Howie

This is why I am a brain-damaged cartoon doggo.

Only neo-Nazis use that argument. The phrase was invented specifical to refer to Jews. Nazi trash.

No, your fine with Jewish villages being burned to ground. You're not fine with Hamas being hunting for it.

You just support antisemitic terrorism.

You're an antisemite, stop trying to murder us first.

Sky is yellow at night, it’s all just smoke and explosions, I’m assuming this is the art of the deal

If you have a contracc, I can redacc.

The clearest formulation of the Trump administration pitch to the average American I can articulate is:

"You should accept an indeterminate but significant amount of economic pain short term, and higher prices and less choice long term, in order to live in a country that has more factories in it."

“Entire neighborhoods were conquered” is the kind of thing the crazy guy on the street corner says. It’s divorced from reality. Yet there are millions of people who legitimately believe it and panic at the idea of going into a city because they think Tren de Aragua is lurking around every corner.

After leaving the Anti-Personnel Landmines Convention (Ottawa Convention), Poland plans to mine the borders to Russia and Belarus. The Polish Ministry of Defense sees no alternative, in light of current events.

News: Zelensky tells me @FT tonight on zoom it was NOT all 4 of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants he and Trump were talking about US owning but “the one under temporary [Russian] occupation,” referring to Zaporizhzhia plant, that the US could potentially control if it is able to be “recover[ed].”

State Department statement on the Ukraine talks today:

NEW: Among the work jammed up by the Trump administration's freeze on government purchase cards is genealogy research that the Army sees as essential to identify the remains of soldiers who went missing in combat.

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Businesses like stability.

Thank you for your support. 🇺🇦

you can tell the people trying to gut the government have never had a real job because they landed on "one micromanaging email" as the thing that would break regular people

1, Joshua Fisher, declare, under penalty of perjury, as follows: 1. I make these statements based on personal knowledge and knowledge obtained in the course of my official duties. 2. I am the Director of the Office of Administration. that capacity, I am personally involved in the appointment of special govemment employees. I have personal knowledge of Mr. Elon Musk's employment status with the federal govemment. 3. Mr. Musk is an employce of the White House Office. He holds that position as a non- career Special Govemment Employee. 4. In that job, Mr. Musk is a Senior Advisor to the President. It is not uncommon for the President to have Senior Advisors who are SGEs. For instance, Anita Dunn was an influential Senior Advisor to President Biden, while serving as SGE. 5. In his role as a Senior Advisor to the President, Mr. Musk has no greater authority than other senior White House advisors. Like other senior White House advisors, Mr. Musk has no

actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself. Mr. Musk can only advise the President and communicate the President's directives. 6. The U.S. DOGE Service is a component of the Executive Office of the President. The U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization is within the U.S. DOGE Service. Both are separate from the White House Office. Mr. Musk is an employee in the White House Office. He is not an employee of the U.S. DOGE Service or U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization. Mr. Musk is not the U.S. DOGE Service Administrator. Dated: Washington, D.C. February 17, 2025 Joshua Fisher Director Office of Administration

The White House says Elon Musk is not administrator of DOGE and that he’s merely a Senior Advisor to President Trump.

Incredible but not surprising.

Reminds me of the movie Casino when DeNiro played a Casino boss but said he was food and beverage manager to avoid scrutiny.

I do not have a problem with ketamine as a therapeutic device, I do have a problem with some dickhead who takes ketamine piping up about people taking adderall. Mentioning his ketamine usage is completely acceptable, as it is germane to the discussion at hand.

It's somewhat different depending on your sector and the demand for employees with a given set of credentials.

In the consulting world money is made when the employees bill the government for services. Human capital is critical.

Federal contractors are not risking their entire businesses and the livelihoods of their employees over this.

Worth repeating: The administration is unilaterally cancelling spending from programs that have been funded by Congress, in agency after agency. This is a direct violation of the Impoundment Act. Yet here we are.

In addition to being civic degenerates these people are in every case infantile, sloppy and incompetent. Grand flourishes of performative cruelty followed by entitled pleas of "I don't know how to do this. Can you help?"

🚨 JUST IN: US rolls out > $6 Billion Arms sale to Israel :
1- Munitions, Guidance Kits, Fuzes, and Munitions Support and related equipment for an estimated cost of $6.75 billion
2- AGM-114 Hellfire Missiles and related equipment for an estimated cost of $660 million

A facebook post from Lisa Murkowski: I want to thank Alaskans who have been reaching out to my offices in D.C. and across Alaska. The U.S. Senate phone system has been receiving around 1,600 calls each minute, compared to the 40 calls per minute we usually receive, which has disrupted our call systems. Thank you for your patience as my staff works to review your messages and share them with me. We’re all working to get this issue resolved as quickly as possible.

Murkowski says call volume to the Senate is now 40x higher than normal: