Jeff Wallbaum

How very Rawlsian of you! ❤️

Where has she been for the last month? (And Obama. And Bill and Hillary. And even W and the Cheneys.)

and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion;

Fellow federal workers, how are we responding to DOdGEy Musk’s latest unlawful demand? We need some concerted way to respond that signals our collective outrage and refusal to be cowed. I like the idea of responding with our oath of office.

New Bill Proposes Greenland Be Renamed “Red, White And Blueland.” Say What? Earl Carter (R-Ga) introduced a bill titled "Red, White, and Blueland Act of 2025’’. The purpose? Enable President Trump’s efforts for the US to rename and purchase Greenland.

OMFG, it’s impossible to tell the difference between satire and reality anymore.

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New Kennedy Center board elects Trump as chair. Rutter departs as president. President Trump’s refashioned board of trustees voted him chairman in a meeting Wednesday afternoon. President Deborah Rutter told staff she was departing the institution.

A national treasure is destroyed by Trump and his goons. Where is the outcry?

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Will someone please explain to Donelon that efficiency has two components, outputs and inputs? Indiscriminately cutting expenditures without regard to their performance impacts is not the same as improving efficiency, and is very likely to reduce overall efficiency and increase future costs.

Let’s call them what they are: swasticars.

And those ten new states would come with 20 new senators and a slew of representatives who are going to have no interest in associating with a Republican Party that bullied them into submission.

Apart from the sheer absurdity of making Canada the 51st state, would somebody please explain to that ignoramus that Canada has ten provinces that would presumably become the 51st to 60th states (the territories are too small to qualify)?

It feels like this summary from the Museo Histórico Casa de Allende of the “Bourbon Reforms” in 18th Century New Spain is instructive for our time.

Ok, Bluesky needs an “angry” response.

IDK who needs to hear this, but the simplest and fairest solution to the SALT cap isn’t to increase the cap, but to replace the SALT cap with one overall limit on itemized deductions, e.g., twice the standard deduction.

Pray that he fails quickly and spectacularly to shake loose his grip on half of Americans.

What the heck is Gamer Gate?

What if everyone having enough meant you have to have a little less?

I’m pretty sure Hamas was out to kill Jews on Oct 7. They didn’t care what nationality they were.