@forcedrebel
🐋🌊💙🇺🇦 pro-choice/women’s healthcare, human rights, agnostic, 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️LGBTQ+ ally, always learning/staying curious. Into: Music, Movies, The Arts, Cats, not descending into a kleptocracy, etc. Views expressed are my own. #BlueWave2026 🐋🌊 #BlueCrew
Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."
Speaker Mike Johnson is perpetually trying to deceive people. He uses his milquetoast speech and persona to mask his determination to ruthlessly cause harm. He wears his “Christianity” on his sleeve as a decoy from his evil intentions. He is not a good person, he just tries to play one on TV.
The federal government keeps labeling everyone they go after as cartel members — and it keeps being proven false. These are the same people we’re supposed to trust when they execute people at sea under that very justification?
Our federal tax dollars are being used to fund a network of government social media accounts that pump out disinformation 24/7. Even during a government shutdown. It’s definitely not essential work.
The image is an X post by user Joshua Reed Eakle from 20 hours ago, stating: "The end of due process for immigrants is the end of due process for citizens. Few understand this." The post includes a profile picture and a verified badge.
I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.
We have nihilistic 8chan edgelords in charge of our nuclear arsenal because 30% of America still isn’t over the fact the South lost the Civil War
Trump & Republicans are quietly trying to disenfranchise millions of Americans. Submit a comment to the EAC to stop their scheme and protect voting rights: act.standupamerica.com/letters/eac-...
Just to note. January 23, 2019 there was a vote to reopen government (HJ RES 28, roll call vote 46) when the govt had been shut down for 30 days.
Mike Johnson voted “no” on that.
They didn’t seem to mind shutdowns then
See the difference? 👀
Lawrence: One of the examples you've put out is in Speaker Mike Johnson's Louisiana district, a 60 year old couple earning 82,000 a year. Their health care premiums will rise by almost $20,000 by 300% because of what their congressman is doing.
But he’s all about putting America First 🙄
AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance
However, they are weaker than they look…
You’re not evil for asking why the president cut services and let your family drown.
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!
Across the government, the Trump administration is scrambling to rehire many federal employees dismissed under DOGE’s staff-slashing initiatives after wiping out entire offices, in some cases imperiling key services such as weather forecasting and the drug approval process.
One striking thing from this (excellent) report on a DOGE employee's use of AI is that everything about it is antithetical to sound software engineering practices—an engineer hurriedly deploying an unfamiliar tool to meet an impossible deadline for a problem domain in which he has no expertise.
A scatterplot titled “Agencies Facing DOGE Layoffs vs. GOP Budget Increases” shows how liberal-leaning federal agencies are more likely to face layoffs, while conservative-leaning ones receive budget increases. The x-axis indicates perceived ideological leaning (from liberal on the left to conservative on the right), and the y-axis (log scale) shows agency size by number of staff. Each dot represents a federal agency and is colored by status: • Red = DOGE layoffs • Green = Budget increases • Gray = No layoffs Key findings visible in the plot: • 9 out of 10 agencies with documented layoffs are liberal-leaning. • Large liberal agencies like HHS, EPA, NIH, USAID, and the Department of Education face layoffs. • Conservative agencies like the Department of Defense (DOD), ICE, and CBP receive budget increases. The note cites data from over 1,500 federal executives and analysis of agencies with 500+ staff. Author: Adam Bonica.
9 out of 10 agencies targeted by DOGE for layoffs are liberal-leaning. Every single proposed GOP budget increase goes to conservative agencies.
They're not cutting fat—they're performing ideological surgery with a chainsaw.
NEW at SCOTUS: two emergency docket wins for Trump. One gives DOGE access to Social Security files. The second halts a FOIA request for info into DOGE’s operations for now. The three Dem appointees dissent in each.
not enough said about how, by turning the national government against states on the basis of ordinary political disagreement, trump is undermining the idea that the union is worthwhile. www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/p...
At the bottom of the photo is the dark silhouette of farmland and trees. On the horizon, the sky at sunrise is a bright pink and above that, the sky is a mix of pink, mauve and purple.
Sunrise, just minutes before a thunder storm started.
#BlueSkyArtShow #Vibrant #Photography
#EastCoastKin
Paywall. 🙄
MSM in the US is 100% complicit in destroying our democracy. They have made that crystal clear. It is no longer to be trusted.
How much of America's media showed that literally everything Trump said about South Africa were easily disprovable lies?
If any other politician tried that shit they'd be immediately called out.
But Trump?
Never.
They've helped usher in fascism to America.
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There's nothing holy about writing discrimination into the law.
Honoring those who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country. 🇺🇸
#SomberMemorialDay
