Jo Ellen Harvey

Breaking the promise of Social Security is a betrayal. @maxwellfrost.bsky.social

Renaming Veteran’s Day and the planned “Trump Military Parade” is a playbook straight out of North Korea. Draft-dodging Trump is now flexing the might of the US Military, but its not for our enemies to fear. It’s for you. The administration wants you to fear their Dear Leader.

Indoctrination.

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President Donald Trump issued an executive order instructing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to halt all funding for PBS and NPR. It would impact those two networks, the roughly 1,500 public media stations nationwide and national programs like the News Hour. www.youtube.com/watch?v=viUa...

The golden age of corruption: The Trump Organization just announced a new deal to build a luxury golf resort in Qatar, showing no plans to slow foreign business during Trump’s second term. The project includes a Trump golf course and villas, part of the $5.5 billion Simaisma development

Wake up America. We need to fight back, and we need to fight back NOW. youtu.be/x8olOnC4eI0

All Of This! The Constitution Says This Is Illegal!

Texas war on memes No, they can't take a joke

The Trump administration has agreed to pay the family of Ashli Babbitt. American taxpayers will now be forced to give likely millions of dollars to the family of a January 6 insurrectionist who stormed the Capitol.

Japan is playing 4 D Chess Japanese finance minister says selling U.S. bonds a "card on the table" Japan is the largest foreign holder of U.S. Treasuries, and even the vaguest hint that it could dump those holdings is powerful leverage with the administration www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

It is not clear that the president has the authority to make such orders to CPB under the law. From @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social

NEW: The president's executive order instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and other federal agencies “to cease Federal funding for NPR and PBS” and further requires that they work to root out indirect sources of public financing for the news organizations. to.pbs.org/44UvK1B

WSJ: Tesla officially launched a search to replace Elon Musk as CEO

“The most effective thing that Trump has done is made us question whether or not these institutions—including the rule of law—have value.” Katie Phang is stepping up to defend our most fundamental democratic rights, because they do have value. We will not be intimidated. We will not be silenced.

Every hour that Pete Hegseth remains in his role, America is less safe. Call your Representative now and tell them it’s time to #FireHegseth (202) 224-3121

Pritzker: Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research…

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This is what a rigged economy looks like: In the 1970s, CEOs made 27 times more than the average worker. In the 1980s, CEOs made 48 times more than the average worker. This decade, CEOs are making 354 times more than the average worker. That has got to change.

Trump has deported a four-year-old US citizen with a rare form of metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with their doctor.

Pete Hegseth’s personal phone number — which he used in a top security Signal chat — could be found on WhatsApp, Facebook, a fantasy sports site, and reviews left for a plumber and dentist. Read more: trib.al/R7JrKM6

Today in Politics, Bulletin 117. This is a big one packed with lots of news from all over the place. Here is everything that happened today. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

Virginia Giuffre, who was the first of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims to go public — accusing Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell of recruiting her to join their sex trafficking ring — and who sued Prince Andrew for sexual assault, died on Friday. She was 41.

And he was prepping to let Elon in on the most closely-held of secrets ... until the lawyer got involved. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Hesgeth used his personal phone to log into a 4th-tier sports betting site -- and to relay real-time information about U.S. airstrikes. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

The Trump administration now says they are allowed to enter your home to look for migrants without a warrant. They claim their actions are unconstrained by the Fourth Amendment.

Commerce Department employees caught up in a legal battle over their mass firings are now learning that their health care coverage was cut off weeks ago, even though they were paying their premiums.

This is absolutely brutal

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The stock market lost $1.4 trillion in value today. Another day in Trump’s America.

Workers are not asking to get rich. They just want to afford three meals a day. In the richest country in the history of the world, no one should work for starvation wages. It is time to raise the disgraceful $7.25/hr federal minimum wage to a living wage of AT LEAST $17/hr.

"Kennedy’s disgust with and devaluation of autistic people fits neatly into a eugenic logic that views health as virtue, and sees illness, or difference, as a kind of moral lapse which should be subject to punishment or censure."

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Dark Ferris Bueller.

All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted.

This is disrespectful and a flat out lie that further stigmatizes autism. It’s not a virus or a disease - it’s a neurological condition with a wide spectrum. Many Americans with autism work, pay taxes, and are living happy and healthy lives.

From Occupy Democrats

Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

This hurts so much. youtu.be/odFTqgm0984?...

The U.S. is the only major country on Earth that does not guarantee workers a paid vacation. When a husband, wife & kids are unable to spend any time together on vacation, that is not a family value. It's an attack on everything a family is supposed to stand for. Unacceptable.

If you paid $1 In federal income taxes, you paid more than: Tesla in 2024 & 2022 AT&T in 2021 Nike in 2020 FedEx in 2020 Dish Network in 2020 Amazon in 2017-2018 Elon Musk in 2018 Jeff Bezos in 2007 & 2011 Carl Icahn in 2016-2017 Yes. It’s time to tax the rich.

BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

We are the 99 percent! youtu.be/w6UV_UD8s1g?...