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Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

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The Trump DOJ is big mad about their finest legal minds being humiliated in court

submitted 7 days ago • 135 comments

Beware of people claiming root causes and solutions in our current situation or you may find yourself tumbling down the rabbit hole with Alice. The nature of complex systems excludes the possibility of root causes and best practices. We can only manage from the present and nudge forward.

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U.S. democracy will likely break down during the second Trump administration, in the sense that it will cease to meet standard criteria for liberal democracy: full adult suffrage, free and fair elections, and broad protection of civil liberties. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

submitted 15 days ago • 12 comments

Seriously thought this was @michaelianblack.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/a...

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Midnight Run is just a fucking genius ass movie. So subtle and slick in its delivery you think it’s kinda bumbling around but the whole thing just cooks and moves at the perfect pace and it’s honestly one of De Niro’s best performances, not to mention Grodin, Kotto, Farina, Ashton, and Pantoliano.

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The world had long forgotten facts. Conversation had melted into a sea of memes, snark, and punchlines, where wit was currency and depth was a relic. People spoke in loops of irony, their words like echoes bouncing off empty walls. No one argued, not really—just sparred for likes.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

How much you wanna bet that the extent of this administration’s preparation for the bird flu pandemic is to figure out how to blame Democrats, the deep state, some foreign country, and then use that to enact state of emergency measures to dismantle basic Constitutional rights?

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Feel like these people wake up and ask what would be the most outrageous, disturbing, despicable, or destructive act I could add to my legacy today and then go yep let’s get ‘er done.

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Sources reporting that the NFL will remove the message “End Racism” from endzones at Sunday’s Super Bowl and replace it with “Choose Love.” www.nytimes.com/athletic/611...

submitted 24 days ago • 26 comments

Here comes the recession.

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One of the ways I use ChatGPT tasks is to get a summary of executive and legislative actions taken every day, including sources. I assume it is not exhaustive but the overview is helpful. The information is also appended to the thread each day, so I can see the whole history in one thread.

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You will never hear anyone of any substance on the right use the phrase “the right side of history.” Because they can bend every other fact but that one. And people of substance know it.

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