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"nobody even knows where the [national debt] money went and you’re not allowed to ask." Huh? Its all public record at OMB, CBO, & Treasury websites, which I've also used to publish 600 reports, articles, & chart books specifying where all the money went. You can log off Twitter and go look it up!

JD Vance - If you believe any of the multiple federal courts that have ruled against you so far are exceeding their statutory or Constitutional authority, your recourse is to appeal. You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you are losing. That’s tyranny.

The good ol days when forgetting forgetting an agency you'd eliminate gets you eliminated, but just randomly destroying by fiat wasn't considered allowable www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyMo...

How unfillable is the hole in your soul that one could be the literal richest person in the world and then be upset that America has an agency that helps the poorest in the world?

Move fast and break things is not the motto you want to adopt at a regulatory system that, as challenged as it may seem at times, is extremely functional.

Honestly, it’s like they made an Airplane! movie, but about the U.S. government.

hey @peterbakernyt.bsky.social since when did US support for genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and the illegal annexation of another people's land become "audacious"? Was the Serbian ethnic cleansing of Bosnia "audacious"? Was the Rwandan genocide? Do words have meaning?

This is some of the dumbest shit I've ever seen

Crazy to me that vix is only 19 right now

Some useful Surveillance Self Defense links for people who want to lock their shit down right now: Attending a protest: ssd.eff.org/module/atten... How to Use Signal: ssd.eff.org/module/how-t... Security starter pack: ssd.eff.org/playlist/wan...

One of the data points that made me somewhat optimistic about tariffs is that in Trump 1 he was actually fairly responsive to markets, looking at them as a sort of scorecard. But recent evidence shows this may not be the case anymore.

Ramaswamy's take that this'll lower bond rates is... suspect