Sherry O'Keefe

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Workers from the Department of Government Efficiency preparing to enter the offices of the U.S. African Development Foundation after U.S. Marshals opened the doors on Thursday afternoon.Credit...

Participating in this will dog them their entire lives.

Federal Protections Board Orders USDA to Reinstate 5k Workers Read more here.

A board that protects the rights of federal employees ordered the Department of Agriculture to reinstate over 5,000 probationary workers fired by the Trump administration as the board investigates their terminations.

With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:

A Thoroughly Confused Country: An Introduction to Class Politics and a Way Forward Americans suffer from a lack of class consciousness, which makes them easy prey for manipulation

The wealthy have intentionally destroyed class consciousness so that they can exploit the vast majority of people.

If we’re going to fight back and ultimately win this class war, it’s time we got familiar with how our politics actually work.

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/a-thorough...

DOGE “seemed unsure” of what USAID programs they cut and is now attempting to reverse some of the cuts, says @propublica.org reporter Brett Murphy. “This is the opposite of a careful review."

YouTube video by Gregory Mullins Claude Malhuret, Senator of the French Republic, speaks the truth about what is happening in the US

ICYMI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmDV...

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

French Senator Claude Malhuret:

"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

Alina Habba tweeted ‘Nothing can ever stop this man from fighting for our country’! David Simon replied with ‘Bone spurs’.

This is next level! 💥

“My GOP colleagues must look at what is right in front of them – from nominees who won’t follow court orders to the firing of dedicated FBI agents. They need to act, not continue to acquiesce to the President.”

Thank you @amyklobuchar.com for this strong #CupOfJoe! More of this please!

Evil.

YouTube video by Bartje Bartmans Bernard Herrmann - Moby Dick Cantata (1938)

Bernard Herrmann - Moby Dick Cantata (1938) - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLR2...

Arizona AG Kris Mayes, New Mexico AG Raul Torrez, and Oregon AG Dan Rayfield will begin holding Community Impact Hearings — a national series of townhalls "to hear from the public about the impact of federal firings and DOGE funding freezes across the country."

The first will be in Phoenix March 5.

💥 BREAKING: At John Deere's annual shareholders meeting today, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal brought by the same group that targeted Costco and Apple. An anti-DEI proposal from the NCPPR received less than 1 percent of votes.

Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out

"daddy, what did you do in the war"

son, i archived all 6,793 videos from the Kennedy Center before they disappeared from the internet

we all did our part

As usual, Donnie’s brain is playing shorthanded.

Happy Black History Month all year!! We are not going back.
(Traveling safely may be another story).

#USDemocracy in flight.

Timely

Kash Patel is Director of the FBI.

Here's what's coming...

Patel will use the FBI to investigate (possibly prosecute) perceived political opponents of Donald Trump, including former Biden Administration officials, current Democratic lawmakers and anyone that criticizes the Trump Administration.

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.

Democracy requires your courage.

The End of the Postwar World Trump and Vance are sending a dark message to America’s allies.

The Trump administration is now bringing the postwar era to an end. No one should be surprised: this is what they said they would do. America's European and Asian allies need to adjust, quickly.
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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PSA- Gov. Braun has banned the distribution of the Imagination Station books in Indiana.

For those who do not know, Imagination Station is a program started by Dolly Parton which provides a free book each month to children from 0-5.

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau exists to protect Americans from predatory lenders, junk fees, and fraud.

Shutting it down does nothing more than give sketchy companies a free pass to prey on the public.

We’re not going to let that happen.

JUST IN:

Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status.

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👀 DOJ acknowledges making two significant errors during a court hearing last week on efforts to dismantle USAID

1) It said only 500 employees had been placed on leave. Actual number was 2,140.

2) Said only future contracts were stopped. Existing contracts were also stopped.

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA GWYNNE A. WILCOX, Plaintiff, v. DONALD J. TRUMP, in his official capacity as President of the United States, and MARVIN E. KAPLAN, in his official capacity as Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, Defendants. Case No. 1:25-cv-00334-BAH MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR EXPEDITED SUMMARY JUDGMENT INTRODUCTION President Trump’s unprecedented removal of plaintiff Gwynne A. Wilcox from her position as a member of the National Labor Relations Board openly defies unambiguous language in the National Labor Relations Act, ninety years of established Supreme Court precedent, and more than a century of settled practice. Under the NLRA, the President may remove a member of the Board only “upon notice and hearing, for neglect of duty or malfeasance in office, but for no other cause.” 29 U.S.C. § 153(a). And since Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, 295 U.S. 602 (1935), the Supreme Court has repeatedly upheld Congress’s power to impose just such limits on the President’s authority to remove members of independent government agencies like the NLRB and the Federal Reserve Board.

As Trump continues seeking to fire people illegally, an update in Gwynne Wilcox's lawsuit challenging Trump's effort to fire her from the NLRB. After Wilcox filed a motion for expedited summary judgment this morning, the judge told the parties to confer & propose a briefing schedule by 2p tomorrow.

What the actual *?! The White House has designated Mr. Musk’s office, the United States DOGE Service, as an entity protected from public records requests and most judicial intervention until at least 2034, by classifying its documents as presidential records.

Open Data & Democracy Tools - Plural Policy Use our free democracy tools and open data to discover politics in your area, including bill search, find your legislators, and API access.

Even if we don’t stop RFK Jr’s confirmation, it’s still important to tell your senators how cutting infectious disease research funding and spreading vaccine misinformation will hurt people in their states.

Contact their local offices. Save this link for the long haul.

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