Jerry Newmark

Bondi Says She's The Bar Now We don't need no stinkin' ethics.

@lizdye.bsky.social wrote about the Trump DOJ’s ethics-rule gambit, and it’s deservedly brutal.

“The problem” with DOJ’s arguments for why their proposed rule isn’t illegal, she patiently explains, “is that all of that is bullshit.”

www.lawandchaospod.com/p/bondi-says...

Blumenthal: "I have emerged from classified briefings deeply concerned and very fearful that we're on the precipice not only of an escalating conflict that in region, but also putting troops on the ground b/c that is almost inevitably the path the admin has chosen by its current tactical approach"

I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them.

I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.

The Old Irish Goat : a living piece of ancient heritage. New research has revealed that the Old Irish Goat shares a 3,000-year genetic link with goats living in Ireland during the Late Bronze Age. The findings suggest the rare indigenous breed represents…

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“New research has revealed that the Old Irish Goat shares a 3,000-year genetic link with goats living in
Ireland during the Late Bronze Age.
The findings suggest the rare indigenous breed represents a continuous Irish lineage stretching back millennia.”

We adorn buildings with lithic lookouts not just for their delivering of stern beauty, but because some atavistic element aches for protection. Soot=scarred they may be,, but we first set those stone spirits to watch what was beyond our own eyes to see. – #CLNolan, BBC National Programme talk, 1933

You can always tell the difference between the legislator who is just reading questions put together for them by staff, and one who understands the subject and knows what they're asking.

Gonna pick a fight with umpty-zillion people who are hopped up on caffeine and sugar and like it that way

This isn't going to happen. The US Development Finance Corporation doesn't have underwriters except for a very limited type of financial transactions. They don't have the risk management specialists for, nor are they chartered to do this. The Navy won't have any capacity for escort duty for weeks.

This is the point. If your vaunted trillion-dollar military can't get through a few days of airstrikes because you've consolidated the industrial base so badly, then you don't have a trillion-dollar military, you just have contractors in No. Virginia getting rich

Alright time for the ritual. Time to post our favorite part

The "situation like this" is having total fucking ignorant madmen in charge of the military.

CORREA: What do you suggest I tell my constituents? Have a passport with you all the time?

NOEM: No. I would tell your citizens to be grateful they live in this country where President Trump is upholding the law. We will help them self-deport.

CORREA: These are American citzens!

This is kinda funny though, Musk taking a jab at the useful idiots in the press that have been writing about his 'genius' for decades. Every time he takes a shit and tweets, the press runs "Musk to Mars in A Week" and it pumps his stock. Imagine getting dunked on by this dolt in court lol

"There's a lot of work we have to do here at NASA to prepare," he said. "We've got to rebuild our core competencies. Now, does this mean the overall workforce count increases at KSC? I don't know the answer to that specifi-cally. I would say that there's a lot of contractors which do fantastic work that should be civ- il servants. It's kind of the heart of the workforce directive right now." He noted 75% of NASA's workforce is contrac- tors. "I think a lot of them should be civil servants. I think we should have those capabilities in house," he said. "We should have the ability to make changes and adjustments as we see fit, because we are NASA. ... We know an awful lot, and this is going to be our kind of pathway back to the moon." It also means the primary suppliers, including Lockheed Martin's Orion spacecraft, Boeing's core stage for the SLS rocket and Northrop Grumman with the solid rocket boosters, had to sign off on the plan.

DOGE cuts led by Musk slashed a fifth of NASA’s workforce. Now the new billionaire space tourist in charge admits the space agency needs to start hiring full-time employees over contractors if we want to make it back to the Moon.

www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/02/27/n...

Trump Has Been Sued 198 Times for Withholding Funding. It Hasn’t Stopped Him. (Gift Article) Immigration demands for highway dollars, D.E.I. rules for homeless grants: how Trump has tried to wield spending to get his way.

We've been tracking nearly 200 lawsuits against the Trump administration over its attempts to leverage federal funding to impose the president's agenda.

The most startling pattern: The administration seems entirely undeterred when it loses in court.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Also Marco Rubio: Our shared Christian faith must dictate our most consequential decisions about who gets to enter and join our society

Our SECDEF is a 12-year-old who got turned down at the sixth grade dance.

A light green alien mascot with antlers and a diamond-shaped mouth and a perspex cranium through which you can see an orange pear.

Nashiro (mascot of Hita City) is an alien with a see-through cranium, showing its brain, which is a pear.

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“Ellis, a registered nurse who is Haitian-American, said she is outraged and called for an investigation into Damas' death, which she said came weeks after the man first complained of tooth pain to Florence staff.

'Nobody should die from a toothache,’ Ellis said. 'Something has to be done.’”

When Mike Bloomberg tried to ban Big Gulp sodas for the same reason - heart-stopping amounts of sugar - the right wing lost their damn minds. Same people will no doubt nod sagely at this.

NATO Ambassador Mike Waltz threatens Iran's NATO ambassador: "Not my first firefight. He should be careful with his words sitting on American soil, and I'll just leave it at that."

a literal death cult running a whole country

Here's the perfect example of the actual MAGA priorities that we discuss here:

Hegseth: "Thus far Operation Epic Fury has delivered twice the air power of shock and awe of Iraq in 2003, minus Paul Bremer and the nation building."

WALZ: What a 'stop payment' meant by what the administration did last week is 400,000 children without healthcare

COMER: We believe that's your fault

WALZ: Our Medicaid error rate is lower than your state

Somehow unleashing the glorious lethality of the American warfighter in precise, unrelenting waves of death and destruction has not altered the fact that the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, you imbecilic plastic surgery freak

It's new YouTube video day!!!!!

In honor of the start of the #Formula1 season in Australia, I'm looking at the original open-wheel championship that attracted F1 drivers Down Under.

Tim Walz, purportedly brought to Oversight to address questions about fraud, is instead using it as a chance to air grievance abt the invasion.

www.c-span.org/event/house-...