I think if the English language survives another five hundred years, P.G. Wodehouse might still never be topped.

Here's the dedication page for his short story collection The Heart of a Goof, published in 1926.

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"MAGA Scrubs Evidence Of Their Own Treason" should be the only headline anyone sees for months. This should be the ONLY news story. Instead it's barely getting a blip of coverage on NPR.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/11/nx-s1-5293447/jan-6-evidence-captiol-riot-donald-trump

Just, wow.

@mmasnick has an important piece about the Trump administration's threat to pull funding from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) unless they remove all references to LGBTQ+ issues and start "deadnaming" trans kids.

"After years of screaming “save the children” while baselessly accusing others of exploiting kids, the Trump administration is now trying to destroy the actual infrastructure that saves children. This one crosses from standard MAGA hypocrisy into genuinely evil territory.

I’m one of those people who doesn’t think you can (or should) call most people inherently “bad,” but if you support what the Trump administration is doing here, you are a bad person.

According to multiple reports, including former NCMEC board member Don McGowan and independent journalist Maria Kabas (who has been breaking story after story lately), the Justice Department informed the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that it will pull their entire funding if it doesn’t remove all references to LGBTQ+ issues and starts “deadnaming” trans kids. According to the Verge, NCMEC has already started complying and has removed at least three documents..."

This fits every single example of illegal stuff this administration has done so far: Accuse others of what you intend to do all along.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/07/magas-sickening-hypocrisy-from-save-the-children-to-defund-the-org-that-actually-saves-children/

BREAKING: Elon Musk is reportedly furious people keep calling Tesla vehicles “swasticars.”

So don't do that.

#swasticars

What could contribute more to government efficiency than securing lucrative contracts for your crypto donors to implement inefficient technology that is uniquely suited to solving problems you don’t have?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-25/musk-exploring-blockchain-use-in-us-government-efficiency-effort

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