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“As the House and Senate work to land on a concurrent budget resolution, Congress may consider trying to measure their reconciliation bills relative to a ‘current policy baseline’ in order to mask the debt impact of deficit-financed tax cuts. Assuming this is allowed under budget rules, this would represent a massive budget gimmick that would justify and allow trillions of dollars of new borrowing. A current policy baseline assumes that all policies in place in the current year will continue regardless of scheduled expirations or phase-outs. Advocates argue that a current policy baseline better reflects reality, enables permanent policy that would maximize growth, doesn’t impede Congress’s ability to cut spending, and would remove a bias in favor of spending cuts. These claims are highly problematic,” say the Committee for a Responsible Budget eggheads in a release.

“We should be using ‘current policy.’ We need to avoid a massive, automatic tax increase,” Senator Ron “RonAnon” Johnson told NBC. “That seems like a perfectly rational thing to do, and there shouldn’t be a score.” Johnson supposedly used to be an accountant before leeching taxpayers.

A series of online correspondences in the immediate aftermath of the “release” of the Epstein Files paints a chilling picture of the complicity of the right wing influencers engaged in a cover-up of the disappointing perpetuation of the cover-up of the Epstein Files by the Trump Administration.

A Russian tourist was disarmed and neutralized by a local resident during a violent altercation that occurred Thursday near a scuba diving resort in the Batangas region of the Philippines, PNA reports.

The incident began when two tourists Ilya Perigudin, 29, and Maksim Melekhov, 39, hailing from dictator Vladimir Putin’s failed state were on an excursion off the De Luna Diving Center in Barangay Aninuan, Puerto Galera, and both were suddenly swept away by underwater currents.

Philippines Coast Guard personnel were dispatched and, after a brief search, recovered Peridudin’s body, minus two arms. Officials quickly surmised that he had been disarmed by a local shark, “as multiple sharks were observed in the vicinity during the recovery.” Melekhov meanwhile was found by divers on an excursion from another resort. He was transported to a nearby hospital where he was declared dead on arrival due to apparent drowning. Philippines Coast Guard officials called on divers and dive operators to conduct themselves “heightened vigilance and adhere to strict safety protocols,” particularly in areas with strong currents and hungry local marine wildlife.

Justice Department: “A resident of Glenwillard, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, Acting United States Attorney Troy Rivetti announced today. The one-count Indictment named Aidan Harding, 20, as the sole defendant. According to the Indictment and other information presented to the Court, on or about December 11, 2024, Harding possessed material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, including videos containing the sexual abuse of prepubescent minors.”

“On January 27, 2025, Harding was charged by criminal complaint and, at a February 12, 2025, detention hearing, ordered to be held without bond pending trial after the United States introduced evidence that Harding committed the charged offense and possessed additional materials depicting violent sexual assaults. In addition, in support of its contention that Harding presented an unacceptable danger to the community, the United States presented testimony and documentary evidence that Harding adhered to a racially-motivated violent extremist ideology, possessed more than 20 firearms, had targeted Pittsburgh’s Jewish community with antisemitic fliers, and made statements online about his interest in ‘political and revenge driven’ mass casualty events, including references to the shooter who murdered 11 congregants at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.”

“The evidence also established that Harding, who had been previously adjudicated delinquent for terroristic threats after discussing online his desire to commit a ‘high kill count’ attack, possessed videos of mass shootings from the United States and other countries, and had filmed himself re-enacting the Columbine mass shooting at a memorial honoring the victims of that attack.”

“As usual, Sleepy Joe Biden left us a total MESS. The Budget from last YEAR is still not done. We are working very hard with the House and Senate to pass a clean, temporary government funding Bill (‘CR’) to the end of September. Let’s get it done!” posted convicted felon President Trump late Thursday, even though this was supposed to be fixed already after he took office.

Son of Texas rancher sounds alarm after father killed by cartel-linked explosive device near border https://t.co/jY3r4qzcrt

— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 28, 2025

“We will never know all the details, especially the important ones. Some very rich and powerful people will be protected. That’s my take” – The top comment on the New York Post story “FBI withheld ‘thousands of pages’ of Jeffrey Epstein docs, Pam Bondi says — and she’s demanding they be turned over,” posted Thursday evening, written as if that wasn’t the whole fucking point and what Trump was supposed to finally fix for them by getting elected again. Jesus Christ, lol.

