My state’s new Attorney General said on Bluesky that he expects to cite that tweet in pretty much every suit he’ll be filing against the admin over the next four years.
Sir Keir Starmer has said he is “ready and willing” to put UK troops on the ground in Ukraine to help guarantee its security as part of a peace deal.
And John Major (not exactly Lord Palmerston or Pitt the Elder) has something to say
A federal judge has blocked Trump’s order to force hospitals to deny care to trans people.
Alright everyone, new assignment just dropped;
How much are they paying?
How about reporting the current cabinet and their boss? Plenty of reportable stuff there.
DOGE_USDA, DOGE_SSA? Dammit, I hate being wrong. Thre really is the Deep State. And now we know who’s actually running it.
Can one place be both a colony of one country and a vassal state of a third country at the same time? You might not want to bet against that.
Here’s a roundup of military-related news connected with Fleon47, the Revenge Tour (all links are to Military.com.)
The Department of the Air Force will no longer set ambitious goals to diversify the officer applicant pool, the latest initiative to be scrapped by the service as a result of President Donald Trump’s executive orders aiming to rid the military of policies he disagrees with.
An upcoming Air Force promotion exam for airmen hoping to reach the rank of technical sergeant will be delayed after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered all diversity-related material to be scrubbed and reviewed, including the service’s study handbook and the test itself.
The testing cycle, which was scheduled to begin Saturday and go through April 15, will be pushed back to March 3 and will continue through May 1, the Air Force said in a statement to Military.com. The delay comes after orders by Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to eliminate all efforts throughout the military promoting diverse groups such as women, troops with minority backgrounds, and gay and lesbian service members.
Jose Barco, a decorated U.S. Army veteran once based out of Fort Carson who served two tours in Iraq during some of the most intense fighting but later served time for a felony conviction, has become a casualty of a different kind of war.
At an immigration hearing Wednesday morning, he told Assistant Immigration Judge Matthew Kaufman that he was not interested in appealing his deportation case after an immigration attorney gave him a 2% chance of winning a case, which could take several more years and and thousands of dollars to fight.
“I’m disillusioned and tired. Send me to a country that will accept me since my country doesn’t,” he told his brother, Ray in a phone call late Wednesday.
Barco, after serving 15 years in prison for a felony conviction, was taken into custody last month by U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement officers because his citizenship papers, which were supposed to be processed while he was in the Army, were lost.
His decision came as a surprise, as there appeared to be some hope that he could win his case. The Resident Alien Identification, with his five-year-old profile, was unearthed and members of Congress were working to untangle lost documentation written back when the Army used hard copies for citizenship processing.
Air Force crew members and security forces on deportation flights are not wearing their name tape or unit patches, contributing to a lack of transparency as the service obscures details of its involvement in the border mission from the public.
The Air Force is the only one of the military branches involved in President Donald Trump’s mandated border mission to not disclose publicly the number of service members or what units they’re coming from, citing safety and security concerns, an Air Force spokesperson told Military.com.
What’s next? Rounding up people with helicopters painted black? None of this is making the country safer or showing members of the military the government honors their service and their sacrifices.
It’s really time for the right people to tell the kakistocracy klown kabinet they will no longer follow any orders which will be detrimental to the nation as a whole and to the members of the military.
Hey, hey, Michigan needs to go too. Our weather is very close and we share the lakes. You can’t leave without us.
Look, New England needs to go too. We’re snugged right up against Canada!
Thanks for that. That’s pretty much the way people here in Canada are feeling lately.
Oddly, after years of Alberta hating Quebec, and Quebec hating everybody who doesn’t speak French, and everybody outside the GTA hating Toronto, it seems that Trump has actually managed to unite Canadians.
Chimerica coined by Niall Ferguson and Moritz Schularick, mainly focuses on the economic ties
You misspelled “Gulf of Canada”, Citizen. The Canadian Imperial Department of Re-socializing American Ferals Into Proper Canadians will be by soon to have a word with you. Be prepared to show your maple syrup stocks upon their arrival.
Oh, and while we’re at it, Canada has decided that “Lake Superior” will now be known as “Upper Lake Ontario.” Joking, but hey, if it’s that easy to rename stuff, as Trump thinks he’s proven, then let’s go all out.
Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS
The unusual request could put sensitive data about millions of American taxpayers in the hands of Trump political appointees.
Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service is seeking access to a heavily guarded Internal Revenue Service system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country, according to three people familiar with the activities, sparking alarm within the tax agency.
Under pressure from the White House, the IRS is considering a memorandum of understanding that would give officials from DOGE — which stands for Department of Government Efficiency — broad access to tax-agency systems, property and datasets. Among them is the Integrated Data Retrieval System, or IDRS, which enables tax agency employees to access IRS accounts — including personal identification numbers — and bank information. It also lets them enter and adjust transaction data and automatically generate notices, collection documents and other records.
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The agreement requires that Kliger maintain confidentiality of tax return information, shield it from unauthorized access and destroy any such information shared with him upon the completion of his IRS deployment.
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“The information that the IRS has is incredibly personal. Someone with access to it could use it and make it public in a way, or do something with it, or share it with someone else who shares it with someone else, and your rights get violated,” Olson said.A Trump administration official said DOGE personnel needed IDRS access because DOGE staff are working to “eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse, and improve government performance to better serve the people.”
The official said the “DOGE mission … to bring much-needed efficiency to our bureaucracy” is being carried out “legally and with the appropriate security clearances.”
A security clearance is not a sufficient credential for access to taxpayer systems, according to IRS procedures. IDRS access is governed by compelling needs for tax administration, not national security.
What could possibly go wrong?
I’d agree that many government computer systems are outdated, inefficient, and need updating, but somehow I suspect that’s not the real reason DOGE MAGAs want access.
I stand corrected! In fact, I’m on my knees begging Canada to take us! 
(I have a bottle of Maple syrup in my cupboard at this very moment, eh?)
Here come the leopards.
Indeed. Information is power, and MAGA-DOGE intends to maximize that power by maximizing their access to information.
It goes only one direction from here.
Maybe Musk is finally going to make good on Trump’s promise to release his tax returns???
/s
Well, they did invade Washington once, and burned the Whire House.
Trump begins firings of FAA air traffic control staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash
There has long been an Air Traffic Controller shortage. Now, weeks after a deadly crash where the tower was understaffed, President Musk and Puppet Trump think the solution is to employ FEWER Air Traffic Controllers. It’s time for another ATC strike. Hey, if they’re going to be fired anyway, they may as well do it all at once and make a point. Airline pilots should consider not flying while ATC is understaffed. (Sure, there will be low-time pilots willing to do the job. What could go wrong?)