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Had some free time so I figured I’d go check out this big OR GOP rally at the Capitol. There are TENS of people there.

Which means either Biden kept the info VERY close to the chest, and no one who knew passed it on or, Ukraine's OpSec decided sharing it with anyone was too big a risk. I'm going with Option Number Two.

Look I’m not saying my campaign is partly an excuse to force 200 people to listen to my deranged rant about Michael Flynn’s unvaccinated blood + semen trading website,,,,, But I’m not NOT saying it…

I mean really weak ass. They can't cope with having his name where they might have to say it. Me... let's say I hated GWB, rather than just think he was a loser. I wouldn't change the name of the vessel named for him. I'd just refer to CVN-77, and let it lie. Not let people know I'm bothered.

Weak ass shit. Same way it's still National Airport (we don't mention his name, because of what he did to PATCO... which is why we have ATController problems right now), it will always be the Harvey Milk.

Wow, very interesting to see the Fourth Circuit directly address one of the biggest problem with civil service suits: that the MSPB, OSC, and FLRA have been crippled by vacanies and can't adjudicate claims over which they technically have exclusive jurisdiction.

That judge is going to get hate mail, death threats, and fired.

Henh....

What we need to do is spend money, and fund research. Her "experimental group" (the US) is doing precisely the opposite. And it's not a tap that can be turned on/off. Example (by analogy). Rockets to the Moon. We know we can do it. Saturn V Command Module and Lunar Lander. We can't do it now

This is past bonkers.

ONO SAYS O NO

#FEMA has issued a revised version of the Comprehensive Preparedness Guide 101 ( #CPG101), Developing and Maintaining Emergency Operations Plans. I was curious to learn what changes were made in current version 3.1. Spoiler Alert: Word police are in the house. www.linkedin.com/pulse/fema-c... #EM

Some of the most powerful and heartbreaking writing I've seen about women, especially Black women, not being deemed reliable and competent enough to know what's going on with their own bodies is an essay in Dr. Tressie McMillan-Cottom's book "Thick: And Other Essays" called 'Dying to be Competent'.

I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

It´s all about bugs! two very shiny bugs #shiny #bugs #macro

I so want to go there.

Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years. What are we doing?

Thing is... they never read the entire bill. Their staff doens't read the entire bill. It's all vibes, until it passes.

The rescission package is out. One problem for Trump is that this kind of confirms that presidents need to introduce a rescission package to cancel appropriated spending, and this only contains a fraction of the spending that Trump/DOGE/Vought have tried to cut. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Sometimes the cops say "he was in the military and should be presumed dangerous" and it's like okay sure Jan did he go to the Warrior Leader Course or something and sometimes it's a dude wanted for killing three kids who was an instructor at the School of Infantry instructor course and okay, fair.

“[A]dministrators may not share the cultural politics of Republican governors…but they do share their desire to refashion universities in the image of the American workplace, where at-will employees do what they’re told by feudal overlords who have poems commissioned in their praise.”

Kate Shaw is a national treasure, and I’m so glad she’s not taking shit from the Hawley and Kennedy. And I say this notwithstanding the fact that Kate and I have pretty different views on nationwide injunctions, the subject of this hearing.

She is so cool in response to his spittle-flecked ranting.

“Federal law enforcement officers on the scene declined to say what the purpose of the raid was, and directed the Reformer to an email address for ICE’s media contact. Some declined to identify which agency they were with. Most wore masks.” That's called secret police and it looked like it.

At 20 cm I'm not surprised it was never used. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

wait, people actually take this nonsense seriously?

😍 🔧

Remember how far they told Obama he had to step away from Rev. Wright?

Offset repeatedly and publicly cheats on Cardi B while MARRIED but her twerking on a man after the breakup is the problem?

The 9th Circuit has ruled against the state of Alaska in a long-running dispute over subsistence hunting rights. #akleg

I have a sword on which all the fittings (to include the tsuba, but also the menuki, fuchi, and kashira) are of chickens among bamboo, eating millet.

Just in case you thought hiring "based only on merit" was ever in the cards. www.newsweek.com/trump-admini...