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How long until he gets Hegseth to commission a golden escalator for Air Force One?

DJT should fire all the DOGE bros that Elon installed throughout the government

Reminder: DOGE was never about "efficiency."

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Don't let him touch you, Leo! www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

On the path to becoming a failed democracy. www.ft.com/content/20d0...

The administration says that criminal immigrants can be deported to a foreign forced labor prison without a hearing that could determine if the person is actually a criminal or actually an immigrant and that if it makes a mistake it can’t be rectified because the person is now outside their control.

A reminder that calling out Israel about their genocide of Palestinians is NOT antisemitic. I'm Jewish, and I think it goes against Jewish tradition to *not* call it out. "Zachor" (remember) and "never again" are phrases used by Jews specifically about the Holocaust. Yet here we are.

But his Signals!

You know who else thought due process was too cumbersome for 8 million people in America? King George

Make no mistake: our allies are reading this war-plan-disclosure story too, and it’s making it less and less likely that they’ll want to share sensitive intel with us…

Can a federal official make a request to the Justice Department for her own arrest?

Lock them up?

how to use civility to stop the borg

Great! Now let’s pass my Protect Our Probationary Employees Act so that these civil servants can pick back up where they left off and finish out their probationary periods without being unfairly penalized.

Some Democratic member of Congress should propose a bill saying that a POTUS may golf at government expense no more than, say, once every 14 days, and must reimburse the Treasury for anything beyond that.

“The days of rule by unelected bureaucrats are over.” Uh....

Anyway, periodic reminder that congress can, and should, end this any time

Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad

If you work at Goddard, or Space Telescope Science Institute or similar — and work on anything related to space — I want to talk. As The Baltimore Banner continues to cover changes to the fed. workforce, I'm interested in what it means for the future of astronomy. 🛰️ 🔭

Louis DeJoy is finally stepping down as Postmaster General! Unfortunately, the Cheeto Bandito gets to appoint his replacement.

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941

Expand Solvang to the whole state. denmarkification.com?utm=.share.b...

NEW: Not only did Kash Patel pocket $25,000 from a filmmaker tied to Kremlin propaganda and disinformation efforts; he's been helping Putin for years—as I explain in my OUR LAND newsletter. link.motherjones.com/public/38550... Sign up for a FREE trial subscription to OUR LAND at davidcorn.com.

this is the sort of thing you post when you’re ramping up to defying lawful court orders

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

Jan 20, 1961. A blizzard the day before. Temperatures well below freezing. Without a coat or hat, JFK gave a speech we still quote today. Robert Frost, 86, recited a poem. Steinbeck and Hemingway and Rothko were among the VIPs. A million people gathered in the cold to hear it. This is the precedent.

Welp. Apple snuck something dirty in our phones last night. Settings > Apps > (pick an app) > Siri > Learn From this App TOGGLE OFF. You have to go through each app. My garage app, my BANKING APPS, others had that turned on automatically. 😡

Check and mate smbc-comics.com/comic/applied

why are the otaku at war with the weeaboo

Jan 2 is Science Fiction Day and also Introvert Day. This does not seem like a coincidence.

Chief Justice Roberts’s year-end report, briefly summarized by Calvin

Hello, Kettle, Pot calling. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The CFPB is a shining example of efficiency, returning nearly $20 billion to the victims of financial fraud since 2011. Trump-supporting billionaires want to scrap the agency to pad their own pockets. Holding financial scammers accountable isn't inefficient — it's common-sense.

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