mikkel-gnoer.bsky.social
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..but appears to be correct based on a post by FAS dean Hopi Hoekstra. Not entirely clear how much of a further austerity measure this represents compared to what was announced in March.
www.fas.harvard.edu/2025/04/24/f....
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Thanks for the link. What I was referring to was the only corroboration in that TPM post, a “Later update” mentioning an email sent out by Alan Garber about the spending freeze. This has otherwise not been reported anywhere, including The Crimson or the HU Gazette...
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Not yet clear whether this email represents something substantially different from what was reported last month. Haven't seen details of this reported anywhere else, including The Crimson.
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Link? Something like this was reported last month
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We need to have a conversation about Lonsdale’s hair plugs
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Good lord
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Trump is not paying for him to be there. You and I are.
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👏
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and has been a crown jewel of American innovation for decades. Harder to explain to a lay public, but a pillar of our society. Torched by a bunch of venal morons. Unfathomable destruction.
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It’s worse than this.
Gov’t funded biomedical research is not all applied, disease-focused, as important as that is. More basic, fundamental research has been the engine of countless breakthroughs with unforeseen benefits in a multitude of areas..
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Absolutely. But again, he's a marquee villain. It's important to also call out the people actively carrying out this destruction, the foot soldiers. And to hang it around their necks for the rest of their lives. Make them suffer the consequences of what they're doing.
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Right. He’s pretty famous already. But *all* these DOGE operatives need to have their names live in infamy, and their lives made hell.
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Thiel is looking pretty undead
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Who’s doing this?
Not just Musk and RFK.
➡️ Brad Smith
➡️ Rachel Riley
Make ‘em famous.
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As they were saying in Nuuk, “Sofatit toqqoqqagit!”
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“Target” lol
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More like the political dynamics from 1945-1995.
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One of the early pieces of reporting about DOGE was that they were using Signal.
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You can get a human at her NYC office, (212) 688-6262. I've called numerous times.
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löl
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“Pare back”
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I dunno, I think it's a ketamine/leaded gasoline smoothie
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Whitehouse??
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“DOGE” will not be on vacation.
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It’s very good, aside from the stenographic reference to “Mr. Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency,” and the credulous statement that “Cabinet officials almost uniformly like the concept of what Mr. Musk set out to do — reducing waste, fraud and abuse in government…”
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Ideally it would do both, letting the public know that Democrats are not a bunch contemptible cowards and weaklings.
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She's a fascinating figure. Is this connected with your Linotype project?
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Beatrice Warde! Now here is a subject that’s a breath of fresh air!
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Did you catch the reaction shot of her smiling and clapping after he said that?
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Hard to look credible freaking out when you’re sitting in the House chamber wearing pink
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They would?
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This is good: www.offmessage.net/p/its-crunch...
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The apporpriately grandiose 10-room Secretary of War Suite in the EEOB, 1650 17th St NW. These rooms are in the middle of the facade, 2nd floor, facing the street. In case, oh, I don’t know, one wanted to do a protest out there with bullhorns or something…
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Yeah, perhaps the solution will be some kind of market driven re-aggregation of good writers.
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We are lemmings
We are crazies
We will feed our flower habit
Pushin’ daisies
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Another parallel between Mao and Musk, not just Trump, is of course the abusive father. And Musk's penchant for self-created chaos. The connection to the Silicon Valley self-valorizing shibboleth of "disruption" bears further comparison as well.