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Saturday, April 12, 2025

History Forces Us TODAY To Choose Between Good and Evil



The forces of history are here today. Each American WILL choose between Good and Evil.


It is not possible to avoid choosing because not choosing is a choice. 


This is the choice: Cooperate with the government of the United States of America, or, do not cooperate.


If you cooperate, you choose Evil. Your cooperation will forcefully harm innocent people. 


The current administration chooses to violate the Constitution with all its actions. Enabling them is choosing Evil


If you do not cooperate, you choose good. Your action will save some innocent people from harm.


Your choice to not cooperate makes you a hero. 


Click here to hear David Bowie.


Choosing good takes many forms. I suggest here a few small examples of actions that demonstrate good choices, but the goal is to prevent or delay any government action by this administration.


** Refuse any direct order that you believe violates you oath to defend the Constitution. 


If you serve in the Armed Forces, see the Duty to Disobey:  'The Uniform Code of Military Justice requires military officers to disobey any order they deem violates the Constitution.  In order to prevent the harm trump will try to inflict on the United States from his war on the USA, civil service employees at all levels of government should adopt the 'duty to disobey' toward any order or action that violates the Constitution. Additionally, they should collect evidence of any criminal act and report that criminal act to the Dept of Justice for prosecution.  


'So, can a person in the military simply refuse to follow an order if they don't like it? The answer is yes — if they consider the order itself to be illegal or unconstitutional. It's generally called a "duty to disobey," and is empowered by the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Nov 27, 2019' [https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/law-and-life/what-is-a-military-duty-to-disobey/]


** Sue the Government for Wrongful Termination if you are fired - See detailed steps for filing a lawsuit below


** If you work for a company that has government contracts you believe violate the Constitution, then refuse to work on that job or call in sick. See below if they fire you


** Refuse to allow any ICE agent to access any child or worker without a valid warrant -  

learn what US residents' rights are with ICE if you may be facing that situation.


SEE ALSO 


** Join NON-VIOLENT street demonstrations


Be as creative as possible when choosing good. We are in this together.



SUING:


CHAT GPT ON HOW TO SUE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR WRONGFUL TERMINATION


[Your primary goal is to tie up Federal resources in court. Winning will be a bonus!] 


🔍 1. Figure Out Your Employment Status

Were you a federal employee? (E.g., working for a federal agency like the VA, IRS, etc.)


Were you probationary or permanent? (Your rights differ depending on your status.)


⚖️ 2. Identify the Reason for Termination

Was it for cause, reduction in force (RIF), alleged misconduct, discrimination, etc.?


Get a copy of your termination letter or any notice they gave you — that language matters.


🛡 3. Appeal Options – Based on the Situation

Here are some paths depending on what happened:


🏛 MSPB (Merit Systems Protection Board)

If you're a federal employee (not probationary), you may be able to appeal to the MSPB.


You usually have 30 days from the effective date of your termination to file.


This is especially relevant for performance issues, retaliation, procedural violations, or wrongful termination.


🤝 EEO Complaint

If you believe the firing was due to discrimination (race, gender, disability, age, etc.), or retaliation, you may file an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) complaint.


File with your agency’s EEO office within 45 days of the event.


🚨 Whistleblower Retaliation?

If you were fired after reporting wrongdoing, the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) investigates whistleblower retaliation.


🧾 Union Grievance

If you were part of a union, check your collective bargaining agreement — you may need to file a grievance instead.


👨⚖️ 4. Consider Legal Help

Even though you're not an attorney, consulting one who specializes in federal employment law is key. Many offer free consultations.


You can check:


https://www.nela.org – National Employment Lawyers Association


Legal aid clinics if income is a concern


✍️ 5. Document Everything

Start gathering:


Your SF-50 (notice of personnel action)


Emails, memos, or performance reviews


The termination letter or decision


Notes on what happened before/after termination


Would you like help figuring out if the MSPB or EEO route fits your situation? If you give me a bit more detail (what agency, what reason they gave, when it happened, etc.), I can guide you more directly.


Can I represent myself in court


ChatGPT said:

Yes, you can absolutely represent yourself in court — that’s called going "pro se" (Latin for "on one’s own behalf"). But whether that’s a good idea depends on your case and where you're filing it.


Here’s a breakdown to help you think it through:


✅ Where You Can Represent Yourself

Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB): Yes, you can represent yourself. A lot of federal employees do.


EEOC Hearings (discrimination cases): Yes, self-representation is allowed.


Federal District Court: If you’re suing the government under a law like Title VII (discrimination) or the Whistleblower Protection Act, you can represent yourself here too.


Civil Service appeals: You can also go pro se.


⚠️ Things to Be Aware Of

Rules and procedures are strict. Judges won't cut you slack just because you're not a lawyer.


If you're suing the U.S. Government, there are often special rules, deadlines (called statutes of limitation), and sovereign immunity issues.


For example, if you’re suing under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), you must first file an administrative claim and wait for a response before you can go to court.


🔧 Pro Se Pros & Cons

Pros:


Save money on attorney fees


Full control over your case


Cons:


Complex legal rules and deadlines


Government attorneys will be skilled and aggressive


One missed step can get your case dismissed


🛠 Helpful Tools If Going Pro Se

Federal court websites usually have “Pro Se Litigant” guides (example: USDC D.C. Pro Se page).


PACER.gov to file and track your case (you’ll need an account).


Local legal aid clinics or law school legal clinics might offer advice or document review.


If you give me more details (e.g., what agency fired you, when, and what reason they gave), I can help figure out:

 

Friday, April 11, 2025

How The United States of America Ends -


This is not a drill.


George Conway predicts that 47 will not obey any court order.


Conway Explains


When the judge sends the U. S. Marshalls to enforce the Court order, trump will instruct the US Marshall's office to disregard any enforcement action against him.


If the Marshalls obey his order and do not arrest the President, that will leave the United States as a country with no effective rule of law.


Our remaining hope may be that some law enforcement personnel uphold their duty to obey the Constitution and disobey the President by arresting him and placing him in jail.



Tuesday, April 8, 2025

THE Plan To Steal America

 Here it is: 


his plan to steal the country.........


Angela Woodward


I really wish there was a way to get this into the hands of every American before April 20th.


FROM THE MEDIUM:


Part 1: On April 20th, 2025, the United States may Cross the Point of No Return.


