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Any Dems now unveiling a proper coomitment and plan for #WashingtonDC statehood?

Fabulous invitation to the opening of Agent Orange's grand ballroom

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JD Vance turns up in England telling us everything that’s wrong with our country and what we should be doing differently, which to be fair is quite an English thing to do on holiday.

No, you did not give those of us who happened to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor any due process. And that was profoundly wrong. It destroyed our lives.

There have been five different heads of the IRS this year alone:

Doug O'Donnell (Jan. 20th thru Feb. 28th)
Melanie Krause (Feb. 28th thru April 16th)
Gary Shapley (April 16th thru April 18th)
Michael Faulkender (April 18th thru June 16th)
Billy Long (June 16th thru today)

About to be a sixth.

OK. So someone is draining the swamp?

#vance

Also true that if the Eagles had been writing 'Hotel California' in the ICE age, they'd have had to change the lyrics. Turns out while you can't leave, you can be removed. #stanforddaily

Also true that if the Eagles had been writing 'Hotel California' in the ICE age, they'd have had to change the lyrics. Turns out while you can't leave, you can be removed. #stanforddaily

Since a leading professor of power is at Stanford (Jeffrey Pfeffer): not having a lot to lose is a power. Unnoticed reductions in courage are an off-balance sheet effect of assets. Opportunity: set up more special purpose orgs to sue Agent Orange (like PACs but LACs).

'Grind the justice system to a halt':  Judges are openly losing 'faith' in Trump’s DOJ New York Times reporter Alan Feuer reports that U.S. judges are openly questioning the honesty of Justice Department lawyers and their filings.“As a general rule, judges tend to take them at their wor...

'Grind the justice system to a halt':  Judges are openly losing 'faith' in Trump’s DOJ

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The economy is on the precipice of recession. That’s the clear takeaway from last week’s economic data dump. Consumer spending has flatlined, construction and manufacturing are contracting, and employment is set to fall. And with inflation on the rise, it is tough for the Fed to come to the rescue. Unemployment remains low, but that’s only because labor force growth has gone sideways. The foreign-born workforce is shrinking, and labor force participation is declining. Telling is the economy-wide hiring freeze, particularly for recent graduates, and the decline in hours worked. It’s no mystery why the economy is struggling; blame increasing U.S. tariffs and highly restrictive immigration policy. The tariffs are cutting increasingly deeply into the profits of American companies and the purchasing power of American households. Fewer immigrant workers means a smaller economy. Any notion that the economic data misrepresents the reality of how the economy is performing is way off base. There are revisions to the data, even big revisions, but they universally say the economy is doing worse. That’s because it is. BTW, the DOGE cuts are a key factor in the revisions—not because BLS has cut staff, although that can’t help, but because the government often reports payrolls to BLS late. It didn’t matter when government employment was stable, but now that it’s declining, the cuts are picked up in the revisions.

Trump is panicking because the economic numbers are giving a recession vibe.
From the Chief Economist at Moody's.

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Fabulous! From Agent Orange's first time around, I wrote this short story (free, and on audio as well as text) about him meeting poetic justice on the links at Turnberry: enjoy. douglasboard.com/novels/the-r...

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'Make America Wait Again': Giant heads mocking Elon Musk appear in national parks A temporary art installation mocking Elon Musk is appearing at national parks nationwide. For the last three weekends, a giant Musk head has appeared in crowded parking lots and long lines of people w...

The cunning plan being, having lengthened the queues despite Canadians/foreigners/others staying away, to use the national parks as ICE checkpoints?

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Saw the play 'Nachtland' last year in London, by Marius von Mayenburg. A family discovers sketches by Hitler in the attic. They fall apart.

I was so excited by a denial of 'deep vain thrombosis' that I had to check the spelling in the WH release. Their spelling is slightly different, but 'deep vain thrombosis' sounds spot on to me.

The point about Agent Orange never releasing this stuff seems a really good one.

Moving scene - tears, hugs, and cheers - inside the State Dept HQ last night, as diplomats gathered in the lobby to clap out their laid off colleagues, some of which have served for decades 👇🏻

For a moment, forget DEI.

OD Project 2029. If there is a tomorrow, we will need to be ready-to-go with deNazification. Is anyone doing this stuff?

To clean up many state power structures within the rule of law after Nazi infestation - ICE being only one example - needs new laws and training progs.

My brilliant friend Lessons in love and adventure

This, from my friend @queen-christina.bsky.social, is very inspiring but also, sadly, an obituary.

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And people told me I was overreacting in comparing the concentration camp to Auschwitz. They're not being subtle about what they want to do

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All GBU-57A/B MOPs used on Iran were wokeness-scrubbed via a special 'Trump Operating System' Pete Hegseth found on Signal. As the bombs fell, they sent a signal received in the Situation Room after some hours' delay. 'I may work. I may not work. Nobody knows, not even me. LOL, Dr Strangelove.'

Funny thing for a retirement-in-progress man to say, but there are so many old men around the world f---ing up so many things, and then there is Nelson Mandela. A great generational leap with relevance well beyond NY or US.

@actsa-uk.bsky.social

One for Anglophiles: from today's Guardian. Gosh, imagine a world in which 'listener' became an on-trend occupation.

I'm no historian but I believe this country typically only held military parades for victories. This one was for a failure, so we're new to this.

2/2 ... Estreet percussionist Anthony Almonte is another story! Hoping for 'Wrecking Ball' tonight, dedicated to Elon Musk.

#EStreetBand #Bruce #Praha

1/2 Super memory from yesterday in Prague celebrating TeachRock's achievements with musician, actor, activist Steve van Zandt. In this picture I think my marriage is safe but ten minutes later ...

#EStreetBand #bruce

From inauguration day 2017 to Los Angeles 2025. The former prompted a re-do of Boyzone lyrics 'No Matter What' www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eul... - here's part.

#fascism

“Reading is woke!”
MTG

Elon Musk Hits Trump With Nuclear Allegation About Jeffrey Epstein Elon Musk is taking his breakup with Donald Trump to the next level.

Careless of the former First Teenager to exit with no pardon stuffed down his pants. Hoping to see a Pam Bondi ketamine task force leaping into action before day's end.

#elon

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I'm so excited about the new growth space in coaching and HR: UFO work (uniformity, feudalism and ostracism). Keen to learn and share where the frontline is today? An AI predicted mega-trend in this area 2-3 years out is also cool, but hate the othering terminology: de-Nazification.

#DEI #futureHR