Pamela Riesmeyer

On the HHS Leadership call today: 1 employee from CMS (Center for Medicare/Medicaid Service) and 2 employees from SSA (Social Security Administration) have died by suicide after their firing.

Just going to leave this here should it become useful to anyone…

Join us in solidarity—fly your American flag upside down, the traditional signal of distress and extreme emergency.

Medicaid is not for sale.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.

We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

This Is the Way to Stop Elon Musk Senate Democrats have the power to block federal contracts to Tesla and SpaceX. It’s the path to pushing Musk out of politics.

theintercept.com/2025/02/17/e...

February 18, 2025 In a court filing last night, the Director of the Office of Administration in the Trump administration, Joshua Fisher, clarified the government position of billionaire Elon Musk.

February 18, 2025

We wanted them to have healthcare and a high paying job and a planet to live on and freedom. They want us to suffer. The parties are not the same.

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

Brazil Charges Bolsonaro With Attempting a Coup Brazil’s attorney general charged the former president Jair Bolsonaro with trying to overturn the 2022 elections.

Brazil shows that it can be done. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

These absolute morons are going to destroy the United States.

If you’re in favor of the US leaving NATO, you either don’t want the US to succeed, or you don’t know wtf NATO does.

Worth noting that Mike Lee voted to expand NATO in 2022.

It is well to remind ourselves that today is Presidents Day, not Dictators Day.

But will the Supreme Court constrain the wild Trump? Some thoughts...

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/will-the-supreme-court-constrain

Another good trope for Not My President’s Day

This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

Last Fall, the Washington Post allowed a right wing group to run a full page ad falsely attacking me for protecting voting rights. Today, Bezos' paper won't accept ads criticizing Elon Musk.

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We’re done here. Right?

As people are trying to understand how courts enforce their orders, this DOJ Org Chart may come in handy. The courts don’t have their own enforcement agency. The US Marshal’s Service is part of DOJ.

Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

February 6, 2025 The U.S.

February 6, 2025

February 5, 2025 Five years ago, on February 5, 2020, Republican senators acquitted then-president Donald Trump in his first impeachment trial.

February 5, 2025:

You too. Phil Sirkin sent me a copy of Peter's eulogy and Peter's reference to you led me to find your blog. Your piece about Ed is wonderful. I only wish I'd had more than 3 months with all of you at WHDH.

“Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. He is trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him.”

- Ezra Klein

February 2, 2025 Billionaire Elon Musk’s team yesterday took control of the Treasury’s payment system, thus essentially gaining access to the checkbook with which the United States handles about $6 trillion annually a...

February 2, 2025

the point is not that it's fast -- the point it that it's systematic.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/o...

February 1, 2025 Throughout now-president Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, it was clear that his support was coming from three very different factions whose only shared ideology was a determination to destroy the federal...

February 1, 2025

Analysis: We do not know what exactly Elon Musk is doing to the federal government | CNN Politics Americans don’t know the full extent of what Musk is doing as he embeds alongside President Donald Trump at the top of the federal government.

See it's funny, because there probably was a time in U.S. history when an unelected plutocrat gaining illicit access to government systems would have resulted in him being dragged out of whatever government building he was in at the moment by his balls by armed government agents within +/- 3 minutes

At what point do we start calling what Elon Musk is doing inside our government a coup

Elon Musk staff has been caught installing hard drives inside the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Treasury Department, and the General Services Administration (GSA).