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I still don’t quite understand the timeline or mechanism of the attack on USAID. Doge gets access to treasury, musk tweets that he spent the weekend feeding usaid into the wood chipper, Rubio fires everyone????

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Just aggressively stupid

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NYT: Giving Elon Musk Unrestricted Access To The Federal Government’s Financial Systems, And Unilateral Discretion To Stop Spending, Might Possibly Be, In The Eyes Of Some, Under Certain Interpretations, Not Entirely Not Illegal

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opened the throttle on blowing through apparent legal limits opened the throttle on blowing through apparent legal limits opened the throttle on blowing through apparent legal limits opened the throttle on blowing through apparent legal limits opened the throttle on blowing through apparent legal li

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Thank go we preserved the filibuster. The establishment incrementalists were right

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Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now

submitted 18 days ago • 1468 comments

this is right. on our current track the Constitution is done, kaput www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

submitted 18 days ago • 28 comments

Every day is just xkcd.com/1494/

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Trump is openly violating the law on a vast and unprecedented scale and everyone is acting like it's normal. NPR had a long story about finding a rare shrew. NYT said he was disregarding "legal niceties." This is an attack on the Constitution as profound as the attempt to overturn the 2020 election.

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HARD TIMES create DEMOCRATS DEMOCRATS create GOOD TIMES GOOD TIMES create REPUBLICANS REPUBLICANS create HARD TIMES

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We are now all the protagonist of the “every Bay Area house party” story. www.astralcodexten.com/p/every-bay-...

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Gutting finding for veterans, foster programs, hungry children, farmers, and police. I mean this shouldn’t be hard

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I thought the book American Kingpin was quite good.

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Genuinely confused by the Silk Road guy getting a pardon. Is it a Musk thing? Is he some kind of hero on the right? Who is in Trump's ear about this?

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youtu.be/zvgZtdmyKlI?...

submitted 34 days ago • 264 comments

How is Trump going to save TikTok with executive action? I don’t understand

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Why do I have a hard time looking directly at the eyes.

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And the bass keeps runnin', runnin' and runnin', runnin'…

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Trump, famous for fastidiously looking into the people he hires, was definitely not advocating for himself, something he would never do.

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Polymarkets mixed with the reality-tv-ification of our lives feels like it is only a matter of time before we are bettering on literal gladiator fights or gang violence or something.

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

IDK going after insurance companies seems pretty populist to me.

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Finally zapping Facebook.

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Luckily Zuckerberg keeps his hair short enough that he doesn't even have to put it back into a ponytail.

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Would note that far from a break with politics this is an enormous problem in politics. Social problem/issue (like healthcare in 2008) becomes national issue. Dems fix it. Everyone assumes it has always been that way. Country shifts right as lesser issues become the focus.

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DC didn't even have a decent Italian joint until like 2011

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Everyone’s talking about how the AI bots made by Meta are bad, but just a reminder you can make your own Meta AI chatbot right inside Messenger and there’s definitely no problems there

submitted 51 days ago • 64 comments

Not since Chris Moneymaker

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This was interesting and largely compelling but doesn't feel like it answers the question of why administrative costs are the preferred outcome of self-dealing and monopolistic power. Why not use all that to extract profit? www.thebignewsletter.com/p/its-time-t...

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I think it is only proper that Trump carry on the tradition of having FBI directors from the opposing party, a glorious norm upheld only by democrats

submitted 74 days ago • 12 comments

think folks are overestimating what "make trump fire you" would even do, but splitting the difference with "I will serve until a replacement is confirmed" was still there

submitted 74 days ago • 11 comments

Despite never having shown any interest, the YouTube algorithm is convinced I want to know about terrible comedians cycling through each others podcasts, Lex Friedman et al., people commenting on other people's weigh lifting (?), and former SOF bros reminiscing about the GWOT. So basically this guy.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

the cops did what now

submitted 77 days ago • 45 comments

Love that Hegseth has identified that his drinking is a problem but he's absolutely going to keep doing it if he doesn't get the job.

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