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Three investigators for the Heritage Foundation have deluged federal agencies with thousands of Freedom of Information Act requests over the past year, requesting a wide range of information on government employees, including communications that could be seen as a political liability by conservatives. Among the documents they’ve sought are lists of agency personnel and messages sent by individual government workers that mention, among other things, “climate equity,” “voting” or “SOGIE,” an acronym for sexual orientation, gender identity and expression.

The Heritage team filed these requests even as the think tank’s Project 2025 was promoting a controversial plan to remove job protections for tens of thousands of career civil servants so they could be identified and fired if Donald Trump wins the presidential election.

Syria better be on alert. I really feel like Bibi is eying the Kingdom of David at its largest as far as potential war targets go at this point.

I appreciate the irony of a so-named “news” corp keeping the terms of the settlement secret

I sure hope no one shares that link, leading to a subsequent spike in traffic and possibly taking the site down as a result. That would be a really shameful thing to see happen.

More post-birth abortions. Who’s the villain performing these, again?

Then-Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens ® paused Williams’s execution in 2017 and charged a board with collecting evidence about whether he was innocent. Current Gov. Mike Parson ®, who succeeded Greitens, later disbanded the board and last year began a push to set an execution date.

The cruelty is the point

This murder will be an actual example of a post-term abortion that the right has been pretending to be scared of, ironically enough

That, plus settlements that they’ll start setting up in Lebanon as soon as they have the opportunity. Border’s gotta expand…

Mmm that’s a real neat idea but you see if we could somehow get more guns into society, we might finally hit the critical mass where the t’s and p’s become irrelevant because of all the freedom, you see

Turns out “playing 4D chess” is just MAGA politikese for “broadcasting our corruption loudly and assuming enough people are also either too corrupt, ignorant, or disaffected to do anything about it.”

I truly wasn’t trying to disparage the source, it was just phrasing that jumped out at me as being a little off

At least one woman and several people…

I clicked the article to double check and sure enough, it’s still there. I’m sure it’s meant to enhance the perceived seriousness of the attack (“won’t someone think of the women and children? Look! They hurt one!”), but it reads more like “one non-person, not understood to be pregnant at this time, and several actual human beings…”

You’ve caused me now to imagine a reality where the stupid thing that orange asshole advocates changes from “they aren’t sending their brightest” to “we literally can’t trap enough of them here” and I don’t like it

“What do you say to the Proud Boys?”

• “I don’t know them, but stand back and stand by”

“What do you say about Project 2025?”

• “I don’t know them, but I wish them well”

Cool. Cool cool cool.

I think they meant the 1980s, as opposed to temperatures in the 80s in terms of degrees

It’s a described feature of a paid service though, so it goes a bit beyond just being nice. More importantly for me, the app also leaks memory insanely, at least in the latest Debian build. I spun up a Windows vm with ProtonVPN because the Linux experience (which, again, I pay for) was too frustrating

“I used to take a lot of bribes and I should have let everyone know. I mean, I still do, but I used to, too.”

Well sure, but let’s not throe the baby out with the baptism water, eh?

REACH OUT TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVES

Hello,

It has recently been widely reported that the FBI raided a corporate landlord in Arizona due to their use of RealPage to engage in price-fixing. I have reason to believe that RealPage has been used by landlords in [state] as well, so I am curious to know if [state] renters that may have been victimized by landlords using RealPage will also be able to depend on our elected officials to step in and enforce the consumer protection laws that we need in order to fight back against the wildly predatory price increases we have been experiencing from so many different directions. Please tell me this is an issue where the real people of [state], and not the corporations that speak far too loudly with their dollars, have our representatives behind our backs.

When and if wrongdoing is found, can we also expect to be fairly and fully compensated for the greedflation that landlords stole? And if those costs are too high for a particular landlord to bear, perhaps ownership of the effected properties should instead be transferred to the government to establish more low-income housing facilities and in doing so, help address crises in housing, homeless, and skyrocketing costs. What if we start treating corporations with the same uncaring hand they treat consumers, instead of handling them with kid-gloves? Can [state] citizens count on your support in keeping our people, not our corporations, as your top priority?

Respectfully, [name]

Instead of forking so much of our tax dollars directly over to corporations, how about we try dispensing those awards directly to the American people so we can spend it where we think will be best?

Let’s just end the thing where the government transfers money to corporations. They like healthy competition, right? So if your corpo doesn’t get their fun-money because I spend my kickback funds elsewhere, that’s just business, right?

The money will all trickle up! It’ll be great for the corpos and rich folks.