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This reminds me of John Doar's meeting with Freedom Summer volunteers before they went down to Mississippi. He sympathized with the work but told them, accurately, that the federal government couldn't protect them and they were on their own. Some were furious; others appreciated the straight talk.

submitted 53 days ago • 12 comments

GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office. ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.

submitted 65 days ago • 11817 comments

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

submitted 67 days ago • 471 comments

Ok. So. Look. Lend-Lease, since it’s in the news again thanks to BoJo. LL, introduced in spring 1941, was intended to get around the specific problem that the UK no longer had dollar liquidity to pay for US imports at a time when the United States was still neutral in the war.

submitted 69 days ago • 2 comments

Elon, I hate to break it to you but you aren’t my boss. I answer to the people of Minnesota. But since you bring it up, I spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for billionaires like you, paid for by defunding health care for moms and babies

submitted 71 days ago • 658 comments

One more thing about this piece of bullsophistry by Barnett and Wurman on birthright citizenship. To the framers of the 14th Amendment, people who had, by bad actions, failed of allegiance, obedience, and amity were not a hypothetical problem. *There were hundreds of thousands of them.* 1/

submitted 78 days ago • 18 comments

These dorks who’ve played Metternich in wargames think that they’re doing a super clever great power realpolitik, letting Russia absorb Ukraine while planning to absorb Canada, Greenland, and Panama. They’ve convinced themselves that instead of doing a Munich… they’re doing a Molotov-Ribbentrop.

submitted 78 days ago • 10 comments

What even does this mean? And we're going to have to kill all of the AI, because we will have to assume that Musk's lack of proper security protocols has put it all in jeopardy. Notwithstanding that AI is garbage. We are going to need leaders who understand SYSTEMS. Technology is just a bad crutch.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

::taps sign::

submitted 78 days ago • 44 comments

"When strangers reside with you in your land, you shall not wrong them. The strangers who reside with you shall be to you as your citizens; you shall love each one as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt." (Leviticus 19:33-34)

submitted 78 days ago • 35 comments

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 78 days ago • 415 comments

Agreed. But they also reflect tension, uncertainty, disorder, and chaos. All of which we have right now.

submitted 78 days ago • 21 comments