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The Commissioners are telling their voter base that they can sue to get around state law so that they can work closer with ICE. Vote NO on Douglas County Home Rule in the June 2-24 special election.

I’m totally fine with deporting gang members who commit crimes who don’t have legal status.

I just don’t want Tom Homan or an ICE agent grabbing anyone off the street and flying them to a prison in El Salvador while claiming they are all of those things with zero due process.

Smoke and mirrors in Cuba They are all lying but they got the pictures and that's what matters

I’m amazed how little coverage this story has gotten. They’ve burned well over $16 million to briefly hold 290 immigrants and several photo ops to GITMO. Just a total train wreck and they didn’t even mention it officially. Check out my latest.
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He was a few months ahead of himself.

Because DOGE has shut down USAID's payment system (Phoenix), our housing electricity and the electricity in our USAID building have not been paid for. Mission leadership has informed us that the only reason our electricity is on is because we've asked for an extension from the electric company. The Mission asked for a waiver but because our payment system is down, the Treasury has no way to issue money to USAID and State Department representatives here are hesitant to make payments on our behalf for fear of not being reimbursed. 7. Once the electricity goes out in our homes, we lose access to our security cameras and radios. Again, I live in a high-risk post, so access to security systems is very important to me. 8. I have been told by Mission leadership that the cell phone and internet bills are due this week with no way to pay them. This is despite the so-called "waiver" process that has been allegedly implemented to preserve such access. 9. Our cell phones and radios are also the only way to communicate with the Regional Security Office about security threats. We have access to no other USAID security systems.

The agency is also considering spending about $25,000 to install a washer and dryer on the building’s 6th floor, according to a Feb. 25 invoice obtained by POLITICO. There is also a child’s play area decorated with a stuffed animal and toys, according to a photo of the room shared with POLITICO. “People are definitely … sleeping there,” said one GSA staffer.

DOGE cut off payments for the electricity, cell phone, and internet service of U.S. government employees who work in a high-risk area in Central America.

Meanwhile, DOGE apparently plans to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer for their own personal use in a federal office building in DC.

Email list for all DOGE employees
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Welcome to Trump’s America - where rapist sex traffickers are welcomed in, and allied war heroes are kicked out.

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WATCH: @krystalball.bsky.social explains Trump’s strategic crypto reserve heist — billions into the pockets of his rich buddies at the expense of the American taxpayer. “it’s just theft”

Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGuPMOh...

Zelensky is a hero.

Trump is a coward.

Slava Ukraini.🇺🇦

Shame on America.

NATO/freedom/democracy are good.

Putin/Trump/authoritarianism are bad.

18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was demolished by Musk’s team shortly after midnight. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 billion.

If you don’t plan on permitting future elections bad polling doesn’t matter.

I’m still appalled at how pathetic the USA has become, how thin its civilizations veneer was. Shame!

I hope everyone recognizes that the takeover of the Post Office, combined with the SAVES Act, take over of CISA and the Archivist is to remove / suppress all voting. Please realize the magnitude of these events and PROTEST / CALL. Use 5 calls dot org.

There’s not a word in this story about the corrupt nature of this dismissal. Not a concern voiced, not a question raised, not even an acknowledgment that he’s the president’s biggest donor and he’s acting as an unelected, unconfirmed tyro wielding unchecked power over spending and the civil service.

The Murdoch-owned Post has more courage than congressional Republicans. Wow.

Medicaid is not for sale.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.

We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

This is who Republicans just made FBI Director.

Kash Patel calls for “offensive operations” to jail Americans who they consider “the enemy.”

“We will go out and find the conspirators... Yes, we are going to come after the people in the media”

How to Organize Our Way Out of the Trump-Musk Putsch A plan to harness grassroots energy—and to hold Democratic leaders accountable

Read the op-ed from @leahgreenberg.bsky.social and @ezralevin.bsky.social in @thenation.com. 👇

In 2022, russians killed the mayor of Motyzhyn village, Olha Sukhenko, her husband and son. Before being kidnapped, she was evacuating village residents, delivering food and medicine. Their bodies were found in a mass grave after the liberation of the Kyiv region.

russian occupation is not peace.

Suspected part of SpaceX rocket falls to ground in Poland

Yesterday, parts of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 fell on the premises in a village where my family lives. Instead of blaming Musk and demanding compensation, Polish ministers are scapegoating the Polish Space Agency, claiming it didn't notify them properly about the danger.

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The Trump administration is taking aim at our free, fair, and secure elections. Read: bit.ly/4i15hmk

Trump thinking he and Putin will just decide Ukraine's fate without Ukraine even being in the room is totally on brand for Republicans who repeatedly hold congressional committee meetings on women's rights without a single woman being present.

This is probably the most accurate take.

Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.

This is extraordinarily dangerous. Tomorrow, the legacy media will ask Republican officials about this. Those officials will lie and obfuscate. And the legacy media will move on.

That is part of the crisis we face.

CISA Puts Election Staff on Administrative Leave Read more here.

CISA – a federal agency that helps secure elections from foreign threats and disinformation – has placed its employees on administrative leave. The move puts the security and integrity of elections in the U.S. at risk.

That part 👇🏻

YouTube video by The Lincoln Project Rights

Elon and his Tech Nazis are accessing your personal data illegally, and there IS something you can do about it. Contact your state's Attorney General, or your Consumer Protection Agency here: www.usa.gov/state-consumer. Fight back.

REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!

Would you, could you, consider this? I think we all need a daily dose of WTF in plain calm English.