over the scope of the president's powers to control federal agencies.
www.reuters.com
January 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Trump fired the NLRB's pro-worker general counsel and its acting chair.
He's effectively gutted the agency tasked with defending the rights of workers to organize.
Guess who has recently filed lawsuits aimed at invalidating the agency altogether?
Amazon and SpaceX.
He's effectively gutted the agency tasked with defending the rights of workers to organize.
Guess who has recently filed lawsuits aimed at invalidating the agency altogether?
Amazon and SpaceX.
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If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.
January 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Please don’t even talk to me in the morning until I’ve had my coffee, 27 hours of alone time, several months by the seaside to ease my agonies, and many decades to wander the earth until the fabled blade of my ancestors can finally be reforged
January 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Please don’t even talk to me in the morning until I’ve had my coffee, 27 hours of alone time, several months by the seaside to ease my agonies, and many decades to wander the earth until the fabled blade of my ancestors can finally be reforged
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Nothing pisses-off MAGA Christians like the teachings of Jesus.
January 21, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Nothing pisses-off MAGA Christians like the teachings of Jesus.
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I posted something at Facebook, about today: m.facebook.com/AnneLamott/
maybe someone can convert it to some non-Facebookian format that I can tweet here.
maybe someone can convert it to some non-Facebookian format that I can tweet here.
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January 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I posted something at Facebook, about today: m.facebook.com/AnneLamott/
maybe someone can convert it to some non-Facebookian format that I can tweet here.
maybe someone can convert it to some non-Facebookian format that I can tweet here.
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To hell with Donald Trump: a r*pist, felon, traitor, and fraud who has never had a noble or decent impulse in his life.
I do not obey in advance,
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/i-do-not-o...
I do not obey in advance,
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/i-do-not-o...
I Do Not Obey in Advance
I do not obey in advance.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
January 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
To hell with Donald Trump: a r*pist, felon, traitor, and fraud who has never had a noble or decent impulse in his life.
I do not obey in advance,
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/i-do-not-o...
I do not obey in advance,
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/i-do-not-o...
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Today, honor a King, not a Felon. #mlkday2025
January 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Today, honor a King, not a Felon. #mlkday2025
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He didn’t put his hand on the Bible when swearing in. Probably because that would set it on fire.
January 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
He didn’t put his hand on the Bible when swearing in. Probably because that would set it on fire.
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To everybody who said our Nazi comparisons were hyperbolic:
January 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
To everybody who said our Nazi comparisons were hyperbolic:
This is not OK. Resist!
Trump will sign an executive order on Monday that says it's the policy of the United States to recognize two biologically distinct sexes, one of many executive actions the incoming administration plan to take, an incoming White House official told reporters on a preview conference call.
Trump will sign orders today defining sex and ending DEI programs, official says
www.npr.org
January 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This is not OK. Resist!
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“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ But conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right.”
Dr MLK Jr
Dr MLK Jr
January 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ But conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right.”
Dr MLK Jr
Dr MLK Jr
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Memes. The way I kept some semblance of sanity over in the book of faces was to post things that make me giggle. I'm continuing that here at my new virtual home.
Todays meme is just for Monday.
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Todays meme is just for Monday.
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January 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Memes. The way I kept some semblance of sanity over in the book of faces was to post things that make me giggle. I'm continuing that here at my new virtual home.
Todays meme is just for Monday.
☕️
Todays meme is just for Monday.
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Today's choral beauty.
January 19, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Today's choral beauty.
