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on the other hand, dewey’s “the public and its problems”

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it won't happen, but I think the best move dems could make would be something like the "contract with america" from 1994, promising aggressive action (ideally threatening to abuse the origination clause) to take control of the government. mandates are mostly fake but politics is mostly fake.

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The New Republic imagined, in parody, a John Birch coup, 1961:

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reports vary but federal buyouts and expected layoffs total around 300,000 workers, which would put total federal employment at about the same level as in 2014.

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I'm becoming convinced that there is massive over-coverage of Elon Musk's machinations compared to Russell Vought's… Does it matter? IDK, but: Musk wants the coverage and Vought doesn't; if/when Trump and Musk fall out, Vought will still be ensconced; the attacks on NSF/NIH seem to be pure Vought.

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basically anything good is a target now

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Insofar as there’s *any* Trumpian strategy, the US might have underestimated Europe’s willingness to back Ukraine. I mean really wholly be expecting eg the UK to fold diplomatically and culturally in order to stay onside.

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The BBC’s library of classic sci-fi sounds is now available to sample.

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it’s the letter between æ and å

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love you JB but wrong on the economic history

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when the inevitable succession crisis occurs people will be forced to take a side: baron or don jr?

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labor union member

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heads up europeans, america is your enemy now

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Cycling to work across the fjord -5°C

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There is always something you can do to gum up the works of fascism. A story. Claude Cahun. The queer nonbinary French-Jewish photographer. Nazis conquered France, were training soldiers on Jersey, where Cahun lived w/their partner, Marcel Moore. They did disinfo & morale smashing via Surrealism.

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I love this www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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one of the advantages of the private sector is it gives people who are otherwise unemployable something to do

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voters will keep making the same stupid mistake until they learn that it’s their fault it keeps happening

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Where? Law ends! Tyranny begins!

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time to dig up the @adamkotsko.bsky.social tweet

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people are calling what’s going on a coup, but it’s not really — they won the election after all, and they could simply pass a law to enable trump to legally do the things he’s doing. they could call it “the enabling act”

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Recent posts on disability, illness, and food reminded me of Irving Fisher. 🧵 Fisher (1867-1947) was a brilliant technical economist. He was also a prohibitionist, eugenicist, and health crusader. At one point he ran a chain of gyms. It's tempting to separate these parts of his life.

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anyone keeping a running total of how many federal employees trump has fired? how does it compare to the 300,000 al gore bragged about eliminating?

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Good thread. It's striking how the CDU has moved right under Merz while it gains votes from the SPD & FDP and loses votes to the AfD

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The Department of Education is too small for a label.

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