congress worked and worked faster in those days compared to now; but, then, republicans were republicans in those days and the president believed in DEI.
Trump’s MAGA goons want you to believe that what’s going on is normal, but it’s not. For example, our new head of Homeland Security cares more about her hair and makeup than protecting American citizens from being taken away by ICE agents.
Our thoughts are with the families who lost loved ones on the horrible plane crash in Washington DC, Trump gave a 40 minute press conference where he blamed DEI, Meta settled with Trump out of court over his suspended Facebook account and they agreed to pay him $25 million, it was a three ring circus in the Senate today as three of Trump’s most mind-numbing nominees including Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard put on a show for Congress, and since you can’t get a straight answer out of RFK Jr., Jimmy chats with RFK Jr. JUNIOR.
I’m expecting to be offline most of the day. Heading under the knife again, this time for surgery to patch a hole in my ear drum so that David doesn’t have to repeat himself so much — a little thing they call Tympanoplasty.
I have to assume tympanoplasty is done with teeny weeny little surgical tools. Hope all goes well and you can get rid of a lot of the Huhs? in you life.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
“I represent LGA Airport as well as workers for JFK. Trump gutted the Aviation Safety committee last week. Air traffic controllers, already understaffed, got Trump’s “buyout” this wk with a 1 wk ultimatum to decide. It’s not DEI – it’s him. And Elon too.”
Well, WaPo may be losing a lot of good journalists, but Glen Kessler isn’t gone. Thank goodness. Regarding DODO’s despicable DEI rant yesterday…
The facts
In the news conference, Trump said Obama weakened standards and “I changed the Obama standards from very mediocre at best, to extraordinary. … Then they changed it back — that was Biden.”
Trump’s claim was repeated in an executive order Trump signed Thursday that ordered a review of aviation safety: “During my first term, my Administration raised standards to achieve the highest standards of safety and excellence.”
That’s false. In his first term, Trump left the standards unchanged.
For air traffic controllers, the Obama administration in 2013 instituted a new hiring system that introduced a biographical questionnaire to attract minorities, underrepresented in the controller corps. The program was criticized, such as in a Fox News report in 2015, as making it harder for more skilled applicants to get hired as controllers.
But Trump, in his first term, left the policy in place, leading to a class-action lawsuit filed in 2019 by Mountain States Legal Foundation. The case was due to go to trial this year.
Moreover, the FAA under Trump in 2019 launched a program to hire controllers using the very criteria he decried at his news conference.
“FAA Provides Aviation Careers to People with Disabilities,” the agency announced on April 11, 2019. The pilot program, the announcement said, would “identify specific opportunities for people with targeted disabilities, empower them and facilitate their entry into a more diverse and inclusive workforce.”
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The June 2019 webpage for the Aviation Development Program (ADP) — also now removed but still visible on the Wayback Machine — said the program “provides an opportunity for Persons with Targeted Disabilities (PWTD) to gain aviation knowledge and experience as an air traffic control student trainee.” Participants would get up to one year of experience in an Air Route Traffic Control Center (ARTCC), with a possibility of getting a temporary appointment at the FAA Academy.
…
FACT CHECK
Trump claimed that he had changed Obama’s criteria for hiring air traffic controllers with greater diversity — when in fact he left it unchanged. Moreover, he decried the fact that FAA hired controllers with a range of disabilities that he listed at the news conference. But that program was launched during his first term.
I have a slight hearing deficiency in my right ear from…the war? No. Old age? No.
67 years ago a Methodist woman teaching Sunday School in a small Indiana town slapped the hell out of my ear when I told her she was teaching last week’s lesson. .Dad said I deserved it. Some adult would have done that to my daughters , courthouse with prejudice.
Anonymous
4 days ago
…been there, Dex. i didn’t deserve it, either
That’s the America the magas want back, adults hitting children
Mr. Gower slapping young George gives me PTSD 😬
i didn’t die in a plane-crash due to Trump’s vindictive incompetence though so doing well otherwise
Now Black history, Holocaust. Remembrance and other culture specific celebrations are to be cancelled. White, Christian Nationalists don your sheets, light up the crosses and give golden calf Donald his due.
