If you’ve been scolded by the Pope AND by the Auschwitz Memorial in the same week, it’s time to take a minute and reconsider your choices.

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Where are the adults in the GOP??

My favorite from today’s 50501 March in Boston.

It's annoying how clearly this is going to play out.

They gut the FAA.
Therefore, the FAA can't do its job well because it was gutted.
Therefore, they say "The FAA sucks, we have to privatize it." which is what Project 2025 wants to do. They're manufacturing the crises for their end goal.

Exclusive: CIA flying covert drone missions into Mexico to spy on drug cartels | CNN Politics The CIA under President Donald Trump has been covertly flying MQ9 Reaper drones over Mexico to spy on drug cartels, current and former officials familiar with the matter told CNN, part of Trump’s dram...

Trump now flying Reaper drones in Mexico based on a covert finding that might envision drone strikes (now I have to go find my posts predicting this would one day happen).

That didn't take long to leak!

edition.cnn.com/2025/02/18/p...

I am so sick of hearing any Democrat saying they are willing to be “bipartisan” or “reach across the aisle.” Just stop that stupidity. If these fascists want to work with you let them come. Stop acting weak.

#ETTD

UNBELIEVABLE.

Am I the only person who remembers who Kirill Dmitriev is?

He was in the Seychelles in January 2017 plotting with Trump envoy Erik Prince, a Jared Kushner envoy, Emirati Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed and a host of shady characters who'd worked to steal the 2016 election for Trump.

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live Paul McCartney: Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End (Live) – SNL50

🙏🏼 Spend just six minutes of your time with this one, good people, while the 82-year-old Paul McCartney deals in art and genius ...

🙏🏼 Be brave enough to listen to it through the prism of these difficult times.

🙏🏼 It'll break your heart, bring much-needed tears, and fill the well of undying hope ...

In botched DEI purge, OSHA trashes workplace safety guidelines The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has ordered the digital and physical destruction of 18 publications on workplace safety practices, according to an internal February 7 email ob...

1. OSHA has ordered the digital and physical destruction of 18 publications on workplace safety practices, according to an email obtained by Popular Information.

The email says the publications have been removed from the web and tells staff that physical copies should be "disposed of or recycled"

Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return at a time when federal employees are being laid off

Want to go visit the national parks this year?
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.

www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

THE TABLE AT WHICH UKRAINE WILL SIT WILL BE THE VICTORIOUS ONE.

Go ahead.

Let the people see you for what you are.

The DOL Office of the Inspector General (“DOL OIG”) does critical work related to unemployment insurance fraud. To take just one example, during the pandemic, federal and state governments distributed over $888 billion in unemployment benefits to support Americans in crisis. However, my office uncovered that an estimated $191 billion in pandemic unemployment benefits may have been improperly paid—with a substantial portion of that money attributable to fraud.

5. A week before my purported termination at DOL IG, the Wall Street Journal ran an article commending my team and me on the great work we were combatting unemployment insurance fraud. It also mentioned the need to extend the statute of limitations. The article highlighted a U.S. Government Accountability Office report, estimating that $135 billion in funds had been stolen from the unemployment insurance program in a two-year span. Time is Running Out to Recover Up to $135 Billion in Pilfered Jobless Benefits, Wall St. J. (Jan. 16, 2025).

Fired Department of Labor IG Larry Turner found $191B in improper COVID unemployment payments, much of it fraud, and was hunting down $135B more when he was fired.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I'm feeling nostalgic for competence.

This is why you fight these cowards.

The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.

Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.

He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

We agree.

"Law and order" in the Trump era: if you bow down to the head of the U.S. government, he may help you - whether you're awaiting trial for sex crimes in Europe or doing time in the USA for physically assaulting police.

Measles high infection rate is the reason we have not yet been able to eradicate it. That rate means you need a very high vaccination rate to prevent outbreaks. It is possible, but not with current levels of institutional distrust.

The Presidential limo leading the opening field at the Daytona 500 in Florida on 16 Feb 2025

Hey DOGE bros - found some of that wasteful spending you were looking for.
How many gov employees could have kept working and feeding their families with the estimated $2.5M this stunt cost?

Old friend just laid off by USDA, 1 mos short of his probationary period as senior researcher. Brilliant person who left a tenured faculty position several yrs ago to join USDA. Bright early-career researchers also being laid off. USDA is terminating a generation of highly-qualified scientists.

Wherein Elon says the quiet, corrupt part out loud:

He intends to steal the private IRS data of his political enemies.

How soon before he does the same to his economic competitors?

Or you?

Trump prepares to wipe out years of progress on gun violence An executive order threatens “ghost gun” regulations, red flag laws, and more.

Trump is preparing to wipe out years of progress on "ghost guns," backgrounds checks, red flag laws, and more.

Education Dept. Gives Schools Two Weeks to Eliminate Race-Based Programs The department’s Office for Civil Rights warned that it would penalize schools that consider race in scholarships, hiring and an array of other activities.

The Education Department has warned U.S. schools that they risked losing federal funding if they continued to take race into account when making scholarship or hiring decisions — or so much as nodded to race in “all other aspects of student, academic and campus life.”

After Censorship, Santa Rosa Students Write Their Own Play — and Take the Gold | KQED A state festival awarded top honors to ‘REDACTED,’ which ruthlessly lampooned district officials.

School play gets canceled for "inappropriate content".

In response students write [REDACTED], their own anti-censorship play skewering the school district, sells out performances, and ultimately takes gold at the Lenaea High School Theatre Festival.

www.kqed.org/arts/1397192...

Top Social Security Official Leaves After Musk Team Seeks Data Access (Gift Article) The departure of the acting commissioner is the latest backlash to the Department of Government Efficiency’s efforts to access sensitive data.

“[SSA] has our bank information, our earnings records, the names and ages of our children, and much more.”

“Warning about the risks of Mr. Musk's team accessing the data, Ms. Altman added, ‘There is no way to overstate how serious a breach this is.’” (🎁 link)