It sounds wild. Maybe even crazy. But every step is already in motion. I’d be happy to be wrong. But if this is correct… you’ll be ready.


On April 20, 2025, the United States may initiate its final steps into authoritarian rule.


That’s the day Donald Trump’s advisory committee is expected to release its findings on whether he should invoke the Insurrection Act — a move that would allow him to deploy the military domestically and allow Trump to impose martial law. (San Francisco Chronicle). Given Hegseth and Noem are the main “advisors”, the conclusion is foregone.


And as his two months in office has already shown, he won’t stop at just a legal opinion.


Expect an executive order even that same day or the next, officially declaring the Insurrection Act, restricting freedoms in the name of restoring control of the border and perhaps in blue-state cities, and setting the larger plan in motion.


Of course, this won’t be framed as an attack on democracy. It will be packaged as a necessary response to crisis — as authoritarian takeovers always are.


But once it happens, there’s no going back.


THIS WILL BE THE POINT OF NO RETURN.


The roadmap for overthrowing a democratic government isn’t new or theoretical — it’s a well-worn playbook, tested and repeated across history by those who crave power more than liberty. After rejecting it initially, being incredulous, I have realized there is too much evidence suggesting this may be what’s happening now to remain silent.


Telling other people what may be happening, so they can recognize it and maybe together we can stop it, is my entire purpose here.


This is Part 1 of what has turned into a series: Their Coup Playbook: How They Quietly Kill the Constitution in the Coming Weeks and Months


THIS IS HOW DEMOCRACY ENDS: HERE’S THEIR PLAYBOOK


It won’t all happen in one night.


Instead, the process will unfold in stages, each step making resistance harder.


Free elections, a free press, and the right to protest will disappear one piece at a time, until there’s nothing left to save.


My entire goal here is to make people aware, so you can recognize it, if it really is what’s happening, and maybe together we can help stop it. It’s all I, personally, can do.


Here’s how it will happen, step by step, after Trump invokes the Insurrection Act with an Executive Order:


1. “Resist!” Demonstrations Grow — Just As Planned


Left-leaning and even more centrist people will be alarmed. Peaceful protests will be organized nationwide, as they already have been being organized now, with growing numbers of people joining protests each week.


The calls to “Resist!” will grow louder, and large-scale demonstrations will begin forming in major cities.


This is exactly what Trump wants. He didn’t invoke the Insurrection Act sooner because he needed his opposition to gather first — so he could use them as a tool for his next step.


He also waited 90 days, instead of invoking it on Day 1 as Project 2025 recommended, so he would have his people in place, and remove those who would oppose them in the government, military, courts, and civil positions.


His cabal is waiting for a strong reaction — they want massive unrest. They need a justification to kick off the next steps in their plan.


2. The False Flag Crisis: Turning Protest into “Terror”


The protests will turn violent quickly. Maybe in a day, maybe during the next big protest the following weekend.


They will turn violent not because of the protesters, but because they will have been infiltrated by agents provocateurs, from militia groups like The Proud Boys, whose goal is to escalate as quickly as possible and give Trump and his cabal an excuse to trigger the next stage.


Expect “terrorist” bombings, targeted assassinations, or high-profile acts of violence, either staged or exploited, to justify the crackdown.


There may even be an extremely high profile assassination of a leading right-wing leader that changes everything in a moment… and the “woke radicals” will be blamed, and the country will rally around more extreme measures to bring back order and control.


The media will be flooded with images of chaos, pushing the public into a state of fear. Calls for “order” will follow.


3. Trump Declares Expanded Martial Law — And Calls for Militia to assist the police and Military


Trump has already invoked the Insurrection Act — so now he now declares even more extensive and repressive martial law, and orders troops into major US cities where most oppose him, branding protesters and opponents as “seditionists,” “traitors,” and the “woke mob”.


He will call on “good Americans” to grab their guns, like the patriots of 1776, and join the militias forming to “restore order” and “take back control” from the leftist threat. Using militias also gets him around resistance from military leaders who might oppose his orders.


The militias already exist — the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Three Percenters, and others— and they are not some distant fringe. They were at January 6. The most extreme and radicalized are all released from prison now.They are ready to roll, and to answer Trump’s call, which they were waiting for four years ago.


The militia members are your neighbors. The difference between them and you? These neighbors own and have been training with AR-15s. You and your friends? Not so much.


This will be framed as “helping the police” and “keeping order.” Law enforcement will quietly welcome them — or, in some cases, will deputize them, with Trump’s support.


4. Mass Arrests of Opposition Leaders


Journalists, Democratic officials, and activists will be arrested under charges of sedition, terrorism, or “inciting violence.”


Expect Mark Milley, Liz Cheyney, and Adam Kinzinger to be arrested quickly and with great press coverage. How long the show trials take is probably a good measure of how much control Trump has established over the courts.


Key Democratic governors and attorneys general will be removed first, ensuring no state-level resistance.


Law enforcement and military ranks will be purged, with loyalty tests ensuring only Trump-aligned officers remain.


5. Military & National Guard Take Over Major Cities


Expect deployments in Washington, D.C., New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and other blue-state strongholds.


Curfews and lockdowns will be imposed, justified as measures to “restore peace.”


Checkpoints and military policing will become the new normal. Expect them in particular along major highways going to Canada or Mexico, and in red states — to identify and detain seditionists, traitors, and people of questionable loyalty.


Trump’s building of detainment centers in Guantanamo, and expansion of the 106 other ICE detention centers, was not actually intended for illegal migrants. And just a few days ago, Blackwater founder and Billionaire Erik Prince offered to help Trump “privatize deportation camps” as has been being done with prisons per Trump’s Day 1 Executive Order. So now Trump has an extrajudicial place to store the disloyal and those who resist, in for-profit camps guarded by militias and loyal military. Until he decides what to do with them.


6. Press Censorship & Total Media Control


Independent news outlets will face shutdowns or takeovers. Those that resist will see their journalists arrested or harassed.


Mainstream media will be forced into compliance. Blackmail, corporate pressure, and legal threats will ensure they toe the line.


Social media platforms like X (Twitter) will amplify the official narrative, drowning out opposition.


Other social media and lines of communication will be turned off. The Internet will be monitored, people identified from this monitoring for arrest, using Palantir technology. Peter Thiel, who I’ve written about before, is co-founder of Palantir. We will fully enter the surveillance state.


