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Small government

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"The decision to love and serve the stranger, the refugee, and the foreigner with charity is a hallmark of the Christian faith, such that a government crackdown on this work seems to be a threat to Christian practice itself," Elizabeth Bruenig writes:

submitted 14 days ago • 25 comments

I think it already is. But seriously. Don’t call them names. We want the door open for them when they realize the mistake they made. We are for a better America. Not a vindictive America

submitted 23 days ago • 6038 comments

Trump’s motivations are simple to understand: It’s just so that he will have fewer constraints on his executive power. For the right, this is a longtime goal that precedes Trump’s arrival on the scene.

submitted 23 days ago • 6 comments

My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread

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Watching OpenAI's livestream about Operator: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSE7... Seems like a smart version of Puppeteer, etc... I'm an AI optimist and OpenAI has constraints, but the next company won't. How will sites cope or will they accept smarter bots? #ai #artificialintelligence

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Seems pretty clear…. Fourteenth Amendment Section 1 All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. (Last sentence in 1st comment)

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Happy New Year and may God have mercy on us, though we certainly don’t deserve it!

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Caitlin Clark Supplements Rookie Salary By Taking Adjunct Professor Of Basketball Job theonion.com/caitlin-clar...

submitted 54 days ago • 26 comments

Jimmy Carter was a national treasure. RIP. #RIPPresidentCarter

submitted 56 days ago • 221 comments

Eagle couple not in agreement in how the nest is structured (found on Reddit)

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

As 2024 draws to an end, Team Big Picture's Jay Kuo compiled strategies and tips, gleaned from experts and from his conversations with many readers, on ways to survive these next four Trump years, both individually and collectively as a democracy. thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/surviving-...

submitted 61 days ago • 105 comments

Christmas smoked turkey with coffee rub! Came out great in most places - might inject some sparkling apple cider or something next year.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Things we're reading: Can democracy survive the disruptive power of AI? The Carnegie Endowment’s Raluca Csernatoni looks for answers. carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

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“When we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, then we’re in a crisis.” Published August 10, 2023:

submitted 60 days ago • 26 comments

Remember when politics was boring and you had no idea who the Secretary of Any Given Dept. was, but you were reasonably sure they knew something about what they were doing and weren't put there to run it into the ground? Yeah, good times...

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

President-elect Donald Trump confirmed on Monday that he is “looking at” the idea of privatizing the U.S. Postal Service. This comes as the service ended the last fiscal year with a $9.5 billion net loss. We looked at the numbers to see why it's been living in the red. mktplc.org/3VKJLK1

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h... Here come the idiots

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Realize that gov contracts for Medicare and Medicaid. And who do they work with ? Insurance companies. First step to single payer is to help self insured employers be single payer for their employees and their families. That is currently a population of 50m let them be the beta test

submitted 75 days ago • 409 comments

Dunno about you guys, but I’m not ready to claim a murderer with Mein Kampf on his Goodreads list as a folk hero just yet.

submitted 75 days ago • 376 comments

Foreign-born workers make up a quarter of the overall construction workforce. But with an ongoing housing shortage, some homebuilders worry that incoming President Donald Trump’s immigration policy might reduce their workforce, leaving them short-handed.

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

I haven't seen anybody comment on this, but it's pretty crazy that this guy (now seemingly caught) was identified because he couldn't help taking his mask down to smile at a girl.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments