Tracy Spencer-Brown

Text reads: "Think of the federal government as a car. You might have thought that the election was like getting the car serviced. Instead, when you come into the shop, the mechanics, who somehow don't look like mechanics, tell you that they have taken the parts of your car that work and sold them and kept them money. And that this was the most efficient thing to do. And that you should thank them. ~Timothy Snyder

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A memo listing all of the clubs eliminated by USMA.

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

Hostile Takeover “Department of Government Efficiency” Hijacks The Federal Government

“Make no mistake, what’s happening right now is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private agency operating with a broad mandate and no concerns for the stability of the United States or the interests of the average American.”
Alexander Vindman

open.substack.com/pub/alexande...

Elon is the illegal immigrant taking your jobs and your 401ks.

Jesuit Priest 👇🏽

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

- SGEs are limited to providing services for up to 130 days in a 365-day period.
- SGEs are prohibited from acting as an agent or attorney before the government.
- SGEs must not participate in matters affecting their personal financial interests.

I had a desk there for the Baltimore Sun, as did other regional newspapers like the Boston Globe & chains like Scripps Howard. A lower circulation paper could have been picked for this “rotation,” but of course the Trump-Hegseth regime instead kicks out the Times. This is not in the public interest.

Definition of “kakistocracy” as a government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state.

Word of the day. Or week. Or next four years.