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The creeps the mayor’s office attracts. Just awful. I missed the original Stranger reporting mentioned above and I’m glad he’s gone. So there’s no specific call to action other than don’t let this happen in the future.

Comments

  1. Washington Conservatives learn they went 0-4 on ‘priorities’ via initiative in November.

  2. I’m a bit disappointed that kreepee dumbfuck isn’t here to babble about Usha.. Gettin’ slower as it gets closer to “that certain day” – the day it babbles that’s great for the kids…

    Whatevs.. Greenland is a sleazebag pants shitter play.. Same as calling the PM of Canada “Governor”.. Manifest Destiny was ugly as sin with its quasi-religious dressing.. But this is just more pants shitter diaper waste. Anyone who plays along is soiled.

    It’s a tossup who influenced pants shitter more about Canada and Greenland: Pootie or Elmo..

    It’s looking pretty strong for Elmo.

    https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/joshua-haldeman-elon-musk-saskatchewan-tech-utopian-conspiracist

    Welcome to the fantasy of “Technate of America”.. Elmo’s grandpap was a total nutter and its grandma made sure Elmo absorbed pop pop’s nutty fantasies.

    Hi liddle maxiwipe.

  3. 1)Thought without Eyman involved in handling the money on these campaigns, they would write one that passed constitutional muster.

  4. But…EMAILS!

    The world found out shortly before 2 p.m. eastern time on March 15 that the United States was bombing Houthi targets across Yemen.

    I, however, knew two hours before the first bombs exploded that the attack might be coming. The reason I knew this is that Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, had texted me the war plan at 11:44 a.m. The plan included precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing.

  5. @4 Rules only apply to Democrats.
    The media will no long report on anything that makes dictator trump look bad anyway, because that might cost them money.

  6. There’s a painted portrait of me in my old high school. It’s a long story.

    I look more moon faced than I am in real life. It actually delights me because I tell people who’ve seen it that it was makeup from when I was writing and staring in “Raging Bull: The Pugilistic Musical”. As of 25th reunion it was still there.

    Not sure why I bring it up.

    Oh yeah, because I’ve get better things to do with my time than be a punk ass whiny little bitch boy.

  8. Trump’s SecDef is censoring what children of military families can be taught, learn, and read; and has erased the memory of a Civil War soldier.

    https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/hegseths-policies-defense-department-schools-spark-base-protests-rcna197762

    Meanwhile, CDC is bitterly complying with a TRO against censorship on its website.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/trump-picks-acting-cdc-director-susan-monarez-lead-agency-rcna197884

  10. @5 Seems to have been inadvertent. They accidentally put a magazine editor on the email distribution list for their super-duper-secret war plans. Whew, at least it wasn’t the Chinese military — this time. What #$%@&!! incompetents. Children are running the Pentagon now. Gotta wonder what they’re sending to the Russians intentionally.

  12. Well we have our first of what will probably be many.

    Kat Abughazaleh (Online Kat Abu) who made a name for herself doing videos for Media Matters roasting Fox News before getting laid off, has filed to primary house Whip Jan Schakowsky in the deep blue IL-09 where she grew up. Schakowsky will be 82 this year and plans to run again. Abughazaleh is 26.

    Abu will have the full support of the progressives in the Democratic Party.

    This is a district where the primary is the election. The last time the Ninth was ‘competitive’ Schakowski took 65%… in 2014. 70is % is the norm. There has been no primary opponent other than a guy who announced and the withdrew after a couple weeks since 2014.

    It’s time for the assisted living set to go.

  13. Trump’s postmaster — the guy who removed curbside mailboxes and mail sorting machines before the 2020 election and returned them after the election, and lately has been firing postal workers en masse while mail delivery keeps getting slower — has resigned. Good riddance. But bad as he was, I hate to think what his replacement will be like.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/postmaster-general-resigns_n_67e1d489e4b07dbdc6db87b8

    In other political news, we now know who ordered Social Security phone service terminated to people living dozens or hundreds of miles from still-open (for now) Social Security offices; I’ll give you three guesses, and if you miss the first one, you don’t deserve the other two.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/leland-dudek-social-security-phone-service_n_67e1bb85e4b03e4bddd128db

    The game plan seems to be to keep any new people from joining the Social Security benefit rolls while they figure out a game plan for terminating benefits to the existing ones.

