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Fellow federal workers, how are we responding to DOdGEy Musk’s latest unlawful demand? We need some concerted way to respond that signals our collective outrage and refusal to be cowed. I like the idea of responding with our oath of office.

OMFG, it’s impossible to tell the difference between satire and reality anymore. www.forbes.com/sites/dougme...

A national treasure is destroyed by Trump and his goons. Where is the outcry? www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Will someone please explain to Donelon that efficiency has two components, outputs and inputs? Indiscriminately cutting expenditures without regard to their performance impacts is not the same as improving efficiency, and is very likely to reduce overall efficiency and increase future costs.

Apart from the sheer absurdity of making Canada the 51st state, would somebody please explain to that ignoramus that Canada has ten provinces that would presumably become the 51st to 60th states (the territories are too small to qualify)?

It feels like this summary from the Museo Histórico Casa de Allende of the “Bourbon Reforms” in 18th Century New Spain is instructive for our time.

IDK who needs to hear this, but the simplest and fairest solution to the SALT cap isn’t to increase the cap, but to replace the SALT cap with one overall limit on itemized deductions, e.g., twice the standard deduction.

What if everyone having enough meant you have to have a little less?