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May 13, 2025

Rep. Margorie Taylor Greene makes a FOOL of herself and everbody LAUGHS at her IN House Committee and Kimble

broadcasts it on his show. ha ha ha Such a joy to see.

Rep Stansbury-Democrat, NM is having a good time.


https://bsky.app/profile/calltoactivism.bsky.social/post/3lowp4z56ys2o

May 13, 2025

Just the U.S. president -Trump introducing his top donor @ElonMusk-to a brutal dictator.

It should not surprise me that Musk is with Trump on his ME tour--he is there to make sure that more $$ goes into his and Trumps wallets!! ---at tax payer expense!!

Republicans against Trump
@RpsAgainstTrump
Just the U.S. president introducing his top donor to a brutal dictator. Totally normal. Nothing corrupt at all.

https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1922287116605653195

https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1922287116605653195

May 13, 2025

Sec Duffy says he switched his wife's flight due to fear: I switched her flight to LaGuardia (from Newark NJ)...

Do people have to DIE before something positive is done with the airlines?? damn.


TWO days ago!!
Oh my God. In confirmed audio, Trump's Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he switched his wife’s flight due to fear: "My wife was flying out of Newark tomorrow. I switched her flight to LaGuardia.” Zero confidence in his job. He must resign.

https://x.com/CalltoActivism/status/1922017556862316989




https://x.com/the_coolwayIf the secretary of Transportation deems an airport too unsafe for his wife to fly, and arranges a flight from a different airport, then he has a DUTY to inform the public or SHUT THE AIRPORT DOWN.
You can try to spin it any way you want in your convoluted MAGA logic, but it's a form of corruption, plain and simple.ne/status/1922104074339557865




https://x.com/the_coolwayne/status/1922056717547765809

May 13, 2025

Uh oh! Don Snoreleone strikes again! #SleepyDon catching some Z's at his own press conference! Low Energy!

Trumpy sure knows how to embarrass himself in saudi arabia -


Brown Eyed Susan reposted
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Uh oh! Don Snoreleone strikes again! #SleepyDon catching some Z’s at his own press conference! Low Energy! Sad! #DementiaDon
https://x.com/aintscarylarry/status/1922299934759383437


https://x.com/jeremyfromga/status/1917615329284338011

May 13, 2025

Rep Raskin on Trump's meme-coin and foreign leaders paying Trump............

Trump is making deals in the ME as I post this. Little seems can be done about it.


@GregTSargent
Jamie Raskin on Trump's Qatar plane grift: "We’re talking about corruption at just an epic scale."

This is a remarkable description from Raskin of how Trump's various corrupt schemes all interlock with each other:

https://newrepublic.com/article/195167

https://x.com/GregTSargent/status/1922255285806149911

May 13, 2025

Tribal communities risk losing local libraries and the history they hold amid DOGE cuts

I can why tribal libraries are very important to them--but Trump has his own priorities--those that serve him and his billionaire friends!



https://x.com/moonbreeze2/status/1922253422960508984
Children in the Santa Clara Pueblo Community Library.Santa Clara Pueblo Community Library


Tribal communities risk losing local libraries and the history they hold amid DOGE cuts

Federally recognized tribes say the Trump administration cut the grant money they use to sustain the local libraries that serve as anchors in their most rural communities.https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/tribal-communities-risk-losing-local-libraries-history-hold-doge-cuts-rcna203508

May 11, 2025, 6:00 AM CDT By Sydney Carruth

Inside a 90-square-mile stretch of rural reservation between the eastern Jemez Mountains and the banks of the Rio Grande River sits the Santa Clara Pueblo Community Library, an anchor for the northern New Mexico tribe it serves.

Internet service across the Santa Clara Pueblo reservation is sparse, the tribe’s governor, James Naranjo, told NBC News, and resources to expand access to technology and literacy programs for its 1,700 members are already stretched thin.


Naranjo said the library relies on federal grant money to build bridges between the tribe and otherwise out-of-reach services — grants that could be on the chopping block thanks to cuts by the Trump administration.

The Pueblo’s was one of more than a hundred libraries on federally recognized tribal lands across the country that were notified by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) — a small federal agency responsible for funding local libraries and museums across the country — that their congressionally appropriated grant had been terminated midcycle, according to an IMLS spokesperson.


“IMLS has determined that your grant is unfortunately no longer consistent with the agency’s priorities and no longer serves the interest of the United States and the IMLS Program,” one letter, obtained by NBC News from a tribal grant writer who received it, said. “IMLS is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President’s agenda.”

The letter was signed by Deputy Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling, whom President Donald Trump appointed as acting director of the IMLS in March. ....................






May 13, 2025

Why Donald Trump's medical records say more than he realizes May 13, 2025

Too many steak dinners huh??
Trump is on 2 medications to lower his blood cholesterol which they talk about.


Why Donald Trump's medical records say
more than he realizes

May 13, 2025 #MSNBC #FDA #Trump
Dr. David Kessler, former FDA commissioner, talks with Rachel Maddow about how Donald Trump's medical evaluation forms show Trump to be the beneficiary of a drug regimen made possible through the American medical system and its associated scientific research, which are now suffering debilitating cuts at Trump's hand.


May 13, 2025

Civil rights agency moves to fire judge fighting Trump directives

Source: msn.com




Story by CLAIRE SAVAGE • 11h • 4 min read



The federal agency tasked with protecting workers’ civil rights has moved to terminate a New York administrative judge who has resisted compliance with directives from the White House, including President Donald Trump's executive order decreeing male and female as two “immutable” sexes.


The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in response to Trump's order has moved to drop at least seven of its own pending cases representing transgender workers alleging discrimination, and is classifying all new gender identity-related discrimination cases as its lowest priority, signaling a major departure from its prior interpretation of civil rights law.

EEOC Administrative Judge Karen Ortiz, who in February criticized the agency's Trump-appointed head, Acting Chair Andrea Lucas, in an email copied to more than 1,000 colleagues, on Wednesday was placed on administrative leave. She also received notice that the EEOC leadership sought to fire her, accusing her of “profoundly unprofessional” conduct...................


...............The EEOC has undergone tumultuous change since Trump took office. He fired two of the three Democratic commissioners of the federal agency in an unprecedented move that swept away what would have been a key barrier to his campaign to dismantle diversity and inclusion programs, end protections for transgender and nonbinary workers and other priorities. One of the dismissed commissioners, Jocelyn Samuels, filed a lawsuit challenging her termination, arguing her removal was a violation of the Civil Rights Act that created the agency to be an independent and bipartisan protector of the rights of workers. The move also left the agency without the quorum needed to make key decisions. But last week, Trump tapped an assistant U.S. attorney in Florida, Brittany Panuccio, to fill one of the vacancies. If Panuccio is confirmed by the Senate, the EEOC would regain a quorum and establish a Republican majority 2-1, clearing the path to make major policy changes, including revising agency guidance on how to implement existing civil rights laws...............................

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/civil-rights-agency-moves-to-fire-judge-fighting-trump-directives/ar-AA1EDFdW?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=6822fcfbb83d4258848e1759deb9a65f&ei=29



Seems like the EEOC is now under control of Trump and Repugs!!
May 13, 2025

Protests take place at Avelo after airline strikes deal with federal government for deportation flights

Maddow reported on this tonight. These protests against Avelo have been happening for a over a month now and in different cities.

Protests take place at Avelo after airline strikes deal with federal government for deportation flights
https://x.com/moonbreeze2/status/1922098170965721302




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