  14. Trump’s postmaster — the guy who removed curbside mailboxes and mail sorting machines before the 2020 election and returned them after the election, and lately has been firing postal workers en masse while mail delivery keeps getting slower — has resigned. Good riddance. But bad as he was, I hate to think what his replacement will be like.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/postmaster-general-resigns_n_67e1d489e4b07dbdc6db87b8

    In other political news, we now know who ordered Social Security phone service terminated to people living dozens or hundreds of miles from still-open (for now) Social Security offices; I’ll give you three guesses, and if you miss the first one, you don’t deserve the other two.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/leland-dudek-social-security-phone-service_n_67e1bb85e4b03e4bddd128db

    The game plan seems to be to keep any new people from joining the Social Security benefit rolls while they figure out a game plan for terminating benefits to the existing ones.

  17. Well if we CAN’T plan military actions on a hackable public group chat app then we’ll have to let them be subject to public records acts.

    (At the EXACT time this was going on)

    Sean Parnell @SeanParnellATSD
    Mar 22
    For too long, instances of unauthorized disclosures of national security information have gone uninvestigated at the Dod.
    @SecDef is committed to aggressively pursuing parties responsible for any leaks and will refer them to law enforcement for criminal prosecution. Efforts to subvert @POTUS command of our Armed Forces, to endanger the lives of our warfighters, or to harm our national security will not be tolerated.
    ACCOUNTABILITY IS BACK.

  18. Donnie just announced a Tariff on the United States*
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    *See gas purchases Venezuela

  19. Awesome….

    Hours after NSC has confirmed that, yeah, they actually WERE discussing bombing plans on the public peer-to-peer messaging app SIGNAL Hegseth gets a press question about it.

    So you are talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who has made a profession of peddling hoaxes

  20. FEMA is being dismantled right now during tornado season just as red states are going to need them.

    Republicans did that.

  21. Kristi Noem twats they will begin to eliminate FEMA.

    Because FEMA had camps for COVID pure bloods and she hears about it on Coast-to-Coast radio. WWG1WGA!

    InfoWars has a whole trove of proof.

    Gov. DeSantis? When is hurricane season 2025?

  22. Okokokokok…

    She was talking to a reporter last name Dikes.

    But having tape of, several times over homophobic comments, LSU Women’s Basketball Coach Kim Mulkey saying, “Dikes, you known the game…”

    Damn, that’s funny.

    Side note, Lauren Betts 6’7”. UCLA, Jr. 30pts, 14 Rebounds became the first UCLA player to get 30 and 10+ in a tournament game male or female. Walton didn’t do that. Nor Kareem.

    And she’s returning next year to play with her incoming freshman sister.

  23. @17 It probably was some political appointee hired to purge non-white, non-male, non-straight military heroes from Pentagon websites who doesn’t know how to use a listserve. There will be an investigation, and if you don’t hear any more about this, that’s what it was.

  24. @20 Also, North Carolina is on fire.

    What if you call FEMA and no one answers? Red states are finding out.

    #fafo

  26. @22 “first UCLA player to”

    Well aren’t the defenders shorter in women’s basketball?

  28. @ 22

    Walton didn’t do that. Nor Kareem.

    Lew Alcindor’s teams won the NCAA championship all three of his seasons at UCLA, and he was named the tournament MVP each time.

    Bill Walton’s teams won 88 straight, two NCAA championships, and he was the Naismith award winner three times.

    Yabbut one chick had one good game against a really shitty team.

    [Edit: Your source is incorrect. See below.]

  29. @ 22

    Side note, Lauren Betts 6’7”. UCLA, Jr. 30pts, 14 Rebounds became the first UCLA player to get 30 and 10 in a tournament game male or female. Walton didn’t do that. Nor Kareem.

