and the shining city on the hill grows an increment dimmer.

word of the day! (new to me!)

i think it’s the older word, the one debaathification mimicked, in this case.

one way to shrink the Federal government is by impeachment.

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shhh! you’ll be fired from NSA for touchéing yourself!

i am grateful that they’ve left “spend a lot of money to help a whole lot of people” on the cutting room floor to be picked up by more civilized tendencies. though morality compels me to call and write them they should refrain from austerity that politically must doom them.

say what you will but the franchise was prescient. Bond villains are real.

there’s this dynamic on the right where they have these openly satirical websites write “fake news” stories — satire! satire! — so that headlines or quotes can be lifted from their openly satirical context and represented or memified as straight news. dunning-kruger-times.com/about-us/

ha!

remember how they couldn’t endorse because they were failing to persuade the public of their neutrality and lack of bias, so it was essential to restore trust?

i guess a best case scenario is what people sometimes say of the WSJ, good news side, ridiculous editorial side? i don’t know to what degree WSJ has lived up even to that. can we hope that from WaPo? some of the journalists i admire still work there. do they become fascist Pravda?

i’m sure planning to call my Republican Congresswoman today to let her know it’s a vicious, crappy blueprint that would cut some of the most cost effective healthcare provision in the United States to finance tax cuts for billionaires.

Apparently the DOGE administrator is Amy Gleason. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics...

fraud, waste, and abuse are when payments are made to anyone other than Elon.

proposals like this are a great precedent for the wealth taxes we need to impose on households with net worths greater than 100M.

i love it when organizations i’ve given money to write me to tell me it’s my last chance to give them more money.

look. if you consider keeping non-rich people alive to be a waste of money, then medicaid is full of fraud, waste, and abuse.

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"Although feeding dying babies should…qualify for the vague foreign aid waiver issued by…Marco Rubio, the salaries of…staff and the cost of…fuel to get…therapeutic food to hospitals like mine are not. …nobody can open the warehouses where the life-saving packets from the American people are stored."