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Like everyone, I hope this is a lasting peace deal. That said, it's pretty disgusting to watch some political journalists trip over each other in competition to muse about a Nobel Peace Prize for a president who is currently deploying troops against American cities, violently weaponizing an apparently unaccountable police force against American citizens, suppressing freedom of the press, shutting down free speech for corporations and campuses to leverage bribery deals, openly threatening and cajoling federal judges, cutting many billions in foreign aid that will lead to millions of deaths globally, engaging in the extrajudicial murder of foreign citizens, placating dictatorial regimes with widely documented human rights abuses, and undermining global stability with third-rate mafia tactics. It's tragic to witness how quickly informed journalists are folding to the fascism materializing in front of us because they don't want to be targeted next.

If the Rapture is today, most “Christians” are gonna be pissed when they’re left behind while the lefties from the immigrant welcoming, poor helping, gay friendly Episcopal, Presbyterian and Lutheran churches are getting picked up by the Lord’s Lyft.

Your ride has been cancelled by the driver.

I’m skipping this national best seller.

Opinion | Disney and the Decline of America’s Middle Class

Disney and the Decline of America’s Middle Class

Truth.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...

White House officials wanted to put federal workers ‘in trauma.’ It’s working. Federal workers describe struggling with panic attacks, depression, suicidal thoughts. “Why doesn’t anyone care?”

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White House officials wanted to put federal workers ‘in trauma.’ It’s working. Federal workers describe struggling with panic attacks, depression, suicidal thoughts. “Why doesn’t anyone care?”

This breaks my heart.

In this case, a pic really is worth a thousand words. Guess no one told Darth Dementia who wields red light sabers.

A small Montana town has thrived on federal jobs. Now come Trump’s cuts. In this pocket of red America, locals worry that the losses at Rocky Mountain Laboratories and the Bitterroot National Forest could have dire consequences.

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Another case of FAFO. For some reason, my empathy tank is on empty right now.

A Montana town has thrived on federal jobs. In red America, locals worry that the losses at Rocky Mountain Laboratories and the Bitterroot NF could have dire consequences.

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And here’s another reason for the world to hate Americans.

It’s what they want. It’s all about the “ize”. Privatize, weaponize & monetize personal data.

Nailed it!!

That was Jen Eberlien who went on to become R5 RF after Randy Moore left to become Chief. Last I heard, she was supposed to retire at the end of March.

I worked with her for a few years and I needled her about this. She was always a pretty savvy and decent person all around.

Truth

Justice Dept. suspends lawyer who acknowledged deportation was a mistake Erez Reuveni had worked at the Justice Department for nearly 15 years, most recently as the acting deputy director of the Office of Immigration Litigation.

Remember the days when honesty was a virtue?

Scared yet?

Homeland Security shuts down 3 internal watchdog agencies, calling them 'roadblocks' to immigration enforcement.

DHS ordered a reduction in 3 agencies that investigated complaints, including about detention conditions and delays in processing green card and citizenship applications

If it’s still a “maybe”, the man is an even bigger idiot then he was when he voted for the orange buffoon.

You have my utmost sympathies. Unfortunately, the arguments you make will fall on deaf ears in this administration and its supporters. 3 employees I hired before I left R5 were also let go, all of whom were solid performers. None of you deserve this!! Praying for you, the USFS and the landscape.

Our country today…

Or 730 days if you entered the Excepted Service.

USFS retiree. I’m glad I left when I did. My heart goes out to the 3 stellar Excepted Service employees I hired in 2023 who only have months left on their probationary period.

If Elon were looking for fraud & abuse, he’d be hiring forensic accountants, not programmers.

It’s easy to find fraud when you can freely manipulate the official systems of record to only display the answer you others want to see.

Barely. I hate it when there are more single character possibiiities than chances.

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I’ll be skipping The Kennedy Center Honors Kidd Rock.

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Don’t get overwhelmed. I’ve been saying this for the past week.

Just the fact she paid $10-20 to get her score and proudly posts that she’s below average says it all.

Finally got around to watching ST: Section 31.

Y’all were right. It was cringeworthy.

I adore Michelle Yeow but this is her worst performances I’ve seen. It’s the Razzie to match her Oscar.

Section 31 should have been setup as a ST version of “Mission: Impossible” the TV series.

F.C.C. Chair Orders Investigation Into NPR and PBS Stations Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, recently expressed concern about NPR and PBS’s sponsorships.

In a nutshell and reading between the lines - the new FCC chairman is looking for a way to defund NPR and PBS. The clamp down on “non-compliant” media has begun in earnest.

5 ways Project 2025 appeared in Trump’s presidential directives A Post analysis identified at least two dozen presidential directives with some text that closely resembled the language or policy of Project 2025.

“You can’t seriously think all that Project 2025 stuff is real do you? It’s too crazy and Trump would never do that”.

Right…

White, wealthy, entitled Republicans playing the victim card again. I’m shocked.

And another case of “up is down” and “down is up”. I spent 6 years going to a fundamentalist Christian high school and *never* heard of the “Sin of Empathy”. I’m guessing this will officially appear in the next release of the American Standard Cherry-Picked Bible.