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I enjoy history, economics, politics, foreign policy and technology. I’m actually fairly knowledgeable about some of it. Over educated but under-credentialed. I have a fondness for Existentialism and Judaism.
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Listening to Trump rant about the “great golden domes” of the Donbas, I am reminded that he is basically a human ChatGPT, aggregating general trivia (in this case, “something something Slavic, something something Orthodox”) and hallucinating with unwavering confidence.

Imagine Elon Musk being the person you know who you believe knows the most about computers. Holy shit. “Dumb and Dumber: The White House Years”

'Lead and 'read' rhyme. Unless you're saying 'lead' and 'read.' But also 'lead' and 'read' rhyme.

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So many undersea cables being damaged on the shipping route to Russia. At some point you have to say it’s not an accident.

If you are an agency employee asked to take a polygraph contact a lawyer *immediately*. I am more than willing to immediately respond to anyone being pushed into this. My email is in my bio and my signal is NationalSecurityCounselors.16

Populist hero to appear in court.

I have solved Bird Flu. Give the chickens ivermectin. Have the chickens practice Earthing. The problem with their immune systems is they are not touching the soil enough. Coffee enemas for all chickens. Also we must stop reading them Ibram X. Kendi. Eggs will be back and most importantly not gay.

I can only operate on the assumption that this could happen 500 times a day and journalists would still describe it as a 'controversial hand gesture' Media: you are actively and unforgivably helping murderous racists and violent bigots when you do this. Stop, we are begging you

Today for @bloomberg.com, I have a review of the Palantir CEO's new book "The Technological Republic," which is both tedious and creepy. Karp wrote his dissertation on Adorno's critique of jargon, seemingly to reverse engineer it? www.unpopularfront.news/p/palantirs-...

Trump was in the White House for four years. Why do people still think he and his people didn’t have access to the payment details? I swear. American voters are fucking dumb as stumps.

My warmest greetings go out to the wonderful people who built their careers sniffing out “Ukrainian Nazis” under every stone in Ukraine for tasty headlines that fueled Russian war propaganda on this-is-why-Ukraine-must-be-dealt-with, only to get Nazi salutes normalized in their own country.

It’s a Nazi salute. I don’t give a shit about playing language games here. Loose Republicans need to have their Hitler loving comrades jammed down their throats. Trumpism is fascism and is increasingly becoming Nazism.

As Trump floats an obviously unconstitutional thought of a third term, please remember the Republican SCOTUS already said states can’t enforce the Constitution’s ban on insurrection. Sort of implies states can’t enforce the Constitution’s Federal election restrictions.

trump wants to be able to tell the USPS not to deliver ballots to blue states www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Can you say Sturmabteilung? I knew you could! Elon's own private Brownshirts! Woohoo!

If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long. They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net

Fascism moves fast.

i think it is cool that de facto first consul of the united states is a drug-addled maniac and deadbeat dad with a breeding fetish

There are moments in these deportation fights when I can just FEEL how pissed off they are that I’m Puerto Rican 😂 they want to threaten me with it so bad 😂

"Spend more on Elon Musk’s social-media platform, or else." "A lawyer at advertising conglomerate Interpublic Group fielded a phone call ... from a lawyer at X. The message was clear ... Get your clients to spend more on Elon Musk’s social-media platform, or else." A merger could be tanked. Gift!

This is pretty straightforward authoritarianism: if you don't support my toxic businesses, I will use my government power to kneecap yours.

Trump take egg 😟

This would produce an impeachment of the US Attorney in a functional political system. Nonetheless, it's curious how Musk is referred to as "an appointed representative of [the] President" who has "government staff who work for him." What's his position? Who works for him? They've refused to say.

Fascism descends quickly.

Does anyone know how well the AI translators are with Chinese? I don't have the time to learn it.

But, as Europe looks ahead to an adversarial Trump, they may be happy to know that the officer corp will be chosen for loyalty instead of competence.

McConnell's genius was to make politics about victory at all costs. Power is not the goal; you must squeeze it from the other side. A lot of our Democrat friends find this distasteful. They'll never teach it in Sunday School. But it's only a game if you agree on the rules.

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This is the reason I think @murray.senate.gov @wyden.senate.gov should ask GAO to investigate the fraudulent claims on DOGE's receipts page. Because it's serving as cover that DOGE is not seeking waste fraud and abuse but instead canceling programs Congress duly appropriated.

Nihilism: nothing matters Absurdism: nothing matters, but in a cool way. Existentialism: freely choose among all the various things that don't matter!