Nancy Twomey

Always, always, ALWAYS stop at lemonade stands.

just taking tonight to really appreciate all these years of journalistic tut-tut-tutting about how over-the-top it was for anyone to focus on trump's affinity for russia and putin.

Report: Trump Had Over $280 Million In Debt Forgiven And Avoided Paying Taxes On Most Of It The debt largely came from his Chicago tower.

Nothing screams HYPOCRITE quite like Trump complaining about & gutting school loan forgiveness for grads dedicated to service & bettering our communities while he’s had HUNDREDS of MILLIONS in debt forgiven due bankruptcy 6 times.

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NOAA layoffs endanger Great Lakes, experts say: 'The drivers behind keeping us safe' NOAA layoffs could harm Great Lakes water quality and weather forecasting, raising concerns for public health and ecosystems.

NOAA layoffs endanger Great Lakes, experts say: ‘The drivers behind keeping us safe’

Vulture Capitalism Comes for Democracy The playbook Trump and Musk are following to dismantle government resembles the one used to pick apart America’s newspapers.

Taking over an institution, asset-stripping it, and selling it for parts. Usually the victim is company, but this time it's our government.

The Clinton emails team at NYT seems awful quiet about Musk's cyber security protocols

Five Failures in the Oval Office (video) America hurt itself badly today.

Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
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"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

This is the result of a guy in the Oval Office who only ran for President to stay out of jail. He is a convicted felon, an adjudicated rapist, and a horrible businessman who cheated contractors his entire life.

He has zero political skills, and it’s a disgrace that a draft dodger is the CIC.
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Putin’s lifelong dream was to somehow separate the US from NATO. But how to break up a strong alliance that stood for 80 years and continued to expand? There really was only one way to do it, he figured it out a decade ago, and played the long game. Now his guy will do it.

Convo with my friend from Hungary tonight who left after Orban’s election.

She said “your head will spin with all the wild stuff they try to pull, new things every day, but don’t take your eyes off the money. It’s all about the money, and what they’re stealing, and for whom.”

Elon Musk Hollows Government So Trump Can Refill It From Marc | In more than 30 lawsuits filed against the new administration, the government has not won one on the merits.

We cannot ignore how shockingly abnormal it is for a private citizen — who himself has contracts with the federal government — to dispatch a private army of executives, data experts and recent high schoolers to dictate policies to federal agencies. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/elon...

Marbury v Madison is a seminal case from 1803 that holds that the federal courts must determine the constitutionality of the actions of the other two branches of government. Hope that helps, Stephen.

“Apparently, the new MAGA logic is that government cannot force a private entity to bake a cake for a gay wedding because that's tyranny; but government can force a private entity to not bake a cake for a gay wedding, because that's freedom.”

Opinion | Now Will We Believe What Is Happening Right Before Our Eyes? There can be no appeasement. None.

“This anti-democratic movement has no interest in compromise. Any concessions will help consolidate the powers of a lawless presidency and entrench a new, kleptocratic, authoritarian form of government in the United States.”@katherinestewart.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...

Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024.

You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right?

Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year.

You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

Want to understand why Trump is doing something? It’s often useful to follow the vengeance. Exhibit A: The plan to purge the National Archives - a key agency in his criminal classified documents prosecution

Elon Musk’s Blitz Shakes U.S. Government as He Sweeps Through Agencies The billionaire is creating major upheaval as his team sweeps through agencies, in what has been an extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual.

What this long and detailed NYT piece calmly calls an “extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual” is in fact a blatantly unconstitutional usurpation of Congress’s Article I powers and delegation of the President’s Article II duties.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

Trump to withdraw U.S. from UN human rights council a second time Trump's orders will be signed on the same day he meets with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.

Trump will sign an executive order on Tuesday withdrawing the US from the UN Human Rights Council and stopping funding to the UN Relief and Works Agency, which provides services to Palestinian refugees in the Middle East.

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February 3, 2025 I’m going to start tonight by stating the obvious: the Republicans control both chambers of Congress: the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Musk is attempting to destroy the federal government from the inside while admitting that he is doing so. Typically excellent summary from Heather Cox Richardson.
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Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?

Trump moves to wrest control of USAID as Musk says ‘we’re shutting it down’ Billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk said early Monday that his DOGE team is in the process of closing USAID, the world’s largest provider of food assistance.

An unelected billionaire gleefully shutting down the world’s largest provider of food assistance, an agency started 60 years ago by JFK with 10,000 employees in 100 countries www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

And in the Intelligence hearing, this guy is a hero.

👇 top aviation reporter, apolitical

Pete Hegseth's first decisive action as Sec Def was to revoke the security clearances and security detail for the immediate previous chairman of the joint chiefs and kick up an investigation with the goal of reducing his rank in retirement.

We are watching Project 2025 come to life. Thankfully, pro-democracy groups are fighting back in the courts and winning.
@democracydocket.com's 17-person team tracks these lawsuits so you don't have to.

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Really love this cartoon from the great Michael De Adder. The outpouring of support coming in has been truly amazing! Thanks everybody!

BREAKING: The Department of Veterans Affairs has CANCELLED SUICIDE PREVENTION TRAINING because it includes considerations for the LGBTQ+ community.

Veterans suicide.