Stephen Michael Kellat

I wonder how much of CISA is going to be left. Cybersecurity is going to be a nightmare, potentially.

Thune is lying here. Trump and Vought didn’t “hold off for as long as they could” because shutdowns don’t force people to be fired. No one was ever fired in any of the previous shutdowns in history. They fired a bunch of people because they wanted to — like they’re been planning since February.

DHS top lawyer says 'no legal barrier' to actions officers can take to defend federal property In a memo obtained exclusively by The Handbasket, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers were given free rein.

EXCLUSIVE — DHS Acting General Counsel sent out a memo Wednesday to all Federal Protective Service staff (the sub-agency that guards federal buildings) letting officers know they could take any action necessary "in the vicinity" federal property to protect themselves.

The Handbasket reports:

Trump administration begins laying off federal workers amid shutdown White House budget director Russell Vought said reductions-in-force were underway.

Using the government shutdown as an excuse to implement Project 2025. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Hello autumn! 🍂

Even if control of the Congress is wrested away in 2026 and control of the presidency is wrested away in 2028, there has been a massive amount of damage done. In a precedent-based system like ours it may be simpler to simply start over from scratch.

All In Our Heads: On Losing Our Democracy and Life Beyond Our Imaginations Our language has to meet the moment, and we have to be relentless about dispelling the fiction MAGA is selling.

I’m sorry to say that the liberal democracy we tried to save has been transformed. I’m sad to say the America we love is now a new thing, a competitive authoritarian state.

And it’s getting worse. We only win this long-term fight by meeting reality head-on.

www.liberalcurrents.com/all-in-our-h...

Once again finding himself simultaneously claiming:

1. Ukraine is over, and has no chance to contest Mighty Russia! It's outrageous they even dare defend themselves!

2. Ukraine are so all-powerful they can strike anywhere, have eyes & ears everywhere, and control the entire West.

Dovboyob 😂

the DOGE-ification of CBS news

So is this how President Peace Prize got the ceasefire deal to work?

YouTube video by ONEST Chair of Norwegian Nobel Committeeon why 2025 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Maria Corina Machado

“We want to send a message to all authoritarian leaders: choose ballots, not bullets.”

Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee on why 2025 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Maria Corina Machado: “She is an extraordinary example of civilian courage.”

youtu.be/2JSAqdkT6z4

President Trump suggested on Thursday the NATO alliance should weigh throwing Spain out of its membership ranks over a dispute about the Western European nation's lagging military spending.

Voice with heavy Ukrainian accent from Viktor Orban's smartphone:

Hello Viktor. This is your conscience speaking. We’ve been trying to reach you.

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

h/t @ardenthistorian.bsky.social

The various kids of the BKKC, complete with signatures.

The Burger King Kids Club would kill a modern day reactionary.

the wave of weaponized nostalgia for 90s-style multiculturalism and political correctness is gonna hit different

Remember how casually these characters and diversity was accepted back in the day?
I've said it before but as a society we've been slipping backwards since 1999. The machines were right.

No Noble Peace Prize for Trump. I imagine he is going to sanction Europe now... if not bomb 🙃

María Corina Machado—leader of Venezuelan opposition against Maduro, former member of National Assembly and presidential candidate — has been awarded Nobel Peace Prize

“When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist”, Nobel Committee

2/ Good lord, people. All those people saying, “But how can we trust him??” Whah!!! Have some self respect. When someone makes a threat and then says never mind a couple days later that’s a fail. Doesn’t matter what else happens. Did Trump issue an EO that ever has to have their head up their ass?

Second threat walked back after a couple days.

Sylvie Laurent, historian: 'McCarthyism was a minor version of what is unfolding in the United States today' In an op-ed for Le Monde, the American studies scholar voices concern over the climate of suspicion and repression that, in the name of fighting the 'enemy within,' is taking root for the long term in Donald Trump's America.

Sylvie Laurent, historian: 'McCarthyism was a minor version of what is unfolding in the United States today'

Who Is Anika Nilles? Meet Rush's New Virtuosic Drummer

Meet the German virtuoso who's just been hired as Rush's new drummer, replacing the late, great Neil Peart.

Autism cannot be acquired after birth.

Seems bad that the top people in the US federal government are brain rotted freaks obsessed with children’s genitals.

“Trump is taking the US in an extreme direction, attacking freedom of speech, having masked secret police kidnapping people in broad daylight and cracking down on institutions and the courts.

When the president is this volatile and authoritarian, of course we have to be prepared for anything”

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0/10, do not want.