Marc A. Healy

Wednesday

JUST IN: A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from using furloughed employees’ email accounts to broadcast partisan messages about the shutdown.

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In 2008, a blogger named Curtis Yarvin called for a future president to kill foreign aid programs as part of a plan to replace democracy with dictatorship.

Now 600,000 people are dead—and 14 million will die by 2030, according to the Lancet. This is the running death toll of tech fascism.

Dammit

Dammit.

I would have given it to Drake Maye, but what do I know?

Yay! More states New York, Kansas, and Pennsylvania have announced they’ve started sending out full SNAP benefits. Meanwhile, Trump was apparently too busy napping to help make sure people got the assistance they need.

All 6 Branches Of Armed Forces Present At Arrest Of Undocumented Nanny BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI—In what they described as a collaborative effort to share resources and information in defense of U.S. territory, Pentagon officials confirmed Monday that all six branches of the ...

All 6 Branches Of Armed Forces Present At Arrest Of Undocumented Nanny

Trump Asks JD Vance To Research Whether President Allowed To Kill Vice President

Trump Asks JD Vance To Research Whether President Allowed To Kill Vice President https://theonion.com/trump-asks-jd-vance-to-research-whether-president-allowed-to-kill-vice-president/

“Thoughts & Prayers, poor Billionaires.”

RFK Jr gives Republicans a chance to defy Trump on easy mode They're failing — so far.

"The GOP is signing on to mass murder of children based on the novel theories of a man who has no party ties except a single Trump endorsement. It is a measure of the party’s utter hollowness, brokenness, and evil that even in this case, it can barely find the resources to demur."

We?

Authoritarianism is the arch enemy of liberal democracy.

Commandments crusading Texas attorney general accused of adultery – Baptist News Global The Texas attorney general who wants the Ten Commandments posted in school classrooms has a problem with No. 6, according to his wife,

“The Texas attorney general who has fought to get the Ten Commandments posted in every public school classroom has a problem with No. 6, according to his wife, who has filed for divorce ‘on biblical grounds.’” baptistnews.com/article/comm...

Really good thread from @joedudekjd.bsky.social, who attended yesterday’s hearing in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case.

New Evidence Suggests Dinosaurs Would Have Driven Selves To Extinction Through Greed And Complacency Anyway
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The White House says it’s now limiting how much classified intelligence it shares with Congress, following criticism from lawmakers over the Iran bombing.

Former DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent' NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience.

“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.

Absolutely nuts. Are they taking Camel bucks too?

I’m not a New Yorker or a socialist and I don’t know if Mamdani would be a good mayor. But I lived in Vienna for 4 months last year; it has been governed by socialists for a century, and it is routinely and deservedly judged one of the most liveable cities in the world. Just sayin’….

Yep.

We will have to wait for the midterms to get him out, and hope to hell for a giant blue wave.

This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.

It's sort of fascinating how ALL OF THIS lawless tyranny is happening, all around us at all times, and never once have a gang of Second Amendment enthusiasts showed up with their God-given rifles to fend off the secret police. Not once. When they've been driven off it's been by the unarmed.

A bar chart titled “The Cost of Billionaires Visualized” compares major U.S. expenses to the 2024 year-over-year wealth gains of just 100 billionaires. Bars represent spending or gains in billions of dollars and are labeled with household-level (HH) equivalents. Categories shown include: • Ending homelessness: $20B ($159 per household) • Federal employees: $210B ($1,670/HH) • Teacher salaries: $214B ($1,702/HH) • Gasoline: $307B ($2,449/HH) • Groceries: $664B ($5,278/HH) • Defense budget: $824B ($6,553/HH) • 100 billionaires: $1,094B ($8,700/HH) A red banner at the bottom reads: “If we can’t afford groceries, we definitely can’t afford billionaires.” Sources listed include HUD, NEA, BLS, USDA, OPM, and Bloomberg (Dec. 31, 2024).

If you took the $1.1 trillion earned by just 100 billionaires last year and mailed every household a check, it'd be $8,700 each.

The thing is most billionaires don't actually pay taxes anymore. What the GOP bill is really doing is selling off public lands and cutting Medicare to pay off oligarchs.

Washington cherry growers struggle to find pickers The threat of federal agents raiding orchards is forcing a labor shortage that has caused some Washington producers to leave cherries unpicked or delay their harvests until fruit gets over ripe, which...

Trump's ICE raids mean Washington farmers cannot harvest this year's cherry crop, and that many will now go out of business. www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣

Trump Issues Executive Order Reversing All Vasectomies WASHINGTON—Telling reporters that the move would do much to combat low U.S. fertility rates, President Donald Trump issued an executive order Friday reversing vasectomies nationwide. “We’re requiring all men to head to their doctors and have them undo these terrible, terrible procedures,” the president said in an address from the Oval Office in which he clarified […]

Trump Issues Executive Order Reversing All Vasectomies
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