7. Borders Close & Dissidents Are Trapped Inside


Passports will be revoked for critics and opponents. If you’re on a list, you’re not leaving. Especially if you’re of Draft age.


No-fly lists will expand to include activists and journalists.


ICE and DHS will be weaponized — not just against immigrants, but against political enemies.


8. Elections Are “Postponed” Indefinitely


The 2026 midterms will be suspended under the excuse of national security concerns.


Red-state legislatures will eliminate Democratic-leaning districts, ensuring permanent Republican control.


By 2028, Trump (or his handpicked successor) will run unopposed. Elections will be a formality, probably still held. But rigged.


PROJECT 2025 AND THE INSURRECTION ACT: THIS WAS ALWAYS THE PLAN


This isn’t speculation.


The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 lays out a detailed strategy for permanent right-wing control.


It openly advocates using the Insurrection Act to crush opposition and dismantle the administrative state.


Trump isn’t improvising — he’s following a script.


We Can’t Wait — The Time to Act Is Now


We can’t sit back and wait for Trump to fire the starting gun — because once he does, it will already be too late.


We need to prepare now.


We need to plan now.


We need to dismantle his plans before they begin.


We have one month.


That’s it.


The Only Way to Stop this Coup is by Exposing It


The only way I can think of to stop this conspiracy, which is in final planning stages, is through exposure.


If people see the playbook in advance, they will be less likely be manipulated when it happens.


They might question the narrative. “Wait. This is what they said would happen. I thought it was crazy. But maybe…”


We need to spread this narrative far and wide so that when the moment comes, no one can claim ignorance.


Maybe we will be proven wrong.


Maybe we will look silly.


Or maybe… we will have derailed the plan, by telling people what to look for, to recognize the playbook steps as (if) they happen.


Here’s what we must do before April 20:


Empower the press, law enforcement, military, and elected officials to recognize the game that’s being played. They need to understand what’s happening before they are pressured to go along with it.


Share this post, or write your own. Do your own research. Don’t take my word for it. Talk with your friends and family about this crazy conspiracy theory that can’t rally happen… can it? So if and when the steps actually happen, people recognize it for what it is.


Prepare the public so they don’t take the bait. Trump and his cabal want protests to explode into chaos. 


They want violence in the streets to justify their crackdown. We must be ready to outmaneuver them — to refuse to be used as pawns in their game.


Stand up to the militias — and stop friends and family from joining them. The Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and other armed groups will be mobilized as Trump’s shock troops. They will be framed as “restoring order” and “helping the police.” We need to be ready to counter this, to make sure our neighbors, friends, and family don’t get sucked in.


Inoculate our fellow citizens against the propaganda. Most Americans are good people — but good people can be misled. They can be scared into compliance. Our job is to make sure they see what’s happening before it’s too late.


The only way to stop this plot is to expose it, reject it, and make it unmistakably clear to every American what is happening. We must stop these malign forces from enacting their will on our country, the world, and each of us and our families.


WHAT IF WE DON’T STOP IT?


If it is not stopped, and Trump enacts the Insurrection Act, at that point we probably only have 48 to 72 hours to try to stop everything from happening after the Executive Order.


Once martial law is imposed, there will be a tiny window — no more than three days — before resistance becomes nearly impossible.


Stopping it before it happens is the best option.


But what if we don’t?


In my next post, I’ll outline peaceful, strategic ways to resist — while we still can. And what our reduced options are if it still happens.


If we don’t act before April 20, then by April 23, it will already be too late.


The next post lays out a concrete action plan — exactly what you can do to try to stop this. 

Friday, April 4, 2025

DCC Asks for Money


Dems: 


You ask me to contribute again - 


BUT YOU HAVE DONE NOTHING TO 


SLOW DOWN THE HOSTILE TAKEOVER. 


Please enlighten me if I have missed anything.


NOW - 


DO SOMETHING  - something which will make life difficult for the TERRORIST GOP.


1. STAND UP AND ACT


2. FORCE VOTES GOP DON'T LIKE


3. SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT, 


4. DO ANYTHING IN YOUR POWER TO SLOW DOWN THE TRAITORS. 


Then, and only then, you have earned the right to ask for money. 




Thursday, April 3, 2025

You Will Regret Reading This



Occasionally a friend or a student will ask me to explain a trump economic policy. They ask since I have read a bit about economic theory and practiced some economics in business situations; and, I have read a bit of post World War II Russian and European history.


When asked to comment on his policies I imagine the scenario below and then cannot respond. He is not a rational actor. He is an assigned torturer tasked with destroying the United States while simultaneously causing as much pain and suffering as he can.


You will not want to read the following mental image if you are the least bit squeamish. 


'I am locked into a chair with shackles on my ankles and wrists while watching him torture my young cousin. He wonders aloud whether he should cut off her breast with a rusty hacksaw before or after he takes out her left eye with a dirty spoon. I want to scream even though I risk being whipped across my face with a bull whip for the temerity of objecting. I am not alone since there are hundreds of people shackled in chairs in the auditorium as I am. But, it does not end.'



Saturday, March 29, 2025

Paving the Road to D C


When we gather to protest and demand trump's resignation, Federal officials, understandably, will be concerned about a possible violent incident resulting from our protest and demands for 47 to resign.


Trump probably will ask for protection for him from the Police and National Guard. That will be despite our cooperation with security personnel and intent to be completely non-violent.


Before we begin, our best strategy is to meet personally with the political leaders in Congress, two each in each house, the police chief of the DC police, the Secret Service and the commander of the National Guard to assure them that we will not tolerate violence or vandalism from our occupiers. If they deem it necessary to arrest some of our people, we will help them do that. Then we will replace those detained with others.


Here's where we can gather legally, per chatgpt:


Yes, the public is allowed to congregate in the U.S. Capitol building, but not in the chambers where the House of Representatives or the Senate meet. Here's how it works:


Public Areas: The Capitol has various public areas, such as hallways, galleries (for viewing legislative sessions), and other designated spaces where visitors can walk around and explore.


Galleries: The public can access the galleries of the House and Senate to watch sessions, but they are not allowed on the floor where the actual proceedings happen. There are specific rules regarding who can attend, and visitors typically need tickets for entry. These tickets are sometimes available through congressional offices.


Capitol Visitor Center: Located underneath the Capitol building, the Visitor Center offers exhibits, historical displays, and guided tours. This area is open to the public, and visitors can learn about the history of the Capitol and the legislative process.


Restricted Access: While visitors can explore certain areas of the Capitol, access to the legislative chambers (the House or Senate floors) is highly restricted, and only those with specific permissions—such as lawmakers, staff, and invited guests—can enter the chambers during a session.


So, while people can gather in public areas and the Visitor Center, they cannot be in the chambers where legislative business takes place unless they have a special purpose or permission.

 

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

We Will Stand and Fight



This administration is not acceptable to the vast majority of American citizens. The situation is intolerable. Our elected leaders seem unable to solve the problems.


So, then, we will.


We will occupy the Senate and the House of Representatives in DC so that Congress can do no business.


We will shut down the Federal government until our demands are met; and, we will STAY until our demands are met.


We will be hundreds of Americans sitting in the halls and on the floor. Resisting passively without violence until our demands are met.


Here is a preliminary set of demands:


1. President trump and VP Vance resign office and leave the area.


2. We hold a Presidential election within 6 months.


3. Musk and the DOGE kids are arrested and prosecuted for their crimes. 


4. All Executive Orders from trump are revoked.


5. All political appointments to government positions will be fired.


6. Obey all court orders.


Tuesday, March 25, 2025

How to Force a Resignation by the GOP



Let us all together journey to Washington DC and pack the House of Representatives, during all the times the House is open and outside when it is closed,  so they cannot perform their duties. The Government will collapse. 


We will commit no crimes and we will commit no violence. We will support the Police.


We will be so numerous that the House cannot function..


We will stay there until trump and his entire administration resign from office and leave the City.


I see no other way to reclaim our country.


The Founders checks and balances are dead in the water.


We, the people, can take it back, IF we act now !


 

Saturday, March 22, 2025

Bad People and Monsters



Back in he day I chose to spend my life working to prevent a Communist takeover of the United States. I was upset by Kruschev's statement that they would take over the USA without firing a shot.


In that effort over the years I became aware of bad people and monsters. For me, a bad person is one who harms another person physically or emotionally when the bad person wants something and takes it from another person without any permission. If the bad person enjoys the act of causing pain, then I think we can call that person a sadist.


Bad people become monsters when they harm other people on a grand scale and not on an individual scale. Monsters are bad people with access to power over large numbers of people who then harm the people over whom they have power and enjoy inflicting pain on others. Monsters have included Stalin, Hitler, Mao Tse Tung, Ghengis Khan and others. 


Le Nain Rouge

I think Putin is a monster who enjoys hurting the people over whom he has power. He has killed hundreds of political opponents in Russia and elsewhere. His agents throw out of windows people who don't do what he demands. A person who objected to his criminal acts in St. Petersburg was shot by a sniper while driving to work. He has assassinated Russians who left the country and continued to criticize him using very lethal chemical and nuclear poisons. His troops in Ukraine instil terror by raping children while their parents are forced to watch, then the troops kill the children while their parents watch. 


Trump is a bad person who works for and wants to emulate Putin. The Radical GOP politicians and operatives who help trump is his quest are bad people helping the monster wannabes. The wannabes will be disappointed when he throws them under the bus after they have completed their task.


Putin maintains his power in Russia by killing or imprisoning his opponents. Trump will try to do the same in the United States.


The only act I have seen that can stop a monster is for the general population to demand a new government in such overwhelming numbers that the government cannot function in the capital city.


The bravest man I am aware of in history was Alexey Navalny. He was a Russian dissident who stood up to Putin loudly and persistently while surviving assassination attempts, torture and harsh prison until he finally died. His widow and his foundation continue his work today as the Anti-Corruption Foundation International. 


They have concluded that the only way to resists a monster is to fight it at every level without cessation. Here's their take:


'Here’s the best advice we can give you: never make a deal with Vladimir Putin. Especially if you’re a world leader.


At FBK, we’ve spent 15 years fighting Vladimir Putin and studying his methods—how he builds relationships, wields power, and bends the rules to serve his interests. 


We’ve seen talented journalists strike deals with him, only to become his propaganda mouthpieces. We’ve seen ambitious politicians try to outmanoeuvre him, only to end up as part of his loyal entourage. We’ve watched him violate international laws without hesitation, eliminate political opponents, and crush dissent on a massive scale.


When Alexei Navalny challenged him, Putin first tried to poison him. Then he locked him away in a remote Arctic prison. And then he killed him.


Putin calculates every move. He doesn’t see politics as a space for negotiation or compromise—he sees it as a game of brute force. If a law or treaty stands in his way, he simply ignores it or rewrites it. Then he lies about it, manipulates the facts, and fabricates evidence to justify his actions.


The world should think of Putin the way it thinks of a mafia boss. Yes, he’s rich and powerful, but he’s not rational in the way you’d expect. 


He’s driven by resentment, paranoia, and a deep sense of personal grievance. He’s said it himself—he believes the West has humiliated him, failed to treat him as an equal. That’s why he sees every agreement not as a step toward peace, but as an opportunity for revenge and domination.


You don’t negotiate with people like that. You fight them. The only way to deal with Putin is the way you deal with organized crime—cut off his money, go after his enablers, and systematically dismantle his network.


Who are the best allies in this fight? The millions of Russians who have suffered under his rule for years.


We’ve been fighting Putin for 15 years. Join us! '



Tuesday, March 18, 2025

We CAN sue Them All

I'm not an attorney but I think we have a valid reason to personally sue ALL the DOGE and other folks who have changed the rules of government programs against the Constitution and harmed millions of Americans. Maybe if we bring lawsuits against all the people - not just the top people, but ALL the people - who are guilty, then we can discourage their further unlawful actions. 


Federal officials who act within the law have something called 'qualified immunity' for any liability resulting from their actions as government officials, provided they act within the law, but if they acted illegally, then they lose that immunity and can be sued personally.


In my humble opinion, many social security and other agency employees and DOGE operatives have acted illegally and their actions have harmed millions of people. 


Here's a start: 




Here's what chatgpt says: 


' In general, it is very difficult to sue a U.S. federal official personally in civil court for actions taken in their official capacity due to a legal principle called "qualified immunity." This principle protects government officials, including federal employees, from being sued personally unless they violated "clearly established" law that a reasonable person in their position would have known was unlawful.


