Read2Much
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Retired Naval Officer. World traveler. Public school teacher. Concerned citizen. Not part of a cult.
NPR and PBS, defunded. CBS, ABC, Paramount Global, Disney. Meta and X have all made BIG donations to the trump presidential library (can he even read?). When MSM becomes controlled and limited by politics, democracy dies. This is how they control the electorate.
Beyond the 60 Minutes payoff & Colbert cancelation, an unprecedented capitulation: as part of merger agreement, new parent company agrees to install an official to "monitor bias" at CBS’s news division. CBS news will essentially be state controlled media.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/b...
July 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
NPR and PBS, defunded. CBS, ABC, Paramount Global, Disney. Meta and X have all made BIG donations to the trump presidential library (can he even read?). When MSM becomes controlled and limited by politics, democracy dies. This is how they control the electorate.
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Her stats line up with CDC data…
May 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Her stats line up with CDC data…
This is becoming too common. Do not let these stories get old. This is deplorable. This is NOT the U.S. that I know and love.
A woman who has been living in America since she was a child took a trip to visit her sick father in Ireland. On her return to the US she was detained by immigration officials because of drug possessions dating back almost 20 years and has now been held in an Ice facility for more than a week
Irish woman living in US for decades detained by immigration officials
Cliona Ward, who had returned from trip to Ireland, held over criminal record from almost 20 years ago
www.theguardian.com
April 29, 2025 at 12:31 AM
This is becoming too common. Do not let these stories get old. This is deplorable. This is NOT the U.S. that I know and love.
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That’s the part I love.
It is SO unusual for the Supreme Court to issue an order this late at night and honestly incredible only Thomas and Alito noted their dissents.
Also fascinating that SCOTUS rushed out the order before Alito could finish writing his dissent. That basically never happens! Again—majority seems pissed.
Also fascinating that SCOTUS rushed out the order before Alito could finish writing his dissent. That basically never happens! Again—majority seems pissed.
April 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
That’s the part I love.
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This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.
The CFPB Has Been Gutted
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency.
www.wired.com
April 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.
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Under Trump, the U.S. State Department has eliminated numerous references to human rights violations in its annual report on human rights.
According to internal State Department documents, annual reports on the status of internationally recognized human rights are now being “streamlined”…
According to internal State Department documents, annual reports on the status of internationally recognized human rights are now being “streamlined”…
April 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Under Trump, the U.S. State Department has eliminated numerous references to human rights violations in its annual report on human rights.
According to internal State Department documents, annual reports on the status of internationally recognized human rights are now being “streamlined”…
According to internal State Department documents, annual reports on the status of internationally recognized human rights are now being “streamlined”…
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The nationwide measles outbreak now stands at more than 800 cases, but you probably don’t know that since RFK Jr is keeping a tight lid on that news.
The orange areas in the below map show where the vaccination rate is under the 95% coverage target among kindergarteners. That’s a LOT of orange!
The orange areas in the below map show where the vaccination rate is under the 95% coverage target among kindergarteners. That’s a LOT of orange!
April 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The nationwide measles outbreak now stands at more than 800 cases, but you probably don’t know that since RFK Jr is keeping a tight lid on that news.
The orange areas in the below map show where the vaccination rate is under the 95% coverage target among kindergarteners. That’s a LOT of orange!
The orange areas in the below map show where the vaccination rate is under the 95% coverage target among kindergarteners. That’s a LOT of orange!
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Unfortunately, it's too late for a do over. Trump is determined to break our country beyond all recognition. FAFO😡
America, you f**ked up!
She warned us. She had a plan that would have benefited everyday Americans. But too many ignored her—because it was never really about the economy.
Now folks are scared, struggling—and we’re cooked.
She warned us. She had a plan that would have benefited everyday Americans. But too many ignored her—because it was never really about the economy.
Now folks are scared, struggling—and we’re cooked.
April 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Unfortunately, it's too late for a do over. Trump is determined to break our country beyond all recognition. FAFO😡
As a retired vet from a proud military family, I say, "Lock them (ALL) up." OPSEC, my ass. This administration fired all the professionals, and all we are left with is frat boy bravado. Total incompetence. 🤬
Military mom here: fire every one of the assholes who endangered the lives of American troops with a Signal chat.
