It gives me great joy too!

@drannieandrews.com I’m a recently retired Foreign Service Officer and am moving home to SC next month. I would love to help with your campaign!

Update from Zach Montague

We’re still fighting back
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

Most employees at US Institute of Peace mass-fired via late-night email Congressionally created and funded thinktank taken over by ‘Doge’ seeks to prevent and resolve global conflicts

USIP is an important non-profit, non-partisan, non-executive branch institution established by Congress to help find ways to prevent wars. DOGE is dismantling it.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

As dusk falls in Washington on Fridays, the firings begin Mary Glantz was in her room at a Hampton Inn in Columbia, South Carolina, last Friday night during a trip visiting friends when her phone began pinging furiously with messages at 9:30 p.m.

Wish this were about my Russia analysis (Putin is playing Trump), but glad I could help get the word out about what Trump and DOGE are doing to U.S. institutions. www.reuters.com/world/us/dus...

State Dept. Fires About 60 Contractors Working on Democracy and Human Rights The contractors helped enact programs that focus on building up civil society and democratic practices in authoritarian states such as China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela and Cuba.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

US state department fires security and personal services contractors Directive says new contracts must be terminated immediately in response to Trump executive order

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Member of Elon Musk's DOGE team resigns after racist posts resurface Marko Elez had recently been given special access by a federal judge to highly sensitive payment systems in the Department of Treasury.

You know, maybe if we only had some system in place that could, idk, search the background of workers in the government, for maybe clearing the status of their potential threat to security prior to letting them hack our computers??

www.npr.org/2025/02/06/n...

Committee punts on Kash Patel vote as Democrats keep up the pressure It's not unusual for the Senate Judiciary Committee to delay votes a week, but Democrats made a show of it in opposition to President Donald Trump's pick to lead the FBI.

YES. Being in the minority means Dems can’t block Trump’s noms. But they can DELAY & use every extra moment to tell the public why noms like Patel are so dangerous to our democracy.

That’s what activists have been demanding & it's what Judiciary Cmte Dems did today. www.politico.com/live-updates...

Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀

This is entirely true. A lot of the high value posters have moved here, people who intelligently discuss important topics, report on news that major media outlets are often so slow on, and whats more... the trolls, hate comments, and slurs are a tiny fraction of what they are on Elon's twitter.

You should really buy a dozen and hide them in places where they will startle him. Then share the vudeo!

The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s

Optimist: The cup is half full

Pessimist: The cup is half empty

Socrates: the cup had *what* in it?