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This has always been the GOP's strategy: 1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves. 2) Explode the deficit. 3) Demand cuts to vital programs that help millions. 4) Repeat. They're trying to get away with it again.

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Amen

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Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉 Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace. You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.

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It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

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Everyone together now!

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Erich Fromm, The Heart of Man (1964)

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So Musk’s people, who misread $8 million as $8 billion, who counted the same contracts multiple times and counted as savings programs that ended last year, claim that their AI is finding lots of Social Security fraud. Why should anyone worry?

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Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago. But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today. He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.

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The U.S. needs a real pro-democracy news network, not the kind that would fire Joy Reid while keeping Katy Tur.

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Trump berates Zelensky, the leader of a democratic country courageously fighting Russian imperialism, while he allies himself with Putin, a dictator who started the bloodiest European war in 80 years. Sorry, President Trump. We believe in democracy, not authoritarianism.

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Trump and Vance just made Zelensky one of the most popular leaders in the world.

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Trump is too much of a coward to say a bad thing to Putin, yet he dares lecture Zelensky? Russia is on the verge of collapse and Trump/Vance are desperate to save them

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Any psychologist or psychiatrist (or former abused spouse) will tell you that President Zelensky gave a master class today on how to deal with a malignant narcissist. He is an amazing man. We can all learn from him.

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How’s this prediction going so far?

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The odds are better for the Chicago White Sox to win the World Series than for Susan Collins to grow a spine and challenge the Trump-Musk power grab on federal spending.

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Just when you think Donald Trump cannot sink lower or be more shameful, today he's blaming Ukraine for the war and calling Zelinsky a dictator, when he knows perfectly well that Putin's constant re-elections are put-up jobs.

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Okay, so, Cuban is getting a fair bit of hate and also a fair bit of support (that's not the point, don't get hung up on it) but there are very few people at least willing to engage with AI systems on an exploratory level. It starts as play, but it can lead to some serious research.

submitted 128 days ago • 98 comments

I kinda think that’s exactly the problem since we are supposed to live in a constitutional democratic republic and not a Muskocracy.

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Here is the ad the Washington Post refused to run about Elon Musk this weekend. And here is the ad the Post was happy to run by a rightwing group funded by Musk that smeared me in October. I started Democracy Docket to be fiercely independent and prodemocracy. Check it out. www.democracydocket.com

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I really don’t care, do u?

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Said every tyrant and dictator in human history to justify his actions.

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My bet is that the Musk Rats chewing on our Treasury files are also collecting material from Trump’s first term. This stuff can easily be massaged into a gigantic scandal, as we have seen. As long as Trump gives what he wants, Trump is safe. If not, not.

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Reagan is rolling in his grave, and Stalin is feeling vindicated.

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Why does a 38-year old U.S. Attorney in SDNY, who is also a die hard conservative, have more guts and integrity than the entirety of the GOP Senate Conference combined?! Shame on the shameless sycophants and enablers there, who can’t find the spine to stand up to common MAGA bullies.

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She fitted, so she sitted

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I fully expect criminal case-fixing like the Eric Adams scandal to happen thousands of times under Trump. He's a criminal. It's what he does. But it's good to see a few people stand up and refuse to go along. We desperately need people of integrity to defeat the go-alongers.

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@mcuban.bsky.social destroys Elon Musk. Again.

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Having passed up the opportunity years ago to run DOJ’s Civil Division, I’ve never run a large organization, let alone at DOJ. So I’m no expert. But I’m gonna spitball that if hundreds of your subordinates want to tell you to “go fuck yourself,” you might, perhaps, have a management problem.

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