All members of the Aviation Safety Advisory Committee were dismissed on Jan. 21. The Committee, created by Congress in the wake of the PanAm/Lockerbie bombing, still technically exists within DHS but has no members.
https://apnews.com/article/coast-guard-homeland-security-priorities-committees-trump-tsa-d3e4398c8871ada8d0590859442e092c
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For everyone all a-chatter about the reports of a massive buyout offer for federal employees: read the memo.
Some of the breathless reporting makes this sound as if you’ll get 8 months of salary for resigning by Feb. 6. Read the memo, though, and it sounds as if the deal is “give notice by Feb. 6 & we’ll let you keep your current WFH arrangement, assuming you’re not fired for some other reason in the meantime, until Sept. 30, at which point you’re out.”
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Pont du Gard, midway between Nîmes and Avignon.
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Tom Cotton (NSDAP - Ark.) is salty because Senate Dems are delaying—not blocking, mind you, just delaying—confirmation of some of Trump’s nominees. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/us/politics/democrats-trump-nominees.html
Weirdly, some guy with the exact same name blocked confirmation of an Obama nominee because she & Obama were friends and it would "inflict special pain on the president.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Cotton#Cassandra_Butts_nomination She eventually died of leukemia without ever receiving a vote.
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Nothing matters. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/technology/trump-ross-ulbricht-silk-road.html
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Well, that’s one superfluous federal position eliminated.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vivek-ramaswamy-expected-to-depart-doge/
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Heading to Philadelphia in a few weeks & in need of restaurant recommendations from you charming, sexy, witty cosmopolites.
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Weather forecast for DC on Sunday is calling for 3-4” of snow & temperatures dropping more or less all day Monday. Monday’s high of 23° F will occur at 12:01am. We’ll have wind gusts up to 27mph as a special bonus. (Naturally occurring wind, I mean; no telling what velocity anthropogenic wind gusts will reach.)
I look forward to hearing certain deranged people complaining that District government is to blame and should have raked up all that snow to clear the Mall.
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Hoping I live long enough to see a cult of personality where the personality isn’t the shittiest person in human history.
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Thinking a lot lately about our greatest president, who set a big, beautiful record that will never be broken, William Henry Harrison.
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I can’t quite put my finger on it, but something about this wall calendar suggests to me that it was not prepared by someone from the US.
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@FediTree Do your thing
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Did she deserve to be arrested? Probably not. The Secret Service deals with dumb comments like this all the time & goes out to do a knock-and-talk. Most subjects get off with a warning & go on with their lives; this doesn’t seem much different.
Did she deserve to held in lieu of $100,000 bond? Ridiculous. With no criminal history & strong ties to the community, she should have been released without bond.
If the DA has any sense, s/he will allow a pre-trial diversion, or what in New York /2
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I’m seeing a lot of posts mischaracterizing what this woman said. It wasn’t just “Delay, deny, depose.” She then said, “You people are next.” https://www.wfla.com/news/polk-county/lakeland-woman-threatens-insurance-company-says-delay-deny-depose-police/
That’s a chargeable threat of harm. It doesn’t matter whether she had the means to carry out the threat. What matters is whether a) a reasonable person would perceive the statement as a threat and b) the speaker had some subjective understanding that the statement could be understood as a threat. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/22-138_43j7.pdf. /1
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@peter Why are so many of the custom thepit emoji duplicates?
:vbike: :verifiablebike:
:vbus: :verifiablebus:
:verifiablepedestrian: :vpedestrian:
:vtrain: :verifiabletrain:
:old_man:
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Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, voters.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/well/obesity-epidemic-america.html
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Starting to think all that GOP rhetoric about getting rid of pedophiles and groomers may have been insincere.
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Adding senators who won in 2020 w/53% or less, still a wash:
Even looking at 2028, when Trump will probably still be on the ballot,* the picture is no brighter. 19 Reps & 15 Dems up:
Grim.
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I hate to be the bearer of MORE bad news, but …
Although there are 14 GOP senators up in 2026 vs only 10 Dems, the opportunities for pickups are few & there are D seats that will be tough to defend.
MOST VULNERABLE: Senators who won in 2020 with <50%:
2020 win 50-51%:
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