Space Cadet

 I am only going to write the details of the Massachusetts DOGE savings for cancelled leases. 1600 Osgood St., North Andover Center: A lease for 5,300 square feet of office and special-purpose space used by the Drug Enforcement Administration that was set to expire in January 2026. 325 Chelmsford St., Lowell: A lease for 3,900 square feet of warehouse space used by the National Park Service that was set to expire in September 2028. 900 Chelmsford St., Lowell: A lease for 26,752 square feet of office and special-purpose space used by the Internal Revenue Service that was set to expire in September 2026. 451 West St., Amherst: A lease for 22,428 square feet of office space used by the Natural Resources Conservation Services, a part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, that was set to expire in August 2025. 9 Main St., Sutton :  A lease for 1,273 square feet of office used by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service space that was set to e...

The metaphor of how to boil a frog. Tossing a frog into a boil pot of water the Frog will immediately jump up due to the sudden change in temperature.  Instead you place the frog in the pot then apply the heat.  The frog will sit comfortable in the water as it cooks to death in its complacency. image provided by Skeptical Science Graphics by  Skeptical Science  is licensed under a  Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License . The boiling frog metaphor finds its most potent application in the Overton Window—the range of ideas considered acceptable in public discourse. Just as the frog adapts to the water’s rising temperature, societies adapt to shifting norms. What begins as unthinkable gradually becomes palatable, then accepted, and finally championed. Trump’s rhetoric on NATO, immigration, and election integrity shifted the Overton Window dramatically. Ideas once relegated to the political fringe were brought into mainstream discourse through repeti...