Geri e-mailed to recommend this recipe from Feel Good Foodie for tuna melt sandwiches:
Ingredients
- 2 (5-ounce) cans white albacore tuna in water drained
- 2 celery stalks minced, about ¼ cup
- 1 small shallot minced
- ⅓ cup Greek yogurt full fat
- 1 lemon zested
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- 1 tablespoon parsley chopped
For the Sandwiches:
- 8 slices multigrain bread or sandwich bread of choice
- 8 slices cheddar cheese
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter divided
Instructions
- In a medium bowl, combine all of the tuna salad ingredients. Use a fork to flake the tuna, then stir until everything is well combined.
- Assemble the tuna melts by setting all of the bread on a work surface. Top each slice of bread with a slice of cheese. To four slices of bread, add about ½ cup of prepared tuna salad, smoothing it into an even layer. Top the tuna with remaining bread and cheese.
- In a large skillet, heat 1 tablespoon butter over medium-low heat. Once the butter is melted, add two sandwiches and cook for about 2 to 3 minutes per side, or until the bread is golden brown and the cheese has melted. To encourage melting, cover the sandwiches with a pot lid once you flip them over.
- Add remaining butter to the skillet and repeat the process with the remaining sandwiches.
Geri's husband is one of the federal workers that Donald Chump has elected to fire -- one of many federal workers. They're fortunate right now in that Geri's not a federal worker and has her job. But they're going to have to watch the budget and she's looking for anything with canned tuna that tastes worth eating. She knows how to make tuna fish sandwiches -- canned tuna with eggs and mayo -- but she's looking for other ways to use tuna in sandwiches and in meal ideas.
Things are going to get a lot worse for this country because Donald Chump doesn't love this country and his lover boy Alien Musk doesn't even know about this country. They're going to do their best to destroy it.
News? Vatican News reports:
The Holy Father's clinical condition is confirmed to be improving again today.
He alternated high-flow oxygen therapy with a Ventimask. Due to the complexity of the clinical picture, further days of clinical stability are needed to clarify the prognosis.
In the morning, the Holy Father underwent respiratory physiotherapy, alternating it with rest. In the afternoon, after an additional physiotherapy session, he spent time in prayer in the chapel of his private apartment on the 10th floor, where he received the Eucharist. He then engaged in work activities.
This statement, provided by the Holy See Press Office on Thursday evening, came as the Pope continues to be treated for bilateral pneumonia in Rome’s Gemelli Hospital. He was admitted on Friday, 14 February, following a bout of bronchitis.
I have been praying for him this week. I was very worried. I hope he is indeed on the mend and can feel the love that many of us (probably not just Catholics) have for him.
This is C.I.'s "The Snapshot" for Thursday:
Thursday, February 27, 2025. Tabitha reminds "We did not have to be here It did not have to be this way," MAGA creeps in Congress don't want truth to come out in hearings, Alien Musk continues to lie, and much more.
Lets start with TABITHASPEAKS.
There were two choices in the fall of 2024: Kamala Harris or Convicted Felon Donald Chump. There was no excuse then and there's no excuse now. DSA launched their plan to attack Kamala and depress turnout and they got away with it because they control so much of the media. If you're new to the topic, you can refer to these two pieces: "2024: The Year of Betrayal From Inside The Left." and "Media: How Amy Goodman harmed immigrants and helped elect Chump."
In 2028, if they try to start this same rat f**kery, we need to shut it down immediately. Dropping back to 2023, Alex Seitz-Wald (NBC NEWS) reported:
At the DSA’s national convention in Chicago earlier this month, questions about whether the group should form an independent political party and how vigorously it should discipline members in elective office were front-and-center, with strong opinions on both sides.
But a resolution for a full “clean break” with the Democratic Party fell short and a Rhode Island DSA member who ran for the national political committee on an anti-Democratic Party platform did not succeed.
Renée Paradis, a member of the party's National Political Committee said opinion inside the DSA ranges widely, including those who want the group to be more active inside the Democratic Party.
But the consensus coming out of the convention, she said, remains that DSA should keep running candidates in Democratic primaries while building its own outside campaign infrastructure.
They have to pose as Democrats to win. Socialism isn't going to carry them into office in most districts. So they have to lie. And they lie about who they are in their books they write about each other -- their bad books that are nothing but a circle jerk -- and they have this whole deception that they pull. If you're a Democrat and they start doing this in 2028, you need to be vocal and you need to call them out. You need to point out that they aren't Democrats.
