She was a colonel! 🥇

-Dropped or halted investigations into 100+ corporations

-Gutted regulatory agencies and fired ethics watchdogs

-Launched a crypto coin and offered an "intimate dinner" to top buyers

-Turned the White House into a Tesla showroom to help his biggest donor

"Drain the swamp."

A girl is pictured walking up the steps of a University campus. Text reads: "Inside Trump’s Pressure Campaign on Universities." Photo by Karsten Moran for The New York Times

President Trump and his top aides are exerting control of huge sums of federal research money to shift the ideological tilt of elite universities, which they see as hostile to conservatives. The process has upended higher education. nyti.ms/4jqnCKe

Color illustration of a beautiful young blonde white girl with her arms crossed, looking affectionately down at a shorthaired black tuxedo cat. The cat is standing up anthropomorphically looking back at her, holding a comb and embroidered handkerchief.

Illustration from Baba Yaga’s Cat - a story in My Big Book of Cat Stories, written by various authors and illustrated by Adrienne Ségur. 1965.

Will Harvard Bend or Break? Free-speech battles and pressure from Washington threaten America’s oldest university—and the soul of higher education.

Harvard University has rejected the policy changes requested by the Trump Administration, becoming the first university to directly refuse to comply with their demands. Revisit Nathan Heller’s report on the school’s ongoing crisis of speech.

The Truth About the U.S. Border | Robert Reich The full story about immigration you aren't getting from politicians and the media. Watch More: The Military-Industrial

Trump wants to spend $45B to expand ICE detention — and let the private prison companies who bankrolled his campaign run at least a half dozen new detention centers.

This won't make us safer, but it will make the border-industrial complex even richer.

The FDA fired its tobacco enforcers. Now it wants them back. The agency asked laid-off workers to return after gutting the office that penalizes stores for selling tobacco to minors.

The FDA is asking laid-off employees to temporarily return after mass cuts decimated the agency’s ability to penalize stores that sell cigarettes and vapes to minors.

The two tipping points for when we officially become a dictatorship could occur this week Friends,

The Trump regime is on the cusp of a showdown with the Supreme Court.

Depending on what the Court does and how the regime responds, it could openly become a dictatorship two ways. Some thoughts... robertreich.substack.com/p/the-two-ti...

Pete Marocco, Who Helped Gut Foreign Aid for Trump, Leaves State Department Pete Marocco oversaw the cutting of thousands of contracts at U.S.A.I.D. and the firing of most of its roughly 10,000 workers. Aid agency employees have accused him of mismanagement.

Pete Marocco, who worked with Elon Musk’s team to oversee the dismantling of USAID and the firing of most of its roughly 10,000 workers, has left the State Department, administration officials said on Monday.

Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz: A Graphic Family Memoir of Trauma & Inheritance A Graphic Family Memoir of Trauma & Inheritance

My Passover reading included this phenomenal graphic novel memoir by Ari Richter. Highly highly recommend.

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Jayne Cortez "Find Your Own Voice" YouTube video by mediasanctuary

The primordial poetry of Jayne Cortez. Listen up!

With son Denardo Coleman (as in Ornette Coleman).

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"No Blood for Corporate Greed!"
My original design 2010. Stay Strong!

Doris Lessing.