This part.

In my defense, at that time, I was balancing caring for my wife (lots of RA & IBS flares), looking after my in-laws who were having major health issues, and shepherding my fencing club into a major growth phase.
I didn't have the spoons to keep up.

Hey, we insufferable asses have a long and proud history!

IRS to Close Modernization Office | Tax Notes Tax Notes is the first source of essential daily news, analysis, and commentary for tax professionals whose success depends on being trusted for their expertise.

DOGE has closed IRS’s IT modernization office, which was funded by the IRA.
Beyond moronic.
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Hi. I’m an expert in modernizing legacy government software systems. This is profoundly stupid and will definitely fail, and it’s just a question of whether our social security system fails along with it.

Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem making content in front of the imprisoned men of El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center mega-prison www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Any comment I could make would not do justice to this...

Opinion | Trump upending world order will cost America dearly The decline of American influence is a gift to Russia and China.

“The US spent 8 decades building an international system of rules, norms and values that has produced the longest period of great power peace and global prosperity in human history.” Fareed Zakaria on how upending the world order will only weaken America: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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In Memoriam: Mark Klein, AT&T Whistleblower Who Revealed NSA Mass Spying EFF is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Mark Klein, a bona fide hero who risked civil liability and criminal prosecution to help expose a massive spying program that violated the rights of m...

We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Mark Klein. In 2006, Mark showed up at EFF’s front door with a simple question: “Do you folks care about privacy?” We did. And what Mark told us changed everything.

I wasn't surprised that Alito's reasoning was so off on this, his opinions have gotten rather "odd" and political lately. Was surprised the Gorsuch signed on to it.

Might save a life.

BREAKING: CDC Warns of Ongoing Measles Outbreak in U.S. as Travel Season Approaches 228 Cases, 2 Deaths Reported.

With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:

For years I’ve contrasted the way that US science allocates cognitive effort from the bottom up via individual scientists responding to career incentives with the way things were done in the Soviet Union, from the top down, by the Party setting rear b priorities.

I can’t do that anymore.

I missed that it was rare disease day. One terrible aspect of suffering from one is it tends to be blamed for any abnormality. My wife passed away from cirrhosis of the liver (chemotherapy side-effect) that was missed as symptoms were attributed to her auto-diseases.

The Verizon contract is for 2.4B over 5 years to replace/update communications systems and operate them. It was awarded in Mar 2023.

He did finally correct himself. It's the old system by L3Harris (which is truly ancient) that's limping along. The new Verizon system is not online.

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You know, I thought Hagerty had a shred of decency when he ran. Turns out that was a coat he borrowed to hide his desire to be a MAGA-rat.

Imagine if the media pointed out there was already a Government Accountability Office whose job it is to go after actual waste and fraud, not just things Elon doesn’t like, and found $70 Billion in savings last year and $2 Trillion in waste since 2003.

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I admit I enjoy reading your take on legal shenanigans. But I would only ask your take if you chose to do the analysis. Eg not my place to ask (or demand as some do).

Though if you liked doing them, I wonder if those people would actually subscribe & pay via Substack/Patreon

I like this idea!
What's left of the anti-Trump faction of the GOP @thebulwark.bsky.social ,
The Lincoln Project, etc.
have been doing something like that on a daily basis.
Time for the Democrats to do the same.

The words I have for those two people are not kind ones.
And once upon a time, I had decent opinions of both. Some fairy tales need to be broken...

You might want to check the law on that. Not all positions are "serves at the pleasure of the president".

What exactly did he do?? 🤷‍♀️

DOJ threatens legal action against 'anyone who impedes' Elon Musk's DOGE work The Trump-appointed U.S. attorney of Washington said the Justice Department will pursue legal action against "anyone who impedes" on Musk's DOGE work.

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Because they 1st secured the FBI. Look at what they've done to the staff there.