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"US does not believe that NATO membership for Ukraine is a realistic outcome of a negotiated settlement." Var det egentlig noen som trodde det?

Tja.

Senatet følger som annonsert opp med cloturevote på RFKjr. Da går man i gang med 29 timers post-debatt før man har den endelige avstemningen.

Kall meg religiøs og gal i toppen, men jeg synes det er en positiv nyhet at f.eks. egne- og underleverandører som Treasury bruker får tilbake tilgangen til å utføre vedlikehold og rette opp kritiske feil som måtte oppstå. Ser heller ikke noe veldig negativt ved at sentralbanken får tilbake tilgangen de har hatt i lang tid.

Miraklenes tid er ikke forbi. Ser ut som retten har endret den tidligere midlertidige forføyningen, og gitt både finansministeren og Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City tilgang til Finandsdepartementets systemer igjen. Egentlig alle som hadde tilgang før 20.01 får tilbake tilgangen.

Musk fortalte i går om et ineffektivt byråkrati som ikke har kapasitet til å håndtere mer enn 10.000 pensjoneringer i månden. Alt er på papir og er foregår i en gammel gruve fra 1950-tallet i Pennsylvania. WaPo fortalte det samme for 11 år siden, men likevel er det ingenting som har blitt gjort siden da... Here, inside the caverns of an old Pennsylvania limestone mine, there are 600 employees of the Office of Personnel Management. Their task is nothing top-secret. It is to process the retirement papers of the government’s own workers. But that system has a spectacular flaw. It still must be done entirely by hand, and almost entirely on paper. Held up by all that paper, work in the mine runs as slowly now as it did in 1977.

«There is an old saying that if it weren’t for double standards, liberals wouldn’t have any standards at all»

Ja 70% mener han innfrir valgløftene, så folk vet nok hva de stemte på. Noen fare for borgerkrig er det neppe, selv om demokratene har har brukt veldig mye voldsretorikk de siste dagene, om å slåss i gatene og slik.. heldigvis ikke bare voldsretorikk det går i, det er også de som gir uttrykk for sine seksuelle fantasier.

Biden kunne selvsagt ha utstedt denne EO'n når han ville, helt uavhengig av hva kongressen jobber med. Dog hevdet han flere ganger at han ikke kunne gjøre noe som helst og at det var kongressen som måtte handle.. helt til han plutselig likevel fant ut av det var mulig å utstede en EO (det begynte å nærme seg valg). Det er rart å kalle et lovforslag som slipper inn nesten 2 millioner hvert år for en "innstramming". Men sånn var det altså blitt under Biden.

Både Musk/DOGE og Trump i pluss.

Trumps feil at Biden ikke utstedet en EO tidligere..... sure.

Scoop: FBI finds secret JFK assassination records after Trump order The FBI just discovered about 2,400 records tied to President Kennedy's assassination that were never provided to a board tasked with reviewing and disclosing the documents, Axios has learned. The contents of the newly found records are closely held secrets. The three sources who relayed their existence to Axios said they hadn't seen the documents. OOoo.. men er vel likevel en stor fare for at det ikke finnes noe spennende der.

Flashback til en av de gangene (les: flertall) Biden tilsidesatte Høyesterett, kjørte på, og skrøyt av det.

Media Should Investigate Federal Waste Instead Of The People Uncovering It As usual, the media are missing the target. They should follow the money, not the people uncovering the massive spending racket. There is good news: The lazy media have a newfound curiosity. The bad news is that traditional media have turned their attention to the people investigating the federal funding. Instead of following the money, the left-wing media complex is following the money followers. To people who have not yet moved out of their mom’s basement, it may be shocking to see gainfully employed young people in powerful positions. But this cohort can handle the task, and, unlike aging members of Congress nearing death, these young people have a dog in the fight. They are going to have to live with the financial decisions the nation makes right now. Note also that you can enlist in the Marines at 17. True. Virker som media er mer opptatt av Big Balls enn government spending and waste. (Forøvrig kunne WaPo melde tidligere i kveld at Big Balls er tilbake, nå hos Utenriksdepartementet)

Ja noe må nok gjøres, men det virker ikke som DOE har gjort verken undervisningen eller resultatet av undervisningen noe bedre. Kanskje prøve å flytte ansvaret tilbake til de lokale..

Trenger man et eget departement for det, da?

Selvsagt. Det er vel også heller få som synes det er er bra at det blir 35.000 flere arbeidsløse i Jordan eller at barn i Irak ikke får Sesam stasjon. Kutt går alltid ut over noen, det er ikke alltid bra for den eller de som rammes.

Ja støtter generelt kutt i bistand og offentlig sektor.

Judge Blocks Trump From Sending Three Venezuelans to Guantanamo The U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico issued a temporary restraining order on President Donald Trump’s mission to send three Venezuelans to Guantanamo Bay due to the uncertainty over jurisdiction. The three petitioners challenged the legality of their detention by ICE, claiming it violated the Immigration and Nationality Act and the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment. The three men have been in ICE custody in New Mexico since late 2023. Their filing stated that the New Mexico court “should retain jurisdiction over their pending habeas petitions even upon transfer” to Guantanamo Bay.

It’s one thing to trash USAID. In the view Trump and Musk have tried to cement with the public, the benefits go to a bunch of foreigners, often in shithole countries, sometimes to promote DEI. But it’s something else to destroy the world-class institutions that make America great, to coin a phrase. Even Hitler did not trash German science. Hitler did seek to turn science to his own ends, to promote research on eugenics, new technologies for blitzkrieg war, sick medical experiments, and more efficient ways for the mass killing of Jews. Yet civilian German science, long a mark of German pride, also thrived. During the Nazi era, German scientists and engineers invented the first electron microscope, industrial-scale production of artificial fiber, pharmaceuticals such as advanced sulfa drugs, artificial rubber, and much more. Trump, in short, is even more nihilist than Hitler.

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En Rhode Island dommer har utstedt en streng enforcement av en midlertidig forføyning. Judge's Order today prohibits any freeze on ANY federal funding which is much beyond what lawsuit challenged. Here's order I bought on Pacer and uploaded to Courtlisterner.

Norwegian Refugee Council NGO to suspend aid work in over 20 countries due Trump policy The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said on Monday it would suspend humanitarian work in nearly 20 countries worldwide after U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a freeze on U.S. foreign aid worldwide when he took office on January 20. The non-governmental organisation received just under 20% of its funding from the United States in 2024, or around $150 million, it said, with that funding helping some 1.6 million people worldwide.

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