This may be helpful: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/email/#recommended-providers

“The other side” is catching on, realizing the utility of “emergencies” as an excuse for exercising authoritarian power. https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/breaking-washington-mayor-declares-state-1203356

This mayor is thought of as “left-leaning”, which, in Spokane, describes anyone who isn’t a Christian Fascist, or not yet anyway. In the event described at that link, she declared this “emergency” as justification to allow city cops to violently attack and arrest peaceful protesters, and to clear the area around the ICE building with a declaration of a curfew so that the latest pair of kidnapped dark-skinned people could be transported out to a temporary prison (“processing” center) on the other side of the state.

Watch what “emergencies” the Iran War brings about. “Only one of the ‘Enemy Within’ would complain about inflation, unemployment, high gas prices, cuts to domestic spending, and curtailment of Constitutional rights, when our soldiers on the Iran Front are suffering so much in this Emergency. Such talk against the government is deemed traitorous and shall be punished severely by the Emergency Tribunal.”

Donald Trump has recommended eliminating this and some other programs that fall under the Older Americans Act, a landmark 1965 law that provides social and meal services for older people. The U.S. House also proposed eliminating the employment program’s funding

Why? What ever could be their motivation for doing so?

In 2019, about two-thirds of participants were women, and about 44% were Black

Oh, well, there’s the problem.

That’s one butch-looking senator they’ve got there. And all decked-out in those eye-catching Satanic colors. The whole outfit looks 100% polyester “male-ordered” from a 1970s Sears catalog. Some kind of odd kink I guess, I’ll have to check Reddit for the explanation. No judgment from me, the 70s were weird fun.

Agreed. Whenever I hear of the latest internal MAGA feud (fElon, now Faux) it always brings to mind the old-school “professional” wrestling world. 100% scripted and acted-out. It gives the deplorables a “team” to identify with and emotionally bind to (pick a side, doesn’t really matter which) so they can stomp and fume and indulge in fantasy violence while society and life continue to grind them down into dirt, pockets picked.

And every UU congregation I’ve ever seen has pretty explicitly NOT been Xian. Not even in a watered-down way. I’ve watched their services online, and there’s been no Christ-talk, and no sky-daddy talk at all. I think that each UU congregation has wide leeway to do its own thing, and for most, that thing does not include identifying as Xian.

“Our beliefs are diverse and inclusive. We have no shared creed. Our shared covenant is expressed through the inseparable and deeply interdependent shared values of interdependence, pluralism, justice, transformation, generosity, and equity – all centered around love. Although Unitarianism and Universalism both have origins as liberal Christian traditions, today we embrace diverse teachings from many different global religions and philosophies.” – https://www.uua.org/beliefs/what-we-believe

Just feck these clickbait headlines containing words like “blast” and “slam”. Sorry Ars, no clicky until you grow up and write like adults who have something serious to say.

“One thing that I just don’t vibe with in modern American society – there’s an entire thing about safety. And I’ve lived my life in a way that safety was the last thing that I would care about,” she said. “This is a thing I think about a lot lately. We need to be less safe, be ready to offend ourselves and other people. Otherwise, Maga people are just going to keep winning, because they’re not afraid.”

The rise in domestic chip orders is a direct result of former President Donald Trump’s …

If only.

tough export tariffs

I think they mean import tariffs. The tariffs that domestic buyers pay when importing goods from overseas.

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?.. The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation… We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

How well would US Xian nationalists (Christofascists) get along with the CoE? Is the latter, like the former, actively attempting to acquire absolute power over social matters in their country? Would the two be of like minds w/respect to doctrine?

legal residents are abducted from their houses for saying genocide is a bad thing

And tortured, with impunity, by government agents.

The memo also proposed IRS detail a dedicated group of several dozen senior IRS auditors to launch investigations into companies suspected of hiring undocumented immigrants.

I guess I better step on the gas and get work done on my house right now, before the (mostly-MAGA-voting) contractors can no longer get any workers. Probably a good time to stockpile food too, before crops are rotting in the fields because of a lack of workers.

I guess I’d better put a halt to getting old too, before long-term care facilities run out of staff and shut their doors.

Within minutes of showing up, a twenty-something software engineer dispatched from DOGE began demanding access

I’m in software and I can guarantee you these punks are absolutely reveling in the feeling that they’re the “elite” because Leon likes them and picked them to do all this world-shattering demolition work. He wouldn’t have tapped them if they weren’t elite, if they weren’t 1% hackers, right? Oh and they’ll surely be in charge of the design and implementation of the Leon-approved Government 2.0 systems, work that only they, the best of the best, could possibly do! Incel no more!

The new IT stuff, assuming it’s ever implemented, will all collapse. I can’t wait for MAGA/Leon to kick them to the curb once he’s done using them for wrecking and intimidation and they get to go back to unemployment and incel-hood.

Republican Congressman from E. WA state. Yes, a corrupt American, one of the majority in the corrupt Congress. https://baumgartner.house.gov/about

Both Musk and Trump have claimed that some workers are either dead or fictional, and the president has publicly backed Musk’s approach.

Addressing people who didn’t respond to the first email, Trump said “they are on the bubble,” and he added that he wasn’t “thrilled” about them not responding.

Malicious Compliance time. Give Trump something that will “thrill” him.

“Congressman Michael Baumgartner is currently serving his first term in the U.S. House of Representatives where he represents the people of Washington State’s 5th Congressional District.” https://baumgartner.house.gov/about

He’s a MAGA bootlicker and is unfit for office. What an embarrassment to our nation he is.

Donated. I hope she enjoys the lawsuit settlement $ and has many more years of being a “rabble-rouser” and causing “ruckuses”.

It’s a good thing that N. ID cities and towns are so flush with cash these days. Umm, wait, well https://cdapress.com/news/2024/feb/06/cda-school-leaders-trustees-money-saving-measures/

Really? Source? And I was imagining a glorious cascade of creative malicious compliance landing right in old man Leon’s rickety lap.

AGGRESSIVELY, the way she likes it.