Jon Stewart asks why Democratic leaders think they need better messaging rather than better policies. House Leader Hakeem Jeffries replies their solution is "making the American people feel that we understand the pain that they've been in" — the exact thing Stewart was criticizing! JON STEWART: Where is the Democrats' Project 2025? The New DNC Chair kept saying it's a messaging issue, as though everything is going right, you just don't realize it yet. As opposed to, we've gotten away from New Deal values. HAKEEM JEFFRIES:  Maya Angelou said it best — people won't remember what you say, they may not even remember what you do, but they will always remember how you make them feel. And I think what we have to do a better job of is making the American people feel that we understand the pain."

(Note: This 2nd portion of my submitted digital Buffalo News article today was not accepted for policy reasons involving local columnists dealing with national political issues. While I may disagree with that editorial call, the BN has the responsibility to set and observe such policies. So that my work and research were not for naught, here is what I'd written:) Federal Scrubbing of Climate Science Information is Ongoing It was announced a week ago that both the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Agriculture had been ordered by the administration to remove all material related to a warming climate. Despite the irrefutable evidence of such warming and what’s causing it (this from a yet-undisturbed NASA climate website: , there appears to be a broad-based program to scrub many federal websites’ climate science related to anthropogenic warming, the driving force behind rising sea levels, more droughts in arid regions, more stronger hurricanes, more flooding in wet areas, more wildfires…and the like. Rather than relying on my individual hunting and pecking for NOAA climate websites, I’ve turned to a reliable, reviewed source with confirmed website statuses as of Thursday. The National Security Archive relies on journalists, scholars, and scientists to compile their information: As noted in this article, the Department of Defense nor NASA have not yet scrubbed most of their climate material: “Similarly, the Department of Defense’s website still includes a live and unchanged “Spotlight on Tackling the Climate Crisis,”[16] which states that DOD is “elevating climate change as a national security priority, integrating climate considerations into policies, strategies and partner engagements.” And although key climate information is still spread sporadically throughout the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) website, the agency’s climate website displays a message about moving to a “more integrated portal on science,” and the word “climate” is removed from its URL.” In the case of the DOD, the Navy has already had to spend billions to protect their vital facilities at major centers like Norfolk from rising sea levels, and has much more to do to protect national security at these coastal facilities. There have been reports in the last 2 days of Musk associates making sudden visits to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration headquarters on the College Park campus of the University of Maryland campus. Rumors have been in abundance that the administration has a goal of breaking up NOAA, but I personally have my doubts the popular services supplied by its best-known branch, the National Weather Service, would be completely broken up. This is an editorial statement from the Union of Concerned Scientists, a somewhat left-of-center association of distinguished scientists in many disciplines: It's a short, valuable read…especially if my doubts are misplaced: As a counterpoint to this, newly confirmed Secretary of Commerce Secretary Lutnick denies he has intentions of dismantling NOAA, which comes under his department: We can only hope this statement of intent stands the test of time.

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The Ralph Angel Poetry Prize is back, with guest judge Gillian Conoley. Get your poems ready for submission in April!

TERRIBLE call. That's not holding.

*Moans*

a dream! my second book HELL YEAH is coming out with third man books this summer!!!

Apparently the last POTUS to take office during a Sun-Pluto conjunction was Madison who started a war with Canada which led to the invasion of Washington DC and the burning down of the White House 👀