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TIME: ".. No single private citizen .. has wielded such power over the machinery of the U.S. government. ".. Soon Americans are going to learn where they interact with the federal government in ways they didn’t realize or took for granted." @time-magazine.bsky.social time.com/7213409/elon...

James Madison wrote of the necessity of the separation of powers: “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive & judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elected, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”

RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

“DEI pilots or DEI air traffic controllers?” commentary from bluechecks was on X within a few minutes of the AA5342 Potomac crash news breaking. The influencers and crowds know the playbook.

Same day <chef's kiss>

Altarpiece of Sant Pere, by Pere Mates 1500-50

Romo keeps saying pre- and post-snap penalties and I'm opening my mind's third eye to find the penalties that don't exist in these two circumstances

the crazy part is this means the facebook we’ve all been experiencing for the past 5 years was the *good* version

A big one today with @mikecaulfield.bsky.social. It's about Jan 6th but its really about trying to diagnose what precisely is broken about our information ecosystem and why everything feels so stuck. It's about how the internet is a justification machine. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Prices will not fall because wages are 23% since the pandemic, they can’t fall back to where they were. Every last reporter writing on this knows this fact, but still pretends prices falling is a realistic possibility.