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#ETTD #GoChiefs #GSD Pronouns: Don't care, will respect yours

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

A sexual predator responding to a female journalist by telling her to smile.

Absolutely disgusting.

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

America is racist. Two white men chased and shot at a Black delivery driver. But, the judge dropped the charges. This is the same way southern judges refused to prosecute lynchmobs

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Over three months later, we are still at war.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

He wanted to look tough. He posted a painting of himself surrounded by oiled-up shirtless men in tiny shorts waving pompoms. Safe to say this did not land quite the way he intended.

[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

These are the four college girls, including one American citizen, the IDF kidnapped in the middle of the night from their homes and threw into their torture dungeons.

Jolan Abu Awwad, Natali Abu Dayya, Laila Nael Khalil, Sama Safi

Israel has a policy called “administrative detention” that allows them to kidnap Palestinians and imprison them for 6 month increments without any charges whatsoever. These holdings can drag out for years.

Over 3,000 Palestinians were being held on administrative detention in Israeli prisons on October 7. That’s why Hamas took all those Israelis back to Gaza. To exchange for their release.

But do you see how that works? When Israel kidnaps people and holds them for months and years on end, they are simply “prisoners on administrative detention.” But when Hamas does it, they are “hostages.”

[AnthonyAndrews @anthon7yandrews]

I bet you didn’t know that Justice Gorsuch cousin sold an acre of land to Russian Oligarch Vladislav Doronin 2022 for $10 million. The same Doronin that the Kushner Albania Island is attached to.

[Lesley Abravanel 🪩 @lesleyabravanel]

TRUMP EPSTEIN PEDO FILES: "I personally witnessed four sexual encounters that the Plaintiff was forced to have with Mr. Trump during this period, including the fourth of these encounters where Mr. Trump forcibly raped her despite her pleas to stop." https://t.co/Ib5cGUjAZn

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

The President of the United States is asleep at his desk. Again.

Behind him stand seven grown adults in expensive suits, and not one of them is doing anything about it. One is mid-sentence. Another is gazing sideways with the haunted look of a man whose pension depends on never acknowledging what he can see in his peripheral vision.

The rest of the world is watching, and the rest of the world has noticed something. Americans are terrified of authority. That fear has settled over this administration like a fog, and it turns otherwise functional adults into warm furniture. Nobody moves. Nobody speaks. The paralysis is total.

In any European parliament, in any boardroom from Oslo to Ljubljana, someone would have leaned over by now. Tapped a shoulder. Said, quietly but clearly, that perhaps this isn’t the moment. Somebody would have done something, because the alternative, pretending a sleeping man is running a meeting, would have been too absurd to sustain.

Not here. Here, seven men have collectively decided that the correct professional response to the President losing consciousness in the Oval Office is to carry on as though he were a particularly demanding houseplant.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

BREAKING: Trump just took a SLEDGEHAMMER to 140 years of civil service protections for 8,000 top federal workers — so he can replace experts with loyalist toadies.

Donald Trump just signed an executive order turning 8,000 of the most senior federal civil servants into at-will employees — meaning they can be fired at any moment, for any reason, with NO appeal rights whatsoever.

This is NOT about accountability. This is about LOYALTY — and the difference between those two things is the difference between democracy and autocracy.

The civil service protections Trump is dismantling weren't invented by Democrats or Republicans. They were created 140 years ago after a disgruntled job-seeker ASSASSINATED President James Garfield because he didn't get the government position he felt entitled to. Before those protections existed, government jobs were handed out to political allies regardless of qualifications — a corrupt patronage system that bred incompetence and criminality.

Sound familiar? That’s because Trump has been bringing it BACK.

The 8,000 positions affected include heads of policy offices, regional office directors, program managers, senior public affairs officers, and those overseeing federal spending and grants. These are the EXPERTS — the career professionals who ensure that public health protections, environmental regulations, airport safety, and law enforcement actually function regardless of who wins an election.

And now they can be fired the moment they deliver bad news to the president.

We already know EXACTLY how Trump handles that. The head of the Defense Intelligence Agency was fired after his agency contradicted Trump's claim that airstrikes had "obliterated" Iran's nuclear facilities. The Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner was ridiculed and replaced after a disappointing jobs report.

"If you were a career civil servant and there is bad news you want to share with the president, you're less likely to do so if you think 'the minute I share that bad news, I'm going to get fired,'" said University of Michigan professor Don Moynihan.

That's not efficiency. That's a BUBBLE of yes-men surrounding a president who fires anyone who tells him the truth.

The administration just started with 8,000 positions. They originally estimated that 50,000 jobs could be reclassified. They have NOT ruled out expanding the pool.

This is a foot in the door. And experts say it's headed straight for the Supreme Court — where Trump is betting the conservative supermajority will hand him permanent control of the entire executive branch.

Democracy itself is on the ballot in November. Again. Make sure to vote wisely to stop Trump’s march toward authoritarianism and total control of every aspect of government.

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[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

This is remarkable. Trump is giving Pulte, who lacks the statutory qualification (national security expertise) for the DNI job the position so they can manufacture another stolen election charge, or perhaps try to justify halting them altogether. It’s out in the open.

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

Todd Blanche is illegally withholding 2.5 million Epstein Files from the American people.

He must be immediately impeached and investigated.

