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Artist Augmenting Reality. Marin Dad. Software Engineer. Long Hauler. Resister.
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Hard Math - You force a house builder to open his books and see that he spends 40% on labor. So you fire all concrete guys, framers, roofers. Then you raise the cost of materials by 25% with tariffs. How many houses can the house builder build?

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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

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Important thread. 👇 Shutting down Social Security is theft. No different than stealing your 401K.

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This is how it's done! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

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The Trump administration is now bringing the postwar era to an end. No one should be surprised: this is what they said they would do. America's European and Asian allies need to adjust, quickly. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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Morning

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Union Square rally.

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wapo.st/4b3VFoK

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The new world order is exactly what it looks like. Are we too frozen with fear to name it? | Zoe Williams

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democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard

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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

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Trump could be the president who finally defeated the biggest geopolitical adversary of the last 80 years, instead this administration seems insistent on becoming the ones who managed to lose the Cold War 35 years after it was won.

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omg almost done with the 725+ places in Yurok country ('Oolekwoh). Their country, the size of Luxembourg, has easily been the most time-consuming piece of this geographic journey so far. Shown are the villages in rough order of size/importance.

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At the hospital today. Just saw a dad loading up mom with her newborn into a Cybertruck. Love and hate in one image.

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Project 2025 was unpopular because of things like the plan for Trump to shut down the CFPB, which helps you get your money back if a bank cheats you.

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Marin Tesla Dealership in Corte Madera. Saturday Feb 15. 11am!

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From Craig Philpott #Politics #USpol #wildfires #USFS

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I’m watching Prime Target. Does anyone else think the acting is stilted? Especially the NSA peeps?

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Go to Google Search "Gulf of Mexico" Click the 3 little dots next to "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)" Choose "Send feedback" Click "Gulf of America" Click "Inaccurate content" Click "Incorrect" Tell Google the correct name en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of...

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#Volcano #Kilauea #Hawaii Kilauea is shooting lava again. It is the Hawaii volcano's latest activity in an on-and-off eruption https://apnews.com/article/hawaii-kilauea-eruption-lava-dbd07d8f63f50f991b6a33c67ac94e90

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This is exactly what the USA is headed towards

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Just showed the latest ‘HeGetsUs’ Super Bowl ad to Jesus and Johnny Cash and they’re both freaking PISSED.

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Super Bowl USAID Save Foreign Aid

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There are some infosec folks who are playing semantics or splitting hairs or saying ‘let’s wait and see’ in defense of what the DOGE workers are doing. If they witnessed such sloppy cybersecurity in any corporate environment, they would be screaming bloody murder. Why the double standard? Why?

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500...Here you go: testflight.apple.com/join/JKEtnTQP

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what fuels me is knowing he’s eventually going to chew on the wrong wire

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film still #44 John and Britt rehearsing. #severance

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People who are scholars of European history, as I am not, point out parallels to 1930s rise of fascism there. I have spent more time learning about China. Which is why I keep thinking about parallels to Cultural Revolution nihilism. (Article Jeremy Mayer) thehill.com/opinion/tech...

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this is the person who would actually know if this tactic is effective or not. he can hear the phones ringing.

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Omg this is so fantastic. lia.mg/posts/despai...

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The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

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Trump tells the head of the Federal Election Commission that she's been fired, but she's refusing to leave office.

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During my former life, I accepted being shot at, dodging IEDs and the occasional rocket…Let me tell you, waking up to yet another Fork in the Road email knowing it originated from a 19-y/o incel at the behest of an oligarch has me enraged like never before.

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As a liberal, I'm so mad about what's going on now that I'm going to stop listening to the audiobook of Hillbilly Elegy when I'm in my Tesla.

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