We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in others' oppression and denial of their humanity -- James Baldwin(ish)
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Geoff C 🍃 retweeted
Again this is the type of reporting our national news orgs should be breaking and amplifying but it’s left to @WIRED
How the hell did this Administration allow a 28-year-old DOGE operative with zero government experience to take over USAID, fire thousands of federal employees, and shut down lifesaving aid programs around the world?
Not to mention that HR had zero record of him working there, he never completed his background paperwork to legally start working for the agency, and he didn’t even have an ID badge, because, officially, he didn’t exist as an employee.
And yet, all on his own, this man was given the go ahead to lock staff out of their own systems and use your taxpayer dollars to gut lifesaving programs with zero transparency.
The Trump Administration owes the American people and Congress answers. Who signed off on this? Why on earth was he given this kind of power?
This wasn’t an accident. Someone handed this man unchecked power, someone knew he wasn’t legally authorized to use it, and someone decided that there was nothing wrong with that.
Well, everything is wrong with that. Congress needs answers about this, and that is NOT optional.
wired.com/story/a-28-year-ol…
Geoff C 🍃 retweeted
Calgary 🇨🇦 stopped fluoridating its water in 2011.
By 2018/19, tooth decay in chidren went up.
Removing had no health benefits
Calgary has now put it back.
Geoff C 🍃 retweeted
Q: If the administration has declared on waste and fraud, could you explain the $420 million overpayment for a prison in Appleton, MN, when they company offered it to the state for $75m?
BESSENT: I don't know anything about that. That's a waste of our time.
Geoff C 🍃 retweeted
A private prison company offered Minnesota an empty prison for 75 million dollars. The state said no. Then Trump’s administration paid the same company almost 500 million for it.
The prison has sat empty in Appleton, Minnesota since 2010. Last year CoreCivic emailed the state and offered to sell it for 75 million, upgrades included. Minnesota passed. Fifteen months later, Homeland Security bought it for an ICE detention center at 495.6 million.
How could this be? You guessed it. CoreCivic gave half a million dollars to Trump’s inaugural committee. And it still gets paid about 75 million a year to run the place.
Republicans love talking about fraud in Minnesota. JD Vance says his task force is all over it. So where are they on this one? I break it all down in today’s show (link in reply).
The smallest people in the world are in charge because we would never elect two accomplished women and really love an ignorant racist
#maga
#vote
Breaking News: The Trump administration has detained dozens of Afghan immigrants in Louisiana — including relatives of those who helped the U.S. military — and plans to deport them to Afghanistan, according to U.S. officials. nyti.ms/4jPVvrw
Geoff C 🍃 retweeted
People who don’t want socialism because “there will be bread lines.” I volunteer at a food giveaway once a month and I hate to break it to you, but the line of cars is getting longer and longer. Every skin color. Right now, under capitalism.
Geoff C 🍃 retweeted
This clip right here is why many countries around the world hate the United States.
It is absolutely baffling to me that someone could sit up on stage with a stupid grin and laugh about violating international law and pass it off as "we can do whatever we want because we Americans are exceptional" 🤦♂️
There is nothing exceptional about the United States. It is one of many great countries in the world. I could make arguments that Canada, China, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Australia, and many other are also "exceptional" in many metrics.
So where is the United States "exceptional" here are a few metrics:
- Obesity: We have one of the highest adult obesity rates among wealthy countries
- Child poverty: We have one of the highest child-poverty rate among affluent nations
- Healthcare spending: We spend substantially more per person on healthcare than any other wealthy countries, and yet are one of the most unhealthy nations
- Incarceration: We rank near the top for the highest incarceration rates
- Gun deaths: We have an exceptionally high firearm-death rate compared with other high-income countries.
- Life expectancy: The U.S. trails many similarly wealthy nations despite spending the most on healthcare
We also are a failing democracy with politicians who don't serve the people and only work to enrich themselves (no better example than Trump)
We start useless wars across the globe and let foreigner countries (Israel) control and influence our foreign policy decisions.
The best thing about the United States is the people and the diversity of our nation. But the US is failing more every day and our reputation has been destroyed on the world stage because of Trump and his idiotic policies
The United States need to wake up. This clip exposes just how lost many Americans are
Geoff C 🍃 retweeted
No, under Alaska state law, the certification of election results is an administrative, non-discretionary duty overseen by the state’s Division of Elections—which is led by the Lieutenant Governor—and ultimately signed off by the executive branch. Dunleavy has no discretion.
Geoff C 🍃 retweeted
[Violence against women is the] "single greatest human rights violation of our generation."
"I do what I do in my mother's name, because I couldn't help her then. Now I can."
-Sir Patrick Stewart
Geoff C 🍃 retweeted
So basically trump’s closing arguments before the midterms are:
1) He’s made a shitload of money
2) He really wants to have sex with men
3) He passed a third cognitive test which he had to take because doctors are so concerned about his rapidly accelerating dementia
Geoff C 🍃 retweeted
A succinct example of the travesty of melding the Gospel with politics. MAGA isn’t simply a political belief, it’s another gospel; a manufactured religion; heresy. God is using Donald Trump? If she means to expose the longstanding rot in certain circles of the Church, then sure.
Salute to this king
as someone who looks like / is easily mistaken for a tr*mp support, i respect this man using his ability to blend in
Always corrupt
Never interested in anything but how to benefit himself, lawful or otherwise
Geoff C 🍃 retweeted
Trump is reportedly planning to restart war with Iran after the election.
Some of us have been briefed on the war plan. And while I cannot disclose any details, I can say this: the plan is insane. It will not achieve objectives and will set off a new cycle of escalation.
Geoff C 🍃 retweeted
Kentucky city official doesn't like the sound of data center that resident presents to him...