For so many years, I loved WaPo. I read every article on the front page or first section. The journalism was exceptional. I learned so much. It also had just beautiful writing - evocative and compassionate. That’s how I’ll always remember WaPo. Thanks so much for your work!! It was so great.

YouTube Music, mixes on SoundCloud, and buying albums directly from the artist. I also love Radio Paradise’s Mellow Mix. I haven’t missed it all. It actually brought me back to focusing on artists again.

Veterans should hold government jobs. After all, they are the people who respond first when there’s a call to defend this country.

It’s right there: 5.32.050 in the link you posted —

“Uniforms worn by security agents must be clearly marked with the word “Security” in letters no less than one inch tall on the front of the uniform, and no less than four inches tall on the back of the uniform.”

Coeur d’Alene prosecutors dismiss citation against woman dragged from town hall, city revokes security company’s business license City prosecutors will dismiss a misdemeanor battery citation issued to the Post Falls woman who plainclothes private security guards dragged out of a legislative town hall Saturday and the city of Coe...

You can read it all here: cdapress.com/news/2025/fe...

Not really — by law, all security personnel need to be marked as such. These were plain clothes men who never stated how they ended up at the event. It’s why the security company they worked for has now lost its license.

Seems like a pretty important detail

Nova Scotia is looking for Internationally trained Healthcare Professionals #NovaScotia #Recruitment #Canada #Healthcare

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cheat sheet of vegan egg substitutes. It is a summary of the linked page and I think it will make more sense if you click on the link rather than me listing the random words and numbers all in a jumble.

Many vegans are baffled by people lamenting that they can't bake any more because eggs are too expensive because we have been baking without eggs for years! Here is a guide to vegan egg substitutes in baking: www.connoisseurusveg.com/vegan-baking...

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 20 civil service employees resigned Tuesday from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, saying they were refusing to use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services.” “We swore to serve the American people and uphold our oath to the Constitution across presidential administrations,” the 21 staffers wrote in a joint resignation letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press. “However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments.” The employees also warned that many of those enlisted by Musk to help him slash the size of the federal government under President Donald Trump's administration were political ideologues who did not have the necessary skills or experience for the task ahead of them. The mass resignation of engineers, data scientists and product managers is a temporary setback for Musk and the Republican president's tech-driven purge of the federal workforce. It comes amid a flurry of court challenges that have sought to stall, stop or unwind their efforts to fire or coerce thousands of government workers out of jobs. The staffers who resigned worked for what was once known as the United States Digital Service, an office established during President Barack Obama's administration after the botched rollout of Healthcare.gov, the web portal that millions of Americans use to sign up for insurance plans through the Democrat's signature health care law. All had previously held senior roles at such tech companies as Google and Amazon and wrote in their resignation letter that they joined the government out of a sense of duty to public service. Trump's empowerment of Musk upended that. The day after Trump's inauguration, the staffers wrote, they were called into a series of interviews that foreshadowed the secretive and disruptive work of Musk's' Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. According to the staffers, people wearing White House vis…

So they started out with ~100 existing staffers, 60 have now resigned.

*21 FEDERAL TECHNOLOGY STAFFERS RESIGNED FROM DOGE, AP SAYS

Leadership is doubling down, but GOP members are getting nervous about the budget’s extreme unpopularity.

You can call your Representative now at 202-224-3121.

Can’t say I’m surprised.

YouTube video by EU Defence and Space IRIS²: Connecting Europe, Connecting the World. Securely.

Europe has a solution for Starlink, it is faster and the quality is better. The IRIS 2 program. IRIS will make Starlink obsolete and provide permanent global coverage.

The US, and especially Musk, are not needed. #IRIS #EU youtu.be/V-SXNVeNby0

He's openly admitting they're going to use the military to do illegal things and fired all the lawyers so no one will stop them.

They will use the military on US civilians and they will give the order to shoot. The question is whether the rank and file listen.

Trump officials launch ICE effort to deport unaccompanied migrant children The Trump administration is directing immigration agents to track down hundreds of thousands of migrant children who entered the United States without their parents, expanding the president's mass deportation effort, according to an internal memo reviewed by Reuters.

This is horrific

"The Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo outlines an unprecedented push to target migrant children who crossed the border illegally as unaccompanied minors."

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

The report, the most in-depth dive into the byzantine finances of Florida’s homeowners insurance market, reveals that as the insurance market was ailing and companies were losing money, executives distributed $680 million in dividends to shareholders while diverting billions more to affiliate companies. Executives with most Florida-based insurers were removing so much money from their companies that they violated state regulations, the study’s author concluded. The result left some insurers financially weaker — and potentially unable to pay claims — heading into the depths of the state’s insurance crisis.

"While Florida insurers claimed to be losing money in the wake of hurricanes Irma and Michael, their parent companies and affiliates were making billions of dollars, according to a study obtained by the Herald/Times."

And it appears that the DeSantis administration tried to keep it under wraps.

Many are asking what should we do now?
“We use our power, organize, mobilize, educate…the American story will not be written by who occupies the White House or by the wealthiest among us…it will be written by you, by ‘we the people.’”
-fmr VP Kamala Harris receiving the NAACP Chairman’s Award.

PRAMS is the source of data for basically every effort to limit infant mortality and all the health dangers mothers face before and after birth. So a pretty big deal the Elon and Co decided to cancel the program.

They want us to be afraid. They want us to hesitate. They want us to fear their next move.

Fuck that shit.

We are just getting started fighting.

ICONIC: Yosemite National Park workers just hung an upside-down American flag—THOUSANDS of feet up on El Capitan. That’s not decoration. That’s a distress signal. They’re telling us the country is in danger. Are you paying attention?

www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...

“The unknown was not as scary as being complicit and not speaking up”

Some federal employees, both in public and behind closed doors, are resisting Elon Musk’s orders using whatever means they have

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy The KGB ‘played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality’, Yuri Shvets, a key source for a new book, tells the Guardian

Welp, there it is folks. Sources say we have a Russian spy as Prez.

Former Intelligence Officer Claims KGB Recruited Trump Alnur Mussayev alleged Trump was given the codename “Krasnov”.

(📢) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: The Daily Beast publishes a sourced allegation that Trump has been a Russian spy since 1987 and then—possibly under some form of threat—deletes it. But in an act of unusual heroism, it left it up long enough for Wayback Machine to capture it text.

Here it is (please share):

For those lacking but still wanting to make use this

A box fan can use used quite easily to make a very capable air filter especially with wildfire season coming about in a few months

It’s becoming very clear that rich Dems took their positions, not for love of country, but for themselves. They’re not showing up, they’re not growing up. Remember this. Because it’s clear we don’t need them and they don’t care about us.

For anyone working in Higher Ed concerned about the anti-DEI Dear Colleague letter calling on colleges to rid themselves of DEI programs, please read this letter by law professors who KNOW THE LAW--it's a good rejoinder to the letter and over-reach of this admin.

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She refuses to give up. I do too.