However, there are some situations where a federal official may be held personally liable:


If the official acted outside the scope of their official duties: If the official’s actions were not related to their official responsibilities (e.g., acting in a purely personal capacity), they may not be protected by qualified immunity.


If the official's conduct was willful or egregiously unlawful: If their actions were so clearly illegal that any reasonable person would have known they were violating the law, qualified immunity might not apply.


If there is a specific statute that allows for personal liability: There are some exceptions where federal officials can be personally sued, such as in cases involving civil rights violations under laws like 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (though this usually applies to state, not federal, officials).


If you believe a federal official has harmed you through illegal conduct, you may be able to pursue a civil rights lawsuit or other legal actions, but it’s important to note that suing a federal official personally is challenging and requires strong legal grounds.


For DOGE employees or any employees of a private company, personal liability depends on whether the actions were within their employment scope, whether they engaged in illegal or intentional misconduct, and whether they breached specific duties. If you were harmed by an employee's actions, you may be able to pursue a claim against the company, and in certain cases, you might also be able to bring a lawsuit directly against the employee.'



Saturday, March 15, 2025

The Tipping Point Will Happen Soon


Getting real for a moment: here's the thing.


He wants a fight. He's looking for somebody to fight, as we speak.


He will lose a few court cases. Then a Judge will issue an order to force him to comply.


But, he won't comply.


Then the Judge will order law enforcement folks to respond and force him to comply.


He still won't comply with the order.


When Law Enforcement attempts to use force to hold him to account, he will order security and other armed forces under his command to prevent law enforcement from ensuring compliance.


That will be the final tipping point for the Constitution


If the forces under his command prevent law enforcement personnel from ensuring his compliance, then our grand experiment is over. Finished.


To prevent that, we need law enforcement and military forces willing and able to enforce the legal order regardless of what the President commands. 


In order for our system of laws and checks and balances to survive, we require some personnel to choose the Constitution over a direct command from the President.


It will happen soon.

 

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Public Opinion in Russia Turns Negative



ANTI-CORRUPTION FOUNDATION

Three years have passed since the start of the full-scale war with Ukraine, and debates about how Russians feel about it continue. It’s clear that asking directly is not possible, but there are plenty of ways to pose indirect questions and interpret the answers. This is how the FBK’s sociologists operate.

In 2024, we conducted three surveys in which we asked Russians about their expectations for the future. Even before the New Year—when people traditionally become more optimistic—the number of pessimists rose noticeably. People speak less and less about “stability.”



 Many claim that Russians have “gotten used to” the war. Our data suggests the opposite: patience is wearing thin, and people sense growing instability. This is clear from how quickly the feeling of having “everything under control” is disappearing.



No matter how often TV channels repeat that Putin has a “plan” and that everything is under his control, Russians see growing anxiety all around them.


We’ve long been asking: “How should any extra budget revenue be spent?” Even in 2022, the share of people favoring more military spending never exceeded 20%. In 2024, it hovers around 10%. By contrast, many more are calling for higher salaries and pensions.


We see the most striking difference when we ask whether people would choose a new wave of mobilization or ending the “Special Military Operation.” Five times more respondents would prefer to end the war rather than send more people to the front!t!




We also asked a “verification” question about how people perceive the views of those around them. It turned out that even staunch “Z-supporters” realize they are in the minority.




In summary: Russian society appears to be on the brink of significant change. Anxiety and the sense of instability are both on the rise. Only about one-eighth of the population truly supports an indefinite continuation of the war. The notion that “everyone supports the war” simply doesn’t stick—most people know it’s not true.


All of this research comes from the FBK’s Polls & Surveys Department, established by Alexei Navalny. The department’s head, Anna Biryukova, recorded a detailed video (with English subtitles):


If you’d like to support the Foundation’s vital work—from in-depth research to public information campaigns—please follow the link and make a donation.


Thank you for your support,

Navalny’s team

Saturday, March 1, 2025

Will You Place Your Body Where Your Mouth Is ?



Stopping Project 25 probably will require more than lawsuits and opinions. They are likely to ignore any legal issues and poor elections counts. They may just declare victory and refuse to hand over the offices.


Reclaiming our heritage and our rule of law may well require more than talk.


History might help us understand how to succeed when the forces are against us.


Canadian historian James Fell studies revolutions and internal conflicts in many countries. His take on the USA today is below. [James Fell, AKA known as the Sweary historian. You can buy his “On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down" at www.JamesFell.com.]


"If you’re American, here is some important information you should know about invading Canada. 


This article was written by Dr. Aisha Ahmad, a professor of political science at the University of Toronto. I’m knowledgeable in guerrilla warfare, it being the subject of my master’s in history, but she’s a real expert and I totally agree with this. I can’t share a link to the article because Facebook fuckery. I was published in The Conversation. Here is the full text:


'As United States President Donald Trump relentlessly threatens to annex Canada, some Canadians are worried that an American invasion could one day become a reality. 


How would that scenario play out? Looking at the sheer size of the American military, many people might believe that Trump would enjoy an easy victory. That analysis is wrong. If Trump ever decides to use military force to annex Canada, the result would not be determined by a conventional military confrontation between the Canadian and American armies. Rather, a military invasion of Canada would trigger a decades-long violent resistance, which would ultimately destroy the United States.


But in this nightmare scenario, could Canadians successfully resist an American invasion? Absolutely. I know this because I have studied insurgencies around the world for more than two decades, and I have spent time with ordinary people who have fought against powerful invading armies.


How insurgencies begin


The research on guerrilla wars clearly shows that weaker parties can use unconventional methods to cripple a more powerful enemy over many years. This approach treats waging war as a secret, part-time job that an ordinary person can do. 


Guerrillas use ambushes, raids and surprise attacks to slowly bleed an invading army, and local communities support these fighters by giving them safe havens and material support. These supporting citizens can also engage in forms of “everyday resistance,” using millions of passive-aggressive episodes of sabotage to frustrate and drain the enemy. 


Trump is delusional if he believes that 40 million Canadians will passively accept conquest without resistance. There is no political party or leader willing to relinquish Canadian sovereignty over “economic coercion,” and so if the U.S. wanted to annex Canada, it would have to invade. 


