As a former chair of a congressional investigative subcommittee, I witnessed and uncovered significant waste, fraud and abuse inside the government and in private sector contractual relations with the United States. But, through 16 years in Congress, I also witnessed countless federal workers who love this country, have dedicated their lives and worked long and hard to be of service to the people of the United States. They honorably did their duty and delivered when people needed help.

My excellent Congressional staff handled at least 11,000 requests for service, yearly. Our office was engaged with federal workers in dozens of agencies on an hour-by-hour basis to make government work for the people.

Over a period of sixteen years, diligent federal workers have intervened in all these cases and as a result changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of my constituents for the better.

Tuesday, I walked into Cafe Bourbon Street. I asked the doorman about the new Cheater Slicks single. The doorman said ”We’re finishing the artwork.” The Doorman plays in Cheater Slicks.

Tuesday at Cafe Bourbon Street, people were excited. Dehd’s Jason Bella’s Accessory were playing. Dehd is from Chicago and releases music from Fat Possum. Dehd is a known band in music. Dehd has released several albums.

Bourbon Street was filled with regulars and Dehd Heads. I don’t think Dehd fans are called Dehd Heads.

Dehd is band which sequences indie pop vocals with loud noise rock elements.

Accessory is a band with various members from the Chicago music scene – Jason Bella from Dehd with members of Meat Wave, Deeper and Ulna.

Accessory took the stage and started playing. I found out that Accessory February 4th, 2025 sounded like the Velvet Underground envisioned as a 70’s psych rock band. Or a 70’s hard rock band workshopping after hearing the Velvet Underground.

Saturday, February 8, 2025, 12:00 PM
Ohio Statehouse, 1 Capitol Square, Columbus

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The fight back continues! As we enter Black history month we honor the legacy of struggle. We are mobilizing to defend immigrant families, and we must defend the gains of the civil rights revolution which united struggles across our class! 

Join PSL as we continue building an independent movement against Trump and the billionaire agenda! We have the power to fight for a better world, but we have to be organized to take it!  Party for Socialism and Liberation.  

Donald Trump & Elon Musk (he/himmler) have built their political power base on a retro white male “Christian” constituency that lives in total terror of strong women & people of color.

 

Here's the appropriate historic root “Southern Strategy” quote from Lee Atwater, George H.W. Bush’s very own Josef Goebbels, with [DEI] subbed in where it belongs:

 

"You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” 

"By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. 

"So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, [DEI] and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. 

"Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes [and DEI], and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks [and women] get hurt worse than whites [and men].… 

“We want to cut this [DEI] ,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”

BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thaksin Shinawatra enters 2025 as purportedly the most powerful politician in Thailand, the billionaire who could not be stopped even after two coups and juntas, 15 years in self-exile, and a stack of prison sentences against him.

Mr. Thaksin is now so larger-than-life that many allege he manipulates Thailand's government through his seemingly timid daughter Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, 38, who was elected by Parliament in August and appears to eagerly agree with his advice.

Mr. Thaksin, a two-time ex-prime minister who currently holds no political office, is this year's man to watch. 

Unfortunately, he began 2025 grappling with allegations that he voiced racist views.

"African people, who have black skin and flat noses that make it difficult to breathe, are hired for millions of baht [Thai currency] to be models," Mr. Thaksin said during a campaign rally in Chiang Rai city on January 6.

"Thai people look much better," Mr. Thaksin, 75, said. "There is no need for [our people to get] nose, jaw, or breast augmentation.