"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Now let's get back to the Epstein files.

Thinking the same thing. There must be something on Acorn.

The character arcs across the seasons are amazing and well-plotted.

Please don’t presume this is now an American president making a serious decision for the good of America, not a malignant despot desperate to be seen as a strong man.

ICE rolls up in full battle gear to pluck low-hanging fruit - busboys, day laborers, people dutifully reporting for immigration proceedings, people who have contributed to the economy for years, decades. How small and cowardly. Go into the gang-controlled areas to get the criminals 47 shouted about.

Rewatching Homicide. It holds up.

My new favorite book

I have no problem swearing, but I cannot and will not use that word; however, I can see how the tamer curses are just not sufficient when describing this shit show and its participants.

Thanks!

Random question: Is Pollen.commit operating because the people responsible for pollen counts are gone?

There are more kids with measles in Texas than there are Trans Athletes in the NCAA but you don’t hear MAGA out there talking about that now do you?

There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing How regime change happens in America

Since writing this article, I have received messages from federal civil servants who tell me it is accurate, and that they are frightened. Please share this with anyone who doesn't understand the scale of the transformation.

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If English is the official language, I expect everyone to use correct verb tense forms, pronoun order, and apostrophes.

Any psychologist or psychiatrist (or former abused spouse) will tell you that President Zelensky gave a master class today on how to deal with a malignant narcissist.

He is an amazing man. We can all learn from him.

I just opened a box of Cheezits. Every cracker is the perfect texture and degree of doneness. It’s the little things.

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

Visit Dundee in Yamhill County. Yummy Pinots.

How Trump Gutted America’s $40 Billion Aid Agency in Two Weeks The dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development appears to be a test case for the new administration.

Work that was halted, according to employees and contractors, included the U.S.’s efforts to stop the spread of an Ebola outbreak in Uganda, an outbreak of the Marburg virus disease in Tanzania, and a multicountry outbreak of Mpox.

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For all federal employees:

Before you are locked out of your systems, ensure you have copies of unclassified performance appraisals, awards & other relevant personnel docs.

If you have access to your office, grab your more important personal items sooner rather than later.

Don’t sign shit. Make them fire you. Do not resign your position based on an assurance from an administration whose head has a reputation for stiffing contractors who did work for him.

I hear there are stories coming, but putting the brakes on our country’s world-leading medical research system feels like a five alarm fire and I don’t see a newspaper that even has it on the front page yet

This "Golden Age" is looking great for Donald Trump and his uber-wealthy friends.

But for the rest of America? Not so much.

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"[A] democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." - FDR (1938)

As in his first term, Trump’s second term will quite literally kill Americans. MAGA, MAGA.

Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is now America's largest in recorded history Kansas public health officials say the state's ongoing tuberculosis outbreak is the largest since the CDC started reporting TB cases in the 1950s.

Trump has gagged the CDC, but not me. So I'm sharing this. www.cjonline.com/story/news/p...