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Lover of anthropology-history, world cultures and travel. Skeptical whether the biosphere can sustain the belligerence of boreal culture much longer. Alas, blues sky, nothing but blue shys.
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The Shady Doth DOdGE Too Much: The Pentagon failed its audit for the 17th consecutive year, and an estimated $824 billion of its FY 2024 $2 trillion defense budget couldn’t be fully accounted for. This means roughly 41% of the budget lacks sufficient financial documentation or oversight.

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Were it not for my grandchildren I'd probably be hip deep into an awful depression:

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Lies unchallenged accrue the weight of Truth.

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Please be mindful to support media that upholds your values (This from Wired Magazine):.

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And our verb for today girls and boys is cower; as in, "we must not cower morally, in the face of authoritarianism and injustice."

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As "DOdGiE Analytica's" open-air security breach at Treasury steams along, it looks like much ballyhooed draconian tariffs are on. No wait, wait; everybody got your trades in? OK, no, just jokibg, no Tariffs.

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I've been fighting a week long battle with an annoying cold. So..., just fooling around with Chat GPT until the Coricidin:

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Driven seemingly by an undifferentiated contempt for civil society, the overly ambitious scale of the Trump-Musk assault on government is dissolving the delicate, interstitial cohesion within and among agencies; and this before any consideration of its reckless execution. Old testament verbs please!

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Given the most sober appraisal of this democratic experiment, admitting even the Founding Fathers’ conceits as land-owning White males, I doubt they could have imagined the Republic arriving at so shameful a shyt-show as confronts us today. …The Federalist Papers once seemed such hopeful reading😟

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Although for many the cult of personality surrounding Elon has shifted, owing to his more public identification with Far Right views and politicians; as is typical of so-called "self-made men," much about his background remains carefully unplumbed.

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I was never very active on Twitter (Twitter was, X ain’t in my world), but that said, Admins, let me know if I cross any lines: I agree that it is a national disgrace that CEOs should have to go about life in fear of random violence, like my granddaughter going to school.

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One cannot speak of this as a presidential “administration,” really. For the moment at least, what we have is a lone, begrudged old man flanked by impudent toadies, recklessly trying to shoehorn a nation into his anachronistic, mid-Century delusions of history.

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Let me get this straight: amidst Earth’s “burn baby burn” death throes, a self-absorbed wing-nut calls global warming the greatest hoax in history, with campaign promises to “drill baby drill;” but corporate media turns its cold blue gaze on funding decisions of LA County officials?🤦🏽‍♂️.

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As we gird our spirits for another descent into the abyss of immoral political ephemera, being creative and learning new things will be key for me.

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