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Enormous impoundment-related changes in Trump/Vought's Circular A-11 update from Friday, which is OMB's guidance to agencies They: -removed the definition of impoundment -said GAO's impoundment determinations don't matter -claimed pocket rescission authority -claimed profound deferral authority š§µ
Little kids with brain cancer. Thatās who Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are screwing over by cutting health care.
Where is Cordelia Cupp when you need her most?
Important reminder. Thanks.
Think about it. "Dems were too zealous in trying to prevent the spread of the virus" is, in US politics, a greater disadvantage, a bigger problem, than "Republican lies got hundreds of thousands of Americans killed for no reason." Just a pathetic fucking country. Pathetic.
... even if you buy it all, surely the party that worked desperately to save lives & end the pandemic deserves more credit, a higher grade, than the party that worked desperately to spread lies & get people killed! Surely they're not the ones that should be apologizing!
Somehow Nate seems to think that he is normal. And I am not.
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
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WTF? There are no longer any appearance of rules.
As we begin a new month, my law firm is litigation 51 voting and election cases in 25 states. 6 in Arizona 6 in Georgia 4 in Florida 4 in North Carolina 8 involve redistricting
Imagine, squandering everything in 6 months.
kakistocracy (noun) kakĀ·āisĀ·ātocĀ·āraĀ·ācy ĖkakÉĢĖstƤkrÉsÄ plural kakistocracies : government by the worst people
āDespite deep divisions among members, Trumpās unpredictable policies have helped create āa coalition of like-minded countries against the U.S.,āā China is kicking Americaās ass in every way possible. All because we elected an orange rapist criminal moron fraud.
In 7 months, Trump has taken the world's most powerful nation and turned it into a train wreck, inviting both our allies and our adversaries to reshape the world based on our irrelevance.
Jesus donāt like no genocide.
Stop being so nosy, LEO. Mind your own bizness.
They are prepping us.
Say it louder for the people in the back!!
Black women have every right to be furious. The irresponsible choices of white voters has for many of us, taken our livelihood with consequences for our homes, the education of our children, our ability to care for parents. Itās unconscionable. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
M-orons A-re G-overning A-merica shorturl.at/Y5yPL
This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org
Judge: I got a call at 2:36 a.m. because the govt chose this time on a holiday weekend to execute this plan. I have been up since then. I haven't been able to reach anyone from govt until this morning at 9:30 a.m. So absent this intervention, all children would already have been sent to Guatemala!
BREAKING: At least 78 Palestinians, including 32 aid seekers, have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn on Sunday, medical sources have told Al Jazeera. š“ LIVE updates: aje.io/7i3qdp
Video shows a blanket knitted by Irish activists as a tribute to Palestinian children killed in Gaza. Each square of the blanket represents 10 of the nearly 19,000 children killed by Israeli forces in the besieged enclave.
CEOs are trying to convince you that quiet quitting is worse than wage theft, while they plan on replacing you with a robot. Unions know better. Happy Labor Day Weekend.
We need to talk about how that 87% might be weird. Carjackings in DC are overall down this year. Looking at a specific 2 week period tells a tiny story, but not necessarily a trend. How does it fit on a trend line?
Not a very long path from "Why wouldn't you want the regime to deploy federal troops in your city when it reduces carjackings?" to "Why would you be opposed to the erection of internment camps for deviants when it reduces crime?" And a good chunk of mainstream media will just follow along.
All the federales from a bunch of 3 letter cop shops traveling on hordes doing nothing. Doesnāt make me feel safer. Signed, me in ward 5
It seems to me one of the best arguments to the court is that if this is truly a national emergency, the presidentās own party controls Congress but has done nothing to address it with legislation, so how can it possibly be an emergency?
@mayorbowser.bsky.social what is the percentage increase on car chases resulting in crashes? Maybe 250%? 1000%?
I was seeing āmonsterā referenced in my timeline. Then this pops up. The true monsters.
Thanks, @mayorbowser.bsky.social for providing a cudgel to the media to beat your fellow democrats with. Like what does an 86% reduction mean over a two week period? NOTHING. Not enough data. And now leaders like @govwesmoore.bsky.social have to beat back stupidity from your mouth.
