Deb Dye DD Florida Blue 🦋

This is fabulous!

Whenever you welcome guests, treat them with kindness, grace and respect. Simple as that.

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand.
#resist

Senate votes to confirm Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence | CNN Politics The Senate voted Wednesday, to confirm former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence.

Tulsi Gabbard confirmed as Director of National Intelligence. My team 1st encountered her while studying conspiracy theories denying chemical weapons attacks and other war crimes in Syria (~2017). She repeatly spread those false claims, echoing Russian disinfo. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Trump means to wield the power of prosecution and specifically of the Tax Division for political purposes. That’s what dictators do.

House-Senate Smackdown: Mike Johnson v. Lindsey Graham But the House speaker insisted Sen. Graham is his “good friend,” while Graham described himself as a “huge fan” of Johnson.

The House and Senate are battling over which chamber will take credit for passing Trump’s campaign promises in the form of a budget bill.

Lindsey Graham and Mike Johnson appear to be each chamber’s respective champion in this Trial by Combat.

Dems should propose a law that immediately requires every fed agency to post on @bsky.app account, every outlay with a detailed description, $, and a link to existing gov sites with in depth details

Rather than trying to keep Elon out, pre-empt him so he cant miss characterize spending.

Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important

Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone

Call it a Day Of Transparency

You wouldn't dismantle the agency that protects consumers for corporate abuse and scams unless you wanted your rich buddies to be able to abuse and scam consumers.

No one can quash the legacy of the Tuskegee Airman.

Same for the Buffalo Soldiers.

That unit was sent to West Point from 1907-1947 to replace an undisciplined white unit. During segregation, they trained all the white officers who fought in WWI & II & they built a legacy.

We know their story.

The Contrarian | Jen Rubin and Norm Eisen | Substack Unflinching journalism in defense of democracy. Click to read The Contrarian, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

Have you signed up for The Contrarian yet? It’s a new media company for people who know that truth still matters.

I’m working on a Democracy Index project there-more details soon. Lots of other names you know & trust.
contrarian.substack.com

- Amplify disinformation
- Embolden right wing extremism
- Stoke division and unrest
- Buy off politicians
- Meddle in elections
- Destabilize governments
- Install compliant leaders

This is the Musk playbook.

He's using it all over...Brazil, the UK, Germany...and most successfully in America.

Have you seen the new ad featuring a Black Mrs Claus being run in the UK by Boots? It’s being slammed by right-wing groups who say it’s racist against white folks. Sounds like the reaction we’d get if the ad were run here: ‘Too woke.’

Anyway—unbothered, Merry Christmas, and enjoy the ad, everyone.

Sickening hypocrisy.

“Gabbard is worse than unfit. Her public record is as a disinformer and apologist for mass murderers. And there is nothing on the other side of the ledger. There are no positive qualifications.”

This is an oligarchy.

The founders never intended people to have this much power… EVER

Stop the oligarchy

There’s no such thing as working productively with MAGA nihilists like Elon, Vivek and RFK, Jr. They want to bring down our Republic. Don’t normalize them by pointing out a few of their good ideas.

You can’t play nice with the leopards. Let them into your house and they will eat your face.

Dane County judge strikes down Act 10, restoring public employee union bargaining rights Public employee collective bargaining rights have been restored by a Dane County judge, who ruled that several sections of Wisconsin's controversial law known as Act 10 are unconstitutional.

In case you missed it, a Wisconsin judge this week struck down former Gov. Scott Walker's Act 10 law.

The move will restore public sector workers' collective bargaining rights.

This is a moment of celebration and hope in these troubled times.

This is truly the best legal advice we can give.

Russia’s economy is in a free fall right now. Sanctions are working.

Too bad it’s probably all about to be reversed by Trump.

This is incredibly disturbing and goes against every rule of war, international law, the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and the very ethic of the military. A disciplined military goes to every length to prevent civilian deaths and having a SecDef who doesn't care is unacceptable.

I’m saying it now with hopes that it sinks in: Donald Trump cannot take any oath of office until he is granted amnesty for breaking the last one he swore. That’s just straight up in the Constitution. 2/3 of each House. That’s the bar.

Podcast episode.
LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN
By @hcrichardson.bsky.social
11/25/2024
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Bubble chart showing the ethnic makeup of Queens, NYC in 2021z

Diversity is strength, and it is joy. #IDIC IYKYK

John Cleese for the win

Trump joint chiefs chair General Milley on Hegeth’s view that women shouldn’t be in combat: “We should always be a standards-based military. Period, full stop. Nothing else matters. Nobody gives a shit if it’s a woman or guy that pulled the trigger, you’re still dead.”

Politician pleads guilty in sexual assault case after being elected to Hancock County Council HANCOCK COUNTY, Ind. — A current central Indiana county commissioner has pleaded guilty in a Nevada sexual assault case, days after being elected to his local County Council. John D. Jessup – a cur…

A Trump supporting, anti-trans, anti-gay Republican was elected commissioner of the county where I grew up. He won despite being in jail on election night for a sexual assault in Vegas.

It’s now come out that the woman he assaulted was his daughter.

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