This time I'm sure he means it.
'“I offer my deepest apologies,” he said, adding: “I cannot rewrite the past, but I can control the road ahead.”'
No George that's the point, you're not even going to control what time you get supper.
Weird how the optics of pardoning a gay man may ultimately be your downfall with your old party.
Imagine that. 
It appears that scientists around the world are scrambling to secure research data that may be endangered by both US budget cuts and deliberate deletion. In Norwegian: https://www.khrono.no/frykter-at-amerikanske-forskningsdata-skal-forsvinne/943204 #kakistocracy #science
@cstross
«The Commerce Department this week announced plans to hike tariffs on solar panels from East Asia, alleging that panels from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam are receiving Chinese subsidies.
Panels from Cambodia received the highest tariffs — as solar panels from that country would see duties at a rate of 652 percent on average — though some Cambodian companies could see tariffs hiked as high as 3,500 percent.»
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5263631-commerce-department-plans-hike-tariffs/
More #kakistocracy.
Hegseth had an unsecured internet line set up in his office to connect to Signal, AP sources say
https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-signal-chat-dirty-internet-line-6a64707f10ca553eb905e5a70e10bd9d #kakistocracy
Congestion Clown Car!
Disorder in the Court: U.S. DOT Lawyers Upload Memo Admitting Their Congestion Pricing Case is Weak
Attorneys for the Federal Highway Administration, seemingly by mistake, uploaded an internal legal strategy memo into the record of the MTA's lawsuit against U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy over his illegal order to end congestion pricing — and the memo discussed how difficult it will be for Duffy to win.
Instead of filing documents that were expected to be part of Duffy's defense for withdrawing approval for congestion pricing, lawyers instead uploaded an email sent on April 11 from Assistant U.S. Attorneys Dominika Tarczynska, David Farber and Christine Poscablo discussing the weaknesses in the federal case and charting a different, but no more guaranteed way, to end the toll.
“Here, we profile families who have joined America’s swelling class of internal refugees. They represent just five stories among many others which might have been included: librarians fleeing book bans, professors forced out by ideologically-motivated college education boards, and most recently, the thousands of federal employees fired by the Trump administration.” #fascism #kakistocracy
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/24/american-refugees-escape
Who would signal they’re going to fold like a wet napkin before negotiations even begin? I’m at a loss to understand what the point of the tariffs were in the first place.
“President Trump says tariffs on China will 'come down substantially'”
Less a place, more a time.
We really need to find a place where these people who are so desperately afraid of medical science can live out their lives un-tainted by vaccines.
I'm thinking London, circa 1348-49. I'm sure they'd love it then.
"...vaccine criminalization bill drafted by Florida hypnotist."
You know you're in trouble when life makes less sense than a Fellini movie.
“In a statement, a senior DHS official said notices may have been accidentally sent to US citizens if their contact information was submitted by migrants — calling it a case of "unintended recipients." The agency insisted it would address such issues individually.”
Uh, so you can submit some rando’s info and they get SWATted by DHS? Hmm.
California Man Ordered to Leave the U.S. 'Immediately' Despite Providing Birth Certificate: 'I'm Not Trying to Be One of the Government's Mistakes' https://www.latintimes.com/california-man-ordered-leave-us-immediately-despite-providing-birth-certificate-im-not-581422
The suspension is another disruption to the nation's #FoodSafety programs after the termination & departure of 20,000 employees of the Department of #Health & Human Services #HHS, which includes the #FDA, as part of #Trump's effort to shrink the federal workforce.
US #FDA suspends #milk quality tests amid workforce cuts
The #Food & #Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk & other #dairy products due to reduced capacity in its #FoodSafety & nutrition division, according to an internal email seen by Reuters.
#Trump #Musk #RFKJr #HHS #PublicHealth #idiocracy #kakistocracy
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-fda-suspends-milk-quality-tests-amid-workforce-cuts-2025-04-21/
As the US moves from Democracy to #Kleptocracy and #Kakistocracy it’s effects affect scientific breakthroughs
New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them
Turns out he was just the appetizer. 
Am I alone in thinking we owe Howard Hughes an apology for assuming he was the weirdest power-hungry rich guy society would ever have to endure?
Associating with the [convicted felon] Donald Trump administration’s multibillionaire adviser Elon Musk and misusing artificial intelligence are among the most surefire ways for companies to damage their brands, a new survey of more than 100 international public affairs leaders found. #oligarchy #kakistocracy #TechnoFascism
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/19/trump-musk-ai-brand-reputation-survey?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
"The [Division of #Viral #Hepatitis] Laboratory Branch had the highest degree of viral hepatitis expertise of any #PublicHealth laboratory in the world," wrote Scott Becker, the assn's CEO. "Their loss eliminated critical national testing services that do not exist anywhere else within the #HHS agencies."
As of April 16, the assn had not received a response from #RFKJr, Becker said.
2 days after the lab's scientists received their reduction in force emails, #HHS Secy #RFKJr acknowledged that ~⅕ of the cuts at HHS were made *unintentionally* & some people would be offered their jobs back.
On April 4, the Assn of #PublicHealth Laboratories sent a letter to RFKJr urging HHS to reinstate all personnel in the Division of #Viral #Hepatitis & at the Division of #STD Prevention, another lab at the #CDC that was shuttered.
But on April 1, the #outbreak investigation was brought to a halt. All 27 of the lab's scientists received an email from the #HHS informing them that they were losing their #jobs. Like thousands of other employees who received similar emails that day, the scientists were told they would be placed on administrative leave until June 2, after which they would no longer work for the #CDC.
In the middle of a #hepatitis #outbreak, #CDC shutters the one lab that could help
After people started testing positive for #HepatitisC in a coastal #Florida town in December, state ofcls collected blood from patients, wrapped their specimens in dry ice & mailed them straight to the CDC in ATL, GA.
#Trump #RFKJr #Musk #DOGE #cuts #idiocracy #kakistocracy #law #USpol #science #medicine #disease
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/16/nx-s1-5355131/hepatitis-cdc-lab-outbreak-ghost
The NYT’s report added that the next acting #IRS chief is expected to be the dpty secy of the #Treasury, Michael Faulkender. If that proves true, he’ll be the 5th person to serve as the IRS’ leader in the last 3 months. #Chaos
In Jan, then-IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel, who was nominated by #Biden, resigned on Inauguration Day as #Trump prepared to replace him. Werfel was followed by Doug O’Donnell, a longtime IRS ofcl, who stepped down 1 month later.
...#ScottBessent believed that #Musk had done an end run around him to get #GaryShapley installed as the interim head of the #IRS, even though the #tax collection agency reports to Bessent. Musk’s #DOGE pushed the appointment through #Trump White House channels, but Bessent was not consulted or asked for his blessing, sources said.
NBC News has confirmed the fact that Shapley has been ousted.
