Ugh

I hope you’ll be more active on this platform soon! This American is about to leave meta. ✌️

The foreign policy of a nation often reflects its leader. Our foreign policy is now churlish, acquisitive, brutish, impulsive, reckless, callous, boorish, expansionist, shallow, ignorant, exploitive, nasty, dishonest, manipulative, corrupt and unethical. A reflection of our president.

1) trimmed the dog’s nails
2) cleaned the house
3) went to work even though I’m a teacher and it’s Saturday because there is too much to do
4) went the grocery store
5) supported local musicians

That was just today. Did he want my whole week?

if you’re looking for a kick in the pants to get you motivated, these were handed out at CPAC today

We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.

This is more like it — make it clear what’s going on is already illegal

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Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

Elon Musk now has access to your Social Security number. The world’s richest man has gained access to the confidential personal information of every taxpayer in the United States.

NATIONAL SECURITY NEWS ALERT RINGING THE ALARM: THE POLITICIZATION OF THE FBI

BREAKING: Nat'l intelligence experts are ringing the alarm on the politicization of the FBI and other intelligence agencies. Hear from three of them now. **This post is free, and we urge you to share it with those who may not otherwise have access to the information revealed.**

Dystopian.

Want to know what a federal funding freeze does? It takes money from families that just lost their home in a wildfire. It takes resources away from vets. It leaves 72M Americans without access to healthcare. Trump, Elon, & their billionaire buddies laugh their way to the bank while Americans suffer.

Extremely long tweet by Colombian president Gutavo Petro, auto-translated from Spanish. Continued in next post. Trump, I don't really like traveling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some worthy things, I like going to the black neighborhoods of Washington, there I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like bullshit to me, because they should unite. I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller. I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, in the history of the US, are memorable and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are inside the US as well as inside my country. I don't like your oil, Trump, you are going to end the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a shot of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I am not, nor is any Colombian. So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can, with your economic strength and your arrogance, try to carry out a coup d'état as they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, 1 resisted torture and I resist you. I do not want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you cannot accompany me, I will go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you did not understand it, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of whom I am one, perhaps the last. You will kill me, but I will survive in my town which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom. You do not like our freedom, okay. I do not shake hands with white slavers. I shake the

This goes hard

Genius.

Keep me posted

January 25, 2025 We have all earned a break for this week, but as some of you have heard me say, I write these letters with an eye to what a graduate student will need to know in 150 years.

January 25, 2025

Never stop thinking this is wrong. Do not normalize.

Trump ousts at least 12 independent inspectors general in late-night purge The dismissals appeared to violate federal law, which requires Congress to receive 30 days’ notice of any intent to fire a Senate-confirmed inspector general.

ICYMI:

Trump's late-night purge of 17 independent Inspectors General who serve as watchdogs against government waste, fraud, and abuse just furthers his dismantling of any checks and balances system.

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Is hell freezing over? Is that why Florida and the Deep South got snow? Is that why I’m on the same page as Mitch McConnell on something?

Truest thing I’ve read this year.

BREAKING: Pete Hegseth is confirmed as Defense Secretary after VP Vance steps in and breaks the tie. Republican Senators Murkowski, Collins, and McConnell joined all Democrats in voting NO.

The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.

Costco's shareholders overwhelmingly reject anti-DEI proposal Costco's shareholders voted overwhelmingly to reject a motion that would seek report on the risks of diversity, equity and inclusion in the company's hiring practices.

Costco’s shareholders voted overwhelmingly to reject a proposal from a conservative think tank aimed at getting the company to roll back its diversity hiring practices.

“Breaking things is easy, but it is harder to build them.”

YouTube video by PoliticsGirl Male and Female Only

You can’t just sign an executive order decreeing people you don’t like no longer exist…
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Image is a photo of Elon musk doing a nazi salute.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

This is what I think of when I think of what I was taught about the love of Jesus…

Look up what Mariann Edgar Budde said to the felon at church yesterday.

The Republican Party is nothing like the Christianity I was taught. They are hate and anger. I was taught love and peace.