LeanaB
@ddhhdihhrlb.bsky.social
Retired civil servant after a 25 year career promoting respect for human rights by military and security forces.
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Everyone involved in the Alien Enemies Act "deportations" (kidnapping) is a depraved monster. This poor man and his family, my god.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.
www.theatlantic.com
April 1, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Everyone involved in the Alien Enemies Act "deportations" (kidnapping) is a depraved monster. This poor man and his family, my god.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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"Let’s start with security guarantees. Putin has never agreed to them for Ukraine—in any form"
Read Bob Kagan on the Trump capitulation to Russia
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Read Bob Kagan on the Trump capitulation to Russia
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Trump Is Offering Putin Another Munich
Hitler didn’t want a peace deal, and neither does Putin.
www.theatlantic.com
March 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
"Let’s start with security guarantees. Putin has never agreed to them for Ukraine—in any form"
Read Bob Kagan on the Trump capitulation to Russia
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Read Bob Kagan on the Trump capitulation to Russia
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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The nature of a cult is that it will turn you against your own family. Your loved ones will cheer as you are led off to the camps because hurting even you is what is necessary to bring on the glorious nation. apnews.com/article/trum...
Thrust into unemployment, axed federal workers face relatives who celebrate their firing
Scrambling to replace their health insurance and to find new work, some fired federal workers are running into another unexpected unpleasantry: Relatives cheering their job loss.
apnews.com
March 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The nature of a cult is that it will turn you against your own family. Your loved ones will cheer as you are led off to the camps because hurting even you is what is necessary to bring on the glorious nation. apnews.com/article/trum...
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What a wonderful idea…👇
Let’s. Do. This. ✨
Let’s. Do. This. ✨
March 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
What a wonderful idea…👇
Let’s. Do. This. ✨
Let’s. Do. This. ✨
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After three years of failure, Putin can’t win on the ground, but he can win in his enemies’ heads—if we let him.
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Putin’s Three Years of Humiliation
The Russian president can’t win his war against Ukraine unless he persuades its allies to betray it.
www.theatlantic.com
February 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
After three years of failure, Putin can’t win on the ground, but he can win in his enemies’ heads—if we let him.
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Eloquently and powerfully stated. I am so grateful for the work you do.
Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He goes on to ask if we suffered childhood trauma and concludes by suggesting we are suffering from “generational trauma.” This is my response. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...
My Open Letter to Elon Musk
From Marc | Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” This is my response.
www.democracydocket.com
February 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Eloquently and powerfully stated. I am so grateful for the work you do.
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“The party that once prided itself on standing up to Moscow,” Jonathan Lemire writes, “has bowed to a president who himself is bowing to an adversary.”
The Party of Reagan Is Selling Out Ukraine
Even pro-Ukraine Republicans have been silent on Donald Trump’s deference to Vladimir Putin.
www.theatlantic.com
February 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM
“The party that once prided itself on standing up to Moscow,” Jonathan Lemire writes, “has bowed to a president who himself is bowing to an adversary.”
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Dear Leaders of the Free World,
We're not with these maniacs.
Sincerely,
Decent Americans
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dear-world...
We're not with these maniacs.
Sincerely,
Decent Americans
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dear-world...
Dear World, (An Apology From Decent Americans)
Dear World,
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
February 15, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Dear Leaders of the Free World,
We're not with these maniacs.
Sincerely,
Decent Americans
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dear-world...
We're not with these maniacs.
Sincerely,
Decent Americans
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dear-world...
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This. Also. @aoc.bsky.social @ericswalwell.bsky.social et al , can you do what ever you guys do in the House to let Musk, Trump and everyone know that the UCFE, which funds unemployment benefits , is in the Dept of Labor. If these funds are cut, the cost will fall on the states.
February 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
This. Also. @aoc.bsky.social @ericswalwell.bsky.social et al , can you do what ever you guys do in the House to let Musk, Trump and everyone know that the UCFE, which funds unemployment benefits , is in the Dept of Labor. If these funds are cut, the cost will fall on the states.
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BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![TOTE ASTRICT COLOR
DOCTORS FOR AMERICA,
Plaintiff,
Civil Action No. 25-322 (JDB)
OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT et al.,
Defendants.
