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While egg prices sore, 25% USDA's National Animal Health Laboratory Network program office was fired, which coordinates the work of 58 facilities responding to the spread of bird flu. Trump is blaming Joe Biden for the spread of the #BirdFlu while he spends his time golfing and firing people!

It's annoying how clearly this is going to play out. They gut the FAA. Therefore, the FAA can't do its job well because it was gutted. Therefore, they say "The FAA sucks, we have to privatize it." which is what Project 2025 wants to do. They're manufacturing the crises for their end goal.

in 20 years the modern right has gone from sociopath John Galt fetishists in colonial cosplay to Silicon Valley Vlad Harkonnens who require an earth-eating LLM to show them how to put their underwear on; its no wonder why Andreessen-Horowitz fascism requires 20,000 serfs to every pissbaby mogul

It's interesting. I think leakers know feeding WaPo/NYT tips means they'll die on the vine or be relegated to A22. Considering how compliant the big papers have been towards Trump, I bet they worry their identity would be given to Trump etc, too

I have the lead story at the Post for now, breaking the news that the UK has secretly ordered Apple to provide a back door to the strongest encrypted storage it offers--while making it a criminal offense to tell users the truth. Free version here, no sign-up needed. archive.is/EzboV

Another way to think about this is that things the Republican Party has always wanted are happening and key things Donald Trump, who supposedly "transformed the Republican Party" personally wants are not.

In 2022, Peter Thiel's "house philosopher" envisioned a second Trump administration led by a "CEO" who would be tasked with destroying the government. He wrote down a blueprint. Welcome to the New Reality. www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-...

This is what’s happening. Trump isn’t doing any of this. He is their patsy. He’s like the Governor in Blazing Saddles. Put the orders in front of him, sign them, look at boobs and play golf. They are destroying the government on purpose. That is literally the goal.

honestly think some of the hesitation here is that no one wants to sound like a crank. i was talking at an event last night and even i felt like a crank while i was speaking!

I don't know whether to laugh or cry, or scream... or all of the above.

A must-read. This’d be worth creating a Facebook account just to read—and I know what a claim that is to make. It’s a bracing essay about Elon Musk by someone very close to him. (This is very much _not_ about me, of course, but I’ll say that if you ever doubted my writing on Musk, this will help.)

Tons of posts saying trump has withdrawn from.the World health organization, but none explaining why

It’s just so important to have an algorithm heavy social media site designed to destroy America and drive everyone to madness while stealing all our information owned and operated by an American company because they’re more effective at it you know

It turns out the “free speech” guys want the federal government, or its proxies, to control all major communications platforms

This is so spot-on it’s scary.