Pamela Kind

Q for those w experience in politics or diplomacy:

Is there *any* other example of a US prez, on US soil, letting a foreign leader control the mic for a very long time, in his own language, w/o consecutive translation, before letting US prez say anything all?

I don't know of any.

Humiliating.

Shell Games and Smokescreens: Trump’s America on Full Garish Display Billionaires hoard, Ukraine waits, the planet burns, but ordinary people still fight, and win.

Trump’s America on full garish display: #Medicaid cuts, billionaire tax breaks, weapons freezes for #Ukraine, climate data erased, all under a convicted felon president who’s too busy hoarding gold to care if the planet burns.

But #Wisconsin just won on abortion.
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If Stephen Miller can lie about Abrego Garcia and his case on national TV, he can do it in federal court under oath. Judge Xinis should demand his appearance, question him under oath, then jail him for Contempt when he commits Perjury.

This lawless administration has to be subjected to rule of law.

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen is demanding a meeting with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele over the detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and says he’ll go to El Salvador himself if the Marylander isn’t returned.

What did America's largest corporations do with their spoils from Trump's tax scam? Between 2017 and 2022:

-Stock buybacks jumped 98%
-Dividends increased by 40%
-Meanwhile, wages only grew by 14%

In some years these corporations paid their CEOs more than they paid in taxes.

This keeps getting worse and worse.

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The GOP talking point today is:

"It's going to take unconventional methods to get us out of the mess we've been in the past 4 years"

"The mess"
- booming stock markets
- unprecedented job growth
- strong GDP
- wage growth
- plateauing inflation
- strong allies & trading partners
- a sane POTUS

THE 10 WHO VOTE TO CENSURE AL GREEN ARE A DISGRACE

This is simply incredible:
Christiane Amanpour said reports indicate that the Trump regime reached out to opposition leaders in Ukraine to try to get them to challenge Zelensky, and they said no.
This is election interference at best - like trying to start a coup! He is following Putin’s playbook!

There it is. Raskin always on point.

Trump and Musk are so anti-American and reckless they've got Americans rooting for Canada, Norway and Ukraine.

Congrats, MAGA. Brilliant stuff.

Please fold this into stories about Trump’s little performance yesterday.

I fear some of you are still not quite understanding that the purpose of DOGE is not actually to make the federal government more efficient, it's to privatize what they can make money off of and then dismantle the rest.

WOW. After yesterday’s Oval Office ambush of President Zelensky, Haltbakk Bunkers, one of Norway’s leading marine fuel providers, announced that it will no longer refuel U.S. Navy vessels, urging other European firms to follow suit.

The United States is weaker and more isolated than ever.

Yea we know

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

Boycotts have a long and remarkably successful history in the US, and the middle class that Trump seems determined to destroy has the whip hand as far as the viability of most (though not all) products is concerned.

CALL TO ACTION: Call your representatives at (202) 224-3121 and ask what criteria they plan to use when “vetting” their constituents.

Tesla lost enough value today that it could have fully funded USAID for a year.

This is an enormous scandal on par and maybe worse than the Eric Adams scandal.

Former defense chiefs denounce Trump’s ‘reckless’ Pentagon firings Jim Mattis and four other former defense secretaries called Trump’s ouster of Gen. C.Q. Brown and other top military officers dangerous and unjustified.

Five former defense secretaries denounced President Trump’s firing last week of the Joint Chiefs chairman and several other senior military officials, saying that the officers were “fired for purely partisan reasons” and urging Congress to hold hearings.

Sanders: It Hardly Matters Who Trump Picks for Labor Secretary When Elon Musk Is Actually in Charge “If you want to discuss policies in the Department of Labor, let’s bring in the real secretary,” Sanders said.

“The most important point of this hearing is, let me be very clear: Today, we are not voting on who the next Secretary of Labor is. The next Secretary of Labor, the next Secretary of Education, the next Secretary of Housing, the next Secretary of the Treasury is Elon Musk.”

This doesn’t exist and will literally save $0

Just want to make you all aware that weeks before hurricane season, DOGE has fired 1,000 at FEMA and a dozen senior officials are leaving, and today NOAA fired 800 employees, with more possibly on Friday.

DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA.

Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.

Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.

See how this works?

Yay!! A federal judge in California sided with a coalition of unions, temporarily barring the Office of Personnel Management from ordering federal agencies to terminate probationary workers, stating that the firings were ‘illegal, should be stopped, and rescinded.’