Marc Bailey

Hypocrisy. Leave it to Leavitt.

This is PERFECTION!!!
I'd say it was perfect trolling if it weren't already perfect reality.

That press conference was the most disgraceful act of betrayal I’ve ever seen.

A disgraceful day.

It's not about efficiency. It's the owner of AccuWeather, who has been trying to get the NWS closed for years so that he can have a monopoly on weather prediction. I'd bet on it.

Report: More Americans Putting Off Retirement Until Final Few Moments Before Death WASHINGTON—According to a report released Monday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, financial concerns are prompting a growing number of Americans to delay retirement until the very last seconds of th...

Report: More Americans Putting Off Retirement Until Final Few Moments Before Death — theonion.com/report-more-...

I can't do it yet, but I respect the hell out of you and anyone else who does.

GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office.

ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.

The Planetary Society Strongly Opposes Mass Layoffs of Probationary… Sudden, indiscriminate layoffs at NASA do not serve the national interests in space leadership.

The Planetary Society strongly opposes the sudden, indiscriminate dismissal of more than 1,000 scientists, engineers, and explorers at NASA — the largest involuntary workforce reduction since the end of the Apollo program.

Read more on our stance. ⬇️

Purging dissent in the security services and giving loyalists power is something we *instantly* recognize in other contexts.

I'm afraid that would only work if any of these people had any shame.

This is why there should be raids on any places he might have hardware, that equipment should be seized and the data deleted by law enforcement. It wouldn't get rid of any data he's moved to remote servers, but it would be a start.
The fact that it would also be gratifying is totally irrelevant.

It feels like we elected the stupidest Batman villain ever.

These are the clowns Congress refuses to stop.

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

Fact Check: Chuck Schumer Or A Pedophile Was NOT Photographed Kissing A Child On Epstein's Island Or Somewhere Else | Lead Stories Does a photo of a man kissing a child show Chuck Schumer or a pedophile? No, that's not true: The...

This is actually pretty old (2020) and thoroughly debunked. The pic is of a different man and the girl is that man's daughter. Here's one of the sources that debunked the photo.
leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...

"Child?"
The wet, gravelly voices came from under the bed.
"Yes?"
"We watch your world, and we fear."
"I'll call for dad."
"Thank you."

-- twitter/MicroSFF

You may not want to exist right now, but someone is very happy that you do.

I'm glad that you're here.
I see you.
I will have your back in every way that I am able to.

Screenshot of Twitter/X post: Brian Schatz Multiple states locked out of Medicaid portal. This is a Trump shutdown, except this time it's unlawful. Chris Murphy Can confirm. Connecticut's Medicaid payment system has been turned off. Doctors and hospitals cannot get paid. Discussions ongoing about whether services can continue. Medicaid covers health care for millions of seniors and covers 40% of births in America.

Trump has frozen virtually all federal spending, despite the fact that it was already approved by Congress. This is an insane power grab that ignores the constitutional roles of the branches of government and that will do direct harm to countless Americans.

This is a constitutional crisis.

I'm a current employee at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). This is a throwaway account for obvious reasons. I'm posting this because people need to know what's going on at OPM. I've been an OPM employee for nearly a decade and a Federal Employee for almost 20 years. I've never witnessed anything even remotely close to what's happening right now. In short, there's a hostile takeover of the federal civil service. Let me say this in no uncertain terms - OPM has been compromised and taken over. The very backbone of American Government, the HR of all HR in the U.S. Government has been taken over by outside politicals. In just five days, they managed to push aside dozens of non-political, career civil servants who were there specifically to prevent the civil service from becoming the President's henchmen. The current Acting Director, Charles (Chuck) Ezell is a low-level branch chief. He's the friendliest "yes man" you'll ever meet. He never says no. It's clear they pushed aside all the high-level non political civil servants who refused to do Donald Trump's bidding, until they found Chuck. Under his name, they've sent numerous requests to all the agencies to collect information on gov't employees that they see as a threat to their agenda. Instructions say to send these lists to Amanda Scales. But Amanda is not actually an OPM employee, she works for Elon Musk. She wasn't even properly cleared by OPM Personnel Security. Our CIO, Melvin Brown, (also a non political career public servant) was pushed aside just one week into his tenure because he refused to setup email lists to send out direct communications to all career civil servants. Such communications are normally left up to each agency. Instead, an on-prem (on-site) email server was setup. Someone literally walked into our building and plugged in an email server to our network to make it appear that emails were coming from OPM. It's been the one sending those various "test" message you've all seen. We th…

This is exactly the takeover of government described in Project 2025. This unprecedented action cannot be allowed to stand.

A screenshot of a pop-up over the TikTok app that states: Sorry, TikTok isn't available right now A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately, that means you can't use TikTok for now. We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office. Please stay tuned!

Well, I guess it's done. But between the text of the announcement and various other factors, I expect this will be temporary. And that we need to find another place regardless.

"Evil isn't the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it's a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference." - Jim Butcher, Vignette

Somehow this Harry Dresden quote just keeps getting more topical as the years go by.

Pete Hegseth with a bottle of Jack Daniels. Text above him says "DUI HIRE".

Who made this?! 😂

The world just lost a little bit of weird and a whole lot of wonder. Thank you for everything, David. See you in the trees.

Single dad here. Separated about five years ago.
I hear you.

The full Wolf Moon, with a guest appearance by Mars (below it and to the left).
Taken with a Pixel 9 Pro XL. No filter. A quick shot with only zoom, no tripod, didn't have a chance to clean the camera lens.
Google didn't pay me for this endorsement, but my DMs are open. 😉

A bit late due to the drive home, but Happy New Year, all!

I was just noticing the same thing.