    You sure ’bout dat?

    https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2024-04-08/final-four-most-outstanding-players-1939-present

    1969: Lew Alcindor — UCLA
    Lew Alcindor (now known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) made history as the only person to be named Most Outstanding Player three different times. He led the Bruins to their third consecutive national championship. Alcindor averaged 23.8 points and 16.0 rebounds per game during the 1969 NCAA tournament. He scored 37 points and grabbed 20 boards in the title game against Purdue. As of 2020, Alcindor remains the only player to be named MOP more than twice.

    Uh oh. Not again.

    1968: Lew Alcindor — UCLA
    NCAA PhotosUCLA’s Lew Alcindor
    Lew Alcindor averaged 25.8 points and 18.8 rebounds per game in the 1968 NCAA tournament. But it was his 34-point, 16-rebound outing against North Carolina in the title game that not only solidified Alcindor’s second-straight Most Outstanding Player award, but back-to-back national championships for UCLA as well.

    Are you fuckin’ kidding me? Three years in a row?

    1967: Lew Alcindor — UCLA
    NCAA archivesUCLA’s Lew Alcindor
    Lew Alcindor had the highest scoring average of the 1967 NCAA tournament at 26.5 points per game. His best performance was a 38-point, 14-rebound double-double against Pacific in the regional finals. Alcindor made 13 of his 20 field-goal attempts and shot 12-for-14 from the free-throw line.

    I guess you’re right. Lew Alcindor didn’t manage to do it once. Instead he killed it three years in a row.

    Can we give the girlfan bullshit a rest, now? UCLA might not last the weekend.

  30. Dumb cunts gonna dumbcunt:

    Allentown employee planted noose on her desk, faces false report charges, police say

    However, a few weeks into the investigation in late January, a Lehigh County judge approved a search warrant for Brown’s DNA. An affidavit alleged that Brown was not cooperating with the investigation, made “vague statements and gave deceptive answers” to investigators and refused to voluntarily provide a DNA sample.

    According to the affidavit supporting the charges against Brown, only her DNA was found on the outside of the noose and the inner knotted portion when it was untied. DNA also had been collected from nine other employees who were identified as being on the third floor between the time Brown left the night before and when she found the noose. None was a match. Police said the other employees voluntarily gave DNA samples.

  31. @ 30

    Oh, look! Said dumb cunt is on the local school board, too!

    Well, isn’t that special. She’s a double grifter.

  32. @26

    You say that like Kareem (7’2”) never went up against 6’5-8” guys from New Mexico or Santa Clara or University of Pacific in early rounds.

  34. @ 32

    You say that like Kareem (7’2”) never went up against 6’5-8” guys from New Mexico or Santa Clara or University of Pacific in early rounds.

    No, I say the entire premise of the piece that a one-hit wonder accomplished something that somebody who is famous for a reason never accomplished is bullshit.

  35. Say, who was governor of Minnesota when this was going on, anyway?

    Minnesota non-profit leader convicted of pilfering $250M meant for underserved children in country’s largest COVID fraud scheme

    “Aimee Bock and Salim Said took advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic to carry out a massive fraud scheme that stole money meant to feed children,” Acting US Attorney Lisa Kirkpatrick said.

    “The defendants falsely claimed to have served 91 million meals, for which they fraudulently received nearly $250 million in federal funds. That money did not go to feed kids. Instead, it was used to fund their lavish lifestyles.”

    Prosecutors said Bock and her 36-year-old accomplice, who owned the now-defunct Safari Restaurant, created fake meal counts, fraudulent invoices, and attendance sheets with bogus names of thousands of children supposedly served daily to secure additional funding from the US Department of Agriculture.

    I’m surprised the article did not mention Ilhan Omar, whose hands are all over this, but from just enough distance so that only her donors will go to prison.

    What say you, Welfare Queen YLB?

  36. There’s a guy on this thread will still defend the current cabinet.

    Buttigieg: “I know this — in my experience both in the cabinet and as an intelligence officer, you would have to go out of your way to take classified information and move it into an unclassified system.”

  37. What say you

    I’d say any fantasy kreepee dumbfuck busts about Omar makes its keyboard way stickier than it could possibly manage over Cortez-Masto and the minor league dem going postal.

  38. @ 36

    … you would have to go out of your way to take classified information and move it into an unclassified system.”

