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OH? https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jan/26/washington-post-february-job-cuts-layoffs Could it have to do with destroying the brand?

I watched a neighbor get hauled off to jail with a Homeland Security Investigations van sending a bunch of guys into his house. That was like a decade ago. Back then my first instinct was...was he trafficking in stolen art? Of course it turned out to be child pornography. A sophisticated authoritarian regime would figure out how to plant that on people's devices. Which is all to say...if they want YOU they can get you. These clowns (the Noem/Lewandowski/Bovino crowd) lack that subtlety. The DOGE crowd do not lack that subtlety.

The only solace you have is to flood the zone. They couldn't kill everyone on the street with Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Tucking tail and being the fastest guy when the zombies are chasing your group only works so well. I am enjoying the FB experience now that me and my fellow Nevertrumpers are being fed a non-stop feed of outrage. I also enjoy Bsky driving out the bots and trolls. My philosophy right now is this.

The Freep had a weird link to an article/picture role on Ted Nugent yesterday. I wonder if that was intended to intimidate him into giving Vinnie his money.

Good win tonight

Its very natural to be sensitive to being addressed by an outsider as something you don't have any control over.

While we were tearing our nation apart. The PRC (mainland China) is having some sort of tumult with the CCP and the military. A bunch of stuff in the media among the ex-patriot community. Its a head scratcher for me as a non-expert in China.

NRA is gonna fight him on this one.

Reasonable. My contempt for the agency is tempered by my experiences with US Secret Service people i worked with in the past. They hated their agency and the job sucked. But, being a federal agent is intoxicating. The suspect types among them ended up working security at casinos. Which should tell you all you need to know. Others were high quality folks in my reckoning. Perhaps there are some good folks in ICE and CBP. Maybe.

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I suspect Lindsay Halligan is looking for a new role.

The congealing Senate response is hopeful.

Anyone who thinks this firing or Bovino is some sort of moderating moment. Remember Trump wanted to massacre the BLM protesters in 2020 and it was only that his military leaders wouldn't let him.

Reporting that Noem and Lewandowski had a long long meeting with Trump. Hopefully they are put in a box or told to leave. Perhaps that was the Trump kids making bank in Polymarkets over this.

I worry that this summer will be that. The protests in MN were large and i think they will grow. The chances of a color revolution this summer are very high. Those who will definitely go to jail over these extra-judicial killings have only a few cards to play to avoid that fate. Ramping things up seems to have worked for them in the past.

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Lindsey Halligan has decided to spend more time with her vanity mirror.

In all this we have to understand that there is Cory Lewandowski thuggery involved.

The Bovino hasn't been fired (yet) story shift is vry interesting. Someone (maybe Wiles) in the WH knows this is the dog food that even the GOP loyalists can't eat. Another person (maybe Miller) wants to keep the pedal to the metal.

The change in tone among GOP members should tell you all you need to know. Supporting the murderers and their narrative is not a winner.

I wonder who is betting this in the Trump family. https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/kristi-noem-fired-alex-pretti-polymarket-trump-b2908076.html

He really put out "middle-aged lesbian, cosplaying as a Stasi commander" vibes.

Well, well, well.