October 30, 2025 – 7:00 am
Weirdly, the NY Times and Washington Post are not covering this Sen. Chuck Grassley just revealed that Jack Smith sent a subpoena to Verizon to tap my Senate office phone. This comes after learning that nearly 20% of Senate Republicans’ cellphones, including mine, were also subpoenaed. Arctic Frost is the Biden DOJ’s Watergate, and they… […]
October 1, 2025 – 6:45 am
The CR was supposedly pretty clean and short term, allowing for more time to negotiate. But, Dems hate Americans White House declares imminent government shutdown after Senate fails to pass funding bill The White House has officially declared an imminent government shutdown after the Senate failed to pass a GOP-backed spending bill to keep federal […]
September 29, 2025 – 6:45 am
Anyone else hoping that the UK Guardian is correct? US set for largest mass resignation in history as Trump continues deep cuts The Trump administration is set to oversee the largest mass resignation in US history on Tuesday, with more than 100,000 federal workers set to formally quit as part of the latest wave of […]
September 17, 2025 – 6:45 am
I love the Washington Post headline House votes to charge D.C. 14-year-olds as adults They went with hyper-partisan fearmongering one, but, as usual, the devil is in the details. It’s also behind the paywall, so House passes two DC crime bills focused on juvenile crime as part of bid to bolster Trump’s federal crackdown CNN’s […]
September 11, 2025 – 4:47 pm
They gravy train is being cut down Judge allows Trump to cut more than $1bn in National Science Foundation grants The Trump administration can go ahead and purge more than 1,600 research grants issued by National Science Foundation (NSF) worth more than $1bn, after a judge declined to grant a preliminary injunction in a case […]
August 12, 2025 – 5:01 pm
Good. For the most part these white collar federal employees should not have a union. What are they being protected from? Oh, right, it’s about government negotiating with government to give more taxpayer money to government employees Trump’s environment agency terminates contract with unionized employees The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency moved to end its contract […]
August 7, 2025 – 10:30 am
Realistically, in most cases, why are there unions for federal agencies? The whole point of a union was to protect workers from harsh, unsafe working conditions, from bad bosses, and to negotiate for better wages and benefits. Well, in most cases, federal workers do not have harsh, unsafe working conditions (except for Gen Z, who […]
July 18, 2025 – 10:30 am
It’s amazing how much caterwauling this minor cut, at least in terms of the federal budget, is causing among Democrats and a few squishy Republicans Congress sends bill clawing back $9B in foreign aid, public media funds to Trump’s desk House Republicans late Thursday night approved the first batch of cuts made by the Department […]
June 27, 2025 – 10:30 am
Donald Trump has never liked unnecessary regulations, regulations for the sake of regulations, and ATF is now up DOGE enters ATF with mandate to slash gun regulations The U.S. DOGE Service has sent staff to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives with the goal of revising or eliminating dozens of rules and gun […]
May 22, 2025 – 11:22 am
Back in the day when I worked for a huge company they matched donations to a few private aid companies, and I remember looking up how much of the donated money actually went to helping people in need. It was low. Very low. Really, anything below 70% seems low to me. I do not give […]
