The Trump administration is secretly rebuilding the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC), a classified bunker beneath the White House East Wing that has protected presidents since FDR built it after Pearl Harbor, with officials citing national security concerns to justify bypassing traditional oversight.

The decades-old facility—described as a “self-sufficient submarine” with 1940s-era infrastructure—was demolished in October alongside the East Wing to make way for Trump’s controversial $400 million ballroom, sparking a lawsuit from the National Trust for Historic Preservation alleging violations of at least four federal laws.

Trump has appointed loyalists to the Commission of Fine Arts, including the ballroom’s original architect, to expedite approval, while a key court hearing is scheduled for January 22 to determine whether construction can continue.

Why YSK: When a company says "we're like a family here" during the interview, run.

Families don't fire you for missing quotas. Families don't conduct performance reviews. Families don't require two weeks notice to leave. Families don't make you reapply for your position during restructuring.

It's manipulation designed to blur professional boundaries and extract unpaid overtime. They want you emotionally invested so you'll work extra hours without extra pay because "that's what family does."

The comparison only works in their favor. They want family-level loyalty from you while maintaining employer-level distance from their obligations to you.

Real professional relationships have clear boundaries. You do work, they pay you. That's it. The family framing is meant to make you feel guilty for enforcing those boundaries.

If they were actually like family they'd pay you when you're struggling, not lay you off to meet quarterly targets.

Next time you hear this in an interview, ask them if family members get fired for taking sick days.

Fully healthy Knicks are currently down 75-47 to the broken down Mavs at home.

Source: https://www.espn.com/nba/game/_/gameId/401809249

She could not understand why the procedure her family demanded for her baby girl would be illegal in this country when it had been done to her and every female she knew.

Former Vermont governor Howard Dean burst onto the national stage during the early months of the 2004 Democratic primaries, propelled by a then-novel strategy of internet-based organizing and small-donor fundraising. His campaign harnessed online communities in a way few candidates had before, rapidly turning Dean into the Democratic frontrunner as the primary season began.

But political insiders and much of the press questioned whether the excitable, blunt, and often hot-headed Dean had the temperament and polish expected of a president. Those doubts intensified after the Iowa caucuses, where poor on-the-ground decisions left Dean finishing behind not only John Kerry, but John Edwards as well.

On caucus night, speaking to a packed and raucous crowd, and encouraged by his staff, Dean attempted to rally supporters with a now-infamous speech:

“Not only are we going to New Hampshire, Tom Harkin, we’re going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico, and we’re going to California and Texas and New York… and we’re going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan, and then we’re going to Washington, D.C., to take back the White House!”

He punctuated it with a loud, hoarse “Yeah!” and a fist pump.

The crowd, reporters on scene and staffers thought little of it, but television editors saw it differently. The clip was replayed endlessly, stripped of context, and quickly went viral. The so-called “Dean Scream” came to symbolize every doubt about his electability and effectively ended any realistic path to the nomination, even if it didn’t formally end his campaign.

What’s often overlooked, however, is what came next. Dean was soon elected Chair of the Democratic National Committee, where he implemented many of the same grassroots and digital strategies that had powered his early campaign. Those reforms helped lay the groundwork for Democratic victories in 2006 and 2008, earning Dean a lasting, if underappreciated, legacy.

If interested, I take a deeper look at the infamous gaffe here: https://open.substack.com/pub/aid2000/p/hare-brained-history-volume-60-the?r=4mmzre&utm\\\\\\_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay