GrannyDON'Tpayforit

The Supreme Court's Citizens United decision has allowed billionaire cash to spread through politics like a disease. It's time to find a cure, writes @JBKSchlossberg. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

Trump released his budget last Friday, hoping no one would pay attention…but I did. To pay for his illegal war, here’s where he wants to steal the money from. This is just ridiculous. $510M - Grants for farmers and agricultural research $5B - Medical research (NIH) $1.1B - Scientific research funding $5B - Public health programs, mental health services, and disease prevention $50M - Grants to help communities build more housing (Fully eliminated) $1.6B - Job training for at-risk youth (Fully eliminated) $90M - Grants to reduce diesel pollution (Fully eliminated) $3.4B - NASA space and earth science research $489M - Housing and services for Native American communities $372M - Airline service for rural and small communities $2.7B - College access and higher education support $1.5B - Vocational training and adult education (Fully eliminated) $356M - Emergency preparedness and disaster response $2B - International humanitarian aid $40M - Protection against chemical and biological weapons threats $1.3B - FEMA community disaster preparedness grants $529M - Housing assistance for people living with HIV/AIDS (Fully eliminated) $315M - Democracy and anti-corruption programs abroad $1.4B - IRS taxpayer services and enforcement $297M - NASA technology innovation programs $158M - Loans for small businesses $768M - Refugee resettlement assistance $1.1B - International Space Station operations $82M - Loans for rural small businesses (Fully eliminated) $150M - Support for American exports and trade $204M - Loans and investments for underserved communities $2.2B - Broadband and internet access programs $47M - Support for minority-owned businesses (Fully eliminated) $53M - Funding for homeland security operations $659M - Community building grants $4B - Help paying home heating and cooling bills for low-income families (Fully eliminated) $101M - Enforcement of equal pay and workplace anti-discrimination laws $170M - Small Business Administration operations $993M - Scientific research and technology standards $150M - Cutting-edge clean energy research $775M - Local anti-poverty programs (Fully eliminated) $58M - Homebuyer and renter counseling services (Fully eliminated) $2.5B - Clean drinking water and wastewater infrastructure funds $61M - Support for farmers and food markets (Fully eliminated) $707M - Cybersecurity protection for critical infrastructure $1.6B - Weather forecasting, fisheries, and coastal protection (NOAA) $819M - Care and shelter for migrant children $642M - International economic and treasury programs $45M - Renewable energy development programs (Fully eliminated) $1.3B - Affordable housing construction grants (Fully eliminated) $309M - Small business development and entrepreneurship programs $1B - EPA grants to states for environmental protection $240M - School meals and food education for children abroad (Fully eliminated) $234M - Worker safety and labor protection programs $20M - Civil rights mediation and legal access programs (Fully eliminated) $60M - Enforcement of fair housing and anti-discrimination laws $449M - Economic development grants for communities $486M - Grants for public transit projects $395M - Jobs program for low-income seniors (Fully eliminated) $393M - Programs to reduce homelessness $100M - Air pollution monitoring and reduction programs (Fully eliminated) $143M - STEM education programs $46M - Programs to combat child labor and forced labor abroad $4.3B - Global health and disease prevention programs $15.2B - Roads, bridges, and infrastructure projects $386M - Environmental cleanup programs $1.2B - Food aid for hungry families abroad (Fully eliminated) $2.7B - Funding for the United Nations and international partnerships $8.5B - Funding for public schools $1.1B - Home energy efficiency and clean energy programs (Fully eliminated) Source: @HQNewsNow

🚨 🚨🚨🇮🇷 BREAKING IRAN JUST RELEASED THIS STATEMENT: "We will never bow down before pedophiles and genocidaires. We have seen the fate of those who laid down their arms before them, death with dignity is better than a life of humiliation. We will fight to defend our country and bring these war criminals to such an end that their pride will be ground into the dust. we will switch off the oil and gas for many many years to come"

Red flags

Dear Americans, you have only a few hours to remove your president from office. To the US Army, you only have a few more hours to mutiny. Your deranged president is promising genocide. If you don't stop him you are complicit too.

