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(Mostly) retired business guy. Psychology Today contributor on management / leadership. Management matters, and so does democracy. We need leaders who want to unite, not divide. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-the-manager

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Fred Wellman
@FPWellman
๐Ÿšจ I am getting a flood of messages from panicked 
@DeptVetAffairs
 employees that there is a bloodbath unfolding as 
@SecVetAffairs
 has quietly issued personnel guidance cutting THOUSANDS of jobs. Heavily hit is mental health and suicide prevention providers! They are gutting the VA and veterans healthcare while we aren't looking! Word is they are even gutting the brand new clinic in Fredericksburg, VA that Collins has been claiming credit for building. This is the privatization they've always dreamed of and veterans are going to pay for it! 
@RepVindman
 #veterans

Fred Wellman @FPWellman ๐Ÿšจ I am getting a flood of messages from panicked @DeptVetAffairs employees that there is a bloodbath unfolding as @SecVetAffairs has quietly issued personnel guidance cutting THOUSANDS of jobs. Heavily hit is mental health and suicide prevention providers! They are gutting the VA and veterans healthcare while we aren't looking! Word is they are even gutting the brand new clinic in Fredericksburg, VA that Collins has been claiming credit for building. This is the privatization they've always dreamed of and veterans are going to pay for it! @RepVindman #veterans

JFC. The weakening of America continues.

09.12.2025 21:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4116    ๐Ÿ” 1893    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 171    ๐Ÿ“Œ 104

how did we ever manage to keep civilization going all these years?? ๐Ÿค”

09.12.2025 20:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

spoken like a true kleptocrat

09.12.2025 20:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trump heads to Pennsylvania as GOP tries to sell its own affordability message | CNN Politics President Donald Trump will take his economic message on the road Tuesday to a swing district in eastern Pennsylvania, the first of many planned domestic trips the White House is organizing on an issu...

kinda hard to sell folks that a dog is a cat ๐Ÿถ ๐Ÿฑ

www.cnn.com/2025/12/09/p...

09.12.2025 20:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

let's hope so - not sure why so many Republicans really seem to want to live in an outsized version of Hungary?? ๐Ÿ™ƒ

09.12.2025 17:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Dems won't be able to block a Netflix Warner Brothers merger. Our regulators and courts have been hollowed out like Pumpkins. But you might be able to stop Larry Ellison, Jared Kushner, and Donald Trump from buying up all media and turning us into Hungary.

09.12.2025 14:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 50    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

classic authoritarian move to have "friendly" oligarchs buy up media

09.12.2025 17:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Paramount Makes Hostile Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery

Maybe it's not a good idea to allow the billionaire Trump-supporting Ellison family at Paramount that just took over CBS News to also take over Warner Brothers, the company that owns CNN. There will be no free press in America if the president and his allies control all the major media outlets.l

08.12.2025 15:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 73    ๐Ÿ” 33    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

12 FBI agents whoย were fired this yearย for taking a knee during racial justice protests in 2020 are suing the Bureau and Kash Patel, alleging unlawful retaliation.

08.12.2025 20:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2422    ๐Ÿ” 467    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 16

let them go run some fitness centers... better than damaging the government ๐Ÿ˜

08.12.2025 23:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

just another coverup of damning information.

release the video... along with the Kryptonite, i mean Epstein, files ๐Ÿ˜

08.12.2025 21:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Reporter: โ€œAre you committed to releasing the full video?โ€

Trump: โ€œDidn't I just tell you that?โ€

Reporter: โ€œYou said that it was up to Sec. Hegseth.โ€

Trump: โ€œYou are the most obnoxious reporter in the whole placeโ€ฆYou are an obnoxious, actually a terrible reporter.โ€

08.12.2025 20:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1041    ๐Ÿ” 348    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 282    ๐Ÿ“Œ 100
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Reporter: You said he would have no problem with releasing the full video of that strike on September 2nd

Trump: I didnโ€™t say that. This is ABC fake news. Whatever Hegseth decides is ok with meโ€ฆ Let me just tell you, you are an obnoxious reporter. Actually, a terrible reporter.

08.12.2025 20:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2179    ๐Ÿ” 673    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 608    ๐Ÿ“Œ 188
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Trump is the X factor in the Netflix-Warner Bros. deal. Heโ€™s already tipping the scales | CNN Business Netflix is preparing for a lengthy legal review of its bid to buy Warner Bros., and President Trump is keeping his options open.

Corporate socialism (or state capitalism?) ... since when is the president (routinely) involved in these decisions? ๐Ÿค”

www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/m...

08.12.2025 20:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We the people need a constitutional amendment to abolish the pardon power.

01.12.2025 17:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 304    ๐Ÿ” 101    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 27    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

go for it. what are we waiting for? ๐Ÿค”

08.12.2025 20:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

1000% agree - why do we need it?

08.12.2025 20:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

yes believes in competition as long as he's on the winning side ๐Ÿค”

08.12.2025 19:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

03.10.2025 22:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9813    ๐Ÿ” 2945    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 40    ๐Ÿ“Œ 70

& why tf would we ever want autocracy? ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

08.12.2025 19:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

howzabout Congressional power? ๐Ÿค”

08.12.2025 19:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

yes 1000% agree - the framers never foresaw such continual blatant abuses

its drawbacks FAR exceed the rewards ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

08.12.2025 19:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

yeah, like we really need more presidential power these daze

need a functioning Congress instead ๐Ÿ˜

08.12.2025 19:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

better late than never... she may finally bring some attention to this Mafia-style cancer on our politics that has intimidated Republican Congress folk for the last decade ๐Ÿ˜

08.12.2025 19:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

got that right - and as for Congressional investigations... yes they're all good... hard to play offense when you're on defense ๐Ÿค”

08.12.2025 19:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congressional investigations are likely the ONLY accountability this administration will face. Bondi won't arrest anyone. US officials can't be tried at the Hague. And even if we get a new AG in 2029, Trump is going to pardon everyone. These midterms are crucial for accountability.

08.12.2025 17:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3207    ๐Ÿ” 936    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 164    ๐Ÿ“Œ 42
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Marjorie Taylor Greene defiant since announcing resignation after falling-out with Trump | CNN Politics GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene stood defiant in her first interview since announcing her resignation from Congress, making clear sheโ€™s not afraid to speak out on the issues that made President Donald...

Interesting interview - good for MTG for speaking her mind & calling out her colleagues for their obsequious behavior when they clearly know better ๐Ÿ˜

www.cnn.com/2025/12/07/p...

08.12.2025 18:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

delusional

07.12.2025 23:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

not the right temperament for the job

07.12.2025 17:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

why would the U.S. want to normalize murder? ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

07.12.2025 16:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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