One of the funniest things in watching 'brave' voices call out Ana of THE YOUNG TURKS is watching the people shy from noting that she was DSA.
That's typical DSA. I have friends in DSA but I am not DSA because that crap has always happened -- even with their predecessor. They're more radical than thou and they want to tear down the system and then they get frustrated and they do their move to the right.
As a DSA member, Ana got to host JACOBIN's podcast. Why are we saying, 'She went from left over to MAGA"? She went from Socialist over to MAGA.
They both want to tear down the system. It's not that big of a leap and far too many DSAers have made that leap over the years.
Kyle Kulinski is DSA. He and Cenk came up with Justice "Democrats" because they knew Justice Socialists wouldn't work.
Kyle seems like a caring person. He can sometimes make a highly astute call.
But we don't highlight him anymore.
If you're a Socialist trying to pass yourself off as a Democrat, after 2024, we can't afford you.
Silly and Billy -- as Cenk calls THE VANGUARD's Zac and Gavin -- look more and more hypocritical with each day. And more stupid.
What's the latest from the world of domestic Socialism? Ask Zac and Cody! Don't ask Zac and Gavin because they're incapable of honesty.
Doubt it?
"Bernie's back!"
From where?
He's yacking again. He's good with words from time to time, he just can't deliver. The kids don't grasp that. They don't realize that he was called out for his fake assery for years and years but his excuse was "I can't do this or that because I'm in the House and have to run every two years for re-election." And a number of us bought that excuse -- I donated to his first Senate run. He never did anything. In the Senate now for decades and he has nothing to show for it.
But Zac and Gavin are on board! They are going to vote for him in 2028 for president!!!!!
Do they realize that this is why they look like freaks to the rest of us?
In 2028, Bernie will be 87 years old.
It's a four year term.
87 years old. Older than Joe Biden was when he was president, older than Donald Chump will be when he finishes his four year term.
87 years old.
They are whining constantly like two little bitches about this age or that age. Gerry Connolly shouldn't have been picked to chair that committee, it should have been AOC. I argued that here.
I remember THE VANGUARD making an argument on that as well: Gerry was too old.
Gerry is 74 years old. They said he was too old. But now they're wasting our time on Bernie needs to run in 2028 for president --- when he will be 87?
I can disagree with you and still have some respect for your opinion -- unless you're a hypocrite.
That's why we called out Jimmy Dore to begin with. And this is also true of Zac and Gavin.
They feel that a primary was stolen. 2016. Now they are too stupid and too ignorant to go into the 2008 primary and the world only began for them in 2016 as they nursed on Bernie's tits. But Bernie was done wrong and blah blah blah. Yet these same people were trashing the Green Party for not making Jesse Ventura their 2016 presidential nominee.
They insisted the DNC rigged 2016 (and they have a point) but then they want to argue that the Greens should have rigged the primary. Because that's what they're advocating for. Jesse wouldn't run for the nomination, other people were declared candidates for the nomination. But they're supposed to ignore that and give him the nomination?
Their hypocrisy is only surpassed by their sheer stupidity.
Last week or the week before, they were attacking Jon Stewart and I didn't pay attention, don't really care. I like Jon as a person, I've known him for years. I did not like what THE DAILY SHOW did in the lead up to the election -- which included "that's so gay" as a 'joke' and I thought we had all surpassed that nonsense by the '00s. They also did a number of 'jokes' that weren't funny and were just Jon both siding it. Because Jon wants to be seen as fair by both sides.
Guess what, Jon? MAGA isn't fair. They lie and they lie again. And if you're not being threatened by them, you're not telling the truth.
I like Jon, I've known him for years. But as the election approached and he pulled his usual nonsense, we backed away. I have no intention of ever highlighting THE DAILY SHOW here again. It does more harm than good.
A week or two ago, the YOUTUBERs were attacking Jon. Fine, I don't really care. Except . . .
When real issues could have been addressed we got the Zac and Codys doing their YOUTUBE segments about how we needed to run Jon Stewart for president.
I'm tired of the stupidity. I'm so tired of the stupidity.
I think Senator Patty Murry is one of our best US senators. I've thought that for some time. I had a heated argument with an editor as MS.MAGAZINE when they were intentionally overlooking her while covering other Dem 'sheroes.' Patty's a workhorse who will work on an issue and work on an issue and even if she hits a wall she'll continue working.
