5 YEARS (each) before Kindergarten. Then, "paid care" for before school a.m., after school p.m., every summer, and don't forget every odd "holiday" and "break" that most people don't get off work... (And that all assumes you have a satisfactory free public education available.)

I look forward to hiring a Chief AI Officer whose job will be to just tell anyone who suggests using AI for anything to shut the fuck up.

On that note, I urge anyone trying to get pregnant to get tested for clotting disorders, even if you have to pay out of pocket, and especially if you are over 35. Something like 20% of people have clotting disorders, and most don’t know it until something bad happens. Don’t wait for that.

In 1945, the US Army put out a training manual intended to help rank and file soldiers spot incipient fascism in the US. One of the telltale signs that one was dealing with a fascist was that they called everyone to their left "a communist." bsky.app/profile/seth...

AND YET BOP has such an excess (?) of staff that there have been plenty of plainly marked BOP goons "guarding" the ICE facility in Portland this year. Huh.

Torres said Geo Group was a major political contributor for Donald Trump; this is corrobrated by records with Open Secrets, which lists 7, 6 & 5-figure donations from Geo Group-affiliatied individuals & PACs to recipients like Make America Great Again Inc., GOPAC and Trump himself in the 2024 cycle.

All of a sudden there's a big problem with undocumented immigrants in southern states now that *checks Weather Channel* it's cold up north.

It's like snowbirds for Satan.

Signal is fine, use it. Just not for security conversations, anything that if repeated in court convicts you of (anything serious) is a thing NOT to put on Signal. Signal is for setting up WHEN a meet will happen or WHERE and not both. Have a set time and only discuss PLACE or vice versa.

You all know I've been after the Treasury Department's own Epstein file. It's a set of thousands of detailed bank records, a map of Epstein's financial network. Secretary Bessent is blocking its release – and he denies it's even something Treasury should be investigating.

Top JPMC execs were in constant contact with Epstein and were aware of his shady financials. Top staff at JPMC, reporting directly to CEO Jamie Dimon, closely supervised Epstein’s accounts. One even coached Epstein on how to sanitize his suspiciously large cash withdrawals.