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One of the great comedians, a great show, RIP Ruth Buzzi. Ruth Buzzi, famed as dowdy purse slinger on ‘Laugh-In,’ dies at 88

250 YEARS AGO: It will take days for news of the Lexington and Concord battles to reach other colonies, but similar arguments over gunpowder are sparking in those colonies. In Williamsburg, Virginia, patriots are guarding the colony's central supply of gunpowder, but . . .

Wow. Just wow. wapo.st/4csW2Kb

It’s a points rubric. 8 points out of 40 is the threshhold. Allegedly-gang tattoos get you 4 points. Another law enforcement agency saying you’re in the gang (based on what, who knows) gets you 4 points. That makes 8 points.

If an Army private accidentally texted the details of a classified military operation to a reporter, let alone transmitted any classified information to anyone who was unauthorized over an unsecured device, they’d be charged and likely spend time in Leavenworth. But it’s Hegseth, so probably not.

Love WeRateDogs. This is a great backstory. wapo.st/4ijrs7Y

The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.

Cool cool. This is the same SpaceX that Musk/Trump say are going to run the FAA now, yes?

If NASA had the failure rate SpaceX does, Elon would be firing everyone and Congress would be demanding to know where the money is going.

BREAKING: SpaceX's Starship EXPLODES, causing FAA to halt flights at 4 major airports The previous Starship also exploded, in January THIS is why FAA probed SpaceX for safety And THIS is why Musk has been trying to kill FAA - and why he should NOT get any more govt contracts

Rep. Al Green is a goddamn hero.

Is CBS fawning?

There’s a major shift in U.S. cybersecurity policy. A recent CISA memo removed Russia from its list of priorities, focusing instead on China and local systems. Analysts were told not to track Russian cyber threats.

All of this.

This is a bigger issue than people realize. Not just jobs lost. But their families losing benefits. Landlords losing tenants. Cities and towns losing revenue. This is how recessions start Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.

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The cowardice of the GOP has been astounding 👇 #TraitorTrump

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"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

I agree with Schultz. I have faith in my fellow journalists. But there is a point of no return.

But please let’s cut basic health care for millions across the globe to save money.

Elon Musk’s cost-cutting bonanza appears to be having less impact than he's claiming, with a review finding that almost 40% of the federal contracts scrapped so far will save the American taxpayer not a penny.

February 24, 2025

I fear for the state of my birth. The saddest part is that this will be most unnecessarily harmful to the children instead of weeding out the idiots. Willingly ignoring vaccines is nothing less than idiotic. Don’t believe me, visit a cemetery, look for all the children’s tombstones pre-1950s.

Here we are.

Leaders of the Social Security Administration had just opened an investigation into a career employee they believed was improperly sharing information with Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team when President Donald Trump elevated the employee this week to acting commissioner.

The waste is coming from the White House. 👇

NEW: Georgia’s governor promotes his Medicaid work requirement as a national model for reform. Yet the program has cost taxpayers $86M, three-quarters of which has gone to consultants, and enrolled less than 3% of the quarter-million Georgians eligible.

So if he’s not head of DOGE, how is he giving orders? And having his employees carry out these orders?

You’d think that the agency’s name—“National Nuclear Security Administration”—might have led someone to at least ask, “Hey, what do these guys do?”

Just out of curiosity, does Ukraine get to be on yin those ceasefire talks?

meanwhile in Canada.

Police in Pennsylvania are hunting for thieves who stole 100,000 eggs from the back of a trailer amid a US-wide spike in the price of eggs.

Remember when you learned in history class about Nazi book burning and everyone thought it was horrible? Or when you learned your grandparents actually witnessed it? This is that, but for 2025. wapo.st/4hPMU3A

So do I rewatch “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” now, knowing that the reboot is in the works but still won’t happen soon and I’ll just have to watch it all again later? Or do I wait? What to do, what to do….

The Trump administration plans to reduce the USAID workforce from over 10,000 to around 290 positions. Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s staffers are now at FEMA, accessing information on its grant programs.

The Kids are not Alright open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

And so it continues.

Al Gore pitched a sovereign wealth fund once, but he called it a “lockbox.” And it existed bc they’d taxed the wealthy a tiny bit, balanced the budget and had a surplus. And he only wanted the fund to protect Social Security for Americans who weren’t millionaires. So the GOP mocked it.