Donna C 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻

Wife, mother, grandmother. Retired Director of Risk Management. Cancer survivor. Avid reader. Buckeye living in SWFL. Vote blue.

[Donna C 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻 @CrouchDonna]

@VNudnik @MattDevittWX Exactly what I thought.

[Donna C 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻 @CrouchDonna]

@HalfwayPost Does that mean that Vance is not invited to Donald’s birthday party???

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BREAKING: Experts SOUND ALARM after Trump issues memo that could allow his staff to delete millions of White House emails in violation of record preservation laws.

The timing alone should set off alarm bells. The Trump administration is currently being challenged in court over its preservation of government documents. And this week, it issued new internal guidance that a leading archives expert says gives White House staff "license to do the exact opposite" of preserving records.

The memo, issued by White House Counsel David Alan Warrington to Executive Office of the President staffers, represents a "significant departure from historical practice" — Warrington's own words. It quietly rewrites the rules around which communications need to be saved and how.

University of Maryland professor Jason R. Baron, who specializes in archives and the law, read the memo and sounded the alarm immediately. The new guidance, he told the Washington Post, provides nothing that "prevents the White House from directing the transfer or destruction of White House records, including tens of millions of emails, either before or after the end of the president's second term in office."

The key sleight of hand is buried in the language. The memo says EOP components are "free to retain" previous record-preservation policies. As Baron points out, that also means they are free not to. Text messages now only need to be preserved "when they are the sole record of official decision-making" — and staffers are merely "encouraged" to memorialize those exchanges in another format rather than preserving the original exchange directly.

Translation: if someone decides a text isn't the "sole record" of something, they can delete it. And nobody has to take a screenshot.

Federal law is unambiguous. Presidents and their staff are required to preserve records related to government activity and turn them over to the National Archives at the end of each administration. Warrington’s memo, however, doesn't clarify whether these records will actually be turned over, and doesn't specify how Trump or Vance will personally preserve their own records.

This is the administration that used Signal to discuss active military strikes in a chat that included a journalist. The administration that has fired numerous inspectors general. The administration that is fighting records requests in court while issuing internal guidance that makes destruction discretionary.

"While paying lip service to the need to preserve White House records," Baron said, "the memo actually gives EOP staff license to do the exact opposite." Nixon erased 18 minutes of tape. Trump's team may be preparing to erase tens of millions of emails.

Please like and share this post if you believe the American people have a right to know what their government did — even after it leaves office.

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BREAKING: HOLY SMOKES! Bombshell report accuses Trump and Rubio of "the largest fraud in the history of the U.S. immigration system" amounting to over $1.3 billion stolen from migrants.

And the details will absolutely enrage you...

According to the Cato Institute, a right-wing think tank, Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and outgoing DHS Secretary Kristi Noem extracted at least $1.3 billion from migrants in fees for visa processing and other immigration services that they never intended to provide. They took the money, then took no steps to hold up their end of the agreement.

The administration is taking money from immigrant hopefuls from over 90 countries despite the fact that Trump's own xenophobic travel bans have made it so that those same people are "banned from receiving immigrant visas and immigrating permanently to the United States." Trump is having it both ways: taking the money he would get for allowing immigration while simultaneously blocking that immigration.

"During testimony before the US Senate, I called it the largest fraud in the history of the US immigration system. In fact, it is likely the first $1 billion fraud—a theft of processing fees for services never rendered," wrote David J. Bier for Cato.

But the corruption goes so much deeper...

Rubio's State Department has issued internal rules that prohibit his staff from informing the migrants in question that they have no chance of success and their money is essentially being stolen. It's a systemic graft operation.

“Cubans represent the largest group of affected applicants with nearly a million affected applications at a combined cost of $543 million. The second most common was Venezuelans, with 239,000 applications at a cost of $138 million,” Cato reports.

Cato estimates that over 2 million immigrant applicants were affected by the travel bans and had their money taken when there no intention on the part of the administration of rendering the services in question.

"The fees came primarily from applications for work permits and filings to adjust status to permanent residence or immigrant visas—the two ways in which people receive green cards to stay permanently in the United States," writes Bier.

Congress must immediately investigate this blatant, rampant fraud and begin the long, difficult process of ensuring that every single victim is paid back with interest. These people came looking for a better life in the United States and were instead fleeced for what little money they had. This is a kind of cruelty and greed that could only exist with Donald Trump as president.

Please ❤️ and share to demand full refunds!

