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Since I administered the WH emoluments rules, let me explain why this is forbidden Trump expressed interest in it before it was offered He is going to use & benefit from it a while in office And he's going to keep using it after he leaves! Functionally, it's a gift to him & so it's illegal

When trying to get our preschool licensed, we had a very tight timeline. Our consultants came out on a Sunday for the final approval. I asked them, once approved, if I could buy them some coffee for their time and help. They said no, it was illegal to accept gifts.

In the late 80s I worked for a test equipment company. When we held seminars promoting our equipment we had to put out a container that allowed government employees to pay for the coffee we supplied.

My dad was a Marine who once (1950s) was part of a ceremonial guard for the king of Saudi Arabia. At the end of the visit, each Marine was given a gold watch and a $100 bill by the king. A State Department representative confiscated the watches and an IRS agent handed each Marine a tax form. 😄

As we've known all along, North Carolina's State Supreme Court has abandoned any pretense of being a deliberative judicial body. Four right-wing partisan activists voted today to overturn an election and set North Carolina's laws aside purely because it helps their team. www.wral.com/story/nc-sup...

Very informative chart from Washington Post

The refusal of the Trump administration to follow the law is not a reason to give up on passing laws. It is a reason for Congress to keep doing (that is, *start* doing) its job of oversight and passing more laws in response.

Longest Senate filibusters ever: Strom Thurmond - opposing voting rights for black people Ted Cruz - opposing health care for poor people Cory Booker - opposing fascism #filibuster

SEN. BOOKER KICKS OFF LENGTHY FILIBUSTER TO PROTEST TRUMP REGIME “I rise tonight with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able…1/

Things feel so out of control… it’s very nice to have an outlet, get my hangs dirty, fresh air… bringing things to life. ❤️

What in the world do we think Kamala Harris owes anyone right now? She wanted to do right by her country, they told her to sit down. This is not her mess to clean up. This is not Hillary's mess to clean up. This is not Obama's mess to clean up. Where's BUSH? Where's Romney? This is their party.

Abolishing the U.S. Department of Education means eliminating 11 cents out of every $1 of your local public school's budget. It means widespread layoffs of teachers, teaching assistants, instructional support. Especially deep cuts to special education programs. And... for what?

Rep. Lawler has been cheering on DOGE's wilding spree and now his constituents are paying the price.

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to the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law Sooo- nothing is allowed to happen and this is all performative

While the Russian Useful Idiot in the White House is busy claiming bullshit wartime authority to further his efforts destructing Democracy, just a reminder that everything he has said is a lie & everything that he says going forward will be a lie. As for his enablers, screw them.

This is so the dems

THIS IS WHY SCHUMER'S VOTING YES. **REPOST!**

Reminder that Republicans control the White House, the Senate, AND the House. If the government shuts down, it’s on them.

He was a few months ahead of himself.

Trump posted: ‘All federal funding will STOP for any college, school, or university that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS!’

And to think we could have had a sane, serious government run by an intelligent person who would have acted in the best interests of Americans, and not Vladimir Putin.

Dear world, please do not judge us harshly. Most of us are good-caring people, and we hate him too.

Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine

✊🏽This Black History Month, study the Black Radical Tradition! The movement for Black liberation in the U.S. has long been connected to the movement for a socialist future – despite what the history books tell us. Here are 9 Black socialists you didn’t learn about in school ➡️ ♥️🖤💚

Don’t comply in advance!! 👏

ICYMI: A website called “DEI Watch List” has "published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers [who are mostly Black employees] across health agencies, describing them at one point as 'targets.'"

Senate Democrats are considering voting NO or delaying every Trump nominee as retaliation for his overreach on ending USAID. Smash the RT if you SUPPORT this plan. ZERO votes from Democrats!!

"Shuttered HIV and TB treatment programs have been told they cannot resume work without written instruction that the waiver applies to them. Few have been able to obtain such clarification because their assigned contacts at USAID have been fired or furloughed..." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

Last year, law enforcement intercepted about 19 kilograms of fentanyl at the US-Canada border. At the southern border, agents seized 9,600 kilograms. The idea that Canada is a major source of drugs is a lie, and this admin is hoping you’re stupid enough to believe it.

None of this is legal.

Seems like a good time to say this again.

Dear Leaders of the Free World, Fight him at every turn. Make his life miserable. Expose his ignorance and sociopathy. Oppose and condemn and marginalize him. The decent people of this nation are not with him. We stand with you. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dear-world...

7/ They’re not saying that last part explicitly but that’s certainly the logic of what they’re saying. (Go look at his tweets over thd last two days). So a group of Musk protégés seem to be overruling the US federal budget. Impoundment by the president is illegal. It’s hard to think through …

6/ It’s important to know what this means. This is simple his DOGE team reviewing the US federal budget, law of the land and deciding which parts aren’t necessary. It sounds like they’re saying they will unilaterally cut these funds with control over the check writing at Treasury.

Companies Scaling Back or Denouncing DEI Amazon Boeing Brown-Forman Caterpillar Ford Harley-Davidson John Deere Lowe’s Molson Coors McDonald’s Meta Nissan Stanley Black & Decker Target Tractor Supply Toyota Walmart Support who supports you ✨✊

Updated DEI list of companies committed to DEI Costco, Meijer,Kroger,Giant Grocery,Ben & Jerry’s,Ulta,Macy’s, Old Navy,Nordstrom’s,TJ Maxx,GoTo Foods (includes Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon, and more…),Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Wegmans (for those on the east coast)

Insanity: The deportation flights Trump used military jets for—that Mexico refused to accept—cost the U.S. up to $852,000 per flight to attempt to deport just 80 migrants at a time. To compare, flights directly chartered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement cost just $8,577.

The United States is currently producing more energy than ever before in our history: less coal, but much more natural gas, oil and renewables. Not only that, but under Biden, the U.S. has become a significant net-exporter of energy products.

wow

Adding target to the list

Judge Griffin, end this charade. You're disgracing yourself, our courts, and the state of North Carolina. Your case depends on throwing out the votes of active duty American soldiers and their families serving our nation overseas. You and the NCGOP should be ashamed of yourselves.