    I agree. It’s what #CrookedHillary told her underlings to do. Remember when she told her State Department flunkies to strip off the classified marking and send “nonsecure”?

    In one email exchange dated June 2011, Clinton instructed her top policy advisor Jacob Sullivan to send her talking points — which were scheduled to be forwarded over the State Department’s secured network — over a non-secure fax line. Sullivan reported a problem with the State Department’s secure transmission system, so Clinton told him to wipe off any “identifying heading” and send it over using a regular fax line.
    …
    The State Department would not comment on whether Clinton had ordered her staff to send classified information over a nonsecure channel.

    Since the State Department ordinarily treats classified materials as, you know, classified, it would have to go out of its way to walk to the nearest Kinko’s and fax it over to Queen of the Horrid Pantsuits.

    I don’t think this is the “gotcha” you must think it is. #CrookedHillary’s corruption is what got you DJT45. But if you want to get into a “hostile actors” pissing match, I got James Comey at the ready.

  39. I’m surprised the article did not mention Ilhan Omar

    The premise of your post is bullshit. Omar was NOT Governor. And by ‘hands all over this, you have the same debunked proof that her husband is her brother?

    I get it, all people from Minnesota with Muslim names are in Cahoots. ‘I’m not racist, I just hate black Muslims.’

  41. @38

    Saw that coning.

    So you agree that they should all be locked up.

    Hegseth, Vance, Rubio, Gabbard, Bessent, Ratcliff.

    All should be congressionally investigated and charged.

    Fine with us.

    They were all briefed on their security clearances and what could and couldn’t be discussed outside official encrypted and secure channels.

    Like a month ago.

    And they all ignored it.

    But, but, but, Hillary!

    Just flat out pathetic bootlicking. Did Rubio offer a blowjob for your efforts? I hear Hegseth will let you lick 30 year old scotch off his taint if you are convincing online.

  42. @ 39

    And by ‘hands all over this, you have the same debunked proof that her husband is her brother?

    No, but she did marry her brother, and in doing so committed immigration fraud.

    By her hands all over it, she pushed for the funding:

    In early 2021, two men named in recently unsealed search warrant affidavits donated a total of $5,400 to Omar’s campaign. The FBI affidavits list Ahmed Ghedi and Abdihakim Ahmed as associates of Safari Restaurant and Event Center. Both allegedly controlled shell companies that received $1.1 million in federal child nutrition money from a co-owner of Safari Restaurant. The two men separately helped two others buy a $2.8 million mansion in Minneapolis with child nutrition money to use as an office building, the FBI alleges.
    …
    The expanded flexibility in federal food programs came as a result of legislation that Omar sponsored in 2020, the MEALS Act.

    Almost everyone charged and convicted is Somali, and there are more to come. 70 charged, 37 pleaded guilty, 7 convictions.

    It was a grift and Ilhan Omar sponsored the funding for it.

  43. @ 39

    Omar was NOT Governor.

    I did not say that she was. The governor under whose nose the largest COVID-19 fraud occurred was Boxcheck Momala’s choice for her running mate.

    It was his state that let it happen. Omar merely

    • funded the loot that was stolen, and
    • took campaign money from the crooks who did the actual stealing.

  44. Feeding Our Future fraud’s political all-stars:

    • Tim Walz
    • Keith X
    • Ilhan Omar

    Democrats all.

  45. It’s nice to see Austin libbies believing that they can bomb their troubles away.

  46. No, but she did marry her brother, and in doing so committed immigration fraud.

    Well you got us there. The thing that is an article of faith for the reality challenged.

    It was on Powerline so of course.

  47. The biggest problem isn’t that Pete Hegseth is an under-qualified moron who is texting our military secrets to our enemies like some 15-year-old, blackout drunk.
    The problem is there is an entire anti-American, bought-off political empire on the Right that simply doesn’t give a shit anymore …

  48. Somebody pointed out to him that F-35 pilots die training to carry out these missions and SecDef SHOTS!! had this to say:

    ‘NOTHER ROUND OF YEAGER BITCHES!!!! WOOOOOOP!!!!!!

    Nazi Fucktard is confused.

  50. ANY UNAUTHORIZED RELEASE OF CLASSIFIED INFORMATION IS A VIOLATION OF THE LAW AND WILL BE TREATED AS SUCH.

    maybe

  51. We begin bombing Yemen tomorrow.

    Ten years ago you weren’t exactly sure if Yemen was a country or a city.

    AMERICA FIRST!!!!!!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

  52. @30 I guess that means there’s no racism in U.S. workplaces, it’s all faked by the black workers who complain, huh.

    Just like if one white person fakes being black, that means there’s no black people in the U.S., they’re all white. See how that works?

    And if a few deranged Musk haters key Teslas, vandalize charging stations, and set fire to Tesla dealerships, all leftists are terrorists, see how that works???

    #wingnutlogic

  53. @38 Still running against Hillary after all this years? Or just wishing you could in 2028?

  54. @41 I’m absolutely willing to lock up Hillary in exchange for also locking up Hegseth, Vance, Rubio, Gabbard, Bessent, and Ratcliff. That’s a deal! What say you, doc?

  56. A U.W. lab technician, native of Philippines, lawful permanent resident and green card holder for 54 years, was detained by ICE upon returning from an overseas trip and is in ICE’s Tacoma lockup. Why? Because she has a criminal record. Specifically, she was convicted of a “nonviolent, misdemeanor” bank embezzlement in 2001. Consequently, her arrest, detention, and pending deportation are perfectly legal.

    https://www.king5.com/article/news/community/facing-race/uw-lab-tech-us-resident-ice-custody/281-f404d578-6d65-4402-9292-586b65f7010b

    Ridding our country of ex-convicts isn’t a bad idea, but let’s deport them all. Whether they’re citizens or permanent residents, practically speaking, is a distinction without a difference. It’s crime we’re concerned about. So let’s deport all the criminals and ex-convicts. By the way, Trump is an ex-convict. So are all the Jan. 6 rioters he pardoned.

  58. If you’ve been following the Idaho school controversy over a teacher’s “Everybody is welcome here” classroom poster, according to Wikipedia, that district spends “the least amount of money per student out of any school district in the United States.”

    Kudos to the teacher for trying to teach in a place like Idaho. She’s a hero and should get a medal.

  60. Director Ratcliffe being READ the transcript of the SIGNAL chat by Senate oversight that details the plans, airstrike, disagreement by Vance and continuously saying he doesn’t recall.

    And now he’s all hot and bothered that the ONLY mistake was looping in a reporter not discussing war plans on a non secure channel.

    Side note, the underaged groomed twat at the Podium just an hour ago insisted that no war plans were on the chat. And then they get read into the record.

    Susan Collins was too concerned to attend .

  64. May I remind you you are under oath sir?

    Take it away Sen. Warner

    And the idea somehow, well, none of this was classified, but we can’t talk about it here. You can’t have it both ways.

  65. Chinese EV giant BYD surpasses rival Tesla with record 2024 revenue

    Elon did that

  66. Tulsi!

    “I’M NOT GOING TO ANSWER SENATOR!”

    This in response to if she was on the SIGNAL chat group which, has already been confirmed.

  67. In response to a dirext question by Srn Mark Kelly, no stranger to classified information, BOTH Gabbard and Ratcliffe claim to not be aware of any protocols about discussing classified information on a public platform.

    Yeah, their only retort is staggering ignorance.

  68. Everyone should read “The Trading Game” by Gary Stevenson. He has a popular youtube channel and he’s the only one making any sense about the economy. This one is for my stalker, the doormat, liddle maxiwipe, teh aroma of Sedona:

    “Well, I wasn’t making much cash, at that point, of course, but even that was coming, I could feel it. The PnL was appearing, and my thirty-six grand salary was more money than I’d ever had in my life anyway. And I was going to restaurants, which was a thing that I’d never done, and I was walking around making trades on the trading floor wearing pointy shoes and a little Bluetooth headset. What more could you want?

    But more than that, more than any of that, it felt, for the first time in a long time, like I was a part of a family. And Billy and Caleb were like two separate and opposite fathers, one small and scrappy and sweary and the other huge and impossibly smooth, and Rupert and JB were the one mean and the one friendly uncle at Christmas, and Snoopy and Spengler were like my big brothers.

