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Apparently I should be subject to recall, as I, too, am prone to falling apart under environmental embrittlement.

I keep seeing variations on this. Am I the only one who just thinks...without teeth or a stomach, the big collective fish isn't going to do much damage and really the little fish are just making themselves into a convenient shark snack? I want to believe the sentiment but this ain't it for me.

I am filled with undescribable rage about Schumer's vote on the CR. I am the model of a reliable Democratic voter, but this has me just about over the edge. I called my senators for the first time in my life. A government shutdown is bad, but the destruction of our democracy is worse.

youtu.be/XZW9kD80WBA?...

Clay Bennett nails it.

Here's a list of DOGE staff, assembled and annotated by my colleagues at BI. Whatever you do, please don't share it. www.businessinsider.com/doge-staff-l...

Just thinking about this today, no reason.... youtu.be/xyLi5tdnONI?...

I cannot comprehend what is happening right now. It's insanity. Is this how the Great Experiment ends? With the voluntary capitulation of its government and citizens to a tin-pot dictator and his billionaire handler?

RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

Is anyone suing to get Musk out of secure and (supposedly) confidential government databases? I have no idea how that would work, but my hopeful-brain thanks there still has to be some way to stop this insanity.