Mark Kaiser

Choices one might want to regret, but ya never actually DO regret - those are the best.

#noregerts

Pentagon’s ‘SWAT team of nerds’ resigns en masse Employees of a defense tech unit say they were sidelined by DOGE. “Either we die quickly or we die slowly,” says the director.

DOGE = toddlers www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

YouTube video by CNN Whistleblower claims DOGE took sensitive data - now he’s being hounded by threatening notes

This is not good.

youtu.be/TsqgXfrSksI?...

DOGE has given Russia access to sensitive data.

This is Internet security 101. Either they are traitors, OR they’re too stupid and careless to be allowed to handle government data.

Threats don’t instill confidence in the ineptitude theory, though.

I just googled "elbows up". Yes. I think that the liberals down here need to join our Canadian friends and defend ourselves and our democracy. We will keep pushing back, this is not okay.

…and I completely forgot about the deportation angle…

There's no sum of money that will keep you safe from Trump Corporations are learning this the hard way.

New in PN: There's no sum of money that will keep you safe from Trump

"The nature of a protection racket is that it doesn’t actually keep one safe. The cost to comply can always go up. The nature of what constitutes compliance can always be changed. And once you agree to pay, you can’t really stop"

Raskin: I call on my colleagues to take down the wanted posters with judges’ faces on them outside of offices in House office buildings

Koh: I think if this is a president who really wanted to empower workers, he wouldn't have just stripped 700,000 people of their collective bargaining rights..

Today the cherry blossoms made the world look like Middle Earth in the DC area. God I love peak bloom so much.

I love #BigBird. This is where he might end up, though, given the “WAR ON #PBS!”

(Definitely, one of the more economical jokes I’ve seen lately)

#DunningKrugerAdministration

Bloomberg headline touting the end of dollar dominance.

Paragraph from the March 28th Bloomberg article quoting two financial analysts saying US dollar dominance is coming to an end.

My 4 month old BlueSky post from a thread on the broligarchy, stating that Trump and the broligarchs would purposefully try to weaken the US dollar and end US global economic dominance, to benefit themselves at our expense.

A BlueSky post I published 6 days ago, exemplifying my weekly discussion of Trump's strategy of weakening the US dollar on purpose.

I called this 4 mos ago & have been writing about it weekly since: Trump is crashing the value of the US dollar *on purpose.*

It's not an accident.

This is strategic, probably at the behest of those who paid for his presidency: Putin & cryptobros. The end of $ dominance helps them at our expense.

Ronan Farrow (@ronanfarrow.bsky.social) Pulitzer-winning investigative journo at New Yorker. Documentaries at HBO. Ex-diplomat. Bad lawyer. Disused phd. Tips: ronan_farrow@newyorker.com.

Great analysis and citations. :)

Looks like the @ keeps you in BlueSky - @ronanfarrow.bsky.social vs.
ronanfarrow.bsky.social (takes you to a web url)

C. Broligarchy is a global political project (cont.).

All the broligarchs are pushing Trump to create a strategic Bitcoin reserve, which would make them much richer & more powerful, but weaken the US dollar: the world's reserve currency.
This would undermine, if not destroy, US econ & pol power.

We're Concerned: Billionaire Peter Thiel Backs Controversial Magazine's Cycle-Tracking App Peter Thiel, billionaire entrepreneur and top campaign donor has decided to back a "femtech" app called 28, created by the divisive Evie Magazine.

B. Women out of the workforce and civic life (cont.).

Thiel funds a women's magazine (Evie) that does for birth control what RFKJr does for vaccines: sows conspiracy theories to persuade people to stop using them. Like Musk, he's obsessed with getting (mostly white) women to have more babies.

YouTube video by Adam Sherwood Yellow Triangle

Christy Moore - Yellow Triangle

youtu.be/9QzrGVTWHHg?...

#worldonfireplaylist

YouTube video by LegalEagle A Judge Just Reversed Trump's Purge

#sanity

Layoffs surge on DOGE cuts | LinkedIn Layoffs rose 245% in February. Of the roughly 172,000 people who were let go last month, more than one-third lost their jobs to cuts by DOGE, led by billionaire Elon Musk.

#struggleisreal

www.linkedin.com/feed/news/la...

Google Maps Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.

And…here’s a link… maps.app.goo.gl/1M9TVAXQ8ZgG...

Trump Names Richard Grenell Interim Leader of Kennedy Center The president also purged 18 board members appointed by former President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who were scrubbed from an official roster on the center’s website, along with the chairman, David M. Ruben...

Replacing the classy David Rubinstein with a suck up lapdog is never going to make a fatally insecure man what he will never be. Trump is certainly culturally relevant in this cheap & cheesy moment, but not in the ways that matter and endure when it comes to the arts. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/a...

Here’s a civically minded reminder that Google Maps does solicit and encourage user reviews of places.

#GulfOfGoogle
#AlwaysForget
#NeverRemember

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Irked by our brave new 'Gulf of America' era on Google Maps?

HINT: It's a great reminder that you should start using a VPN. Selecting another country (say... Mexico) vanquishes the Gulf of America once and for all!

And wouldn't you know it? We have a VPN guide...

www.popsci.com/reviews/best...

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

Here's the WIRED piece from 1AM, reporting that -- contrary to White House claims -- a 25-year-old Musk lackey has obtained direct access to Treasury Department systems responsible for nearly all payments made by the US government:

www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

C’mon, Chuck. Don’t piggyback on his marketing slogans. Unfortunately, you don’t have the charisma to pull that off. (See also, Jeb Bush, etc)

#DadJokesWhileRomeBurns

Because introducing coding errors into production systems that control *trillions* of dollars of transactions has NEVER backfired…. [sigh]

#DunningKruger
#1D10Trump
#Muskocracy

Unions Sue Treasury Department Over Giving Musk's 'DOGE' Access To Payment System Giving Elon Musk's team access to Treasury's payment systems amounts to a "massive and unprecedented" privacy intrusion, the complaint states.

Two massive unions have sued the Treasury Department for granting Musk's “Department of Government Efficiency” access to federal government payment systems.

SEIU and AFGE, with nearly 3 million combined members, are fighting DOGE's illegal activity.

www.huffpost.com/entry/unions...

If the Treasury Secretary does not remove DOGE’s access to the Treasury payment systems at once:

Congress must immediately act.

That is why Rep. Jeffries and I will work together on legislation to stop unlawful meddling in the Treasury Department’s payment systems.

YouTube video by LegalEagle Trump Broke the Government AND THEN CHANGED HIS MIND (And Then Changed His Mind AGAIN)

Let’s go Dunning-Kreuger-ing!

youtu.be/271poZihRTg?...

#AlwaysForget
#NeverRemember

Bringing my pinned Tweet along with me as I migrate here because this still matters & because we cannot normalize what Trump intends to do to DOJ. Justice should never be a political tool for presidents & their pals.

Anyone know what made MAGA hate Dale Earnhardt so much?

#DEI #DaleEarnhardt