Musk administration forces closing of JFK Library by firing key staffers

All those neoliberal shills screaming CLASS WARFARE anytime the peasants tried to even the playing field now have all the class warfare their hearts desired.

After all, they still probably think they can game this to swell their portfolios or just get a little "relief" from taxes. Under the bus we all go!

Can't ever admit that Bernie was right about all of it, ya know! 

I have pretty much stopped reading national news. So unless its posted here or bostondotcom, I don't hear about it.

But I did happen to see that some Federal Judge said it was okay for DOGE to continue gutting the gov't, so unlike the previous judge who said no, Oh Orange One and ApartiedNazi are going to listen to this judge instead. The rules only apply when it works in favor for them.

Locally, it's Adam and then Dorchester Reporter for me.  Occasionally into other sites as needed.

Nationally, it's a mix. 

• I am contemplating not-renewing my subscription to Washington Post when it comes up soon.
• I've been hearing some good things about The Atlantic recently, might add them.
• apnews.com & bbc news are crucial
• I listen to some of the MSNBC & CNN simulcasts on satellite radio in the car.  More and more, that depends on filtering past the opinion/advocacy content to see if there are panel guests who can contribute expertise & analysis.
• I'll read NY Post and (occasionally) tune-in to Fox News simulcasts to see what the current talking points are from their slant.
• assorted other networks/sources as needed
• Big thing for me has been some of the podcast/youtube channel sources.  I listen to several of them, generally the ones that have people with actual legal practice experience doing legal analysis.  When they're on their game, they're pretty good at drawing a line between what they'd like to see happen and what the legal questions & standards actually are, and are thought-provoking.  Meidas Touch, Justice Matters, Farron Balanced - Meiselas, Popak, Kirschner, Farron are all generally pretty good at that.  (Brian Taylor Cohen is a little too close to advocacy and too far from analysis.  If he has one of the above as a guest, I'll listen, but it it's just him solo I skip it
• On Facebook, I do read Alt National Park Service for some in-the-trenches commentary.

 

Going back to your second item (Federal Judge allowing DOGE to go ahead with some stuff) and what I said in my next-to-last bullet about legal analysis...  I did hear a good breakdown of it yesterday from one of those legal analysis sources.  He went into what the parties are asking for, what the options are, what the judge* has to consider, and that there are some limitations to a judge's power in this.  

His analysis was that there was a pretty good chance that the judge might not stop the actions in question at this time, with another hearing coming up within two weeks - based on the standard that the people opposed to the DOGE actions need to show that irreparable harm would result (to better show how irreparable harm would result) from waiting until the scheduled hearing).

*By the way, the judge in question is Chutkin - so it's not as if it's someone you'd think was in the tank for Trump, like Aileen Cannon.

by Pastor Martin Niemöller

First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me

Perhaps people should fill Xitter with pictures of dead birds and tag Roadkill Fascist Kennedy?

I wish I knew how to build an AI spambot for this. 

It is the "how" he did it. His daddy payed a quack to write him up a fake report of bonespurs that somehow didn't keep him golfing or bowling merit badges at his expensive pseudomilitary finishing school.

Al Gore was a senator's son but he still went. 

Conscientious Objectors were accommodated, and performed public service for limited incomes instead. Can't see little drumpf cleaning toilets at Bellevue, or even trekking to a very rural area to teach school for a couple of years, like many of the best elementary teachers I ever had.

Both the Democrats and the Republicans at large are cowards.  That does not bode well for this country, overall.