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Thursday, March 13, 2025

"Construction workers started to dismantle the Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House on Monday following threats by Republicans to cut transportation funding" ... read more


Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Trump has:

  • Paused hiring and training of incoming controllers through a federal hiring freeze, without clear guidance on specific exemptions.
  • Terminated air traffic control support staff,
  • Gutted the Aviation Security Advisory Committee,
  • Forced out the head of the Transportation Security Administration, and
  • Most recently fired 400 Federal Aviation Administration personnel tasked with ensuring safety through radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance.
recklessly putting flight crews and the flying public in jeopardy read more


Ukraine unleashed its largest drone attack since 2022, striking multiple Russian regions, with 337 drones intercepted overnight. Authorities confirmed two deaths and multiple injuries, with significant damage to infrastructure. read more


Monday, March 10, 2025

Ed Martin who is acting US Att't General for DC sent a letter to Georgetown Law demanding the school end all DEI efforts or risk a hiring freeze from his office. This is the US Government telling a private Jesuit institute what they are allowed to teach.


Wednesday, March 05, 2025

"People are sort of looking around thinking, Wow, well maybe I can get a chicken in my backyard,' and it's awesome," [Agriculture Secretary Brooke] Rollins told Fox & Friends Weekend host Rachel Campos-Duffy. "We also want to make it easier for families to raise backyard chickens," read more


Comments

We're screwed. We are becoming massively vulnerable.

Threats from Russia quadrupled 2022-2023, then tripled 2023-2024. Trump's shut off the working groups whose purpose was to protect the US from those attacks. This includes attempts to get bombs on planes heading to the United States. Europe and the US have worked together to preempt these attempts and have been successful so far. Trump think he and Putin are besties, so it's no longer a problem.

We have an idiot running this nation surrounded by a confederacy of dunces.

This is going to suck for so many people. Rural, the blackbelt of Georgia Alabama, you name it. I don't have any doubt which areas will be targets for office closures. This is going to be rough.

I know this from my personal experiences for the past 3 years.
I know this from coaching others.
When you do this over the phone it is fast. It is quick. It doesn't waste time. It is efficient. The worse part is you can be on hold for much too long before you get to speak with someone. They have always been kind, courteous, and gone out of their way to help me, though.
You simply can't do many things on line. You just can't.
I've also had to use the fax (virtual fax) a LOT. How many people have that? Or even know how to use it?

It takes months to get a response for an SSA-44 for instance, and you can't fill that out online. Sometimes you don't hear a word - until you get your IRMMA adjustment and premium notification.
To have to schedule an office visit is nearly imnpossible as it is, nor is it anything to be desired.
And then to force people to find a way to get to the office which may not even been near you?

How do you schedule that appointment? Phone? Internet? If you aren't able or capable of using a computer? Have a landline? Just forget about doing it.

And what about older folks, disabled folks, folks that don't drive, don't have access to transportation.

And the morons deciding this are who? Musk? His Team Teen2Twenties? Clueless who the customer is? Living in their own perfect health and youth imagining everyone is just as able as they?

As I said:

This is nasty.
It is cruel.
It is evil.
It is punitive.
It is intended to deter people from getting what they are entitled to receive.

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