Trump, in his inauguration speech:
“I will also sign an executive order to immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America.”
Defense Dept. removes pages honoring all-Black, female battalion after anti-DEI order. The women helped sort and deliver millions of pieces of mail in the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion during World War 2. (Via @Anna_M_Roman) https://t.co/vqU0gONSFH #ncpol
Donald Trump after children and educators are shot inside a school: We have to get over it.
Donald Trump after his biggest donor’s cars are vandalized:
The Marine Band invited young musicians of color to perform—until Trump’s executive order shut it down. But they refused to be silenced. With military band veterans stepping in, they played for a nation that needed to hear them.
🎥: @60Minutes
NEW: The USDA acknowledged that over the weekend, it accidentally fired "several" agency employees who are working on the federal government's response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak.
The agency adds it is trying to quickly reverse the firings. https://t.co/Cq5fhvgHPY
How much is Congress cutting from their $6.5 billion/year budget? Don’t you think congress can operate on say, maybe, $5 Billion? And each congressman has 18 staff, they could operate on say, 14?
What about the White House?
Free elections are the baseline for representative democracy.
If Jefferson Griffin and NCGOP are successful in overturning the NC Supreme Court race next month, authoritarianism will be the rule in NC going forward.
So it turns out that what actually happened was that Mozambique (the southern African nation) has a province called "Gaza," and @USAID has (had) a contraceptive program there aimed at HIV prevention, one part of which (not $50 million) paid for condoms.
Then the @doge brain trust just CTRL-Fed some document they didn't read for "Gaza" and tweeted out the first thing they saw, with no idea what any of it actually was. And now it's just another social media cloud of nonsense.
The production of bullshit will always out-run corrections to it. There's just no way to scalably respond to nonsense, especially the kind spread by bad-faith actors on the internet. People just have to learn that some folks out here aren't being straight with you.
OK ranks 49th in edu outcomes & we continue to trail behind regionally re: teacher pay & per-pupil expenditures & yet, unsurprisingly, this is his priority. Our state’s leaders aren’t focused on us, only the support & attention of DJT. We’ll see if GOP leaders push back on this.