Alt Plog the Federal Cog

“Inspired by their bravery, but sickened that it is necessary” Spanberger, speaking about the actions of protesters in MN in the Dem’s SOTU rebuttal.

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Trump now brags that he has wiped out the fishing industry in Venezuela by blowing up drug boats because now they are all afraid to take their fishing boats out in case we blow them up.

Public Service Announcement: The U.S. government is demanding that an AI company loosen its safety protocols so its technology can be used for mass surveillance of U.S. civilians. That is the core dispute now unfolding between the Department of Defense

If you were playing the non-drinking SOTU game and had POTUS reading from a script on your card, sorry. Take a drink.

Special Forces Operators don’t wear dog tags on missions. Just sayin

Calls to shut down Texas ICE facility for children grow amid measles outbreak At least two cases confirmed at detention center for children and their parents in Texas

At least two cases of measles have been confirmed at a major immigration detention center for children and their parents in Texas as cases of the dangerous virus in South Carolina, Arizona, Utah and other US states continue growing and alarming experts.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

It only took them 12 months to build massive concentration camps all over the USA. You’d think there would be more uproar, but no. No one cares unless it’s in their backyard.

Massie on Howard Lutnick: "He should just resign. Three people in Great Britain resigned for less than what we've seen Howard Lutnick lie about. He clearly went to the island, if we believe what's in these files. He was in business with Jeffrey Epstein."

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

Black and white portrait of a young girl with a gentle smile, wearing a dark coat and a small pendant necklace.

7 February 1926 | A German Jewish girl, Evelyn Kalmann, was born in Leipzig.

In September 1942 she was deported from Westerbork in the occupied Netherlands to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas is just a delight on every level

Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and surf...

Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control.

“It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.

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And here we go again. Some federal employees are starting to receive furlough notices as lawmakers in Washington weigh how to end the partial government shutdown that began over the weekend.

Me watching dc deal with snow

Bluesky post from October 8, 2025 which reads “Bari Weiss is to serious journalism what Cap’n Crunch is to maritime exploration.”

I’m going to keep reposting this because it bears repeating.

Katharine Houghton Hepburn

2/2/1878 — b. Katharine Houghton Hepburn, American #feminist, suffrage leader, birth control pioneer, freethinker. President, CT Woman’s Suffrage Assn; legislative chair, Natl Exec Comm of Natl Woman’s Party; co-founder, American Birth Control League #womenshistory #womensrights #ReproRights #PolSky

Low sun sets behind a long ocean pier, framed as a dark silhouette stretching across the image. The sun sits between the pier supports, casting a bright golden reflection across wet sand in the foreground. Gentle waves roll in beneath the pier, and scattered clouds drift across a sky that shifts from warm orange near the horizon to cooler blue above.

Just before sunset. Ocean Beach, San Diego, California

#SanDiego #sunset #OceanBeach

YouTube video by Really American Veteran Republicans TURN ON Trump After Toxic Takeover

youtu.be/zAfM6fOa4Nw #chipfranklin

People are finally starting to see the grift, but it won’t be scandals or outrage that breaks Trump—it’ll be the economy.

Tariffs, job losses, and rising prices are hammering working people, and once that fully sinks in, the collapse speeds up.

Chip Franklin

AOC on ICE: It’s our task to figure out how to claw back what has essentially supercharged this agency into becoming a relentless domestic paramilitary that is also a blank check to Palantir to create facial-recognition scans on U.S. citizens.

MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!”

So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it

(H/T longtimehistory)

Does anyone know where we can find this hat or a pattern to make it? I would love to see this everywhere. Including the Super Bowl.

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

This just dropped:

DOGE employees may have improperly accessed social security data, DOJ says It's a stunning admission from the Trump administration, after it battled in court over DOGE's rights to access and use Social Security data .

Members of Elon Musk's DOGE team may have accessed Social Security information that was off-limits under a court ruling and shared agency data on third-party servers, the Department of Justice said in a court filing last week.

www.axios.com/2026/01/20/d...

Lasse Brinck Old Soviet joke: a man goes to a newsstand every day and looks at just the front pages of all the newspapers. The guy behind the stand asks him what he's looking for. "An obituary". "But comrade, obituaries aren't on the front page!" "The one I'm looking for will be."

If you live in the Cities, an easy way to help immigrant families in hiding is: laundry! Laundromats are ICE magnets, so people without washers need help.

The People’s Laundry will drop off laundry to your door to wash and dry and pick up a few days later:

thepeopleslaundrympls.com/volunteer/

A white male maga in a blue line America flag t-shirt points an accusatory finger at Jesus on the cross and shouts “He should've just obeyed the law”

Here’s the #AltText version of this most excellent meme.