James Parsons
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One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.
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Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”
Federal health workers terrified after ‘DEI’ website publishes list of ‘targets’
The site calls out workers who have been involved with DEI initiatives. A majority are Black.
www.nbcnews.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”
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The White House said Elon Musk will determine if there are conflicts of interest between his work reviewing federal spending and his overlapping empire of six companies
White House Says Musk Will Police His Own Conflicts of Interest
The White House said Elon Musk, the billionaire leading President Donald Trump’s government cost-cutting efforts, will determine if there are conflicts of interest between his work reviewing federal s...
www.bloomberg.com
February 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The White House said Elon Musk will determine if there are conflicts of interest between his work reviewing federal spending and his overlapping empire of six companies
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The offer to federal workers to resign and keep pay and benefits is a "scam," says Randy Erwin of the National Federation of Federal Employees.
'It's a bad deal': Union president warns federal workers against accepting offer
The offer to federal workers to resign and keep pay and benefits is a "scam," says Randy Erwin of the National Federation of Federal Employees. He warns the public will feel federal workforce cuts.
www.npr.org
February 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The offer to federal workers to resign and keep pay and benefits is a "scam," says Randy Erwin of the National Federation of Federal Employees.
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i mean, dems are saying the things we want them to say. warren's saying it. jefferies is saying it. wyden's saying it. omar's saying it. AOC is saying it. it's not landing on the front page of any major news website, but they're saying in plain language what's happening here.
"I just want to be clear about what's going on here."
- @warren.senate.gov
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHN...
- @warren.senate.gov
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHN...
February 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
i mean, dems are saying the things we want them to say. warren's saying it. jefferies is saying it. wyden's saying it. omar's saying it. AOC is saying it. it's not landing on the front page of any major news website, but they're saying in plain language what's happening here.
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Schumer: "Today Leader Jeffries and I are joining together to push legislation to prevent unlawful meddling in the Treasury Department's payment systems and protect Americans across the country ... we call our legislation, 'stop the steal'"
February 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Schumer: "Today Leader Jeffries and I are joining together to push legislation to prevent unlawful meddling in the Treasury Department's payment systems and protect Americans across the country ... we call our legislation, 'stop the steal'"
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It's been real y'all
February 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
It's been real y'all
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Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work
February 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work
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I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.
February 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.
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📌LISTEN TO ME: When United States congresspeople are denied entry to a United States government building, it is coup.
February 4, 2025 at 5:30 AM
📌LISTEN TO ME: When United States congresspeople are denied entry to a United States government building, it is coup.
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From a bored and affluent middle class who wanted another season of reality TV.
I just want to say for the record that when the history books are written centuries from now, I believe the election of Donald Trump in a free and fair election in 2024 will go down as one of the most senseless and self-destructive own goals in human history
February 1, 2025 at 5:59 AM
From a bored and affluent middle class who wanted another season of reality TV.
The funny thing is, he bought the US Federal Government ($250M) and not enough people voted against it because they had their heads up their asses for one reason or another.
Elections have consequences.
Elections have consequences.
I spoke to former Treasury and OMB officials, and they said Elon Musk accessing government payment systems could give him the power to selectively turn off payments. They described what this really means in very clarifying terms. See below:
newrepublic.com/article/1910...
newrepublic.com/article/1910...
February 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The funny thing is, he bought the US Federal Government ($250M) and not enough people voted against it because they had their heads up their asses for one reason or another.
Elections have consequences.
Elections have consequences.
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This makes more sense when you remember 3 things:
1. He doesn’t want people who do their jobs, only what he tells them to do.
2. He wants to privatize everything so he can give contracts to his friends and donors.
3. Less oversight means he can get away with more.
1. He doesn’t want people who do their jobs, only what he tells them to do.
2. He wants to privatize everything so he can give contracts to his friends and donors.
3. Less oversight means he can get away with more.
REPORTER: With your efforts to reduce the federal workforce, are there any concerns about protecting the public?
TRUMP: Everybody is replaceable. We want them to go to into the private sector. It's our dream to have everybody almost working in the private sector.
