James Derk

?? I have four young sons all of them opened bank accounts. Required for direct deposit from their employers. Free checking lives.

If it’s not on Fox News it’s not happening

Opm1, opm2, etc

So now he’s basically saying it’s illegal to boycott now.

Someone said a good president is one you think about every two weeks.

It’s a cult, Mark

Transgenic means that genes from 1 organism have been put into another. We make transgenic mice to understand how genes influence biological processes. We make transgenic plants to make them more nutrient rich. We make transgenic bacteria so they make medicine for us. It's wide-ranging & v. useful.

Well played.

A kindergartner’s hopes for beating cancer are tied to federal grants now on the chopping block | CNN A family whose 6-year-old is battling cancer says a move to slash funding by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research at universities and medical centers would be “devastating.”

cutting pediatric cancer research…

www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/h...

Two market meltdowns.
One common denominator.

NEW: A source tells me that response teams for FEMA set to deploy to the South Carolina wildfires are unable to travel because their government issued travel cards have had their limits reduced to $1. FEMA response team cards were supposed to be exempt.

Is she CONCERNED or REALLY CONCERNED?

#ReleaseEpsteinFiles

As you watch Trump berate and put his hand on Zelenskyy just ask yourself one simple question: could you ever imagine him speaking to Putin like this?

RFK really missed the simplest lesson of LBJ’s career, try not to get any kids killed if your name rhymes with “how many kids did you kill today”

Musk’s Starlink gets FAA contract, raising new conflict of interest concerns The Federal Aviation Administration has agreed to use SpaceX’s Starlink internet system to upgrade the information technology networks it uses to manage US airspace, raising new concerns about conflic...

finance.yahoo.com/news/musk-st...

Trump: "We're gonna be selling a gold card. You have a green card, this is a gold card. We're gonna put a price on that card of about $5 million and that's going to give you green card privileges, plus. It's gonna be a route to citizenship, and wealthy people will be coming into our country."

The Trump Justice Department is declining to prosecute a sitting Republican Congressman who was referred to them by the DC police for beating a woman.

All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.

USAO DC declined to prosecute a clear crime to help Trump

This is an INCREDIBLY serious story for Washington, DC.

There is one prosecutor for DC: the federal/DOJ US Attorney for DC. That's a Trump-appointed position now. The Trump appointee is corrupt, venal, MAGA.

Here the DC police wanted to prosecute a crime, and the Trump USAO SAID NO. 1/

Utah homeschooling community wants to dismantle law meant to stop child abusers from homeschooling, says it’s not effective This bill, HB209, removes a requirement meant to keep convicted child abusers from homeschooling. That requirement seemed like a good idea at the time, sponsor Rep. Nicholeen Peck said, but she argued...

Here’s the thing about this.

Evangelicals are the largest percentage of homeschoolers in this country BY FAR.

And Evangelicals also DEEPLY believe in spanking and hitting their children as a disciplinary measure.

So following those threads you can see wanting to repeal this makes complete sense

Elon Musk’s Biographer Calls Him a ‘Sociopath’ After Auschwitz Photo-Op Seth Abramson’s comment came after the wife of a Holocaust survivor criticized Musk’s visit to the death camp, saying “he was unmoved by the experience.”

“I spent hours with him and walked with him thru Auschwitz. I stood with him, looking at the nauseating heaps of hair, luggage, & shoes flooded with violet light meant to preserve it.

Is Musk an antisemite? People, actually, it’s worse—he doesn’t care whatsoever…He was unmoved by the experience.”

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story.

Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver.

This is what "merit" means to them.

apnews.com/article/trum...

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump.

Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

Gee I wonder why

NEW YORK POST LOG IN US News Metro Long Island Politics Worl US NEWS EXCLUSIVE NYC congestion pricing axed as Trump's DOT pulls approval of hated toll By Jon Levine, Vaughn Golden and Chris Nesi Published Feb. 19, 2025 Updated Feb. 19, 2025, 6:29 p.m. ET

三 Live TV Business Trump administration kills New York City's congestion pricing By Gloria Pazmino, CNN Published 1:16 PM EST, Wed February 19, 2025

Bloomberg Subscribe NYC Congestion Pricing: Trump Pulls Fed Approval CityLab Trump to Halt NY Congestion Pricing by Terminating Approval • Rescinding federal signoff already prompts MTA legal challenge • The toll was expected to raise $15 billion for transit system

New York Daily ... @NYDaily... • Feb 19 4 4 4 Trump kills NYC congestion pricing program 2 7:30 al Excel 40 STAN Anytime BEGIN TOLL 103419 p ZONE Trump kills NYC congestion pricing program...

one really interesting thing about congestion pricing is that Trump basically said “I am killing congestion pricing right now”, got a friendly puff piece in the New York Post, and then every other media outlet went along with it even though it turned out he actually did not kill congestion pricing

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

A line chart depicts data from 2017 to 2023. The line is labeled "Sepsis rate". The line starts at 2.9% in 2017 and hovers around 3% through 2021. The line spikes up in 2022 and 2023, where it ends at 4.9%. The years 2022 -2023 are labeled "Years abortion was banned."

NEW: A first-of-its-kind analysis by @propublica.org found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% after Texas’ near-total abortion ban went into effect in September 2021.

www.propublica.org/article/texa...

So does Steve Bannon have Asperger’s too?