We’re getting a very special (and especially destructive) mix of populist nationalism (trade wars) and Grover Noqquist-style drown-the-government-in-a-bathtub austerity.

apnews.com/article/irs-...

when Elon Musk started recruiting for DOGE last November, he said the work would be “tedious” and “compensation is zero"

now it turns out some DOGE operatives are earning six-figure salaries, one as high as $195,200, as much as a civil servant can legally make

www.wired.com/story/doge-g...

Trump whining that Democrats wouldn't applaud him even if he cured a disease and then a second later bragging about withdrawing from the World Health Organization

This whole riff on the ages of people on social security is IDENTICAL to the lies he's told about voter rolls and voting fraud.

"Trump has just presided over one of the greatest diplomatic disasters in modern history," writes the Guardian's Washington DC bureau chief David Smith.

An extraordinary diplomatic rupture unfolded in the Oval Office on Friday when Trump and Vance publicly berated Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, as an ungrateful ally risking global war in its ongoing defense against Russian invaders.

Pagan Community Notes for 2/27/25:

Interfaith community in SC responds to the events in Pickens, Hellenic religious leaders call for protest after court blocks construction of new Temple of Zeus, Matronalia approaches, Tarot of the Week, & more events on the horizon

wildhunt.org/2025/02/paga...

Research on a painted baculum discovered in 2015 offers rare insight into a Romano-British fertility ritual, shedding light on the magical practices of an ancient society.

wildhunt.org/2025/02/fert...

#archaeology #celticritual #surrey #romanbritain #witchcraft #pagan #pagansky #witchsky

Merry Christmas and Happy Yule.