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Normally, that's known as corruption.

We grow up with the unacceptable, and accommodation becomes a tool we use to make our lives easier. Accommodating the unacceptable is often easier than doing the right thing. Eventually, we use it to let ourselves off the hook, because that’s easier, too. www.marytrump.org/p/there-is-n...

Incredibly proud of her and my old office. Integrity and decency still exist in incredibly hard circumstances. I hope every former US Attorney and DOJ official from both parties support her publicly.

www.nbcnews.com/weather/wint... Where's FEMA? A lot of silence.

China is hiring for a planetary defense force. I didn't see citizenship or language skills required. I wonder if X Space or NASA experience will help?

Very good analysis.

Always a good read: substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Good points: About That NY Post Article This Past Weekend open.substack.com/pub/weissman...

But the solutions are even simpler and cheaper: Ensure aircraft comply with absolute ceilings and hard decks. Hire more Air Traffic Controllers. Establish more passenger train options.

Amazing - and build a Trump hotel in the little town of Bethlehem.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don... Special employee and a contractor for X aerospace. Probably not legal.

Musk is a federal contractor, performing work beyond the scope of work on both his NASA and DOD contracts. He should be subject to a stop work order, cutting work, and funding for X aerospace. He can't be both a special non-paid employee and a contractor.

At least one branch of the government is working, for now.

Perhaps something to reflect on with a new month and ground hog day. Maybe a Cresent Moon waxing with a hovering Venus can help illuminate the shadows we face these days.

Simple is as simple does - is he really that ignorant? Can't someone explain the basics to him?

It's pretty clear Donald never took an economics course.

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