ORDER
Upon consideration of [6] Plaintiff's motion for a temporary restraining order, [8]
Plaintiff's supplemental declarations, [9] Defendants' opposition, [10] Plaintiff's reply, the
hearing on February 10, 2025, and the entire record herein, and for the reasons stated in the
accompanying Memorandum Opinion, it is hereby ORDERED that
1. Defendants Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control, and Food
and Drug Administration (hereinafter "defendants") shall, by not later than 11:59 pm on
February 11, 2025, restore to their versions as of January 30, 2025, each webpage and dataset
identified by Plaintiff on pages 6-12 of its Memorandum of Law in Support of the Motion for
a Restraining Order [ECF No. 6-1];
2. Defendants shall, in consultation with Plaintiff, identify any other resources that DF A members
rely on to provide medical care and that defendants removed or substantially modified on or
after January 29, 2025, without adequate notice or reasoned explanation; and defendants shall,
by February 14, 2025, restore those resources to their versions as of January 30, 2025;](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreifoaihlyxzbiko32lmralzpicfxnzwfoxp3ki5w4wniiihonzxira@jpeg)
February 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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A great website tracking all the companies that have bent the knee to Trump and eliminated their DEI programs, and all the companies that have stood strong.
www.dei.watch
www.dei.watch
DEI WATCH
This guide is broken into three categories: 1) DISMANTLED - companies that have ended or scaled back their DEI efforts; 2) COMMITTED - companies that have active DEI initiatives; and 3) FUNDED - organ...
www.dei.watch
February 9, 2025 at 7:26 AM
A great website tracking all the companies that have bent the knee to Trump and eliminated their DEI programs, and all the companies that have stood strong.
www.dei.watch
www.dei.watch
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Federal workers we never hear about do heroic things every day. They keep our country going smoothly. They don't deserve to be traumatized like they have been with Donald Trump's authoritarian tactics.
February 9, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Federal workers we never hear about do heroic things every day. They keep our country going smoothly. They don't deserve to be traumatized like they have been with Donald Trump's authoritarian tactics.
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Four government IT employees tell Ian Bogost and Charlie Warzel that Elon Musk's incursion into the U.S. government may be worse than anyone realizes: “This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history."
The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified
Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be.
www.theatlantic.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Four government IT employees tell Ian Bogost and Charlie Warzel that Elon Musk's incursion into the U.S. government may be worse than anyone realizes: “This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history."
Let’s remember Venezuela’s peaceful warriors for the restoration of democracy in Venezuela.
Supporting Venezuela’s opposition is a moral duty, and the regime of Nicolás Maduro is illegitimate, MEPs say in a resolution adopted today.
To honour the opposition’s fight for democracy, the European Parliament awarded the 2024 Sakharov Prize to María Corina Machado and Edmundo González Urrutia.
To honour the opposition’s fight for democracy, the European Parliament awarded the 2024 Sakharov Prize to María Corina Machado and Edmundo González Urrutia.
February 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Let’s remember Venezuela’s peaceful warriors for the restoration of democracy in Venezuela.
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Guess what company those charging stations would have competed with
Biden-era effort to build a federally funded national network of electric vehicle charging stations mostly along state highways is suspended by the Trump administration
February 7, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Guess what company those charging stations would have competed with
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Just read over that transcript of Trump's remarks, if you can. I can't and I went to graduate school. The man is gone. He's lost what's left of his marbles and the government has been hijacked by a South African billionaire.
February 7, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Just read over that transcript of Trump's remarks, if you can. I can't and I went to graduate school. The man is gone. He's lost what's left of his marbles and the government has been hijacked by a South African billionaire.
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The very definition of evil.
The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children
I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2025 at 4:36 AM
The very definition of evil.
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This is not at all normal.
And the greatest collective and individual sin of those of us witnessing it all, would be to let it become normal.
So, sustain your anger, hold on to your soul, and refuse to grow comfortable with this madness.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/please-don...
And the greatest collective and individual sin of those of us witnessing it all, would be to let it become normal.
So, sustain your anger, hold on to your soul, and refuse to grow comfortable with this madness.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/please-don...
