Katey
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Totally scary
From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
March 16, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Totally scary
Because they don't care about the citizens of this country.
The Agriculture Department has axed two programs that gave schools and food banks money to buy food from nearby farms and ranchers. Roughly $660 million that schools and child care facilities were counting on to purchase food has been canceled.
This will hurt both kids and small, local farmers.
This will hurt both kids and small, local farmers.
USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks
States have been notified that they will not receive 2025 funding for schools to buy food from nearby farms.
www.politico.com
March 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Because they don't care about the citizens of this country.
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Federal marshals forced entry into the US African Development Foundation and escorted Musk staffers inside, after agency employees resisted their entry. Once inside, they changed the federal agency’s locks. Musk staffers were seen plugging in an external hard drive and going through everything.
March 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Federal marshals forced entry into the US African Development Foundation and escorted Musk staffers inside, after agency employees resisted their entry. Once inside, they changed the federal agency’s locks. Musk staffers were seen plugging in an external hard drive and going through everything.
I can't even keep up with the crazy/evil/corruption in this administration.
We just received word that the DOJ has begun removing data detailing criminal charges and convictions related to Trump loyalists. This started with records from the January 6th insurrection, but additional records are now being erased. We will keep you updated once we have more info.
March 2, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I can't even keep up with the crazy/evil/corruption in this administration.
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Twenty-one members of the United State DOGE Service have resigned, they said in an anonymous letter, citing DOGE's ongoing work dramatically reshaping the federal government.
21 DOGE staffers resign, saying they won't help 'dismantle' public services
Twenty-one members of the United State DOGE Service have resigned, they said in an anonymous letter, citing DOGE's ongoing work dramatically reshaping the federal government.
www.npr.org
February 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Twenty-one members of the United State DOGE Service have resigned, they said in an anonymous letter, citing DOGE's ongoing work dramatically reshaping the federal government.
A prosecutor standing up for justice. Like her oath required her to do. These are the people you WANT in government.
Denise Cheung, a veteran prosecutor and head of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in D.C., was forced to resign after resisting the Trump administration’s demand to freeze the assets of an environmental grant initiative. Thank you for your service and integrity, Denise.
February 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
A prosecutor standing up for justice. Like her oath required her to do. These are the people you WANT in government.
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Pillaging Medicaid to pay for armored Teslas.
"Armored Tesla" forecast to win $400 million State Department contract after Trump's election, government document shows
The State Department’s procurement forecast, revised as of late December 2024, lists Tesla as the recipient of the largest expected contract, with Marco Rubio’s department planning to buy $400,000,000...
www.dropsitenews.com
February 12, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Pillaging Medicaid to pay for armored Teslas.
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How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million.
How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65
Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?
How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65
Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?
February 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million.
How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65
Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?
How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65
Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?
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2025 is what happens when idiocracy and 1984 have a baby.
February 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
2025 is what happens when idiocracy and 1984 have a baby.
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They say women are so emotional but then a man goes and buys an entire social media platform so he can win another man an election because he can’t himself run for president so he can go ruin all the organizations he holds grudges against, sure bro.
February 6, 2025 at 5:33 AM
They say women are so emotional but then a man goes and buys an entire social media platform so he can win another man an election because he can’t himself run for president so he can go ruin all the organizations he holds grudges against, sure bro.
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The “Department of Government Efficiency” is neither a department, nor governmental, nor efficient.
Discuss among yourselves.
Discuss among yourselves.
February 6, 2025 at 12:14 AM
The “Department of Government Efficiency” is neither a department, nor governmental, nor efficient.
Discuss among yourselves.
Discuss among yourselves.
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Really good post from @michaelwaters.bsky.social . defector.com/the-trans-sp...
The Trans Sports Ban Portends Something Much Darker | Defector
On Jan. 14, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would ban trans girls and women from every level of sport, in every state in America. The text of the cynically titled “Protection of W...
defector.com
February 6, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Really good post from @michaelwaters.bsky.social . defector.com/the-trans-sp...
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Think firing the entire federal workforce will save America money?
Federal civilian employees account for just 4% of the federal budget. Even if someone like Musk—or any president—fired all of us, it wouldn’t make much of a dent in government spending. Don’t fall for it.
Federal civilian employees account for just 4% of the federal budget. Even if someone like Musk—or any president—fired all of us, it wouldn’t make much of a dent in government spending. Don’t fall for it.
February 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Think firing the entire federal workforce will save America money?
Federal civilian employees account for just 4% of the federal budget. Even if someone like Musk—or any president—fired all of us, it wouldn’t make much of a dent in government spending. Don’t fall for it.
Federal civilian employees account for just 4% of the federal budget. Even if someone like Musk—or any president—fired all of us, it wouldn’t make much of a dent in government spending. Don’t fall for it.
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While Trump has been distracting America with everything else, Elon Musk’s staffers are quietly taking over NOAA and the Department of Labor. They are also using AI to help rewrite a significant portion of the federal government’s computer systems.
February 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
While Trump has been distracting America with everything else, Elon Musk’s staffers are quietly taking over NOAA and the Department of Labor. They are also using AI to help rewrite a significant portion of the federal government’s computer systems.
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The Trump’s campaign promise was to finish the job they started on Jan 6 and this is what it looks like.
The guy overseeing USAID was identified two years ago as a Jan. 6 participant who entered the Capitol through a broken window.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
Marco Rubio empowers State Department official Pete Marocco to run USAID
Marocco held several national security positions during the first Trump administration, including at USAID, where he tried to consolidate power and slash funding.
www.nbcnews.com
February 4, 2025 at 12:48 AM
The Trump’s campaign promise was to finish the job they started on Jan 6 and this is what it looks like.
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Movie Idea
Guy illegally steals bank account info from every American. Sells data to Russia. A few weeks later, every American's bank account is simultaneously emptied bankrupting the whole country. Congress sits around sending letters of disapproval.
Guy illegally steals bank account info from every American. Sells data to Russia. A few weeks later, every American's bank account is simultaneously emptied bankrupting the whole country. Congress sits around sending letters of disapproval.
February 4, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Movie Idea
Guy illegally steals bank account info from every American. Sells data to Russia. A few weeks later, every American's bank account is simultaneously emptied bankrupting the whole country. Congress sits around sending letters of disapproval.
Guy illegally steals bank account info from every American. Sells data to Russia. A few weeks later, every American's bank account is simultaneously emptied bankrupting the whole country. Congress sits around sending letters of disapproval.
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unfortunately for these folks the odds are that they aren’t going to go after violent criminals at all — too hard — and going to go exclusively over the easiest targets, which are law abiding workers
"No one ever thought that this would happen. I thought that the administration was going after violent criminals, but these people are innocent, honest, hardworking people. These are human beings." www.inquirer.com/news/philade...
ICE raided his family’s North Philly car wash. Here is Jeffrey Lee’s account of what happened.
"They weren’t rude or anything, but they basically just told me 'We are here to take some illegals. If you don’t hear from us then don’t worry about it,'" said the car wash owner.
www.inquirer.com
February 2, 2025 at 8:43 PM
unfortunately for these folks the odds are that they aren’t going to go after violent criminals at all — too hard — and going to go exclusively over the easiest targets, which are law abiding workers
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The people now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management apparently don’t know how to scrub PDF metadata, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two, Noah Peters and James Sherk, have links to the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025.
January 27, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The people now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management apparently don’t know how to scrub PDF metadata, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two, Noah Peters and James Sherk, have links to the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025.