Trump tried to bury this story on a Friday night, but it’s extremely important:
He’s planning to take land on the border controlled by the Dept. of Interior and sign it over to Dept. of Defense so migrants “would have trespassed on a military installation,” resulting in harsher punishment.
#BREAKING: Over 36,000 people rallied in Los Angeles today in support of @sanders.senate.gov and @aoc.bsky.social’s OLIGARCHY TOUR — setting a record as their largest stop on this tour.
In years to come, the people who did this will be the ones who will go to jail.
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Fiji Water is produced, imported, marketed and sold by an American company.
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I hadn’t thought about him pushing America as a whole as icing on the cake to this intentional destruction, but…good point.
Jesus Christ. 🤦🏽♀️
Ohh "America First" was a hit list
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I will absolutely be at Costco Saturday morning.
Dead people telling the President to pursue a trade war with an uninhabited island is real George III territory
Amazing. Not sure if it’ll push the needle but maybe it’ll give others more courage.
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And disgusted. I seem to teeter between the two.
A good time to remind you that unlike the NC floods, Trump actually did try to withhold disaster relief from CA bc “they didn’t vote for me.”
Trump refused to give California wildfire aid until told how many people there voted for him, ex-aide says
www.politico.com/news/2024/10...
As someone sitting here hoping I don’t have to pack a bag soon… Yes.
4. But preferably veggie.
Deep cleaned my fridge today. I found shit way in the back…not from this year. Let’s not do that in 2025.
If you haven’t deep cleaned your fridge lately, it’s about time. Get those baseboards and windowsills too.
from The Week (April 16, 2018) How George Bush broke the Post Office If Trump really wants to fix USPS, he should look at how the Republican government of 2006 destroyed it in the first place
So why is the USPS struggling financially? A lot of people point to the rise of email, as well as private competitors like FedEx. Certainly, all those things contribute to USPS's problems. But what's really dragging down the Postal Service is something else entirely. Namely, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006. Passed by a Republican-led Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush, the PAEA gave the Postal Service new accounting and funding rules for its retiree pension and health benefits. Up until 2006, the USPS funded those obligations on a pay-as-you-go-basis, pulling out of its pension fund and adding to it as retirees' costs came in. But the PAEA required the Postal Service to calculate all of its likely pension costs over the next 75 years, and then sock away enough money between 2007 and 2016 to cover most of them.
This is one of those ideas that sounds responsible on the surface but is actually pretty nuts. Consider your average 30-year mortgage. What if you had to set aside a few hundred thousand dollars right now, enough to pay the whole thing, even if you were still going to make payments over 30 years? No one would ever take out a mortgage. That's the whole point: the costs only come in over time, and the income you use to pay them comes in over time as well. It works exactly the same for retiree pensions and benefit funds. Which is why, as economist Dean Baker pointed out to Congress, pretty much no one else does what the PAEA demanded of the Postal Service. Meeting Congress' arbitrary mandate required putting away an extra $5.6 billion per year. "It is equivalent to imposing a tax of 8 percent on the Postal Service's revenue," Baker said. "There are few businesses that would be able to survive if they were suddenly required to pay an 8 percent tax from which their competitors were exempted."
as discussion about Trump wanting to privatize the USPS heats back up, a reminder (from 2018) how we got here. the comparison to a mortgage is especially apt. theweek.com/articles/767...
It’s a wrap.
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The way I wish I never had to hear about that day ever again…
Paying taxes for your state to allocate resources for this shit gotta be infuriating.
Maybe. If that is legit, the story must have made enough sense for him to say yes, while not disrupting the legacy of Steve Rogers. But…what do I know?
I do miss him posting though. He went and got married and said ✌🏻.
I just went through about eleven packages on my floor, just from the past couple of days. 📦📦📦 That doesn’t include last week’s and the three more I’m waiting on. I’m on timeout in 2025.
I love Chris, but, Marvel, leave this man as Captain America alone. He said himself he wanted to leave that character exactly where he left it, and I agree.
Yeah. This stuff sends me into full doom spiral more than almost anything else, because it leads to all the *other* awfulness
My little treat:
Wow. Gorgeous. 🥰 They grow up so fast.
I put mine up yesterday. My other plants are attention whores so…don’t mind them. I need a new star for the top.
