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Here's how it works: 1. DOGE fires everybody at USIP. 2. A DOGE guy from GSA gets installed USIP's acting president. 3. That guy agrees to transfer USIP's $500 million headquarters back to GSA—for free. www.wired.com/story/doge-t...

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Secret Bukele Deal Lies Behind Trump’s El Salvador Deportations www.dropsitenews.com/p/secret-buk... Criminal presidents exchanging favors.

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COLBERT, on Trump calling Tesla “Tesler”: “It was an honest mistake. He just mixed up the two words most associated with Elon Musk: Tesla .. and Hitler.”

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wow

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www.reuters.com/business/aut... "Trump said this month he would likely make his first trip abroad to Saudi Arabia, after asking the kingdom in January to spend upwards of $1 trillion in the U.S. economy, over four years, including military purchases."

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As Singapore-based fund manager Xin-Yao Ng concluded, “It is a fool’s errand to try and predict what Trump will do.” via Bloomberg Given the equivalency, it follows that Ng also concluded that it is Trump's errand to try and predict what a fool will do. via here

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Conclusion: fluoridation of drinking water prevents homophobia AND cavities utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/03/28/u...

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Goofball Nazis delivering their BS from South Africa to the USA, Chapter David (Incel) Sacks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPLh...

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"The People of The Lie" credit: Brooke Harrington

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Roaming Charges: The Goldberg Variations - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/03/28/r... Give Jeffrey St Clair's weekly (usually) column a try. Information + a moral POV + some snark.

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Pete Hegseth has a Russian email address for the same reason Donald Trump has a Chinese bank account.

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the "rewrite all of social security in three months" proposition is manifestly unserious, stupid, deleterious &c, many are discussing that though something i wanna highlight pervades the tech industry (and tech media) that i would characterize as This Is Totally Gonna Work Exactly As Planned™

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NEW: Trump has now let more than 100 companies off the hook for alleged crimes and violations. readsludge.com/2025/03/28/t...

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From the Revenge Desk at Gold Draperies USA!USA! (formerly known as The Presidency) www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

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Add Thiel, Brooks, Botha. www.democracynow.org/2025/3/27/el...

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A SpaceX investor testified the company prefers to avoid investors from China because it’s a defense contractor. One major exception, he noted: SpaceX finds it “acceptable” for Chinese investors to buy their shares through offshore vehicles. By @justinelliott.bsky.social & @josh-kaplan.bsky.social

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“Two of the keys to credibility are to never deny the undeniable and never defend the indefensible.” Whit Ayres Republican strategist via Bloomberg News March 27 We are idly wondering where Whit stands on the principle to never split the infinitive.

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19 million people who voted for Biden in 2020 didn't vote in the 2024 election. This report is from January. www.dropsitenews.com/p/kamala-har...

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Gift article from The New York Times, read it for free. Big investment in the White House "Thinning the Herd" Project. Success is guaranteed. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...

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If the DOGIES figure out who is really intended to benefit from energy storage in Morrow County, they will relent on funding. www.opb.org/article/2023...

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The cuts that may include Morrow County Oregon were previewed at this somewhat paywalled site. Please pardon my premature conclusionating. www.eenews.net/articles/doe...

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Instead of the information re Morrow County's (OR) energy storage project (cancelled by DOGE)), DOE redirects to this. IF LNG replaces coal, and IF you regard methane as equal to carbon dioxide in its effect on climate, and IF you disregard the need to cut both... www.energy.gov/articles/icy...

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www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

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Thieves of the common good emerge from the shadows. jacobin.com/2025/03/well...

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www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... The Atlantic wants you to sign up for a free trial or a subscription in order to read this.

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Roaming Charges: Schlock and Chainsaw - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/03/24/r... The semi-weekly column by Jeffrey St Clair. Always informative.

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This is why DOGE seeks to weld AI into federal gov systems, making it difficult & costly to dislodge: ensuring a reliable revenue stream for AI bros, so their failed "innovation"--which the free market has rejected--will pay off. Not how capitalism works: how corporatism (a form of fascism) works.

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You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/w... "“We did a lot of safety analysis, considering a lot of bad things that could happen,” said Mr. Schmieman, 78, a retired civil engineer from Washington state who was a senior technical adviser on the project."

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WaPo headline March 25, 2025: "New Trump demand to colleges: Name protesters — and their nationalities" Who's next?

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wallstreetonparade.com/2025/03/trum...

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"Oregon farmers, others tell U.S. Rep. Andrea Salinas about impact of federal cuts." And unexpected tariff impacts. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/03/21/o...

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goodjobsfirst.org/amazon-track... Currently, Amazon is pressing Oregon to allow nuclear energy in Umatilla County for its data center (site of a $1B county tax subsidy per this website). Also currently, that would be against Oregon law.

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"On March 28, Amazon is sunsetting its “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” privacy option for Echo home devices — meaning everything users say to their Echos will be recorded and sent to Amazon’s cloud platform, where the data will never expire. Why? To train artificial intelligence." from The Lever

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An Executive Order paused all offshore wind energy development and leasing of federal waters for wind. “We’re not going to do the wind thing, “Big, ugly windmills, they ruin your neighborhood." The Executive Order of a "national energy emergency", same day. The one thing gets you the other.

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What will Trump break next? The future? Gift article from The New York Times. Youhttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/opinion/doge-elon-musk-usda-crops.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6E4.TBB_.ajeAN8R7t66O&smid=bs-share

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Gift article, from The New York Times. I suggest that it is not worthwhile to determine which of the parties is lying. It does not follow that there is a truth to be identified in the morass just because their stories don't match. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/u...

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Knee Deep in The Grift "Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick urged [FOX] viewers to buy Tesla stock... Cantor Fitzgerald, the financial services firm once run by Lutnick but now helmed by his children, held roughly 740,000 shares of Tesla stock at the end of 2024." Edith Olmsted, New Republic

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Candidates for a new EPA slogan: "Better living through chemistry." "Nature, Shmature." "Thinning the human herd: for the Betterment of Mankind." "If they die, they die." Ultimately, there's "Whadda YOU lookin' at?"

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insideclimatenews.org/news/1603202... Or, alien abduction.

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NY Times: "Law Firm Bends in Face of Trump Demands Paul, Weiss — one of three law firms targeted by President Trump as part of his retribution campaign — said it resolved the conflict by agreeing to a range of commitments." Silly me. That's not blackmail. It's extortion.

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Read this gift article from The New York Times. How is this not blackmail? Add it to Bruce Fein's articles of impeachment. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

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Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are at an 800,000-year high, according to the World Meteorological Organization. Compared to which, the cerebral shrinkage caused by a MAGA ballcap is a minor affair..

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Trump is now considering allowing US law enforcement to enter the home of any American - without a warrant - in pursuit of non-citizens it seeks to deport. As recompense for such a fruitless violation of my home, I would accept a small gold bar. Absolutely no crypto will be accepted.

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A jury ordered Greenpeace to pay more than $660 million. Did the jury describe how this cost will be covered? With a well-designed payment plan such as I propose (a dollar a year for 660 million years), fairness, justice, and equity would be preserved. Alternatively, a GP special issue bitcoin.

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:)

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