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The Bureaucrat and the Billionaire: Inside DOGE’s Chaotic Takeover of Social Security

Nearly half of 140 senior SSA administrators have been forced out or left the agency. A decimation of hundreds of years of administrative expertise at the insitence of the ignorant. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

And ice cream. Nothing says *we have a solution to everything wrong in the world^ like a good sundae.

He definitely nails *sultry* on Cats. And Jerry always made better studio albums than the GD as a whole. I fell down a “Garcia Live” rabbit hole after I realized they were all out on YouTube music a few months ago. Lots of repetition (as expected) but lots of treats too.

Testing for "approval" in electorate when there is no correlation between which policies people favor/oppose and which become law reveals you have zero theory of change. You do not want to defeat this bill.

6. Force opposition into defense and therefore negation that has them repeat OUR messaging. When we use accurate, clear, pull no punches messaging, it throws the opposition off and they commit our usual sin of repeating our message in order to deny it. See their disavowal of "gestapo."

Donald is *his authentic self* - no matter how loathsome that self is, some people are attracted to that.

When you talk to moderates, they’ll say the party needs to be more moderate. And when you don’t talk to progressives, it’s not surprising that that’s “everyone”. Suffice to say, has not been my favorite Bulwark hire.

Deep Lore, Digital Witch Hunts, and the Battle For Shared Reality The State Department Prepares to Wikileaks Itself

Anyway read my post about enemies lists, deep lore, and Darren Beattie and comment if you like it 🤗. (Ghost version on my site)

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That’s the answer my mind keeps coming up with too. He’s the most sadistic and evil of the minions at his core so it all **waves hands** fits his MO.

He’s still got some not so great shit in his background regarding priests who raped children. But I concur, thankfully he’s not an Opus Dei weirdo.

Man that’s some weak shit. Donald literally has 2 go to replies these days:
1. I don’t know them.
2. I don’t know anything about <insert latest self-inflicted crisis here>.

Seriously, who the ever living fuck is actually running America right now?!?!?

Remember on #TNG when most of Starfleet Command was taken over by intelligent brainstem attached parasites & the Enterprise crew had to figure it all out?
Maybe the crazy MAGA UFO shit isn’t so far fetched after all.

Opinion | Trump demands wartime sacrifices — just not for himself Americans likely do not have the stomach for such austerity.

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“But, hey, these times call for self-sacrifice. Unless you’re planning a military-themed birthday parade or adding a new gilded ballroom to the White House, of course. Who cares if the people cannot afford fresh eggs? Let them eat Fabergé ones instead.”

Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?"

Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."

In the long line of women who’ve prostrated themselves on the altar of MAGA, she is indisputably the absolute grossest. Sarah and Kayleigh were pretty fucking gross, but, man, I need to get my hands on whatever drugs enable this woman to exist in a reality so opposed to, ummm, reality.

I thought I was hallucinating the new gold accents. Ugh.

Texas just shot its wind + solar boom in the foot on purpose The Texas Senate just passed a bill that aims to kneecap clean energy with an industry-killing review process. Will the House pass it too?

If you’d told me 25 yrs ago that It’d be cheaper to deploy solar + batteries vs new gas or coal fired power plants and that bc some idiot grifters are so terrified to admit that climate change exists, we get nonsense like this, I’d have smacked you for being a such a damned fool.

The fragility. It burns.

What the fucking fuck is wrong with these fucking people? Ya know what would be an awesome diversion? Some fucking compassion. 🤬

“We don’t want terrorists in America”…. that don’t espouse OUR viewpoint. Those terrorists are just fine.

Say what??

Connecticut’s senator leading national resistance against Trump: ‘We’ve got to flood the zone’ Chris Murphy is everywhere. Turn on CNN with Wolf Blitzer and Jake Tapper, and he is there. The Sunday morning political talk shows. Features in The New York Times and NBC News. Even local radio. A…

You’re doing something right when our state’s GOP is butthurt that you’re neglecting the 40% who voted for Donald in CT. Cry more.

Proud that @chrismurphyct.bsky.social is fighting for us!

Thank you.

Amen.

Designated scapegoat to mask the transition from sugar to corn syrup

ABC News surrenders to Donald Trump Indignity Vol. 4, No. 221

“It was understandable only as a measure of cynicism and lawlessness: someone at Disney had to calculate that $16 million was less than the amount of money that the malice of President Donald Trump could cost the company over the next four years.”
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I may be naive, but I believe there are enough people inside these govt orgs that will slow walk everything bigly. And pharmacy benefit managers ARE terrible, parasitic co’s, so they’re on to something there. Too bad they’re so dumb they think PBMs are part of drug companies &not health insurers.

The pivot was her death knell.

I’ve been screaming this for years and have been screaming it through an amplified bullhorn since the election. Fuck the fucking consultants! And when Rahm got floated I called my state party chair and gave her a piece of my mind. They’ve got to start listening to the right voices or they’re done.

What we’ve seen since 2016 is the problem that emerges if white people truly start voting like a white identity party. The irony is that as much as right-wing media complained about the Great Replacement theory, they are now making gains with Latinos (esp. men).