Tim Berry

Entrepreneur. Founder & Chairman of @paloaltosoft & @bplans ... recommends @liveplan, @leanbizplan. Stanford MBA. Father of 5, married 56 years.

[Tim Berry @Timberry]

It's the planning, not just the plan, that matters. Simple #leanbizplan. Bullet points and lists. Strategy, execution, milestones, metrics, assumptions and realistic essential numbers. #startup #smallbiz #businessplan https://t.co/UVShYe6fFp

[Senate Democrats @SenateDems]

REMINDER: This is what @SenateGOP is fighting to shovel an additional $70 billion dollars toward.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Why? Just WHY?!? 😡

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

From 1966 to 2025 we dropped sterile flies over South America that ate screwworm and thus prevented them from spreading, but the le epic efficient cracked coders at DOGE thought this was a silly waste of the ~0 dollars it cost us.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

You played by the rules, and then Republicans changed them.

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

I am not making this up: Secretary Rubio actually sat before Congress today and said “the war is over.”

It’s a bizarre lie to tell when Americans know there’s obviously a war underway - not just from seeing it on screens, but from paying its costs every day at home.

Leaders with this little respect for the American people have no business in office.

[Tim Berry @Timberry]

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[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

Yesterday Donald Trump tripled the size of his personal political army inside the government. Illegally. And almost no one noticed.

Here's what happened:

He signed an order converting ~8,000 of the most senior career officials in government into employees he can fire for any reason, or no reason at all.

These aren't rando's. They're the directors, chiefs of staff, and the people who write the rules or decide who gets federal money, i.e. the lieutenants right below his political appointees.

Until yesterday, they answered to the law. Now they answer to him.

A president normally gets ~4,000 political appointees. People he can bring into government and fire at will. I was one of them at DHS. You serve at his pleasure, full stop -- so if you're gonna speak truth to power, you're prepared to quit (or get fired if he doesn't like it).

The rest of the federal government is PROTECTED from firing if they tell the truth.

But Trump just stripped those protections. Adding 8,000 more people to his personal army. Overnight. Without asking Congress.

With the stroke of a pen, those people now serve at the pleasure of the president. They're "his" people, whether they like it or not.

And the chilling effect is real. An official who can be fired this afternoon for "subversion of presidential directives" (the order's own words) doesn't need to be hand-picked to know what's expected of him or her.

The threat does all the work.

By the way, this order is illegal. The law only lets Trump reclassify jobs when "necessary" in exceptional circumstances. And this blows an 8,000-person hole in the merit hiring / firing system created by Congress.

Without permission, Trump has created a whole new category of stormtroopers inside the Executive Branch.

If this doesn't get challenged in court, you're going to see the U.S. government become a very different place.

Here's the full story: https://t.co/mJzrvzhxGR

[Greta Berlin @Truegreta]

I stood at this pool, at both monuments and saw both reflections…
He’s a God damn idiot, as are the fools that support him. The “Reflection Pool” wasn’t designed by American architect Henry Bacon a hundred years ago to look like a swimming pool. It’s designed to have a darkened characteristics that has reflective qualities to reflect the monuments.
That way, the Washington Monument is reflective to you when at the Lincoln Memorial, and when at the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial is reflective to you.
It’s designed to enhance the grandeur of monuments, create an illusion of reflection, and inclusion of expansive space of unity.
He’s a tacky vulgar person that vulgarizes everything he touches. America isn’t becoming great, it’s becoming vulgar.

Credit - Mathew Reed

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

The federal government just banned bison from public land in Montana.

Not cattle.

Bison.

Interior Secretary Burgum revoked grazing permits for 950 bison
on 63,000 acres of federal land in northeastern Montana.

The reason?

Bison raised for conservation don't count as livestock
under a 1934 law.

Bison raised for meat and milk? Fine.

Bison raised to restore a native species to its native land? Get out.

Meanwhile, cattle ranchers across the West keep grazing on your land.

For $1.69 a month.

One cow. One calf. Thirty days. $1.69.

On land that belongs to every American.

The Cheyenne River Sioux. The Coalition of Large Tribes —
50+ Native nations. Defenders of Wildlife.

They all filed formal protests.

They called it exactly what it is.

"DEI for cows."

The bison have until September 30 to be gone.

Who decided cattle belong on public land more than bison do?

#DemsUnited

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

We aren’t talking about this enough.

Trump’s lawsuit against his own IRS, the one that he settled to create the $1.776 billion dollar January 6 slush fund, was over the leak of his tax returns. But they were leaked when he was in charge of the IRS.

So Trump settled his lawsuit against his own IRS with his own DOJ over the leak of his own tax returns, which were leaked while he was President the first time and running the IRS.

Make it make sense!

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

James Talarico: “The real fight in this country is not left vs right, it’s top vs bottom. We’re all getting screwed. None of us can afford anything. None of us can get ahead no matter how hard we work because this political system and economic system are rigged against us”

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: This war in Iran is the worst foreign policy blunder since Iraq. And just like the Iraq War, it's a war built on lies. Let’s update the record:

On day one, the president said it was running ahead of schedule. On day 10, he said it was very complete . Day 21, getting very close . Day 32, leaving very soon . On day 39, the President of the United States said a whole civilization will die…

And on the next day, day 40, he declared total and complete victory . Day 67, great progress. Day 79, the clock is ticking. Today is day 92 . And on day 92 Iran's ballistic missiles and drones have not been destroyed. The Strait of Hormuz, which was opened before the war is still closed. The regime is intact along with its stockpile of highly enriched uranium—a stockpile Iran only built after President Trump shredded President Obama's Iran deal

[Popular Liberal 🇺🇸 @PopularLiberal]

WOW! Imagine if Hunter Biden invested in a company and three months later the White House rushed a $620,000,000 Pentagon loan to it.

That’s exactly what Don Jr. did with Vulcan Elements. Stephanie Ruhle calls it corruption. Republicans call it “Tuesday.” The valuation jumps from $200 million to $2 billion.

Your tax dollars. Their bank account.

[Tim Berry @Timberry]

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[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

Imagine such irreplaceable beauty of nature to be replaces with oil and drilling pits
What is wrong with America that they entire country has become a nation of lemmings

[Tim Berry @Timberry]

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[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

The Tongass National Forest is the last intact temperate rainforest on Earth.

Ancient trees—some 500 years old — rise so tall they vanish into the mist.

Bear cubs learn to fish in its streams.
Salmon return to the same rivers their ancestors used for millennia.
Eagles nest in old growth that took centuries to become what it is.

Three Indigenous nations — Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian — have called it home since long before this country existed.

17 million acres of Southeast Alaska.
It stores 20% of the carbon held across ALL U.S. forests.
It’s North America’s Amazon.

It’s National Forest Week.
And they’re about to clearcut it.

Secretary Rollins rescinded its protections last June. Trump signed an executive order stripping federal land protections further in May. Bloomberg Law reports the formal full repeal lands this summer.

9 million undeveloped acres lose protection overnight. Triple the timber-suitable acreage opens up.

11 tribal governments have fought for this forest’s survival. One of them said it plainly: “You cannot separate us from the land.”

How much old growth has to disappear before people finally call it irreversible?

#DemsUnited