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Important thread on atrocity grooming.

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Fair question.

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To give a sense of how much money this is: according to CBO in 2023, non-defense discretionary spending was $917B. So the cost of running the entire federal govt, aside from SocSec, Medicare, Medicaid & defense was $917B. And in six weeks DOGE lit $500B on fire.

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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." —FDR, 1937

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National strike. Mass demonstrations. Even better, impeachment & removal of the anti-American fascist.

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When the Ayatollah claims the moral high ground you know things are dire in the red, white, and blue

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I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

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The new Canadian uniform for any international sporting competition involving the US

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"Democracy is incompatible with the extremity of wealth inequality that we now have in America. The two things cannot coexist." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-underl...

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Given the current political climate, the final season of Andor is going to hit like a ton of bricks.

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In the beginning the Internet was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams, probably

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The collective infectious disease community anytime RFK shares a new strategy

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