Brian Oelberg

Unqualified Sec. of transportation Duffy says we had to cut air travel by 10%.
Yet private aviation accounts for 12%. Screw the average American, corporations and billionaires must not be inconvenienced.

Flee and go where? Presumably their jobs are still in NYC

It's not just the military. Even as their civilian counterparts are not receiving a paycheck during the shutdown, FBI agents and parts of the Department of Homeland Security, such as Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, Coast Guard, Customs and Border Patrol, Secret Service, and Air Marshals will get their paychecks on time.

Some exceptions but a good rule of thumb to understand which federal employees will be paid during the shutdown is whether their job involves carrying a gun.

No gun, no paycheck. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

“Rather than AI being able to enhance human innovation, critical thinking, the progress of science—it’s being used to exploit our insecurities. That’s the thing about so many of these Silicon Valley tech bros. They’re essentially emotionally maladapted psychopaths.”

Speaking nothing but the truth.

Massive No kings protest in Grant Park, Chicago today.

Can’t make the protest? Here are other ways you can resist:

• Get connected to the resistance: fiftyfifty.one

• Get trained on noncooperation:
nokings.org/rise

• Get engaged in politics:
pol-rev.com

• Get started:
Choosedemocracy.us

The dirty secret is that most police think of the Capitol Police as glorified security guards and not as “real” as they are.

Bought a copy for my Mom, a Unitarian Minister, she’s looking forward to reading it.

In today’s Chicago Tribune

music.youtube.com/watch?v=vNvm...

See? There is a minority that’s ruining America

Here’s the picture from the Associated Press that the Chicago Tribune chose to run today. Covering up any signs of a stroke.

Does anyone know why the march in Chicago is so goddamn slow? We’ve spent more time standing still than moving forward ( NOT a metaphor)

Workers over Oligarchs protest today at the Haymarket memorial, Chicago. Mayor addresses the crowd.

Another school shooting by a white, male, Right-wing, homegrown terrorist.
This recurring cartoon from *fifteen goddamn years ago* is especially chilling given that we now have an actual tyrant.

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"Only Nancy Pelosi had the power to call up the National Guard in DC."

You know what’s fascinating about laws?
They are completely made up!
Yeah! Remember when The Sainted Reagan gave amnesty to all those people who were here “illegally”?
Yeah, it’s just that arbitrary!

The Rich can’t launder money through SNAP

But not the juvenile facility she wanted…

For those keeping score:

It’s ALWAYS Republicans