kadkins.bsky.social
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Just wait until the House members (like mine) from rural areas—who have been complaining about rural delivery—see what happens next.
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It actually was—the techbro definition of efficiency. Humans are by their very nature inefficient. They need to eat and sleep and take breaks. AI and robots are much more efficient. Automate everything, and you have efficiency! And to hell with inefficient actual human needs.
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How can the Librarian of *Congress* be fired by the Exec Branch? When DOGE started, I asked a friend who is a librarian at LoC if they felt safe. They did—because they weren’t part of the Exec Branch. Does this mean DOGE could fire anyone working for Congress or the courts?
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It looks like you need a KC library card, but if you call the library they can probably help you.
kclibrary.org/news/2023-10...
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@hcrichardson.bsky.social If you aren’t familiar with Steven Katz’s “The Ethic of Expediency” you need to read it. Substitute “efficiency” for “expediency” and you will see an excellent historical forerunner of the DOGE philosophy.
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Time to coin a new word for the digital age: spamotage.
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That was Reagan’s actual plan.
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Shifting the tax burden to the states—This is what people never understood about Reagan’s tax cut plan. When he proposed cuts to federal taxes and spending, he was very clear that it was to move taxing and spending to the state level for more local control. Not to reduce the total taxes folks pay.
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The folks I’m talking to are generally Reagan Republicans—not fans of Trump but can’t bring themselves to vote for “liberal” Democrats, so yes—they get the Stalin reference. I seriously wish the Lincoln Project, Kochs, et al would start an American Conservative Party.
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This whole thing is so insane, but folks need to accept reality even if they can’t quite wrap their heads around it.
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To all the people who told me I was being overly dramatic when I predicted that people would be “disappered” under this administration——-I told you so. (And it happened much sooner than I expected.)
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Serious question: I teach college students how to conduct research and write research papers. How are they supposed to do that without Inter-Library Loan?
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This is great—but instead of using “oligarchs” call them “Robber Barons.” It’s more vivd, emphasizes the corruption, and fits the Gilded Age that Project 2025 wants to return to.
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I can only hope that their plan is to do a really bad job of representing Trusk’s interests.
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Move away from small dollar donors!?!!
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Jess Piper is great. And stories like this always confound me, even though I know they are true.
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Here’s a better story (but I’m not quoted).
www.kq2.com/news/lgbtq-c...
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Sorry to not be a ray of sunshine, but I’ve been reading about surviving an authoritarian takeover, and being optimistic is not the answer. However, journaling and talking to real humans is, so there’s that.
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But not resisting will make things worse. And yes, things are going to get bad—extreme dystopian bad—before enough Americans hurt badly enough to do something.
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So basically Zelensky called Trump’s bluff and bully that Trump is, he folded and left in a huff.
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Thanks!