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Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA): “A program is not waste just because it doesn’t help the richest man in the world. It is not fraud just because he doesn’t like it."

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DoD guidance is out: do not respond

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Dear Manager, here's what I've done this week: 1. Found myself living in a shotgun shack 2. Found myself in another part of the world 3. Found myself behind the wheel of a large automobile 4. Found myself in a beautiful house with a beautiful wife 5. Asked myself, “Well, how did I get here?”

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Heads up for crafters: Great American LLC has won the bid for Joann. They’re a liquidator, so ALL Joann stores will be closed by end of May. Stock up on everything NOW and if you have an independent fabric store near you, start using it 😢

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OK honest question what is the root of this? Is this just how you think on drugs?

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Is Donald Trump going to respond to Musk’s email and report on what he did last week? To help, I’ve gone ahead and done it for him. A thread:

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Sometimes I wish cancel culture had been real. Just imagine how great it would be if some of these chuckleheads had lost all respect and ability to reach an audience the first time they started saying evil shit.

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Nazis absolutely BANK on this solipsistic thinking. And how in the blue hell do you think WORLD WAR 2 was even won?! Nazis use violence to enforce this will and you out here saying to not retaliate in a language they understand is baffling.

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NO KINGS NO NAZIS gets you like 80% approval and does a solid 60% of what we want to do

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To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

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I need to emphasize: this is comically ineffective You can't "overwhelm the algorithms" when the algorithms can be tweaked in realtime by malevolent actors who want the misinformation See, e.g., ExTwitter

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It is insanely obvious that Elon Musk is illegally exercising the powers of a principal officer of the United States in violation of the appointments clause

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The way other female conservative influencers are turning on Ashley St. Clair, leaking her texts, and smearing her should be a sign to any conservative woman that a movement built on misogyny will not protect you. That your female peers will weaponize misogyny against you, too.

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Rugby commentator says: Scotland has never beaten England five times in a row. Rather think he should be saying: Scotland may beat England for the fifth time in a row allowing them to keep the Calcutta cup forever and rename Twickenham whatever they want to call it...

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#fuckmuskcollaborators

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Mr. Hegseth has previously said that General Brown should be fired because of his “woke” focus on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the military. Replaces a Black four-star fighter pilot with a white man who does not meet the statutory qualifications supposedly over DEI.

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UPDATE: Meta is continuing to censor anti-Musk ads. It has removed a Facebook ad calling for a boycott of Tesla, saying that it violates the company's policy on "unacceptable business practices" muskwatch.com/subscribe

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with biden, we had egg

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Yes, Reacher is a simplistic show with a large man who uses violence to solve most problems. But the people he brutalizes all fucking deserve it and it is extremely satisfying, especially in our current political climate. Also Neagley is teh hot and a total smokeshow.

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So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

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FOLLOWUP: SECDEF Hegseth also firing the CNO, the USAF Vice-Chief, and somewhat unusually and ominously to do in the same breath, the senior JAGs of the Army, Navy, and USAF

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This is so many words to say Trump fired the chairman of the joint chiefs because he’s black www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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guess I’m out of the loop because I only heard of this chatterton chud recently does he have an english accent? seems like he should have an english accent

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Re-upping amid the JAG purge.

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HEY NOW This is indeed a problem with using the vernacular of the times, I am now stuck with using "PDA" instead of "phone" or "tablet" in the Old Man's War series. I can't retcon it, so it keeps showing up. It'll be used in the new book too.

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WaPo about the TPUSA grifter who promotes vaccines cause autism conspiracies and features episodes discouraging toothpaste and cancer screenings while also preaching that LGBTQ+ people should be barred from having children and fantasizes about publicly executing immigrants: “wellness influencer”

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This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

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So I get some pushed articles from car sites. Lately it has been near universal cubertruck sucks stories and anecdotes. The exception being apologist stories from electrek.

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they voted for harris, because rural voters are not a bigoted monolith despite what you've been led to believe. but even if they didn't? they'd still deserve fucking mail service

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Well done, eastern Oregon!

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How it started. How it’s going

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This guy is welcome to whatever opinions he wants to have but I swear to Christ if a guy with a fucking French chateau tries to pass himself off on an unheard everyman the Joker make-up is going on and staying on.

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Is bluesky more like holding court in a radicalized, kooky cult or is ejecting an acquaintance from your chateau in rural France for the sin of disrespecting Bari Weiss more like holding court in a radicalized, kooky cult?

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The always-brilliant @mluckovich.bsky.social

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okay, it’s time for me to finally weigh in: it’s probably a bad sign that guys are just doing sieg heils in public again

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There’s not a word in this story about the corrupt nature of this dismissal. Not a concern voiced, not a question raised, not even an acknowledgment that he’s the president’s biggest donor and he’s acting as an unelected, unconfirmed tyro wielding unchecked power over spending and the civil service.

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It's still racism, homophobia, antisemitism, ableism, or any other number of abhorrent cockgoblin behaviors if you wrap it up in a joke. J/K isn't a get out of jail free card. And I'll call you on it every time.

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I know now is not the moment for cynicism, but NHTSA might as well have not existed for the last decade or two. Specifically to this story, it has shown zero ability to effectively regulate either actual autonomous vehicles, or fake self-driving "driver assistance" systems like Tesla's.

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has a single mainstream journalist acknowledged that it was a massive media failure to treat project 2025 as a closed issue just bc trump lied a couple of times about not supporting it

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Elon’s life is a reminder that no amount of money can buy good character or hide bad character. Sooner or later the check comes due.

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This is interesting. Continuing to think about the Temple of the White Rat, Bishop Beartongue (who is sort of my template for a Practical Good Person who can see the big picture) is not at all a centrist, but she might be considered an incrementalist.

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BREAKING — I've confirmed the DOGE staffers at SSA. They are Marko Elez (who was previously fired for racist posts and then reinstated), Ethan Shaotran, Nikhil Rajpal, and Gautier Cole-Killian. This is per Social Security Works, a non-profit working to protect/expand Social Security.

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I cannot emphasize enough that the New York City subway is not scary. It’s one of my favorite parts of living here. I grew up in the suburbs having to drive on highways everywhere and that’s way scarier

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Taps sign:

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Elon Musk's grift is so transparent at this point that the AI summaries of his business press coverage are just "he's cooking the books" over and over again

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