Still haunted by the @nytimes.com front page yesterday:
* We’re giving more money to billionaires by rewriting IRS rules
* We’re taking away food from hungry children
* New chatbots will increase alienation
* The president will have a coin
* China is self-sufficient and we’re not
Who are we?

This is a bad deal, and the old way of doing things is clearly not working.

We need new leaders in the Senate.

@kaine.senate.gov is the Mr. Bill of the Senate. His vote to approve the CR without the ACA subsidies guarantee shows he has no . . . um . . . intestinal fortitude. Oh, NOOO! (Old SNL reference.)

Can we all just finally agree that Mike Johnson and John Thune work for (depend on for their livelihood and well being) Russell Vought? . . . and act accordingly?

The Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) has been cancelled for 2025. In our latest blog post, Peter Bonner explains what key stakeholders will lose when this legally required data isn’t collected.

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Trump The Socialist
Socialism is owning the means of production.
He has equity in Intel as the largest stockholder. The Pentagon is taking ownership of rare earth metals in the US. Trump has a golden ticket on the board of US Steel.
How is this NOT owning the means of production?
Trump. Socialist.

DOGE makes OPM relevant finally . . . As a fashion influencer . . . www.cnn.com/2025/03/11/p...

And so you see humans are destined to spin in circles for the rest of our time here

Thought Experiment:

If I am Elon Musk, one thing in the way of broad acceptance of the next innovations at Tesla, Neuralink, SpaceX, and X/Twitter is the regulatory requirements for human trials. 1/

What’s going on now reminds me of this scene from the Sopranos — the looting of the sports store by the gangsters youtu.be/bc-8gPiFIFE

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Our leaders are grifters and scam artists and we are their mark, their pigeon. Cons work through misdirection. Beware the shiny object.

When the batter owns the ump. See upcoming cuts to statistical agencies. These agencies are essential to us understanding what’s going on throughout the US and abroad. See Schedule F. Do you think they’ll hesitate to stop information getting out that’s bad for them? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...