Andi Parkinson

We’re planning on making green pea soup this week and homemade croutons are a must for that, so they were on my mind. :)

I bet it would be scrumptious as croutons or better- coarse and versatile bread crumbs! Dry it out, bash the heck outta the brick… tremendously satisfying. ;)

Happy #Caturday!

Zipped over to my own hastily created backup account here; welcome!!

MSNBC coming pretty close: bsky.app/profile/msnb...

Here's your lede: With bodies still being fished out of the Potomac River, Donald Trump went on a partisan, racist and entirely unsubstantiated rant today, blaming diversity hiring and Democrats for Monday’s calamitous collision between a passenger jet and a military aircraft..

Trump Administration Payment Freeze May Delay Money For Critical Preschool Program Head Start providers logging onto the online funding system this morning found a message warning of delays because of "potentially unallowable grant payments."

*EXCLUSIVE*

Feds warning Head Start providers that their funding may come late, because of review to check for "potentially unallowable grant payments"

Appears to be part of Trump freeze on federal spending

Advocates worried providers won't make payroll, rent etc www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Trump’s Most Lawless Action Yet Pausing funds appropriated by Congress is a deliberate taunt to draw a legal challenge that the White House’s most radical architects think will give them unilateral spending power.

The funding pause orders "are actually the most lawless, brazen, unconstitutional actions that this administration has yet taken, and if sanctioned by a conservative Supreme Court, they would amount to a full disbanding of our system of government." From @ddayen.bsky.social:

Sen. Angus King blasts Trump's freeze of federal grants and loans, saying it's "blatantly unconstitutional."

"This is a profound constitutional issue. What happened last night is the most direct assault on the authority of Congress, I believe, in the history of the United States."

The public needs access to research information from the CDC and NIH. We are in the midst of virus season and people have all kinds of cancer and other diseases. Trump is out of his mind.

Trump Administration has now cancelled reproductiverights.gov -- which helped women find health care.

Trump issues sweeping pardons for Jan. 6 rioters The action laid waste to the Justice Department’s four-year drive to punish the first disruption of the transfer of power in American history.

"President Donald Trump pardoned about 1,500 people who stormed the Capitol in his name on Jan. 6, 2021... The sweeping grant of clemency includes 'full, complete and unconditional' pardons for some of the most notorious participants in the attack, including hundreds convicted of assaulting police"

Memorandum to Resolve the Backlog of Security Clearances for Executive Office of the President Personnel – The White House January 20, 2025 MEMORANDUM TO THE WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL SUBJECT:      Memorandum to Resolve the Backlog of Security Clearances for

Next: The No More Security Clearances EO: directs to give immediate access to new appointees and bypasses the requirement for security clearances.

Great, this will go wonderfully, love to have unvetted people with immediate access to Top Secret information.

Gonna sit around the shanty later on… www.google.com/gasearch?q=s...

YouTube video by BreaKlinq Whammer Jammer (Original Version)

Clearing the overnight fresh powder snow is easy with a lil J Geils blasting thru the earbuds!!

Slap that into a fajita with a bit of scrambled eggs, too!

A hero for sure.

Dumbass fool already forced to blink… but of course his cult won’t care or even notice.

Thank you, always.

She's done so much for so many people. It's on us to run with the baton she's passed us.

🧵 The Capitol Riot Map is an interactive visualization of the 1,600+ individuals connected to the events of January 6, 2021.

In the coming days, the Capitol Riot Map will be completed updated, and include an new feature: Pardon Watch.

Details on updates and how to support this project below 👇

Eric Adams Heads to Mar-a-Lago to Meet With Trump The New York mayor, who is under federal indictment, has spoken warmly about President-elect Donald J. Trump in recent weeks and has said he is open to receiving a pardon from him.

New game show: Kiss the ring, get a pardon www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/n...

Ffs dude.

In new WSJ oped, Musk & Ramaswamy say they believe SCOTUS could open the door to unilateral spending cuts, without Congress, based on what they say is the unconstitutionality of the 1974 budget law

Could be an absolutely massive fight

Confirms our reporting: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Same- this is our family’s traditional December nightly read for over 25 years now, started by @natparkinson.bsky.social :)

Democratic Governors Form Coalition to Safeguard Democracy Ahead of Trump Term Read more here.

NEW: Governors JB Pritzker (D) of Illinois and Jared Polis (D) of Colorado form a nonpartisan coalition of governors to protect and strengthen state-level democratic institutions ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s second term.