It says a lot that Trump can find $20 billion to bail out Argentina, but won't help the millions of Americans who are in real need at home.

Thank you to former CFPB Director Rohit Chopra for explaining.

We live in an idiocracy. (I stole that from Kristy Greenberg. Very apropos!)

What Does It Mean To Say ‘Jesus Is Palestinian’? Some Christians bristle at the assertion that Jesus is Palestinian. Why?

Thought-provoking and important article. This turns on its head the Israeli argument that Palestinians don't belong in Gaza or the West Bank. Palestinian Jews and Palestinian Christians were there first and ancestors of almost all Palestinians.

sojo.net/articles/opi...

Federal spending is *up* under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings.

Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The world is laughing at us....

Opinion | The Many Overlapping Scandals of the Pete Hegseth Group Chat They may be even more serious than the one we’ve been focused on.

Important insights into the Signal scandal.

The Many Overlapping Scandals of the Pete Hegseth Group Chat www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...

Why aren’t you wearing a suit?

Have you said “Thank you” to Greenland and Denmark for allowing you to have a base on Greenland?

Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.

Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.

Do not.

Nuts. Everyone would complain!!

For the sake of argument only, let's assume 10% of the 2,600 DOE employees are less than fully productive. If you fire 50% of all DOE employees without plan or criteria, you'll still have 130 less-than-productive employees. This is but one result of lazy and indiscriminate budget reductions.

Not once has Musk provided evidence of waste, fraud, or abuse. Why he hasn't should be obvious: there is none, at least none he can prove. He would fail the most basic college course in economics.

musk illegally seized control of the treasury and now wants to end social security and medicare and plunge tens of millions of americans into destitution so that we won’t go “bankrupt,” a thing that practically-speaking can’t happen

80 fired probationary employees at Bonneville Power Administration asked to return, source says Over 100 probationary employees were fired at the Bonneville Power Administration because of Trump's effort to shrink the size of the federal government.

More DOGE (in)efficiency. Should call it DOGI

www.kgw.com/article/news...

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Trump’s foreign aid demolition hits major Christian charities In a closed-door meeting, U.S. officials touted their success in “zeroing out” foreign assistance, but the downsizing has clipped religious allies, too.

Trump’s foreign aid demolition hits major Christian charities

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
So much for the Christian value of feeding the poor. J. D. Vance, how do you defend this??

She resigned thank goodness.

A Palestinian Christian’s Perspective on Trump’s Plan to ‘Own Gaza’ The world may see Gaza as a demolition site, but we believe that God will breathe life into Gaza.

sojo.net/articles/opi...

I'm starting to think DEI may have been the only reason so many planes stayed in the sky...

We got a DOGE staff list. From a McKinsey alum to a former Clarence Thomas clerk, here are the workers powering Elon Musk's cost-cutting squad. A list of White House DOGE staffers shows about 30 young tech, finance, and legal professionals remaking the federal government.

Here's a list of DOGE staff, assembled and annotated by my colleagues at BI. Whatever you do, please don't share it.

www.businessinsider.com/doge-staff-l...

I retired from Lane Community College (2nd largest in Oregon) after 12 years as CFO & VP for administration. We would never have let Elon Musk into our data systems. It would have been a dangerous breach of privacy & security. Why should he have access to incredibly sensitive federal data?

This is DOGE transparency: so transparent it's invisible... This is the totality of their website; notice all the reports on their work.

Donald Trump tried to illegally shut down funding for programs that millions of people rely on.

Community health centers, Head Start programs, and charities are still having trouble accessing funds.

Meanwhile, the taxpayers are paying for Trump's trip to the Super Bowl.

I've said this before: Trump is way too lazy and ignorant to do the hard work of governing. He lets Elon drop bombs on federal agencies while he proclaims himself the dictator of the Lincoln Center.

A very simple script. Feel free to adjust for your needs.

"I JUST READ THAT MUSK AND TRUMP ARE CUTTING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN CANCER AND ALZHEIMER RESEARCH MONEY. I DIDN'T VOTE FOR CANCER. ARE YOU SUPPORTING THIS? WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO STOP THEM?"

reps.fyi

“For whatever reason, people of color have a higher incidence of maternal mortality."

How To Be a Christian in Public You don’t have to hide your faith to uphold the rights and faith of others.

"Christian nationalism merely uses the veneer of Christianity to advance its own aims. It points not to Jesus of Nazareth but to the nation, as conceived of by a dangerous political ideology, as the object of allegiance."

If this year taught us anything, it's that:

1) Workers keep America going, not billionaires.
2) Corporate profits don't trickle down to workers.
3) Poverty is a policy choice.
4) Health care is a human right.
5) Strikes work.

I hope we act on these lessons in the new year.

...white men...

"'Gaza tower housing AP, Al Jazeera collapses after missile strike.'
[This] headline removes culpability from Israel by failing to mention that Israel shot the missiles and collapsed the towers." Excellent article about the influence of authority over the language of journalists.

The Presumption of Innocence Has Nothing to Do With Pete Hegseth’s Confirmation Trumpworld is warping an important concept from criminal law beyond recognition.

I wrote this piece with @dahlialithwick.bsky.social & @mimirocah1.bsky.social on the claim that Pete Hegseth is entitled to a Presumption of Innocence over allegations of sexual assault. But Senate confirmation hearings aren’t criminal cases & that claim doesn't hold water slate.com/news-and-pol...