That decision would set in motion an unstoppable cycle of violence. Even if we imagine a scenario in which the Canadian government unconditionally surrenders, a fight would ensue on the streets. A teenager might throw a rock at invading soldiers. That kid would get shot, and then there would be more rocks, and more gunfire. An insurgency would be inevitable.


The myth of Canadian ‘niceness’


This idea may shock Canadians today because they see themselves as friendly and affable people. However, Canada’s current self-image of “niceness” only exists because they’re at peace. War changes people very quickly, and Canadians are no more innately peaceful than any other human beings.


When your child is dying in your arms, you become capable of violence. Once you lose what you love, resistance becomes as natural as breathing.


Except for a few collaborators and kapos, my research suggests many Canadians would likely engage in various forms of everyday resistance against invading forces that could involve steal, lying, cutting wires and diverting funds.


Meanwhile, the insurgents would unleash physical devastation on American targets. Even if one per cent of all resisting Canadians engaged in armed insurrection, that would constitute a 400,000-person insurgency, nearly 10 times the size of Taliban at the start of the Afghan war. If a fraction of that number engaged in violent attacks, it would set fire to the entire continent.


Canada’s geography would make this insurgency difficult to defeat. With deep forests and rugged mountains, Canada’s northern terrain could not be conquered or controlled. That means loyalists from the Canadian Armed Forces could mobilize civilian recruits into decentralized fighting units that could strike, retreat into the wilderness and blend back into the local communities that support them.


The Canada-U.S. border is also easy to cross, which would give insurgents access to American critical infrastructure. It costs tens of billions of dollars to build an energy pipeline, and only a few thousand to blow one up.


What about American air strikes?


But wouldn’t the Americans crush the rebellion with missiles and drone strikes? They would try, but that approach to counterinsurgency won’t work. 


In fact, it is a well-known booby trap of insurgent warfare. The harder more powerful nations strike, the larger and more fragmented the insurgency becomes, making it impossible to achieve either a military victory or negotiated agreement. Canada’s rugged terrain would protect insurgents from those types of attacks, while global outrage at the bombings would only boost support for the rebellion.


Americans have already been defeated by insurgents in many parts of the world because they could not escape this trap. If they dare to invade Canada, they would create this unsolvable security problem on their own soil.


Russia and China rise to power


How could Canadians pay for this decades-long insurgency? The answer lies in every single historical example of the old adage: “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”


The prospect of Americans becoming trapped by an insurgency on their own continent would delight Moscow and Beijing, which could easily establish covert northern passages to send weapons to the insurgency. Financing an insurgency is an effective way to ensnare and bankrupt a rival power, as counter-insurgency operations are exponentially more expensive than the price of a few arms shipments. 


A chronic violent insurrection in North America could financially and militarily pin down the U.S. for decades, ultimately triggering economic and political collapse. Russia and China, meantime, would enjoy an uncontested rise to power.


Forewarned


This scenario would guarantee the destruction of both Canada and the United States. No one in their right mind would choose this gruesome future over a peaceful and mutually beneficial alliance with a friendly neighbour.


Nevertheless, if Trump is reckless enough to think the violent annexation of Canada is an achievable goal, then let it be known that all these horrifying outcomes were predictable well in advance, and that he was forewarned.'


"James again. No one wants this to happen more than Russia and China. If it comes to it, Canada WILL take their support to fight an American invasion, but the last thing the world needs are those two countries gaining primacy and creating a new autocratic balance of power.



Friday, February 28, 2025

Remember the Ceausescu's

 

See the story of a successful transition from dictatorship to Democracy: 



The death of the ceaucescus in 1989


Real history worth considering........

Friday, February 21, 2025

Most Americans Do Not Want trump Policies

 trump has done the United States a great favour by uniting us. 


Pretty much all Americans have a negative view of his Presidency.


Here are Some Poll results


The honeymoon is over. 


Now we can stand up to him and his minions with confidence that the American public agrees with us.


When a musk or trump minion demands that we do something, DO NOT DO IT. 


ORDER THEM OUT OF THE PREMISES. 


CALL THE POLICE.


MAKE THEM GO TO COURT TO FORMALLY EVICT YOU.


Most likely they will drop the request, but if they persist, they will lose.


 When we fight, we win.



Monday, February 17, 2025

The Puppet United States of America

 


47's policies are turning the United States of America into a replica of a Soviet puppet regime in the 1950's. Those Soviet puppet regimes received financial and management assistance so long as they behaved as ordered. 


The rules for puppets are clear: Align all foreign policies of the puppet United States with Putin's preferred policies and actions. Domestically, remove any persons or entities that might prevent the puppet from doing whatever he, or Putin, wants. Putin offers political and economic assistance to the puppet regime, but does not hesitate to enforce Putin's will with any necessary actions. 


47's likely actions in the near future will benefit Putin: withdraw from NATO, hand Ukraine to Russia, dismantle the rule of law, prevent the free press from access to facts collected by federal agencies, cripple public health agencies and policies with the intent to create another pandemic as well as additional, similar actions than are listed here.


All of that is bad enough, but there's more. Namely, Putin maintains his authority with a wide ranging list of political assassinations as an integral part of his 'management'. 


47 may well try to follow Putin's example. 47 already has some 1,600 supporters who have committed violence on his behalf, who have been tried and convicted of serious crimes and who have been sentenced to jail for those crimes. However, 47 has pardoned them. Now, they stand ready to continue his campaign of violence. That violence may well be directed toward the free press, recognized critics and anyone who dares to oppose 47.


Putin's list:

Wikipedia lasts 82 names of political opponents he has killed.  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_assassinations]


Newsweek has details on several - [https://www.newsweek.com/putin-critics-dead-full-list-navalny-1870692]


Sunday, February 16, 2025

We Can Manifest Karma At Home



We can do this now, while we are at home and by ourselves.  Let a million of us turn and manifest the inevitable Karma for those who deserve the darkness.


'Manifesting typically refers to focusing your thoughts, energy, and intentions on something you desire to bring into your life, often through visualization, positive thinking, and taking inspired action. Here’s a basic approach to manifesting your goals or desires:


Clarify Your Intentions: 

Be specific about what you want. The clearer you are, the easier it is to focus your energy on it. Write it down and be as detailed as possible.


