Tony Fleming

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”

Rachel Maddow warns: if Republicans let ACA subsidies expire, millions will face massive premium spikes. A WV couple’s plan could jump from $300 to $4,700 a month. The #GOPHealthCareShutdown isn’t fiscal discipline—it’s a war on working families’ health and wallets. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Can we get our $40 billion back please?

Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

I hope @jerilryan.bsky.social brings the heat again. The #WritersGuild of America stands behind @jimmykimmel.com. They need to strike against all #ABC shows he is returned to air and the network affirms its commitment to #FreeSpeech.

Trump is begging countries to play his game so he can save face with his base.

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A great read from my better half: Why I Left MAGA In 2020 The real, honest truth

The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump admin must facilitate the return of SMART Union Local 100 apprentice Kilmar Abrego Garcia. They need to quit wasting time and bring our union brother home NOW!

There is a much too rarely mentioned but essential difference between Donald Trump and Abrego Garcia: Abrego Garcia is not a convicted felon.

Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now.

This is a concession by the U.S. government that its “arrangement” with El Salvador is irrevocable. To me this has to be grounds to argue that the arrangement itself is unconstitutional under the Fifth and Eighth Amendments

“Trump envoy suggests dividing up Ukraine like post-war Berlin” We told you that Putin owns Trump.

Musk's DOGE goons physically dragged a high-ranking Social Security executive from his desk for not going along with their plan to list more than 6,000 migrants as dead despite being alive. www.thedailybeast.com/doge-goons-p...

Pretty much the same amount Republicans promise to “save” in this budget is what the IRS could have collected from tax cheats and wealthy/sophisticated filers WITHOUT RAISING A SINGLE TAX. But instead somebody somewhere will lose out on healthcare. Stupid and cruel.

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Trump lost a bid to dismiss a defamation lawsuit brought by plaintiffs known as the Exonerated Five (formerly the Central Park Five)

Don't forget to make your weekly call today to demand Hegseth's firing. 202-224-3121.

You’ll notice that when Musk delivered his bogus “when we make mistakes we correct them quickly” statement in the cabinet meeting he chose to mention suspension of Ebola funding and not the firing of workers who maintain U.S. nuclear weaponry.

No one wants a paper trail because spending funds Congress has not appropriated is colloquially known as “stealing from the US Treasury.”

Encourage your local, state, and federal representatives to join BlueSky if they have yet to do so.

Telegraph editorial: "Mr Trump and Mr Vance were indisputably in the wrong, factually, geographically and morally."

we may be one of the few pubs that got this headline right Trump And Vance Ambush Zelensky In Prelude To Betrayal talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...

Check out The MeidasTouch Podcast, which recently ousted Joe Rogan from the most popular podcast slot. Deservedly so. music.amazon.com/podcasts/531...

NEW: A judge has ordered Trump administration officials — and at least one DOGE staffer — to sit for depositions in a lawsuit over the group's access to sensitive government systems. Judge Bates called DOGE's activities "opaque." w/ @joshgerstein www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

We love @joy.msnbc.com!! What are you thinking @msnbc.com ??

This is a terrible move @msnbc.com. Terrible. The @joy.msnbc.com was a critical part of the evening line-up and @joyannreid.bsky.social brings trenchant political analysis that no one else in the evening line-up has brought. I urge you to reconsider this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/b...

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Elon wants to hear from you. Send your 5 favorite pasta dishes, your shopping list, or which Muppet he most resembles to OPM at HR@opm.gov.

Email to hr@OPM.gov

Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.

REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!

Today, along with 2,000 other NIH employees, I had to clear out my office 😭 It was truly the honor of my life to work with such incredibly passionate people focused on improving human health. I’ve never experienced a more positive culture where *everyone* cared about their job and serving others.

NERD ALERT! It's been years since I've used it, and I still got all the #Esperanto clues in tonight's #Jeopardy. 😂

"Trump’s administration has launched a full-scale attack on veterans.. A third of all federal employees are military veterans, and make no mistake, the latest round of layoffs at the Department of Veterans Affairs is just the beginning." rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Meaning anyone can access whatever classified information get put into it by his college kids..

for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care! EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

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US Federal Election Commission Chair Ellen Weintraub said she received a letter from President Donald Trump that purports to fire her but added that the action was illegal reut.rs/40PoErp

The largest US government workers' union and an association of foreign service workers sued the Trump administration in an effort to reverse its aggressive dismantling of the US Agency for International Development reut.rs/41fBb9n

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With all due respect, you're a United States Senator and that's a rent-a-cop from a private security firm with no authority to stop you. You can't just take no for an answer here.

🚨We just learned that Elon Musk and his cronies are planning to fire nearly the ENTIRE workforce at USAID. This blatantly illegal action will cause huge damage to America around the world. We will immediately fight this in Congress and the Courts — IT MUST NOT STAND.

ok someone on threads called elon’s minions TRAITOR TOTS and i am deceased