    And in the few evenings when I went home to have dinner with my actual parents, they’d harass me for rent and they’d ask me for money to fix the car. And I did have to give them the car money, but I told my mum that I was paying the rent to my dad, and I told my dad that I was giving it to my mum, and neither of them realized that for ages, and everything felt like it was just coming together in the world.”

  69. Oh,

    Steven Witkoff, US Envoy to the Muddle East was IN RUSSIA at the time he was added to the SIGNAL group.

    Weeks before top US officials discussed war plans on Signal, Google had outlined how Russia had used the app to hack accounts of persons of interest in Ukraine.

    In a report in February, the Google Threat Intelligence (GTI) group said that Russian hackers from its military intelligence service GRU had used a number of ways to compromise Signal accounts of persons of interest in Ukraine during the ongoing war. The report highlighted the many ways in which hackers gained access to users’ messages, such as by duping them into scanning malicious QR codes or making them click on links resembling group invitations.

    ‘Tis nothing to fire or resign over!

  70. Senator John Ossof, “Director Ratcliffe (looping a reporter in on an illegal discussion of classified material) was a huge mistake, correct?

    CIA Director Ratcliffe “No.”

  71. Shifting to other news, Israel assassinated two Palestinian journalists yesterday and, like they do, asserted without evidence both were terrorists.

    First Hossam Shabat of Al Jazeera in a deliberate attack on the vehicle in which he was traveling by Israeli Occupying Forces.

    Second Mohammed Mansour and his family in a direct missile attack on his home.

    Israel, “Trust me bro, they were bad hombres”

  72. Another one.

    Federal Judge orders funding re-instatement for Radio Free Europe by the simple logic that a sitting President is constitutionally barred from nullifying enacted legislation without a new act of Congress.

  73. @73

    And another coning.

    Donnie signs an EO banning mail ballots.

    I’ll just leave Aericle 1, section 4 here with some emphasis added.

    Article I Legislative Branch

    Section 4 Congress
    Clause 1 Elections Clause
    The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.

  74. And speaking if senile.

    Stephen Miller describes the EO at great length while Trump looks lost and then take the pen and says, “You all understand that…election fraud. You’ve heard the term.’ And signs.

  78. I get the feeling that Trumpsters are starting to sour on Drumpf. Coworkers that were/are big fans, whom also hated Biden, are talking less about politics today. One also use to watch the news (Newsmax) everyday at noon time, but no more. Snd driving to work I’m noticing people that use to have flags made in Ginna of the Orange turd are no longer being displayed.

    Maybe there is some hope here. I think all the uneducated realize that they could be or will be without their SS check. Oh well, bark like a dog in silence… Woof Woof 🐶

  80. Democrats are always know at Firsts. But I change that! Now I’m the first dead black female bitch

  81. Oh?

    Jeffrey Goldberg is now saying Ratcliffe mentioned a covert CIA asset by name in the SIGNAL chat and that he turned that information over to law enforcement.

    It’s almost a guarantee Senate Oversight knew that today while Ratclife was testifying that covert intel was not being discussed.

  82. @60 By now everyone knows Karoline Leavitt is a liar, plus she blames everything on Biden, which is getting old very quickly.

  83. @69 Trump famously doesn’t like to fire people, even incompetent and crooked ones, except for youngsters on “The Apprentice” who are better at business than he is.

  84. @73 So the guy whose postmaster appointee slowed mail delivery wants late-delivered ballots thrown out?

    Presidents don’t get to legislate by executive order. Recently his mouthpiece, Karoline Leavitt, complained about the record number of injunctions against him. The obvious remedy for that is to stop issuing unconstitutional orders.

  85. The United States said an agreement has been reached to ensure safe navigation in the Black Sea as it wrapped up three days of talks Tuesday with Ukrainian and Russian delegations in Saudi Arabia on prospective steps toward peace.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-says-it-brokered-safe-shipping-black-sea-russia-ukraine_n_67e2d31ae4b06ded8a6f3dea

    In other words, Russian oil can now safely transit into the Mediterranean and Russian warships can now move into position to bombard Ukraine without being attacked.

