Sunday, February 9, 2025
Democratic rep says Trump’s Gaza takeover idea is ‘ludicrous’
USF Bulls Lifted The Curtain On Women’s Lacrosse And Put On Quite A Show
Sofia Chepenik won the opening draw, the Bulls went on the attack and Julianna George carved out her place in USF athletic history by scoring the first goal in the first lacrosse match.
George’s historic marker, all of 48 seconds in, was the first of many memorable moments in Friday evening’s 19-6 win over Kennesaw State at an energized Corbett Stadium.
Weaving a fascination for lace
A delicate jewel among textiles, lace is an elegant and deceptively simple creation whose appeal has been spun for centuries. Correspondent Lee Cowan teases the threads of the misunderstood history of lace, and talks with some of the hundreds of lacemakers who shared their craft at the annual convention of the International Organization of Lace, Inc.
Tampa Bay Sun FC vs. Fort Lauderdale United FC 02/08/2025
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The Auther
DARK GOTHIC MAGA: How Tech Billionaires Plan to Destroy America
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A look into how the tech leaders may be using the new administration to achieve their own agenda. Looking specifically at Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Marc Andressen, Ben Horotwitz, Brian Armstrong, and David Sacks as well as their relationship with figures like JD Vance, Balaji Srinivasan, and Curtis Yarvin. There is a focused discussion on how a shaping of the government might take place based on convergences between the ideas of Yarvin, who influences the tech libertarian right, and Project 2025, who have authored a playbook exclusively for President Trump to help with his transition to power.
Saturday, February 8, 2025
Why is Elon Musk raiding the treasury?
Something very big is happening this year, and it's part of the structure around which all of this chaos is occurring, Glen.
You have to interpret all of this through a very important deadline, because why is Elon Musk raiding the treasury? Why are they freezing federal funding?
Follow the money.
In 2017, Trump and the Republican Party forced through one of the largest tax giveaways to the rich in modern American history.
We're talking grotesque levels of tax cuts: CEO’s getting write-offs for yachts and private jets, and some of the most broad-based tax cuts for the 1% that we have ever seen in this country.
Those tax cuts had a sunset period — and that sunset period occurs in 2025.
What Elon Musk wants is for these tax cuts to not only be extended, but to apply to him in a larger way than ever before so that he can amass even more money.
But in order to extend them, they need to find four trillion dollars. So they're going to go after massive programming cuts, and they propose cutting “waste.”
And the biggest one that they are going after is Medicaid.
So understand the central motivations here. This is about preying on working class people in order to suck up what little is left of American public infrastructure and hand it over to Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and all these corporations.
Do not give up the strategic advantage of our numbers. Do what you can and do not submit, and know that what you can do is enough.
I'm sure there's so much going on that there are things that I may not have addressed. For that, I apologize. We will come back to it.
More soon,
Alexandria
Just Bernie Sanders and RFK Jr going toe-to-toe during committee hearing
Bernie got his money $27 at a time RFK Jr. and who said you can call him Bernie. He is Senetor Sanders to you!
The Resistance Is Rising
Maya Miller of the New York Times reported today that the congressional phone system has been jammed with tens of millions of calls from outraged constituents contacting their representatives to demand that they stand against President Donald Trump and his sidekick Elon Musk as they unilaterally dismantle the United States government and gain access to Americans’ private information.....MORE
Friday, February 7, 2025
FLOOD THE ZONE WITH PEOPLE
What authoritarian regimes often do is ‘flood the zone,’ or do so much at once that you feel paralyzed. It's important to understand that the shock you feel right now is the point, Glen.
We can flood the zone with people.
The Trump administration is currently trying to get their nominees approved. No Democrat should be voting to advance Trump's nominees while this is going on.
There has to be a political price to pay. We have a responsibility as a party to block everything while they're setting a literal match to the federal government. And we need to be a pain in the ass.
Do not assume that your Senator is not going to vote for these nominees, if you are a person that has a Democratic Senator. Give them a call. Keep calling.
Tell them, “I do not want you to vote to advance or approve any of these nominees while all this stuff is going on.”
In the House, Republican members that are in districts that Biden carried in 2020 do care what you think and how pissed off you are.
These are things that they can lose elections over. If we start sending the message that they can now, then we can start getting some traction.
If you have a Republican representative, you should be making a phone call. They need to know you are paying attention. They need to know that you are pissed off. If they don't think that you're pissed off, they're going to go faster.
If you think government is like a George Foreman grill, and you can just set it and forget it — I regret to inform you that is not how participatory democracy works.
We have to lock in, and start getting people quaking in their electoral boots.
Even if your call makes them think twice, it is effective. Use our leverage. Make them fight for every single step.
The slower they go, the less they can break.
In this house, we jiggle every door handle to find an opportunity. You have got to try a hundred times, sometimes, to make one work. It's worth it.
In solidarity,
Alexandria
Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost among group of Democrats denied entrance into the Dept. of Education building
Orlando area Democratic U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost was among a group of at least 30 House Democrats denied access into the Department of Education building in Washington, D.C., on Friday, where they’d hoped to meet with acting Education Secretary Denise L. Carter.....MORE
New Florida housing bill to target out of state housing investors
A newly filed House Bill 401 in the Florida State Legislature is taking aim to protect Florida’s housing market from multi-national investment companies buying up entire neighborhoods or huge swaths of homes to convert them in to permanent rental properties.
Florida has see at least two major single-family home price spikes in the past two-decades, in some cases double and even tripling the cost to buy a new home.
The National Rental Home Council is firing back against the new House Bill, saying it restricts who can rent homes in certain communities, and would take away hosing choices for Floridians. Primarily, though, the National Rental Home Council opposes the proposed bill because it would limit the huge profits made by owners, builders, operators, capital providers, vendors, manufacturers, professional service firms and business partners who are the members of the NRHC.
Hong Kong’s post office continues to suspend packages for US as it seeks clarification over tariff
Hong Kong’s post office announced late Thursday it would continue to suspend shipping items containing goods to the United States until further notice, despite its American counterpart having reversed its ban on packages from the city and other parts of China.....MORE
Trump administration is gaming Google to create a mirage of mass deportations
The U.S. has seen high-profile immigration raids since Trump took office, but Dara Kerr of The Guardian today reported that the Trump administration “is gaming Google to create a mirage of mass deportations.” On January 24, 2025, old online press releases from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from as much as a decade ago were updated to make Google prioritize them as new releases, thus creating the illusion that raids are taking place all over the country. When The Guardian asked ICE and Google about the changed dates, some of the new dates disappeared, dropping those stories out of the top of search results.....MORE
Thursday, February 6, 2025
Unions sue Trump administration over USAID shutdown
Unions representing government employees sued the Trump administration Thursday evening to block efforts to shut down the government’s independent foreign assistance agency.
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) launched a full-scale assault on the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) over the weekend, shutting staff out of internal systems and placing thousands on administrative leave.
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