Keep pushing back, keep making noise. Americans don’t want to be governed by incompetent authoritarians bsky.app/profile/pamh...

This is criminal.

Erasing not only the history of racial oppression, but also a powerful icon of civil disobedience and resistance.

FBI Director Kash Patel v Follow @FBIDirectorKash Just NOW, the FBI arrested Judge Hannah Dugan out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on charges of obstruction — after evidence of Judge Dugan obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week. We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, allowing the subject — an illegal alien — to evade arrest. Thankfully our agents chased down the perp on foot and he's been in custody since, but the Judge's obstruction created increased danger to the public. We will have more to share soon. Excellent work @FBIMilwaukee.

Through all his troubles, neither the DOJ/FBI nor any state authorities ever subjected Donald Trump to arrest, preferring in every case to proceed by indictment and voluntary surrender. It’s notable that a sitting judge and pillar of the Milwaukee community was not extended the same courtesy.

You cannot make this shit up.

they can be made to retreat

Test. Cases. Any little infraction. But don't think they can't make up infractions...they already are.

You never forget the sight of children starving to death, so I wish White House officials could have been with me on this trip to South Sudan, where 70 percent of nutrition assistance has come from the United States. Malnutrition is common in poor countries — more than one-fifth of young children worldwide are stunted from malnutrition — and near the Sudan-South Sudan border, I dropped in on the remote Upper Nile town of Bobonis, where many children are affected. Staff members of a nonprofit supported by U.S.A.I.D. used to visit weekly to provide an emergency high-nutrition paste to save the lives of young children with severe acute malnutrition — but that program was ended by the Trump administration last month. So now children in the village are starving. I quickly found a half-dozen children with severe acute malnutrition and getting no help. Fatima Abdulai, 14, held her niece, Nadia, a severely malnourished 2-year-old, and said the household has been reduced to one meal a day of sorghum mush. It was midafternoon when I met them, and nobody in the family had had a bite to eat that day, including Nadia. “Sometimes she cries from hunger,” Fatima said. “Then we give her water to drink.”

I’m not much of a theologian but I do not believe doing this to people is forgivable www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

What @jimsciutto.bsky.social said 👇🏽 🎯

Two days later, everyone at VOA has reportedly been fired.

Michiganians! Call our Senators NOW. We did not vote for them so they could betray the most vulnerable. Use 5calls.org to get their info.

Les Misbarack YouTube video by NatHeadquartersObama

Inevitable to think of this:
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CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

Not surprised that it's community colleges that are fighting back. Community colleges serve the greatest number of people facing systemic barriers. A large percentage of community college students are the first in their family to attend college.

y'all so fucking unserious

For one, the NYTimes, Washington Post, and all the major TV News outlets would cry COUP, TERRORISM, and TYRANNY for sure. Oh, and they'd likely throw in a story about violence against women and children.

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

It’s cute he thinks Trump would read this. And care if he did.

My latest for @thenation.com.

Federal workers face mass layoffs Federal workers are grappling with President Donald Trump’s aggressive effort to shrink the size of the federal workforce by ordering agencies to lay off probationary employees who have yet to qualify...

Elon Musk and Donald Trump are mass firing veterans.

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Watching your entire professional life be burnt to the ground....

JD Vance lectures Germany: be nice to your Nazis Germany doesn’t need your bullshit, thank you very much

here's today's post: "JD Vance lectures Germany: be nice to your Nazis" — Germany doesn’t need your bullshit, thank you very much.
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1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC
1/31: Crash in Philly
2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle
2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska
2/10: Crash in Scottsdale
2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego
2/16: Crash in Covington, GA

7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

Please share: We’ve received word that Elon Musk’s staffers are using space characters to identify information leakers. Before sharing any information, please use a checker to detect and remove these.

At OPM, Musk’s staffers won’t leave—they work around the clock and have even installed sofa beds in the office. Our access to data systems has been restricted, raising serious concerns about cybersecurity and a complete lack of oversight. We are keeping our heads down and documenting everything.

It’s official: Elon Musk’s staffers have now illegally obtained classified information from the USAID office.

Here’s a recap of what’s happening:

Elon Musk now has access to your Social Security number. The world’s richest man has gained access to the confidential personal information of every taxpayer in the United States.

Farewell and Thanks (Again) - Illegal Activity in the USAID Front Office Inbox Nicholas Gottlieb to amsofficercouncil, ALL, HCTM.ELR, Alpana, Danielle, Sheila, Sepideh, William, Anya, Stephanie, Lindsey - All: 4:19 PM (4 minutes ago) # Today, representatives of the Agency's front office and DOGE instructed me to violate the due process of our employees by issuing immediate termination notices to a group of employees without due process. I refused and have provided Acting Administrator Gray with written notification of my refusal. I have recommended in that written notification that his office cease ar desist from further illegal activity. It is and has always been my office's commitment to the workforce that we ensure all employees receive their due process in any of our actions. I will not be party to a violation of that commitment. I was notified moments ago that I will be placed on administrative leave, effective immediately. It has been an honor working with all of you at this Agency, which i treasure. Please be kind and considerate of my staff at hctm.eir@usaid.gov. who will be very short-staffed and pressed over the coming months. Until you hear otherwise, Kirsten Gunsolus will be acting in my absence. If you would like to stay in touch, I can be reached a wish you all the best. Sincerely, Nicholas Gottlieb Director, Employee and Labor Relations US AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT HCTM, Rm. 4.07A RRB, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20523 USAID gov | @USAID

A USAID HR director sent out this email today to staff letting them know he was placed on administrative leave.

“Today, representatives of the Agency's front office and DOGE instructed me to violate the due process of our employees by issuing immediate termination notices to a group of employees.”