“ELON MUSK’S DOGE WANTS ACCESS TO THE TREASURY’S PAYMENT SYSTEMS: REPORT
A senior Treasury official is set to resign after Musk’s allies at DOGE repeatedly demanded access to sensitive government payment systems”
(Paywall, but WTF!?!)
MuskRat is not an elected official. He has no right to access Social Security records or anything else. How many in the new administration even have been fully vetted for security clearance. Certainly not that drug-addled n@zi.
“The White House said Friday that President Donald Trump would impose a 25% tariff on goods coming to the U.S. from Canada and Mexico and a 10% tariff on those from China on Saturday, a move that could drive up prices for products coming into the U.S. from those countries.”
Tanking our economy, which had recovered stronger than elsewhere, and wouldn’t done even better if not for the greed at the top.
“Nearly three years ago, a flock of pheasants in Erath County became the first case of the bird flu in Texas. Since then, the bird flu has mutated across species — including humans — and plagued chickens and dairy cows in the state.”
“There are 67 human cases in 10 states and one death, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The second known case of a human contracting the virus was recorded in Texas last year.”
“The Center for Disease Control reported the first human death in the U.S. from the bird flu earlier this month: a Louisiana resident who was hospitalized from the disease in December. In humans, symptoms can range from eye redness and mild fever to difficulty breathing and seizures.”
We have no way of knowing what’s going on since the CDC had been silenced…but Adolf will eventually say it started under Biden.
Trump gave years when economy was best and based on tariffs without an income tax. In other words, he is in favor of bringing back the Gilded Age. Great TV series, but I don’t think we want to live there unless among the billionaires.
Will anything weird happen during the Super Bowl? Like when any POTUS does the SB thing, will his be to tell us he’s never leaving and we’re all screwed. I mean, it seems clear to me, but to the folks who think others are overreacting…Will he make some sort of edict during the game?
DODO is not getting off easy this time by casting blame elsewhere. He was president when doodoo started happening, and it’s his own doodoo that is picking up steam where he left off last time. The Turd Reich.
The final BIG ticket thing from Canada is in my driveway. I have been stocking up on things from Canada and Mexico that I could. Most are long lasting, they don’t go bad like Canadian milk would do in a couple of weeks. What is sad is how many people believe the crap from sfb. What is worse is the cult oligarchs are using that ignorance to do their damage. And it is uncontrolled damage. I don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow, we do know what has happened since the moron became president. We do know what musk and the other oligarchs are doing. And, we have to wonder who or what will save the remains of America.
BB – We know retailers will use ~tariffs~ to raise prices on everything. Just like they blamed supply chain long after goods were moving through the system (and right up until today); they will squeeze every nickel out of consumers.
“Another order, signed by Trump, takes aim at “diversity, equity, and inclusion” across the federal government.”
“Access to this information is crucial for infectious diseases and HIV health care professionals who care for people with HIV and members of the LGBTQ community and is critical to efforts to end the HIV epidemic.”
“The Justice Department abruptly fired dozens of prosecutors who worked on criminal cases stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, according to correspondence reviewed by POLITICO and an interview with one of the people who were terminated.”
“Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin emailed the employees just before 5 p.m. Friday, appending a memo from acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove revealing an effort to root out employees the Trump administration considers improperly hired by the outgoing Biden administration.”
“President Donald Trump declared victory on Friday in his long-running water war with California, boasting he sent billions of gallons south — but local officials say they narrowly prevented him from possibly flooding farms.”
“Today, 1.6 billion gallons and, in 3 days, it will be 5.2 billion gallons. Everybody should be happy about this long fought Victory! I only wish they listened to me six years ago — There would have been no fire!” he said in a post on his social media site.”
“Something really bad could happen because of their nonsensical approach,” the former official, who was granted anonymity because of the issue’s political sensitivity, said. “Floods are real. This isn’t playing around with a software company.”
