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'Highly unusual': White House halts FBI background checks for senior staff, shifts them to Pentagon: Sources The White House has quietly told the FBI to halt background checks on dozens of the president's top staffers and has transferred the process to the Pentagon, sources say.

Good news/Bad news. Trump shifts background checks for his staff from FBI to DOD likely because he fears agents still accurately report their findings (good news). Bad news: he may trust DOD to cover up: abcnews.go.com/Politics/whi...

Thanks Jack, these are exceptional times.

There’s a major shift in U.S. cybersecurity policy. A recent CISA memo removed Russia from its list of priorities, focusing instead on China and local systems. Analysts were told not to track Russian cyber threats.

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Welp, “Five bullets” 2.0 is going about as well as can be expected. Some can’t send it encrypted while some can. Folks from Commerce are getting the request email from Pete Hegseth at DoD. And someone had their personal health info sent to 15,000 people. ACES!

They should’ve raked the forests and released all the water in the reservoirs. Never would’ve happened if Biden was president.

Let’s see, Donald Trump launched his crypto business right before taking office. Melania did the day before the inauguration. Junior launched a new one too. Oh, and of course Eric did.

Great News That’s Awful For Trump Onward.

Tomorrow is expected to be the biggest day of anti-Trump protests so far this year, with peaceful rallies planned outside all 50 state capitals, and other major cities. And over the weekend, all across the country, folks were standing up and speaking out against Musk and Trump.

More good news here:

Imagine having this much disdain for your own voters

love this @rokhanna.bsky.social

We need more proposals like this that co-opt the chaos

Please share off line as well !!!

Football fans wave to the pediatric hospital after the first quarter

Hey Hawkeyes fans!

When the children’s hospital no longer exists after Medicaid and NIH cuts…

will you still wave to the empty pediatric hospital?

Speaker Mike Johnson Is Living in a D.C. House That Is the Center of a Pastor’s Secretive Influence Campaign The Capitol Hill townhouse is owned by a major Republican donor. It’s the headquarters of a little-known political influence project that has reached a number of powerful Republican politicians.

Speaker Mike Johnson...who had NO bank accounts in his name, lives in the $3.7 million, six-bedroom house blocks from the U.S. Capitol...belonging to an evangelical pastor who has attacked the separation of church and state.

They are both dirty little men.

www.propublica.org/article/mike...

'We Were Told Nothing.' What to Know About the Canceled Meeting to Discuss the Next Flu Shot — TIME The group meets every year to discuss the best vaccine for the upcoming flu season. Until now.

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Trump just made a new announcement about tariffs from the WH. Hopefully, you don’t have any retirement savings in the stock market.

Ukraine war: what is the Budapest Memorandum and why has Russia’s invasion torn it up? Russia agreed in 1994 to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and national borders in return for Kyiv agreeing to give up its nuclear arsenal.

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This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

Exhibit A, at the next Impeachment Trial.

Yes--💯!!! Please do get yourself a strike card!
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Energy is currency. So who are you currently paying right now?

Thank you!!! Hold your ground...and ours!!!

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

The total number of people working in any administration only tops out in the thousands.

Even if just those who voted for Harris there are 74,999,166 MILLION.

Now, you tell me, how do thousands of people destroy the lives and remove the freedoms of 75 MILLION people? ONLY. IF. WE. ALLOW. THEM. TO.

Please email!!! The voicemails have been flooded...they are used to getting 30-50 calls a day and have reported 1200-1500 a day!

Tell your Senators: Oppose Trump's dangerous pick of Kash Patel for FBI Director Contact Congress today!

Are you against Kash Patel's nomination? I am.

Send a letter to your Senators about it here:

Look into www.generalstrikeus.com 200K signed up last week--we need 11 million to make a difference, and to either negotiate our positions...or stage a massive strike! Thanks for your consideration.

RIP President Jimmy Carter. You didn't preach about what we should do; you simply lived it. Perhaps the greatest example of leadership by any president after leaving office.