Residents are finding all sorts of ways to fight ICE: They're recording and reporting. They're wheatpasting and sharing know-your-rights materials. And they're stepping up to care for each other, from delivering groceries to walking kids to school. 51st.news/dc-residents...
This is NOT GOOD. šØšØšØ
Yes. And the following round might just be amazing. Like having lunch with your kid who asks to split the bill after a few on a sunny afternoon. Keep being a loving parent. Oh, and hugs. I feel you.
"Her patient had signs of what could be a cancer or could be an unusual infection ā diagnoses that would require completely different treatment. Ordinarily, she would confirm an infection after sending a sample to the CDC for testing ...the CDC no longer has the capacity to do that"
Christ Almighty. He doesnāt know. He thinks ppl being mean when heās on allz his failed vacays is his trials. Dude. F-off. I know that I sucked during national emergencies. But I did learn.
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I've been thinking. š§µšŖ” Walking thru the history gallery at NMAAHC isnāt easy. It starts dark and tightāevoking the stifling, confining Middle Passage. We learn about the high value of sugar and the oppressorsā use of skin color to separate and devalue our brothers and sisters. (1/) nmaahc.si.edu
The essay documents how Trump has made extraordinary progress on the authoritarian checklist. It has been infuriating to watch pundit blindspots on this, where they cannot look beyond US left/right culture war reference points. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
(1/X) Sometimes people ask "why does this supposedly reasonable Republican back Trump or why does this centrist spend all of this time attacking the left at a time when the right is destroying the country?" The answer is simple: it's because they're assholes.
My latest in @newrepublic.com: an urgent plea to recognize the humanity of DC residents, their longtime second-class citizenship and need āshould democracy not already be lost foreverāfor statehood. āWashington, D.C., residents are the most powerless canary in the most authoritarian coal mine.ā
@mayorbowser.bsky.social you are not helping. You are acting like you belong at that cabinet meeting. Use your voice.
āFuck you guys, go home!ā āLeave!ā
Actually, he meant midi-chlorians. He was feeling The Force.
And FINALLY an indictment of the lack of any policy process. Itās just a series of throwing ketchup against the wall. This is the way to destroy America.
āHaving worked in local and national public health for years, I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people.ā
It wonāt fit in screen shots but linking here the full letter of resignation posted by one of the departing CDC officials, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who ran the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and led efforts to fight COVID, monkeypox, and bird flu x.com/dr_demetre/s...
Tay does dubstep. That drop!!
In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
Adding just six hours of media literacy training to an American Government course significantly improved studentsā ability to identify credible sources and boosted their confidence in evaluating where information comes from. theconversation.com/college-stud...
Never before in our history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many of us, while simultaneously preventing others ā Congress, the courts, the American people ā from having a say or even knowing what heās going to do next. This is what dictatorship looks like.
"...during the shooting, adults protected children, and older children protected younger ones." š
Kakistocracy (/ĖkƦkÉŖĖstÉkrÉsi/ KAK-ist-OK-rÉ-see): government by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous people.
Striking: New Quinnipiac poll finds 56% of voters nationally oppose Trump's sending of National Guard into DC. Only 41% support it. Independents oppose it by 61-34. Trump's overall approval on crime is cratering at 42-54. That sound you hear is a lot of dimwitted pundit narratives imploding.
People mocking this, but they are learning, getting smarter, adapting to a hostile environment. *Stand in front of a Subway shop, people throw subs at you. *Stand in front of a Krispy Kreme, get ready for treats.
Iām not saying that this is āwhy," they are going after African American history and culture. But Iām saying it fits their authoritarian goals. Also, go to the museum with hope in your heart and renew your energy. And (especially White folks) don't say all is lost. Be brave. (6/6)
They want to hide and distort the strength of hope that runs through their stories. They want to suppress the humanity and success of people who do not give up on their journey for justice and freedom and love. Hope is contagious, so they want to kill it. (5/)
Trump and his cohorts donāt just want white people to avoid discomfort about our nation being founded on the sins of enslavement, segregation and bigotry. They want to hide the resistance, the resilience, and the joy of African Americans. (4/)
Smithsonian chief and founding NMAAHC director, Lonnie Bunch, always said that African-American history is American history. (3/)
But you know what else we learn? That in the face of horrorsāof beatings, lynchings, & babes torn from their mamas' arms āAfrican Americans never gave up hope. They loved, they read, they danced, they had parties, they preached, they escaped and they fought. For their freedom and for America. (2/)
I've been thinking. š§µšŖ” Walking thru the history gallery at NMAAHC isnāt easy. It starts dark and tightāevoking the stifling, confining Middle Passage. We learn about the high value of sugar and the oppressorsā use of skin color to separate and devalue our brothers and sisters. (1/) nmaahc.si.edu
And theyāre so niceā¦.
