February 13, 2025 Four years ago today, on February 13, 2021, Senate Republicans acquitted former president Donald Trump of incitement of insurrection in his second impeachment trial.

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February 12, 2025 Yesterday afternoon, in a bizarre performance, President Donald Trump hosted reporters in the Oval Office, the formal working space of the President of the United States.

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February 11, 2025 On February 12, 1809, Nancy Hanks Lincoln gave birth to her second child, a son: Abraham.

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February 9, 2025 On Friday, President Donald Trump issued an executive order “protecting Second Amendment rights.” The order calls for Attorney General Pam Bondi to examine all gun regulations in the U.S.

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February 8, 2025 Yesterday the National Institutes of Health under the Trump administration announced a new policy that will dramatically change the way the United States funds medical research.

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February 7, 2025 Maya Miller of the New York Times reported today that the congressional phone system has been jammed with tens of millions of calls from outraged constituents contacting their representatives to deman...

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February 6, 2025 The U.S.

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February 5, 2025 Five years ago, on February 5, 2020, Republican senators acquitted then-president Donald Trump in his first impeachment trial.

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February 4, 2025 Shortly after 1:00 this morning, Vittoria Elliott, Dhruv Mehrotra, Leah Feiger, and Tim Marchman of Wired reported that, according to three of their sources, “[a] 25-year-old engineer named Marko Elez...

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There is still beauty in this world

February 3, 2025 I’m going to start tonight by stating the obvious: the Republicans control both chambers of Congress: the House of Representatives and the Senate.

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February 1, 2025 Throughout now-president Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, it was clear that his support was coming from three very different factions whose only shared ideology was a determination to destroy the federal...

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All the people who were firefighting experts last week are now NTSB Air Disaster Investigators.

January 31, 2025 On February 1, 1862, in the early days of the Civil War, the Atlantic Monthly published Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic,” summing up the cause of freedom for which the United States tro...

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January 30, 2025 Last night, just before 9:00 Eastern time, an American Airlines jet originating in Wichita, Kansas, carrying 64 people and a U.S.

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Air Force Officer Who Advocated for Women in Leadership Roles Removed from Command Col. Julie Sposito-Salceies was relieved from the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam unit by Gen. Kevin Schneider, commander of Pacific Air Forces, "due to loss of confidence in her ability to command the...

"-Sposito-Salceies' firing was announced just days after President Donald Trump's inauguration. During his campaign, he promised to eliminate progressive programs from the military and remove officers who supported them from leadership roles."

Not at all suspicious

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January 29, 2025 In a conversation with Greg Sargent of the New Republic published today, writer Amanda Marcotte called out an important moment in White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s first press conference ...

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Or cholesterol

I used to have the free account they gave to .gov email addresses. Makes me glad that Bezos bent the knee and canceled the free government accounts.

Don't forget about construction. The new housing market is going to go tits up fast

Federal workers have filed a lawsuit to stop the federal government’s HR office from emailing all civilian staff simultaneously, citing privacy violations.

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president, represents more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plan folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron"

Also H.L. Mencken

January 27, 2025 Yesterday, President Donald Trump began a trade war with Colombia after that country’s president refused to permit two U.S.

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Dumb, lucky, and born on third base thinking he hit a triple

January 25, 2025 We have all earned a break for this week, but as some of you have heard me say, I write these letters with an eye to what a graduate student will need to know in 150 years.

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I thought it was 2012, when the Mayan Long Count calendar ended, and we've been living in an alternate universe ever since...

Tywin Lannister: "Any man who says 'I am king' is no true king"

I've been using it since his first term, and following the advice of Tywin Lannister

Considering #Dotard3x2 was impeached not once, but *twice*, and both times the feckless GOP decided it wasn't "in the best interests of America" to convict #Orange_Joffrey, and the second time Yertle said "it was up to the courts after Jan 20.