-Congress gave the Department of Defense $58 billion more than it asked for last year. That’s more money than the annual budget of many agencies that don’t kill people.

-Who’d have thought that an organization with the initials SS would find itself implicated in a far-right power grab? (Secret Service Jan. 6 text messages erased amid investigations.)

-FOIA Follies: Ivana Trump no longer has rights under the Privacy Act

-The Fed stonewalled our inquiry of Jerome Powell’s alleged “wokeness”

-Anti-abortion freaks, John Bolton, Uvalde Police, the Musk family, Ruy Texeira, and Dr. Leanna Wen are nominated for the Garbage Can this week

Music by Adam Fligsten www.adamfligsten.com