Thursday Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Department of Education (DOE) had a reduction in force (RIF) which reportedly saw the Department reduced from 4,133 employees to 2,183. This supposedly is the first step in transferring all educational responsibilities back to the states and ending the DOE... Were the Biden pardons done with an autopen and without the president's knowledge? Just when you think there can't be a bigger scandal possible news like this pops up... For the record I'm fine with the administration going through the Epstein files with a fine tooth comb to make sure that all the guilty are brought to justice and that the innocents do not suffer needlessly from a rushed release. I do have to ask why this wasn't done before by the previous administration. What were they hiding?... It is kind of funny that Tesla was excluded from the EV Summit at the White House under the Biden Administration and now Tesla gets to turn the White House lawn into a defacto show room for the new President... Is it any surprise that the estimated employment numbers from the Biden administration are now being reduced when the actual numbers are released?... In the DOE employee RIF reportedly there was 1,300 employees whose jobs were said to be redundant and just under 600 who took early retirement or a separation agreement... So AOC has been hit with an ethics complaint for allegedly misspending campaign funds and numerous other elected officials are also staring down the gun of complaints of their own. I wonder if this will cause them to dig in further in the hopes of being a compliant party member will somehow protect them from justice?... Life advice from Naval Ravikant… There's a lot being written and talk about the stock market and if tariffs are good or bad but I suggest just paying attention to the items you regularly spend money on like eggs, gas, mortgage prices, and things like that. If those prices are going down then the average family will have more money to spend and the economy will improve. There's no need to make it more complicated than it really is... Admit that I was surprised that a Tesla Supercharger station was fire-bombed in Littleton. Surprised it was Littleton, Colorado not Littleton, Mass. These people are unhinged... When looking at stock prices - you’d expect to find the 5 Guys stock to be up since they got a huge PR boost from announcing they were replacing seed oils with beef tallow in making their fries. They even had RFK Jr. come to one of their locations for a meal. 5 Guys is a privately owned company though with the Murrell family, who founded the chain, owning roughly 75% of the company. So there’s no stock price to report…

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