See How Government Spending Is Up Even as Musk Touts Savings The Musk team’s estimated $150 billion in savings barely makes a dent in $6.8 trillion of expenditures largely on autopilot, a WSJ analysis finds.

Spending is up, after all Musk's "cuts". Maybe they're paying him and his stooges too much?
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These SSNs were obtained by legal residents. Now they're being "ended" to force them out of the country.

This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

YouTube video by Danceelectric David Bowie - This Is Not America

In 1985 they made the movie, THE FALCON & THE SNOWMAN. It was the true story of two young men who betrayed their country, passing secrets to the Soviets in Mexico City.

"This is Not America, " by Pat Metheny and David Bowie was part of the soundtrack. These days it is constantly playing in my head.

It is legal to criticize the president. It is legal to criticize the president's actions. It is legal to criticize the president's advisors. It is legal and patriotic and the blood of a healthy society to hold those in power accountable, and even to mock them. Remember it.

How Education Department layoffs hit student loans, testing, civil rights The layoffs call into question how agency will be able to handle major operations such as student loans, FAFSA, the Nation’s Report Card and civil rights complaints.

On Tuesday night, co-presidents Trump and Musk fired half of the workers at the Education Department.

On Wednesday, FAFSA - the financial aid application for millions of kids who want to go to college - went down.

That’s their idea of efficiency.

#ImWithUkraine #DiTheRightThing #HelpOthers

Why aren't we talking about this more? Never mind. I know why.

Part II

" ... And that means they look at Trump and, given his very limited tool chest and his blindly distributive understanding of negotiation, they know exactly what he is going to do and exactly how to respond to it."

In addition to reducing FAA power in his first term, and gutting aviation safety Oversight last week...

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This was a comment from one of my Houston friends who moved to the UK about 10 years ago. She's not so long away that she doesn't understand our politics, or so new to the UK that she doesn't understand theirs.

#Brexit #Brexshit #LiesHurtPeople #FoodShortages #HigherPrices #HousingShortages

If You're a Christian and You're Cheering Deportations—You Sure as Hell Ain't a Christian In the 1986 movie Hannah and Her Sisters, an embittered painter named Frederick (who is also an Atheist) is lamenting the grave state of the world to his partner, when his anger turns toward Christian...

These self-identified Christians are celebrating the separation of parents from their children and spouses from one another; cheering families being torn apart, lives being violently uprooted, and human beings being terrorized at school, work, and church.

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On our Instagram page, a commenter tells us their conversion story from being “school choice” voucher advocate — once they realized what (and who) was really behind it all 👇🏽

#LeesVoucherScam

Attending the local school board meeting, because imvolvement on the local level is where you start.

God made us in all kinds of varieties.

Heeding Trump, Air Force won't teach recruits about Tuskegee Airmen A video on the pioneering Black pilots, famed for their World War II exploits, was stripped from an Air Force basic training curriculum this week.

Following Trump's Executive Order to remove DEI from all things government related, a training video about the Tuskeegee Airmen, another on Women Air Force Service Pilots and another called "Breaking Barriers" were all removed from Air Force Training Courses. www.expressnews.com/news/article...

Naw. Not boring. Just reasonable. 😁