There’s only so many times one should write “lol” in an article. It really should be zero, honestly, but this is just what the fuck, lol. Thursday was supposed to be ragnarok for them and THIS is how they react, like “Aw shucks. Oh well. Guess they’re just too damn wealthy and powerful to take down.”

Ughhhhhh, man… Not going to do a compilation but worth pasting in here is this: “Bondi and Patel need to go to the New York office with a detachment of US Marshalls and arrest the FBI agents then prosecute them,” the top comment on Breitbart’s article “AG Bondi Tells FBI Director Patel that Rogue New York FBI Office is Withholding Epstein Files,” because those fuckers are still being strung along and as soon as they clean house THAT’S WHEN the REAL Epstein files will be released.

A Baby Luigi is on the loose in Oregon after firing several rounds into the home of SAIF CEO Chip Terhune’s home in Lake Oswego early last Friday morning, injuring zero in the attack, KATU reports.

The problem is that this fucking idiot could’ve done a little more research before the attack as SAIF is a state-owned non-profit corporation that pays out worker’s comp insurance claims to people injured on the job. Hard to imagine they’ve fucked over even a tiny fraction of the numbers of claimants that United, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, and the rest of their ilk have over the years.

A new CBS News/YouGov national survey finds 62 percent of respondents saying prices are still going up to 33 percent staying the same and 5 percent think they’re going down, all of this in spite of convicted felon President Trump’s “day one” promise to bring them down.

Naturally there was a partisan split: Independents were pretty close to the overall mark at 65 percent prices going up, 29 percent same, and 5 percent down. Just 41 percent of Republicans said prices are up, 53 percent the same, while 6 percent said going down, lol. Among Dem respondents it was 79 percent seeing them go up, 18 percent the same, and 3 percent thinking they’re down.

FBI Director Kash Patel on Wednesday informed the 55 leaders of the bureau’s field offices that he’s looking to partner the agency with Ultimate Fighting Championship by helping agents improve their physical fitness, ABC News reports in the precursor to future articles about an explosion of anabolic steroid abuse and stupid tribal tattoos among federal law enforcement.

A $50 million grant announced in December to restore natural habitats and improve water intake to the Great Salt Lake in Utah has been put in purgatory by the Trump Regime, the Utah News Dispatch reports on more people getting what they voted for instead of what they wanted.

You can read a whole shit ton of heavily redacted documents at the FBI’s new Jeffrey Epstein files “vault” here, but for example, Part 8 in literally 14 fucking blank pages. That’s so freaking MAGA.

Can’t wait for the UFO files to come out too. “LIGHT FROM VENUS REFLECTING OFF SWAMP GAS CAUSED THE RADIOACTIVE SCORCH MARKS IN [REDACTED]’S YARD. INVESTIGATION CLOSED.”

The fat fuck already walked back calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a “dictator,” asking “did I say that?” in response to a reporter’s question. So it’s going great.

An unnamed German man was arrested in the Czech Republic this week on warrant dating to 1984 for the crime of escaping the country into West Germany during the Cold War, DPA reports.

“We proceeded in accordance with the law,” cops said after the arrest, given that the man, a vacationer detained while eating breakfast at a hotel with his family in the Giant Mountains region of the northern part of the country. Turns out that, despite the Eastern Bloc having transitioned to capitalist democracies in 1989, some people wanted for criminal offenses are still on lists that aren’t always scrutinized properly for the actual offenses themselves. As far as the public information goes, the man was deemed inadmissible into the Czech Republic simply escaped from a “socialist camp” and made his way to the border. A lawyer told DPA that some of the “offenders” might have committed theft or fraud to make good on their escape, but it’s not clear if the man was wanted for anything other than his exit. Cops said it’s up to a judge to make a determination on the case.

It’s almost official: Tennessee MAGA Congressman John Rose, who almost certainly started boning his now-wife Chelsea in 2007 when he was 42 and she was a 17 year-old high school student in the Future Farmers of America program, is launching his gubernatorial bid very soon, WKRN reports.

Rose, a successful software entrepreneur, was in 2007 the vice chairman of the state chapter of FFA and thus in an educator/coach-adjacent position over Chelsea when he started fertilizing her. The Republican Acting Attorney General of Alaska resigned in 2021 over after being implicated in a 1989 statutory rape, with Sniffen a 27 year-old coach of a mock trial team and his victim a 17 year-old student. The student-coach relationship made it felony under Alaska law, but Sniffen couldn’t be charged due to some very complex and loophole-y changes to the statute of limitations.

