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What good is it to sing helplessness blues? Dad, husband, dubious Lutheran, former evangelical, IAM architect, cyber-security consultant, clock enthusiast, northern lights chaser, latent photographer. Probably disagrees with you about AI.
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Not only illegal, but the Postsl Service is one of the functions specifically given to Congress in the Constitution. Like even above and beyond the normal “power of the purse” stuff.

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Things hurting the US economy: -mass layoffs of federal workers -funding cuts to every federal dept -corporate layoffs -measles and tuberculosis outbreaks -high flu rates -$8/dozen eggs -new tariffs raising the cost of everything -Canada boycotts US travel and goods -concerns about airplane safety

submitted 9 hours ago • 19 comments

idk this is like the least concerning thing I’ve heard in weeks

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

This is what I'd have expected them to do. Apple takes these things seriously. But also, this is why consumers need to be aware of the tools they can run themselves to encrypt and store their data locally.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

If you’re ever in public while high on ketamine, this DEA pamphlet suggests you might want want to wear sunglasses, even indoors. www.dea.gov/sites/defaul...

submitted 1 day ago • 985 comments

On a beautiful cloudy afternoon, I was capturing sea gulls flying among the turquoise ocean & white sand dunes of South Africa's De Hoop Nature Reserve. This was my favourite - an impressionistic rendition, brought to completion by a ghostly figure, seemingly suspended above this surreal landscape.

submitted 19 hours ago • 30 comments

Movies you’ve watched more than six times, gifs only

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

I like that the replies to this post accuse the legislators of both being cowards AND lying about being scared

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“In private, Republicans talk about their fear that Trump might incite his MAGA followers to commit political violence against them if they don’t rubber-stamp his actions.”

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

Oh.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Hm, I wonder how it got destabilized, CHINA

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

There are a lot of good discussions of this process. LMR Alex Cooley's @jodemocracy.bsky.social article from 2015, Countering Democratic Norms, which discusses the broader tactics pioneered by authoritarian regimes during an era of liberal hegemony. PDF: www.journalofdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

It’s not a “savings” if you’re getting fewer services in exchange. I’m still paying the same taxes!

submitted 2 days ago • 178 comments

Artemis Ghasemzadeh is a hero for making contact with the press before being moved to Panama, and then continuing to check in until they confiscated her phone.

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What they sold to voters: “only the worst of the worst will be sent to Gitmo, gang members and violent offenders” What they are now saying: literally all undocumented immigrants, because they “broke our nation’s laws, and therefore they are criminals”

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The good news is that the feds aren’t the only government in America

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I was just an Education Department guy under Reagan and the most junior WH senior staffer under G.H.W. Bush, so what do I know? But if I were an ex-president, and the current president were executing the most disastrous turn in American foreign policy in 80 years, I think I might say something?

submitted 2 days ago • 1519 comments

I'll accept the teeny-tiny risk of salmonella before I give up my dippy eggs!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Everyone has things in their career of which they're ashamed. Nothing...and I mean nothing...in my career in politics makes me more ashamed and regretful than supporting and promoting Marco Rubio. He is the most craven betrayer of his stated ideals of any human I've ever met.

submitted 2 days ago • 1768 comments

Consider how much of the present moment is collective trauma of living through a pandemic. Multiply by 40.

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“The [White House’s declaration to the court] is quite obviously an attempt to retcon the structure of DOGE.” 💯 It’s also gaslighting. And perjury.

submitted 3 days ago • 50 comments

If your anxiety is telling you to wean off your pills in case you have to go off them cold turkey later, you need to politely thank your anxiety for trying to take care of you, and then you need to keep taking them. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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JD Vance owns AcreTrader, an app that lets wealthy—often foreign—investors buy up U.S. farmland. Guess who’s deliberately tanking farm economies so JD and his billionaire tech buddies can scoop it up for pennies. civileats.com/2024/09/18/j...

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