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  • Week of Slashes
    Health Care, Veterans, National Security, Agriculture, Social Security Privacy, Integrity Inspectors General

    March 1, 2025
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    From w7com on Mastodon.Social: In Juanita Jean’s Salon, a campaign against immigrants “poisoning our blood” and promises to “drain the swamp” sounded familiar. So did crazy power grabs after a narrow election. So guess what a brief search through history reveals? Dave Columbo covers the week of Trump tacky and Musk slashes   View on…

  • Instantly Fire, Frantically Rehire Week
    Nuclear Security (Weapons), FAA (Air), Animal Health Lab (Bird Flu), Veterans Affairs (Medical Care), Power Admin (Electricity)

    February 22, 2025
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    Innocence from The Figen at Mastodon. Now our usual reliable chroniclers of today’s madcap rush to uninformed destruction: Brian Beutler has the best proposal to this repetitive story: Hereโ€™s a small, easy thing Dem communicators can do: when stories like this break, call the reporters and a) ask to be contacted going forward on stories…

  • Week of Madcap Musk
    Oval Elon, No More Privacy, DOGE‑Dodge, Cybertrucking, Rights‑Wronged

    February 15, 2025
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    [image or embed] — Fella Bo Bella ๐ŸŒ๐Ÿˆ๐Ÿˆโ€โฌ›๐Ÿฟ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ (@jacquelines.bsky.social) February 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM via Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire, Andrew Sullivan describes the administration’s public face: …a drug-fueled, sleep-addled billionaire, commandeering the Oval Office, offering half-baked political theories, threatening judges with impeachment, tweeting at the pace of an adderall-addicted gamer, and holding press conferences…

  • Week of Trump Extreme Extremism
    Icy ICE, Musking Data Theft, Trump Bumbling Bee, Air Tragedy Rumble, Gaza Tumble, Freeze Fumble

    February 8, 2025
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    ICE Agent Decides He Wants Kids After Seeing Incredible Love And Devotion Of Parents Begging Him Not To Take Their Child theonion.com/ice-age… [image or embed] — The Onion (@theonion.com) January 31, 2025 at 11:00 AM At The Onion, ICE agents protest the brutal conditions as they are forced to stand for hours outside the homes…

  • Week of Chaos and Tragedy
    Freeze, unfreeze, refreeze, air disaster, anti-Jesus Christians

    February 1, 2025
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    We began a twist-and-shout Trump start with a memo from the Office of Management and Budget announcing a Trump freeze on all freezable programs (veterans, food for little kids, health programs, schools, hospitals, shelters, air safety, and most anything for seniors) followed by a court ruling that Trump couldn’t freeze everything unilaterally (No you can’t!!) followed by an administration…

  • Week of Trump Blurry Flurry
    Musk trips and salutes, Jan 6 Pardons, Bishop checks King

    January 25, 2025
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    Whyever did Musk go all Dr. Strangelove? Mainstream press, trying to be balanced, write off the Nazi salute as unintentional, the awkward misstep of over-enthusiasm. But twice? Let’s shake it off for a moment (Sheesh!) and go to our tried‑and‑true sources of internet wisdom: Hackwhackers lists a few social media posts about the inauguration, beginning…

  • Week of Fire
    Jimmy Gone, Gaslighting, Inaugural Bribes, Trump Start

    January 18, 2025
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    Our renewed Blogging Council of Wisdom speaks: Missed during my respite for court prep: SilverAppleQueen is not unhappy bidding goodbye to 2024, and is not discouraged about 2025. Amid Trump, California conflagration, and Middle East war, death, and peace possibilities, we are reminded of the significance of one: Max’s Dad provides a solid summary of…

  • Housekeeping Note
    I will be out.

    December 30, 2024
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    I will be traveling to Maryland tomorrow ahead of a court appearance. I was assaulted last year on a parking lot by a stranger. Part of one arm is now made of metal. Sentencing for the troubled teenager is scheduled for January 10. I will be meeting with authorities and preparing a Victim Impact Statement. I…

  • Christmas Week Reviewed
    Gaetz Bumped, What Trump Wants, MAGAFolk, Musk, Pay to Pray

    December 28, 2024
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    From Jason Robinson on Mastodon: The seasonal Truth is not seasonal: More from this week’s internet elves: Professor PZ Myers is handicapped in keeping his published studies of arachnological sex practices interesting because spiders have a more boring level of morality than Matt Gaetz. In Letters from an American, historian Heather Cox Richardson reviews the…

  • The Week before Christmas (all through the house)

    Lessons Learned, Lessons Forgotten, Democracy Panic, Numb Nominees, ABC Payoff

    December 21, 2024
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    From James Capener: Let’s spend a bit of the season with internet companions: In Happiness Between Tails da-AL lists some of what she has learned this year about things like reading preferences, super powers, and Vicuรฑas. Shamelessly stolen from Happiness Between Tails: Key invitation: What did you learn this year? Author John Scalzi notices a…

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