A cartoon mind

“In her bid to review these files, Bondi created one thousand witnesses to what is in the Epstein file — and Bondi’s attempt to politicize the search for Epstein files.

“One thousand.”

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yep! unpaywalled:

Including driver and motorcycle exams

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The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X The SSA’s shift to Elon Musk’s X comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent, WIRED has learned.

The Social Security Administration will be shifting its public communication exclusively to X, sources tell WIRED. This comes as agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent.

A card reads: "The Naval Academy Removed Books Critical of Racism. Many Defending White Power Remain. Some of the books removed: “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou; “Memorializing the Holocaust” by Janet Jacobs; “How to Be Anti-Racist” by Ibram X. Kendi; “The Making of Black Lives Matter” by Christopher J. Lebron. Some of the books that remain: “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler; “The Camp of the Saints” by Jean Raspail.

Hundreds of books are now gone from the U.S. Naval Academy’s library, following an order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office that led to a purge of books that are critical of racism, but preserved volumes defending white power. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

Trump’s Revenge on Public Health The attacks on HIV research are just the beginning of unraveling decades of progress.

The Trump administration has cut funding and programs for HIV research, treatment, and prevention so deeply that “we’re watching the field burn to the ground,” one researcher told Katherine J. Wu.

BREAKING NEWS: Senator Brian Schatz is BLOCKING over 300 Trump admin nominations by refusing to let them pass with unanimous consent. "I don't think we should make anything easy going forward,” he said.

BLOCK THEM EVERY STEP OF THE WAY! MORE OF THIS!

The Trump tariffs incentivize smuggling. The Trump IRS layoffs invite cheating. Federal revenues will decline even before the Trump recession craters them

Statement on IMLS Staff Administrative Leave IMLS is responsible for distributing Federal Funding for libraries. This action will interrupt IMLS's vital, congressionally funded work. We cannot allow IMLS to be dismantled by executive action.

IMLS staff were placed on administrative leave following the Trump Administration’s Executive Order, which eliminated federal funding for libraries.

Take action today!

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PINO is still moving documents to Florida

This is Chuck.

Chuck is selling a book.

Chuck also has a full-time job.

I would consider buying Chuck’s book if he were doing that job, but he’s not.

Don’t be like Chuck.

And don’t buy Chuck’s book.

Statement on Trump's Attack on Federal Funding for Libraries

In a new executive order, Trump has targeted the federal agency charged with distributing congressionally approved funds to state libraries and to library, museum, and archives program grant recipients.

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Statement on Trump's Attack on Federal Funding for Libraries

In a new executive order, Trump has targeted the federal agency charged with distributing congressionally approved funds to state libraries and to library, museum, and archives program grant recipients.

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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

He’s up something

Statement on Government Transparency, Don't Fire FOIA Staff!

Elon Musk and his DOGE team have fired the staff responsible for fulfilling Freedom of Information Act Requests at the Office of Personnel Management.

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We Were Built For This! Book bans and censorship, library defunding initiatives, anti-library legislation, attacks on librarians and the profession...

Book bans and censorship, library defunding initiatives, anti-library legislation, attacks on librarians and the profession...

EveryLibrary was built to fight against these threats.

You might have to wait for your tax refund this year, thanks to Trump President Donald Trump and his co-president, Elon Musk, are planning to fire 6,000 employees at the Internal Revenue Service on Thursday, which tax experts say could delay Americans’ tax return ...

Trump and Musk are gutting the IRS right in the middle of tax season—because nothing says "drain the swamp" like making it harder for you to get your tax refund while billionaires dodge theirs.

Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks. Starting next Wednesday, February 26th, Amazon isn’t going to let users download the ebooks they’ve purchased, forcing users to keep everything within the corporation’s proprietary ecosystem.…

Amazon is removing a feature that allows users to download purchased ebooks.

Will my passport prove that I’m not dead?

Watch Trump's press secretary casually threaten Social Security White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt went on Fox News Monday night to try to assuage its elder viewers that the unconstitutional havoc Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency ...

Here's Trump's front-facing lie machine.
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All this time I’ve been worried about passwords.

And all these years I’ve been worried about passwords.

Occam’s razor

America will pay dearly for the NIH’s mindless war on wokeness and DEI Colleges, businesses, patients, students, workers, and US excellence will all suffer—and for what?

The cost-saving claims don’t hold up. Every dollar in NIH research grants generates $2.46 in economic activity, research shows—a total of $93 billion in 2023 alone.

“It’s incredible to me that we would give up this thing that has such obvious societal benefits,” says biologist Mark Peifer.

Musk Team Seeks Access to I.R.S. System With Taxpayers’ Records A White House spokesman said that the initiative called the Department of Government Efficiency needed to review data to fix waste within the agency.

The IRS is preparing to give a team member working with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency access to sensitive taxpayer data. IRS data is tied to millions of Americans, including their tax returns, Social Security numbers, addresses, banking details, and employment information.