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Post by librarylady on Jan 31, 2025 23:57:50 GMT
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Post by littlemama on Jan 31, 2025 23:59:59 GMT
According to CNN, it was because they investigated J6 and the orange asshole
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Post by lisae on Feb 1, 2025 0:15:35 GMT
Is this supposed to be so they can have these people out before Patel takes over? Plausible deniability on his part?
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Post by crazy4scraps on Feb 1, 2025 2:48:17 GMT
Is this supposed to be so they can have these people out before Patel takes over? Plausible deniability on his part? That’s what I was thinking too. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 1, 2025 3:38:12 GMT
More.. Despot' Trump hammered amid swirling rumor he will 'dissolve USAID' — on Friday nightErik De La Garza January 31, 2025 9:32PM ET Trump's been purging and intimidating USAID employees. Now there’s a rumor he'll dissolve USAID as an independent agency,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer wrote Friday on X. “It was created by JFK and established in law to further our national security and spread hope. This'd be illegal and against our national interests.” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) told his X followers: “Watch USAID tonight.” “Hearing that Trump is about to double down on the constitutional crisis,” he wrote. “A President cannot eliminate an appropriated federal agency by executive order. That’s what a despot - who wants to steal the taxpayers money to enrich his billionaire cabal - does.”*** "Trump plans to shut down USAID tonight, which feeds 60 million hungry people in 60 countries,” Karen Piper, a University of Missouri-Columbia professor and author wrote on her X account. “Babies and the elderly will start dying first while others will leave home in search of food. Expect global instability.” www.rawstory.com/foreign-aid-2671045912/ |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 1, 2025 4:44:03 GMT
Now Title IX... Gutting how sexual assaults are handled in school... President Donald Trump ordered a dramatic revamping of Title IX rules that promise to transform how federally funded K-12 schools and colleges handle sex assault claims and LGBT students. The order, the latest in a dizzying deluge of executive actions since Trump returned to the White House last week, came Friday and restructures how the nation’s teachers interpret Title IX, the federal law that forbids sex-based discrimination in education, the Daily Beast reported. *** Trump’s new policy change brings back to life the Title IX changes he saw through during his first presidency in 2018, the publication noted. The new rules usher in stronger protections for the accused. “It reduces the liability placed on schools in sexual misconduct cases,” according to the Daily Beast. “It also requires live hearings and cross-examinations and allows lawyers to be present at those hearings.” www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-education-2671049438/ |
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Post by ntsf on Feb 1, 2025 20:40:32 GMT
all illegal as hell.. but we will have to go to courts as the republicans will not stand up to anyone.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 3, 2025 0:08:56 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 4, 2025 4:22:49 GMT
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Post by crazy4scraps on Feb 5, 2025 2:45:09 GMT
all illegal as hell.. but we will have to go to courts as the republicans will not stand up to anyone. Power hungry as they all are, I have to wonder what has been promised to them to make them roll over so easily to give up their congressional power? |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 5, 2025 2:50:05 GMT
Going to court will make us feel good, but even with his SCOTUS rules against him, the SCOTUS has no law enforcement personnel to make him follow the rulings/laws...
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Post by hopemax on Feb 5, 2025 3:03:52 GMT
Probably nothing. Some people want power. Some people want fame. Some people want money. Some people want all of those things. I think it's clear, many Congresscritters, on both sides of the aisle, don't really want to wield grand power, just a limited amount over their little fiefdoms. They wanted the fame and the money that comes with looking like you have some sort of power. They wanted to be wined, dined, invited to important events, rub elbows with important people, indulged. They think they can keep that, if they just keep their heads down, and kiss the ring. Like aristocrats at the King's Court.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 5, 2025 4:14:09 GMT
More buyouts.. *** A journalist, historian, and author called an eye-popping new report "shocking" that the CIA offered buyouts to its entire workforce Tuesday in hopes of ushering in "renewed energy" under new Director John Ratcliffe.The agency appears to be the first intelligence agency to tell workers they can take Elon Musk's signature buyouts, in which employees can take eight months of pay and benefits if they quit, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday night. *** The report noted that the agency also entered a hiring freeze for people who've been given a conditional offer. Additionally, some will likely have their offers rescinded if they "don't have the right background for the agency's new goals," the report said. Those goals include implementing Trump's tariffs and "undermining China." *** Graff flagged the curious timing of Trump floating taking over Gaza while simultaneously planning to "gut" the agency that would help the U.S. understand the region — and help mitigate risks to the U.S. — on the same day they're looking at "neutering" the FBI's "entire counter-terrorism program." Graff blasted the Trump administration after it said U.S. intelligence agencies ought to help spy on countries such as Mexico to give Trump leverage in his trade negotiations. "Quotes like that show how little any of the people involved in this actually understand the mission of any of these federal agencies," he said. Graff pointed to revelations made in the massive theft of government secrets by Edward Snowden, which showed the U.S. was monitoring Angela Merkel's cell phone. "That's exactly the type of work the CIA is already doing," he said. If every CIA worker took the buyout, Graff said that would mean "nothing good" for the U.S. "Part of the challenge of this is understanding the chaos and the wreckage. I don't think there's any grand plan beyond these buyouts. It's certainly not a cost-cutting measure to throw away decades of experience and millions of dollars in training that we have invested in these workforces," he said. Graff warned such institutions often have only a few people who understand the intricate ins and outs of the bureaucracy.
