Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Move Fast And Break Things
Boeing is a very respectable firm with a long history of the highest engineering standards.
President Trump, furious about delays in delivering two new Air Force One jets, has empowered Elon Musk to explore drastic options to prod Boeing to move faster, including relaxing security clearance standards for some who work on the presidential planes.
Susan Collins Is Disappointed
The reason to make snarky comments like that is to try to mildly embarrass all of the people who take her seriously every time.
WASHINGTON (AP) — To earn the vote he needed to become the nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a special promise to a U.S. senator: He would not change the nation’s current vaccination schedule.
But on Tuesday, speaking for the first time to thousands of U.S. Health and Human Services agency employees, he vowed to investigate the childhood vaccine schedule that prevents measles, polio and other dangerous diseases.
Senate Dems use "don't scare Susan Collins" as a reason to tell outside groups to shut up, as she perfected the ridiculous stunt of claiming she was going to do the right thing until Move On ran a mean ad, or whatever.
The wallet inspector gets rich every time.
Looking Into This
That there is more coverage of the price of eggs than the worrying reason behind it is, in itself, worrying.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday that, over the weekend, it accidentally fired "several" agency employees who are working on the federal government's response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak."Accidentally" means the Nerd Reich fired them from a hotmail account before someone important enough stepped in.
The agency said it is now trying to quickly reverse the firings.
"Although several positions supporting [bird flu efforts] were notified of their terminations over the weekend, we are working to swiftly rectify the situation and rescind those letters," a USDA spokesperson said in a statement. "USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service frontline positions are considered public safety positions, and we are continuing to hire the workforce necessary to ensure the safety and adequate supply of food to fulfill our statutory mission."
Sacrificing 'T'
I expect centrist dipshits to follow the times. They always do, even as they portray lickspittle conformity as noble rebellion.
...adding for clarity: centrists did not cancel this concert, but they (the nyt, the atlantic, the various substack bros, jon chait) waged a war on trans people while believing, or pretending to believe, that trans people could be sacrificed - should be sacrificed - while maintaining achieved gains in LGB rights otherwise.
The Kennedy Center has canceled The Gay Men’s Chorus concert on May 21.Jeffrey Weisner, a member of the National Symphony Orchestra, took to social media and said, “We were scheduled to perform for the first time with Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington On May 21st as part of World Pride in Washington DC 2025. The concert was abruptly canceled without explanation and removed from the KC website. However, they forgot to scrub it from the search engine. Screenshots attached of the KC calendar and the search results. I know about this only because my husband Silvio is in the Chorus and was there when they were informed.”
Surely "everyone" will agree with my reasonable compromise, that nobody except TRANS EXTREMISTS could disagree with?
Ah, well, nevertheless.
Somehow this will be the fault of The Left but also good.
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
I Remember When Bill Clinton Met Loretta Lynch On The Tarmac
That was a much bigger deal than, say, this, or the Bush administration's US Attorney scandal.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top federal prosecutor who supervised criminal cases at the Washington D.C. U.S. Attorney's office resigned on Tuesday, citing what she described as an improper demand by Trump-appointed officials to launch a criminal probe and pursue an asset freeze.
Immunity
Do rich people think that if they fly private jets then it doesn't matter if the rest of ATC doesn't work?
I know rich people can remove themselves from a lot of the consequences of their desired policies, but not all of them!
Global warming doesn't actually mean you just build a new beachfront house 400 meters back. You can't completely shelter yourself from pollution and disease and a fucked food system even if you can minimize your exposure somewhat.
Your little planes will still crash into the big planes.
Vacuuming It All
I suppose it is time for another stirring speech about the price of butter, or whatever...
Michelle King, the top official at the Social Security Administration, left her position this weekend after she refused a request from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency to access sensitive government records at the agency, according to two sources familiar with the situation.
Monday, February 17, 2025
Looking Into This
For all the discussion of egg prices, I've been very surprised at the tiny amount of coverage of what is actually causing them.
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