Garden Planet

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Earth is a garden, and we are the gardeners. 🌿 Whatever we "resist" grows stronger. Instead of resisting, we can *Resolve* to stand strong, Re-Solve our society's problems, and be part of a positive Resolution. Trusting that love wins ❤️

Don’t let them scare you. Don’t let them get you to give up hope. This is what they want more than anything. Their evil is never more alive than when we sleep.

Rep. Edwards at his town hall: I happen to agree with a lot of the things that are going on in Washington DC Crowd: Boooo

Morris is a former spiritual adviser to President Donald Trump, and Gateway — one of the nation’s largest megachurches — has been particularly active in politics. In 2020, Trump held a “Roundtable on Transition to Greatness” there that was attended by then-U.S. Attorney General William Barr…

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Robert Morris, Texas megachurch pastor and former Trump adviser, indicted for child sex crimes.

At Country First, we believe America’s foreign policy reflects our values—it defines who we are. That's why C1 is stepping up and sending 10 volunteers to provide humanitarian assistance in Ukraine. To help, click on link… all proceeds go directly to mission 🇺🇦 www.country1st.com/support-ukra...

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America's challenges aren't going anywhere. Actually, they're only growing more difficult. Defending Democracy has never been easy, which is why we, the Reasonable Majority, are leading the way with n...

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It’s unclear where the money is going and what it will be used for, but one source with direct knowledge of the dinners said “it’s all going to the library,” as in the presidential library that will ostensibly be built once Trump leaves office. Scoop here:

People Are Paying Millions to Dine With Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago

Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with the president at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a gro...

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Of the 4000 researchers at NIH, only 20% are tenured. They’re going to fire all the rest as their contracts come up for renewal, absolutely decimating research at the NIH. This is catastrophic, not just for Americans, but for the whole world. www.science.org/content/arti...

NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research

Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs

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Trump White House staffers were seen loading around 15 boxes of documents onto the rear of Air Force One.   Team Trump says the boxes contain the classified documents the FBI seized  from Trump's Florida home in 2022.

BREAKING: Judge in our Treasury case vs. DOGE just raised profound "concerns about constitutionality of DOGE"! She follows Judge Chutkan who also raised questions last week We @sddaction.bsky.social will be in Md. Fed. Ct. Friday in our appointments clause case to prove DOGE is unconstitutional

NEW memo from OPM acting director Chuck Ezell saying that fed employees should respond to the 5 bullets email by the 11:59pm deadline tonight unless they had an excused absence today. Absolute madness. Full text:

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management ("OPM") recently sent the following email to
all Executive Branch employees from hr@opm.gov:
Subject: What did you do last week?
Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager.
Please do not send any classified information, links, or attachments.
Deadline is this Monday at 11:59 p.m. EST.
Responses to this email should be directed to agency leadership, with a copy to OPM at
hr@opm.gov. Agencies should review responses and evaluate nonresponses, considering such factors as whether the employee was on excused leave on Monday, February 24, 2025 or had access to email on that date. Employees on approved leave on February 24, or who lacked access to email, are not expected to respond by the deadline. Agency heads may exclude personnel from this expectation at their discretion and should inform OPM of the categories of the employees excluded and reasons for exclusion.
Agencies should consider whether the expectation for employees to submit activity and/or accomplishment bullets should be integrated into the agency's Weekly Activity Report or future required organizational activity reporting in order provide an enterprise-wide view of workforce achievements and organizational trends. Furthermore, agencies should consider any appropriate actions regarding employees who fail to respond to activity/accomplishment requests. It is agency leadership's decision as to what actions are taken.
At Counsel's direction, in order to comport with the Presidential Records Act, the
Executive Office of the President is exempted from this exercise.
cc: Chief Human Capital Officers (CHCOs), Deputy CHCOs, Human Resources Directors, and