C. Zerr

There's going to war on faulty intelligence, then there's going to war in absence of intelligence, and then there's this:

Going to war in the face of contrary intelligence

Vice Chair of Senate Intelligence Committee asking one of the most important questions👇

Jeffries: "The use of military force which is offensive in nature must be approved by the House and Senate. That's according to the Constitution. It's not optional, Donald. It's not ... Donald Trump and the administration chose to ignore the Constitution."

The World Cup meets Trump's travel ban If the United States bans citizens from a quarter of the world’s countries from entering, a boycott of the 2026 World Cup games in the U.S. might be in order.

"If the United States bans citizens from a quarter of the world’s countries from entering, a boycott of the 2026 World Cup games in the U.S. might be in order."

Read @shalisemyoung.bsky.social's new piece about how Trump's latest travel ban threatens the world's favorite sporting event.

June 22, 2025 Last night, exactly a week after his military parade fizzled and more than five million Americans turned out to protest his administration, President Donald J.

June 22, 2025

May 28, 2025 Today’s news continues yesterday’s.

May 28, 2025

ICE is teaming up with HUD to separate families—evicting immigrant parents from homes their U.S. citizen kids still qualify for.
It’s anti-family. It’s Cruel and wrong.

Let’s just use housing policy to as a weapon…to scare, exclude, and remove people without having to pass new laws.

A new variant of COVID-19 may be driving up cases in some parts of the world, WHO says A new variant of COVID-19 is circulating in parts of the world and may be driving an increase in cases in the eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asia and western Pacific regions.

A new variant of COVID-19 is circulating in parts of the world and may be driving an increase in cases in the eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asia and western Pacific regions.

staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch

🧢 @trumpfile.org

Also a valid point. The Library of Congress is in the legislative, not executive, branch.

Colleen Shogan was the first woman confirmed as archivist of the United States; she was fired in 2025 by Donald Trump.

Carla Hayden is the first woman to be confirmed as librarian of Congress; she was fired by Donald Trump in 2025.

At the start of this year, three of the institutions most important to American cultural preservation—the National Archives, the Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History—were run by women for the first time.

As of today, Trump has fired two of those three.

May 8, 2025 Today, on the second day of the papal conclave, the cardinal electors—133 members of the College of Cardinals who were under the age of 80 when Pope Francis died on April 21—elected a new pope.

May 8, 2025

Trump’s acting FEMA chief fired day after breaking from the administration | CNN Politics Cameron Hamilton, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, was escorted out of FEMA’s headquarters on Thursday, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation.

The message is clear,go against this administration & you will find yourself out of a job. We were not the biggest Cam fans but he did grow on us a little and he went down standing on integrity (one of FEMA's core values) by refusing to capitulate to this regimes agenda.

www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/p...

Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

RIP American science: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions, layoff staff, and terminate more funded grants.

Our NOAA Climate Adaptation Partnership for the Northwest region was terminated this week. I'm so proud of the work we did to support the climate resilience efforts of frontline communities and Tribal Nations. And I'm deeply concerned for what the loss of this support means for NW communities.

I was listening to the “The Lorehounds” Andor podcast, & this stuck:

“They use tools of self-centership to keep a hold on people that they wouldn't be able to do w/o those people doing it to themselves.

The might of the Empire is important, but so is the fact that a lot of people wont fight back”

Let’s go to Mars!

Ok but first let’s cancel the mission that was gonna bring back Martian soil to help us learn more about…Mars.

Cool? Cool!!

Yay we did it! 🫠

Democratic senators press Trump administration on how it will protect endangered species Three Democratic U.S. senators are asking the Trump administration to explain how it analyzed a proposed rule to eliminate habitat protections for endangered and threatened species — and whether indus...

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Cuts have eliminated more than a dozen US government health-tracking programs More than a dozen data-gathering programs that track deaths and disease appear to have been eliminated in the tornado of layoffs and proposed budget cuts in the Trump administration’s first 100 days.

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CDC reports 216 child deaths this flu season, the most in 15 years More U.S. children have died this flu season than at any time since the swine flu pandemic 15 years ago.

apnews.com/article/flu-...

Trump says he's going to reopen Alcatraz prison. Doing so would be difficult and costly President Donald Trump says he's directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a California island that's been closed for more than 60 years.

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Trump says he's unsure whether people in the US are entitled to due process President Donald Trump said he was unsure whether people in the U.S. are entitled to due process rights guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution as his administration pushes aggressively to deport immigrants who are in the country illegally and other non-citizens.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

(1/4) The CG is planning on removing/altering many AToN (Aids to Navigation) in the Northeast, citing "modernization". The public comment period for these proposed changes is open, and the best thing that people can do is make their voices heard.

We gotta get loud about this 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

Looking forward to seeing everyone out there for tomorrow’s May Day protest!

We know the protests have been coming fast, but that’s because things in the U.S. are getting worse, and protests show the strength of our movement.

Memorial wall to fallen USAID staffers is removed from the agency’s former building - WTOP News WASHINGTON (AP) — Contractors hired by the Trump administration have removed a memorial wall to fallen staffers from the now-closed headquarters of the U.S. Agency for International Development…

The Memorial Wall honoring USAID employees who lost their lives in service was taken down today. We will not forget. 😢🇺🇲

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Huntsville auto plant pauses production of SUV to counter Trump tariffs The company did not say how long the suspension will last.

Alabama is now in the ‘find out’ stage

Mazda’s Huntsville, Alabama plant just hit pause thanks to Trump’s tariffs.

Nothing says “great economy” like factories shutting down because the guy you overwhelmingly voted for doesn’t know shit about business.

www.al.com/business/202...

How the U.S. Naval Academy Is Bending the Knee to Trump (Gift Article) Even before the presidential election, the school began preparing for Donald Trump’s potential return to power. Now faculty members are resigning in protest.

“No matter what you have done before,” Professor William McBride wrote to Annapolis’s Superintendent Adm. Yvette Davids, “your legacy will be that of a careerist who banned Maya Angelou but retained Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

Trump Administration Incompetence 💣

The worst thing you can do right now is hide or go quiet.

Stand up and talk back.