Staffer with Elon Musk’s DOGE amplified white supremacists online – https://www.reuters.com/world/us/staffer-with-elon-musks-doge-amplified-white-supremacists-online-2025-02-07/
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Month: February 2025
Federal judge blocks Elon Musk’s DOGE from accessing sensitive US Treasury Department material
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-doge-lawsuit-attorneys-general-5733f8985e4cf7ad5b233fddefef4d01
Federal judge blocks Elon Musk’s DOGE from accessing sensitive US Treasury Department material
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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Trump to appoint himself Kennedy Center chair, citing disapproval of drag shows
Trump to appoint himself Kennedy Center chair, citing disapproval of drag shows
At NIH, funding cuts were announced to medical centers and universities that do cutting-edge research
Read in The Wall Street Journal: https://apple.news/A7DI_rcqCQpaJEIv9szZcOA
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For those that are having trouble with the link which I just did, I edited this post to add these three links and I just posted a post linked to the NIH funding cut. Each story has some information that the others don’t, that is why I am posting all three. Hugs
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/politics/trump-kennedy-center-board/index.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/07/trump-kennedy-center-chair/78346730007/
Late-breaking Poetry
The “Shining Robe”
Peace & Justice History for 2/8
| February 8, 1962 More than 20,000 attended a demonstration in Paris against the Secret Army Organization (Organisation de l’Armée Secrète or OAS), a group of European-Algerians which used terrorist methods to keep Algeria a French colony. They set off bombs in Metropolitan France and made multiple attempts on President Charles DeGaulle’s life. DeGaulle had chosen a referendum among Algerians to decide their independence; Europeans were outnumbered 9:1 by the native population of Sunni Muslim Arabs and Berbers. The demonstration was held in violation of a declared state of emergency (because of OAS actions) and, in the subsequent rioting, at least eight people were killed and 240 injured (half of them police officers).  The terrorist crimes of the OAS |
| February 8, 1968 The Orangeburg Masssacre  Three black students were killed and 50 wounded in a confrontation with highway patrolmen at a South Carolina State rally supporting arrested civil rights protesters. Orangeburg’s only bowling alley, the All Star, was still segregated years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 had outlawed discrimination based on race in such public accommodations. On the previous two days, college students had entered the bowling alley, refusing to leave after they were not allowed to bowl. Fifteen of the second group were arrested. The Orangeburg Massacre (2 links) |
| February 8, 1980 President Jimmy Carter unveiled a plan to re-introduce draft registration. |
https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryfebruary.htm#february8
I Had No Idea Trae Bakes!
Fancy Fixin’s – Hillbilly Comedian Trae Crowder Makes Opera Cake
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Warner Bros. Lets You Watch 31 Films Free Online: David Byrne’s True Stories, Christopher Guest’s Waiting for Guffman, Michel Gondry’s The Science of Sleep & More
in Film | February 7th, 2025
It’s Friday, which means that tonight, many of us will sit down to watch a movie with our family, our friends, our significant other, or — for some cinephiles, best of all — by ourselves. If you haven’t yet lined up any home-cinematic experience in particular, consider taking a look at this playlist of 31 feature films just made available to stream by Warner Bros. You’ll know the name of that august Hollywood studio, of course, but did you know that it put out True Stories, the musical plunge into tabloid America directed by Talking Heads’ David Byrne? Or Waiting for Guffman, the first improvised movie by Christopher Guest and his troupe of crack comedic players like Eugene Levy, Fred Willard, Catherine O’Hara, and Parker Posey? (Snip-MORE info/programs on the page!)
Timely Toon + Help a Person Out (OT Post)
Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 07, 2025
So, we’ve always had nicknames for our doggies. We’ve had: Sparkinator, Chrissinator, Corkinator; Sparky-Larky, Missy Chrissy, Corky-Lorky; also Sparkasaur, and Corkisaur (Missy Chrissy was too good to be a dinosaur.) (Also, they each knew all their names.) Now there is Ollie, and while I tend to let Ollinator slip out now and then, I don’t think I care for it, somehow. DH always used the “saur” suffix, while I did the “-nator” one. I think I like Ollisaur, and am working on using it, but how about some feedback from the crew here at Playtime? Any other Ollie-name suggestion will be considered, as well. Thanks for whatever you can do! 🐕🦺 🌞
USA TODAY: Senate confirms Project 2025 co-author Vought for Office of Management and Budget
Senate confirms Project 2025 co-author Vought for Office of Management and Budget
Russell Vought, 48, the architect of Project 2025, will lead the Office of Management and Budget, where he will oversee the president’s budget.
Read in USA TODAY: https://apple.news/AoJaZ2FK9TuW2NNTvxEFjWw
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