Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Red, White and Blue Land
Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) released the following statement today after introducing a bill authorizing President Trump to acquire Greenland and renaming it Red, White, and Blueland:
“America is back and will soon be bigger than ever with the addition of Red, White, and Blueland. President Trump has correctly identified the purchase of what is now Greenland as a national security priority, and we will proudly welcome its people to join the freest nation to ever exist when our Negotiator-in-Chief inks this monumental deal.” here
Trump issues Gaza ceasefire ultimatum to Hamas as he warns 'all hell is going to break out' if hostages not returned
Donald Trump says the Gaza ceasefire should be cancelled if all remaining Israeli hostages are not returned by noon on Saturday - as he warned Hamas that "all hell is going to break out".
He also said Palestinians would not have the right to return under his plan for US "ownership" of Gaza - contradicting officials in his administration who said they would be relocated temporarily.
27 religious groups sue Trump administration to protect houses of worship from immigration arrests
More than two-dozen Christian and Jewish groups representing millions of Americans — ranging from the Episcopal Church and the Union for Reform Judaism to the Mennonites and Unitarian Universalists — filed a federal court lawsuit Tuesday challenging a Trump administration move giving immigration agents more leeway to make arrests at houses of worship.....MORE
Tracking the U.S. Congress (Feb 10, 2025): The Funding Two-Step and Possibly More Cabinet Confimations
Budget Reconciliation And Appropriations
Much of the work is happening behind the scenes, with the two major focuses of work being Budget reconciliation and Appropriations.
Budget Reconciliation: a two-step process by which the House and Senate coordinate a legislative package that can address spending, revenue, and the debt limit.
Appropriations: another thorny issue. Congress should have enacted spending bills for Fiscal Year 2025, which began October 1, 2024, but instead they passed a Continuing Resolution (often called a “CR”).
The Major Legislative Action In Congress This Week Are Votes On Trump’s Cabinet Nominees
It is likely that we will see votes on Tulsi Gabbard to serve as director of National Intelligence and Robert F. Kennedy to lead Health and Human Services. We also may see votes on Howard Lutnick to serve as head of the Department of Commerce, Brooke Rollings as secretary of Agriculture, and Kelly Loeller as head of the Small Business Administration.
Monday, February 10, 2025
Letters from an American: February 9, 2025
On Friday, President Donald Trump issued an executive order “protecting Second Amendment rights.” The order calls for Attorney General Pam Bondi to examine all gun regulations in the U.S. to make sure they don’t infringe on any citizen’s right to bear arms. The executive order says that the Second Amendment “is foundational to maintaining all other rights held by Americans.”
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
29min51sec
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
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