Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say

Some of the fired probationary employees included on-the-ground staff at facilities where nuclear weapons are built.

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There's just something special about legislators who are profoundly stupid.

#TommyStupidville #IncompetentGOP #GOPTraitors #AlabamaChoseThis

He didn't 'know what the Voting Rights Act was': Tuberville's opponent reveals truth about Alabama Senator https://www.rawstory.com/tommy-tuberville-racism-questions/

He didn't 'know what the Voting Rights Act was': Tuberville's opponent accuses U.S. senator of having 'no clue'

This week, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) fumbled comments about white supremacy in the military. According to Tuberville, white nationalists are nothing more than Americans and blamed Democrats for saying there were "too many white extremists, white nationalists, people that don't believe in our agen...

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What Katie Porter rightly had to say about the #SVB debacle on the birdsite:

"The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank was totally avoidable. In 2018, Wall Street pushed a deregulation bill that allowed banks like SVB to take reckless risks. It passed, even as I and many others warned of the risks. I am writing legislation to reverse that law."

Between 2015 & 2018 (passage of "GOP's" rollback legislation) SVB spent more than $500,000 to lobby/ bribe/ coerce Members of Congress to implement the deregulation that let SVB fuck up its own business.

#SiliconValleyBank #SVB #RiskyInvestments #DoddFrank #GOPSabotage #TrumpCorruption #IncompetentGOP #Corruption #AmericaDeservesBetter #Democracy #WeCanDoThis
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-era-deregulation-deemed-a-key-culprit-in-failure-of-silicon-valley-bank

Trump-Era Deregulation Deemed a Key Culprit in Failure of Silicon Valley Bank

"President Trump and congressional Republicans' decision to roll back Dodd-Frank's 'too big to fail' rules for banks like SVB—reducing both oversight and capital requirements—contributed to a costly collapse," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

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