[Common Sense 🇺🇸💙 @commons96055467]

Something is happening to the US that is slow, systematic and deadly. Trump is dismantling our country, and it’s deliberate, calculated and surgical.
1: trump killed NATO partnership, our strongest defense alliance against Russia and China
2: trump’s HHS Secretary is killing our public health infrastructure, creating a more sicker and vulnerable America with communicative diseases
3: over at the pentagon trump’s frat boy Petey is firing our most qualified generals, depleting our best military hardware rapidly, in a stupid war to make our military a third world level armed forces
4: trump’s DOGE deliberately hollowed out our government from essential experts, to zap its functioning capabilities
5: trump killed USAID, and we lost our goodwill around the world and became isolated pariah
6: trump ICE became his brown shirts, killing and abusing Americans to obey
7: trump’s weirdo FBI director is charging everyone and anyone to silence Americans
8: trump DOJ is robbing the treasury to the tune of $1.8 billion dollars, to create an army of bribed foot soldiers to protect their dismantling of the country during midterm elections
9: trump’s interior secretary is dismantling our national parks
10: trump’s economic team of Bassett and lutnick is crashing the economy, creating a population of economically disadvantaged
11: trump’s Epstein files are now officially been shelved to protect trump the destroyer
12: trump let his oligarch enabler Peter Thiel to confiscate all our private data, including social security, tax, health and court and business records
13: finally and most importantly, trump and his family and his oligarch enablers are looting our treasury, and stuffing our tax dollars into their pockets.

Now tell me, you don’t think trump is a foreign agent, disguised as the president of the U.S, installed to destroy the US? Could it be that fuck Putin, the other fuck Elon, the anti Christ fuck Theil, own trump’s ass? Drag this enemy of America out of the White House. That foreign escort “Epstien hooker” Melania too.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[Karen Piper @PiperK]

It sure sounds like Jared and Ivanka got involved with Albanian organized crime, including a man under investigation for murdering an Italian journalist. https://t.co/DsVPcrGPwd

[Gigi @Gigi_chienergy]

The screwworm program wasn't charity, it was a $10 million fence that kept a billion-dollar problem from eating our own livestock alive. That's the thing with most USAID funding: it looks like "aid," but it's really cheap self-defense. Solve a problem there, and it never lands on our doorstep. But sure, let a bunch of guys who can't define DEI without Googling take a chainsaw to it. They didn't stop to ask, "Will this cut hurt us too?" Unless that's the point, burn it all down and call it efficiency.

As usual our inept agriculture secretary, blaming the Biden administration as usual, instead of offering a solution to the problem they created.

Texan here

A screwworm infestation is a nightmare for cattle, causing horrific wounds and economic devastation. For Texas, the situation has escalated dramatically in the last 24 hours with the first confirmed case of New World Screwworm (NWS) in over 60 years! This could have been avoided!

Infested animal can kill a cow in less than two weeks.

Treatment is extremely difficult and time-consuming, requiring the painful removal of every visible larva and deep disinfection of the wound. Ranchers no longer have much experience with this labor-intensive process, and there is currently no approved pharmaceutical treatment to make it easier.

This has triggered a massive economic threat. The USDA estimates that a widespread outbreak would drain an astonishing $1.8 billion from the Texas economy alone in livestock deaths, labor, and medication expenses.

How will this affect you? Tightening supplies will drive already high beef prices higher.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This is going to not only put a lot of people on the streets it’s also going to displace poor animals that were trained to help people especially Veterans.

[Ethan Levins 🇺🇸 @EthanLevins2]

This is not Gaza.

This is Lebanon.

THIS IS GENOCIDE!

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Rep. Olszewski to Marco Rubio: "I may have to get you a new pair of glasses because the facts are right in front of you, and it seems like malpractice for the Secretary of State to not be able to see this president and his family enriching themselves by billions of dollars."

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Adriana Camberos stole 10s of millions from American consumers.

Trump granted her a full pardon, allowing her to keep $48.8 million in stolen funds.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: HELL YES! Albania strikes a crushing blow against Jared Kushner's corrupt private island development by FREEZING the bank accounts of a major company tied to the project.

And it gets even better...

According to Albanian reporter Lindita Cela, the nation's anti-corruption prosecutors have frozen the accounts of a landholding company involved in Kushner's $4 billion luxury resort plans.

The move comes as massive protests sweep the country, with local residents incensed at the idea of Ivanka and Jared gobbling up coveted real estate to create a vacation spot for the Epstein Class. The slogan “Albania Is Not for Sale" has been spreading like wildfire and clashes between police and protestors are increasing in intensity.

The asset seizure was ordered by the Special Prosecution Against Corruption and Organized Crime and is part of a broader investigation into possibly fraudulent property titles.

Suspiciously, the company in question is owned by Qatari oligarchs Moutaz and Ramez Al-Khayyat. Kushner's ties to dirty Gulf money are well-established. They blossomed during his time in the first Trump administration, where he twisted American foreign policy to benefit specific actors in the region in return for massive investments and business advantages. This deal is rotten all the way to the core.

The Al-Khayyats have snatched up property along a protected stretch of coastline of the Adriatic Sea and it's here and on a nearby island that Kushner intends on erecting his resort for the top 1% of the top 1%. Given what we know about the Trump family, it's safe to presume that the development will serve as a paradise for pedophiles, war criminals, and human traffickers.

But this time, Jared bit off more than he can chew. Albanians are a proud, defiant people. They've survived centuries of larger regional powers seeking to divide their land, rewrite their history, and erase their culture. They're not going to let one greedy businessman defeat them now.

We stand with Albania!

Kushner out! Ivanka out!

Do you stand with the Albanian people?

Please ❤️ and share to demand more investigations into Kushner!