Great costume, I hope he got a great haul! Miss all of you.

:(

A serious topic, but excuse me for a moment, 8yo!?!

The top ten on the NHL career goals leaderboard on top of a photo of Alex Ovechkin scoring his 895th NHL goal.

For the first time since March 1994—and the first time in the history of our website—there is a name other than Wayne Gretzky at the top of the NHL career goals leaderboard! 🥇

See the full list here: www.hockey-reference.com/leaders/goal...

Thankfully, prices dropped earlier today 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Look now. Ha.

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

Measles case confirmed in DC with exposures on Amtrak DC Health confirmed a case of measles on Tuesday morning and said the person diagnosed visited several places while contagious, including Amtrak.

The DC Department of Health says that someone with measles visited several places in DC, including Amtrak trains, six days ago while contagious.

Press release: dchealth.dc.gov/release/heal...

Not the point but also a little over an hour to comply org-wide. Also, full legal name with no nickname?!?

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.

☎️: (202) 224-3121

Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.

The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.

Call retiring Senators too!

Ontario is currently experiencing a measles outbreak, with the vast majority of cases occurring in unvaccinated individuals who were eligible to receive both doses of the vaccine.

The measles vaccine is safe, free, widely available, and very effective.

Guessing relates to the new, inappropriate restrictions on CDC staff members

OK, a roundup response to the "they won't follow the court orders" people.

First of all, you're wrong! The administration *is* following many of the court orders.

What's more, they're showing their understanding of the validity of court orders by seeking stays pending appeal when they lose.

Yes, yes it was. 🤣🏒🥅🏒🤣

And young gun Ovie

Fun game

The hat trick in the game before the AZ goal 😀

Md. confirms measles case; Dulles Airport travelers may have been exposed The health department said there may have been exposures at Dulles’s international arrivals area and a Howard County pediatric emergency department.

Md. confirms measles case; Dulles Airport travelers may have been exposed www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

All 8 #MARYLAND districts now available

(as noted, I've also started breaking out Medicare/Medicaid *dual-enrollees* as well!)

bsky.app/profile/char...

I wrote section 230 to protect the little guys and the upstarts like Bluesky. Repealing section 230 only helps Meta, Musk, and Donald Trump.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk Are Making Their Social Security Lies a Reality — By Punishing Maine Families (Washington, DC) — The following is a statement from Nancy Altman, Executive Director of Social Security Works: “For decades, the Social Security Administration (SSA) has had contracts with every state that allow parents to register their newborns for a Social Security card at the hospital. They also have contracts to find out from the states who has died so that SSA can cancel the benefits of the deceased. A week ago, the Trump Administration canceled both contracts with only one state — Maine. After the media broke the story, SSA issued a press release acknowledging that the cancellations were intentional, not accidental, and abruptly reversing course. But the damage has been done. Without those contracts, SSA did not automatically know who was born in Maine — or who died. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are doing their best to make their fantasy of dead people getting Social Security benefits a reality. This will create huge headaches for families, as well as Social Security’s rapidly shrinking workforce, to fix. Families with loved ones who died may receive overpayments that will have to be paid back. And exhausted new parents will drag their newborn babies to an already overburdened Social Security office in the middle of a measles outbreak. Acting Commissioner Leland Dudek is taking responsibility for the policy change, but Dudek has admitted that he takes orders from Elon Musk and his young minions. Cancelling those contracts created waste, abuse, and at least the potential for fraud. There is no policy reason for cancelling them, and many policy reasons against it. The only explanation is political revenge against Maine Governor Janet Mills, who has recently defied the Trump Administration.” @socialsecurityworks.org

Donald Trump and Elon Musk Are Making Their Social Security Lies a Reality — The Trump Administration canceled both contracts with only 1 state — Maine. After the media broke the story, SSA issued a press release that the cancellations were intentional, not accidental, and abruptly reversing course.

“It was not clear Thursday whether this is a nationwide change, unique to Maine, or if it is a change being piloted in Maine that would expand to other parts of the country.”

It doesn’t matter who does the study.

It doesn’t matter how rigorous the study is.

It doesn’t matter where the study is done.

If the study doesn’t confirm anti-vaxxers’ beliefs, they will disregard the results of the study.

SSA phones never stopped ringing before these cuts and chaos.

I’m reviewing an official DOGE staff list. Everybody’s number. Everybody’s email. Yes, including Elon’s. This Amy Gleason isn’t even on the list.

Word of the day.
Psychodrama

Mélanie Joly says “we don’t want to go the through this psychodrama every 30 days”, referring to Trumps tariffs.

Japanese American Citizens v. Musk

The complaint contains the most comprehensive factual and legal analysis of Musk/DOGE's actions I've seen to date.

Read the filing here: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Too many jokes being made about this. Never an excuse to drive impaired and this is a major city where options are available. Outrageous and of course, sad, as he likely won’t be penalized given current state of things.

Some "Russian Warship" vibes here from a tiny fed'l agency.

via Brett Murphy:

The African Development Foundation (budget ~$40 million) is putting up a fight and denying DOGE + Pete Marocco — the State Dept official dismantling USAID — access to their building:

Trump keeps spreading lies about Social Security.

What he isn't telling you is that he's actively trying to dismantle it — firing thousands of SSA employees and shuttering regional offices.

Why? To pave the way for privatization so Wall Street can gamble with our retirement.