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OPM closed on Monday

School cancelled already for tomorrow. I would check this if you want to know if your government agency is open for business. Although i suspect they won't announce until late. https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/snow-dismissal-procedures/current-status/

DC's infrastructure is actually pretty good. All the roads are "brined" right now. The issue is really that when we get snow events they are the slobbernocker nor'easters that cycle a lot of moisture in from the ocean or this weird storm that appears to unusually wet for coming across from the West. Winter is like a month here though. We will be outdoors practicing softball by mid Feb.

The real challenge to Democracy will be if the auditors and IGs are infected by MAGAs. Every fact will have to be a MAGA-approved fact then. 2+2 will be whatever Big Brother says.

Not as bad but...school definitely canceled with that amount in Virginia. My son says at MSU the school admins would laugh at you if you suggested you couldn't make it to class in 4" of snow.

This is real? I didn't see this because of the peyote salsa?

Speaking of lunatics: which got more press? Matthew Livelsberger political views Connor Stalions Michigan Manifesto

I was suspicious of VDOT when it didn't mention toilet paper: a real luxury during the crazed times of a powerful nor'easter.

Basically, as you drive the highways the last two days the road signs were telling you to: stock up on ammunition, hydro and gold and to cannibalize your neighbors and to speculate on baby formula so as to achieve dominance over the weak.

No they aren't. DC is going to be very snowy on Monday. 8" is our low prediction here.

Twitter needs to have its back broken.

I'm really not sure how to receive this information. I know all these people exist. I know the movements have been around since forever but always on the fringe. The legend or trope goes that the FBI informant in any local KKK group is the only guy in the local KKK group with any money or motivation to do anything really dangerous. I grew up reading "Soldier of Fortune" or whatever other survival magazines which always had the types of people in them who buy the products and espouse that lifestyle. Who else needs survival rations but people who think the end times are nigh? I wish the actual impact of Trump leading the J6 insurrection was actual condign punishment for him and his clique but it never really happened like it needed to.

The Alex Edelman standup show about his attending the white power meeting in Brooklyn is very amusing as well as informative. Alex' father apparently knows Conan O'brien's father up in Boston area where both are renowned medical researchers I gather.

Cleanup is the Jan6 thread so its here. I mean, plenty of other scope for needing to cleanup the lunatic fringe in this country but that was the event that kicked this thread off.

I'm not sure why veterans wouldn't want an agency doing specialized research on veteran's specific health issues. The Las Vegas MAGA who killed himself in that godawful vehicle was suffering from PTSD and other mental health issues -- besides these post-incident reports of that mental illness -- were clearly demonstrated his committing suicide in the worst vehicle by cost thus far in the history of mankind. The poor fellow was also deluded to think MAGA was going to somehow help Ukraine. My father relies on the VA for most of his healthcare and seems to think the hospitals in western Michigan are responsive to his needs.

So, basically every retiree who doesn't like living in the crazed hellscape that is Florida moves back somewhere in between Michigan and Florida to live in a semi-crazed hellscape like western North Carolina. The ones with some gumption about having investments keep their Florida property as VRBOs. Others they just sell to holding companies that VRBO the crap out of them. Lots of places to rent in central Florida given Disney/Universal et.al.,

The amount of VRBO options is large.

From your keyboard to Jason Benetti's voice!

Excellent. At least it's on record.

The tone and atmosphere at this will be interesting as Trump is no fan of Ukraine or NATO, Putin is close to getting the German and French governments to be more friendly to him. But, the North Korean spigot of ammo and humans is starting to dry up. https://bsky.app/profile/kyivindependent.com/post/3letdwpkurk2c The Kyiv Independent ‪@kyivindependent.com‬ ⚡️Next Ramstein summit to be held on Jan. 9, media reports. The meeting will be the first since October 2024, when a leader-level summit in Germany was postponed after U.S. President Joe Biden canceled his foreign trips to handle Hurricane Milton.

Vierling but he's got to get ABs too. Its a good problem to have if we aren't restricted to giving ABs to former #1 draft picks who can't generate competent ABs. I wonder if Torkelson is gonna end up in Arizona as part of a trade for a starter.

No arguments with likelihood you assigned but I would want to see Perez in the OF more. Parker Meadows unfortunately will likely injure himself with his gangbusters style of play a couple times so it will be moot.

He's not a woman in the 3rd month of pregnancy who is threatening to travel to a free state to get an abortion?

I am a little sleepy this morning but I almost checked to see if there were rumors that Carter had been killed by wolves. Especially difficult if he is in hospice because that would mean the wolves had gotten inside the building.

Someone should tell the young man that there is no shame to being a slot receiver in the NFL or an H-back for pay. He's heading down a road that will lead him to poverty if he keeps thinking he can be an NFL QB.