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Does anyone know what will remain of the government when this “project” is completed? It’s hard to track what is being decimated
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And at some point most of them get a slot on Bill Maher’s show.
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Oren Cass? Christopher Rufo?
I appreciate you’re here but the Times is platforming and validating bad actors.
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I believe that in a recent election in New Hampshire several women were repeatedly turned away for not having the same last name as their birth certificate. One woman kept her married name after her divorce to have the same last name as her kids. This law will negatively impact women.
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I guess some people don’t know about bookstores and looking through a book to see if you want to buy it. Or even going to a library. It’s a lost art 🤷♀️
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At the moment, high-end trousers are mostly made in Italy, which typically retail for around $500. Why can't we have a US factory that tries to make something for less? The US should subsidize the training of these workers, even if they're immigrants. Help create education programs for tailoring.
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Still no movement on the budget screw up for DC and stuff like this costs the city a lot of money that the feds may or may not reimburse for.
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So tired of the ‘conservative voices are squelched’ at universities. Do they think liberals at conservative universities can say whatever they want without consequences? Do they know that it took years and litigation to get Georgetown to permit space/funding for the LGBT student group?
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Great interview, thank you. Explains the subtleties of what’s going on with DOGE.
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all of the talk of “reshoring (low end) manufacturing” and “bringing back the american worker” is a smokescreen for a plan to impoverish as many americans by forcing as many of them as possible into backbreaking, low wage labor. it’s discipline for an unruly populace.
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Let them eat cake moment
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Yes because the science behind polygraphs shows that it's junk but good to have people be very anxious and nervous so you can use that as "evidence" of wrongdoing.
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On top of the bull in a china shop approach to downsizing the federal government. People likely don’t realize how many things that they rely on (i.e. Meals on Wheels for elderly neighbor, school lunches) in their community come from federal funding. Some states only meet once a year to legislate.
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Makes sense even if it is horrible.
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Good point
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What are the reasons for this? Why destroy research that demonstrably saves lives?
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Good
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When Trump said the states should take over these programs he didn't know how many of them were funded by the federal government via taxpayer dollars. Middle-class taxpayer dollars.
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okay one more: tom cotton looks like the gomer pyle they locked in the attic
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Was someone asking to have this done or is this just a way for them to get hands on data so Musk has the federal contract for “customer service”
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I’ll add, particularly terrifying for women who learn to keep an eye on surroundings and being approached by a man and then another man is probably paralyzing knowing what likely comes next.
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Survey says: not that all involved with Presidenting. Happy Meal activities scheduled for him: tour the Kennedy Center pick some musicals, sign some important papers, wrestling event with Musk, Mar-a-Lago every weekend for golf and wedding crashing. Lather rinse repeat.
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He should have watched that movie White Nights from the ‘80s before he planned his move.
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Let me fix that for you: the pundit habit of treating Hanania and Rufo and people like them as worthy of engagement has helped mainstream them and transform the GOP into openly racist groypers, one of the most counterproductive and off-putting choices of the last 20 years of media figures
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From Nov 2023 to Jan 2024 I worked on a tool we called the AI sandbox. Our goal: let federal software devs test out AI tools in a safe way, to discover if they have any use.
Renamed GSAi, the tool has been claimed by DOGE. It is being rolled out on an alarming accelerated schedule.
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Let’s be clear, men with political power don’t ever have to interact with chatbots ever. They have real live people who resolve the issues that every day ppl encounter. Chatbots eliminate customer service employees and are designed to frustrate consumers so they give up.
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Some private colleges/universities are only staying afloat with tuition from foreign undergrad and grad students. If research grants are terminated to US academic institutions then less ability to attract these students.
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Tough time to do so when the market is flooded with top-notch attorneys who left the DOJ
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There is a lot of fan-girling about Elon amongst right wing pundits. Stars in their eyes, he’s so brilliant: “He single handedly brought the astronauts back, he has brilliant 19 year old DOGE employees etc. No Republican is going to challenge this zeitgeist until SSA collapses.
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It’s good to remind people that pushing back works, thank you!
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And would a corporate client really feel confident in a law firm that just negotiated a 40 million settlement for no good cause?
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It all comes back to the myth of Elon's genius. Because he's not a genius, one of his only ways of achieving a competitive edge is to take on more risk than everyone else. Less validation testing on cars to save cost. Fewer safeguards on Autopilot to make it seem self-driving. On and on it goes.
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5/ Having now thought about it for a bit I think there's a non-trivial chance that Elon will hear about this and based on Alex's limited coding skills, confidence in AI and general sociopathy he'll be recruited to join Premiere League DOGE. And my additional smidgen of publicity may have played ...
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Is this a Musk/Trump plan or a Heritage Project 2025 plan?
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Or a family member is managing their care and has the legal right to contact SSA but is overwhelmed with other responsibilities and a phone call is a way to resolve a situation. What’s the remedy to a problem-sending a letter?
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He won’t be worse because he will not continue to test the system? Or he won’t do whatever the Heritage people have lined up?
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What’s really awful is that there were federal employees within the USDS/18F working on improving user experience across agencies. It’s clear gutting those groups and then privatizing something that didn’t need fixing is disgraceful.
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10/ leveled with people from the first. But I'd love to see more of those videos. If we're going to emerge from the cataclysm and degeneracy of Trumpism it won't be going back to the old way. It will only work with a new birth of freedom and civic vitality. We're in an age in which ...