When we started on moving out of our old house into a new house, we got a bagster for construction debris and random crap from the old place. You’re gonna need a bigger boat.
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I’m sure this will end well: Fired Workers with Security Clearances Not Given Briefings
Some U.S. government workers with top security clearances fired in mass layoffs overseen by Elon Musk in recent weeks were not given standard exit briefings and advised on what to do if approached by foreign adversaries.
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Profiles in Cowardice: Republicans Told to Stop Town Hall Meetings
The chair of the House GOP’s campaign arm told Republican lawmakers Tuesday to stop holding in-person town halls amid a wave of angry backlash over the cuts undertaken by President Donald Trump’s administration.
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“𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙐𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙡𝙖𝙪𝙣𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙙 𝙖 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙧 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩 𝘾𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙙𝙖, 𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙘𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙣𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮, 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙘𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙛𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙. 𝘼𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮’𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙍𝙪𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙖, 𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙑𝙡𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙢𝙞𝙧 𝙋𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙣: 𝙖 𝙡𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙢𝙪𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙧. 𝙈𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙚.” — Justin Trudeau
Tariff Uncertainty Will Keep Rising, Paralyzing Businesses
The Trump administration’s tariff campaign is generating huge uncertainty for businesses that was already becoming a drag on the economy. It will only further intensify in the weeks and months ahead.
Until recently, stock-market investors seemed to be acting on the assumption that most of Trump’s threatened tariffs simply wouldn’t happen, perhaps believing they represented mere negotiation tactics. They have now been disabused of that notion.
The prospect of disruptive tariffs has already held back many businesses from decisions such as new hiring or embarking on major purchases or investments.
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Trump Takes the Dumbest Tariff Plunge
We’ve courted Mr. Trump’s ire by calling the Mexico and Canada levies the “dumbest” in history, and we may have understated the point. Mr. Trump is whacking friends, not adversaries. His taxes will hit every cross-border transaction, and the North American vehicle market is so interconnected that some cars cross a border as many as eight times as they’re assembled…
Mr. Trump is volatile, and who knows how long he’ll keep the tariffs in place. Retaliation that hits certain states and businesses may also cause him to reconsider sooner than he imagines. Investors are trying to read this uncertainty as they also watch growing evidence of a slowing U.S. economy. Unbridled Tariff Man was always going to be a big economic risk in a second term, and here we are.
Frontline Democrats are frightened by so many things, but there is only one source of blow back threatening to boil over now, and it’s from these constituents, who understand clearly what is happening to their country and are desperate to stop it.
People who show up to congressional town hall events may not be exceptionally well schooled in the fine points of parliamentary procedure, but they know anger and bravery and commitment to principle when they see it, and they want Democrats to demonstrate those emotions and character traits now, even if they aren’t hardwired to any process that might directly undermine Trump’s efforts.
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As Paramount’s merger with Skydance nears the finish line, CBS News chief Wendy McMahon and “60 Minutes” boss Bill Owens have faced escalating pressure to settle Donald Trump’s lawsuit—including from incoming president Jeff Shell.
J.D. Vance Ignites Outrage in U.K. and France
Commerce to Overhaul ‘Internet for All’ Plan
The Commerce Department is examining changes to a $42.5 billion Biden-era program aimed at expanding internet access around the country with new rules that will make it easier for Starlink, Elon Musk’s satellite-internet service, to tap in to rural broadband funding.
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U.S. Mint Removes Coin Honoring Capitol Police Officers
The U.S. Mint has removed from its website the gold medals honoring police officers who protected the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot — another instance of President Donald Trump’s administration moving to take down material related to the violent episode stemming from his falsehoods about the 2020 presidential election results.
Falsehoods is such a weasel word given that lies is available.
”Slavery produced a genuine affection between the races”: Hegseth’s church foretold “DEI” firings
Defense secretary’s contempt for Black military leaders has roots in his religion’s defense of white supremacy
Trump illegally removed member of board that protects government employees, judge rules
Cathy Harris was restored to chairman of the Merit Systems Protection Board.
Well, he didn’t hold back. The 45th and 47th president gave us the full Donald Trump experience last night with a raucous joint address to Congress which lauded his culture war victories, denigrated his political opponents (including Joe Biden by name more than a dozen times), attacked seething Democrats for refusing to stand and applaud him and generally felt more like a MAGA campaign rally than a traditional presidential speech.
Supreme Court Rules the Clean Water Act Doesn’t Actually Require That Water Be Clean
In case you didn’t hear the GSA today announced it’s going to sell off many if not all of the central buildings making up the headquarters of the American republic.
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Dredging Up the Ghostly Secrets of Slave Ships
A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep.
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Of all the blogs I read today, none will impress me as yours has. Just watched the whole Jon Stewart segment. He ends up where I have landed. Europe and our country need to stop wasting time being astonished by each micro blow. They have to get a grip on the macro picture. A new world order, by design.