Please, Don't Normalize This Madness
Something often happens to people exposed to repeated trauma.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
February 6, 2025 at 1:14 AM
This is not at all normal.
And the greatest collective and individual sin of those of us witnessing it all, would be to let it become normal.
So, sustain your anger, hold on to your soul, and refuse to grow comfortable with this madness.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/please-don...
And the greatest collective and individual sin of those of us witnessing it all, would be to let it become normal.
So, sustain your anger, hold on to your soul, and refuse to grow comfortable with this madness.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/please-don...
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The silence of my friends on the far Left who incessantly beat the, "Kamala is as bad as Trump" drum for months (likely costing her the election), while vilifying those of us trying to keep them from a stance that was going to harm the people of Gaza—is deafening.
We kept receipts.
We kept receipts.
February 6, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The silence of my friends on the far Left who incessantly beat the, "Kamala is as bad as Trump" drum for months (likely costing her the election), while vilifying those of us trying to keep them from a stance that was going to harm the people of Gaza—is deafening.
We kept receipts.
We kept receipts.
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"...a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power."
FDR 1938
FDR 1938
February 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
"...a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power."
FDR 1938
FDR 1938
Extremely important and practical advice.
The most common question I receive is how everyday citizens can help in the fight for democracy. My advice, take the first step, start with something small and see what works for you. Here are ten things all of us can do. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/10-t...
Ten Things We Can All Do to Protect Democracy
From Marc | The most common question I receive is how everyday citizens can help in the fight for democracy.
www.democracydocket.com
February 2, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Extremely important and practical advice.
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Listen to three important conversations about the FBI including one I participated in, at the top of the series. ⬇️
BREAKING: Nat'l intelligence experts are ringing the alarm on the politicization of the FBI and other intelligence agencies. Hear from three of them now. **This post is free, and we urge you to share it with those who may not otherwise have access to the information revealed.**
NATIONAL SECURITY NEWS ALERT
RINGING THE ALARM: THE POLITICIZATION OF THE FBI
contrarian.substack.com
February 1, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Listen to three important conversations about the FBI including one I participated in, at the top of the series. ⬇️
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Jesus’ central stated ministry is the lessening of the gaps between the powerful and the powerless, a radical inclusion of those so often left out, an audacious expanding of the table of compassion to the widest, most-diverse swath of humanity.
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Hey White MAGA Christians, You Know DEI is Just The Gospel, Right?
So, DEI is the new “woke”: MAGA America’s default boogeyman-du-jour.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
January 31, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Jesus’ central stated ministry is the lessening of the gaps between the powerful and the powerless, a radical inclusion of those so often left out, an audacious expanding of the table of compassion to the widest, most-diverse swath of humanity.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/hey-white-...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/hey-white-...
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4. Don’t grade on a curve
This goes both ways. Do not hold Republicans to a lower standard and do not hold Democrats to a higher one. When a Republican does something normal, recognize it is normal not exceptional. When a Democrat does something normal, recognize it is normal and not terrible.
This goes both ways. Do not hold Republicans to a lower standard and do not hold Democrats to a higher one. When a Republican does something normal, recognize it is normal not exceptional. When a Democrat does something normal, recognize it is normal and not terrible.
Ten Things We Can All Do to Protect Democracy
From Marc | The most common question I receive is how everyday citizens can help in the fight for democracy.
www.democracydocket.com
January 28, 2025 at 2:36 AM
4. Don’t grade on a curve
This goes both ways. Do not hold Republicans to a lower standard and do not hold Democrats to a higher one. When a Republican does something normal, recognize it is normal not exceptional. When a Democrat does something normal, recognize it is normal and not terrible.
This goes both ways. Do not hold Republicans to a lower standard and do not hold Democrats to a higher one. When a Republican does something normal, recognize it is normal not exceptional. When a Democrat does something normal, recognize it is normal and not terrible.
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Memo suspending programs like SNAP: “The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism & green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve” www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
Trump administration orders sweeping freeze of all federal aid
In a two-page memo, the Office of Management and Budget ordered all federal agencies to temporarily suspend payments.
www.politico.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Memo suspending programs like SNAP: “The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism & green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve” www.politico.com/news/2025/01...