TeAnne

Community minded communications specialist, writer & all-around good human. Getting involved is easy. Staying involved is the hard part

[TeAnne @TiaTweets]

@maddenifico I am so sad that 60 Minutes won’t be part of my Sunday night lineup.

[George Wallace @MrGeorgeWallace]

Alex Haley grew up in Tennessee. He traced his family tree back to his original enslaved, African ancestor, then wrote 'Roots'. He received a Pulitzer Prize for it. Knoxville just banned it 'cause it might make white kids sad.

[TeAnne @TiaTweets]

@jamesetta_w @rolandsmartin Yeah…

[TeAnne @TiaTweets]

Shot guns. Trucks. Confederate flags. The mama might forgive them - but I don’t. I’m terrified just from the news report! How did those children feel? Hunted & endangered. Not safe. Targeted. Mortally threatened. Emotionally scarred.

[TeAnne @TiaTweets]

I need some “affordability.” Not sure why that’s so funny.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

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.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Breaking WaPo:

Multiple scientists who serve on an independent board established to guide the nation's nearly $9 billion basic science funding agency were just terminated from their positions by Trump.

The National Science Board was established in 1950 to guide the governance of the National Science Foundation.

[TeAnne @TiaTweets]

@PeteHegseth @POTUS Stop the glorification of violence. We need low gas prices and peace in the Middle East.

[TeAnne @TiaTweets]

@FoxNews Yes, by helping Russia. Bravo.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

MASTER MARKET MANIPULATOR‼️

[Acyn @Acyn]

Taylor: The day that I decided to quit that administration was the day when a mentor of mine from capitol hill had died. His name was John McCain. The flags were at half staff around the country, and the president was trying to call us in Australia on the other side of the world, to say, not put out a statement in honor of John McCain, but to say, raise the flags back up. I don't care if you agreed with John McCain or disagreed. It didn't matter like Bob Mueller, he served this country in uniform. He was a sitting united States senator. He deserved to be honored with the flags at half staff—for the president of the United States to be so petty, so small and petty, to tell us to raise the flags back up in an act of active dishonor, tells you everything you need to know about that man and his lack of integrity and character.

[TeAnne @TiaTweets]

@barkmeta @Mikel_Jollett Untenable

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth criticized Iran for investing in missiles and weapons over its people, as the Pentagon prepares a request for up to $200 billion in additional war funding, amidst record cuts to healthcare and other human needs.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

🚨🚨BOMBSHELL: "Jane Doe #4 alleged to the FBI that Epstein abused her when she was 14, and that trump abused her when she was 15.

Kahn, Epstein's accountant, testified that the Epstein estate settled with Jane Doe #4 for BOTH Epstein and trump."

HOLY SHIT.🤬

[TeAnne @TiaTweets]

@RonFilipkowski Terrible!

[TeAnne @TiaTweets]

@RonFilipkowski Embarrassing. I can’t believe this is how they’re using our tax dollars!!

[TeAnne @TiaTweets]

@DearthOfSid Ridiculous!!

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

BREAKING: CNN just played a montage of Trump officials saying America is at “war” while GOP lawmakers try to explain that America is not at war.

There is no coherent messaging or strategy.

[TeAnne @TiaTweets]

@Rightanglenews Boooo