Jan SMH Harper

Wife, Mama, Grandma.
🎵 Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. 🎵
Tweets =¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[WarMonitor @TheWarMonitor]

Trump has signed an executive order making it easier to fire roughly 8,000 senior federal employees by reclassifying them under a new employment category, a move that could further politicize the federal workforce.

[nature @Nature]

Scientists are raising the alarm about a White House proposal that could fundamentally recast federally funded science. The proposed rules would put political appointees in control of all federal grants and de-emphasize peer review, among other measures.

https://t.co/xvOLHPiP4T

[Teddy Schleifer @teddyschleifer]

NEWS

Trump donors are funding a secretive nonprofit to fund lawsuits and legal defense for Trump allies.

Including lawsuits against the government.

It’s called the Lawfare Defense Fund

Details with @kenbensinger

https://t.co/sgW4VCeWBf

[Kristen Holmes @KristenhCNN]

President Trump is expected to nominate Todd Blanche to be attorney general as soon as tonight, a source familiar with the matter tells me.

[POLITICO @politico]

A judge said the Trump administration can’t dismantle a weather research center. The damage may already be done. https://t.co/LiakIdTYBW

[Chef Joe Gera 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇹 @redhotnerd]

Look, @grahamformaine is lying. I can’t tell you everything I know even though I want to. My vagueness is deliberate to protect people. That said, it’s coming & he’s going to probably behave like he has been this entire time and say something trumpian like “fake news” or “she’s a liar” or whatever the fuck. He’s full of shit; and if he does that? Worse is behind it. I begged him to tell the truth, and I’m doing it again now. Tell the truth. If you lie about this, it’s gonna get worse.

[AG @AGHamilton29]

So weird that the Qatar foundation spent years pouring billions into American schools to try to influence the direction at those schools only to start “winding down” those efforts once the funding became more publicized.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Qatar Foundation International, which has spent the past 17 years building influence across U.S. education from K–12 schools to universities, teacher training programs, and national education networks, is shutting down its operations. - QFI Statement

[Guy Benson @guypbenson]

This is Todd “Let’s Roll” Beamer, who died heroically while trying to retake United Flight 93 from Al Qaeda terrorists on 9/11. His final resting place, is in Cranbury, NJ — where he was living with his wife and children before his murder. Cranbury is located in NJ-12, where the new Democratic nominee for Congress is Adam Hamawy.

Hamawy was a close associate and translator to Omar Abdel-Rahman, aka the ‘Blind Sheikh,’ an arch terrorist convicted of masterminding multiple plots against targets in NYC — including the World Trade Center. Hamawy testified at Adbel-Rahman’s trial, as a defense witness.

It has also been reported that Hamawy traveled to Bosnia to volunteer at an organization that was later unmasked as an Al Qaeda front group.

One of Hamawy’s loudest and most high-profile supporters and endorsers has openly declared that America deserved the 9/11 attacks.

Hamawy is now the prohibitive frontrunner to represent Todd Beamer’s district in the United States Congress.

[Matthew Cappucci @MatthewCappucci]

The lack of morning weather balloons launched across the western and central U.S. is having a real, tangible impact on degrading forecast quality.

We can't look at weather balloon data that doesn't exist. We can't pump nonexistent data into models. We can't rely as heavily on models that don't "know" what's happening above our heads.

Today's severe weather forecast is less certain because we don't have weather balloon data to confirm the strength of jet stream winds aloft.

This is extremely frustrating, and is the result of logistical, organizational, political and budgetary decisions.

[Andrew Desiderio @AndrewDesiderio]

Senate Republicans very frustrated that Trump/his admin are dropping these things seemingly without regard for what’s happening in the Senate at that moment

Two weeks ago it was the weaponization fund as they were trying to pass a reconciliation bill with a Judiciary title (court mandated deadline, but still)

And this week it’s the Pulte appointment as DNI screwing up the Senate’s hard-fought FISA 702 extension

[Political Polls @PpollingNumbers]

New - Ohio poll

Senate
🔵 Brown 53%
🔴 Husted 45%

Governor
🔵 Acton 50%
🔴 Ramaswamy 49%

Fox #B - RV - 6/1

[Political Polls @PpollingNumbers]

New - Senate poll - Ohio

🔵 Brown 53%
🔴 Husted 45%

Fox #B - RV - 6/1

[Financial Times @FT]

Trump’s Iran war drains US oil supplies to lowest level since 2004 https://t.co/vzI3UaDw5F

[Texas Monthly @TexasMonthly]

A case of the New World screwworm may have been detected in South Texas, according to the USDA.

If not contained, the pest could devastate the cattle industry. The "tick riders" are on high alert. https://t.co/Y7rHLZ25Zn

[Jake Sherman @JakeSherman]

just as Senate gets on reconciliation bill.

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

🚨 The House just voted 218-204 to move forward on the discharge petition to provide military aid to Ukraine and impose tough sanctions on Russia. The House will vote on final passage tomorrow. This is our Churchill moment and we must pass the test.

[Alayna Treene @alaynatreene]

One of the key sticking points remaining in negotiations between the US & Iran centers on monetary compensation, a US official tells CNN

Iran has communicated to mediators that they want some form of financial compensation to be released as soon as the two sides agree on an initial MOU, the official said, and not withheld for a future date.

But Trump officials are concerned that any unfreezing of funds at such an early stage could lessen the economic pain the US/ its blockade has inflicted on Iran throughout the course of the war — potentially eliminating, or at least weakening, a key leverage point Washington holds over Tehran

More w/ @Kevinliptakcnn https://t.co/pkp1uxWKov

[Alex Wickham @alexwickham]

NEW: MI5 and Five Eyes partner agencies have just issued what they say is an unprecedented joint warning about attempts by Chinese spies to use LinkedIn to recruit Western assets

[Live Monitor @amlivemon]

lol for like 0.01%