[Donna C 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻 @CrouchDonna]

@dbongino There’s one line that troubles me as a cancer survivor: and has decided to take on this challenge IMMEDIATELY as opposed to waiting. Waiting??? Does he not understand the importance of early diagnosis and treatment? Did he expect her to delay treatment for his benefit?

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BIG TEN. THREE IN A ROW. 🏆🏆🏆

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

“My name’s Daniel. I’m 45, and two weeks ago I learned something about my mother that I’m still ashamed I didn’t see sooner.

She’s 80 and lives alone in the little tan house she’s been in for half a century.

The one with the peeling shutters and the mailbox she still refuses to replace because “it works just fine.”

Last Wednesday she called and said,

“Danny, I need help with my grocery list. Can you come? I think I’m forgetting things.”

My first instinct was annoyance.

I had deadlines.
Kids’ activities.
Bills on my desk.
A hundred things pulling me in every direction.

So I said, “Just tell me what you want. I’ll order it all online.”

She went quiet for a long moment before whispering,

“I’d rather you come.”

So I did.

When I walked into her kitchen, three grocery bags were already sitting neatly on the counter.

“Mom, you already shopped,” I said, confused.

She waved her hand. “Those are just basics. I still need a few things.”

She opened her notebook, the same spiral one she’s used for years, and handed it to me.

The list said,

grapes
paper towels
coffee creamer
company

Everything inside me stopped.

She looked embarrassed, like a child caught doing something wrong.

“I just didn’t know how else to ask you to come,” she whispered. “You’re always so busy, and I didn’t want to bother you.”

That sentence hit harder than anything I’ve felt in years.

My mom, the woman who worked two jobs and still made every school concert.
The woman who saved every drawing I ever made.
The woman who put herself last for decades.

She felt she had to pretend she needed groceries just to feel worthy of a visit from her own son.

I hugged her so tightly she laughed and said, “Oh goodness, you’ll break me.”

We never went to the store.

Instead we sat at the tiny kitchen table with the sunflower placemats she’s had since the nineties. We talked about the neighbor’s new dog. About her tomato plant that refuses to grow. About my dad, and how she still forgets he isn’t coming through the door sometimes.

The Christmas decorations were already up. A small artificial tree in the corner. The same faded ornaments I remembered from childhood. She said she put them up early because the house feels warmer that way.

I stayed longer than I planned. Drank terrible instant coffee. Listened the way she used to listen to me.

Before I left, she walked me to the door and held my hand longer than usual.

“You made my week, sweetheart,” she said softly.

Driving home, one thought wouldn’t leave me.

How many times had she waited by the window, especially this time of year, hoping my car would turn into the driveway?

How many afternoons did she tell herself, “He’ll come when he has time,” while the house filled with a quiet loneliness I never noticed?

Somewhere along the road of adulthood, work, kids, obligations, noise, I started treating her like an errand. Someone to fit in when life allowed it.

But to her, I was never an errand.
I was her world.

And all she wanted was an hour with her son in the home where she raised him, especially at Christmas.

The lesson is simple.

Your parents will not always tell you they are lonely.
They will not always say they miss you.
They will not always ask directly.

Sometimes they will hide it behind a grocery list.
Behind a broken lamp.
Behind a reason that does not really need fixing.

Go anyway.

Sit at their table.
Drink the bad coffee.
Let them tell the stories you have heard a thousand times.

Because one day the chair will be empty.
The notebook will be closed.
The porch light will be off.

And you will wish you had treated an ordinary Wednesday in December like the priceless moment it actually was.”

[Donna C 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻 @CrouchDonna]

@Matt_Pinner Two.

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Anything for their own

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[Donna C 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻 @CrouchDonna]

@thetonymichaels $2.63 traveling through Valdosta GA.

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BREAKING: The Catholic Church enrages MAGA world by coming out forcefully against the "big, beautiful bill" as twenty bishops sign an interfaith letter stating that its "passage would be a moral failure for American society as a whole."

There is nothing less Christ-like than cutting healthcare and food stamps or the poor....

"First, it provides tens of billions of dollars to the government to undertake a mass deportation campaign which will separate US families, harm US-citizen and immigrant children, and sow chaos in local communities," the letter reads. "It will spur immigration raids across the nation, harming hard-working immigrant families essential to our economy and causing widespread unrest like we recently witnessed in Los Angeles."

The legislation would funnel over $150 billion towards Trump's border policies and immigration crackdowns, with the ICE budget alone ballooning from $3.4 billion to $45 billion until the end of 2029. It amounts to a 365% increase which Professor Donald Moynihan of the University of Michigan has pointed out is more than the combined funding for all 50 federal prisons.

