So, reporting at the moment is that several Democratic senators (including Schumer and Fetterman, at least) are planning on voting for the House’s free-money-for-fascism bill. That would be a … mistake. I’ve said this several times in the past few…
Showing Their Work: Laws Should Be Version-Controlled
The tech industries appear to have provided most of the foot soldiers, many of the generals and pretty much all the lunacy behind Musk’s ongoing coup attempt. For which many of us in the industry sincerely apologize. For the most…
Don’t Fund The Reaper: Time For A Shutdown
The House has passed a continuing resolution to fund the federal government through September. Why bother? Since the main project of the Trump 2.0 administration is to disassemble the federal government, why bother to allocate money to it? And since…
Cars Or Politics: Show Off The Alternatives
I’m all for folks picketing business whose owners they don’t like, or picketing government offices whose officials they don’t like. Fine, traditional American First Amendment stuff there. But I think it’s more useful to say what you want to happen…
No, Seriously: Shut It All Down Before It’s Too Late
The Democratic Party are so far proving to be as useless as they’ve always been when it comes to being the opposition party. (To be fair, they’ve been pretty bad at governing too; this fiasco could have all been avoided…
Political Climate Change: NOAA Needs An Ark
There’s a faction in U.S. politics that thinks the State shouldn’t be doing anything that someone could be making a profit from. And they really hate NOAA. NOAA is less than popular with the climate-change-is-a-hoax faction, too. And since these…
Freedom Ferrets: Enough Is More Than Enough
“You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?” – Joseph Welch It shall not stand. This nonsense had already gone too far, but now they’re risking the only surviving population…
The Real King: Getting Yourself Fired In Style
Well, today started with someone showing an amusing new way to not resign. Presumably. While this is most likely the result of someone in IT choosing not to resign in protest, it was plausibly done by anyone with access to…
Hey, Feds: Step Away From That “Resign” Button
I started writing this last night, which may have been a mistake. Because of course there’s been some very relevant news this morning. But I’ll get to that at the end. This is for all you federal employees out there:…
Unnecessary Couping: The Hurt Is The Point
Can we please have no more arguing that Musk needs to stop coup-ing because breaking the State will hurt people? They already know it will hurt people. For many of them, hurting people is actually the goal. They don’t actually…