State Department Agents Join Trump’s Deployment in D.C.

State Department Agents Join Trump’s Deployment in D.C. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...

“Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost.”

— A. Whitney Griswold

Trump Organization is selling 2028 hats A third term in the White House would violate the 22nd Amendment.

www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing a rule to increase career employee accountability. Agency supervisors report great difficulty removing employees for poor performance or misconduc...

Public comments are open on this now; if you have any feedback the comment period closes on May 23. In part: “This will allow agencies to quickly remove employees who….(are) intentionally subverting Presidential directives.” www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

In Alexandria.

Gavin Newsom's like hmmm should I hold a 24-hour podcast séance with Hitler's ghost

Thurmond was the same age as Booker when he set the record Senator Cory Booker just broke.

Thurmond was afforded a bathroom break and read from the encyclopedia. Booker held the floor the entire time and delivered a consistent, cogent speech for more than 24 hours.

Incredible.

US State Department Kills Global Air Monitoring Program Researchers Say Paid for Itself The initiative helped pressure the Chinese government to clean up the air in Beijing and was later expanded to dozens of cities around the world. Now, it’s been abruptly halted.

The State Department’s air quality program was a source for data that challenged the official AQ reports released by the Chinese government, and an example of smart, efficient diplomacy that boosted American soft power. Now it's been halted www.wired.com/story/air-mo... via @zeyiyang.bsky.social

British parliament vibes

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live Elon Musk Cold Open - SNL

#snl opening this week was 🔥

m.youtube.com/watch?v=CUpO...

So good!

🤣💀💀💀

#3 🤣👏

WATCH: “Not even an hour!”

KANSAS Rep. Roger Marshall leaves his own town hall after voters on both sides of the aisle express concern about veterans being fired from their federal worker jobs.

Hard pass

What we saw in the Oval Office today was beyond disgraceful. Trump and Vance berating Zelenskyy — putting on a show of lies and misinformation that would make Putin blush — is an embarrassment for America and a betrayal of our allies.

They're popping champagne in the Kremlin.

Brazil Charges Bolsonaro With Attempting a Coup (Gift Article) Brazil’s attorney general charged former President Jair Bolsonaro with trying to overturn the vote. He now faces potential arrest.

Brazil leading by example here

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

Saved a lot of cash. This is gonna roll all day for free.

Why is #washingtonpost not covering the #protests today?

Follow the money: someone smart about money strategy, please explain to the rest of us how this EO is related to Big Pharma and/or money in Trump and Musk’s pockets. I’m sure this is the real reason, I just can’t figure out the angle.

Marjorie Taylor Greene literally showed a dick pic last year in our Oversight hearing, so I thought I'd show one as well: a picture of President Elon Musk.

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Ends the Procurement and Forced Use of Paper Straws ENDING THE FORCED USE OF PAPER STRAWS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to end the procurement and forced use of paper straws.

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Oh what a surprise. Let me guess, the way of fixing all of this is crypto

Elon Musk with the Twitter name Harry Bolz: At this point, I am 100% certain that the magnitude of the fraud in federal entitlements (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, Disability, etc) exceeds the combined sum of every private scam you've ever heard by FAR. It's not even close.

The man currently destroying the U.S. government has changed his name on Twitter to Harry Bolz

Judge NICHOLS is drilling down on the harm that will be caused to the 2,200 workers being put on leave tonight. The lawyers for the workers say they'll be in an "information vacuum" in potentially dangerous situations, cut off from payments, could have diplomatic immunity revoked

US state department fires security and personal services contractors Directive says new contracts must be terminated immediately in response to Trump executive order

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Accidental’ F.B.I. Chief Builds a Following as Agency’s Defender Brian Driscoll was accidentally catapulted into the acting director’s chair on Jan. 20 and has defended the bureau from the potential of mass firings, inspiring memes and satirical clips.

More of this please

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/u...

JUST IN: A federal judge in Massachusetts has ordered a block on the Fork "deferred resignation" program until additional litigation can take place.

during the status conference in Doe v OPM (case on the mass emails) judge moss notes that he also received an opm email

YouTube video by Rep. Al Green Impeachment Announced by Rep. Al Green: Injustice Anywhere is a Threat to Justice Everywhere (MLK).

Impeachment Announced by Congressman Al Green:
Injustice Anywhere is a Threat to Justice Everywhere (MLK). Injustice in Gaza is a Threat to Justice in America. Watch Rep. Green's floor speech online: youtu.be/N2xG1K0izqs?...