Kaye H Adkins

The oligarchs are getting the message that Americans are tired of income inequality, so they will work harder and sneakier to control 2026 elections. We can’t relax.

I want someone to make a version of Faust with Faust played by someone who looks suspiciously like DJT.

A simple explanation for the shut down:
Republicans refused to negotiate with Democrats.

Republicans shut down the government.

Republicans shut down the government *to preserve tax cuts for billionaires.*

Repeat as often as necessary: “ The Republicans shut down the government to preserve tax cuts for billionaires.”

Someone suggested that Hesgeth was planning a coup?

And they may not be allowed to leave until resigning and turning over all IDs and security passes.

The Good Liars (@thegoodliars) Dropping off a spine at ABC. Seems like something they could use.

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Exactly.

Don’t accept a Republican win as inevitable. That’s one of the things they want. If well known Democrats from KC (like the mayor) run against Republican incumbents, they may be able to defeat them since more urban Democrats are now registered in those formerly mostly rural districts.

They are doing those jobs because DOGE cut the number of National Park Service employees who do those jobs from 200 to 20. There’s no one available to do that maintenance.

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More “move fast and break things” crap. Remember that at the start of his DOGE project, Musk said that his preferred method would be to cut all government programs and eliminate all government departments and then put back the ones it turned out were useful. Because that was going to be simple.

Call members of Congress and demand that Thomas Fugate, the (22 yr old) in DHS who is in charge of preventing domestic terrorism be called before every Congressional committee that deals with Homeland Security to explain what he is doing to keep Americans safe in the aftermath of the attack on Iran.

I turned on our local ABC affiliate and had to turn it off. They are acting like this was a reasonable decision based on solid intelligence, not a temper tantrum by a toddler who is mad his birthday party wasn’t what he expected.

This is insane. The Fourth Estate is derelict of duty.

I listen to old radio broadcasts from the 40s and 50s, and PSAs with these kinds of messages are often included. They promote democracy, citizenship, and diversity. Every time I hear one, I think about the MAGA complaints about “the good old days” and wonder what the MAGA folks are thinking.

Just wait until the House members (like mine) from rural areas—who have been complaining about rural delivery—see what happens next.

It actually was—the techbro definition of efficiency. Humans are by their very nature inefficient. They need to eat and sleep and take breaks. AI and robots are much more efficient. Automate everything, and you have efficiency! And to hell with inefficient actual human needs.

How can the Librarian of *Congress* be fired by the Exec Branch? When DOGE started, I asked a friend who is a librarian at LoC if they felt safe. They did—because they weren’t part of the Exec Branch. Does this mean DOGE could fire anyone working for Congress or the courts?

Access Seven Decades of Kansas City’s African American History Through Archives of The Call An important chronicle of African American history in Kansas City – and beyond – is now available through the Library’s website, offering more than 70 years of content from The Call, one of the most e...

It looks like you need a KC library card, but if you call the library they can probably help you.

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@hcrichardson.bsky.social If you aren’t familiar with Steven Katz’s “The Ethic of Expediency” you need to read it. Substitute “efficiency” for “expediency” and you will see an excellent historical forerunner of the DOGE philosophy.

Time to coin a new word for the digital age: spamotage.

That was Reagan’s actual plan.

Shifting the tax burden to the states—This is what people never understood about Reagan’s tax cut plan. When he proposed cuts to federal taxes and spending, he was very clear that it was to move taxing and spending to the state level for more local control. Not to reduce the total taxes folks pay.

The folks I’m talking to are generally Reagan Republicans—not fans of Trump but can’t bring themselves to vote for “liberal” Democrats, so yes—they get the Stalin reference. I seriously wish the Lincoln Project, Kochs, et al would start an American Conservative Party.

Lately I’ve seen some chilling but accurate lists of things Nazis did that the administration is doing. Since so many “conservatives” shrug this off, I’ve started referring to Stalin instead of Nazis. This gets attention since non-Maga Rs are often deeply steeped in anti-communist world views.

The cuts and general terribleness may have one redeeming effect—With concrete threats to respond to, my students may write better papers. For example, they’re writing about Head Start, or how changed divorce laws made women’s lives better. Tomorrow I show them how to find recent news stories.

DOGE Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500 Million Building, Court Filings Show The documents reveal a DOGE affiliate is attempting to transfer the headquarters of an independent think tank, the United States Institute of Peace, to the government at no cost.

Follow the money, indeed.

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This whole thing is so insane, but folks need to accept reality even if they can’t quite wrap their heads around it.

I see that there is a new movie of Kiss of the Spider Woman. Timely! I hope it gets a wide release and lots of awards and attention.

To all the people who told me I was being overly dramatic when I predicted that people would be “disappered” under this administration——-I told you so. (And it happened much sooner than I expected.)