A prime purpose of DOGE was to slash govt spending and employees, eliminating whole depts. Now that the govt is shut down, that objective has been met, in spades. So Repubs should be delighted. Right?

A product 150 years ahead of its time: ai sauce.

@smerconish.bsky.social Looks like it’s time for another segment on disaffected young men on your show, Michael. Will the clampdown on phones during schooldays & restrictions on social media have any effect on today’s teens in their future?

@chrislhayes.bsky.social Hey, Chris, it’s called Dartmouth College, not University. There’s a story behind the college keeping the old name, involving Daniel Webster, New Hampshire, and SCOTUS. Google it.

But, yes, it’s a University in fact, if not in name. 😉

@smerconish.bsky.social You’ve been good about keeping the issue of the damaging effects social media have on teens. You can add ChatGPT to the mix.

Speaker Johnson is on CNBC right now saying that Trump has a 90% approval rating. Host nods.

Depressed watching Trump’s NATO news conference. When you have to tell people how great and courageous you are, you aren’t.

And if you ever wondered how the old term “ugly American” came about, this is a good example.

So Trump wants to Make America Film Again.

That would be MAFiA. How fitting.

Tired: Canada as US’s 51st state

Wired: US as Russia’s 47th oblast

I’m losing track of who are the good guys and who are the bad guys.

Trump pardons J6 insurrectionists, ignores police victims of civilian violence.

Trump stops investigations of police depts. Ignores civilian victims of police violence.

The winners seem to be whoever commits the violence.

Trump: No more Covid testing. It would show how many cases there really are in the US.

Also Trump: No vetting of cabinet and advisor nominees. It would…

Too early to tell what the eventual $ impact will be on an avg American. But it’s a sure bet that Trump’s advisors and cabinet members will more than double their net worth during his admin. And we won’t know the source of most of that increase.

I heard a rumor that on her first day as AG, Pam Bondi plans to get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich.

Hoping that an iPad version of the BlueSky app will come out soon. Emphasis right now obviously has to be on handling the avalanche of new users, but I find a tablet format to be much easier to work with than the small phone format. It’s the curmudgeon in me. 😉

Is it just me, or do the guys who wear cowboy hats on tv panel discussions look dopey? And, when in the Oval Office, downright disrespectful. Don’t gentlemen usually remove their hats when they come inside?