TRUMP: Everybody is replaceable. We want them to go to into the private sector. It's our dream to have everybody almost working in the private sector.
February 1, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This makes more sense when you remember 3 things:
1. He doesn’t want people who do their jobs, only what he tells them to do.
2. He wants to privatize everything so he can give contracts to his friends and donors.
3. Less oversight means he can get away with more.
1. He doesn’t want people who do their jobs, only what he tells them to do.
2. He wants to privatize everything so he can give contracts to his friends and donors.
3. Less oversight means he can get away with more.
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We really need to know if Trump directly authorized Musk to pursue access to Treasury's payment systems. Either answer is bad, in a different way:
newrepublic.com/article/1910...
newrepublic.com/article/1910...
January 31, 2025 at 7:54 PM
We really need to know if Trump directly authorized Musk to pursue access to Treasury's payment systems. Either answer is bad, in a different way:
newrepublic.com/article/1910...
newrepublic.com/article/1910...
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BREAKING WAPO:
Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin just announced the dismissal of roughly 30 federal prosecutors who worked on Capitol riot cases in the D.C. office over the past four years.
Notifications went out at about 5 p.m. on Friday. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin just announced the dismissal of roughly 30 federal prosecutors who worked on Capitol riot cases in the D.C. office over the past four years.
Notifications went out at about 5 p.m. on Friday. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Interim U.S. attorney fires more than 2 dozen Jan. 6 prosecutors in D.C.
Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin is dismissing more than two dozen federal prosecutors in his D.C. office who worked on Capitol riot cases over the past four years.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 31, 2025 at 11:10 PM
BREAKING WAPO:
Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin just announced the dismissal of roughly 30 federal prosecutors who worked on Capitol riot cases in the D.C. office over the past four years.
Notifications went out at about 5 p.m. on Friday. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin just announced the dismissal of roughly 30 federal prosecutors who worked on Capitol riot cases in the D.C. office over the past four years.
Notifications went out at about 5 p.m. on Friday. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.
February 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.
Do we have an over/under on when the orange petulant gets a hair piece and it turns into a scandal that he won’t admit to?
February 1, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Do we have an over/under on when the orange petulant gets a hair piece and it turns into a scandal that he won’t admit to?
Started a re-watch of Silicon Valley. Hits way different now.
January 31, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Started a re-watch of Silicon Valley. Hits way different now.
Ever hear about Operation Northwoods?
January 30, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Ever hear about Operation Northwoods?
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OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product.
On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.
On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.
January 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product.
On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.
On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.
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yyyyyeah maybe we shouldn’t just “relax”
Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including:
- Holocaust Remembrance Day
- MLK Day
- Juneteenth
- Holocaust Remembrance Day
- MLK Day
- Juneteenth
January 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
yyyyyeah maybe we shouldn’t just “relax”
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One fed employee on Reddit: “I've never been more motivated to stay. Before the "buyout" memo, I was ready to go job hunting, but then a revelation hit. I took an oath under this position to the American people and leaving my job under the current state would be failing to maintain my oath.”
This comments section is the first time I've felt even a shred of hope in eight days.
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January 29, 2025 at 11:08 AM
One fed employee on Reddit: “I've never been more motivated to stay. Before the "buyout" memo, I was ready to go job hunting, but then a revelation hit. I took an oath under this position to the American people and leaving my job under the current state would be failing to maintain my oath.”
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February is a feast of film in glorious 35mm at the New Bev! Frank Capra rarities, Jean Arthur screwball comedies, films by Peter Bogdanovich, ‘80s creature features, the LA premiere of The Dead Thing, rare I.B. Technicolor prints, & more! Let us know what you’re most excited to see!
January 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
February is a feast of film in glorious 35mm at the New Bev! Frank Capra rarities, Jean Arthur screwball comedies, films by Peter Bogdanovich, ‘80s creature features, the LA premiere of The Dead Thing, rare I.B. Technicolor prints, & more! Let us know what you’re most excited to see!
History is being made all the time.
January 29, 2025 at 12:48 AM
History is being made all the time.
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all you people who told us to calm down can go fuck yourselves
January 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
all you people who told us to calm down can go fuck yourselves