Ian Thomas

Not all heroes wear capes.

When elected officials see mass protests and then immediately adjust their behavior in response, that is a good thing. That's how this should work!

Celebrate Blumenthal for this. And then ask your own Dem senator what they're doing. And what Schumer is doing.

I would stand up and slap him in the face, no hesitation.

This article came out 4yrs ago!
#krasnov

‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy The KGB ‘played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality’, Yuri Shvets, a key source for a new book, tells the Guardian

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...

Some federal workers are ‘getting wealthy at taxpayer expense,’ says Elon Musk, whose companies have received at least $20 billion from the government Musk’s DOGE wants to cut tens of thousands of federal workers, and now it’s aiming at people he thinks are too rich.

Elon Musk, whose businesses operate on taxpayer cash like a billionaire welfare scheme, wants you to believe federal workers are the REAL freeloaders.

Sure, Elon. 🙄

Bold words coming from a guy whose entire empire is basically a government-sponsored side hustle. 1/4

And they make how much in profit a year?! FFS

Here’s Who’s Paid Homage To Trump At Mar-A-Lago Since His Election Billionaires, foreign leaders, Cabinet picks, governors and lawmakers have converged on the president-elect’s Palm Beach estate.

NEW: "Here’s Who’s Paid Homage To Trump At Mar-A-Lago Since His Election"

More than 125 foreign officials, Cabinet picks, governors, and lawmakers have flocked to Palm Beach since Trump's re-election.

FFS!

Huntington Beach CA City Atty Michael Gates, a white christian nationalist & election denier, is headed to DC to work with Harmeet Dhillon at DOJ Civil Rights

He has a history attacking local elections/voting

You can be sure former Rep Michelle Steel's husband Shawn helped him get the gig

The Coup d’État Has Begun Friends,

open.substack.com/pub/michaelm...

Of course it’s a coup Miss the obvious, lose your republic

open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

James Madison, a fellow epilepsy sufferer, must be rolling in his grave.

We are more powerful than they are. NEVER forget it.

I don’t understand why they aren’t arresting Musk and his goons! Like, WTF?!

An unelected, erratic, ketamine-addled billionaire with far right/white nationalist views has taken control of the personnel and payment systems of the United States government. Not an exaggeration, not hyperbole.

Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

It’s coming hard, fast, and mostly, illegal…

Elon and clowns have locked Office of Personnel Management government employees out of their computers. Some senior career OPM employees have had their access revoked to some data systems.

#WTAF

#SheShed

www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

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Kash Patel raised money for January 6 insurrectionists who attacked law enforcement.

I asked him to look those officers in the eye and tell them he was proud of what he did.

He couldn't.

PLEASE NOTE: Bribes are now called "settlements."

Yikes

We can learn from this. Lets push back on every awfulness everyone !

This Hannah Arendt quote feels appropriate right now

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."

🤦‍♂️
write their names down, for being complicit!

One of my fourth graders asked a friend if he and his family wanted to live at his house since they are scared of the cold men coming to their house.

The cold men are ICE.

Kids may not understand it all right now, but they are listening.

For you Newbies to the Sky!

go.bsky.app/QGMYerF

BREAKING: ICE just announced it is pausing the hotline where people can call to report undocumented immigrants because 90% of the calls are from people reporting Elon Musk.

BREAKING:

Attorneys General from CA, NY, AZ, CO, CT, DE, HI, IL, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, NV, NC, NJ, NM, OR, RI, VT, WA, WI, and D.C. have filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump over his budget freeze on critical health services.