I was just going to post that because the scary part of that story is this…
When she declined to launch a grand jury investigation citing a lack of evidence, she said she was ordered instead to pursue an asset seizure to prevent the recipient of the contract from drawing down the government funds.
They want to pursue freezing assets when there is no evidence.
That’s this hour’s giant wtf.
“Protecting women from becoming uppity scorn magnets (it’s all their fault after all)”
Here it comes, y’all
“We will convene representatives of all viewpoints to study the causes for the drastic rise in chronic disease,” Kennedy said. “Some of the possible factors we will investigate were formally taboo or insufficiently scrutinized.”
He then gave a list of these “possible factors” to investigate including the childhood vaccine schedule and “SSRI and other psychiatric drugs,” referring to federally approved drugs that help treat such conditions as depression and anxiety.
for me the ‘little’ feature which advances RFKjr from (clearly) brain-damaged anti-science lunatic to total monster is that he allowed his own children to be vaccinated: snopes via yahoo: “Jan. 29, 2025, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said: ‘All of my kids are vaccinated.’”
So Trump basically said today that Ukraine started the war. Black is truly the new white. We are beyond Orwell territory now.
“I think I have the power to end this war, and I think it’s going very well. But today I heard, ‘Oh, well, we weren’t invited.’ Well, you’ve been there for three years,” Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort. “You should have never started it. You could have made a deal.”
So the one person i really presumed Biden would’ve found a means to dispatch is suddenly leaving (apparently) of his own accord: the utterly hated postmaster, louis dejoy.
Postmaster Louis DeJoy is leaving
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 2:45:07p PST
Finally. Good riddance.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Louis DeJoy, the head of the U.S. Postal Service, intends to step down, the federal agency said Tuesday, after a nearly five-year tenure marked by the coronavirus pandemic, surges in mail-in election ballots and efforts to stem lossesthrough cost and service cuts.
In a Monday letter, Postmaster General DeJoy asked the Postal Service Board of Governors to begin looking for his successor.
yet we all presume that somehow this bodes something tangentially worse. is the whole damn postal service about to become some privatized auto-drive musky/X-venture? -sigh-
Oh my gods, that it such abuser language. “It’s your fault for being in that situation. You should have stopped it.” I know anything that comes from Turnip’s mouth shouldn’t surprise or horrify me at this point, but it still does.
He just signed an executive order giving himself the sole power to interpret laws.
The Order notes that Article II of the U.S. Constitution vests all executive power in the President, meaning that all executive branch officials and employees are subject to his supervision.
Therefore, because all executive power is vested in the President, all agencies must: (1) submit draft regulations for White House review
The President and the Attorney General (subject to the President’s supervision and control) will interpret the law for the executive branch, instead of having separate agencies adopt conflicting interpretations.
We knew Ukraine was fucked as soon as he won the election. If he doesn’t get Zelensky to surrender he’ll cut off support and threaten everyone else with tariffs and sanctions if they continue to support them.
Ukraine would already be a wholly owned subsidiary of Russia if Trump had won the previous election.
Are we so numb by this point, sinking in the shit that’s been flooding the zone for weeks now, that this horrific step no longer quite registers for us?
Can or will anyone stop him now?
That’s not exactly what the EO does. It gives the power to interpret laws within the executive branch to the President and the AG. Up until now, when a law involving some executive branch agency has been vague or incomplete in some way, that agency has had the ability to interpret the law itself in its rulemaking. Administrative agency rulemaking has always been a formal process, and unlike the claim in Trump’s EO, it has taken into account the will of the people. New proposed rules get posted in the federal register and other places, and then there is a period of time when the proposed rules are open for public comment. People can make their comments and submit them, then the agency makes its final rule, and it gets posted. What this EO does is cut that whole process out, and it says that only Trump and the AG get to interpret the law and approve the rules. So now, when an agency proposes a rule, instead of going to the public for review and comment, it just goes to the President’s desk. Where it will probably die.
This particular EO is bad. Really, really bad. But it’s also bad for a different reason than everyone thinks. Everyone seems to think this is Trump taking power away from the courts, but this doesn’t even address the courts’ ability to interpret laws. This is just about how administrative agencies work. And the way they’re going to work now is that everything goes through Trump, and only Trump (ok, sometimes his AG). SCOTUS kneecapped administrative agencies last year when it overturned Chevron. Trump’s EO just blew their heads off with a shotgun.
