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Regardless of what you think former Pres. Bill Clinton, the last time the USA had a balanced budget AND a surplus was fiscal 1999 and 2000. The Clinton Administration. How was this budgetary miracle, one conservatives have never conjured, possible? A tax increase on the most wealthy earners. It […]

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Spent most of today trying to extract myself from gmail. Unsubscribed from dozens of lists, changed email address on important things. I even went back to the very oldest emails, including the first one welcome me to gmail on 11 Dec 2005. Also found the fateful day I signed up for Twit. 7 Jan 2007.

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He's not president either. Elon Musk is.

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James Carville a.k.a. "old serpent head" is apparently brain dead. Carville's 'play dead' plan: A death knell for democracy https://www.theframelab.org/carvilles-play-dead-plan-a-death-knell-for-democracy/

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I've had my gmail account since the days when you need an invite to get one. Remember that? Now I'm trying to slowly phase it out while using more secure methods and providers who don't scrape my every word for their databases. For the past few weeks I've been using a VPN. Gmail apparently […]

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Exactly how did Shady Vance make it through Yale law school? He seems to think no one can tell President Musk no or what to do.

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“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” Albert Camus

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"Move fast and break things" only works for the people who've never had to clean up after themselves.

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An unusual piece for The Climate Historian, but in an era where #USPolitics feels like a grotesque pantomime of democracy, where deregulation is touted as liberation, and both people and climate bear the collateral damage in the quest for “greatness,” I felt that I need to add a few thoughts […]

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https://substack.com/@krassenstein/note/c-95841083?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=1cnb9h

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https://substack.com/@opinionatedogre/note/c-95877322?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=1cnb9h

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UPDATE: NIH reimposes "DEI" funding freeze despite court order https://substack.com/home/post/p-157770073

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Escape the Corporate Plantation: How to Build an Economy They Can’t Own The Billionaires Aren’t Coming to Save You—They’re Coming to Own You #01 https://greedbane.substack.com/p/escape-the-corporate-plantation-how

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The Onion explains why I have started phoning my Democratic Senators and Congresswoman. https://theonion.com/democratic-leaders-stand-real-still-in-hopes-no-one-notices-them/

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The US Department of Defense now has a CISO appointed who had their security clearance suspended in 2021 by the NSA. The person responsible for coordinating national cybersecurity policy in the US also has no prior cybersecurity (or technology) experience […]

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They already accessed the voting machines. At the state level. It's just as easy to hire a gang of hackers to access voting machines so that you can turn the election in your favor as it is to staff DOGE and then take over federal information systems. It's already happened. Under presidential […]

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Anyone know the email address that federal employees are supposed to respond to tomorrow? I'm feelin' like cooking up big batch of spam.

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What if people who aren't federal employees responded tomorrow to Leon's extortion email with 5 things they did last week? That would screw with the juvenile delinquents he's employed.

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I've never tagged anything in my life. Now I have a box of Sharpies and this slogan is going on every already tagged utility box I can find.

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Another blow for freedom and reality.

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Move fast and break people For Elon Musk's government, the psychological warfare is the point. The sending of the 5 bullets email took panic from simmering to 5-alarm fire, with federal workers trying to quickly understand what authority OPM had over them and whether a post on X was legally […]

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"Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. Nervous Musk, Trump, Vance have all been outclassed in public arguments these last few days. Government […]

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DOGE’s Millions: As Musk and Trump Gut Government, Their Ax-Cutting Agency Gets Cash Infusion The Department of Government Efficiency is funded — and acts — like a federal agency. But the White House has shielded DOGE from the rules that govern such agencies, ProPublica found as it examines the […]

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We'll soon have horrors like this again with the Musk Administration in charge. In the 1850s, New York City babies were being mysteriously poisoned. Nearly 8,000 babies a year shriveled to death from uncontrollable diarrhea. Without the luxury of advanced medical diagnostics, doctors […]

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