Washington DC Metro Area | Recruitment at Dexis Consulting Group | International Development Professional | All opinions are my own | former blue check
@JasonKelce It is certainly a soft red card and something that looked worse in slow mo but once you go to VAR The option is only to have a red card or no red card. A yell owcard isn't an option. But the standard isn't intent. Standards are more along the lines of reckless
If @elonmusk thinks this is true than he is delusional. This was not the standard. This was not the impression of the standard. it is inaugurable that people died. Kids died. And no money was saved. American prestige was not enhanced. Elon may have wealth but he lacks humanity
The standard applied by DOGE was very simple and easy:
Provide contact information for the recipients of aid, so that we can confirm it is not fraudulent.
The reality is that money was being sent to corrupt politicians under the guise of aid! Liars and stock insider traders like Ro the Robber should be in prison!!
going back to 1965, telling everyone that in the future both the soviet union and the united states will collapse under the leadership of men who were spokesmen for the same pizza restaurant, i am immediately sent to the nuthouse and lobotomized
When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.”
For these Americans, that wasn’t true.
https://t.co/DWEFAgCmmF
In 2009, Colorado began offering teens free IUDs without parental consent. Within 8 years teen pregnancies dropped 54%. Teen abortion rates fell by 64%. For every $1 spent on the program the state saved $5.85 in labor and delivery costs, child-care assistance and food stamps! That's what a good society does!
Fun Fact: There’s a federal website that exists only because courts forced the White House to put it back online. Twice.
Yes, really.
The site is https://t.co/k8sErkzo9G. Congress passed a law requiring the Office of Management and Budget to publicly show how it controls federal spending within 2 days of making decisions. Translation: Congress approves the money, but OMB decides when agencies are allowed to use it. For decades, those decisions were completely secret.
Then it gets wild.
In March 2025, OMB Director Russell Vought just… took the site offline. His excuse? Transparency supposedly had a “chilling effect” on White House decision-making. GAO said that was illegal. Watchdog groups sued. A federal judge said OMB was relying on an “extravagant and unsupported theory of presidential power” and ordered the site restored. OMB appealed. A second court shut that down too.
The site came back in August 2025 — not because OMB wanted it to, but because courts made them.
Plot twist: even after restoring it, OMB started sneaking in secret footnotes pointing to hidden “spend plans” that weren’t publicly posted. In January 2026, another federal judge caught them again and ruled they were still violating the law.
Why this matters: this boring little database is how the public catches the White House illegally withholding money Congress already approved. In 2025 alone, OMB withheld over $410 billion. Without this site, Americans would have no visibility into executive branch defiance of Congress.
The irony? The site loads like it’s powered by a hamster on a treadmill. That’s not sabotage. That’s just federal IT. About 90% of government websites fail basic performance standards because they run on legacy systems from the early 2000s.
Bottom line: this plain, slow, ugly database required an act of Congress, multiple federal court orders, and ongoing legal supervision — all so Americans can see how their own money is actually being controlled.
Which tells you exactly why someone tried so hard to make it disappear.
“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right,” Martin Luther King Jr.
Jessica Hauser, Alex Pretti’s final nursing student, posted this on Facebook:
“I was Alex Pretti’s final nursing student. He was my friend and my nursing mentor. For the past four months, I stood shoulder to shoulder with him during my capstone preceptorship at the Minneapolis VA Hospital. There he trained me to care for the sickest of the sick as an ICU nurse. He taught me how to care for arterial and central lines, the intricacies of managing multiple IVs filled with lifesaving solutions, and how to watch over every heartbeat, every breath, and every flicker of life, ready to act the moment they wavered. Techniques intended to heal.
Alex carried patience, compassion and calm as a steady light within him. Even at the very end, that light was there. I recognized his familiar stillness and signature calm composure shining through during those unbearable final moments captured on camera.
It does not surprise me that his final words were, “Are you okay?” Caring for people was at the core of who he was. He was incapable of causing harm. He lived a life of healing, and he lived it well.
Alex believed strongly in the Second Amendment and in the rights rooted in our Constitution and its amendments. He spoke out for justice and peace whenever he could, not only out of obligation, but out of a belief that we are more connected than divided, and that communication would bring us together.
I want his family to know his legacy lives on. I am a better nurse because of the wisdom and skills he instilled in me. I carry his light with me into every room, letting it guide and steady my hands as I heal and care for those in need.
Please honor my friend by standing up for peace, preferably with a cup of black coffee in hand and a couple of pieces of candy in your pocket, just as he would. He would remind you that caring for others is hard work, and we must do whatever it takes to get through the long shifts. Step outside with your dog, breathe in the world, hike or bike as he loved to do, and let yourself find peace in the quiet moments within nature. Stand up for justice and speak with those whose views differ from your own. Hold your beliefs with strength, but always extend love outward, even in the face of adversity.
Take one step, no matter how small, to help heal our world. Through these acts, carry his light forward in his name. Let his legacy continue to heal.”
I would offer that Alex Pretti putting his body—with his hands up—between a woman and the BP agent who had just violently shoved her into the snow, offer stark competing visions of manhood. Pretti, a nurse caring for veterans, who took a face full of pepper spray to shield that woman, is a much better masculine ideal that the masked coward shoving the woman and executing a man on his knees. MAGA may venerate the latter, but most people in a healthy society want the former.
Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process.
This is one that stands out:
https://t.co/qSfcJJG5Zv
Today, we have all seen the horrific killing of Alex Pretti, a VA nurse, by a group of heavily armed and masked men, resembling a paramilitary force.
I served in the army for 21 years. Watching that video, I saw untrained, reckless agents acting aggressively and with a posture for escalation towards a civilian community exercising their First Amendment right to free speech and protest.
ICE killings are becoming regular occurrence because Trump declared that ICE can use force with total impunity. Our leaders cannot permit Trump to have a police force loyal only to him.
These killings must stop. ICE must be reined-in and held accountable for this senseless violence.
The paramilitary arm of the White House just executed a union federal employee for political speech and lawfully documenting government activity. His 800k union siblings in @AFGENational could shut it all down by withholding their labor. What would it take to make that happen?
This is who America is behind the fog of the declaration of war on everyday Americans and the thuggery of this regime.
Frank here IS the voice of the not so silent majority, and he absolutely knocks it out of the park.
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