What is going on?

Is it time to chuck old Bernie overboard you think Dem cultists?

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But my god they could be a real contender next year

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The Trump administration is set to cut more than 20 percent of the staff at the taxpayer help branch of the IRS, according to a document obtained by The Washington Post, eliminating jobs designed to help people struggling with their finances, identity theft or other tax issues.

The Taxpayer Advocate Service is slated to lose 430 of about 1,900 employees in an initial phase of staff reductions. Those cuts would come in addition to more than 90 employees who took deferred resignation offers or were laid off earlier this year, according to the plan, which the agency is in the final stages of implementing, according to two people familiar with it, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private meetings.

Overall, the tax agency would shed 18 percent of its workforce by mid-May compared with the workforce it had in January, according to the people and internal agency records. The Taxpayer Advocate Service would lose more than a quarter of the staff it had at the beginning of the year.

These flowery announcements are enough to make my stomach turn.

End of rant.

A French politician said Sunday the U.S. should give back the Statue of Liberty in an apparent critique of President Donald Trump's leadership.

"We're going to say to the Americans who have chosen to side with the tyrants, to the Americans who fired researchers for demanding scientific freedom: 'Give us back the Statue of Liberty,'" said French member of the European Parliament Raphaël Glucksmann Sunday, according to local outlet France 24.

France gifted the Statue of Liberty to the U.S. after the Civil War, and it has become a renowned symbol of democracy and freedom.

"'We gave it to you as a gift, but apparently you despise it. So it will be just fine here at home,'" Glucksmann said at a convention of his Place Publique movement, according to France 24.



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The U.S. government owns the Statue of Liberty, according to UNESCO World Heritage Convention reports, so take-backsies might not be possible for France.

"Absolutely not," said White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt in a briefing Monday when asked if the U.S. would give it back. "My advice to that unnamed, low-level French politician would be to remind them that it's only because of the United States of America that the French are not speaking German right now. So they should be very grateful to our great country."

But it was the Trump administration's federal workforce reductions, which have axed more than 100,000 workers and cut funding to several agencies, that the French lawmaker responded to:

"The second thing we're going to say to the Americans is: 'If you want to fire your best researchers, if you want to fire all the people who, through their freedom and their sense of innovation, their taste for doubt and research, have made your country the world's leading power, then we're going to welcome them,'" continued Glucksmann, according to France 24.

Thursday, federal judges ordered the Trump administration to reinstate tens of thousands of workers, though Leavitt said the administration plans to fight it.

My dad was a great bb coach. He said taking over a hungry job is a great idea.

Jesse Colin Young, whose sincere tenor vocals for the Youngbloods graced one of the most loving anthems of the hippie era, “Get Together,” a Top Five hit in 1969, before he went on to pursue a solo career that lasted more than five decades, died on Sunday at his home in Aiken, S.C. He was 83.
His death was announced by his publicist, Michael Jensen, who did not specify a cause.
Mr. Young didn’t write “Get Together.” It was composed by the folk singer Dino Valenti, later a member of the band Quicksilver Messenger Service, under the pseudonym Chet Powers. But Mr. Young’s voice idealized it, and the chorus he sang — “Come on people now/Smile on your brother/Everybody get together/Try to love one another right now” — became one of the best-known refrains of the 1960s.
“The lyrics are just to die for,” Mr. Young told the website The Arts Fuse in 2018. “To this day, it gives me a thrill to play it.”
He composed many other key pieces of the Youngbloods’ repertoire during their prime in the late 1960s, including the brooding “Darkness, Darkness,” which reflected the terror he imagined American soldiers were experiencing during the Vietnam War; “Sunlight,” a ravishing ode to passionate love; and “Ride the Wind,” a jazzy paean to freedom.
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The lyrics to many of Mr. Young’s songs celebrated the gifts nature gives, from the dreamy play of sunlight on skin to the unfettered sweep of wind in the hair.
“Love of the natural world is as much a theme in my music as romantic love,” he told the website Music Aficionado in 2016. “I get more out of walking over the ridgetop in Marin and looking out at the national seashore than any drugs I ever did” — a reference to the Northern California county where he lived for much of his career.

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Working for you. Thank you. Timely, as a suspected intoxicated truck driver just killed 5 (so far) in Austin. Also hits close to home as I had a grandpa killed by a drunk truck driver in Texas.

Post 'em if ya got 'em.

Goose 2x in Milwaukee, February
Greensky Bluegrass in Chicago, March
Billy Strings 2x Rosemont, June


Considering Sting Cheese Incident at the end of this month.

The left turn lane doesn’t have the right of way of the car turning right when both have a green.

****ing a idiots need their licenses revoked.

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This guy is best known for his geopolitical analyses a la STRATFOR, and isn't what you'd call a liberal, but here he tears into Trump's Ag and HHS appointments on the topics of bird flu and the new hemorrhagic fever in Africa. Worth paying attention to what he says.

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Think trump gets some credit?

if you extended Steve 7 more years his resume would likely look exactly the same

A group of fish is called school?

Trump is trying to do away with birthright citizenship. Instead of asking the Supreme Court to give him the go ahead ( which is scary enough) he’s asking them to stop federal judges from ruling an unconstitutional act being unconstitutional. We’re in deep trouble link.

Not having to worry about safety, I’m taking a Gorilla.

Once again, by accident or on purpose the lily white racist House Repubs have tried to screw over a predominantly darker skinned region of the US.

Their cutting this part of the budget processes would leave DC with a $1 Billion dollar budget shortfall. Now tell me this was an accident?

No it was either on purpose or it occurred because Spkr Johnson et al waited to the last second to cobble together their Budget CR without really thinking about what they were doing.

Not a good look for the quad cities basketball. Horrible area for basketball players

Thank God it's going to end! No more bloodshed and fighting. No more costly war. Can't wait for the announcement. Right? Hahaha... dupes.🤕