Christine

It’s time for the people to start the process of recalling Republican Senators and Representatives that are not standing up to Trump by initiating recall petitions. Show them that Musk’s threat to primary them is not the only way to lose their seat. Start with this asshole. fb.watch/yJ8C07dD1w/?...

Nearly every Republican in the Senate voted to overturn a Biden Admin rule that limited bank overdraft fees to $5.

This rule, initially established by the now gutted CFPB, was expected to save consumers $5 billion annually.

The GOP is the party of junk fees.

I’m an in-house attorney. I make hiring decisions on outside law firms. You’d better believe my decisions will be influenced by which firms caved to Trump.

As an in-house attorney who has decision-making authority for outside law firm spend, I definitely will be considering whether a firm has capitulated to Trump in making decisions about what firm to send our legal work. I encourage other in-house attorneys to do the same.

I left X a while back, but I’m glad Dem politicians are posting there, otherwise it’ll just be an echo chamber for MAGAts. Maybe if they see what Dems are about, they’ll potentially flip? Or is that too much to hope for?

This is in advance of a corporate spin off. Comcast is moving MSNBC, CNBC and USA to a separate entity. Why? It’s being prepared for sale. What billionaire could be in the market to buy a news channel? It rhymes with
Felon Dusk.

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.

Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

That’s not really a great idea. Then only the already wealthy will be willing/able to serve in Congress, or they’ll be even more beholden to corporate money or they’ll be on the grift because otherwise they won’t be able to afford to take the job.

To the DOJ/FBI who remain,

Your new bosses are going to order you to do unconstitutional things. Unlawful things. Things to achieve their fascist agenda.

Claiming "you were only following orders" did not cut it at the Nuremberg trials.

It will not work here either.

Proceed accordingly.

America

MSNBC Cancels Joy Reid’s Show in Major Shake-Up Ms. Reid’s 7 p.m. program will be replaced by a panel show co-hosted by Symone Sanders Townsend, Alicia Menendez and Michael Steele.

NY Times reported that Comcast is spinning MSNBC off to a new entity with CNBC and USA Network. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/b... Why? I’m betting they are going to sell that entity to a new owner, and I’m guessing it’ll be Elon Musk.

No conflict of interest here. 🙄

Rampage the house jaguar

Screenshot of the district database show committee decisions to retain: Crank, Eleanor & Park, Thirteen Reasons Why, Tricks, and Twisted

More good news in Santa Rosa…

While more than 75 titles are pending review based on the objections of a few, those that have been given the opportunity to go before a committee have all been retained.

Most recently, Tricks by @ellenhopkins.bsky.social and Twisted by @halseanderson.bsky.social

So while Trump was speaking today from the WH, he mentioned that Larry Ellison and Rupert Murdoch were there with him, and he effusively praised them. Is that what you call an #ovaljerk?

Birds of a feather…

LBJ was asked why poor, white Americans repeatedly vote against their own best interests?

Response:

"If you can convince lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you”

The January 6 pardons are turning out great.

“You can’t think the thoughts if you don’t have the words to think them with.” To add to that, when they’ve made it so the masses don’t have the words to think for themselves, they’ll tell the masses what to think. And then you have a reality show clown as a president.

Someone summarized a quote from Orwell’s 1984 today, and it really resonated with me. I’ve recently been thinking about how Republicans have been working very hard to de-fund, undermine, malign and destroy public education since the 1980s with the result being exactly what Orwell predicted. 1/2

If you are eligible to donate blood and in CA, I urge you to do so, especially if in So CA. I hear there have been a significant number of injuries in the fires in LA, which means blood supplies are going to be depleted. It’s a small thing you can do to help. Pic for attention.

The Banned Book Club It's time we take a stand to stop book bans altogether

Find out if any books are banned from public libraries in your area and donate to help fund access to banned books here: www.thebannedbookclub.info

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Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg is a library of free eBooks.

More free ebooks here: www.gutenberg.org

Another source for free access to banned books… dp.la

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Book banning pisses me off, so I’m going to ascend into the @bsky.app by posting links to free sources of online books in hopes that people in places where book banning is happening will find online sources of banned books. openlibrary.org