Purdy for the People

10/16/2025

A vote for ANY Republican in November is a vote for Trump & his abhorrent cronies.

10/07/2025

The son of a former Franciscan brother and nun, Christianity is deeply important to John Fugelsang, and inspired him to write the new book “Separation of Church and Hate.” “They don’t really follow this holy book they wave around like a prop,” Fugelsang tells Ali Velshi. Fugelsang argues t...

05/14/2025

The Lower Paxton Board of Supervisors Tuesday evening listened to officers of all three fire companies and the Public Safety Commissioner and Assistant Fire Chief talk about the urgent need for the township to hire 10 or 12 fulltime firefighters. The decline in volunteers was imperiling responses to emergencies, but the general conclusion of the Board (At least the four appointed ones) was essentially, "We're new. We need to learn more."
I stood for public comment and advised them to "not just LEARN, but to EXPEDITE, to IMPLEMENT."
Officers testified that no response due to a lack of firefighters could happen ANY DAY and they had exhaustively studied the staffing options.
Funding for the program was already approved in the township's 2025 budget. But the board appears ready to fund another study, this one into fulltime firefighter compensation and benefits. Apparently there is concern that if the full-time firefighters unionize, they will cost more.
The township already has unionized police and public works employees.
I urged the board to put the firefighter resolution on the front burner, to make it a top priority before someone dies because there's not enough firefighters to respond.
"The men and ladies of the fire companies are surrounded right now. What are you going to do to rescue them? " I concluded.
Several other speakers, mostly firefighters, likewise urged prompt action, not just more l learning.

03/25/2025

BREAKING: Senator Mark Warner breaks the glass and demands that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz resign after they idiotically leaked war plans in a group chat.

This is the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee and he didn't hold back...

"When the stakes are this high, incompetence is not an option. Pete Hegseth should resign. Mike Waltz should resign," Warner wrote on X.

He also addressed the scandal during the opening remarks of the Senate committee's annual hearing on global threats to the United States—

"There’s plenty of declassified information that shows that our adversaries, China and Russia, are trying to break into encrypted systems," Warner, criticizing the Trump officials for using the messaging app Signal.

Hegseth and Trump officials including Waltz and Vice President J.D. Vance were caught discussing American plans to attack the Houthis in Yemen when a reporter for The Atlantic was accidentally — and apparently without anyone noticing — added to the text conversation.

"If this was the case of a military officer or an intelligence officer and they had this kind of behavior, they would be fired," said Senator Warner.

"This is one more example of the kind of sloppy, careless, incompetent behavior, particularly towards classified information, that this is not a one-off or a first-time error," he continued, adding that "classified information should never be discussed over an unclassified system."

Warner slammed Waltz and Hegseth for failing to "conduct hygiene 101" by not noticing that the Jeffrey Goldberg, the Atlantic's Editor-in-Chief, had been added to the chat.

"Everybody on this committee gets briefed on security protocols. They’re told you don’t make calls outside of SCIFs," said Warner said.

"No, the Signal fiasco is not a one-off. It is unfortunately a pattern we’re seeing too often repeated," he added, pointing to an "erosion of trust" within the intelligence committee as well as with our allies abroad, stating that it "can’t be put back in the bottle overnight."

"Make no mistake: These actions make America less safe," stated Warner.

Thankfully, no American service men and women were killed this time. We may not be so lucky next time.

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03/01/2025

🤎 Last night, I reported to my gate to work a late flight. As the other attendants arrived, we realized we would be an all African American crew. Then, the First officer arrived … and lastly, the Captain. 🤯 We all looked around at each other and took in the moment. We quickly agreed that we’ve never seen this before, but thanks to the diversity in our airline, we’ll soon see it again. Our entire crew is African American!! Wow! 🙌🏾

03/01/2025

But of course.

The White House said the Russian reporter was not authorized to be there and was kicked out.

02/22/2025