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You know that swish Masterclass subscription, the one with the online talks from leaders in their field? Received email re automatic renewal.Refunds UNAVAILABLE for renewal. Now no Christmas shopping. Extractive business model causing hardship. Unused subscription should be cancellable w/in 14 days.
December 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Disgraceful
Two backpacking German teenagers who had obtained ESTA approval from DHS were detained by CBP at the Honolulu airport, strip searched, jailed overnight, and ultimately deported to Japan because immigration officials weren’t satisfied with their lodging arrangements. beatofhawaii.com/why-these-ha...
April 21, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Trump, who (falsely) claimed during his election campaign that Biden wasn't doing ENOUGH to assist with NC's hurricane recovery....wait for it....just revoked Biden's Dec 2024 hurricane clean-up reimbursement agreement.

#ncpol

ncnewsline.com/2025/04/12/f...
FEMA will stop 100% cost-share in Helene recovery • NC Newsline
"I am extremely disappointed and urge the President to reconsider FEMA’s bad decision, even for 90 days," Gov. Josh Stein said.
ncnewsline.com
April 15, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Meanwhile, the administration has quietly slashed DOGE’s so-called “savings target” from $2 trillion to just $150 billion. Because it was never about savings. It was always about control.

Your data. Your life. Their weapon. We see it now for what it is.
April 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
And there it is: I do not recognize the Constitutionally-derived power of the courts. Over to you, SCOTUS.
Hooooo boy: "The Executive Branch hereby notifies the Court that no further information will be provided in response to the Court’s March 18, 2025 Minute Order based on the state secrets privilege." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
March 25, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished
March 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
March 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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The tension in the Texas NASA community is overwhelming not knowing if they will keep their jobs or even if the space program will exist anymore. These men and women are heroes. The best of our nation. If NASA goes Cornyn and Cruz will pay politically.
February 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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😕
February 23, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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If you go back and read the country’s original user manual it lists factors that help you identify monarchical malware and suggests solutions.
February 23, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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What this long and detailed NYT piece calmly calls an “extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual” is in fact a blatantly unconstitutional usurpation of Congress’s Article I powers and delegation of the President’s Article II duties.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
Elon Musk’s Blitz Shakes U.S. Government as He Sweeps Through Agencies
The billionaire is creating major upheaval as his team sweeps through agencies, in what has been an extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual.
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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how it started at USAID > how it's going
February 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?
February 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Excellent post
January 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM