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Vivian M. Lumbard
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Retired air traffic controller, award-winning author, former NATCAvist, mom to college-aged autistic twins, genealogist, myriad interests and falls down rabbit holes frequently. Blog: martinlady.wordpress.com Genealogy website: lumbardgenealogy.com
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Not related to sex-trafficking, but this one caught my eye.
From: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com] Sent: 2/26/2018 5:01:50 AM To: Steve Bannon Subject: Re: fun. have you come across lisa monaco yet. obama counter terroism girl. ? our cripto coin issues are us based. tax predominately. , regualtion, disclosure etc. world wide, a whole different bag. . debit cards. usb , some bad shit . very bad. On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 11:49 PM, Steve Bannon < wrote: NSA has em On Feb 25, 2018, at 11:49 PM, jeffrey E. wrote: Did you ask him for Hillary's emails;) On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 11:47 PM jeffrey E. wrote: Remember if you bought bitcoin at 1000 dollars and after it went to 10000. You then buy furniture at overstock. You have a 9000 GAIN to pay tax on in real dollars. At some point treasury should put forth a voluntary disclosure program and fuck all the bad guys . Don't disclose . Tax evasion On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 11:42 PM jeffrey E. wrote: Understood but there is an office of terroism finance at treasury that has thought about tax On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 11:39 PM Steve Bannon < Treasury not driving nsc is Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T wrote: From: "jeffrey E." Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 04:33:00 +0000 To: Steve Bannon< Subject: Will treasury respond to you re crypto or do we need another way in for advice please note The information contained in this communication is confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may constitute inside information, and is intended only for the use of the addressee. It is the property of JEE Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and destroy this communication and all copies thereof, including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved HOUSE OVERSIGHT 030781
November 13, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Parchment on snowy background Text reads: Dear Weather Gods, For future reference, several days of transition from T-shirt wearing, “Nah, no need for a sweatshirt” to “I found my winter jacket, but where the hell are my earmuffs?” would be appreciated. Sincerely, Carbon-based lifeforms on Earth
November 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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white background with American flag along the right side of the graphic Text reads: November 11th Veteran's Day Thank you for upholding and defending our Constitution, our flag and our honor
November 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Home, Auto & Life Insurance Relief MetLife: For those not receiving a paycheck from the federal government because of the current shutdown, MetLife Auto & Home may grant a one-time, 30-day grace period on your payment of premium on a MetLife Auto & Home policy. Members must request this one-time allowance by calling 1-800-GET-MET8. Certain restrictions apply, and premium remains due after delay expires. Fidelity & Guaranty Life Insurance Company: To help the nearly 27,000 AFGE members who currently have a policy with the company during this government shutdown, the company “will keep the policy-in-force by waving the cost of insurance charges for the next 30 days.”. Policies beginning with the letter "Y" call: 844-800-9146, all other policies call: 888-513-8797 Other Notable Mentions for Relief & Assistance. Rent-A-Center (Benefits Plus Membership): If your account was up to date at the time of furlough and you are a part of benefits plus you may be eligible for a payment waiver based on your state: “Involuntary Unemployment Payment Waiver: Losing a job is hard and making payments while unemployed is even harder. Fortunately, your Membership waives your payments when you are involuntarily unemployed. Whether you were fired, laid off, suspended, or are out of work due to a labor dispute or strike, your payments are covered for up to four (4) months, up to $1,000, or when you’re able to return to work.” National Freebie Offers U.S. Office of Personnel Management: Their fact sheet states that federal employees may be eligible for unemployment compensation administered by state unemployment insurance agencies. So, eligibility is determined by state law, not on the Federal level, which may work in your favor. USAA Are offering deferments for all loans and credit
November 10, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Federal worker resources - furloughed or still working w/o pay:
Here is a list of resources that are available for those who will need assistance! FEDERAL WORKER RESOURCES: Bank of America: announced assistance available to furloughed Federal employees. Call the priority assistance line 844.219.0690. Chase Bank: Chase today announced efforts to help its customers who are U.S. government employees affected by the U.S. government shutdown. Here’s the special line they set up 1-888-356-0023. Congressional Federal Credit Union: For more information on our Relief Line of Credit or any of our assistance programs, contact our Member Service Representatives at 800-491-2328 or stop by one of our branch locations. Fed Choice: They’re offering quite a few different options to assist – for existing and new members. Interior Federal Credit Union: They’re offering a special loan for both member and non-member furloughed Federal workers. Net paycheck up to $15,000, interest free up to 30 days. Members may apply for a limit up to the equivalent of 2 net paychecks. More offers are available on the site or call 800-914-8619 Navy Federal Credit Union: These guys are offering a special loan program. Read the FAQs PDF from this link to see if you qualify or call 1-888-842-6328 PayPal: PayPal has made a very generous offer. They’ve allocated $25 million to fund interest-free cash advances to our furloughed Federal workers that need assistance right now. This is for both new and existing PayPal Credit customers. Minimum loan is $250 with a maximum cash advance of $500. Your account does need to be in good standing if you’re an existing PayPal Credit customer. Existing customers call 1-877-689-1975. For new accounts, apply here first, then after approval call 1-877-689-1975. U.S. Bank: Will waive all late fees if you miss a mortgage payment due to the shutdown. Also mentioned they will defer first payment dates for new mortgages. U.S. Employees Credit Union: USECU is also offering shutdown loans, but only until Tuesday, January 15th. Call (312) 922.5310 to get help. SunTrust: SunTrust didn’t make a specific offer, but they did make a public announcement that they have programs in place to help clients affected by the shutdown. Synchrony Bank: These guys handle store cards for Amazon, Lowes, Walmart, JCPenney, Chevron/Texaco, and many other large nationwide companies that you might do business with on a day-to-day basis. They are allowing affected customers to defer payments until after the shutdown. Contact them for more information. Union Plus: For union members, there are a great number of options available if you’re with Union Plus. Call them at 800-472-2005 to ask about these offers: $300 Furlough Grant for eligible Union Plus credit card holders, Mortgage Assistance Loan & $300 Grant: payment grace period for your Union Plus Life and Accident Insurance, payment grace period for Union Plus Auto Insurance, and payment grace period for Union Plus Life and Accident Insurance. Wells Fargo: Here’s a full list of all shutdown assistance lines at Wells Fargo. They’ve got a few different options to help depending on the services you have with their bank. [Original post missing this section, but check them out if you have an account with them.] Furlough Grants FEEA-NARFE: This is an awesome offer that every furloughed Federal worker needs to take advantage of. FEEA-NARFE fund is offering $100 grants to active federal employee members who are not receiving a paycheck during the current shutdown due to being furloughed or working in excepted status. To apply, visit the FEEA website. Thrift Savings Plan TSP Plan News and Announcements: TSP allows for the suspension of loan payments when you go into non-pay status. They do not require documentation about your furlough currently. Missing one or two payments will not cause your loan to go into default. Log in to your account to check your status or simply call the Thrift Line at 1-877-968-3778. Toyota Financial Services & Lexus Financial Services: Affected lease and finance customers in good standing with their accounts may be eligible to take advantage of up to two months of finance contract payment extensions or lease deferred payments. Toyota Financial Services call 800-874-8822 and Lexus Financial Services call 800-874-7050. Hyundai Capital: Hyundai will extend all Hyundai Capital auto loans and lease payments for 30 days for current Hyundai owners who are federal government employees furloughed during the shutdown. Impacted consumers should contact Hyundai Motor Finance at 1-800-523-4030 to take advantage of this offer. Kia Motors Finance: Kia has announced they’re offering deferred payments of 30 days. If you’ve been affected by the current Government Shutdown and need assistance from Kia Finance, please contact us at 1-866-331-5632. Ford Credit, GM Financial, & Mercedes-Benz Financial Services: It has been reported that these companies are among those providing qualified customers options such as payment deferrals, late fee waivers and special care lines to address their individual problems, though official announcements from these companies have not been released online. Mobile Telephone Service Providers AT&T: Will assist with adjusting late fees, providing extensions, and revising payment schedules. Sprint: Will provide short-term payment solutions. Call 1-888-211-4747 T-Mobile: Offering short-term assistance and can spread out service payments over time. Call 1-877-746-0909 or 611 from a T-Mobile device. Verizon: Offering flexible payment options and has a Promise to Pay program to set payments for a future date. Call 1-866-266-1445. Rental Home Assistance National Rental Home Council: Represents many of the nation’s largest operators of single-family rental homes. They’re offering deferred rent payment options with no late fees to any renter who has been furloughed. OPM Sample Letters for Creditors and Mortgage Companies: OPM created these sample letters for Federal workers to contact their landlords, mortgage lenders, and utilities, to request help during the shutdown. National Food Resources & Advice Feeding America: These guys have a nationwide network of 200 food banks. From those food banks, they have 60,000 partner pantries from which they can serve every community across the United States. This is an awesome resource, and they have already begun serving Federal employees affected by the government shutdown. Your School District: To save on food and ensure your kid eats breakfast and/or lunch free (less stress and worry for you), notify the district of your furlough. No income is an emergency and normally qualifies you for the free meal program.
November 10, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Gonna put all of them on one post to pin.
Courier Here are the Democratic senators who just caved to Donald Trump and the GOP These Democrats just sold out their senate colleagues and every Democrat in the U.S. House that opposed the GOP's spending bill which give the Trump Administration tremendous spending power. Sen. Catherine Cortez-Mastro Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Sen. Chuck Schumer Sen. Dick Durbin Sen. Maggie Hassan Sen. Angus King Sen. John Fetterman Sen. Gary Peters Sen. Brian Schatz Sen. Jeanne Shaheen
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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I would have to disagree with you. I believe it's more difficult today. The cost of post-secondary ed alone and how long it takes to pay off today vs. back then is significant. According to the chart below, typical worker pay has increased by an avg of only 20 cents/yr in 2024 $ since 1968.
Figure B What if the typical worker pay had risen like CEO salaries since the late 1960s? Bar graph illustrating 1968 typical worker hourly pay including benefits adjusted for 2024 dollars - $25.14 2024 typical worker hourly pay, including benefits - $36.49 What 2024 typical worker hourly pay (including benefits) would be if it had grown at the same pace as CEO pay since 1968 - $431.80 Data from the Economic Policy Institute
November 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Bread line during the Great Depression.
Bread line during the Great Depression Pic found on "Modern American History" at https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/his1005spring2011/tag/bread-lines/
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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From a Brandon Brown email, US Senate candidate:
Tonight proved something powerful — we can win here in South Carolina. Every single local candidate I endorsed won their race. Together, we: ✅ Flipped 6 Republican seats ✅ Protected 4 Democratic incumbents ✅ Flipped the City of Georgetown back under Democratic control And in addition to all of this, they made history in Aiken, where voters elected the first Black city councilmember to ever represent a majority-white district. Congratulations to Braylen Waldo on his historic win! These victories were gained from every region of our state. And big donors or political insiders didn’t fuel them; they were powered by you, by grassroots organizing, and by faith in what’s possible when people come together for change.
November 5, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Maybe you agree, maybe you don't, but it certainly feels like genocidal acts.
Pictures with red X over each - blueberries, medical personnel, the word "jobs" on a corkboard, directional signpost with the words "support," "assistance," and "guidance." Republican policies equate to a slow genocide of the American people with low & low-middle incomes, disabilities, & the elderly No SNAP No Medical Insurance No Jobs No Support Why? Racism Perceived "drain" on resources ($ to steal) Income (taxes to pay for their excesses) Think people must be like them to be valuable to society
November 4, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Air traffic control tower staffed with adults with children next to them and airplane outside the tower. Text reads: Shutdown Day 30 Take your child to work because working without pay meant firing the babysitter.
November 4, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Blue Wave May we see a blue wave in every election on Tuesday, November 4, 2025 and send a message to Congressional leadership that if they won't do their jobs, we'll replace them all.
November 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Not me.
Quotes We have failed you. - Brooke Rollins, USDA Secretary The suffering is going to get a lot worse. - JD Vance, Vice President Do something Democrats!!! - Donald J. Trump, President
October 31, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Probably looked more like this.
circa 1860's toilet advertisement Crapper's Improved Registered Ornamental Flush-down W.C. With New Design Cast-Iron Syphon Water Waste Preventer. No. 518 Improved Ornamental Flush-down W. C. Basin (Registered No. 145,623), Polished Mahogany seat with flap, New Pattern 3 gallons Cast-iron Syphon Cistern (Rd. No. 149,284) Brass Flushing Pipe and Clips, and Pendant Pull, complete as shown.
October 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Quotes We have failed you. - Brooke Rollins, USDA Secretary The suffering is going to get a lot worse. - JD Vance, Vice President Do something Democrats!!! - Donald J. Trump, President
October 31, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Then there's AI and bad tariff policies.
2025 Layoffs & Job Losses Actual & Announced * Over a 2 year period ** Includes contractors 4 columns of company names and figures Note: some numbers are for global workforces, not just the U.S. Sources: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-ups-layoffs-labor-market-jobs-economy/ https://www.businessinsider.com/dropbox-ibm-google-big-tech-companies-ai-in-layoff-memos-2023-5 https://www.businessinsider.com/recent-company-layoffs-laying-off-workers-2025 https://electrek.co/2025/10/29/more-trump-auto-job-losses-as-gm-blames-3300-layoffs-on-regulatory-changes/ https://intellizence.com/insights/layoff-downsizing/major-companies-that-announced-mass-layoffs/
October 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Interesting. I went to post my comments on FB to spread this for balance and Meta blocked the link claiming it was an abusive bot. There isn't even an advertisement on the site. Tell me again that tech isn't manipulating what we access.
"Comer spent years proving that he would embrace any disparagement of Biden as he ignored any criticism of Trump. That should be a focus of assessments of the committee’s output before we consider the output itself." https://www.pbump.net/o/the-biden-autopen-investigation-is-fruit-of-a-poisoned-tree/ [Meta response] Abusive Bot Blocked.
October 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Girls, Grift and Gilt Epstein Memorial Billionaire's Ballroom Where pay to play is our motto 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
October 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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I'll never call it that.
Girls, Grift and Gilt Epstein Memorial Billionaire's Ballroom Where pay to play is our motto 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
October 25, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Girls, Grift and Gilt Epstein Memorial Billionaire's Ballroom Where pay to play is our motto 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
October 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Because I had a few minutes...
Girls, Grift and Gilt Epstein Memorial Billionaire's Ballroom Where pay to play is our motto 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
October 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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October 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Also includes 4 pages of the Constitution beginning with Art 1, Sec 7 and inclusive of Art 2.

I chose pink highlighting to match Little Johnson's cheeks when he lies.

@robertgarcia.bsky.social - hard copy in the mail
@deluzio.house.gov - hard copy dropped off at local office

Pro forma WFA.
The Honorable Speaker Johnson, I write to you to express my concerns about the fact the House of Representatives, under your leadership, has not conducted business eighty-one (81) days out of the last ninety-three (93). The waste, fraud and abuse in the House of Representatives paying members to not debate and negotiate with their colleagues and pass Constitutionally-mandated budgets to operate our government by the Republican-led 119th Congress is, unfortunately, another example of how truly ineffective, wasteful and cruel to the millions of tax-paying Americans who are facing loss of SNAP benefits and the ability to afford health care insurance within the next week. Your decision to not swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva of Arizona confounds me, especially as someone who has proudly taken the service oath twice. My recollection is that it takes less than five minutes to administer/take. Your public claims of being busy also confuse me as I have heard you publicly say in press briefings no less than a dozen times in the past week that you have not “heard,” “have no knowledge,” or are “unaware” of happenings in Washington, DC, and at the White House. Your lack of awareness of what is happening under your watch daily and your inability to speak about it intelligently suggests to me that, despite representing your state of Louisiana in the House of Representatives since 2017, that perhaps you require a refresher course of your duties under the Constitution. To aid in remedying this lack, I am enclosing a copy of Articles I and II, highlighted to show where Congress is expected to be an acting and significant check and balance in our democracy, as well as reiterate its power of the purse. If you only conduct pro forma sessions of the House and do not conduct the business of the House, there cannot be satisfactory progress in meeting Congress’ duties in upholding and defending the Constitution, as per the service oath you swore to, and are as detailed … elected him to do affects me, my neighbors, friends and community. There are federal workers not receiving their federal paychecks while still faithfully reporting to duty, others who will see their health care premiums skyrocket, watch their children go hungry and/or not receive the educational supports in school they should. Every day costs are rising for average Americans. I could continue, but I expect you are “aware” but have made the conscious choice not to care about the effects of your actions and inactions on the American people for reasons known only to yourself. Our House Representatives are being stymied in their attempts to perform the national portions of their jobs under your leadership while being paid with our tax dollars to satisfy your hubris to force the Senate to pass the House Continuing Resolution without negotiation and debate. To paraphrase from the Bible you claim to be an adherent of, Speaker Johnson--pride goeth before a fall. Americans will remember. I am cc:ing Representative Chris Deluzio, my duly elected representative, and will be dropping off his copy at his local office. I know his staffers, who have always been responsive to my concerns, will be happy to ensure he receives it in a timely fashion. I am also cc:ing Ranking Member Robert Garcia of the House Oversight Committee. The fact that, under your leadership, the House of Representatives has not met 87% of the last 93 days, constitutes waste, fraud and abuse in my opinion--especially those days not worked during a government shutdown. I am requesting that they begin drafting a law to eventually be voted on as a Constitutional amendment to limit the number of pro forma sessions the House and Senate can hold within a specific time period to forestall such egregious abuse of power as you are wielding now. Perhaps such a law should also include work reporting requirements comparable to those you lobbied for in the OBBBA for those who require Medicaid and SNAP benefits. I am sure…
October 24, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Satellite photos of White House before and after East Wing demolition. After photo has a red arrow pointing to the former location of the East Wing with a text box reading Future site of the Epstein Memorial Billionaire's Ballroom with secret memories, Donald J. Trump
October 24, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Satellite photos of the White House before and after the destruction of the East Wing. Second photo has an arrow pointing to the former location of the East Wing with a text box reading "Future site of the Epstein Memorial Billionaire's Ballroom with secret memories, Donald J. Trump"
October 23, 2025 at 9:52 PM