Unca Mike is with Kamala Harri

@UncaMike
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Volunteer firefighter past his prime, dual US/Irish citizen.
@Nonilex These "protest" resignations will do nothing but give the administration another opening to fill with their unqualified morons. How about not resigning, fighting, and forcing them to fire you?
@Nonilex isn't the secretary of defense a probationary employee?

#TomRobbins, Whose Comic Novels Drew a Cult Following, Dies at 92

He blended pop philosophy and absurdist comedy in best-selling books like “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” and “Skinny Legs and All.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/obituaries/tom-robins-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Tom Robbins, Whose Comic Novels Drew a Cult Following, Dies at 92

He blended pop philosophy and absurdist comedy in best-selling books like “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” and “Skinny Legs and All.”

The New York Times
Republicans are tough on terrorists until the terrorists are Trump’s Republicans.

At the parties, women, & a girl who was 17 at the time, were paid for sex, according to accounts of the participants’ testimony from people briefed on what they said.

The document bolsters recent claims by a lawyer for 2 of the women who say they had sex with #MattGaetz for money. It shows thousands of dollars in payments #Gaetz made to both of the lawyer’s clients.

#law #crime

Feds established a trail of payments from #MattGaetz, #Trump’s choice to be AG, to women including some who testified that #Gaetz hired them for sex, acc/to a doc obtained by NYT & a lawyer representing some of the women.

The doc, assembled by investigators during a 3-yr #SexTrafficking investigation into Gaetz, is a chart that shows a web of thousands of dollars in Venmo payments between Gaetz…, associates & women who had drug-fueled sex parties 2017–2020….

#law #crime
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/us/politics/matt-gaetz-venmo-payments-sex.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Federal Inquiry Traced Matt Gaetz’s Venmo Payments to Women

A document prepared by federal investigators bolsters claims by women who say they were hired for sex by Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for attorney general, who denies wrongdoing.

The New York Times
@dmnelson And now I’m reading that each Congressperson has a bathroom in their office. So, Nancy Mace is just looking for screen time!

Woman told #House #Ethics panel she witnessed #Gaetz having sex w/ #minor

An atty repping 2 women who were witnesses in the House Ethics Cmte's investigation into #MattGaetz is calling for the release of the cmte’s report, telling ABC News that one of his clients testified she witnessed the FL congressman having sex w/a minor.

"My client testified to the House Ethics Committee that she witnessed Matt Gaetz having sex w/a minor," FL atty Joel Leppard told ABC.

#law
https://abcnews.go.com/US/exclusive-woman-told-house-ethics-panel-witnessed-gaetz/story?id=115897603

Exclusive: Woman told House Ethics panel she witnessed Gaetz having sex with minor, lawyer says

Matt Gaetz resigned from Congress Wednesday after Trump picked him for AG.

ABC News

Update on US population vs Trump's nominees

As a percent of US population:
•White men: 30%
•Women: 51%
•People of color: 40%
•Black: 12%

Trump's nominees so far:
•White men: 68%
•Women: 20%
•People of color: 16%
•Black: 0%
•Men credibly accused of sexual assault: 12%

Look at that meritocracy go!