OPM issues time-off guidance for feds experiencing domestic violence An employee's statement that he or she is dealing with domestic violence is generally enough for the agency to grant leave. 05/16/2024 - 7:24 am | View Link
Feds look to ‘protect’ renters by raising their internet bills In its latest misguided crusade against reason, the Federal Communications Commission is considering a proposal that would curtail affordable internet access for myriad Americans—particularly for ... 05/15/2024 - 8:12 am | View Link
Congressional Republicans in no rush to greenlight new funds for Key Bridge rebuild The White House has requested lawmakers authorize more federal cash to cover the cost of replacing the collapsed bridge, but some in the GOP say such action could still be a long way off. 05/15/2024 - 7:37 am | View Link
Feds open the door to $2B in Northeast Corridor rail improvements The grant applications come as President Joe Biden, a longtime railroad fan, wraps up his first term and Amtrak ridership rapidly rebounds from pandemic-era lows. 05/14/2024 - 10:00 pm | View Link
Feds Issue Final Rules to Boost Transmission Project Development Long-anticipated FERC rules require power providers to conduct 20-year-ahead plans for long-term transmission needs and give agency backstop siting authority for projects that cross multiple states. 05/14/2024 - 2:37 pm | View Link
Do you want to see your teeth while you are brushing them?
I go to the dentist for teeth cleanings regularly. I have no interest when he tries to use his little mirror, coaxing me to open wider to show me what's going on in my back left molar.
"I believe you," I scream.
The smart toothbrushes are very expensive and I rather put that money towards an excellent espresso maker.
Count me out.
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9A video posted to Donald Trump’s account on his social media network Monday included references to a ‘unified Reich’ among hypothetical news headlines if he wins the election in November,” the AP reports.
“The word ‘Reich’ is often largely associated with Nazi Germany’s Third Reich, though the references in the video Trump shared appear to be a reference to the formation of the modern pan-German nation, unifying smaller states into a single Reich, or empire, in 1871.”
“President Joe Biden’s political operation raised $51 million in April — a significant decline from its March fundraising, according to totals released by his campaign Monday,” CNN reports.
“Biden’s campaign and affiliated committee still ended the month with $192 million in the bank, according to his aides — a war chest they described as the highest cash-on-hand figure for any Democratic candidate in history and one they say positions the president to compete effectively with former President Donald Trump.”
Senator Ron Johnson (Q-Moscow) is complaining again, which, in itself, is nothing new. The guy isn't happy unless he's complaining. Biden's saving people from the pandemic. Brown-skinned people are coming into the country. They're charging Fearless Leader for crimes that he committed. It never stops with him.
His latest cause for griping is that protesters are being allowed to exercise their Freedom of Speech near the forums of the RNC convention in Milwaukee this summer.
Tom Nichols: “Winston Smith, the protagonist of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, works for the totalitarian Ministry of Truth, where his assignment is to produce lies. He rewrites history so that whatever the regime says today cannot be contradicted by something it might have said yesterday. (He ensures, for example, that Big Brother’s ‘Order for the Day’ announcements about the regime’s achievements match up with everything the leader predicted in previous statements, and he excises any untidy references in the state media to people who have been arrested and disappeared.) Once history is fixed, Winston drops contradictory materials into ‘the memory hole,’ a small opening near every desk that leads to a furnace, where the inconvenient past is quickly incinerated.”
“Leaders of the current GOP presumably do not have such memory holes in their offices, but they’re doing their best to replicate the effect.
“An aide to Mayor Eric Adams who served as his longtime liaison to the Turkish community and whose home was searched by the FBI has been cooperating with the corruption investigation into the mayor and his 2021 campaign,“ the New York Times reports.
“The cooperation of the aide, Rana Abbasova, could represent a significant development in the broad corruption inquiry, which has focused in part on whether Mr.