Dr. Christopher R. Wren

Only an idiot would fight a war on two fronts.
Only the heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts.
- Londo Mollari

Boston takes gender off of marriage certificates in push to make services more inclusive for LGBTQ residents The new guidelines also inform city employees when and how to ask about gender and sexual identity.

This isn't drivers licenses, but it's a big step forward, and proof that you can make these changes when governments are willing to listen to research about how to best serve their citizens: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

If you listen, he enunciates the phrase "no imminent threat" carefully. That was no accident. This senator, after hearing the DoD briefing, is telling you this is an illegal war

Will GOP representatives stand up for you, and vote to impeach? Will GOP senators vote to convict?

Where is congress?

Lets google bomb like it's 1999

Ok NIMBYs, get out there and use your powers for good. If you thought a three-story multiuse was going to destroy your town, I'm sure you can get motivated to stop one of these

The department of "just asking questions"

While you are calling your senators to stop the SAVE act, the monster DOGE database of the same name is already disenfranchising citizens and setting them up for detention by DHS

"if you’re okay with this, that’s not a political opinion. That is a moral failing."

Preach

First they came for the trans
And I did not speak out
Because I was not trans

Then they came for the immigrants
And I did not speak out
Because I was not an immigrant

Then they came for the Muslims
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Muslim

Are we on verse 3 now?
Or is it already verse 4?

I left my house today. When I noticed that the only other people out and about were mail carriers: that's when I knew I had made a mistake

I use GPS every single day, and almost certainly you do too. Having actually looked under the hood to understand how it works, I can assure you that if you actually know enough math and physics to follow it, you are in a very small group

"Do you know where your children are?" is a question used as a public service announcement (PSA) for parents on American television from the late 1960s through the late 1990s.

That's my senator!

Do you know where *your* senators are?

Anne Frank likely died in a typhus epidemic that spread through the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

History rhymes, it rhymes

Close the camps, set fire to the prisons

usgs.gov 504 Gateway Time-out
Thanks Trump

"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

AFL-CIO Mourns Killing of Minneapolis Union Member, Reiterates Calls for ICE to Leave Minnesota: The AFL-CIO mourns the senseless killing of another Minneapolis resident by federal agents. Alex Jeffrey Pretti was a VA intensive care unit nurse and a member of AFGE Local 3669—a brother in our union family. Our thoughts are with Alex’s loved ones, his union siblings, and the people of Minneapolis at this devastating time. As tens of thousands of Minnesotans made clear peacefully and powerfully yesterday, the Trump administration’s horrific operation—and their actions aimed at stoking violence and chaos—must end. America’s unions join the call for ICE to immediately leave Minnesota before anyone else is hurt or killed. We demand local authorities conduct a full, transparent investigation that will lead to accountability for this tragic and violent act, and for Congress to use its power to hold ICE accountable.

America’s unions mourn the senseless killing by federal agents of our AFGE Local 3669 union brother and VA nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti.

We reiterate our call for ICE to immediately leave Minnesota before anyone else is hurt or killed.
https://bit.ly/4pVTpFO

Trump's own NIST reported "Across demographics, false positives rates often vary by factors of 10 to beyond 100 times." and "We found false positives to be higher in women than men"

False positive = it said you are, but you are not

nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/...

Why is anything happening in Congress right now that isn't either defunding, or impeaching?

The Purged Donald Trump’s destruction of the civil service is a tragedy not just for the roughly 300,000 workers who have been discarded, but for an entire nation.

A powerful Atlantic piece on federal workers fired or forced out over the past year.

Federal employees spend their careers serving communities, protecting public health and safety, and keeping essential government functions running, often without recognition.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

MN is rightfully suing #USDA over #snap funding freeze.
Where are the #OIG investigations backing up the claims of MASSIVE fraud? Known fact all programs cannot escape fraud or improper payments entirely. Any program, any state.

Let’s compare MN to Brooke’s home state TX & WHAT ABOUT IOWA?

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This is my senator.
What's your doing?

“That was all complete bullshit from the beginning”
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a meme top text: MAGA: WE FOUND SO MUCH FRAUD! image: Lucy humiliating Charlie Brown by pulling away the football... again bottom text: THERE'S NO FRAUD

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As someone who works with (and contributed to) USWDS and several of it's agency-specific forks, the NDS is truly an insult to the incredible work of teams at @alt18f.bsky.social, @altusds.altgov.info, GSA and others who have spent a decade creating one of the best design systems in the world.

I worked under a quota system in private sector: they are the go to tool of a lazy and incompetent executive leadership team, and are the fastest way to sabotage a productive, motivated workforce. Everything he said in that video is 100% true

The decision by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to downgrade its recommendations to protect infants from hepatitis B is a dangerous move that will harm children.

Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT

Number of SNAP recipients Amazon 2,456 Walmart 2,318 Uber 1,799 DoorDash 1,462 Tempus Unlimited 1,425 Stop & Shop 989 Mass General Brigham 956 Dollar Tree 952 Albertsons Companies, Inc. 896 Bayada Home Health 887

The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."

Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

I know some of the folks from @alt18f.bsky.social who worked on this. Hell, some former coworkers worked on it.

Direct File is/was one of the best examples of digital modernization and this hits hard.