The Overmountain Man

The Overmountain Man

@hrratte.bsky.social

... I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic ...

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Urgent: Illegal Activity Underway Many undocumented immigrants file tax returns with the IRS, providing details about their residences, families, employers, and earnings. The IRS has historically encouraged tax compliance by issuing ITINs to those without Social Security numbers.

The rich are pushing for libertarian utopias. Exempt from federal taxes and regulations, corporations inside these so-called "Freedom Cities" would, among other things, be able to conduct human medical experiments without interference from the federal government. www.wired.com/story/startu...

wired.com‘Startup Nation’ Groups Say They’re Meeting Trump Officials to Push for Deregulated ‘Freedom Cities’The architects of projects like Próspera are drafting legislation to create US cities that would be free from federal regulations.

This is getting worse by the day. So far Republicans have censured one Democratic Member of Congress, threatened to remove numerous others from committees, opened law enforcement investigations against Members of Congress for exercising their 1st Amendment rights, and pulled 1/2

Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social

Legal counsel representing federal employees is now being targeted by the Trump administration. Law firms are receiving a clear message that retaliation is possible for those advocating on behalf of individuals or groups opposing the administration’s agenda.

More MAGA lies. I turned this hearing on plate and missed who this particular liar is, but he pulled out a chart claiming Chicago has a murder rate of 18.Something percent, claiming it was "percent." This. Is complete bullshit. First of all, murder rates are expressed 1/2

...not in percents, but in murders per 100,000. A murder rate of 18 percent would mean Chicago, population 2,664,452, would have had 479,601 murders! It actually had 573, a rate of 21.5/100,000. Haiti, population 11,772,557, had 5,600 murders, for a murder rate of 47.56/100,000. 2/2

That's not suspicious at all. 🙄

Ryan Goodman@rgoodlaw.bsky.social

Something odd here. CBS News confirms other media reports: "Hegseth has issued a directive to U.S. Cyber Command to pause planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions." The CBS News then notes that National Security Advisor Michael Waltz said he's unaware of the directive.

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Officials at the FAA have directed staff to identify tens of millions of dollars to fund a Starlink deal for upgrading air traffic control communications. Staff has been instructed to find the funds while minimizing documentation and avoiding a paper trail.

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You read this list and I think we may be overestimating "FBI becomes political retribution tool" and underestimating "FBI essentially ceases to exist, becomes one half muscle bar, one half COPS tv show reboot"

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social

This buffoon almost got a Navy SEAL team killed www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... and endangered a hostage rescue operation www.msnbc.com/top-stories/.... Look at the mess he's already making.

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It’s also a load of bullshit, according to a USAID guy who actually ran Ebola response: bsky.app/profile/jere...

Jeremy Konyndyk@jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

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The Justice Department is not the president's personal law firm. You are not his lawyers. The free press should be exactly that — free. If the facts they report don’t align with the president’s propaganda, tough. And this statement is a disgrace to the DOJ and the rule of law.

Every Republican should face crowds like this one.

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So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

This. Fired feds are a fertile field to plow. They have the skills blue states will need to stop the coming military action against US citizens.

Capitalist Oppressor@capopp.bsky.social

If Trump can do it, we can (and must) do it. Those are the rules. We need to be a mirror, but also recognize that the people the federal government is shedding are the people we need to immediately bring into state service.

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Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

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So the President has abruptly fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Charles Q. Brown Jr., and is replacing him with a retired three star general, Dan Caine. This portends a future grave crisis as the President attempts to restructure the military into one personally loyal to him.

She should have added "motherfucker" to the end of her statement.

Why is everyone still applying for permits to protest? Don't give them any money or any notice. Show up. Block roads. Create traffic snarls in Washington when members of Congress are trying to leave for the weekend. Make them pay attention.

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Now, the USPS is preparing to push back as Trump moves to dissolve its leadership and bring the independent agency under his administration’s control. America, this cannot be allowed—protecting the USPS is essential. Please share this and call Congress.

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Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.