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COULD A NEWSPAPER PLEASE PRINT THE NEWS
davelevitan.bsky.social Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · Feb 14
“Elon Musk is firing military veteran firefighters for no reason” is the biggest slam dunk in political messaging history, Dems should be shouting it into the world’s biggest bullhorn from the top of the Washington Monument.
February 14, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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gilduran.com
In 2022, Peter Thiel's "house philosopher" envisioned a second Trump administration led by a "CEO" who would be tasked with destroying the government.

He wrote down a blueprint. Welcome to the New Reality.

www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-...
'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook
In 2022, one of Peter Thiel's favorite thinkers envisioned a second Trump Administration in which the federal government would be run by a “CEO”
www.thenerdreich.com
February 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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davidrvetter.bsky.social
In Survival of the Richest, @rushkoff.com suggests that the billionaire class is fully invested not just in profiting from civilisational collapse, but in consciously and actively hastening it. What we're seeing now is wholly in keeping with this thesis.
freedomforall.net Matthew Jee @freedomforall.net · Feb 2
This is all a charade. This is really about climate chaos — creating it, bringing forward what the wealthy see as inevitable. The wealthy do not see themselves as being in the same boat as the rest of us. Bruno Latour saw this coming. Know your people. Know your food. Know your water.

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February 5, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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mattdpearce.com
the Federalist papers describe at length the Founders’ efforts to avoid what’s literally happening right now
February 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
An important, essential column. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
Opinion | There Is No Going Back (Gift Article)
The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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niedermeyer.online
Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.
carlbergstrom.com Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 3
What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.
X post: Elon Musk @elonmusk We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could gone to some great parties. Did that instead. U.S. policy was to help bring an end to apartheid and establish a nonracial, democratic government. In response to this policy and the Act, USAID/South Africa was responsible for financing projects that apartheid victims viewed as critical in promoting social, political, and economic change through peaceful means. The mission enabled community consultation and ensured that the United States did not impose foreign-defined solutions to local problems. USAID created projects and activities to respond to the priorities of the black community and its leaders, maximized black participation and leadership, and ensured activities had a linkage to the general objectives of U.S. policy. First-year funding for the program was $25 million, which was raised to $50 million the second year. The main project areas were community outreach and leadership development to redress the repression of black-led institutions; educational support and training to address the educational crisis in South Africa; black private enterprise development to combat the inhibiting effects of apartheid–induced discrimination in private enterprise; university grants to help create a new generation of economic and political leaders; human rights; legal assistance; labor union training; and health and nutrition
February 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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hankgreen.bsky.social
If you wanted to decrease the cost of homes, one thing you wouldn’t do is put a flat tariff on your main source of timber.
February 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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theophite.bsky.social
trump is unique in that his depravity creates the very cynicism he feeds on. it is necessary to uphold the idea that we are capable of better even if that belief is counterfactual. which is why we need to tell the bureaucracy that their work is valued and that they are holding the line for us.
effinvicta.bsky.social A Snowy Holid-Effy @effinvicta.bsky.social · Jan 30
Taking the President's symbolic roles as essentially being the central rituals of American civic religion, Trump's inability to perform them- to actually be presidential- signals that the civic religion is hollow and without power, that there are no consequences for blaspheming it.
January 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM