Republicans: continued

[pErvinalia]

Come the rebellion.

‪Alt National Park Service‬ ‪@altnps.bsky.social‬
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4h
We highly advised for all federal employees not to respond to or open OPM emails. Our coalition will be advised on additional precautions. Reports of a hostile takeover at OPM have been circulating. More details will be released in the future

What's OPM?

[JimC]

The US Office of Personal Management

[Sean Hayden]

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I have no idea why this is happening. Truly. I don’t see the point for any side. If it’s just to renegotiate terms, I can’t imagine this was the best approach.

[pErvinalia]

It seems to be the way Trump transacts.

Oh, and Jack should brush up on his mythology. Goliath was defeated.

[macdoc]

[Tero]

Fist pump Hawley did not make the Trump team:

Everything is all Trump, all the time. His overwhelming presence has blotted out the sun.
But I still like to keep an eye on the lesser lights. And so, in this
consequential moment, I’ve been looking for news on the senior U.S. senator from Missouri.

Four years ago, Josh Hawley played a starring role in Donald Trump’s attempt to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. He objected to certifying Joe Biden’s legitimate electoral victory and he encouraged insurrectionists outside of the U.S. Capitol with a fist pump that was captured in a viral photo.

For this latest transition of power, the senator has had to settle for being just another Trump sycophant.

He scored some interviews in MAGA medialand by calling for pardons for people who had barricaded an abortion clinic in defiance of federal law, which the president granted. And he helped halt a federal investigation into a Texas doctor who was charged with illegally obtaining and leaking information on minors receiving transgender care.

“I’m against it for people who assaulted cops, threw stuff at cops, broke down doors, broke windows,” he told USA Today.

Trump, as it turned out, was for it. He granted clemency to all of the rioters, including those who were filmed brutalizing cops.

According to Hawley, that was Trump keeping a promise. An admirable trait.

https://www.rawstory.com/josh-hawleys-m ... um=bluesky

[Tero]

It's a one two punch:
One trillion from Musk stealing treasury
GOP cutting the other
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/0 ... s-00002319

[Tyrannical]

It will be interesting to see the extent of the resistance to Trumpian decrees among US public servants...

Trump isn't playing around this time. He's firing / suspending any executive branch employee that subverts his orders.
Fuck Around Find Out

[Tyrannical]

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday ordering the creation of a sovereign wealth fund within the next year, saying it could potentially buy the short video app TikTok.

I think the US government can only invest in US Treasury notes, which is kind of dumb. Buy TikTok and we dont need PBS or NPR
Aside from TikTok, I see Trump wanting to invest smartly in industry and energy that would give the US a competitive advantage.

[pErvinalia]

They should invest in Trump Coin.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Just another entry in the annals of the party that some patsies still believe advocates for free speech.

'Publishers sue state of Idaho over library book bans'

A group of major publishers in the US are suing the state of Idaho over a book-banning law.

HB 710, enacted last July, forbids anyone under the age of 18 from accessing books deemed “harmful to minors”, including those depicting “sexual conduct”, in school or public libraries.

The ban extends to classics and bestsellers, including The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, Game of Thrones by George RR Martin and nonfiction books such as The “What’s Happening to My Body?” Book for Girls by Lynda Madaras.

Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, and Sourcebooks filed a lawsuit on Tuesday alongside three authors, a public library district, the US writers’ body the Authors Guild, a teacher, two students and two parents.

This is the third state-level publisher-led lawsuit over book bans, following those against Florida and Iowa. The Idaho law “goes even further than previous laws by removing classic books from public libraries in addition to schools”, said Dan Novack, associate general counsel at Penguin Random House.

HB 710’s definition of “harmful” materials is “vague and overbroad”, says the lawsuit. The law allows private citizens to file complaints, putting librarians “in the untenable position of having to guess whether any member of the public might file an objection to a book whose message they disagree with” by claiming the text falls within the law’s definition of harmful.

In case there was any question, HB 710 was written by Republicans, passed by Idaho's heavily Republican-controlled legislature and signed into law by Idaho's Republican governor.

[Tero]

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hellabella111

‪Ron Filipkowski‬ ‪@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social‬
6h
House Oversight Republicans spent two years subpoenaing and deposing every person who ever had a cup of coffee with Hunter Biden over the last 20 years, but now oppose a subpoena to hear from the person really running the government who hasn’t even had a confirmation hearing.

[Tero]

Having a bit of fun with NE congressman from Omaha. His FB page.
https://esapolitics.blogspot.com/2025/0 ... lican.html
it's all screen shots in the blog.

You’re a waste of a congressman, what were there no libraries to name today?

Your constituents are in the street defending democracy. While you do inane nonsense

Why you do something to defend democracy instead of making excuses for Musk and playing with your lobbyists' cornholes?

Why aren’t you responding to the people is district 2? The people demand to hear from their representatives. We demand to know what Don Bacon is doing to make sure our private information is safeguarded from Musk and the teenagers. What steps are you taking Don Bacon?

[Tero]

it's past Christmas, but only now did I discover the Lauren Boebert (except she is now single) of Nevada.

[Tero]

I don't know who all her family are. The small kids are not hers.

Walking to her car, she asked me what kind of food I like, and, after the standard brief Q&A about my vegetarianism ( Do you eat fish? cheese?), she moved on to other topics. I was surprised when, 20 minutes later, we pulled up to Market Grille Café, a mom-and-pop Greek place that she frequents in her district. As we’d chatted in the car about our past failed marriages and her youthful desire to have 10 children, she was concurrently thinking of the right place to take me for lunch. Inside the cafe, she sat next to me — rather than across from me — and for the first several minutes fretted about whether the menu’s meat-free options would satisfy my needs, slipping seamlessly into the mama persona of her Italian heritage.

Midway through the hummus and pita, I steered the conversation back to guns. She shared with me her belief that mass shootings are caused by psychotropic drugs, or medication for mental-health conditions.

Michele Fiore was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, by a lesbian mom who now heads Democrats for Fiore, a casual group of senior-citizen women. At 16, Michele fronted a rock band, Times Square, in New York, but left the music scene after she had her first daughter at 19. This experience was the basis for her self-made 2006 feature film, Siren, about a middle-aged empty-nester who gets guff from her family and friends when she hits the road in pursuit of her lifelong dream to sing in a band. Fiore has been married twice, but at 47 is, as she says, “single on purpose.”

https://knpr.org/magazine-desert-compan ... this-woman