Jo Shepherd

Fundraiser, artist and Johanna factotum

[The Funding Centre @FundingCentre]

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[Dominic Grieve @dominicgrieve_]

Trump's lies about Russia's invasion of Ukraine and about the government of President Zelensky become more astonishing by the day. Even more astonishing is to listen to them being repeated by Vice President JD Vance and Defence Secretary Hegseth. All this before we listen to the rants of Elon Musk.
Thus the leadership of the USA is being turned into the court of the emperor Nero, with a narcissistic ruler surrounded by sycophants-a disaster for the people of the United States and of all the free world. Yet the implications for the security of the U.K. are still being tiptoed around. We are facing our biggest crisis since 1939 and our self inflicted damage from Brexit is going to make it harder for us to rise to the challenge.
It would be a miracle if the Prime Minister's trip to the USA brings a change of direction there. We are going to need to co- operate closely with our European partners in matters of defence and defence procurement if we are to get through this and stop Putin's aggression.

[Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney]

Trump - with his devotion to Putin, abandonment of Ukraine, and lies about history- is the antithesis of everything Ronald Reagan stood for. He is aligning America with the enemies of the very freedom that generations have fought and died to defend. History will not be kind to those who are helping him, especially those who call themselves Reagan Republicans while they pretend not to see what’s happening.

[Mike Pence @Mike_Pence]

Mr. President, Ukraine did not “start” this war. Russia launched an unprovoked and brutal invasion claiming hundreds of thousands of lives. The Road to Peace must be built on the Truth.🇺🇸🇺🇦

“Russia Invades Ukraine in Largest European Attack Since WWII” @FoxNews (February 24, 2022) https://t.co/ra8R9PI9oj

[Jimmy Rushton @JimmySecUK]

A reminder that the British anti-Ukrainian, pro-Putin and pro-Trump zealots you will encounter on social media are massively unrepresentative of popular public opinion, regardless of Elon Musk's attempts to persuade you otherwise.

[Deva Hazarika @devahaz]

Why did it take DOGE to uncover this stuff? IT DIDN’T. The Inspector General for Social Security org identified this issue in 2015 (and followed up in 2023) and provided recommendations that the SSA didn’t agree were worth spending budget on to fix old data. 1/probably 3 (cont)

[Senator Megan Hunt @NebraskaMegan]

Musk is an unelected, unconfirmed private citizen with access to classified information, financial systems, and federal policy decisions—all while running companies that directly profit from government contracts. This is corruption, plain and simple.

[Lloyd Warburton🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦 @LloydCymru]

I am currently working on my final-year dissertation on the impact of vaccines on pandemic outcomes.

As part of this, I am running a survey of adults resident in Wales (or who are temporarily living outside, e.g. as a student or temporary worker).

Please answer and share it as widely as you can!

English: https://t.co/KscqNE4ixG
Cymraeg: https://t.co/xaP4l7tPYb

[Ian Sams @IanSams]

At least 11 federal agencies targeted by the Trump-Musk firings and cuts “have more than 32 continuing investigations, pending complaints or enforcement actions into Mr. Musk’s six companies”

per @nytimes

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

Trump 2 is oddly passionate about crypto, mass layoffs, and the plight of the white South African. I wonder what changed with him.

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

Musk isn’t making government smaller.

He’s shutting down the parts of the government that have been investigating his companies for safety violations and ties to Russia.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Trump's a puppet and everyone knows it except for him.

[Marc Caputo @MarcACaputo]

News: The White House has directed the GSA to terminate "every single media contract" expensed by the agency: "Politico, BBC, E&E (Politico sub) and Bloomberg"

"The eye of Sauron is on more than just Politico It's all the media," WH adviser says

https://t.co/nOgjcZdDn0

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

Last year, I called out the dangers of Project 2025 and the damage it’d do to our country.

Americans were assured the Trump team had no ties to it—then nominated one of its authors to lead OMB.

My view has not changed and I will be a hard NO on Mr. Vought.

[Eric Levitz @EricLevitz]

DOGE has not presented evidence of "fraud"; they have highlighted millions of dollars worth of spending that Musk considers wasteful.

By contrast, the GAO identified $233 billion of fraud in 2024. We don't need to let a billionaire ignore federal law to do government oversight

[Hugo Lowell @hugolowell]

New via Guardian — USAID security was defending a secure room holding classified data when a message came directly from Elon Musk: give the DOGE kids whatever they want. It was one of at least three calls by Musk to get access, including threatening to call US Marshals. @Andrew__Roth exclusive

https://t.co/cpV27EPcZZ

[Jeremy Horpedahl 🥚📉 @jmhorp]

Oh wow. Lots of waste, fraud, and abuse to investigate!

[Jennifer Bendery @jbendery]

Asked a seasoned State Dept employee how Marco Rubio has been received so far.

"He has a minder, like a Trump campaign minder."

A what?

"Someone in his office, not of his choosing. [Like with Tillerson], they sent somebody over because he wasn't totally within the fold." 👀

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

If USAID was actually the shadow government that controlled the entire world you think it is, at the cost of .1% of the federal budget that is truly amazing cost efficiency

[Tim Walz @Tim_Walz]

Elon Musk is a terrible president.