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I did an internship with NASS. I’ve been in the sequestration room where the make the estimates. So much money is at stake here.

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Unfortunately it won't be felt as a sharp economic shock where people can easily identify the cause and course-correct. It will be a slow stagnation until one day you realize you've been eclipsed but can't figure out why.

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The Timber just wanna go home man 😭

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Fantastic digital neon map by @Julian_H0ffmann of Tokyo. This would look really cool at the wall of a bar.

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What the Trump administration wants to do by creating these camps is monstrous enough. But a key thing I found when writing a book on concentration camp history is that when you establish this kind of detention, it tends over time to devolve into much worse kinds of camps.

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20, I got some work to do 🚗

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Dream bigger than this kids, jfc

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Israel doesn’t think I’m Jewish and I’ve known that my whole life.

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Great observations here on the limits of survey research and the perils of relying too much on self-reported data.

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RSL are bad 🥰

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G+ for games can be so funny. I thought Keegan had a great game

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Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections." Each defendant assaulted him.

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I think he’s earned the ginger ninja chant folks

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From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny

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I am inundated with messages from federal workers who are feeling frantic, furious and fed up after receiving Musk’s email and reading his threatening X post. The psychological warfare is the point.

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Woody Guthrie

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Colorado 3rd, 3rd, and 4th?? Eat your heart out mls soccer dot com

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So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

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Every liberal "paper of record": maybe the fascists have a point Eater: Know your rights

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If this is what Kyle is posting, I’m assuming that every media outlet thinks this is libel bait or at treating it as such. This is where Thiel has gotten us.

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SOON

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Wait you said bad ideas

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there is a fundamental contradiction between "home as affordable shelter" and "homes as appreciating assets." in order for the latter to be true, prices must go continually up, which requires some combo of supply restrictions & subsidies, and also tends to produce this:

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Eric Adams can’t be trusted. That’s why I’ve asked Eric Adams for his recommendations of who should help keep him in check.

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The Cycle Is Complete 🌖

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Absolutely shocking and very worrying from NOAA www.newscientist.com/article/2469...

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Coinbase donated $1 million to Trump’s inaugural, appointed his campaign co-mgr to its advisory board, and operates in the same sector as some of Trump’s businesses.

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I have a lot of feelings about this. A lot of them.

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"North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary... "Tillis ultimately provided the crucial 50th vote to confirm." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

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gravedigger of american democracy. a more malign influence than john c calhoun.

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This team doesn’t exist yet and it’s already generating more local media buzz than the Pids 🔥🔥🔥

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As someone who last seriously followed the league a decade ago: I need to apologize to Matt Stafford, I really wasn’t familiar with his game

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