But guess what? Tennessee has a very similar statute: Tennessee Code § 39-13-53 specifying that if “The defendant was, at the time of the offense, in a position of trust, or had supervisory or disciplinary power over the victim by virtue of the defendant’s legal, professional, or occupational status and used the position of trust or power to accomplish the sexual penetration,” and the statute of limitations would not expire until 2032. Not like that’s going to happen, but it’s good oppo.

Responding to a question from a reporter about credibly-accused sex traffickers Andrew and Trsitan Tate headed to his state, heels-wearing Florida Gov Ron DeSantis on Thursday said the incel community idols are “not welcome” in his swampy, reptile-infested kingdom Donald Trump, Matt Gaetz, and Jeffrey Epstein have called home, Tiny D’s state media site Florida’s Voice reports.

“No – Florida is not a place where you’re welcome with that type of conduct,” DeSantis said, lol, adding that Attorney General James Uthmeier is looking into “state hooks and jurisdiction we may have to deal with this… “I have confidence, whether it’s [US Attorney General] Pam Bondi or [DHS Secretary] Kristi Noem – that they will be looking into that,” even though it’s very likely the Trump Regime had directly pressured Romanian officials to let the two off the hook.

“Ron DeSantis should step down as Florida’s governor if he has a problem with welcoming or protecting American Citizens,” said Tate brothers attorney Joseph D McBride in response to the comments. A plane carrying the Tate Brothers landed in Fort Lauderdale just minutes ago.

The New York Times is pure propaganda.

And a bunch of a$$holes. https://t.co/MCYnjaRrcG

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 27, 2025

Maybe could’ve fit in something about Ketamine Brain being the parent to a trans daughter but that might’ve been overdoing it on the wordplay. Including that he tweeted “All aspects of the government must be fully transparent and accountable to the people. No exceptions” and “I’m arguably too transparent!!” this month is enough uses of the word for an opaque man.

Republican former Tennessee state House Speaker Glen Casada and top aide Cade Cothren – facing trial on a 2022 indictment on charges of conspiracy to commit theft from programs receiving federal funds, bribery and kickbacks concerning programs receiving federal funds, honest services wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering – are asking a federal judge to compel prosecutors to reveal the identities of their confidential sources in the state House, stating in filings that they suspect it’s an aide to Casada’s successor, current House Speaker Cameron Sexton, or even Sexton himself, who ratted him out to Los Federales, the Tennesseean reports.

Casada resigned from the speakership in 2019 after a special prosecutor found that Cothren had attempted to frame then activist but now-state Representative Justin Jones – nationally famous for his 2023 expulsion by Sexton’s caucus – for assaulting Casada in the state capitol… And holy fuck this is a rabbit hole with Cothren using the n-word in a text and a whole bunch of other shit.

It wasn’t until after his 2022 arrest that Casada had left the state House, but anyway, with the kickback scandal, Casada and Cothren’s lawyers on Tuesday wrote in a motion that “Despite the apparent wealth of personal knowledge held by (confidential informant 1) and their material role in the government’s investigation, the government maintains it does not intend to call this witness at trial. Regardless, the government should be compelled to disclose this informant’s identity so Defendants can properly analyze the nature and extent of this person’s ‘knowledge,’ their potential biases and motivation for cooperating with the government, and the need for their testimony, if any, during the defense’s case-in-chief at trial,” which in plainer English means they want to make it all sound “politically motivated” because it was Buttsexton who took the gavel in the leadership election after Casada threw in the towel, thus he had something to gain, blah blah blah.

The usual song-and-dance from MAGA cocksuckers who would have you believe that two things cannot be true at the same time when it comes to one’s political fortunes and their criminal behavior.

“In the week ending February 22, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 242,000, an increase of 22,000 from the previous week’s revised level. The previous week’s level was revised up by 1,000 from 219,000 to 220,000. The 4-week moving average was 224,000, an increase of 8,500 from the previous week’s revised average. The previous week’s average was revised up by 250 from 215,250 to 215,500. The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate was 1.2 percent for the week ending February 15, unchanged from the previous week’s unrevised rate,” says the weekly jobless claims report from the US Department of Labor.

Dow Jones had estimated 225,000 claims, per NBC News. Big numbers! Yuge!