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I say nobody responds, let's see what happens
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She gives meta money for what, sponsored posts?
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Is this even correct? Did Trump issue an eo to fire a bunch of FAA employees, for example? My impression is of Musk just coming up with stuff on the fly
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Someone else posted this and a couple people including me checked and can't find this tweet. Probably a fake. Screw Elon though
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How much tax $ was spent on these prisoner surgeries? I'd guess very little. What if she had come out and owned/explained the policy? Maybe that would have worked
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It's one poll, rcp avg has him under 50 in job approval, though still more approve than not (10% don't know?) Still nauseating, but it doesn't seem like he's more popular since taking office, really
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Most of this seems to be about psychic needs I guess
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They don't like dei, usaid, and various other things, and they want to get rid of things they don't like and also save money to make tax cuts easier. I thought what they get out of it was fairly clear
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Are there still active J6 cases? I thought they were all killed
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It's not clear that Trump really knows this is happening. From the report of Bessent's meeting yesterday it seems like some in Gop are at least concerned. I wonder if someone might get trump to see the danger for him here and apply brakes, if possible.
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I don't get the logic of #2. The reports are wrong, Musk does not have the ability to control flow of $, & Bessent is too scared to say that? But that's what Bessent did say. Either the reports are wrong and Bessent is right, or the reports are right and Bessent is lying/scared of Musk or ignorant.
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Musk's quote tweet of Flynn's spreadsheet tweet the other day was interpreted as "Musk found scandalous secret data and sent it to Flynn". I interpreted it that way. Had to dig to find out that the spreadsheet was publicly available data.
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He also inflated it from 50k to 100k
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This guy says Flynn is sharing public info, not whatever musk illegally accessing
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Is it possible that Musk really means "we WILL BE shutting down these payments through some sort of process that involves other actual Treasury officials"? Still illegal, but that would reconcile his tweet with the NYT and politico stories. With him enjoying the freakout caused by the ambiguity
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This sounds plausible, but I'd like to know more details on how it would be carried out. Since states are still somewhat independent, with their own election officials & governors, who are hopefully not all in the tank for this takeover
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Sheryl's second paragraph has me puzzled
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Can a state rep have any say regarding NIH funding? Honestly wondering
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I watch him on Counterpoints, he seems ok, why the hate. Haven't read him, is that where the problem is
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Oh
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Good point but why 20 gop senators? Wouldn't 13 of them be enough? Not that that would ever happen.
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"extending to the seaward boundary with Mexico". Don't know where that boundary is but from the map it seems like that text allows the southern half of the gulf to still be the Gulf of Mexico
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Haven't you people heard of print and wipe, I print out the Guardian every week mostly just so I can say I wouldn't wipe my ass with it, though if the article is borderline acceptable, well
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Like on Mad Men or The Apartment, maybe
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Definitely is, just re-read it, really interesting. Had to do with the sound of the finger piano, which he wanted to play a part in So What and All Blues, but it didn't work out the way he had in mind.
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He said it in his autobio, don't know if you're looking for other corroboration. I think he also said that was the intent/impetus but then it just took on its own different direction
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They are?
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Self-Portrait was a deliberate attempt to alienate his audience, at least that's what the man said in some interview.
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If they'd known there would be a printing press in the future they might have acted differently?
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I've always figured that since books were all handmade & there weren't many of them, the decision makers just figured "well these books all have important stuff in them, they can't be reconciled but that's for us to know".
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I thought the theory (maybe I heard via Bart Ehrman) was that the Bethlehem nativity was added on to fulfill a Hebrew Bible prophecy about a Messiah coming from Bethlehem and belonging to the Davidic line. Mark and John authors weren't concerned about that for whatever reason.
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That time I changed my name from John to Count Abscess and back to John, it wasn't all a smooth journey
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Try fetid sheets, you'll never go back, trust me
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There's a bit of a linear-time problem with the statement, since the semester has not started & she hasn't done this thing yet, but she's already announcing what it feels like to do it
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Just wish he'd change the sheets once in a while
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Don't people just blame the people in power for whatever is shitty? He wasn't popular when in office, then Biden wasn't popular so they forgot they didn't like trump...don't see why the same cycle wouldn't repeat now
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I thought the problem was that they let CARES expire and people were worse off in the second half of Biden's term
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No doubt many knowingly voted for this, but I believe in the existence of some percentage of voters who pay no attention, know almost nothing about the candidates, and vote on vibes. When 128k more votes in 3 states could have won it for Harris, seems like those types maybe made the difference.
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What pivot did we need to do after '22, not following
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Yeah but I'm wondering about the math, did reps increase their vote total or was it that Dems decreased theirs? If Dems decreased, some people who didn't come out this year might come out again in different circumstances, like after having a normal primary process
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Is this in great part possibly just a sign of Biden voters in non-competitive states not showing up because the candidates sucked and it didn't matter? The swing state results hurt that theory a bit maybe only a bit
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It would be funny if someone were actually posting as that squirrel, and the squirrel was cooking up maga schemes and tweeting about them. But I take it it's just an actual maga not really pretending to be a squirrel other than the screen name oh well
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I would have assumed this was a joke (and pretty funny)
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Is the "already voted" number considered an exit poll? I thought it was inappropriate for that kind of data to be released before polls close.