āHave all the correct talking pointsā¦ā. This is disgusting.
āTrumpās pretense to ownership of public goods and public spaces isnāt some quirk to be ignored or waited out ā āthere goes our Donald!ā ā but a direct expression of his autocratic ambitions and despotic cast of mind.ā
OPINION by @noahbookbinder.bsky.social: āThe fact is, while this may feel like a new normal, nothing about it is normal, and itās a real problem worthy of the American peopleās attention.ā READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
You gotta laugh. Then you gotta call your reps.
We found hundreds of examples of federal agencies & institutions purging their websites of anything Black, including: -Profiles of Black military heroes (Army) -Documents on the Tulsa Race Massacre (National Archives) -Resources for educators for teaching slavery (NMAAHC)
The National Guard is removing trash, mulching and removing graffiti in D.C. āI think itās nice, as a D.C. resident,ā said one Guard member. āBut there are different things we could be doing.ā
While a grand jury could indict a ham sandwich, the DC folks wonāt allow one at its launcher. We like that.
So the sandwich guy ... beat the wrap
Why? Just why?
We shall see. I wish them well, but thereās something I donāt trust about him. He had his own dating reality show, where 50 women from each of the 50 U.S. states competed for his heart.
Goddam!
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No. But they are poised to make us suffer.
Listening to these people grovel, bow and scrape to keep their jobs makes me a bit ill. I think thereās brown on most noses there. Orange-brown.
I really wish them well, but honestly canāt wait for THAT song.
Iāll take āThings That Never Happenedā for 400, Alex.
āThis is President Trump going bigger than President Nixon.ā The promise from an actual federal website. I simply cannot.
Former White House attorney Ty Cobb, from the first Trump admin: Q. āWhat did you think about when you heard of the FBI search of John Bolton's house and office?ā A. āWell, I went down and locked my door.ā @npr.org @steveinskeep.bsky.social t.co/ExWMgcsLJq
Just. One. Guy. Against the entire apparatus of the US government. They came for him. Are you next?
Letās be clear: the National Guard troops, federal law enforcement, and D.C. police cannot violate the Constitution or the D.C. Home Rule Act. Understanding your rights can help you make the best decision for yourself if approached by law enforcement.
But the prevailing narrative among Dem pollsters and donors is that itās class, not race.
Governor Wes Moore says all options are on the table regarding mid-decade redistricting in Maryland. Here's the deal: if Governor Moore wants to redistrict, I stand ready to help him. Maryland Democrats are ready to fight back.
āā¦itās not that bad to have some crazies in your party bc the ruling party right now is the craziest party Iāve ever seenā¦Democrats arenāt Ds because [of] swing-voter kitchen-table issues.The vast majority are Ds because the larger value set that Ds represent.ā
Yes. I was saying this yesterday. They canāt quit him.
Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre to release memoir from 'beyond the grave' on systemic failures. ETA: October 21. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles www.themirror.com/news/epstein...
Take care. My second one made me feel worse than the first. Knocked out for a day or two. But a friend had shingles and THAT was bad.
Release the Epstein files.
Hurricane Katrina was a disaster made worse by a bad federal response. I know. I was part of it, and we learned a bunch of stuff. We canāt forget it.
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming We're finally on our own This summer I hear the drumming Four dead in Ohio
This is so messed up. The only danger they have seen has been being verbally berated and one subway sandwich. Meanwhile, they are running red lights and smashing into cars with their 17 ton armored vehicles. I donāt trust them with guns.
Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year. Y'all this isn't sustainable.