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I want to address a related point to the one I raised in this thread. A couple years ago the Times did a really strong package about the power of SpaceX. Not only is SpaceX. Not only is it now one if not the preemptive orbital delivery company in the world it also has a fleet of ...

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“Like how can you be a remotely competent historian without insisting upon a Great Man interpretation that actual historians rejected ages ago?”

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The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

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Democrats are fundamentally misunderstanding the moment: We're not asking them to be legislators right now. We need them to be politicians. There's nothing to be done about the legislative situation. They're right about that. But there's PLENTY to be done as politicians.

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I wrote about this already

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Schrödinger’s doge

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Numbers go down and suddenly everyone rediscovers their spine

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Republicans are pro-Alzheimers

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Dark glasses, can't string a thought together, sounds terrible - if it were a college student, i would say it was high.

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lol yes he is

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This isn't how framing works. Want to set up the frame for the next election. START NOW. Spend the next 1-2 years calling the GOP traitors, Trump in Putin's pocket, etc. Learn the damn lesson that the GOP has ruthlessly taught us since Obama's win in 08

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Everyone dogging on Nunez (fair) but let's not forget that Jota spoiled a golden chance as well. Legit should have been 4-2 finish for Liverpool (had we had a finisher...)

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This is 100% correct.

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Lol

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If Darwin Nunez could finish….

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Well, at the least, it's good to know that no, they don't actually care about Federalism, that it's just a schtick that they will throw away when they don't need it anymore.

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Truly extraordinary to do a PhD in Communication when "presidential words don't matter" was all the rage and now, 11 years after finishing, the only thing that matters are presidential words. If the academy was still alive, I might have something to write.

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kernel of the right messaging. I give it a 7/10. add Obamcare to the chop list would edge up the rating.

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This is a bribe

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is this bad?

submitted 4 days ago • 271 comments

Never been right about anything. Any start now?

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Not breaking any new ground here, but my god is Bari a bad writer and thinker

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I’m not sure the rest of the country fully grasps the panic and anger building in DC, MD, and VA. The entire economy of this area is about to collapse. Paychecks are stopping. Careers are ruined. Taxes are about to plummet. Yet no one seems able to stop this madness.

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I worked on this story for a decade and he just said it out loud on Fox News

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These are summary bots. That’s it. And they are not even very good at that (at least the free versions)

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Hyperloop, boring company, full self-driving, cpap machines when promising ventilators during covid, promising to clean Flint's water, promise to save the kids in a cave, promise to land on mars...

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These people are so desperate for attention. www.goal.com/en/lists/int...

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Every business leader in the country should be outraged by this. Think of what he can do with this info and act accordingly

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worth saying again these these unilateral cuts are illegal. neither trump nor musk has the authority to unilaterally slash appropriated funds.

submitted 7 days ago • 479 comments

All my life I have studied democratization and autocratization. My 1st field trip was to newly democratic Argentina. I then added autocracies to my portfolio: Cuba, Ven, etc. I think I can recognize the stages of transition to authoritarianism. Here are the boxes Trump has already checked off.

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FDR was trying to pull the country out of a depression. Elon is apparently trying to generate one.

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Take of two halves for Liverpool. First half: aggressive, foot forward football. Second half: defensive, lazy football. Take the points and the lesson. Champions go for the jugular.

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Utter failure to grasp what we are facing www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/u... 1. People lack the framework to recognize an attempt to overthrow the constitutional order 2. The lack of elites acting like point 1 is true makes it illegible. Without Ds behaving as if it's a crisis, it's not a crisis.

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Neo-Nazi terrorist and convicted mass murderer Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011, cited this same Napoleon quote in his manifesto.

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👇🏽

submitted 7 days ago • 329 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

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Just a coincidence.

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Dementia only matters if you're a Democrat.

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it is a segregation campaign www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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The world's smallest violin is playing a sad song for Real Madrid and their fans today.

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we are getting a national version of red state governance, where the people in charge do everything they can to impoverish the state under the view that the more wretched things get, the easier it is for them to stay in power

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I can’t get over how stupid this is:

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I’ve considered it and, you know what? I don’t fucking care. They’ve already elevated those exact far right outlets at the Pentagon and pushed out legacy media. Legitimate news outfits can take a stand against this now, or they can meekly enable this fascist shit & still get pushed out later.

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