"When those people leave, the whole thing seizes up," he said. www.rawstory.com/trump-cia-2671093711/ |
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Post by malibou on Feb 5, 2025 18:13:06 GMT
Is this supposed to be so they can have these people out before Patel takes over? Plausible deniability on his part? Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner. I am sure you are correct. |
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Post by katiekaty on Feb 5, 2025 18:32:56 GMT
More.. Despot' Trump hammered amid swirling rumor he will 'dissolve USAID' — on Friday nightErik De La Garza January 31, 2025 9:32PM ET Trump's been purging and intimidating USAID employees. Now there’s a rumor he'll dissolve USAID as an independent agency,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer wrote Friday on X. “It was created by JFK and established in law to further our national security and spread hope. This'd be illegal and against our national interests.” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) told his X followers: “Watch USAID tonight.” “Hearing that Trump is about to double down on the constitutional crisis,” he wrote. “A President cannot eliminate an appropriated federal agency by executive order. That’s what a despot - who wants to steal the taxpayers money to enrich his billionaire cabal - does.”*** "Trump plans to shut down USAID tonight, which feeds 60 million hungry people in 60 countries,” Karen Piper, a University of Missouri-Columbia professor and author wrote on her X account. “Babies and the elderly will start dying first while others will leave home in search of food. Expect global instability.” www.rawstory.com/foreign-aid-2671045912/Feed Americans first? There are a lot of children and elderly here in America not receiving adequate food. I don’t know how I feel about it all. It’s a no win situation, honestly. |
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Post by Just T on Feb 5, 2025 19:25:08 GMT
Feed Americans first? There are a lot of children and elderly here in America not receiving adequate food. I don’t know how I feel about it all. It’s a no win situation, honestly. The thing that I don't get, that frustrates me and has for years, is that the same people who want to cut off aid to foreign countries and take care of our own citizens first, are the same exact people who rant about welfare queens, who vote for folks who cut free school lunch programs, who basically think that anything like food and healthcare and housing assistance is "socialism." So which is it? If we stop sending aid to other countries, is our government actually going to put that money into programs that help feed, house and care for Americans? Doubtful. |
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Post by SnoopyFan on Feb 5, 2025 20:24:37 GMT
Feed Americans first? There are a lot of children and elderly here in America not receiving adequate food. I don’t know how I feel about it all. It’s a no win situation, honestly. The thing that I don't get, that frustrates me and has for years, is that the same people who want to cut off aid to foreign countries and take care of our own citizens first, are the same exact people who rant about welfare queens, who vote for folks who cut free school lunch programs, who basically think that anything like food and healthcare and housing assistance is "socialism." So which is it? If we stop sending aid to other countries, is our government actually going to put that money into programs that help feed, house and care for Americans? Doubtful. I think those people are supposed to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. |
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Post by used2scrap on Feb 5, 2025 20:30:04 GMT
All of the sudden the right wants to defund the police. 🤷♀️
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Feb 5, 2025 21:32:15 GMT
More.. Despot' Trump hammered amid swirling rumor he will 'dissolve USAID' — on Friday nightErik De La Garza January 31, 2025 9:32PM ET Trump's been purging and intimidating USAID employees. Now there’s a rumor he'll dissolve USAID as an independent agency,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer wrote Friday on X. “It was created by JFK and established in law to further our national security and spread hope. This'd be illegal and against our national interests.” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) told his X followers: “Watch USAID tonight.” “Hearing that Trump is about to double down on the constitutional crisis,” he wrote. “A President cannot eliminate an appropriated federal agency by executive order. That’s what a despot - who wants to steal the taxpayers money to enrich his billionaire cabal - does.”*** "Trump plans to shut down USAID tonight, which feeds 60 million hungry people in 60 countries,” Karen Piper, a University of Missouri-Columbia professor and author wrote on her X account. “Babies and the elderly will start dying first while others will leave home in search of food. Expect global instability.” www.rawstory.com/foreign-aid-2671045912/Feed Americans first? There are a lot of children and elderly here in America not receiving adequate food. I don’t know how I feel about it all. It’s a no win situation, honestly. Let’s not pretend that republicans care about ANY starving kids. Regardless of where they live. These types of comments ring hollow to me based on their voting patterns, comments and values. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 6, 2025 21:01:52 GMT
Buyouts blocked. .. ABC News!
Hearing on Monday
Judge blocked pres Musk from touching government computers..
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