If she runs in 2029 (that would be her next election), I'm not going to be trying to turn out the vote. She's 74 right now. And I love Patty. I think she's done amazing work and think her work as Chair of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee was outstanding.
But I'm not Zac and Cody. "BERNIE! BERNIE! RUN BERNIE!"
Just grow the hell up. There's no way in the world that an 87 year old Bernie Sanders can walk -- he can't run -- for president.
While they're jerking off to their fantasies and wasting everyone's time, Senator Roger Wicker won't let Senator Elizabeth Warren finish a statement in a hearing. That 'mean' Elizabeth Warren wanted a corporation to explain how they ran a hospital into the ground. Wicker, of course, was present to protect the corporation and to punish the people. And then you had US House Rep James Comer refusing to let US House Rep Max Frost speak. What's going on?
MAGA is sinking as is their leader.
EJ Montini (ARIZONA REPUBLIC) reports:
Where is co-president Elon Musk and his snotnosed band of pubescent hackers when Donald Trump needs them?
You’d have thought that with all the whiz-bang computer skills Musk claims his nerd bros possess, they’d have been able to weasel their way into the data collection systems of some big-time pollsters and jack up the numbers for the co-commander in chief.
But I guess not.
Because it ain’t good news.
According to the most recent Gallup poll, Trump is the least popular president in more than 70 years.
Or, as the company put it on its website: “Trump’s job approval rating is 15 points below the historical average for all other elected presidents in mid-February since 1953.”
"I honestly have never in my life seen anything so outrageous as that," she began. "Now, I know there's a lot of things that are outrageous that impact American's lives every day so don't yell at me online. But this is really, really bad. "
"What they're saying is, if you criticize the president of the United States as an elected member of Congress, we will silence you," she continued. "I mean, that's a really good way to lose the midterms."
Addressing the video clip, she added, "I hope that that goes viral, because the truth is, the only thing we know about what Musk and Trump are doing in all these federal agencies is what he puts on his privately owned social media. He owns it privately, I mean, it is something that he bought for billions of dollars, and now he is lifting it up."
"The head of advertising for X has threatened advertisers," she reported, that revelations from a Wall Street Journal article. "If they don't start buying ads, there will be consequences."
"You've got Trump actually selling crypto and you've got Trump who actually is letting people, anybody, buy these, this crypto and enrich him without us knowing who is buying it — how many bad guys are?" she asked. "They are grifters and they are using their positions to make lots of money, and that's a fact. And any member of Congress ought to be able to say it and that just infuriates me at that sleazy Comer for saying that."
Senator Elizabeth Warren's office issued the following regarding yesterday's hearing:
Trump Nominee Seeks A Top Pentagon Leadership Role
Washington, D.C. – At a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) questioned Mr. Stephen A. Feinberg, President of Cerberus Capital Management and nominee for Deputy Secretary of Defense, about his troubled private equity history and his qualifications for the job of second-in-command at the Pentagon.
Senator Warren called out Mr. Feinberg’s involvement in Steward Health Care, a now-bankrupt hospital system, which once owned 31 hospitals nationwide. In Massachusetts specifically, Mr. Feinberg enriched himself and his investors at the expense of the hospitals, sucking out over $700 million while leaving the hospitals understaffed, underresourced, and severely indebted. In part due to his corporate extraction, the system went bankrupt and, two Massachusetts hospitals shut down for good, leaving Massachusetts communities without access to the care they need.
Mr. Feinberg claimed Steward hospitals were doing “well” at the time Cerberus sold the company. However, “[m]any Steward hospitals were financially struggling as Cerberus began to make its exit in 2020,” according to the Private Equity Stakeholder Project. More importantly, before he left, Mr. Feinberg sold the hospitals’ real estate, cashing out the profits but leaving the hospitals with massive liabilities in the form of years of increasing lease payments for the land they used - a key factor in the hospitals’ 2024 bankruptcy.
Mr. Feinberg claimed he “turned [Steward] around, fixed them, grew them, [and] had a tremendous amount of success.” However, he slashed a full medical center, a primary and specialty care unit, a surgery department, an urgent care department, and a VA Clinic at a Quincy Medical Center, leaving nothing but an emergency room. Additionally, just two years after Cerberus took over Steward, nurses in Massachusetts filed more than 1,000 “unsafe staffing” complaints, a significant increase from previous years.
