Ann Lee 🇺🇸 🇺🇦

Former Republican. I came here to connect with like minds & stayed for the info & snark. (But now prefer Blue Sky.)
#EpsteinFiles

@germanroots.bsky.social

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

THE PRESIDENTIAL FAMILY LOVES TO SURROUND THEMSELVES WITH PEDOPHILES 🤷

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: A lawyer active in lawsuits seeking to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory, and later represented the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of killing George Floyd, is the latest attorney to be hired by DOJ’s Voting Section. https://t.co/eJlU2JZObc

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Another day another pardoned J6er arrested and sentenced to 19 years for sexually assaulting a 7 year old little girl!

[Amber Woods @AmberWoods100]

NEW
Leon Black paid Jeffrey Epstein $158 million.

Now Leon Black’s son oversees a federal investment agency controlling more than $200 billion.

Epstein may be gone but the network he was embedded within is rapidly concentrating power. 🧵

[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

Yesterday Donald Trump tripled the size of his personal political army inside the government. Illegally. And almost no one noticed.

Here's what happened:

He signed an order converting ~8,000 of the most senior career officials in government into employees he can fire for any reason, or no reason at all.

These aren't rando's. They're the directors, chiefs of staff, and the people who write the rules or decide who gets federal money, i.e. the lieutenants right below his political appointees.

Until yesterday, they answered to the law. Now they answer to him.

A president normally gets ~4,000 political appointees. People he can bring into government and fire at will. I was one of them at DHS. You serve at his pleasure, full stop -- so if you're gonna speak truth to power, you're prepared to quit (or get fired if he doesn't like it).

The rest of the federal government is PROTECTED from firing if they tell the truth.

But Trump just stripped those protections. Adding 8,000 more people to his personal army. Overnight. Without asking Congress.

With the stroke of a pen, those people now serve at the pleasure of the president. They're "his" people, whether they like it or not.

And the chilling effect is real. An official who can be fired this afternoon for "subversion of presidential directives" (the order's own words) doesn't need to be hand-picked to know what's expected of him or her.

The threat does all the work.

By the way, this order is illegal. The law only lets Trump reclassify jobs when "necessary" in exceptional circumstances. And this blows an 8,000-person hole in the merit hiring / firing system created by Congress.

Without permission, Trump has created a whole new category of stormtroopers inside the Executive Branch.

If this doesn't get challenged in court, you're going to see the U.S. government become a very different place.

Here's the full story: https://t.co/mJzrvzhxGR

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

Family wealth generated while holding office.

We are not angry enough about this.

[EU Bureaucrat @EU_Bureaucrat]

@stevesi28838948 @CaliforniaActi2 @FellaBoston @ALJWS @dale_dsll @JackRyanlives @FrancaRose33 @Gonz67Ricky @jgmac1106 @revengehugh @MikeR498 @LADemKim @gaughen PS: Just in time for the start of the International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg, an exciting entertainment program is being offered to both residents and visitors.
https://t.co/beY1tnRoaN

[Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes]

Double-amputee paratrooper to jump into Normandy on anniversary of combat injury
https://t.co/FFMR5hsrVk

[Ann Lee 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @ALJWS]

@nicolelhollis @TimHannan

[Viral Reel Addict @ViralReelAddict]

Trump pardoned 77 people that stole from Medicare.

This flew under the radar. I believe Trump is selling pardons which is enough to send Trump away.

[💙🌊 Zero Dark Twenty-Nine 🌊🌊🖋️🧫 @herotimeszero]

This right here tells you everything you ever wanted to know about Donald J. Trump.

This unhinged, furious 500-word essay about his name being removed from a building. Trump's name on a building doesn't affect a single American. Because it's utter nonsense. But our Narcissist-in-Chief is obsessed with it.

Instead of doing something critical like lowering prices, stopping his wars, making life better for Americans, he's engaged in nothing.

But to Trump it's everything.

Donald is in love with Donald. He wants to shower Donald in the three P's that have ruled his entire life. Profit, power, and prestige. Nothing else and no one else matters. Trump barely knows other people exist.

We are 250 years old and no other president would've ever written this pitiful letter begging to be acknowledged.

Trump is a small, weak man. And like other small weak men, he's obsessed with not being small and weak. But he will ultimately fail. They all do.

The thing Donald wants most is to be unforgettable. He certainly will be. But his name will not be on buildings or in lights. He will be remembered with loathing, shame and a warning. There are monsters among us. And the biggest monsters are the smallest of men.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

SEN. @ossoff: “Donald spent Saturday complaining on the Internet. 6 hours, 52 posts… and when not posting he’s trying to rob us. He sued the 🇺🇸 government he commands for $10 BILLION, then settled with himself for $1.776 Billion to cut checks to cronies and 1/6 foot soldiers.”

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

Smotrich being at this event validates Zohran skipping it (and makes @SenSchumer’s attendance highly questionable).

Smotrich is overseeing the West Bank’s ethnic cleansing and annexation.

[Mia @MiaForTrump]

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s business partners, the Alexander brothers, have been convicted on 19 counts of sex trafficking.

It’s odd how often sex offenders appear in the Trump family’s inner circle.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Recent retiree Greg Bovino traveled to Portugal to attend a Nazi conference, gave an interview citing Nazi general Erwin Rommel as an inspirational figure, and wore his regulation SS haircut.

When is it ok to start calling them Nazis? Or is that still too polarizing?

[shelby @thetrueshelby]

Is there a Bible verse about cutting kids off SNAP while spending $10k a plate for yourself?

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

According to both Candace and Tucker, the country is amazing as long as it's clean and orderly.

Never mind the raging HIV/AIDS epidemic, legalized domestic violence, large-scale sex and child trafficking, corruption, the mafia, a demographic disaster, a dictatorship with rigged "elections," imperialism, a total lack of freedom of speech, large-scale oppression and censorship, constant wars, lack of free media, assassinations of dissidents, alcoholism, drug abuse, millions of Russians lacking access to centralized sewage systems, vast areas of the country being a total shithole outside the major cities, and a complete disregard for human life.

[EU Bureaucrat @EU_Bureaucrat]

1/2

It's worth to pay attention to this
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@stevesi28838948
@CaliforniaActi2
@FellaBoston
@ALJWS
@dale_dsll
@JackRyanlives
@FrancaRose33
@Gonz67Ricky
@jgmac1106
@revengehugh
@MikeR498
@LADemKim

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

As of May 2026, the most pro-Russian countries in the EU are:

1. Cyprus
2. Slovakia
3. Bulgaria
4. Austria
5. Greece
6. Ireland
7. Czechia
8. Hungary (this is changing fast, though)

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Yeah. He actually said it: