Michael Mechanic

Treasury Department terminates union contracts for IRS and Bureau of the Fiscal Service workers The Treasury Department says it has ended its collective bargaining agreement with unionized workers employed at the Internal Revenue Service.

Trump just stripped yet more federal workers of collective bargaining rights, at the IRS no less. This administration is every oligarch's wet dream.

Strike on Girls’ School Kills 115, Iranian State Media Says

It sounds maybe like someone was using out-of-date images that made it seem like the school was part of a military base. My god, what a colossal fuckup. Is this what "lethalitymaxxing" is? Slaughtering little girls?

Nearly 1/4 of US families are mere millionaires. These people are hectomillonaires.

Why wait. Just charge the fuckers with contempt

Gerald Clarke, Continuum Basket.

Zoom in. Pretty cool, huh?

Trump officials move to kill system that protects US from chemical disasters EPA rolls back rules as chemical firms claim provisions in RMP protection system too expensive to implement

Because of course they do.

ICE deportation flights are getting longer and crueler A private equity–owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.

"It’s hard to know how much Stonepeak makes off this misery..."

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Yes.

Every senator who voted to confirm RFK Jr owns this tragedy. Every single one.

For CNN, a Change in Ownership Means a Suddenly Uncertain Future

There's nothing "uncertain" about it. Larry Ellison is building an autocrat-friendly propaganda machine and whatever shaky journalism originated from this place will soon be dead.

Trump, seeking executive power over elections, is urged to declare emergency Activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a draft executive order that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.

Over my dead body.

Trump's war on national park signs is even dumber than you think Inside the administration's covert campaign against "negative" placards.

History is written by the winners. But these people are losers.

How Congress made sure the rich retire in luxury—at our expense Savings plans pitched as helping the middle class have turned out to be a gold mine for the wealthy.

In #SOTU, Trump implied he'd institute a new federal $1,000 retirement savings match. Actually, it's kicking in next year. Passed under BIDEN, it is means tested and will help those folks very little--$1,000 is peanuts. US govt now spends $500B a year on retirement tax breaks, mostly for the rich.

Casey Means, Critic of Mainstream Medicine, Poised to Become Nation’s Top Doctor

America, 2026. A wellness influencer. Honestly, wellness is just a buzzword to make affluent women feel less guilt about this and that.

Whereas the US women totally dominated.

In any case, Canada had a better team, except for the goalie.

Warehousing people used to just be a metaphor, so Stephen Miller was like, hey, let's actually warehouse people.

We now know what Trump's "locker room banter" looks like The locker room, in the mind of the president, is where misogyny is not only permitted but protected.

As a man, I've heard plenty of offensive banter. But to hear the a president diss our national heroes goes beyond locker room talk. It's kind of a big deal. It's not funny, and it tells us exactly who this guy is--as if we didn't know. I liked this thoughful analysis from @inaeoh.bsky.social.

"Holy shit, did WE ever make the right decision" - The US Women's Hockey Team

The state of our union is incredibly fucking embarrassing.

ICE took their papers—and won’t give them back Immigrants are being released from detention without documents proving their status.

This administration does so many rotten things. And even by those gutter standards, this is profoundly effed up.

My philosophy professor, John Searle, used to say, how do you know you're not just a brain in a vat being probed with electrodes by scientists? Can you prove it?

I'm changing my answers to: I actually am. And yes.

This is strong testimony.

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Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, appears to have deleted his tweet after these Democrats responded

Uncle Jeffy Tiedrich says today in his newsletter:

"Here’s one sure way you can tell you’re living in a shithole country: when the following two headlines appear one after another."

Judge Cannon claims that she *strains* to find an example where a special counsel released a report after in indictment that did not result in a finding of guilt. Here’s one off the top of my head: Sussman, who was charged and acquitted, is mentioned 311 times in Durham’s final report.

So he's going to charge to name an airport after him?

Geezer. :)

Judge Bars Release of Special Counsel Report on Trump’s Mishandling of Documents

Cannon's decision to dismiss Smith's classified documents case was disgraceful. And so was this.