OttolineMorrell🌻

Retired amateur rock musician. Advocate for women's global political leadership. Rage makes a poor editor.

[OttolineMorrell🌻 @OttolineMorrell]

@StellaH07773809 @BirdCentralPark Fantastic!✨

[paul hayes @paulhayes55]

Robin.

[Jocelyn Anderson Photography @JocAPhotography]

One of the many lovely Baltimore Orioles at the local park. While common they are always a delight to photograph.

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@Napnyc1Napnyc Ha! Well, glad you’re making the most of your time here, and sharing it with us all!✨

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🚨Ok US Courts, you’re up! 🚨

[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

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@MediawatchNw Have a great time, and take care of yourself!😎✨

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@realesttruth1 @washingtonpost @Essmart12 Remember the kerfuffle over “Billy Beer” during Carter’s term?

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@Napnyc1Napnyc Amazing. You must be very stealthy when on the lookout.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

It is time to end this war. But Russia’s ruler wants to keep fighting. That is why Ukrainian sanctions against this aggression are working. Last night, our drones covered a distance of about 1,000 kilometers to the St. Petersburg region – to the enemy navy’s arsenals and a base in Kronstadt. Our long-range sanctions also reached about 500 kilometers into the Krasnodar region – and hit an oil depot. These are important results of the joint efforts by warriors from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine, and the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine. Russia must end its war and stop its attacks on life. Any manifestation of injustice against Ukraine will receive a just response. I thank our warriors for their precision.

[OttolineMorrell🌻 @OttolineMorrell]

@Napnyc1Napnyc Amazing color, and a beautiful shot!

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Gym knew and he has lied over and over again about this

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@sandibachom @JamesTate121 It’s the sickest cult ever.

[OttolineMorrell🌻 @OttolineMorrell]

“All the best people.”

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Jake Lang, who beat Capitol police officers with a baseball bat on January 6, spent four years in federal prison on an 11-count indictment, got pardoned by Trump on day one, and was recently running for U.S. Senate in Florida, was arrested Tuesday night in Frisco, Texas on a criminal trespass warrant.
He hopped a fence into a high school stadium to film what he claimed was dried blood from a stabbing, then posted it online for clout.
Since his pardon he has also been charged with felony property damage in Minnesota for destroying an ice sculpture, charged with threatening a Capitol police officer, showed up outside a mosque in Plano holding a severed pig’s head, threw chocolate coins outside AIPAC while doing a Nazi salute, and dragged a goat on a leash to a protest against a Muslim mayoral candidate. For real though!
Trump pardoned this bastard. He is currently in the Collin County jail complaining about his mattress.
The pardon was 136 days ago. VIA~~Eric Blackerby

[Reich-Wing Watch @ReichWingWatch]

🚨22-year-old Kalan Koen of Midland, Texas was arrested on 10 felony charges, including seven counts of possession of visual material depicting s*xual assault, two counts of possession of child s*xual abuse material, and one count of drug possession.

Authorities found 132 GIGABYTES of CSAM in his possession — including content depicting children 12 MONTHS-OLD or younger.

Bonds totaling more than $1.2 million have been set. He remains in custody.

❌Not trans.
❌Not a drag queen.
❌Not gay dads.
❌Not an immigrant.
❌Not a Muslim.

✅MAGA! Every single day.

[OttolineMorrell🌻 @OttolineMorrell]

Nauseating. Throw away the key.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This is Riley T Carter and he was a MAGA Congressman in WA. He was a proponent on making kids safe again until he was arrested and convicted of incest,child rape and the molestation of a 11 year old family member.He was sentenced to 46 years in prison.

[OttolineMorrell🌻 @OttolineMorrell]

This cult has some strange “shared values.”

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Jan. 6 rioter Andrew Taake has pled guilty to soliciting a minor.

He previously received a full pardon from Trump, even though he was caught on camera attacking Capitol police.

[OttolineMorrell🌻 @OttolineMorrell]

“Lovely people who care about the country.”
Sure, Bub.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Another one…🤡🤡🤡😳😳😳

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted of smuggling more than 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S.

Trump gave him a full pardon.

[OttolineMorrell🌻 @OttolineMorrell]

Throw away the key!!!

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Trump supporter Trent Prather has been arrested for possessing 42,000 files of child p*rn.

The children featured were as young as 4.