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Trump doesn't care

As Donald Trumps’ threat of bombing the infrastructure comes close to the deadline. This is what is happening in Iran: 1. 14 million people have volunteered to sit on the bridges, power plants, roads and other infrastructure throughout Iran. 2. These people have already started to gather at these places. 3. World has never seen such an act of bravery from any nation where ordinary people are risking their lives to save their country. UNBELIEVABLE. Simply Unbelievable.

US Treasury Secretary revealed how the U.S. ENGINEERED protests in Iran: “We created a dollar shortage in the country. The Iranian currency went into free fall, inflation exploded”

@Acyn So much for those who said "So Mullen isn't the brightest tool in the shed, he's got to be better than Noem, right?"

@Acyn The guy running immigration control doesn't know how immigration works lmao

Lauren Chen and Liam Donovan funneled $10M in Russian money to influencers like Tim Pool to promote anti-Ukraine content online. For this, the Trump administration gave them visas and even invited them to the White House Easter Egg Roll. Reagan must be rolling in his grave.

Retire her!!!

Funny how he looks like what traitors in the GOP would call a DEI hire 🙄 "In July 2025, the acting director of the nation’s civilian cyberdefense agency [Madhu Gottumukkala] walked into a secure facility for a counterintelligence polygraph and did not pass. Five current officials and one former official later confirmed this to Politico. Then, he took it again. He did not pass the second time either. Within days of the first result, the employees who had arranged the examination and done nothing more than follow the security requirements of the originating intelligence agency received letters suspending their access to classified information. The acting director kept his badge, but the staffers who enforced the rules lost theirs. Madhu Gottumukkala arrived as acting director in May 2025, installed by Secretary Kristi Noem. His career had moved from Motorola and Verizon consulting to Samsung engineering to a CTO post at CallHealth in Hyderabad, then to Sanford Health, then to South Dakota state government as CIO. None of those roles required navigating the culture or methods of the intelligence community. Dakota State University — where Gottumukkala completed his PhD and later joined the advisory board — holds all three NSA Center of Academic Excellence designations and hosts an on-campus SCIF. To whoever placed him, that combination may have read as a credential. The substantive career remained in civilian IT and healthcare. Within weeks of his arrival, in his first major intelligence briefing, he asked what threats the U.S. faced from the Southern border and India — a country that has never been considered a significant cyber adversary, while Russia and China were actively targeting American networks. “Typically, India would be the last place we’d be talking about,” said one official who was in the room. He also, within weeks of arrival, began pressing for access to a Controlled Access Program — among the most restricted intelligence compartments in existence, established only when ordinary Special Access Programs are insufficient, governed by the Director of National Intelligence, with entry conditions set by the originating agency. A senior career official denied the first request: there was no operational need, and his predecessor had never sought the same access. That official was subsequently placed on administrative leave. A second request, signed personally by Gottumukkala, went forward. His signature acknowledged the counterintelligence polygraph requirement mandated by the originating agency. Career staff arranged the examination. In late July 2025, he took the polygraph. He did not pass. He took it again. He did not pass again. According to the March 13, 2026 congressional letter led by Rep. James Walkinshaw (VA-11) and signed by four colleagues — citing information provided to House Homeland Security Committee staff by one of the suspended employees — Gottumukkala failed two counter-intelligence scope polygraphs required for access to the program. The letter was addressed to the inspectors general of DHS and the Intelligence Community. Two failures. The same program. At an agency whose statutory mission is protecting federal networks from adversaries." The Architecture of Erasure open.substack.com/pub/hackingbut…

I have not seen a single mainstream media outlet give this the attention it deserves. Israel blew up an entire Lebanese town, an ancient place. It should be headline news. There’s footage of it happening. Imagine this was your town, and you saw every building blown up by a terrorist army to prevent you from ever returning. You would at the very least expect wall to wall coverage. Instead it passes without a word. It’s not the only town Israel has blown up. And sadly it probably won’t be the last.

Absolute bombshell on MS Now. Prominent legal experts confirm Donald Trump is ordering the US military to commit the most serious war crimes since WW2. By targeting Iranian civilian infrastructure, the Trump administration is forcing soldiers to break international law.