@wtg I'll admit it makes me nervous. Give them an inch, they'll take a mile. But it does seem to accomplish what we wanted: to separate DHS from the rest of the funding. Two weeks isn't very long. I wish to heck though, that Congress would do it's proper job and just stop it with the constant CRs. It's no way to run a government.

They took everything. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbi-conducting-court-ordered-activity-georgia-election-site/story?id=129644345

63 today, 65 tomorrow, Thursday and Friday, Sunday, February 1 could well be the coldest day of our winter at 47/ 39, but who knows.

@Daniel said in "Minnesota has had it.": The Minneapolis police, unlike the police in NYC, according to protestors, are standing by and doing nothing to help people. You'd think the opposite if you listened to White House. Not that anyone here would do that. It would make sense if local authorities focused on keeping local people safe - police, national guard. Too bad many in the police force seem to be more sympathetic to those working for ICE.

@wtg This video is outstanding!

You would. But I don't think that would work for the rest of us. Lol!

Not even one Scaramucci's worth. In a Jan. 16 news release, the Kennedy Center announced that Kevin Couch would be its new senior vice president of artistic programming. On Jan. 22, the center posted the announcement on X. Not a week later, Couch resigned. Couch confirmed his resignation Wednesday but declined to comment further. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kennedy-center-s-new-programming-head-resigns-days-after-hire-was-announced/ar-AA1VcUPf

Good stuff!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34454589-the-handmaid-s-tale The signs were there all along, apparently.

@AndyD said in Melania, the movie isn't doing too well: Probably a mix of nobody knows or cares about her, nobody likes Trump, and it sounds like an infectious disease Omg. Too funny.

Who knows, maybe Ohio will kick out some of the MAGA assholes that currently proliferate there.

I pointed out in a separate thread the one big beautiful bill gave practically unlimited funding. They already have massive funding. So what's to keep them from using it? I don't see an "after..." The Democrats have failed. That's what they do best.

It's a new bunker, command center, and data center. The ballroom is a ruse. But, yeah, I'll read about the legal drama. I enjoy that kind of stuff. He ignored the laws he was supposed to follow. All he did was demolish a large and historic part of the White House. I don't know why doing that would end up in the courts./ s

Aldi won the cheapest UK supermarket award and the big four use their prices to match. Yet of the two I prefer Lidl, and not because of the app and points that generate prizes like a free croissant; though I use ASDA most, going early and raiding the 40-70% reduction areas and freezing as necessary.

Ok.

Slovakia’s prime minister told EU leaders at a summit last week that a meeting with Donald Trump left him shocked by the U.S. president’s state of mind, five European diplomats briefed on the conversation said. Robert Fico, one of the few EU leaders to frequently support Trump’s stance on Europe’s weaknesses, was concerned about the U.S. president’s “psychological state,” two of the diplomats said. Fico used the word “dangerous” to describe how the U.S. president came across during their face-to-face meeting at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Jan. 17, according to two of the diplomats. The conversation between Fico and his European counterparts took place in Brussels on Jan. 22 on the sidelines of an emergency EU summit arranged to discuss transatlantic relations in the wake of Trump’s threats to seize Greenland. Leaders used that gathering to try to calm tensions after the U.S. president walked back his threat to slap tariffs on some European countries over the issue a day earlier. All the diplomats were granted anonymity by POLITICO to allow them to discuss the confidential exchanges between leaders. They come from four different EU governments. The fifth is a senior EU official. All of them said they didn’t know the details of what Trump had said to Fico that had triggered his reaction. Fico denies he said these things. https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-florida-robert-fico-eu-summit-nato/