Are we great yet?

Crazy how long this conversation has been going on

Your School House Rock moment......

The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.

I don’t even know that it serves anything or anyone to note that Stephen Miller is ranting about “unelected communist judges,” other than observing it’s another item on the 1933 list

First, never believe anything he says. Second, why is he giving his political rally speech to graduating seniors?

Reuters: WHITE HOUSE BUDGET PROPOSAL: WOULD CUT FUNDS FOR USAID, NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, PRESCHOOL GRANTS, MINORITY BUSINESS AGENCY

Under the current system, Americans are already spending $5 trillion a year on health care - read: $50 trillion over the next 10 years.

So this is actually a bargain.

We can't rest until government is restored as an instrument for the people, not our homegrown theocrats, kleptocrats and oligarchs.

The so-called “moderate” GOP position on Medicaid cuts is no cuts above $500 billion.

Hello? That would mean 18 million children and 2 million adults with disabilities lose health care coverage, according to the latest estimates.

What’s “moderate” about that?

100 DAYS...of lying, grifting, lawbreaking, division, incompetence, ignorance, illegal deportations, self-aggrandizement, vulgarity, self-pity, cruelty, ignoring the Supreme Court & due process while attacking: the Media, Universities, Law Firms, the Courts & Journalists.

1362 Days to go...

Elon Musk and DOGE’s Savings May Be Erased by New Costs An expert on the federal work force estimates that the speed and chaos of Mr. Musk’s cuts to the bureaucracy will cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year.

"The Partnership for Public Service, which studies the federal workforce, has used budget figures to produce a rough estimate that Trump's firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers will cost upward of $135 billion this fiscal year."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

Do not obey in advance to a wildly unpopular one term president who is currently fighting wars on multiple fronts for seemingly no reason

This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story.

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www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...

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This isn’t just a humanitarian issue, it’s a setback for science too.

there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch

AG Bondi is ignorant of our Constitution & wants to bar anyone who isn't Christian from our Government. Our Constitution clearly states, Article VI “no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States". This is our AG for crying out loud!

I don't think it gets more Second Gilded Age than this.

BREAKING: A court ruled that our case challenging Rümeysa Öztürk's unlawful detention should move forward in Vermont, instead of Louisiana, and that ICE must transfer her there.

Nobody should be shipped to a detention facility halfway across the country for writing an op-ed.

Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’ Aix-Marseille University generates interest amid a US crackdown and calls for a ‘scientific refugee’ status

Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’.

Applicants hailed from Johns Hopkins, NASA, Columbia, Yale & Stanford. Most of the applications were sent using encrypted messaging “with worrying, sometimes chilling, accounts".

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Advocates worry over possible cuts to Head Start The decades-old federal program provides childcare, nutrition assistance and other services to the nation's poorest families.

"46% of Head Start funding goes to rural areas, often in places without any other child care option..."

www.axios.com/2025/04/16/h...

a woman applauds in front of a sign that says dynamite on it ALT: a woman applauds in front of a sign that says dynamite on it

"I wouldn't go walking the streets calling myself a CEO." - Toni Storm just legit dropped my jaw! Yup, best in the biz.

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This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

Freaking goosebumps. Thanks for this.

ONE IF BY LAND

TWO IF BY D.C.

the north end church in boston

it’s 250 years today

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Not the same indeed.

How bad are things in America?

Davis Brooks—the conservative, former editor at the Wall Street Journal—is saying “it’s time for a comprehensive national civic uprising.”