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Northern Virginian, animal lover, traveler, and not a doctor
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I had no idea that Operation Mincemeat was made into a goofy Broadway musical. I hope Ian Fleming receives his proper recognition.

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

Meanwhile… Season ticket sales at the Kennedy Center are down 82% but they’re hitting up foreign donors and embassies to make up the difference. www.wsj.com/business/med...

Honesdale is a borough in Wayne County, PA. The borough's population was 4,458 at the time of the 2020 census. I'm sure it's a hotbed of gang activity there in the middle of central Pennsylvania. 🙄 www.wnep.com/article/news...

On his first day in office, Donald Trump pardoned 169 people who were convicted of assaulting police officers on January 6.

Midnight, June 7 is the deadline to comment on the revised Schedule F, Trump's plan to politicize the civil servants by converting them into at-will appointees that can be fired for the mildest pushback against illegal actions. It's easy - here is how: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/last-day-t...

Attention air travelers going to or from the DC area.

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

Reporter says she was fired from Trump-friendly outlet after criticizing Hegseth www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

HAWLEY: Let's see the Trump chart. You don't think it's a little bit anomalous that Trump has so many more nationwide injunctions against him? KATE SHAW: A very plausible explanation you have to consider is that he's engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents

NEW: Trump Administration Proposes Cutting Tribal College Funds by Nearly 90% @mattkrupnick.bsky.social

A federal court recently halted executive branch layoffs, holding they represented an impermissible effort to bypass congressional authorization. Suzanne Summerlin analyzes where the federal employment litigation stands – and what likely comes next: #unions www.justsecurity.org/114005/feder...

Yes, this is a real video, not AI of Sen. Joni Ernst “apologizing” after telling a constituent who warned Medicaid cuts would cost lives, “Well, we’re all going to die.” Unbelievable.