CydW

Contacting your US senators and representatives, and your local county officials - a drum beat there. Also, if you follow Substack, follow or even subscribe to the people investigating, researching, and writing about what is happening. Join the local League of Women Voters.

It should have been at the voting booth.

Don't know if this is true, but it's hilarious!

Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots An NPR investigation found Louisiana health officials told staff to stop promoting vaccines for COVID, flu and mpox, holding flu shot events or otherwise encouraging the public to get those vaccines.

An NPR investigation found Louisiana health officials told staff to stop promoting vaccines for COVID, flu and mpox, holding flu shot events or otherwise encouraging the public to get those vaccines.

Markwayne Mullin on Hegseth’s drinking:

TAPPER: Drinking at 10 in the morning, that’s a drinking problem.

MULLIN: Yeah & there’s probably a lot of media that has a drinking problem too.

TAPPER: A drunk reporter who is drinking at 10 AM…is not in charge of the 3 million person defense department.💥

A restaurant board sign that reads: “we are not all in the same boat. We are in the same storm. Some have yachts. Some have canoes. And some are drowning. Just be kind and help when you can.

I love this.

ICYMI— Despite the private school vouchers scam losing everywhere it’s on the ballot, Trump says his Ed Sec pick will focus on steering taxpayer💰to private (mostly Christian) schools.

@GovBillLee’s pal Devos admitted it’s to “Advance God’s Kingdom”: x.com/thetnholler/...

What Letting Trump Use Recess Appointments Could Mean Donald Trump’s stated desire to use recess appointments is about more than putting his cabinet secretaries and other appointees in place without a fight.

Trump's demand for recess appointments is about more than his nominees. I wrote about his viewthat following the Constitution is negotiable: "Once Republican Senators bypass one provision of the Constitution at Donald Trump’s behest, they’re all up for grabs." joycevance.substack.com/p/what-letti...

Trump’s Pick for Pentagon Paid an Accuser but Denies It Was Sexual Assault The Trump transition team was only recently alerted to the payment by Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for secretary of defense.

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Department of Defense, paid a woman who had accused him of sexual assault as part of a settlement agreement with a confidentiality clause, but Hegseth insists it was a consensual encounter, his lawyer said on Saturday.