JFC! Take the car keys away from Gramps!
Deport Elon while you’re at it, before he accesses Treasury Department data. This is becoming the biggest heist in history.
“Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services”
It’s open source, so here ya go. Basically, be as big of a pain as you can, whether it’s acting stupid, being emotional, or nitpicky and bureaucratic to gum up the works.
Here we go, MAGAts on X revving up to blame Biden:
“Philadelphia Plane crash has some extremely interesting flights around Mexico and yesterday to Haiti. Also, it was NOT logged that it was departing from Philly airport. This is screaming cartel hit to me and I’m not one to be a massive tinfoil hat guy but damn!”
Sprinkle Stuff
4 days ago
“I see I’m the only one awake, freaking out about this stuff.”
i’m reading your links, too disturbed for clever commentary, but am reading
take a break when needed, burning-out is counterproductive
Sprinkle Stuff
4 days ago
feel a different Bern
Sprinkle Stuff
4 days ago
Bernie might not be the leader you want, but he’s the leader you got
congress worked and worked faster in those days compared to now; but, then, republicans were republicans in those days and the president believed in DEI.
stephen on other news
Trump’s MAGA goons want you to believe that what’s going on is normal, but it’s not. For example, our new head of Homeland Security cares more about her hair and makeup than protecting American citizens from being taken away by ICE agents.
Jimmy’s take
Our thoughts are with the families who lost loved ones on the horrible plane crash in Washington DC, Trump gave a 40 minute press conference where he blamed DEI, Meta settled with Trump out of court over his suspended Facebook account and they agreed to pay him $25 million, it was a three ring circus in the Senate today as three of Trump’s most mind-numbing nominees including Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard put on a show for Congress, and since you can’t get a straight answer out of RFK Jr., Jimmy chats with RFK Jr. JUNIOR.
Ah, the good old days when human rights were expanded. Thanks for the memories, Pat.
Ivy, your comment last thread is right on:
Dictator on Day One (DODO) means he’s owned everything since January 20-and-a-half.
I’m expecting to be offline most of the day. Heading under the knife again, this time for surgery to patch a hole in my ear drum so that David doesn’t have to repeat himself so much — a little thing they call Tympanoplasty.
Go Pete!
Leading candidates: State party chairs Ken Martin (Minnesota) and Wisconsin’s Ben Wikle — A Democratic Party in crisis will elect its new chairman on Saturday
Off to hospital for my ear surgery now. Play nice while I’m gone.
This will not turn out well.
Senior U.S. official to exit after clash with Elon over access to sensitive Treasury info.
Senior U.S. official to exit after rift with Musk allies over payment system – The Washington Post
Best wishes, Craig. Hope to hear more about your procedure.
Thanks, Pat.
Lawrence Tribe
Exactly right
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social
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Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
I have to assume tympanoplasty is done with teeny weeny little surgical tools. Hope all goes well and you can get rid of a lot of the Huhs? in you life.
BTW,
Jen Rubin
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THIS is how you communicate, folks
Krassensteins
16h
BREAKING: AOC blames crash on Trump / Elon
“I represent LGA Airport as well as workers for JFK. Trump gutted the Aviation Safety committee last week. Air traffic controllers, already understaffed, got Trump’s “buyout” this wk with a 1 wk ultimatum to decide. It’s not DEI – it’s him. And Elon too.”
Well, WaPo may be losing a lot of good journalists, but Glen Kessler isn’t gone. Thank goodness. Regarding DODO’s despicable DEI rant yesterday…
Prepped for ear surgery
At some point we’re just another bar code.
today’s meme…
good luck Craig…. hearing aids are probably next.
Maybe not too soon RR. Hearing test showed my right ear is 100%. This patch supposed to get left ear above 85%.
Biting and hearing can be very useful.
meme #2…
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/31/musk-pushes-out-top-treasury-official-over-effort-to-access-us-government-payment-system-report/
probably not a good idea to give a foreign nazi IT hustler who is building out AI systems access to our Federal financial data systems
all of the attempts by trump to restrict DEI language are blatant 1st amendment violations, not that the nazis give a fuck about the Constitution
I have a slight hearing deficiency in my right ear from…the war? No. Old age? No.