March 28, 2025 at 10:23 AM
As a retired vet from a proud military family, I say, "Lock them (ALL) up." OPSEC, my ass. This administration fired all the professionals, and all we are left with is frat boy bravado. Total incompetence. 🤬
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It took a lot of stupid to alienate Canada but we did it
Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."
March 28, 2025 at 3:18 AM
It took a lot of stupid to alienate Canada but we did it
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Truer words were never spoken.
March 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Truer words were never spoken.
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I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
March 14, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
Fact check!
February 20, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Fact check!
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The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.
February 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.
Can someone explain why all of the "Official websites of the U.S. Government offices" have a 9 star flag icon in the top left corner?
Look at the websites for:
Health and human services
SSA
Secretary of State
Secretary of Defense
And more...
This is OMG scary!
Look at the websites for:
Health and human services
SSA
Secretary of State
Secretary of Defense
And more...
This is OMG scary!
February 4, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Can someone explain why all of the "Official websites of the U.S. Government offices" have a 9 star flag icon in the top left corner?
Look at the websites for:
Health and human services
SSA
Secretary of State
Secretary of Defense
And more...
This is OMG scary!
Look at the websites for:
Health and human services
SSA
Secretary of State
Secretary of Defense
And more...
This is OMG scary!
Another purge. It might be important to note that it only took Hitler 53 days and 40 minutes to take over Germany. (Ref: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...)
February 1, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Another purge. It might be important to note that it only took Hitler 53 days and 40 minutes to take over Germany. (Ref: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...)
Studying history is important. Here's why.
Superb article in the Atlantic yesterday about how Hitler destroyed the political system of the Weimar Republic between January and March of 1933.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days
He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.
www.theatlantic.com
January 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Studying history is important. Here's why.
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While Trump is trolling Canada about annexing it, Canadians are in Los Angeles tonight dropping water on the Palisades fire. He’s a disgrace.
January 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
While Trump is trolling Canada about annexing it, Canadians are in Los Angeles tonight dropping water on the Palisades fire. He’s a disgrace.
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BREAKING: With Raskin set to sit atop the House Judiciary Committee, AOC is in the running to be ranking member of the House Oversight Committee.
December 6, 2024 at 5:51 PM
BREAKING: With Raskin set to sit atop the House Judiciary Committee, AOC is in the running to be ranking member of the House Oversight Committee.
His mother's email, his sexual assault arrest, payoff and NDA, the content of his books, and now this. Do we need anymore reasons?
Hegseth was forced out as CEO of both Concerned Veterans for America and Vets for Freedom for being "frequently drunk, fostering a hostile work environment for female staffers and spending non-profit funds on personal expenses."
He is unfit.
He is unfit.
December 2, 2024 at 10:37 PM
His mother's email, his sexual assault arrest, payoff and NDA, the content of his books, and now this. Do we need anymore reasons?
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Donald Trump’s cabinet picks have been eclectic and often controversial but a unifying theme is emerging, experts say, with the US president-elect’s nominees offering staunch support to fossil fuels and either downplaying or denying the climate crisis caused by the burning of these fuels.
Climate denial a unifying theme of Trump’s cabinet picks, experts say
Loyalists selected for important roles have offered staunch support to fossil fuels and downplayed climate crisis
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Donald Trump’s cabinet picks have been eclectic and often controversial but a unifying theme is emerging, experts say, with the US president-elect’s nominees offering staunch support to fossil fuels and either downplaying or denying the climate crisis caused by the burning of these fuels.
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I’m saying it now with hopes that it sinks in: Donald Trump cannot take any oath of office until he is granted amnesty for breaking the last one he swore. That’s just straight up in the Constitution. 2/3 of each House. That’s the bar.
November 21, 2024 at 3:10 PM
I’m saying it now with hopes that it sinks in: Donald Trump cannot take any oath of office until he is granted amnesty for breaking the last one he swore. That’s just straight up in the Constitution. 2/3 of each House. That’s the bar.