  86. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) asked Frank Bisignano, the Wall Street executive Trump tapped for commissioner of Social Security, if he’d had contact with affiliates of billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency ….

    “My first question is, between the time you were nominated and today, were you involved in discussions about DOGE or any of the operations, personnel or management decisions of those working in Social Security?”

    “No, sir,” Bisignano said.

    “That sounds like a reassuring response, but unfortunately, it’s not true,” Wyden said, adding that an agency whistleblower had provided a statement describing frequent contacts between Bisignano and DOGE affiliates.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/frank-bisignano-social-security-doge_n_67e2d1dee4b09c922897d9f1

    Lying under oath is just routine for these guys.

  87. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) asked Frank Bisignano, the Wall Street executive Trump tapped for commissioner of Social Security, if he’d had contact with affiliates of billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency ….

    “My first question is, between the time you were nominated and today, were you involved in discussions about DOGE or any of the operations, personnel or management decisions of those working in Social Security?”

    “No, sir,” Bisignano said.

    “That sounds like a reassuring response, but unfortunately, it’s not true,” Wyden said, adding that an agency whistleblower had provided a statement describing frequent contacts between Bisignano and DOGE affiliates.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/frank-bisignano-social-security-doge_n_67e2d1dee4b09c922897d9f1

    Lying under oath is just routine for these guys.

  90. CNN headline today:

    Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants

    Yeah, like kids can do field work. To fully comprehend this proposal insert “black” in front of “kids.” Well, why not; they picked in the good old days, didn’t they?

  91. Another CNN headline today:

    Palestinians take part in largest anti-Hamas protests in Gaza since start of war

    Wait, what? This undercuts the Trump admin’s arguments that all Palestinian protests are Hamas terrorists! That could interfere with their plans to deport all the Palestinian professors and students currently in the U.S.!

  92. NBC headline today:

    Speaker Mike Johnson floats eliminating federal courts as GOP ramps up attacks on judges

    To clarify, the article says he “floated the possibility of Congress eliminating some federal courts.”

    “We do have the authority over the federal courts, as you know. We can eliminate an entire district court. We have power of funding over the courts and all these other things,” Johnson told reporters on Tuesday. “But desperate times call for desperate measures, and Congress is going to act.”

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/speaker-mike-johnson-floats-eliminating-federal-courts-rcna197986

    The article also notes he would need at least 7 Democratic senators to get past a filibuster, and I’m going to take a wild guess here that he wouldn’t have them.

    defundthecourts

  93. Jim Wright
    Reporter: “Would it be a problem if the Atlantic released all the text messages if they’re not classified?”
    That’s the question, isn’t it?
    So, it’s simple. Trump says the texts are not classified. The Secretary of Defense, the National Security Advisor, the Director of National Intelligence, the Secretary of State, they all say the texts aren’t classified.
    Okay.
    Then there should be no problem whatsoever making a full unredacted transcript of the entire session public along with the names of every participant.
    Right?
    If Trump is telling the truth and the conversation was unclassified and national security was not compromised by his administration, then he can crush his political opponents, completely emasculate the Democrats, and end this entire situation in one fell swoop.
    He would be totally and immediately vindicated.
    All he has to do is release the full transcript. Simple. He would have instant and absolute victory.
    IF he’s telling the truth.

  94. Rural California schools and roads lose millions in federal funding after latest cuts

    For more than a century, Congress has given extra money to counties with large tracts of federal land to help pay for schools, roads and other critical services. Now that financial lifeline appears to be dead after Congress didn’t include it in the budget passed this month — a victim of the Trump administration’s cost-cutting measures.

    Republicans did that

  95. Trump’s executive orders halts delivery of 600,000 pounds of food to Michigan food bank

    Republicans did that.

  96. IRS says Elon Musk has lost a half trillion dollars for the US
    The Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the DOGE-driven disruptions to the IRS since the inauguration are on track to have reduced tax receipts by more than $500 billion by April 15th.

    Republicans did that

  97. I’m beginning to wonder if there’s a conspiracy to deliberately cause government to fail in order to “prove” that “democracy doesn’t work.”

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