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Mary Ellen
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CA/Sonoma County
What the actual F?
The Supreme Court cleared the way for President Trump to remove the Democratic members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, allowing the administration to continue to seize control of the federal bureaucracy while litigation continues in the lower courts.
Supreme Court allows Trump to remove consumer product safety regulators
The Trump administration asked to remove three members of the commission that regulates the safety of consumer products and coordinates product safety recalls.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 23, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Is Trump's oval office plastered with Chinese-made, faux gold, polyurethane "French palace" wannabe wall coverings? We don't know for sure, but boy these items we found on Alibaba sure do look similar sherwood.news/power/shop-t...
Shop this look: Buy cheap, faux gold dupes of Oval Office decor
Some of the gold decorations in the Oval Office look... very similar to items we found for sale on a Chinese marketplace....
sherwood.news
April 15, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Does anyone remember Signalgate?
April 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Right now, there’s an important race happening that will shape the Wisconsin Supreme Court for the next 10 years. Judge Susan Crawford is ready to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of all Wisconsinites.

Make a plan to vote early today — don’t wait until April 1st: wisdems.org/vote
Find Your Voting Locations | WISDEMS Voter Protection Team
This searchable map shows you early voting and dropbox info for hundreds of villages, towns, and cities across Wisconsin. Enter the address you're registered at and your options will pop up!
wisdems.org
March 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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This is a major major major scandal and must be treated as such

Call your senators
Call your congresspeople
In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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He knows.
Trump on his cabinet members using Signal to text war plans to a reporter: "I don't know anything about it. I'm not a big fan of The Atlantic. To be it's a magazine that's going out of business. But I know nothing about it. You're saying that they had what?"
March 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Time to follow through on prosecuting leakers, agreed?
FLAG: Top Trump officials including JD Vance, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, and Tulsi Gabbard planned military strikes on Yemen's Houthis in a Signal messaging group — a group to which they accidentally added The Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Swasticar and truck recall. 😂😘 #cyberteuckrecall
March 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
@democrats.senate.gov please vote NO. A shutdown is 100% on trump and GOP. Stay strong.
March 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com: Trump is gleefully taking billions from you and everyone in the United States youtu.be/E3ZQ6ioTT6I?...
March 11, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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Rep. Eli Crane out partying tonight.
February 23, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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People will die because Trump and Musk are reckless clowns.
On the heels of multiple airplane disasters, including one less than a month ago that killed 67 people, and after years of warnings about our understaffed air traffic control system, Trump has begun firing hundreds of FAA air traffic control workers.
apnews.com/article/doge...
Trump begins firings of FAA air traffic control staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash
The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a fatal mid-air collision in Washi...
apnews.com
February 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The coup is proceeding apace
This might be the most nakedly corrupt document I’ve seen on DOJ letterhead — and I wrote a history of Watergate!
“You are directed … to dismiss the pending charges in United States v. Adams, No. 24 Cr. 556 (SDNY)…. The Justice Department has reached this conclusion without assessing the strength of the evidence or the legal theories on which the case is based”
February 11, 2025 at 4:44 AM
The coup continues
'It’s going to mean a lot more business for America,' said the US president, calling the anti-corruption law 'a disaster' in practice. www.ft.com/content/f880...
February 11, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Trump launched air controller diversity program that he now decries
January 31, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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“I’m starting to think the guy from MTV’s The Real World and Road Rules All Stars might not have a lot of expertise in transportation issues, particularly aviation safety,” one X user wrote about the former reality TV star turned transportation secretary.

https://newrepublic.com/post/190947/transp…
Transportation Secretary Says Planes Aren’t Meant to Crash Actually
Trump Transportation chief Sean Duffy just held the worst ever press conference on the D.C. plane crash.
newrepublic.com
January 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Sen. Kevin Cramer touts $16 billion in cuts to the transportation budget 12 hours after the deadliest plane crash in America in 24 years
January 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Chilly Sonoma morning. Egret immobilized, waiting for sunshine
January 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM