Breaking news has taken on new meanings as the rule of law is being broken , our democratic institutions are being broken apart, & more often than not our hearts are breaking as the unavoidable fire hose of news breaks . My well worn reaction for what 9 years now has been this is UN presidential. Think it was Dylan who said ,if anyone has an original thought I'd like to hear it. Appreciate your writing as I can't look away & we need to support each other & keep up the good trouble. Facts matter. My feral orange tabby who appeared mid August now lets me within 3 feet as opposed to 50 ft & meowed hello yesterday. Progress can be slow.
Hey TC: I'm your age (pretty old!) and I contribute to you, ACLU, Propoblica, and numerous other organizations or free press publications. What else do I do besides grit my teeth? My teeth hurt.
Look for political groups in your community who are working to hold against this, working to support a local candidate or a person to run in the mid-terms.
And then the releasing of water from reservoirs in No. Cal!! I commented elsewhere - I bet doofus believes the Army Corp of Engineers is part of the military!!!!! Remember the brag about sending the "military" in to solve the water issue?
Robert Hubbell talked about this today on his live Substack and how releasing the water now would have been horrible for all those Central Valley farmers ( who probably voted for Trump)that needed water in the summer for crops.I’m on the other coast so is any local media reporting this ??
So glad you got in on the ground floor of the new independent journalism, Tom. We used to have it in the print media when people used to read, before the Murdochmind monopoly (They kept it broadcasting on the free first tier so it would be easily consumed by the masses, especially those who cannot afford cable or streaming.) Keep those rounds coming out of that desktop Howitzer.
As for Blump's designs on Greenland, part of a sovereign nation, why would the US Military obey an illegal order to invade a country posing no threat to us? It's just another manifestation of Comb-over's lifelong bullying.
Well, alleged SecDrf Hegseth went on Faux Snooze last night and said the military will follow an order to invade Mexico and "take on the cartels." Don't expect the military to hold any line. They'll just fire the generals who say "no" till they find one who says "yes." and they're there.
I wish. Look at where the recruits are coming from - the whites are largely rural red staters. Hegseth is popular among the younger ones because he has "mud on his boots." The SpecOps crowd are all MAGA.
TAFM is a great anchor of truth set deep in the seabed of the stormy ocean of MAGA misinformation that now dominates American politics. It’s getting a bit windy and rocky up here on deck, but the rode is holding and it looks like the enemy is tactically out to lunch having misjudged the resolve of the citizens’ navy to endure during Admiral Von Shits-His-Pants bombardment with his arsenal of fascist anti-personnel rounds. The attitude here amongst the troops both at sea and on land, is “Fuck them and that Orange Turd-faced Dick-Tator who started this insanity right up their Christian poop shoots with a giant syphilitic squid.
Well...Tom thank you for following the shit trail left by all these Orcs! Flood the zone. Divide and conquer. OPM is breaking every law and regulation. This office with muck and his sidekicks are illegally offering buyouts WHICH will NEVER happen. NO ONE should sign on. Unless the congress decides to flex its constitutional muscles this grotesquerie will continue. SHAME ON THE GOP "MAJORITY". DOGE should be called DODGEY in that what muck is doing is a back door way to crash everything financial in order to "save" several trillion dollars. Robert Reich talked about this muck crap going on which is totally illegal. I suggest a massive national strike ...canceled subscriptions, closed stores, total rejection of this regime. 2 weeks is already too long. Time to throw these people out and charge them with treason! If only....
I have been suggesting a national DEI "call in sick" day. Let every person who would be considered DEI call in sick, and have all those who support this idea also NOT BUY ANYTHING FROM ANYONE. (and I recently discovered, via "Belle of the Ranch" youtube that VETERANS are "DEI". I didn't know that!) It was pointed out to me that people would just purchase on another day. That's okay, I just think the visual of virtually everything grinding to a halt would show that our workforce is MADE of DEI.
Imagine what would happen if every single woman, every person of hispanic, black, asian or native American, every disabled person and every LGTBQ+ person didn't go to work for ONE DAY!
I am thinking of the bus boycott of the south by blacks, and by the sit-ins at the lunch counters. Sadly, I think most of our populace isn't paying attention unless it scrolls by in their phone.
And while the fuckups do what they do best - fuckup, the damage to the infrastructure of American bureaucracy is impossible to assess. Maybe T-One's Infrastructure Week that never happened is happening now?
Oh, Robert!! Silly you! You KNOW he's working on the world's best healthcare plan ever!! Who has time for Infrastructure too!! There's GOLF to be played!
Thank you for this post, Tom, it’s full of pertinent information. Much as I would love to forward it, however, the name calling stops me. I know it’s your way of blowing off steam, but, it will seem unserious to those who haven’t been reading you for years. And these are very serious times.
Would you please consider some posts using actual names do we can forward them widely?
I've been wandering through the US Code sections that govern various things trump is doing. I saw he is mulling over putting USAID into the State Dept. So I went looking to see how USAID is organized. I haven't figured that out, but LOOK what I found.
There is a whole laundry list of what "gender" means.
So: can trump order his crew of terrorist pirates to scrub the word "gender" from a STATUTE? It will be interesting to see him try. The icing on the cake? This particular law was passed in 2019 and therefore signed into law by.....trump.
Can we get him committed on the grounds that besides narcissism he is clearly a victim of dual personality disorder??
I can’t wait for the reaction of all the MAGA voters when prices start to shoot up, plane crash s continue, crime and terrorist indients go up, and avocados cost $10 each, so that a bowl of guacamole while you watch football costs fifty or sixty dollars. And what could go wrong since they’re firing most of the FBI? Does Dorito face think that all future assassination attempts will be thwarted when law enforcement consists mostly of ace “investgators” whose main qualification was that they answered Dear Leaders call to sack the Capitol on Jan. 6?
1. That Sean Duffy Memo also said that DOT funds wouldn't go to areas that had vaccine (or mask) mandates. Cities with healthy kids: expect all Air Traffic Controllers to be moved away from any airports in your vicinity.
2. On MTGoon and the Gulf of Mexico
Some people are complaining because Google has said it will change the name on Google Maps. As I understand it, Google's world wide policy is to use names for geographical features that are the official ones of the country where they are located. By this measure, the Gulf has to be called "Gulf of American" near our shoreline, Gulf of Mexico near Mexico's, and Gulf of Cuba near Cuba's shores. One hopes that in the middle they will call it "Gulf of Whatever." I hate to tell trump: our national waters only go out 200 miles (12, by some definitions) , and the Gulf is close to 600 miles across.
A side note…you’re right about the Ukrainians producing some of the best model kits on the market today. In fact, the Eastern Europeans have pretty much cornered the market as the Japanese have faded away. What’s happened in Japan seems to follow the collapse of the model kit industry of the U.S. as it went from the world leader to irrelevance.
Breaking news has taken on new meanings as the rule of law is being broken , our democratic institutions are being broken apart, & more often than not our hearts are breaking as the unavoidable fire hose of news breaks . My well worn reaction for what 9 years now has been this is UN presidential. Think it was Dylan who said ,if anyone has an original thought I'd like to hear it. Appreciate your writing as I can't look away & we need to support each other & keep up the good trouble. Facts matter. My feral orange tabby who appeared mid August now lets me within 3 feet as opposed to 50 ft & meowed hello yesterday. Progress can be slow.
Hey TC: I'm your age (pretty old!) and I contribute to you, ACLU, Propoblica, and numerous other organizations or free press publications. What else do I do besides grit my teeth? My teeth hurt.
Look for political groups in your community who are working to hold against this, working to support a local candidate or a person to run in the mid-terms.
And then the releasing of water from reservoirs in No. Cal!! I commented elsewhere - I bet doofus believes the Army Corp of Engineers is part of the military!!!!! Remember the brag about sending the "military" in to solve the water issue?
Robert Hubbell talked about this today on his live Substack and how releasing the water now would have been horrible for all those Central Valley farmers ( who probably voted for Trump)that needed water in the summer for crops.I’m on the other coast so is any local media reporting this ??
It was, in fact, in the NYT this morning.
I'm on the other coast also. This sounds like a disaster.
So glad you got in on the ground floor of the new independent journalism, Tom. We used to have it in the print media when people used to read, before the Murdochmind monopoly (They kept it broadcasting on the free first tier so it would be easily consumed by the masses, especially those who cannot afford cable or streaming.) Keep those rounds coming out of that desktop Howitzer.
As for Blump's designs on Greenland, part of a sovereign nation, why would the US Military obey an illegal order to invade a country posing no threat to us? It's just another manifestation of Comb-over's lifelong bullying.
Well, alleged SecDrf Hegseth went on Faux Snooze last night and said the military will follow an order to invade Mexico and "take on the cartels." Don't expect the military to hold any line. They'll just fire the generals who say "no" till they find one who says "yes." and they're there.
But wait! The Mango-in-chief declared that ONLY HE would end all wars!
He didn't ..........lie to us all, did he?!?!
;-)
BTW, isn't the end of the Ukraine war kinda past Day One now?
I know! It will be released with that best ever healthcare plan!
Yes TC. The frightening reality
Well, Hogsbreath would command them to invade. Would they obey? It remains to be seen.
Personally, I hope he gets fragged.
I wish. Look at where the recruits are coming from - the whites are largely rural red staters. Hegseth is popular among the younger ones because he has "mud on his boots." The SpecOps crowd are all MAGA.
His DTs have to be pretty bad right now.
Thanks for all you are doing. Substack journalism is the way forward. Keep digging through the shit.
TAFM is a great anchor of truth set deep in the seabed of the stormy ocean of MAGA misinformation that now dominates American politics. It’s getting a bit windy and rocky up here on deck, but the rode is holding and it looks like the enemy is tactically out to lunch having misjudged the resolve of the citizens’ navy to endure during Admiral Von Shits-His-Pants bombardment with his arsenal of fascist anti-personnel rounds. The attitude here amongst the troops both at sea and on land, is “Fuck them and that Orange Turd-faced Dick-Tator who started this insanity right up their Christian poop shoots with a giant syphilitic squid.
Well...Tom thank you for following the shit trail left by all these Orcs! Flood the zone. Divide and conquer. OPM is breaking every law and regulation. This office with muck and his sidekicks are illegally offering buyouts WHICH will NEVER happen. NO ONE should sign on. Unless the congress decides to flex its constitutional muscles this grotesquerie will continue. SHAME ON THE GOP "MAJORITY". DOGE should be called DODGEY in that what muck is doing is a back door way to crash everything financial in order to "save" several trillion dollars. Robert Reich talked about this muck crap going on which is totally illegal. I suggest a massive national strike ...canceled subscriptions, closed stores, total rejection of this regime. 2 weeks is already too long. Time to throw these people out and charge them with treason! If only....
I think air traffic controllers should resign enmass & put air traffic on full stop.
I have been suggesting a national DEI "call in sick" day. Let every person who would be considered DEI call in sick, and have all those who support this idea also NOT BUY ANYTHING FROM ANYONE. (and I recently discovered, via "Belle of the Ranch" youtube that VETERANS are "DEI". I didn't know that!) It was pointed out to me that people would just purchase on another day. That's okay, I just think the visual of virtually everything grinding to a halt would show that our workforce is MADE of DEI.
Imagine what would happen if every single woman, every person of hispanic, black, asian or native American, every disabled person and every LGTBQ+ person didn't go to work for ONE DAY!
I am thinking of the bus boycott of the south by blacks, and by the sit-ins at the lunch counters. Sadly, I think most of our populace isn't paying attention unless it scrolls by in their phone.
And while the fuckups do what they do best - fuckup, the damage to the infrastructure of American bureaucracy is impossible to assess. Maybe T-One's Infrastructure Week that never happened is happening now?
A good analysis there Robert.
Oh, Robert!! Silly you! You KNOW he's working on the world's best healthcare plan ever!! Who has time for Infrastructure too!! There's GOLF to be played!
