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just another Bay Area anti-fascist
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You concede that Musk's ask is allowable and proper, and it is not. As even the DoD said, he is not a part of their chain of command.
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The dark sunglasses sure do make me suspect he's hiding drug-induced nystagmus, which are of a difference cadence and rhythm from his natural nystagmus.
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... In fact, Bates ridicules DOGE’s claimed structure as “a Goldilocks entity: not an agency when it is burdened but an agency when it is convenient.” ...
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In addition, these mostly older white men wanted to go back to a simpler time, when they didn't have to think about pronouns, climate change, #MeToo, racism, pandemics, etc. Which I suppose is a kind of incompetency -- an inability to deal with the world as it is, not as they would prefer it.
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We need bollards. Bollards everywhere.
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The far right know that one of the best ways to destabilize universities is to cut science budgets, because research infrastructure are such a large and critical part of universities. Science is therefore one of the first targets in their culture war.
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It sure does seem like laziness. There are so many options available to congressional dems, and somehow they choose to only talk about tomato prices?
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It's like they were riffing on a script, trying to game out what the Biden admin could have been doing as gauging the audience response, before they wrote their own script.
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> Fear can make people more inclined toward authoritarianism
Which is why climate change is gonna be SO much worse than just the climate change
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This is very good news. Not only that, Craig also beat Jim Costa, who is 72
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just block and move on, trolls just want to be fed
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And it's nice to have empirical support for who we might expect believes "democracy will remain strong over the next four years."
As I've written about, for CN-ists, "democracy" is fine when it delivers results that benefit "us." If it doesn't, re-draw lines of participation until "democracy" works
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The decline of DailyKos was also a factor, or at least that's why I'm on Bluesky more these days. I want to think that RFK jr's suit was the primary reason for their decline, but I'm beginning to suspect there were other reasons.
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Indeed, it survived the tsunami!
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A tsunami is a voltage surge, the Golden Gate is a resistor, and San Pablo Bay & San Francisco Bay are large capacitors. West Berkeley _could_ briefly get 1-3m of surge before the capacitors absorb it, but in practice, Half Moon Bay (barely in the model) will be most affected.