Surviving a second Trump admin*

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Stable Genius Peace President alert.




Trump confirms he's authorized CIA operations in Venezuela, looking into land strikes

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Stable Genius Peace President alert.

https://x.com/here4lyfe69/status/1978589621559689433


Trump confirms he's authorized CIA operations in Venezuela, looking into land strikes

Agents and assets will die. Thanks, Dementia Don.

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Trump’s Shutdown Layoffs Hit Blind Workers Who Help The Blind
The administration's wrecking ball has come for workers with disabilities. “Where is the humanity?” a laid-off federal employee asks.

Christine Faltz Grassman was stunned when she received a layoff notice from the Department of Education on Oct. 11, 10 days after being furloughed due to the government shutdown.

The shutdown was always the plan so they could get away with these RIFs, whether legal or not.

Grassman, who is blind, helps oversee a federal program that offers government contracting opportunities to blind vendors. She wondered how she would cover her mortgage and bills — and who would make sure the government is following a New Deal-era law meant to boost employment among blind Americans.

Her shock quickly turned to anger as she thought about the Trump administration’s treatment of workers with disabilities.

“The mentality of these people is if we have a disability and we have a job, we’re taking it away from an able-bodied person,” said Grassman, 56. “It’s not enough that I went to an Ivy League school, that I went to law school and can run circles around half the Cabinet… It doesn’t matter, because we’re blind.”

“Where is the humanity in so much of what is happening with this administration?” she asked.

Her two other co-workers who oversee the Randolph-Sheppard vending program at the Education Department also received “reduction-in-force,” or RIF, notices, she attested in a court declaration. They, too, are blind, she said.

The Education Department did not answer questions from HuffPost about the layoffs. An automatic reply from the agency said its press team was furloughed during the shutdown, which the message blamed on Democrats.

The Trump administration is trying to eliminate around 4,000 workers from the federal payroll during the lapse in appropriations. President Donald Trump has said expressly that he views the shutdown RIFs as an opportunity to cut “Democrat programs” and punish Democratic lawmakers for insisting that any funding deal extend health care subsidies.

A federal judge on Tuesday granted an injunction blocking the White House from proceeding with the layoffs while a court challenge from labor unions proceeds.

But Trump could still prevail in the underlying case, as the Supreme Court has largely paved the way for his job cuts so far.

Grassman is fighting for her job in that lawsuit and wanted to clarify that she was speaking in her personal capacity, not as a federal employee.

Her work is part of a larger civil rights employment infrastructure that’s been decimated by the Trump administration as it has shed an estimated 200,000 federal jobs.

... The president has gone after anything that contains a whiff of diversity or affirmative action, which means deep cuts to programs and enforcement efforts designed to aid minority workers and students and people with disabilities. The very word “disability” is among those the administration has been scrubbing from government websites and other materials....

Ironic the hatred a P*OTUS with Dementia has for the disabled.

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Embarrassing that this is on the official White House website

https://www.whitehouse.gov/mysafespace/

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Embarrassing that this is on the official White House website

https://www.whitehouse.gov/mysafespace/

More than embarrassing.

But the good news is the website is so unpopular that this didn't even make a news splash.

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Embarrassing that this is on the official White House website

https://www.whitehouse.gov/mysafespace/

More than embarrassing.

But the good news is the website is so unpopular that this didn't even make a news splash.

"Government should be run like a business"

The business: https://www.whitehouse.gov/mysafespace/

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"Government should be run like a business"

The business: https://www.whitehouse.gov/mysafespace/

Government should be run like a preschool.

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Tell me they're not fucking weird.

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OMFG, the Whitehouse website is hilarious .

Democrats Have Shut Down the Government for:
33d 22h 25m 46s

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Wow, who could have predicted?

Putin tells officials to submit plans for possibly resuming nuclear tests after Trump's remarks

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Lololol

Fed prosecutors fail to obtain indictment of man who threw sandwich at fed agent

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/us/p ... tment.html

https://www.blueridgedebate.com/viewtop ... 83#p217683
Viva la hoagie revolution!
Sean Charles Dunn, hero HERO

DC ‘Sandwich Guy’ Found Not Guilty In Assault Case
Jeanine Pirro tried to make an example of Sean Dunn. She ended up delivering a hero (get it?) to Washington, D.C.

... Sean Dunn, a 37-year-old Air Force veteran and former Justice Department paralegal, faced up to a year in jail for hurling what became known as the hoagie heard around the world. His acquittal following a two-day trial amounts to a rebuke of President Donald Trump’s immigration and crime crackdown in Washington, as well as another embarrassing legal setback for Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for D.C., whom he appointed.