67 years ago a Methodist woman teaching Sunday School in a small Indiana town slapped the hell out of my ear when I told her she was teaching last week’s lesson. .Dad said I deserved it. Some adult would have done that to my daughters , courthouse with prejudice.
…been there, Dex. i didn’t deserve it, either
That’s the America the magas want back, adults hitting children
Mr. Gower slapping young George gives me PTSD 😬
i didn’t die in a plane-crash due to Trump’s vindictive incompetence though so doing well otherwise
Now Black history, Holocaust. Remembrance and other culture specific celebrations are to be cancelled. White, Christian Nationalists don your sheets, light up the crosses and give golden calf Donald his due.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2025/01/30/pentagon-agency-halts-mlk-day-black-history-month-other-celebrations/
Your Secretary of Defense is posing for photos to flaunt his fun USA-themed flair in above link 👍
bunch of goons
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-doge-treasury-payment-systems-report-1235252444/
“ELON MUSK’S DOGE WANTS ACCESS TO THE TREASURY’S PAYMENT SYSTEMS: REPORT
A senior Treasury official is set to resign after Musk’s allies at DOGE repeatedly demanded access to sensitive government payment systems”
(Paywall, but WTF!?!)
MuskRat is not an elected official. He has no right to access Social Security records or anything else. How many in the new administration even have been fully vetted for security clearance. Certainly not that drug-addled n@zi.
Denaturalize and deport that turd!
Out of surgery, feeling fine
Good to go, Craig. Twilight sleep or all the way under?
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-impose-tariffs-canada-mexico-china-saturday-white-house-says-rcna190221
“The White House said Friday that President Donald Trump would impose a 25% tariff on goods coming to the U.S. from Canada and Mexico and a 10% tariff on those from China on Saturday, a move that could drive up prices for products coming into the U.S. from those countries.”
Tanking our economy, which had recovered stronger than elsewhere, and wouldn’t done even better if not for the greed at the top.
All the way under, Ivy. Home now. Just a dull ear ache so far, but the oxycodone handling that
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/31/texas-bird-flu/
“Nearly three years ago, a flock of pheasants in Erath County became the first case of the bird flu in Texas. Since then, the bird flu has mutated across species — including humans — and plagued chickens and dairy cows in the state.”
“There are 67 human cases in 10 states and one death, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The second known case of a human contracting the virus was recorded in Texas last year.”
“The Center for Disease Control reported the first human death in the U.S. from the bird flu earlier this month: a Louisiana resident who was hospitalized from the disease in December. In humans, symptoms can range from eye redness and mild fever to difficulty breathing and seizures.”
We have no way of knowing what’s going on since the CDC had been silenced…but Adolf will eventually say it started under Biden.
Trump gave years when economy was best and based on tariffs without an income tax. In other words, he is in favor of bringing back the Gilded Age. Great TV series, but I don’t think we want to live there unless among the billionaires.
Will anything weird happen during the Super Bowl? Like when any POTUS does the SB thing, will his be to tell us he’s never leaving and we’re all screwed. I mean, it seems clear to me, but to the folks who think others are overreacting…Will he make some sort of edict during the game?
Equal Opportunity Employment: 1965 -2025 RIP
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/trumps-orders-sow-chaos-inside-the-nations-enforcer-of-equal-opportunity
Fair Housing has really bad cough.
DODO is not getting off easy this time by casting blame elsewhere. He was president when doodoo started happening, and it’s his own doodoo that is picking up steam where he left off last time. The Turd Reich.
Never forget: DODO has studied Hitler closely, has been tutored in the history of the Third Reich, and is intentionally recreating it in America.
