Polygraph testing of federal employees is picking up again, and it’s starting to look pretty sketchy. At the FBI, the focus has shifted. These tests aren’t just about clearances or access to sensitive info anymore.

My painting PATCHWORK FIELDS

Disabled veteran who is a US citizen was taken during Camarillo immigration raid, family says Concerned family members are desperate for answers after they say a disabled U.S. veteran and citizen was taken during a federal immigration raid at a cannabis farm in Camarillo.

Concerned family members are desperate for answers after they say a disabled U.S. veteran and citizen was taken during a federal immigration raid at a cannabis farm in Camarillo.

This statement grossly undervalues the sacrifice many people and families will have to make to stay afloat. There is no money to scrimp.

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson The Declaration of Independence | Journey to American Democracy

A video about the Declaration of Independence. I'm proud of this one.

The Senate just passed a bill that rips health care away from hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians, puts our rural hospitals in danger, leaves people hungrier, and rolls back progress on our clean energy economy that will cost us thousands of good paying jobs.

BREAKING: Suspect in “targeted” Minnesota shootings has been identified as Vance Boelter. A manhunt is ongoing.

Sen. Padilla is forcefully removed from Noem's news conference on immigration raids and handcuffed Democratic U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla of California has been forcefully removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s news conference in Los Angeles and handcuffed by officers as he tried to spea...

Senator Padilla did not commit any crime. He was simply doing his job. Dissent and the separation of powers are essential to our democracy—not threats to it.

Greenville has a long road ahead. People are still largely uneducated about what's going on. No Kings Day!!

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Reports and video show flash-bangs thrown into piles of debris just before a car caught fire, strongly suggesting it was law enforcement, not protesters, who sparked it. More details are coming. Don’t let them control the narrative. Thank you to everyone sharing footage, always record everything.

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Meta found a new way to violate your privacy. Here’s what you can do. Even hardened digital privacy veterans said they were surprised by Meta’s scuzzy tactics.

Researchers recently caught Meta using tactics that one expert called similar to those of digital crooks to secretly compile logs of people’s web browsing on Android devices.

Here are a few ways to safeguard your digital privacy:

June 6, 2025 Last night, billionaire Elon Musk indicated he would be willing to paper over his fight with President Donald J.

June 6, 2025

This wasn't an accident, it was a statement. US Marshall's enforce federal judge rulings.

I agree

Guess he will have to buy a pardon.

Anna and I were heartbroken to learn of the early morning mass shooting in Catawba County and are praying for the victims and their families. I have spoken with Sheriff Brown to offer support to make sure the public is safe and the perpetrator is brought to justice.

The DOJ is working to suppress your vote—starting in North Carolina Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice just filed its first lawsuit under the Help America Vote Act, which was passed in Congress in 2002 to make reforms to the voting process. Given ...

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You beat me to it.

May 26, 2025 President Donald J.

May 26, 2025

What?!?! The EPA has drafted a plan to eliminate all pollution controls from coal and gas-fired power plants. The agency claims these plants “do not contribute significantly” to dangerous pollution or climate change, arguing their emissions are a small and declining share of global totals.

Phang: It’s time for federal judges to acknowledge that they have lifetime appointments—and that should give them the courage to uphold the rule of law, but also to put some damn teeth into the court orders they’re issuing.

it’s time that we start seeing action from the judiciary.

Grow some balls

Congratulations!

May 20, 2025 Today was a rough day for administration officials on Capitol Hill as Senate committees held hearings on the 2026 budget requests for the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Health and ...

May 20, 2025

Everyone wants more affordable housing, but no one agrees about how to do it.

One good place to start is by understanding why housing is so expensive to begin with.

May 10, 2025 Those of us who are truly lucky have more than one mother.

May 10, 2025

Public Comment Toolkit The Trump Administration issued a new policy that would make it easy to fire hundreds of thousands of federal employees and replace them with political loyalists. This would make it easier to weaken our national security and dismantle the medical and Social Security benefits, clean water and safety regulations that took America out of the 1800s. We can stop them. Use this guide to submit a comment by May 23 How: Trump’s Office of Personnel Management is required to solicit public comments before the policy takes effect. OPM must review the public comments and respond to significant comments 2. If OPM does not follow these steps, federal courts can stop the policy. Commenting is your opportunity to make your voice heard and fight against this dangerous policy before it harms millions of Americans. Comments helped fight previous policies and can do so again: For example, Health and Human Services proposed reducing certain Medicare reimbursements for health care providers. Commenters pointed out errors with the studies cited by HHS. A court struck down the HHS rule because of the issues pointed out by comments. 3. What the policy does Removes civil-service protections from a new category of federal employees called Schedule Policy/Career. P/C employees become at-will workers. They lose their right to challenge terminations or appeal reclassification to the Merit Systems Protection Board. Allows agencies to identify and recommend "policy-influencing" roles into Schedule P/C. Gives the President sole authority to reclassify federal employees as P/C and removes their ability to challenge reclassification. Why it matters. Makes mass firings between administrations more likely, which weakens government expertise and efficiency. Politicizing government functions weakens continuity and the delivery of public services. The policy will remove safeguards for those refusing to break the law in favor of partisan outcomes.

Want a tangible way to resist? Here's your homework.

Follow the instructions in this super guide from our amazing friends at @fedworkersunited.bsky.social to comment by May 23 on the proposed Schedule F rule, which would remove civil service protections for a huge swath of the federal workforce.

May 3, 2025 I had thought to post a picture tonight and then realized that today was the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby.

May 3, 2025