Believe It’s Possible: 

Cultivate a mindset that truly believes you deserve what you're manifesting. Self-doubt can block your ability to manifest your desires.


Visualize Your Success: 

Spend time imagining yourself living the reality you want [of the Oval Office while you see the sharpies and the Resolute desk]. Picture it as vividly as possible, engaging all of your senses in the visualization.


Feel the Emotion: 

Connect with the emotions that achieving your goal would bring. Feel the joy, excitement, or peace as if it's already happening.


Affirmations: 

Use positive affirmations to reinforce your belief in your goal. For example, saying "I am worthy of success" or "I attract abundance into my life" can shift your mindset.


Take Inspired Action:

Manifestation isn't just about thinking. It involves actively moving toward your goal. Follow through on any intuitive nudges or ideas that come up along the way.


Trust the Process: 

Have patience and trust that the universe (or your inner guidance) will bring opportunities your way. Sometimes things take time to align.


Let Go of Attachment: 

While it’s important to work toward your goals, don’t hold onto them so tightly that it causes anxiety or frustration. Trust that whatever is meant for you will come.


Manifestation is about focusing your energy on what you want, believing in it, and aligning your actions with your goals. Would you like tips on specific techniques or areas to focus on?


The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition • More at Wordnik'


Chatgpt


On Karma:  'karma /kär′mə/ noun'


The totality of a person's actions and conduct during successive incarnations, regarded as causally influencing his or her destiny. 


The law or principle through which such influence is believed to operate.


Fate or destiny resulting from one's previous actions.


'Karma teaches that the universe will render to us good for good and bad for bad. In other words, good things happen to good people, bad things happen to bad people. Yet because we are imperfect people, karma will always pronounce condemnation.


Have you ever heard someone say, “What goes around comes around”?  Perhaps it was the comment, “You get what you give.” Or maybe someone described how they released positivity into the world so that positive things would happen to them. Such sayings are common, each describing a mystical link between how we behave and what life throws back at us.


In a word: karma. Karma teaches that if we engage in good behavior, good things will happen. Engaging in wicked behavior, on the other hand, brings negativity upon us. The result of our behavior is unavoidable; we get what we deserve.' 


Rev. Kyle Norman Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer


“Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap,” Galatians 6:7.


'For many people, the word ‘karma’ is used interchangeably with the biblical concept of reaping what you sow. And that’s understandable, given how these two principles sound like the same exact thing...'


[https://www.ibelieve.com/christian-living/what-is-the-difference-between-karma-and-reaping-what-you-sow.html]



Tuesday, February 11, 2025

WHERE ARE THE COPS ??

 


These crooks are stealing everything they can get their hands on. 


They are committing felonies in broad daylight with nary a peep.


In a just world, crooks who beak the law and AN INJUNCTION against their theft, 


THEY GET ARRESTED.


THEY GET BEAT UP..


THEY GET LOCKED IN A CELL FOR A FEW WEEKS TO COMMUNE WITH THE OTHER RATS.


 I want that.


I want it NOW.


Now, before the system that so many people have DIED FOR, BLED FOR AND SACRIFICED FOR is gone FOREVER.




The Resistance Is Alive

 


Heather Cox Richardson

 

As soon as President Donald Trump took office, his administration froze great swaths of government funding, apparently to test the theory popular with Project 2025 authors that the 1974 law forbidding the president from “impounding” money Congress had appropriated was unconstitutional. The loss of funding has hurt Americans across the country. Today, Daniel Wu, Gaya Gupta, and Anumita Kaur of the Washington Post reported that farmers who had signed contracts with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to improve infrastructure and who had paid up front to put in fences, plant different crops, and install renewable energy systems with the promise the government would provide financial assistance are now left holding the bag.


With Republicans in Congress largely mum about this and other power grabs by the administration, the courts are holding the line. Chief Judge John McConnell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island today found that the Trump administration has refused to disburse federal funding despite the court’s “clear and unambiguous” temporary restraining order saying it must do so. McConnell said the administration “must immediately restore frozen funding” and clear any hurdles to that funding until the court hears arguments about the case. This includes the monies withheld from the farmers.


This evening, Massachusetts U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley blocked the Trump appointees at the National Institutes of Health from implementing the rate change they wanted to apply to NIH grants. But, as legal analyst Joyce White Vance notes, the only relief sought is for the twenty-two Democratic-led states that have sued, keeping Republican-dominated states from freeloading on their Democratic counterparts. As Josh Marshall noted today in Talking Points Memo, it appears a pattern is emerging in which Democratic-led states are suing the administration while officials from Republican-led states, which are even harder hit by Trump’s cuts than their Democratic-led counterparts, are asking Trump directly for help or exceptions.


As soon as he took office, Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, who was a key author of Project 2025 and who is also acting as the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, announced he was shuttering the agency. That closure was a recommendation of Project 2025, which called the consumer protection agency “a shakedown mechanism to provide unaccountable funding to leftist nonprofits.” Immediately, the National Treasury Employees Union sued him, saying that Vought’s directive to employees to stop working “reflects an unlawful attempt to thwart Congress’s decision to create the CFPB to protect American consumers.”


MAGA loyalists, particularly Vice President J.D. Vance, have begun to suggest they will not abide by the rule of law, but before Trump and Vance took office, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts called out Vance’s hints that he would be willing to defy the rulings of federal courts as “dangerous suggestions” that “must be soundly rejected.”


Today the American Bar Association took a stand against the Trump administration’s “wide-scale affronts to the rule of law itself” as it attacks the Constitution and tries to dismantle departments and agencies created by Congress “without seeking the required congressional approval to change the law.”


“The American Bar Association supports the rule of law,” president of the organization William R. Bay said in a statement. “That means holding governments, including our own, accountable.” He cheered on the courts that “are treating these cases with the urgency they require.”


“[R]efusing to spend money appropriated by Congress under the euphemism of a pause is a violation of the rule of law and suggests that the executive branch can overrule the other two co-equal branches of government,” Bay wrote. “This is contrary to the constitutional framework and not the way our democracy works. The money appropriated by Congress must be spent in accordance with what Congress has said. It cannot be changed or paused because a newly elected administration desires it. Our elected representatives know this. The lawyers of this country know this. It must stop.”


