Lori Newland

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Former US attorney for Eastern District of Virginia Jessica Aber found dead at 43 Jessica Aber, former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA), was found dead Saturday morning, the Alexandria Police Department said. She was 43 years old. The cause and circumstance...

It never got a lot of attention, but Aber put a WHOLE LOT of child predators w/ties to law enforcement in prison.

www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/f...

The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific.

If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

A time lapse visualization of a total lunar eclipse causing a blood moon

The path of the 2025 total lunar eclipse as seen for north America

Next week, most all of North America will be in prime viewing range of a total lunar eclipse & blood moon phenomenon. The shorter wavelengths of light (like blue) are scattered more than longer wavelengths (like red), creating this spooky illumination.

March 7, 2025 Black Americans outnumbered white Americans among the 29,500 people who lived in Selma, Alabama, in the 1960s, but the city’s voting rolls were 99% white.

March 7, 2025

Trump's in full retreat today as his poll numbers slip:

He convened the cabinet to limit Elon after voters pressured Congress.

He delayed the tariffs b/c the market dropped out & created fears of a recession.

He's losing in court b/c DOGE didn't follow the law.

Keep fighting.

#AltGov: the secret network of federal workers resisting Doge from the inside Government employees fight the Trump administration’s chaos by organizing and publishing information on Bluesky

If you need a read with your morning coffee. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... it’s not paywalled for once🫠

Trump and his henchmen did not make "a deal" with President Volodymyr Zelensky and Ukraine over rare earth minerals. They engaged in extortion, part of their protection racket-style strategy to shake down an ally in the midst of a deadly conflict.

21 DOGE staffers resign, saying they won't help 'dismantle' public services Twenty-one members of the United State DOGE Service have resigned, they said in an anonymous letter, citing DOGE's ongoing work dramatically reshaping the federal government.

Twenty-one members of the United State DOGE Service have resigned, they said in an anonymous letter, citing DOGE's ongoing work dramatically reshaping the federal government.

Last night in my newsletter, Civil Discourse, I used presidential polling numbers to show that Trump isn't inevitable. We can find our way out of this. joycevance.substack.com/p/on-being-i...

He should be our messenger.

“What they call you is one thing.

“What you answer to is something else.”

- Lucille Clifton

Thank you to everyone who has joined the resistance! Our ranks grow stronger every day.

Yes. But they are missing that much of this has to be performative. That’s what Trump is great at and Dems are awful at.

You can’t just tell voters , you have to know how to sell voters.

Trump gives sales pitches, Dems show charts. One goes viral. The other is ignored and forgotten

We know it’s tempting to give into cynicism or despair right now. So let us tell you what keeps us going: We are in daily communication with Members of Congress and senior staff who want to see a unified opposition as well. They are fighting on the inside to build that opposition. 🧵

Same state government that doesn’t properly fund higher ed - thereby making state school business models more reliant on out of state/international student tuition - now says they want more Ohio kids on campus.

American Medical Association (AMA) The American Medical Association (AMA) is the largest and only national association that convenes 190+ state and specialty medical societies and other critical stakeholders. Our mission is to promote ...

Trump/Musk may have silenced the CDC and NIH, but they can't stifle free speech itself.
The American Medical Association is using its YouTube channel to provide updates & explainers on everything from H5N9 to why eggs cost so much.
Check em out!

Same

We've reached the first inevitable crossroads.
The question, which is clearly answered in the Constitution, is: "Does the executive branch have to obey the judicial?"
What happens if the executive branch says "my ball, my rules"?
Stay tuned.

As Elon Musk continues to talk about subsidies, let’s remember that he is the LARGEST GOVT SUBSIDIES RECIPIENT in the country!

60 seconds of #50501protest footage from #Columbus #Ohio today. Full vid on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=80IY...

Representative Hakeem Jeffries extends his hands forward as he talks at a news conference, giant flags behind him. Text reads: "Hakeen Jeffries Works With Democrats to Weaken GOP Control of the House." Photo credit: Eric Lee/The New York Times

New York lawmakers are considering a change to the state's special elections law that would keep Rep. Elise Stefanik's House seat open for months, a move backed by Hakeem Jeffries as a way to deny Republicans’ already bare-bones House majority of a crucial vote. Read more: nyti.ms/413uNSr

This is the moment we’ve always been headed towards. If the President refuses to follow a court’s order we are in deep crisis. The GOP has courted this disaster.

"Let's not become a nation of frightened silent people." --Navalny

Musk Says DOGE Is Halting Treasury Payments to US Contractors Elon Musk said his “DOGE team” of government efficiency enforcers is shutting down payments to federal contractors, suggesting that the world’s richest man may have access to sensitive systems used at...

Elon Musk said his “DOGE team” of government efficiency enforcers is shutting down payments to federal contractor, suggesting that the world’s richest man may have access to sensitive systems used at the Treasury Department.

1/ OK, Democratic members of Congress in the US Senate. It’s time for some tough love.

I am aware your pollsters and consultants tell you things like “the American people want us to work together” and “ focus on prescription drug prices in the economy.”

It's actually theft of taxpayers money when websites go dark. We paid for that data

This eve, the crescent Moon will do
What a crescent moon does best.
And that’s join Venus in twilight
Orbiting Earth east to west

Watch the Moon skirt by Venus.
A mere finger’s width nigh.
A celestial en passant
Oh my. Ohh my. Ohhh my!

Again: Trump just ordered 2 dams open to levels that would’ve flooded areas and farms, without warning, all to back up the lies he told about the fires — and the rivers don’t even flow to LA.

Locals panicked and they backed off.
sjvwater.org/decision-to-...