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The new fangled linguistic bull pucky “Waste, Fraud, and Abuse” has become as meaningless as “Thoughts and Prayers”.

Sidney comes out swinging www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...

Trump Plans $92 Million Military Parade—Honoring Himself newrepublic.com/post/193674/... via @newrepublic.com

The little dictator gets his parade. Trump Plans $92 Million Military Parade—Honoring Himself newrepublic.com/post/193674/... via @newrepublic.com

Tariffs = tax on the 99%

Alex Karp, CEO of the digital military contractor Palantir, thinks other Silicon Valley behemoths waste their time chasing clicks rather than bad guys—and that the decline of college Western Civ classes is to blame.

This is crazy! All I can say is it reminds me of the memorable quote from Forrest Gump "Stupid is as Stupid does" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

finally a reasonable op-ed from the NYTs www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/o...

All you need to know about the proposed tax cuts

Here Come Two More Enemies of Science About to Lead Vital Agencies newrepublic.com/article/1921... via @newrepublic.com

What a sad day to be an American..... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

I sent an email to the WH from a little used account expressing my embarrassment to how immature and unpresidential the Pee & VPee acted with Zelenskyy. I kept it low key but direct. I think a constant stream of polite but pointed emails might just make it through the blockade of ideolog interns.

Ya think? www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...

borrowed from Phillip Low www.occupy.com/article/dark...

@crgibs.bsky.social www.occupy.com/article/dark... “Low — who was the founder of a Bay Area tech startup” Correction: “Low — who is the Chairman, CEO and Founder of a Bay Area neurotech company”

Anyone else notice the gender of the belly dancers in Trumps Gaza video? One has to wonder if he was linked or giving a secret gender message of his own 😀

I tried to lose myself in an old Tom Clancy book yesterday. Diving into fiction is a great escape for me sometimes. But somehow the upstanding character of Jack Ryan just reminded me how far we have fallen in real life…

So Zika caved to the orange one because you know AI laws coming. Trump threatens Greenland and Panama. Expect Putin to ratchet up his war and watch Xi move into Taiwan.

I didn't realize Trump was elected VP???? What does that make Vance? Will someone ask Elon for me?

With almost 20,000 murders per year in The US it is amazing to see the law enforcement resources mobilized and press coverage given for a single murder either for political purposes (Laken Riley) or a one percenter ……

My son makes the paper www.inlander.com/news/ewu-reb...

So damn true 💯

My new resolution....

The Andromeda galaxy captured by the Hubble Space telescope

Just got the upgrade OS for my iPad. It’s 2024 and finally Apple gives us a calculator……. Haven’t tried the equation builder yet. MatLab lite? We’ll see.

I dropped Twitter (I refuse to call it anything else) a long while ago. And I find FB to be a little to much whining. So let's see how this works out.