Henry Lester

This wasn't a random person. I listened to an interview with her. Your comment is not the message to take away from the event.

Documentation please. You have overstated what I found.

Marcel Dirsus on the rise and fall of tyrants "The tyrant usually tries to destroy as many institutions as possible because they’re constraints on his power."

"In a personalist dictatorship, the tyrant usually tries to destroy as many institutions as possible because they’re constraints on his power."

Top HHS spokesperson quits after clashing with RFK Jr. Thomas Corry resigned over disagreements with the HHS secretary and his approach to the measles outbreak.

RFK Jr’s top spokesman at HHS resigns after just 2 weeks after reporting clashing with him about his response to the measles epidemic in Texas. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Social security is funded by the payroll tax. There is no problem because payroll taxes should be increased just like Ronald Reagan did. A good start would be subjecting wages over $176,000 to the payroll tax. Consider that the average CEO makes 100 times that amount.

Coalition of Unions, Small Businesses, Veterans, and Conservation Organizations Seeks Court Order to Prevent Unlawful Firings - State Democracy Defenders Action Press ReleaseFebruary 24, 2025 Amended Complaint also Targets Illegal “Five Things” Email WASHINGTON – In their lawsuit attempting to block the unlawful mass terminations of probationary federal emplo...

BREAKING: judge just announced he is ruling in our favor! He’s reading his legal findings from the bench now, OPM did not have authority to direct firings. Says agencies LIED! Organizational plaintiffs have standing. Now awaiting rest of findings & relief

statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/coaliti...

Unfortunately, the takeover and destruction of government by business interests has been in the works for decades.

Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE We the Builders aims to explain why DOGE’s data access matters.

This is great.
www.theverge.com/news/617014/...

Read The Great Myth

Total hypocrite "time to build" has morphed to "time to brown nose"

This is an old business theme - equating free markets to personal freedom - that has been pushed and sponsored by business organizations since 1900 at least. It was used to argue for child labor - a father should have the freedom to choose what's right for his family.

That is wonderfully disgusting

If you clip the bucket into your harness, you could belay someone up, or lower them.

I try and get as many books as possible from the library.

That's actually pretty old scenario notwithstanding whatever the Guardian says.

Looks awesome

Desert rock towers

Much of this sort of thing was pushed by the business community.

The cult of business freedom and profit is the only value

Or you could read some actual literature instead of pulp fiction

Less revenue and worse service. The audit rate is already a quarter of what it was 10 years ago because of persistent underfunding.

Yes. It's certainly valuable to come to know the crackpot canon. I've read Mao's Little Red Book, and I should read Mein Kampf given the current environment. But to better understand Ayn Rand, you should read The Great Myth.

What a maroon! An executive branch appointment is doing the work of the legislative branch?!

Yeah, the hubris of the wealthy that they think they know everything.

Thanks. Got it. I had read previously that the German defense minister had resigned. Obviously, there's a replacement.

Right on

Cassandra syndrome?

1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC
1/31: Crash in Philly
2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle
2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska
2/10: Crash in Scottsdale
2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego
2/16: Crash in Covington, GA

7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

Right along side the Church has been a parallel business propaganda movement to equate business freedom and capitalism to individual freedom and democracy. They have largely succeeded, and the alliance with evangelical christians has resulted in fewer individual rights.

Bernie Sanders launches tour "to fight oligarchy": Here's where he's going Sanders said in a video message that his tour is against billionaires like Elon Musk, who are using power to gain more money.

#Fire-the-Fascist-Oligarchs

Oligarch undertaxed wealth:
💰 Musk’s $402 billion
💰 Zuckerberg's $252 billion
💰 Bezos' $249 billion

Workers:
🛠️ 60% live paycheck to paycheck
🛠️ 85 million uninsured or underinsured
🛠️ 800k homeless

#Fight-for-Working-Families

www.newsweek.com/bernie-sande...