Transcript: Hearing to Consider the Nomination of Mr. Stephen A. Feinberg to be Deputy Secretary of Defense
U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee
February 25, 2025
Senator Elizabeth Warren: So, Mr. Feinberg, you’ve been nominated to be Deputy Secretary of Defense, in charge of DOD’s $850 billion budget. Your main qualification is that you have built one of the world’s largest private equity companies. You’ve spent your entire career honing the private equity tools used to hollow out businesses, from department stores to veterinary practices. And, presumably, those are the skills that you would bring to the Department of Defense. So, I just want to look at how that’s worked.
Let’s start with how you treat people. In Massachusetts, in 2010, your private equity firm bought six non-profit hospitals, turned them into for-profit hospitals called Steward. Ten years later you cashed out, having made a profit a little shy of a billion dollars, and leaving behind a hospital system that was staggered under a load of debt and, four years later, collapsed into bankruptcy.
Now, Mr. Feinberg, when we met in my office, you told me that your private equity outfit made an average 23% annual return each year that you owned our hospitals. If Steward nurses had gotten the same 23% salary increases that your investors effectively got every year, do you know how much they would be paid at the time you sold off your hospitals?
Mr. Stephen A. Feinberg, nominee for Deputy Secretary of Defense: Well, I do know that in 2010, the hospitals were going under, and we were asked –
Senator Warren: I’m sorry, Mr. Feinberg, we’re going to have very limited time here and I actually want to spend it on your qualifications to do this job. And it’s about how you treat people. The average nurse in the Steward hospitals at the time you bought them made $85,120.
At a 23% annual raise, how much money would they be making right now?
Mr. Feinberg: I’m not going to do the math, but what I could tell you –
Senator Warren: Okay, I’ll do the math for you. $829,828. Now, of course, the nurses didn’t do that well. During that same period of time, Carney Hospital, one of the hospitals you bought in Massachusetts, raised nurse salaries about 1.5% a year - and that was the best increase across the Steward hospitals that you were running.
Mr. Feinberg: That’s incorrect.
Senator Warren: In other words, you seem to think that when it is time to reorganize a business, that equity should get about fifteen times as much return on their investment as the people who actually do the work.
So, let’s take a look at the second issue, and that is maintaining critical functions –
Mr. Feinberg: Senator, would you like me to respond to Steward? Because a lot of inaccurate statements.
Senator Warren: We need to make cuts at the Department of Defense, but we also need to maintain our national security.
Chair Wicker: Mr. Feinberg, she’s entitled to make a speech.
Mr. Feinberg: I apologize.
Chair Wicker: She’s entitled to go on and on.
Senator Warren: So let’s go back to Steward Hospitals. Did you cut fat or cut vital functions?
Now, Mr. Feinberg, the town of Quincy used to have a full medical center, with primary and specialty care, a surgery department, an urgent care department, and a VA Clinic. That was its basic function. After your private equity company finished with it, what was left?
Mr. Feinberg: Well, when we exited the investment in 2020, the company was doing well –
Senator Warren: I’m asking what was left of the Quincy hospital. When you took it over –
Chair Wicker: Now, Senator, he’s trying to answer a question. You finally stopped for a breath.
Senator Warren: Well, that’s what I’m asking –
Chair Wicker: Do you intend to let him at least have maybe 20, 30 seconds to answer a question?
Senator Warren: Well, can I have my time back?
Chair Wicker: Yes, I said you’re entitled to make a speech, but you stopped for – you stopped with a question mark and he started to try to answer the question.
Senator Warren: All right, what’s the answer to the question? What was left of the Quincy hospital? That was my question.
Mr. Feinberg: Lots happened after we exited. And there has been mismanagement. We did save –
Senator Warren: My clarifying question: what was left when you exited?
Mr. Feinberg: I’m not certain about that –
Senator Warren: It was an emergency room, and nothing more.
Mr. Feinberg: But, but, we took those hospitals from collapse in 2010 – we were going to shut it down as the tenth largest employer in Massachusetts, turned them around, fixed them, grew them, had a tremendous amount of success, worked closely with the governor, and the problems with Steward happened after we exited the investment.
Senator Warren: I am asking about questions as you exited and during the period of time you ran it. Now, of course, a hospital is supposed to provide good quality care—and that takes qualified nurses and other staffers. Mr. Feinberg, for the hospitals that didn’t close down, during the time you ran it, do you know how many “unsafe staffing” complaints were filed?