In addition to being a gross waste of taxpayer money, this funding will create a self-perpetrating deportation industrial machine just like our private prison system and military complex. Just like pouring money into military contractors incentivizes new wars, pouring money into this fledgling deportation industry will incentivize more crackdowns and family separations. The more you feed the monster, the bigger and hungrier it gets.

"This funding also will be used to target faith communities, as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has removed places of worship from its sensitive locations list, allowing ICE agents to enter them for enforcement purposes," the letter continues. "We have already witnessed a reduction in attendance at many of our religious services in our denominations, as the threat of enforcement has deterred many families from practicing their faith."

The signatories include numerous prominent bishops such as Cardinal Robert McElroy, Cardinal Joseph Tobin, Bishop John Dolan, Archbishop Paul Etienne, Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski, and Bishop Jaime Soto.

In addition to the Catholic leaders, the letter was signed by the leaders of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas as well as respected faith leaders of the Episcopalian, Jewish, Lutheran, Presbyterian, and Muslim communities.

"Moreover, the bill provides funding for a border wall along the US-Mexico border which we believe will drive migrants into the most remote regions of the border and lead to an increase in migrant deaths," the letter goes on. "It also would hurt the local environment along the border and force desperate asylum-seekers seeking safety to increasingly rely on human smugglers."

"As you should know, our faith organizations have long favored the creation of legal avenues for migration and a legalization program for immigrants who have lived in the US for years and contributed their hard work to our economy," the signatories wrote. "We believe the adoption of these policies, instead of the implementation of a mass deportation campaign, would not only benefit immigrant workers and their families, but be in the best interest of our nation."

"Second, the legislation makes severe cuts in health-care coverage and food assistance to millions of both low-income citizens and legal residents, including asylum-seekers and refugees, driving them deeper into poverty," the letter adds. "According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the bill transfers wealth from those in the bottom 10 percent of income to those in the top 10 percent of income in our nation, increasing the already large gap between the rich and the poor."

The bill will slash nearly $1 trillion in funding from Medicaid, a move that will directly result in the death and suffering of countless Americans. People will go blind, see their life expectancies cut in half, and end up bankrupt and homeless. Nursing homes and hospitals will shut down.

It also guts funding for crucial food programs like SNAP by roughly $186 billion by 2034. Americans are literally going to starve to death so that billionaires can afford a few new yachts.

"From our various faith perspectives, the moral test of a nation is how it treats those most in need of support. In our view, this legislation will harm the poor and vulnerable in our nation, to the detriment of the common good. Its passage would be a moral failure for American society as a whole," it concludes.

In a separate statement, Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said that the bill "takes from the poor to give to the wealthy."

"It provides tax breaks for some while undermining the social safety net for others through major cuts to nutrition assistance and Medicaid," he continued. "It fails to protect families and children by promoting an enforcement-only approach to immigration and eroding access to legal protections. It harms God’s creation and future generations through cuts to clean energy incentives and environmental programs."

"I underscore what my brother bishops said in their recent letter to find a better way forward and urge Senators to think and act with courage and creativity to protect human dignity for all, to uphold the common good, and to change provisions that undermine these fundamental values," he added.

Please retweet and ❤️ to thank these bishops for speaking out!

[Donna C 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻 @CrouchDonna]

@atrupar @jimstewartson They didn’t even have to pay for the photo op, as is so common with MAGA office holders. Instead these Republican lawmakers had only to sell their souls to the evil MAGA-in-chief, the devil himself. 😈

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🚨CALL TO ACTIVISM ALERT

History will forever remember Senator Lisa Murkowski as either deciding vote that stripped 11.6 MILLION people from their health insurance - or the person who saved it.

Her donor is @tridentseafoods. Share this so they tell Sen. Murkowski to vote NO!

[Donna C 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻 @CrouchDonna]

@clarkgal @RpsAgainstTrump Finally someone mentioned Reagan! Thank you!

[Donna C 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻 @CrouchDonna]

@DjOmegaMVP @atrupar @jaketapper @SpeakerJohnson Tapper did pivot to Biden which gave Johnson the opportunity to blast “the Biden crime family” and say he wished Tapper had released his book a year ago. Tapper agreed. I can’t stand either of these guys.

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Agreed.

[Congressman Greg Landsman @RepGregLandsman]

We reviewed the bill.

We now know the details on how they plan to cut your healthcare to pay for tax cuts for the uber-wealthy.

7 ways they are cutting healthcare 🧵👇🏼