He really wants to subcontract all that messy implementation and just do the headline stuff between griftin' n golfin', dontcha know?
Thank you for this post, Tom, it’s full of pertinent information. Much as I would love to forward it, however, the name calling stops me. I know it’s your way of blowing off steam, but, it will seem unserious to those who haven’t been reading you for years. And these are very serious times.
Would you please consider some posts using actual names do we can forward them widely?
Respectfully, as Tom Paine said in The American Crisis, "There are cases which cannot be overdone by language, and this is one."
Respectfully, Paine was sharply critical of bad behavior, but, I don’t recall any name calling. However, this is your space to speak as you wish.
I've been wandering through the US Code sections that govern various things trump is doing. I saw he is mulling over putting USAID into the State Dept. So I went looking to see how USAID is organized. I haven't figured that out, but LOOK what I found.
22 U.S. Code § 2151–2 - Actions to improve the international gender policy of the United States Agency for International Development https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/22/2151-2
There is a whole laundry list of what "gender" means.
So: can trump order his crew of terrorist pirates to scrub the word "gender" from a STATUTE? It will be interesting to see him try. The icing on the cake? This particular law was passed in 2019 and therefore signed into law by.....trump.
Can we get him committed on the grounds that besides narcissism he is clearly a victim of dual personality disorder??
Thank you Susan for Cornell law federal statute citation.
I keep waiting for the administration to try to stop "Marxist" universities from publishing the UC Code.
LOL, I needed that 👍
In the midst of all the Orc shit, here is a great talk and hopeful talk by Timothy Snyder from a couple of days ago.
https://youtu.be/LATN40lw5_s?si=3viO1hmhD4-DFFeP
Strangely, the immigrant communities are the ones most likely to marry and have children. Will they get special financial help? Doubt it.
I can’t wait for the reaction of all the MAGA voters when prices start to shoot up, plane crash s continue, crime and terrorist indients go up, and avocados cost $10 each, so that a bowl of guacamole while you watch football costs fifty or sixty dollars. And what could go wrong since they’re firing most of the FBI? Does Dorito face think that all future assassination attempts will be thwarted when law enforcement consists mostly of ace “investgators” whose main qualification was that they answered Dear Leaders call to sack the Capitol on Jan. 6?
Price increases will just be blamed on Hilary, Obama or Biden. The Maggots will believe it.
BBC Update 56 Minutes ago per BBC's George Wright: "Trump ordered Air Strikes in Somalia".
Targets, ordnance, aircraft or missiles?
*****
Thanks again TC; I had to go to the BBC to get facts on the latest NTSB investigation. Here's the BBC Headline on another U.S. Jet Crash:
"Person in Car killed along with 6 People on board a Medical [transport jet] in Philadelphia crash".💥
Philadelphia Mayor, CHERELLE PARKER: "many people on the ground as they area was set ablaze". Apparently, about 6 Philadelphia city blocks. 🙏
As to FULL employment: ACLU Town Hall, "Fighting Trump's'Attacks" Feb 4, 4:30 PM Eastern & 1:30 PM Pacific.
Two other things.
1. That Sean Duffy Memo also said that DOT funds wouldn't go to areas that had vaccine (or mask) mandates. Cities with healthy kids: expect all Air Traffic Controllers to be moved away from any airports in your vicinity.
2. On MTGoon and the Gulf of Mexico
Some people are complaining because Google has said it will change the name on Google Maps. As I understand it, Google's world wide policy is to use names for geographical features that are the official ones of the country where they are located. By this measure, the Gulf has to be called "Gulf of American" near our shoreline, Gulf of Mexico near Mexico's, and Gulf of Cuba near Cuba's shores. One hopes that in the middle they will call it "Gulf of Whatever." I hate to tell trump: our national waters only go out 200 miles (12, by some definitions) , and the Gulf is close to 600 miles across.
A side note…you’re right about the Ukrainians producing some of the best model kits on the market today. In fact, the Eastern Europeans have pretty much cornered the market as the Japanese have faded away. What’s happened in Japan seems to follow the collapse of the model kit industry of the U.S. as it went from the world leader to irrelevance.