Mr. Feinberg: I do know the vast majority of problems happened after we left. And by the way, our nurses were among the highest paid in the country.
Senator Warren: Is that a no, that you don't know how much? How many “unsafe staffing” complaints were filed?
Mr. Feinberg: I don’t know.
Senator Warren: Well, let me tell you. There were over a thousand filed, that is five times the normal rate in Massachusetts.
Mr. Feinberg: What year was that?
Senator Warren: These are the years that you were in control. For the two hospitals –
Chair Wicker: Senator Warren, perhaps you would like to take another round?
Senator Warren: No, I’d like to just finish. I just have a quote.
Chair Wicker: Your time is expired, Senator. Your time is expired.
Senator Warren: I spent a great deal of that time listening to the Chairman telling me how I have to conduct my questions.
Chair Wicker: The senator's time is expired.
Senator Warren: Could I just close?
Chair Wicker: Senator Sullivan.
Senator Warren: Could I just close, Mr. Chairman? I’d just like to say why I care about this issue.
Chair Wicker: The senator's time has expired. She can have another round.
###
For the second time in two weeks, DOGE's "receipts" don't match its claims.
On Monday, the Department of Government Efficiency released another round of so-called "receipts" — or canceled contracts to show its cost cutting — and posted them on its "wall of receipts." As was the case with the first round, this set, too, contained inaccuracies.
Despite doubling the number of listed contracts, the updated itemized savings now total $9.6 billion, a sharp drop from the original $16.6 billion in savings DOGE itemized last week. At the same time, DOGE is now claiming total savings of $65 billion — far higher than the amount itemized, and an increase from its earlier claim of $55 billion, much of which has previously been called into question.
$65 billion is approximately 0.9% of the entire 2024 federal budget of $6.75 trillion.
DOGE's website claims this higher figure includes savings from contract and lease terminations, renegotiations, grant cancellations, layoffs and other miscellaneous reductions, but DOGE has not supplied documentation for the vast majority of the savings it claims.
That might reassure some people impressed by videos of SpaceX's rockets, but on Tuesday afternoon, Musk, who did qualify for a private pilot certificate in 2002, seemed baffled by some of the basics of air travel. In a post on X - the misinformation-heavy social media site Musk shaped from the remains of Twitter, after buying the platform for $44 billion in 2022 - supply chain company CEO Ryan Petersen shared a screenshot of the projected flight path of a United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Houston, which hewed close to the southern U.S. border with Mexico. "Why is this plane not flying in a straight line?" Petersen wondered. Musk replied, "It should be."
"There are countless reasons why a flight might not follow a straight path - weather, [Extended-range Twin-engine Operations Performance Standards] regulations, or optimizing fuel efficiency by following favorable winds," Sweeney stated on X.
One of the federal workers who lost his job as a result of South African centibillionaire Elon Musk's slashing of agency budgets at the behest of President Donald Trump is warning that many Americans' most private information is at risk of being mishandled.
According to a Pew poll shortly before the 2024 election, 60 percent of the 16 million Americans who have served in the military supported Donald Trump, and 55 percent believed his policies would make things better for veterans. Have they?
What happens then? Around 36 percent of veterans in the civil service are disabled or have a serious health condition, so roughly 36,000 disabled veterans will be added to the unemployed rolls, where they are certain to face much more difficulty in landing a private-sector job than others fired in the purge—many will no doubt spiral. The question then becomes whether there will still be sufficient government services to help them.
Trump in December 2024, filed the lawsuit over a poll published ahead of the 2024 presidential election that predicted Vice President Kamala Harris had a slight lead in the race that Trump went on to win. Selzer’s poll, which was released three days before the election, had predicted that Harris had about a three-point lead in Iowa over then-candidate Trump, who went on to win the state by about 13 points.
Trump soon filed suit under an Iowa law against “consumer fraud” in which he accused Selzer and the Register of being in cahoots with “cohorts in the Democrat Party” who “hoped that the Harris Poll would create a false narrative of inevitability for Harris in the final week of the 2024 Presidential Election.” The complaint accuses the defendants of committing “brazen election interference” through use of the allegedly “manipulated” poll to “deceive voters.”
The following sites updated:
-
-
-
-
-
-
Did Chump mean himself?10 hours ago
-
-
-
-
Branson on the Potomac10 hours ago
-
-
Chump uses his right hand10 hours ago
-
-
-
-
-
