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Health policy, college football, and Taylor Swift. BBQ and sweet tea connoisseur. They’re all good dogs, especially the Dawgs. I was stress baking before it was cool.
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This is dumb for all sorts of reasons, but also because we are forcing feds to start commuting again and making it difficult for them to actually do that.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

If you real goal was to reduce the scope of the federal government, it wouldn't look anything like this. Randomly and chaotically slashing employees doesn't give anybody more freedom, the laws don't go away, nor anybody's need to interact with these agencies. It makes government worse, not smaller.

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

Being a man doesn’t equal treating women like trash.

submitted 3 days ago • 198 comments

Sorry JD, your “women be shopping” jokes simply aren’t funny, and no amount of whining will make them funny.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

“After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women, and minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends… what comes next?” - Gov. JB Pritzker

submitted 3 days ago • 476 comments

I dunno, it's just kind of a bummer to see every tiny thing you've ever worked and fought for in your life eradicated in the span of a few weeks by a cabal of smirking, sociopathic buffoons, y'know?

submitted 10 days ago • 29 comments

Continue to be impressed at how completely a single teenage girl psychologically dominated a generation of adult male reactionaries. They belong to her, she owns them

submitted 9 days ago • 36 comments

Imagine how miserable it must be to be 40 years old, with a wife and family, freshly elected to the second-most powerful position in the world, and you’re still grinding axes with the facsimile of a teenage girl that lives rent-free in your brain.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

The average employee has worked there for 12 years, is 46 years old, and makes $81k a year. That all seems to be within the bounds of reasonableness? In other words, how much money do you think a mid-career professional who has been with the same employer for 12 years SHOULD make?

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Man, if only there was a way we could have communicated the basic fundamentals of the economy to voters before the election. Ah well, nevertheless.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

So far in the last 24 hours, Russia's gotten: - a sympathetic ear/voice installed as DNI - the release of a crime boss - Hegseth ceding Crimea to them - Trump offering a WH visit - The US acting as middleman rather than Ukraine ally

submitted 11 days ago • 251 comments

Simultaneously culling USAID & stopping funding to Egypt & Jordan pretty much guarantees years of unrest and premium fertile grounds for terrorism growth. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

submitted 12 days ago • 21 comments

Opinion | The government needs to run like a business. Fire nearly everyone, destroy revenue so that you're losing more money than before, then force advertisers to start giving you money again with threats of retaliation. by Elon Musk

submitted 12 days ago • 25 comments

Next Into the Wood Chipper: A Crucial American Industry www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/o...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Increasing labor supply = increasing unemployment Lowering aggregate demand = deflation In other words: recession

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

my rural local news put up a post asking what people thought of the halftime show and this little old white lady commented “I didn’t get it but I’m old. I hope the young people had fun. I liked his pants and his jacket. 💕”

submitted 13 days ago • 56 comments

Super Bowl USAID Save Foreign Aid

submitted 13 days ago • 59 comments

This is your annual reminder that the 2007 Super Bowl halftime show melted faces.

submitted 14 days ago • 40 comments

Barbara Kingsolver remains a real one. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/b...

submitted 14 days ago • 24 comments

This is a list of blockbuster drugs in 2024. Guess how many can trace their origins to NIH funded research? All of them.

submitted 15 days ago • 11 comments

More than 8 out of 10 civilian federal employees live outside the DC region. They are your neighbors!

submitted 15 days ago • 12 comments

🗣️🗣️🗣️

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Shutting off USAID payments is bad, but it's not just that: if someone (Trump, Musk, a lackey, whoever) can unilaterally shut off Congressionally-appropriated payments, they can shut off anything. Medicare payments to certain hospitals. Social Security checks to selected voters. Sky's the limit.

submitted 17 days ago • 55 comments

This is the most obvious point, but it's still important to note: The first weeks of Trump II have completely exposed deep Republican hypocrisy on a whole host of issues including global elites, unelected bureaucrats, respect for law enforcement, "the swamp," and even email server security.

submitted 17 days ago • 46 comments

You come at The Drizz, you best not miss.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

CMS releases payment polices each year, which build off each other. So if providers want to get paid in 2026, does that mean they will have to rescind the payment regs from 2016-2025? This makes less than zero sense.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

But I thought he wanted all the federal workers back in the office?

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Paging MacKenzie Scott (formerly Bezos)….

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Looks like someone is growing a spine.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

IEP moms are gonna do so many murders

submitted 19 days ago • 27 comments

So Trump hurt America's relationship with Canada and made markets wobble all to "get" Canada to do things Canada had announced back in December in coordination with the Biden administration, do I have that right?

submitted 19 days ago • 391 comments

just baffling that democrats aren’t publicly documenting every illegal and impeachable act as it happens, and labelling them as illegal and impeachable.

submitted 20 days ago • 9 comments

Arguably the biggest national security breach in U.S. history. Private employees downloading personnel data on every federal employee and tax and social security data on every American onto private unsecured servers. Needless to say, completely illegal and subject to major prison sentences.

submitted 21 days ago • 240 comments

This is how you do it.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

You say: they shutdown USAID. You mean: they illegally broke in to a secure facility over a weekend, hijacked sensitive data on vulnerable people and US businesses, destroyed property Americans paid for, cut off resources for sick and hungry families, and fired Americans across the country.

submitted 20 days ago • 97 comments

is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?

submitted 21 days ago • 1096 comments

I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad. There’s not.

submitted 21 days ago • 730 comments

I know you can’t swing at every pitch but you also can’t stare at fastballs over the middle of the plate.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Modern supply chains don't look like trade theory 101! They involve constant border crossings, each now hit by tariffs. Tariffs raise prices, but the more important thing they do is disrupt supply relationships. 1/

submitted 21 days ago • 37 comments

I hope all the people who voted for Trump because they wanted lower mortgage rates were able to refinance before those tariffs hit.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

“For the typical American household, the tariffs will mean a loss of about $1,200 in purchasing power, according to the Budget Lab at Yale University, a nonpartisan research center.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 21 days ago • 48 comments

sucks that this is all happening in an era where we’re burdened with the knowledge that cigarettes are bad for you

submitted 22 days ago • 118 comments

One reason why we can’t have nice things is that so few Americans actually travel internationally (beyond cruise line ports of call). I think many Americans would be shocked to find out how other Westerners live.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments