Kevin Bacher

The one in the black suit, against a white background, is the official presidential portrait; the leafy one is in the National Portrait Gallery.

Funny how supposed waste and abuse were discovered at agencies Republicans happen to hate ideologically (USAID, Education), rather than the one that actually failed audits (Defense, which received EXTRA funding in the Continuing Resolution)…

“What did you do last week?”

The suggestion that Federal workers are “unaccountable bureaucrats” is bullshit. Every Federal agency is accountable through the chain of command to an agency head confirmed by Congress, in the same way that private employees are accountable to CEOs and Boards of Directors.

The same people who thought Hillary Clinton was running a pedophile ring in the basement of a pizza parlor watch Trump kiss the toes of Vladimir Putin and say “yep, seems legit”

Saying NPS can hire 1500 more employees than last year, without providing a single extra dollar to pay for it, is meaningless, and a way to distract “journalists” who merely copy-paste press releases

It’s about a cubic mile of ice: the equivalent of about a trillion (!) gallons of water.

We’ve had a subscription to the @washingtonpost.com for a few years now. We canceled it yesterday.

Insightful.

Mitch McConnell is retiring from US politics. Good riddance | Moira Donegan

"The Republican party that McConnell is now shaking his head at is the one that he created. He has no one but himself to blame," writes Guardian US columnist Moira Donegan.

This is serious, folks. Time to take action. Unelected and unaccountable individuals working in secret should not have control of the government's financial and human resources systems. This time the coup is taking place from the inside.