I am not amused.

"excess and deficiency are equally at fault" ~ Confucius

[joost5]

how it's goin'

[futileexercise]

[pscottm]

ICE shared Medicaid data it shouldn’t have with Palantir : NPR

ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir

The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportatio

After Medicaid officials improperly shared data about millions of people in January with immigration officials, ICE then shared that data with the data analytics firm Palantir, according to new court filings. Palantir operates an app called ELITE that is used by ICE agents to show the addresses of noncitizens who may be subject to deportation.

That revelation was made public in a motion filed Thursday by more than 20 Democratic attorneys general who sued the Trump administration last year over its data-sharing agreement between the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and ICE.

[nic0las-uncaged]

i could blog better than this but i won't

[last-to-the-orgy]

[memewhore]

[thecookiesewingtin]

[sizvideos]

Watch the video of this crazy greyhound dog

[guerrillatech]

[thepassenger3]

[rrrick]

If you're offended, remember that you're shitty orange dad started it.

[jetix]

Aleksander Nordahl

[noondaytune]

Visit Original Link

The Soft Voices Die - Apparat.

I’m not sure where the folks at Musica or Look & Listen would file this? Pop? Alternative? Dance? I think that’s about as far as their appropriate categories go. It’s categorized as ‘Electronic’ by iTunes. I digress. Whatever it's categorized as, it's a pleasure to listen to.

I thought that The Soft Voices Die would be the perfect tune from the album to feature here as it’s really leaves you wanting more.

Apparat is German musician Sascha Ring and The Devil’s Walk is his latest album, you really should give it a listen.

Contributed by @rowaneva.

[liberalsarecool]

Why would Lindsey care if the report is public if there is nothing in it?

The treason and conspiracy to obstruct are so obvious for these guilty Russian shills

[justinspoliticalcorner]

NSPM-7: A grave danger to American freedoms

The memorandum is an all-out assault on the civil liberties Americans hold dear.

On September 25th, 2025-- 15 days after right-wing pundit and TPUSA co-founder Charlie Kirk was killed-- the Trump Regime issued a Presidential Memorandum called “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence”, otherwise known as NSPM-7. The directive is about chilling dissent against the Trump Regime and a way to target leftist and liberal Americans in particular. [...] The NSPM-7 document released in September 2025 is a very grotesque assault on our cherished civil liberties, as it seeks to paint organizations opposed to the Trump Regime as “domestic terrorists.” That is a very chilling precedent that the USA should NOT be going down. Still, Americans should continue to resist the regime!

My latest on Substack: How NSPM-7 a very grotesque assault on our cherished civil liberties intent on chilling dissent against the Trump Regime and a way to target leftist and liberal Americans in particular.

Read the full story at The JGibson Report.

[joost5]

Through the memo, the president instructs federal departments and law enforcement agencies to use authorities they already have and focus them on investigations of civil society groups — including nonprofits, activists, and donors—to “disrupt” and “prevent” the president’s fever-dream version of “terrorism” and “political violence.”

Trump focusing personnel from 10 agencies to target civil rights groups is very bad for everyone that's not pro-military state.

[ralfmaximus]

Years ago back when I worked in cubicle land, we were hiring junior software developers. They didn’t have to have a ton of experience, just a willingness to learn, and some demonstration of their software skills. Like: show me a program you wrote (any language) or a web site you designed. Anything.

And there was this one guy I talked with who seemed super sharp, but had virtually zero experience writing software. When it came time to do the show-n-tell part of the interview he whips out his laptop, brings up a website, and spins it around to show me what he made.

A website of tiny ceramic frogs.

Not for sale. Just… all these ceramic frogs, organized into categories. Frogs on bicycles, frogs with hats, frogs sitting on lily pads. It was a virtual museum of ceramic frogs in web form.

I scrolled through his online collection of frogs, slightly baffled.

“This is your website?” I asked finally.

“Yep!”

“You coded this yourself?” I popped into view-source mode and poked around some incredibly well-formatted, well-commented html. I nodded slowly. This guy was meticulous.

“Yep!”

“So… where’d all the frogs come from?”

“I made those too,” he says, beaming. 

And while I’m processing this he rummages in his bag and pulls out a little ceramic frog working at a computer terminal. He places it on the table before us, next to the laptop.

“And THIS one,” he says, “I made for you! As a thank you for the interview.”

It was adorable. I hired him on the spot. I mean, why not? Worst case he’d wash out in 90 days and we’d hire somebody else. He turned out to be one of the best developers on our team. 

And yes, his cubicle was loaded with ceramic frogs.

[ralfmaximus]

Apparently somebody Did at least once