Tag: 2025 constitutional crisis

  • Chaos and cruelty

    Chaos and cruelty

    Elaine Godfrey has a thorough and well sourced article in the Atlantic explaining how the current regime is willfully disrupting the functioning of the government and the wellbeing of public servants. I feel for my colleagues who have not yet been illegally fired or forced to quit to preserve their own integrity. Nobody wants to…

  • With a net

    With a net

    When I heard that the Public Buildings Service was getting hit hard yesterday, with entire regions almost entirely shut down, closure of the historical buildings teams and leaked lists of historical buildings on the chopping block, it made me realize that not everyone can get the attention of a laid-off team of techie do-gooders, and…

  • Hope springs eternal

    Hope springs eternal

    I try not to amplify rumors even while lately most rumors I’ve been hearing have either come true or turned out worse than rumored. Especially now I don’t want to spread stories that may not be true or might actually be in flux right now. So I’m glad I didn’t report that people at TTS…

  • From the nation’s capital

    From the nation’s capital

    Just got back from DC and boy are my rights tired! I still need to catch up on my “fitness journey” as I think they call it nowadays. Thinking about how to illustrate a total knee replacement without gruesome medical Butthole Surfer type aesthetics. I’ll figure out something but the #longstoryshort is that I feel…