The Administration of Exclusion:

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What are you willing to pay for your strawberries? Spinach? Lettuce of any type? Broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage? Celery? Tomatoes? California valleys are the salad bowl for the U.S. The unemployment rate in CA is 5.5%. Is that high enough to provide a workforce to pick and clean your salad for you?

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year.

Republicans in Washington did this.

This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

Furlough Day 2 Lots of thoughts. Shutdowns are a waste to everyone everywhere. But when was the fight and Congress's responsibility going to start? All of fiscal year 25 was a continuing resolution. There was no budget for any government agency. Remember that. No budgets passed for an entire year.

Furlough Day 2 I chose to get up early but not That early. My brain is primed to take care of employees, respond to requirements, fulfill a mission and a purpose as a civil servant. Trump's threats are vacant - the havoc of terminations of positions and programs has occurred since his first EO.

Furlough Day 1 was the familiar nervous wait for the furlough notice template to reach the right person to make it into a fillable PDF, creating a personal contact roster from a blank spreadsheet instead of an export from an existing SharePoint list, and crushing slowness of the web timecard system.

How about we all call DOGE, DOGGY? Since the dogs are after our government.

Does anybody in Congress actually think this is a good sign?

Washington now ‘largely aligns’ with Moscow’s vision, Kremlin says

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Even a Norwegian fuel company thinks the Trump and Vance meeting with (set up of) Zelensky was a shit show.

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