Trump administration firing hundreds of FAA employees despite four deadly crashes in four weeks
President moves to cut Federal Aviation Administration workforce, including safety workers, as critics say public could be endangered
βThe Trump administration has begun firing hundreds of employees at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), including some who maintain critical air traffic control infrastructure, despite four deadly crashes since inauguration day.β
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Richest man in the world muses about Jailing reporters, nothing to see here
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NO!!!!
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βRed Lineβ
I've framed a few of the illustrations from the book.
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This is so incredibly insane
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a woman in a suit is smiling while standing in front of a microphone .
ALT: a woman in a suit is smiling while standing in front of a microphone .
We could have had a competent president, lower drug prices, home buyer assistance, a Cabinet filled with qualified adults and not sociopaths, global respect, and national sovereignty...
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. Itβs not intellectually superior. Itβs the virus theyβre trying to infect us with. NO
31.01.2025 19:04 β π 146797 π 24314 π¬ 4215 π 1481
Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies
Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.
BREAKING NEWS: Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.
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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker blocks Jan. 6 rioters from state jobs after Trump pardons.
In a written directive, the Democratic Illinois governor tells his hiring office that "no one who attempts to overthrow a government should serve in government."
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
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i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isnβt just uncouth or βcontroversialβ but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
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President Trumpβs executive order suspending foreign aid is reckless and cruel
Compassion, not chaos, should guide foreign aid reform.
A conservative voice making the case against suspension of foreign aid, Minnesotan Ward Brehm was once the keynote speaker at the national prayer breakfastβ¦..
President Trumpβs executive order suspending foreign aid is reckless and cruel.
www.startribune.com/president-tr...
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The FBIβs core values, including integrity, compassion, fairness, and allegiance to the Constitution - and oh, yeah, diversity, are being painted over at the FBI Academy. Source: NYT.
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The owl is hooting in the rain.
Los Angeles.
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Chicken fierceness! Our son and daughter-in-lawβs unflappable (and flapping) brigade: Mildred, Boss and Cocoa Melon. Boss is the BOSS. Have you ever been charged by a rooster. Peck-a-boo-hoo! π
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Where is the line between perhaps over-reacting and numbness.
24.01.2025 04:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I painted this the first time Trump burned us by exiting the Paris Climate Agreement.
Well I guess some things never change.
βLeaving Parisβ (2017) & 2025
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