The final BIG ticket thing from Canada is in my driveway. I have been stocking up on things from Canada and Mexico that I could. Most are long lasting, they don’t go bad like Canadian milk would do in a couple of weeks. What is sad is how many people believe the crap from sfb. What is worse is the cult oligarchs are using that ignorance to do their damage. And it is uncontrolled damage. I don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow, we do know what has happened since the moron became president. We do know what musk and the other oligarchs are doing. And, we have to wonder who or what will save the remains of America.
BB – We know retailers will use ~tariffs~ to raise prices on everything. Just like they blamed supply chain long after goods were moving through the system (and right up until today); they will squeeze every nickel out of consumers.
Gouge away, retailers. Nobody will stop you.
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/01/31/nx-s1-5282274/trump-administration-purges-health-websites
“Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies”
“The changes at the CDC and NIH are examples of a broad push by the Trump administration on gender issues under an executive order titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.” That order directs agencies throughout the government to stop offering “gender identity” as a choice on government forms and to end funding of “gender ideology.”
“Another order, signed by Trump, takes aim at “diversity, equity, and inclusion” across the federal government.”
“Access to this information is crucial for infectious diseases and HIV health care professionals who care for people with HIV and members of the LGBTQ community and is critical to efforts to end the HIV epidemic.”
Craig, a doctor-friend of mine says it takes one
day*week of recovery for every hour you’re under full anesthesia. Have a restful weekend.I misspoke. Either way, take it easy.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/31/doj-purges-prosecutors-january-6-cases-00201904
“The Justice Department abruptly fired dozens of prosecutors who worked on criminal cases stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, according to correspondence reviewed by POLITICO and an interview with one of the people who were terminated.”
“Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin emailed the employees just before 5 p.m. Friday, appending a memo from acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove revealing an effort to root out employees the Trump administration considers improperly hired by the outgoing Biden administration.”
https://www.newsweek.com/stock-market-plunges-trump-tariffs-mexico-canada-china-2024502
“Stock Market Plunges After White House Confirms Tariffs to Begin Saturday”
“Trump will implement a 25 percent tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico, and 10 percent on goods from China, effective this Saturday, the White House said. It did not specify whether any exemptions would be made. The move could lead to rapid price increases for U.S. consumers.”
Crash the economy, rebuild with crypto? To the victor go the spoils.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/31/trump-california-water-00201909
“President Donald Trump declared victory on Friday in his long-running water war with California, boasting he sent billions of gallons south — but local officials say they narrowly prevented him from possibly flooding farms.”
“Today, 1.6 billion gallons and, in 3 days, it will be 5.2 billion gallons. Everybody should be happy about this long fought Victory! I only wish they listened to me six years ago — There would have been no fire!” he said in a post on his social media site.”
“Something really bad could happen because of their nonsensical approach,” the former official, who was granted anonymity because of the issue’s political sensitivity, said. “Floods are real. This isn’t playing around with a software company.”
JFC! Take the car keys away from Gramps!
Deport Elon while you’re at it, before he accesses Treasury Department data. This is becoming the biggest heist in history.
I see I’m the only one awake, freaking out about this stuff.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184
“Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services”
It’s open source, so here ya go. Basically, be as big of a pain as you can, whether it’s acting stupid, being emotional, or nitpicky and bureaucratic to gum up the works.
Here we go, MAGAts on X revving up to blame Biden:
“I see I’m the only one awake, freaking out about this stuff.”
i’m reading your links, too disturbed for clever commentary, but am reading
take a break when needed, burning-out is counterproductive
feel a different Bern
Bernie might not be the leader you want, but he’s the leader you got
because he is leading 🫡
I was awake watching Bill Maher. More reasons to feel depressed though great to see Dan Jones, my favorite historian.
i fell in line behind Hilary, Biden, and Kamala because those were the most viable options but they’re all done, now
Bernie’s still in it, he’s saying the right things, and he is at least trying to engage citizens and inspire strategy, Thanks Bernie
We have to do the dummies a service they’ll never appreciate: hold the line until they realize what they’ve done
likely a futile endeavor, but it’s more than doing nothing
If Ukrainians can repel an assault on their capital with trash-picked defenses, we can stay informed and help others do so, also