Stuff to think about...
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IF I don't come back to fb... I have enjoyed the connections I have made over the years. I hope my restaurant and shop pages helped the community.
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I wish everyone well! PR

I will ponder how to proceed because TODAY I am not sure I want to give them the verification information they are asking for. Just today a new CEO of meta was announced and her 'close' affiliation with the executive branch gives me pause for thought. Again, why now? Why today?

I am not completely sure WHY, and why NOW...but maybe because I have three pages that I post on and from and they want me to prove I am 'who' I am.

This affects my name account Pat Riley, my restaurant page for Cambria, Cambria Restaurants To Go & Delivery Menus and my Shop Cambria Village page. I have had the two additional pages since 2020 and my personal page for over 12 years.

1/12/2026
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Late in the day today when trying to access facebook I received notice that my account had been suspended for 180 days and may be permanently deleted after that!

Civil Service Strong: Resources for Civil Servants Effective. Impartial. Resilient. The civil service comprises dedicated, nonpartisan federal employees who work tirelessly across the country and around the world to ensure the effective delivery of go...

If you’re a government employee, thank you for your service & here’s a resource you may find helpful. Stay strong. www.civilservicestrong.org

Musk associates given unfettered access to private data of government employees The Musk-connected political hires include two recent high school graduates

1. BREAKING

Several of Elon Musk’s associates installed at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) — including two recent high school graduates — have received unprecedented access to federal human resources databases containing sensitive personal information for millions of federal employees.

Just spitballing, but things that could happen today:
*Court injunction protecting USAID
*Dems demand hearings on Musk's role
*Someone introduce articles of impeachment
*Dem officeholders go to USAID offices with USAID workers
*Refuse to conduct any more Senate confirmations until this is resolved

(Long 🧵) Ever wondered what tariffs are and how they work?

How do they impact your life, the United States, and the world? Why should you care? Let’s break it down in simple terms so you can join the conversation! 👇👇

(1/33) #Tariffs #TradePolicy #Economy #TrumpTariffs

TRUDEAU: “I want to speak directly to Americans — our closest friends and neighbors… yes, this will harm Canadians, but it will also have real consequences for you.” #TrumpTradeWar

NEW: Federal workers are starting to receive a copy of the court's restraining order against the Trump administration barring the regime from freezing federal grants and financial assistance. Excellent work, and worth the read:

If each Treasury payee is a separate record, and there are, say, 68,000,000 social security payees (as is estimated), then at $5000 per violation, it seems like Elon could be penalized $340 billion if he unlawfully accessed their Treasury records...

The Logic of Destruction And how to resist it

The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

YouTube video by Sandi Bachom Timeline: The National Guard Was Requested (And Denied) 14 Times At The Capitol Riots 1/6/21

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Kash Patel is lying lying lying In DC the only people who can deploy the National Guard are the secretary of defense and the president and they denied 14 calls for the National Guard. This is proof. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr3P...

Week 12 — The Return If reading this week’s list feels frenetic, that is because it is capturing the mood of the country. The return of Trump marks the return of his chaos and dysfunction, as if America is living in some ...

What a week, and not a good one for our democracy. It is all recorded here - and it is important to read through the details of what they are doing. Please catch up on all the broken norms, and spread the word! We need to be awake and informed to fight back!
theweeklylist.org/weekly-list/...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia

Earlier on b sky someone reposted from a page that has Hypatia as part of the name...now connected with that page so posting this. Click to view whole painting. Info in comments about Hypatia
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Pat Riley
The End of Hypatia
acrylic on canvas . 24"x48" . 2012
all rights reserved . private collection

This is fine. We’re fine. Everything is fine.

To call the pardons a "reward" for loyalty misses the point entirely of why he is doing it. Trump, like his fascist models Hitler, Mussolini, etal, is building a private Army, a combination of Nazi Germany's Brownshirts and Italy's Blackshirts, the "Squadristi."

open.substack.com/pub/lancefro...

It is real if you mean did this happen.

January 14, 2025
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174 pages . pdf . Report
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www.justice.gov/storage/Repo...

also, thank you Seana Davis.

Reposted by Glenn Kessler, thank you.

Reposted by Cyber Detective, thank you.

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Reposted by emptywheel, thank you.

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget

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Glen Martin Taylor' works show very well here on b sky!
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@glenmartintaylor.bsky.social

To the leaders of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE): As stewards of our nation’s parks, we stand firmly against any attempt to undermine the mission of the National Park Service. (1/7)