... Pirro’s office initially pursued a felony assault charge against Dunn, but a grand jury rebuffed prosecutors by declining to return an indictment. Eager to project the president’s tough-on-protest image, Pirro declined to drop the case and proceeded with a less serious misdemeanor charge that resulted in this week’s trial....

“No matter who you are, you can’t just go around throwing stuff at people because you’re mad,” John Parron, an assistant U.S. attorney, argued in an opening statement.

Apparently, you can.

... He acknowledged he couldn’t say whether it was a turkey sandwich or a ham sandwich, and wasn’t sure exactly which condiments it was topped with. But he could say definitively there were onions because one was left dangling on his radio antenna.

...The Dunn case is part of a string of prosecutions Pirro has pursued, alleging D.C. residents assaulted or impeded federal agents in the course of their duties.

... Many of the alleged assault cases have crumbled in embarrassing fashion, with grand juries rejecting them or prosecutors downgrading or dropping charges altogether after further investigation. That includes the case against Sidney Reid, a D.C. woman who filmed Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and was accused of assaulting an FBI agent. A jury found Reid not guilty last month after a trial her attorneys called a waste of money and resources.

Dunn, with short blond hair and a mustache and goatee, sat mostly expressionless through the trial, wearing a shirt and tie beneath a fair isle sweater. He had not spoken publicly about the incident or the charges, even as posters sprang up around D.C. portraying a masked man heaving a submarine as an act of defiance, and residents decorated their yards with Dunn-inspired skeletons for Halloween.

GoDCGo!

...One of the main challenges for prosecutors was conveying that a sandwich toss could be considered “forcible.”

“It’s a sandwich, but [he’s] throwing it hard,” asserted prosecutor Michael DiLorenzo. “That is sufficient for force, and it meets the definition of force.”

... Speaking outside the courthouse, (Sabrina, one of Dunn’s lawyers) Shroff thanked the jurors for sending back an “affirmation” that dissent is “not just tolerated.”

“It is legal, and it is welcome,” she said.

The Resistance is here, and it's delicious.

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Whelp,

He's probably not wrong.

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Whelp,

He's probably not wrong.

https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/19 ... 2674627808

Conservative Partnership Academy

"some"? "probably"?

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Making a technicality argument to deny food to American children and seniors?

Crazy and just cruel on so many different levels.

This will not endear DonOld, SPINO and the Republicans to anyone during the shutdown.

Trump administration seeks emergency stay of court's order to fund SNAP

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WTF is the matter with these people?

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Making a technicality argument to deny food to American children and seniors?

Crazy and just cruel on so many different levels.

This will not endear DonOld, SPINO and the Republicans to anyone during the shutdown.

Trump administration seeks emergency stay of court's order to fund SNAP

And Moscow Mitch's stacked SCOTUS?

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And Moscow Mitch's stacked SCOTUS?

Guess we might find out if they're actual human beings, although it might be moot if they sit on their hands long enough.


I don't know what's more stupid/ludicrous/laughable, that SPINO and Thune think that playing chicken at DonOLD's beckoning is good for them or their position of open the government then we'll negotiate.

Yeah, right, have they met DonOld or do they think the country is that stupid?

Sooooo trustworthy.

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And Moscow Mitch's stacked SCOTUS?

Guess we might find out if they're actual human beings, although it might be moot if they sit on their hands long enough.

If they do, the status quo is the federal appeals court leaving an order in place that requires the Trump administration to provide full SNAP benefits for November. We, and the hungry, win unless DonOLD rejects his own stacked SCOTUS

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I don't know what's more stupid/ludicrous/laughable, that SPINO and Thune think that playing chicken at DonOLD's beckoning is good for them or their position of open the government then we'll negotiate.

Yeah, right, have they met DonOld or do they think the country is that stupid?

Sooooo trustworthy.

As we've seen over the past few years, they're more worried about primaries than anything else. Maybe, maybe, they'll learn that's a foolish tactic in 2026.

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I don't know what's more stupid/ludicrous/laughable, that SPINO and Thune think that playing chicken at DonOLD's beckoning is good for them or their position of open the government then we'll negotiate.

Yeah, right, have they met DonOld or do they think the country is that stupid?

Sooooo trustworthy.

As we've seen over the past few years, they're more worried about primaries than anything else. Maybe, maybe, they'll learn that's a foolish tactic in 2026.

Meh, they already forgot about 2018, dems picked up 40 seats.