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Gen X. Anti-drama. Still a U.S. federal worker but expecting to be fired in an upcoming RIF.
As the Spokane community continues to face the devastating impacts of local wildfires, you can help your neighbors. We will continue to update this thread with more opportunities to help!
Please ask Blanche these questions! justiceconnection.substack.com/p/questions-...
Questions for the Record: Nomination of Todd Blanche to be U.S. Attorney General
Based on input from subject matter experts in Justice Connection’s DOJ alumni network, we prepared questions for the record that Blanche should answer before Senators vote on his nomination.
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Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development
I'd feel far safer in a community of immigrants than I would in a community of ICE agents
ICE killed another person in a vehicle, this time in Maine. Again, federal agents were not wearing body cameras. Expect the same routine: agents claim they feared for lives, the claims will be unsupported, and no accountability. Expect it to keep happening. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/13/p...
ICE agents involved in fatal Biddeford shooting, lawmaker says
It's at least the 11th fatal shooting involving an ICE or Border Patrol agent since President Donald Trump took office last year.
bangordailynews.com
Where should the Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room go next? trumpepsteinreadingroom.com/vote
The Trump & Epstein Memorial Reading Room | Read the Files
A free, traveling public reading room with all 3,437 bound volumes of the released Epstein files — read them page by page. Help bring the Reading Room to your city.
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Trump’s name was removed from the centre's facade and signage last month, after a judge ordered its removal.
US court rules that Trump's name must stay off Kennedy Center during appeal
Trump's name was removed from the centre's facade and signage last month, after a judge ordered its removal.
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Enjoying the nerdy history-focused and countrywide C-SPAN America 250 coverage today. A small balm against the Freedom 250 and current administration horrors. Let (actual) freedom (and democracy) ring! www.youtube.com/live/qezqtaG...
America 250: United States Semiquincentennial
YouTube video by C-SPAN
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ALERT: Oppose House Amendment to Defund the Peace Corps! Thank you! www.congressweb.com/NPCA/121?fra...
ALERT: Oppose House Amendment to Defund the Peace Corps!
The House of Representatives has before it the Fiscal Year 2027 appropriations bill (H.R. 8595) that funds the State Department and other international program spending, including funding for the Peac...
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It‘s just insane to me that a sitting president has made MORE THAN A BILLION DOLLARS peddling fucking fairy dust with no intrinsic value beyond his stature and power AS president, and it’s not treated as the biggest corruption scandal in American history.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last mo.“.. He also reported earning $636 million in royalties from Celebration Coins.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Frost: It’s too dangerous for you to visit Haiti for a day. Yet, they want to expel 350,000 people from this country. It is deeply racist, and part of this bigger project that Trump has of essentially expelling Black and brown people from this nation. And this is part of that.
“Things are so bad that Republicans will never win an election again if they can’t figure out how to prevent millions and millions of Americans from voting.” trib.al/o7w96Pu
Transcript: Trump Blurts Out Plot to Rig Midterms So Vile It Jolts GOP
As Trump’s demands for voter suppression get so absurd that even Republicans balk, the author of a piece on his narcissism explains how he’s royally screwing them in the midterms—and himself, to boot.
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ICYMI, the US Postal Service proposed a rule allowing it to refuse mail ballots in states that don’t provide voter rolls to the federal government. This could impact millions of Democratic voters and could disrupt the 2026 general election. You have less than a week to comment via mail or email.
Ballot Mail for Federal Elections
The Postal Service is proposing to amend the Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM), regarding the transmission of mail-in or absentee ballots for federal el...
federalregister.gov
good to see this. Musk is clearly getting visibly angry at the rising awareness of how many hundreds of thousands of people his DOGE wilding spree has already killed, millions more if this stays in place into the future. Everyone can participate in spreading the word about all the blood on his hands
All In with Chris Hayes@allinwithchris.bsky.social · last mo.WATCH: Chris Hayes looks at how Elon Musk’s assault on USAID became one of DOGE’s most devastating legacies—and why Musk is now trying to rewrite the record.
There is a huge election going on in DC today. The mayor and council races will determine how DC responds to Trump in the future. It will affect the public schools, policing, city agencies... If you're in #DC and haven't voted—still time to get in line! And outcome may not be known tonight:
Why D.C. probably won't know who won on election night
With the introduction of ranked-choice voting, officials say the results could take days.
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RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter
In November, voters should hold Gabe Evans accountable for corruptly putting his big money donors ahead of his constituents. It’s time to reform this broken system and flip #CO08 blue.
Given SCOTUS docket, would seem kinda newsworthy if JD Vance had dinner with Brett Kavanaugh at Chevy Chase Club on Saturday evening (Kav is a member) Maybe some reporter could ask if this happened and what they discussed - given their respective roles and what we learned about JD today via NYT
Enter your name into this NASA image generator to have it spelled out by various rivers and landmasses. You can refresh 🌎🔭🛰️ science.nasa.gov/specials/you...
As his name is uninstalled from the Kennedy Center, Trump has been ordered to reinstall signs on civil rights, climate change, and slavery in national parks.
With Kennedy Center setback, Trump is losing his war on "woke" national placards
The Trump administration must also reinstall park and monument signs it had censored on civil rights, slavery, and climate change.
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@pkrugman.bsky.social: "The SpaceX IPO now in progress makes it clearer than ever that Musk’s greatest skill isn’t developing futuristic products. It’s his mastery of financial shell games & his ability to leverage insider influence, especially his influence w/the Trump admin." 🧾 t2m.co/Zjm6S5yr
Elon Musk, Human Ponzi Scheme
With Wall Street’s help, you’re about to be forced to buy stock in SpaceX
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who is going to go grab the broken letters for either a cool bonfire or a performance art installation on fascism or perhaps a curse
Ok everyone switch over to the live feed of Trump’s name coming off the Kennedy Center