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Background Briefing: February 9, 2025

Technocrats Are Purging Bureaucrats to Grab Data, Control Funds, Weaken Government, Cut Services and Install Loyalists to the Dear Leader We begin with the Musk/Trump blitzkrieg underway to engineer a smaller and weaker government by Installing loyalists, sucking up...

Background Briefing: February 6, 2025

Government Workers Should Not Fall For the Musk/Trump Buyout Trick We begin with today's deadline, since extended, for federal civil service employees to accept the Musk/Trump buyout offer and discuss the likelihood, given the appalling nature of Trump's choices to...

Background Briefing: February 5, 2025

Netanyahu Meets With the Christian Zionist "Crusader" at the Pentagon Where Top Officials Want to Get Out of the Middle East Quagmire We begin with the meeting today at the Pentagon between Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Christian Zionist "Crusader" now...

Background Briefing: February 4, 2025

The Fatal Combination of a Mentally Ill President and a Mentally Deranged Billionaire Out to Destroy Our Government and Democracy We begin with the fatal combination of a mentally ill president in league with a mentally deranged multi-billionaire running roughshod...

Background Briefing: February 3, 2025

Musk Shuts Down USAID After Trump Illegally Freezes Foreign Aid for 90 Days We begin with Musk shutting down USAID after Trump's illegal executive order to freeze its funding for 90 days based on his assertion that "It's been run by a bunch of radical left lunatics,...

Background Briefing: February 2, 2025

Trump's Lawless, Petty and Vindictive Purge of the Justice Department and FBI We begin with Trump's lawless, petty and vindictive purge of the Justice Department and the FBI making a mockery of pledges made by Pam Bondi and Kash Patel in their confirmation hearings to...

Background Briefing: January 30, 2025

Republican Senators Who Know Better Appear to Roll Over For Trump, Poised to Confirm the Disastrous Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard We begin with the hearings today before the Senate Intelligence Committee for Tulsi Gabbard to become the next Director of National...

Background Briefing: January 29, 2025

Will Republican Senators Watch the Video Caroline Kennedy Sent Them Describing Her Cousin RFK Jr. as a "Predator?"  We begin with hearings today before the US Senate for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to become the next Secretary of Health and Human Services which was preceded...

Background Briefing: January 28, 2025

Trump's Reality TV Theatre of Cruelty Underway We begin with Trump's reality TV theatre of cruelty underway as Fox and other right wing media are embedded in ICE raids with Dr. Phil showing up at a raid in Chicago as migrants are arrested, many with no criminal...

Background Briefing: January 26, 2025

In Their Jihad Against DEI, Trump and Hegseth Are Creating Affirmative Action for White Losers, Drunks and Incompetents  We begin with the narrowest 50 to 51 vote in the Senate to confirm Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense requiring VP Vance to cast a tie breaker...

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