A few weeks ago, I met with Girl Scouts on their trip to @MontereyAq. We talked about the magical world just beneath the surface of our oceans, and how our fates are inextricably linked. I hope you’ll check out Our Oceans from @HGMedia, which is streaming now on @Netflix.
Today in Oversight:
Republicans are advancing a bill that would fire all government workers - including Veterans - from offices related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, banning them from being reassigned.
How does firing qualified workers and Veterans improve efficiency?
🚨Holy Shit!! Rep Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) brought that smoke that no MAGA Republican knows how to deal with. This is how we have to talk to these troglodytes from now on if we want to beat these wannabe fascists! Kudos Congresswoman! 💥🔥💥#DemVoice1
Lee: When Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was up for confirmation or when VP Harris was added to the ticket, they called them DEI hires. They want you to believe that Harvard graduate with over 20 years of experience is not qualified but Fox personality is qualified to run the DOD
An alleged audio recording of Lukashenka and Prigozhin (Wagner) during the mutiny in 2023 has surfaced on Russian Telegram. Here is a thread with the transcription of it.
*You can thank me by retweeting it*⬇️
Hold the fuck on.
Trump voters with preexisting conditions are out there crying now because they JUST realized Obamacare *is* the Affordable Care Act?!?
The Affordable Care Act they just voted to repeal cuz they were good thanks to… OBAMACARE?!?
Are you fucking kidding me???
To sum it up here are the "coincidences" of the last 2 days:
- 2 underwater cables were cut (Finland/Germany and Lithuania/Sweden)
- 2 nuclear reactors malfunctioned in Finland and were shot down, one on Sunday, the other on Monday
- Norway's Massive Johan Sverdrup Oilfield Shut by Power Outage
- Support cable of the Louhunsalmi suspension bridge broke in Finland, leaving 2 Islands almost cutt-off
(See previous posts for details)
The former wife of Arkansas evangelical pastor Jamie Cowan, who was sentenced to 50 years for raping his own children, has been charged for enabling the abuse.
Charging documents show Mary Miller was fully aware of the horrific child rape that was occurring to her children.
We should talk more about how abnormal it is for a special counsel's office to be shuttered by a change in administrations. Hunter Biden's SC stayed in place as did others. Jack Smith has to discontinue Trump's cases while he's in office but he has other defendants. Trump breaks norms & it's ignored
Joe Biden won 69% of the Arab American vote in Dearborn in 2020…This year Trump got 42% and Stein got 18% and now those voters are angry at Trumps Cabinet picks…did they seriously think Trump was going to give them a seat at the table? All they did was give Trump the green light to allow Netanyahu to finish the genocide….we tried to warn them what would happen…their protest vote may have just ended the Palestinians and that is a freaking tragedy…you get one vote, one chance to do the right thing and instead you give the keys to the one man who doesn’t care about the Palestinians… I mean Trump unalived one million Americans…how could you not see this and how on earth can you now be mad? That is rich.
Fun trivia.
The people who wrote our Constitution weren't sure whether they were going to include a procedure for impeaching the President. Benjamin Franklin made the final argument to convince them.
Want to know how he changed their minds?
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And now, I present to y’all in a thread how @PamelaBrownCNN is all of us when the Supt. Ryan Walters opens his mouth:
First, she asks a thought-provoking question over what gives him the authority to force all schools to watch a video of him praying for Trump…
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Pete Hegseth lacks the qualifications even for undersecretary roles at DOD. https://t.co/njdbb4BNH0
But leading Iowa social conservative Bob Vander Plaats agrees Hegseth is a "tremendous choice" to lead the Pentagon—apparently because he has a big cross tattoo.
Trump will not have a good economy because we don’t have to let him. I myself plan on paying my bills and saving every penny beyond that. I will not contribute to this economy in any other way.
I will buy some clothes before he takes office and make sure I have everything I need for the next four years.
I will not be eating out unless it is an emergency that cannot be avoided. I have already cut my cable long ago, but I will not support mainstream media on any app. No cable news of any kind.
I will not go to the movies, sporting events, or any local attractions. New furniture or household goods will wait until 2028. I’m going to install a few other search bars and avoid Google as much as possible. I will not buy a new car before 2028. I will do everything in my power to hold on to as many dollars as possible.
I do not care about the consequences of a poor economy. If they want to put us through some things then I will deny corporations my money and if we all do the same we can put them through some things at the same time.
There are many ways we can fight back, but holding our money is the biggest way to fight back.
Part of being in the resistance is to resist everything you disagree with. I will resist this administration in every way possible. Make this your last expensive Xmas for the next four years. Hold on to every dollar. Buy based on need and not want.
Invest in your community by organizing and winning races at the local level. We need to get stronger from the bottom up. Use this time to make more local friends who see this country the way you do and get involved.
When they set up hotlines to report illegals start reporting MAGA. Resist in every way you can. Get in the way of their agenda in every way you can.
This is how we fight back.
A trend to watch for in Trump Putsch 2.0, borrowing from the collapse of the USSR: giving public assets to oligarchs, only in the guise of making government more efficient. Elon's DOGE is tailor-made for this, starting with digital assets (spectrum, broadcasting) then... /1
Russia seems headed towards a February 1917 moment.
1. A kilogram of potatoes in Nov 2024 is 73% more expensive than in Jan 2024.
2. Interest rates reached 21% in Oct 2024
3. Mortgage rates have risen to 28%
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