Jacque Schitt

👇🎯 Your regular reminder that unfunded mandate are bad, we shouldn't have them, & the actual solution to nearly <every> problem in 🇺🇸 higher education - both real & imagined - is to...

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<John Facenda voice>

...Fund.

The.

Damn.

Public.

Universities.

Like.

We.

Used.

To.

Do.

"I'm obsessed with my kid getting into the right college"

Fund. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To.

U.S. Senate panel sets Feb. 25 hearing for Trump surgeon general nominee The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will hold its delayed confirmation hearing for Casey Means, President Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. surgeon general, next week, th...

Medical Quacktitioner Casey Means will have her confirmation hearing for Surgeon General next week.

For those thinking there may be a shakeup going on related to RFK Jr.’s public health agencies, this will likely reveal that Republicans still don’t care about scientific evidence or public health.

Chlorine Dioxide, Raw Camel Milk: The FDA No Longer Warns Against These and Other Ineffective Autism Treatments The FDA has taken down a webpage warning about therapies and products making “false claims” of treating autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...

NEW: The FDA has removed a webpage warning about dangerous therapies claiming to treat autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under RFK Jr. to discredit long-established science.

By @megomatz.bsky.social

Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs Ring's CEO told staff the feature is “first for finding dogs,” indicating a plan to expand.

Ppl were definitely not wrong to call this sh*t out, esp w their BS Superbowl ad. Using ppl's data to get more invasive has been the plan all along.

"Ring’s controversial, AI-powered “Search Party” feature isn’t intended to always be limited only to dogs" - per Ring's CEO.

So after Trump pardoned Honduras's narco-president, the admin didn't just let him out--they canceled an immigration hold and sent a specialized team to **chauffeur him to the $1k/night Waldorf Astoria.**

“It's "absolutely fucking nuts,” said one official

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

You’re on social media, so this should concern you.

The U.S. government has been asking platforms like Meta for user data.

You don’t have to be paranoid to see the problem. You just have to be paying attention. If you’re online, this includes you.
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Something I noticed on X last week: Accounts that *block you* can show up in your For You feed.

Would you like to guess the ideological slant of the accounts that got this perk?

Ted Lieu: “Donald Trump is in the Epstein files thousands and thousands of times. In those files, there are highly disturbing allegations of Donald Trump raping children … of Donald Trump threatening to kill children. So I encourage the press to go look at these allegations.”

Eric Trump Invests in ‘Low Cost Per Kill’ Drone Company The president’s son has joined a deal to take the Israeli company Xtend public.

Last year, Israeli drone-making company Xtend secured a multi-million dollar contract with the Defense Department.

Now, Eric Trump is joining a $1.5B investment deal to take Xtend public.

Do you see the problem?

Utah GOP says they have enough signatures for pro-gerrymander ballot measure It remains to be seen whether their latest submissions will clear the verification process, which is set to be completed by March 9.

Utah Republicans submitted 200k of the necessary 140k petition signatures to put a pro-gerrymandering measure on the ballot.

The GOP has been hellbent on repealing the state’s gerrymandering ban after a judge cleared the way for Democrats to potentially pick up a congressional seat in 2026.

Opinion | You’re Paying 90% of Trump’s Tariffs So the New York Federal Reserve says in the latest look at import prices.

Donald Trump doesn’t know how the economy works, so don’t be surprised that he’s lying to you about tariffs. https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-tariffs-consumers-new-york-federal-reserve-study-95bed1bc

Mystery of the missing minute from Epstein jail video solved Documents that were part of the Epstein files release help explain why a video released from the night of Epstein's death was missing one minute close to midnight.

Remember when Epstein died in jail during the Trump administration and somehow there’s no video .

www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/mys...

NEW: ICE Confiscates Children's Letters at Dilley Concentration Camp. I've filed a FOIA Request to Get Them ProPublica recently published heart-wrenching letters from children at Dilley. ICE then raided the dormitories to confiscate and destroy those letters. I've filed a Freedom of Information Act Request.

NEW: ICE has raided dormitories at the Dilley concentration camp to confiscate letters from children per @pabloreports.bsky.social. I have filed a FOIA request for them. @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social: the second we get anything, we will send it to you. 1/ www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-ice-co...

I just want to point out that’s Doug Wilson speaking at the Pentagon. Doug Wilson wants: the 19th amendment repealed, non-Christian religions outlawed, the death penalty for homosexuality, women barred from working or holding office, blasphemy laws, and one party theocratic rule.

Your daily bananas Trump corruption story:

It's about a bridge connecting Michigan to Canada that's due to open, until the billionaire owner of the existing clogged bridge called Trump and asked him to keep the new bridge closed.

Nuclear grade corruption. All out in the open.

Fun fact: Trump doesn’t even review his intelligence briefings and when he does, they need to be filled with pictures and no more than 5 mins long. He has the attention span of a field mouse 🤣

This is the contradiction they sell on loop: the border is secure, yet the threat is everywhere; the crisis is solved, yet we need more cages. Fear doesn’t have to make sense — it just has to justify cruelty.

Rep. Buddy Carter: "Some of the demands that the Democrats have put forth, we're not gonna be able to obtain that. We can't have a warrant every time."

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Why CBS Didn't Broadcast Stephen Colbert's Interview With James Talarico

For those of you who don't subscribe to NYT or don't/won't read anthing longer than a post..

😉

Here's the excerpt from the show on YouTube.

youtu.be/oh7DPSP65JA?...

The thing to really notice from this chart is that - during an unprecedented economic recovery with a historic run of positive job growth during Joe Biden’s presidency - the news people heard about the economy in 2022-24 was <more negative> than at any time in 60 years except the GFC & Covid crises

If you try to lead an insurrection (2021), then decide to sell off parts of the country and government to the highest bidder as a way to ensure your next election (2024 campaign), and now are gutting the government from within to stay in power indefinitely, that’s called treason

Hitler' a tax dodging billionaire' who copyrighted his own image The evil dictator had numerous money-making schemes and even earned royalties from stamps featuring his picture

It's not like he's the only one who's done it.

Nope. Palm Beach. $5.5 million funded by Florida taxpayers, thank to Dumpster’s mini-me, DeSantis. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤮🤮🤮🤮

What does “Dow 50,000” actually tell you—anything about the economy, or just that a number got bigger? Dow 50,000 is a milestone, not a measurement. The level of the Dow is basically arbitrary: it’s… "Dow 50,000" Sound Nice. Until Justin Wolfers Shows You That U.S. Markets Are Coming 21st Out of 23.

Dow 50,000 seems like an extraordinary headline, until... you add some context.

The aggregate stock market return during the second Trump presidency ranks as 21st out of 23 developed countries.

Here's my youtube-splaination.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYL5...

Biden had a plan for that aging/decaying infrastructure. Democrats passed it and Republicans tried to take credit for it when constituents were happy about it.
Now GOP installed Dump and went along w/his plan to pull out of many desperately needed projects bc a police state makes billionaires more$

What We've Learned from the Epstein Files So Far Summary of Democracy Defenders Fund review of the minimal Epstein files that DOJ has released, and, just as importantly, insight into what the DOJ is still refusing to reveal. This webpage will be upd...

DOJ’s letter to Congress yesterday claims no improper redactions in Epstein files

Hah! Members of Congress found otherwise & so did we @democracydefendersfund.org

Tune in @ 7pm on @ms.now as I discuss

Does that seem fair to you?

The most frequently mentioned location in the Epstein Files isn't his island, nor one of his apartments. It is Mar-a Lago.