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. 
“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
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.
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/
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?
"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.
Let’s GOOOO Rob Bonta!
“Newsom and Bonta argued that tariffs are the responsibility of Congress and not the president and they allege Trump invented "bogus" national emergencies to claim jurisdiction. They said they're asking the court to "rein in the president."”
#kakistocracy #trumpTariffs #california
“California becomes the first state to sue Trump over tariffs”
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/california-state-sue-trump-tariffs/story?id=120872312
Hong Kong Post will suspend goods mail service to the US on April 27 in retaliation to the Trump tariffs. This is HUGE. A lot of local businesses, especially small businesses, depend on postal shipments from Hong Kong.
I think other means of transporting goods from Hong Kong will still operate, but this is a big one.
#kakistocracy #tariffs #trumpTariffs
https://www.reuters.com/world/hong-kong-post-suspend-postal-service-us-2025-04-16/
"The investigation remains ongoing," the official said without providing details about the nature of the alleged disclosure, including whether it was made to a journalist or to someone else.
[typical, punish the guy who let the press in on it, but not the freaking president’s CABINET MEMBERS who were actively divulging classified #military operations on a commercial app on their private devices!]
Exclusive: Top #Hegseth adviser #DanCaldwell put on leave in #Pentagon leak probe
One of #US #Defense Secy #PeteHegseth's leading advisers, Dan Caldwell, was escorted from the Pentagon on Tues after being identified during an investigation into leaks at the #DOD…
Caldwell was placed on administrative leave for "an unauthorized disclosure," an official said.
[was he who added #JeffreyGoldberg?]
#law #Signalgate #NationalSecurity #military #Trump #idiocracy #kakistocracy
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/top-hegseth-advisor-dan-caldwell-put-leave-pentagon-leak-probe-2025-04-15/
#CIA Director’s Messages in Leaked Chat Were Deleted, Agency Says
A watchdog group has said the exchanges on the #Signal app were federal records, & sued in an effort to preserve them.
#law #Signalgate #NationalSecurity #military #OpSec #Trump #PeteHegseth #JohnRatcliffe #MikeWaltz #idiocracy #kakistocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/us/politics/cia-director-leaked-chat.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=0A4B2545-6FF5-4603-A15A-34FBBF3E1A73
“If there’s one thing the past week made painfully clear, it’s this, other countries still know how to govern.
“Our White House, on the other hand, is occupied by a #kakistocracy, a government by the worst, least qualified, and most corrupt.
“A kind of reality show LARP where yelling “be cool” on Truth Social is treated as fiscal policy.
1/n
"The self-inflicted uncertainty from the #China #tariffs has turned the corporate capital expenditures world upside down, created mass #uncertainty not seen since Covid, created a price shock that will impact the daily lives of US #consumers with no end in sight, & unfortunately ripped the hearts & lungs out of the US #BigTech #SupplyChain in the process with no minimal to no alternatives," Ives wrote.
#Consumers will feel effects of #tariffs soon
Dan Ives, an analyst w/Wedbush Securities financial group, warned in an industry note that the "economic tariff Armageddon unleashed by #Trump" has been hanging over #WallStreet like a dark cloud for weeks, but now, consumers are going to feel it too.
#economy #inflation #recession #trumpcession #idiocracy #kakistocracy
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-tariffs-live-updates-china-raises-retaliatory-levies-125-dollar-rcna200775/rcrd76872?canonicalCard=true
