Henry Lester
@mudh3n.bsky.social
This wasn't a random person. I listened to an interview with her. Your comment is not the message to take away from the event.
March 5, 2025 at 1:19 AM
This wasn't a random person. I listened to an interview with her. Your comment is not the message to take away from the event.
Documentation please. You have overstated what I found.
March 5, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Documentation please. You have overstated what I found.
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"In a personalist dictatorship, the tyrant usually tries to destroy as many institutions as possible because they’re constraints on his power."
Marcel Dirsus on the rise and fall of tyrants
"The tyrant usually tries to destroy as many institutions as possible because they’re constraints on his power."
www.publicnotice.co
March 4, 2025 at 3:53 AM
"In a personalist dictatorship, the tyrant usually tries to destroy as many institutions as possible because they’re constraints on his power."
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RFK Jr’s top spokesman at HHS resigns after just 2 weeks after reporting clashing with him about his response to the measles epidemic in Texas. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Top HHS spokesperson quits after clashing with RFK Jr.
Thomas Corry resigned over disagreements with the HHS secretary and his approach to the measles outbreak.
www.politico.com
March 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM
RFK Jr’s top spokesman at HHS resigns after just 2 weeks after reporting clashing with him about his response to the measles epidemic in Texas. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Social security is funded by the payroll tax. There is no problem because payroll taxes should be increased just like Ronald Reagan did. A good start would be subjecting wages over $176,000 to the payroll tax. Consider that the average CEO makes 100 times that amount.
March 3, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Social security is funded by the payroll tax. There is no problem because payroll taxes should be increased just like Ronald Reagan did. A good start would be subjecting wages over $176,000 to the payroll tax. Consider that the average CEO makes 100 times that amount.
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BREAKING: judge just announced he is ruling in our favor! He’s reading his legal findings from the bench now, OPM did not have authority to direct firings. Says agencies LIED! Organizational plaintiffs have standing. Now awaiting rest of findings & relief
statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/coaliti...
statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/coaliti...
Coalition of Unions, Small Businesses, Veterans, and Conservation Organizations Seeks Court Order to Prevent Unlawful Firings - State Democracy Defenders Action
Press ReleaseFebruary 24, 2025 Amended Complaint also Targets Illegal “Five Things” Email WASHINGTON – In their lawsuit attempting to block the unlawful mass terminations of probationary federal emplo...
statedemocracydefenders.org
February 27, 2025 at 11:04 PM
BREAKING: judge just announced he is ruling in our favor! He’s reading his legal findings from the bench now, OPM did not have authority to direct firings. Says agencies LIED! Organizational plaintiffs have standing. Now awaiting rest of findings & relief
statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/coaliti...
statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/coaliti...
Unfortunately, the takeover and destruction of government by business interests has been in the works for decades.
February 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Unfortunately, the takeover and destruction of government by business interests has been in the works for decades.
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This is great.
www.theverge.com/news/617014/...
www.theverge.com/news/617014/...
Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE
We the Builders aims to explain why DOGE’s data access matters.
www.theverge.com
February 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This is great.
www.theverge.com/news/617014/...
www.theverge.com/news/617014/...
Read The Great Myth
February 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Read The Great Myth
Total hypocrite "time to build" has morphed to "time to brown nose"
February 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Total hypocrite "time to build" has morphed to "time to brown nose"
This is an old business theme - equating free markets to personal freedom - that has been pushed and sponsored by business organizations since 1900 at least. It was used to argue for child labor - a father should have the freedom to choose what's right for his family.
February 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
This is an old business theme - equating free markets to personal freedom - that has been pushed and sponsored by business organizations since 1900 at least. It was used to argue for child labor - a father should have the freedom to choose what's right for his family.
That is wonderfully disgusting
February 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
That is wonderfully disgusting
If you clip the bucket into your harness, you could belay someone up, or lower them.
February 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
If you clip the bucket into your harness, you could belay someone up, or lower them.
I try and get as many books as possible from the library.
February 24, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I try and get as many books as possible from the library.
That's actually pretty old scenario notwithstanding whatever the Guardian says.
February 23, 2025 at 1:55 AM
That's actually pretty old scenario notwithstanding whatever the Guardian says.
Much of this sort of thing was pushed by the business community.
February 23, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Much of this sort of thing was pushed by the business community.
The cult of business freedom and profit is the only value
February 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
The cult of business freedom and profit is the only value
Or you could read some actual literature instead of pulp fiction
February 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Or you could read some actual literature instead of pulp fiction
Less revenue and worse service. The audit rate is already a quarter of what it was 10 years ago because of persistent underfunding.
February 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Less revenue and worse service. The audit rate is already a quarter of what it was 10 years ago because of persistent underfunding.
Yes. It's certainly valuable to come to know the crackpot canon. I've read Mao's Little Red Book, and I should read Mein Kampf given the current environment. But to better understand Ayn Rand, you should read The Great Myth.
February 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Yes. It's certainly valuable to come to know the crackpot canon. I've read Mao's Little Red Book, and I should read Mein Kampf given the current environment. But to better understand Ayn Rand, you should read The Great Myth.
What a maroon! An executive branch appointment is doing the work of the legislative branch?!
February 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
What a maroon! An executive branch appointment is doing the work of the legislative branch?!
Yeah, the hubris of the wealthy that they think they know everything.
February 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Yeah, the hubris of the wealthy that they think they know everything.
Thanks. Got it. I had read previously that the German defense minister had resigned. Obviously, there's a replacement.
February 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Thanks. Got it. I had read previously that the German defense minister had resigned. Obviously, there's a replacement.