He called on “elected representatives to stand with us and to insist upon adherence to the rule of law…. The administration cannot choose which law it will follow or ignore. These are not partisan or political issues. These are rule of law and process issues. We cannot afford to remain silent…. We urge every attorney to join us and insist that our government, a government of the people, follow the law.”


Today, five former Treasury secretaries wrote an op-ed in the New York Times that also reinforced the legal lines of our constitutional system, warning that “our democracy is under siege.” Robert E. Rubin and Lawrence H. Summers, who served under President Bill Clinton; Timothy F. Geithner and Jacob J. Lew, who served under President Barack Obama; and Janet L. Yellen, who served under President Joe Biden, spoke up about the violation of the United States Treasury’s nonpartisan payment system by political actors working in Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency.”


That DOGE team “lack training and experience to handle private, personal data,” they note, “like Social Security numbers and bank account information.” Their involvement risks exposing highly sensitive information and even risks the failure of critical infrastructure as they muck around with computer codes. The former Treasury secretaries noted that on Saturday morning, a federal judge had temporarily stopped those DOGE workers from accessing the department’s payment and data systems, warning that that access could cause “irreparable harm.”


“While significant data privacy, cybersecurity and national security threats are gravely concerning,” the former secretaries wrote, “the constitutional issues are perhaps even more alarming.” The executive branch must respect that Congress controls the nation’s money, they wrote, reiterating the key principle outlined in the Constitution: “The legislative branch has the sole authority to pass laws that determine where and how federal dollars should be spent.”


The Treasury Department cannot decide “which promises of federal funding made by Congress it will keep, and which it will not,” the letter read. “The Trump administration may seek to change the law and alter what spending Congress appropriates, as administrations before it have done as well. And should the law change, it will be the role of the executive branch to execute those changes. But it is not for the Treasury Department or the administration to decide which of our congressionally approved commitments to fulfill and which to cast aside.”


That warning appears as Trump indicates that he is willing to undermine the credit of the United States. Yesterday, on Air Force One, he told reporters that the members of the administration trying to find wasteful spending have suggested that they have found fraud in Treasury bonds and that the United States might “have less debt than we thought.” The suggestion that the U.S. might not honor its debt is a direct attack on the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which says that “[t]he validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.” That amendment was written under similar circumstances, when former Confederates sought to avoid debt payments and undermine the power of the federal government.


Lauren Thomas, Ben Drummett, and Chip Cutter of the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that “for CEOs and bankers, the Trump euphoria is fading fast.” Consumers are losing confidence in the economy, and observers expect inflation, while business leaders find that trying to navigate Trump’s on-again-off-again tariffs is taking all their attention.


Meanwhile, Trump has continued his purge of government employees he considers insufficiently loyal to him. On Friday he tried to get rid of Ellen Weintraub of the Federal Elections Commission, who contended that her removal was illegal. He also fired Colleen Shogan, the Archivist of the United States, head of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the government agency that handles presidential records. The archivist is the official responsible for receiving and validating the certified electoral ballots for presidential elections—a process Trump’s people tried to corrupt after he lost the 2020 presidential election.


It was NARA that first discovered Trump’s retention of classified documents and demanded their return, although Shogan was not the archivist in charge at the time.


The courts happened to weigh in on the case of the retained classified documents today, when U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell ruled that the FBI must search its records in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from journalist Jason Leopold after Leopold learned that Trump had allegedly flushed presidential records down the toilet when he was president, and later brought classified documents to Florida. The judge noted that the Supreme Court ruling in Trump v. United States that the president cannot be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his official duties and is “at least presumptive[ly] immune from criminal prosecution for…acts within the outer perimeter of his official responsibility” means that there is no reason to hold back information to shield him from prosecution. Indeed, Howell notes, that decision means that the FOIA request is now the only way for the American public to “know what its government is up to.”


Howell highlighted that the three Supreme Court justices who dissented from the Trump v. United States decision described it as “mak[ing] a mockery of the principle, foundational to our Constitution and system of Government, that no man is above the law.” In a footnote, Howell also called attention to the fact that presumptive immunity for the president does not “extend to those who aid, abet and execute criminal acts on behalf of a criminally immune president. The excuse offered after World War II by enablers of the fascist Nazi regime of ‘just following orders’ has long been rejected in this country’s jurisprudence.”


Today, Trump fired David Huitema, director of the Office of Government Ethics, the department that oversees political appointments and helps nominees avoid conflicts of interest.


On Friday, Trump fired the head of the Office of Special Counsel, U.S. Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger. That office enforces federal whistleblower laws as well as the law that prohibits federal employees from engaging in most political activity: the Hatch Act. Congress provided that the special counsel can be removed only for “inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office,” and today Dellinger sued, calling his removal illegal.


Tonight, Judge Amy Berman Jackson blocked Dellinger’s firing through Thursday as she hears arguments in the case.


Notes:


https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.rid.58912/gov.uscourts.rid.58912.96.0_2.pdf


https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.280590/gov.uscourts.mad.280590.25.0.pdf


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/10/trump-judges-vance-musk-defy-orders/


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/01/roberts-vance-court-orders-trump-constitution/


https://newrepublic.com/post/191345/union-sue-trump-vought-cfpb-shutdown


https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2025/02/aba-supports-the-rule-of-law/


https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/opinion/treasure-secretaries-doge-musk.html


https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/nyregion/attorneys-general-trump-musk-suit.html


https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/10/farmers-agriculture-funding-frozen/


https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf, p. 837


https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-14/


https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/trump-says-us-might-have-less-debt-than-thought-2025-02-09/


https://www.wsj.com/economy/consumers/americans-jittery-over-inflation-university-of-michigan-survey-suggests-1476cf39


https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/trump-boom-corporate-uncertainty-6383263d


https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/07/trump-fires-national-archives-chief-00203246


https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/07/donald-trump-fec-commissioner-firing-014200


https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/10/trump-executive-branch-lawsuit-00203354


https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/02/ethics-and-whistleblower-officials-fired-trump/402887/


https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/10/fbi-trump-classified-docs-case-015570


https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2022cv1921-44


https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2022cv1921-44


https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/blue-state-law-red-state-law


https://www.newsweek.com/judge-rips-supreme-court-immunity-ruling-records-case-related-trump-2029103


Bluesky: kyledcheney.bsky.social/post/3lhujqgpkam2z