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Living for new experiences and information.
The photos are Mt. Whitney and the start of the San Joaquin River nearby in eastern California.
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
Welcome to the Plutocracy
February 14, 2026 at 2:03 AM
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rgoodlaw.bsky.social
It is unfathomable that the USG lawyers would sign off on a no-survivors boat strike (no get of jail free card).

There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.

The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial

www.usni.org/magazines/na...
November 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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electproject.bsky.social
Trump appointed a 22-year old to lead domestic anti-terrorism prevention. Seems relevant.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention
One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...
www.propublica.org
September 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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joshuajfriedman.com
"Twenty-three Democratic attorneys general now gather on near-daily Zoom calls at 8 AM Pacific, which means the East Coast officials are already on their third coffee. They divide responsibilities and share templates for lawsuits they’ve been drafting since last spring."
It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession”
Blue states are finally learning what red states have known all along: you don’t need federal permission to govern.
cmarmitage.substack.com
August 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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acatwithnews.bsky.social
One woman holding an American flag, shouting at federal agencies here in Paramount, CA. Still lots of chemical munitions, pepper balls, foam batons.
June 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
highsierra.bsky.social
Ukraine’s new tactic as rendered the $831+ billion “Golden Dome” to history’s dustbin. Drones (most foreign made), automatic weapons, and bomb materials are already within the U.S. and available without restrictions. AI can show how to assemble and code an attack from within.
June 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
highsierra.bsky.social
So…”US health chief Kennedy targets 'environmental toxins' as cause of autism.”
But…Trump gutted EPA & FDA.
🤷🏼‍♀️
April 17, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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grandeped.bsky.social
Testing various Ai / LLMs has led me the opposite conclusion. People with advanced degrees (or experience) would easily note mistakes Ai makes, as well as nuanced details it often misses. People stop using Ai when it takes them longer to fix the output than do it themselves in the first place.
mcuban.bsky.social Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Feb 17
If you have zero education, but learn how to ask AI models the right questions , in many jobs you will be able to outperform someone with an advanced degree, but who is unwilling to use Large Language Models.

Just takes a smartphone, curiosity to experiment and a mindset to learn.
February 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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11thjeff.bsky.social
It's really just Wealth anywhere. Saudi money, Russian oligarch money, Musk money and every single tech company that can wheedle into their account books.

If you've got vast sums to spend influencing the White House, Donald Trump wants to talk to you.
strandjunker.com Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · Feb 18
Once you realize that Trump and all the MAGA Republicans are working for Russia and Saudi Arabia, not America, everything they do makes sense.
February 18, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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pete52.bsky.social
February 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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katiewhittemore22.bsky.social
Daily action items‼️

Add these stores to your PERMANENT boycott list:
❌ Amazon
❌ Target
❌ Walmart
❌ Tesla 🤮
❌ Meta
❌ Hobby Lobby
NEVER shop there. Like ever. 🫶🏻

Add to your calendar and share!
❌ 2/28 - Economic Blackout
❌ 3/15 - Total Shutdown

📣 SHARE EVERYWHERE! 📣

#blackout228 #shutdown315
February 9, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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pivotpod.bsky.social
"You can't disassociate. There's no disassociation allowed... It's the long fucking run with these people. You gotta stick in there."

@karaswisher.bsky.social has some important advice amid all the Trump and Elon chaos.
February 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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rhutabhayga.bsky.social
The architects of #Project2025 explicitly said they had the first 180 days mapped out. FOR EVERY FEDERAL AGENCY.

We're only 17 days into it, and we are already in profound crisis.

I've said before that this country will be utterly unrecognizable in 6 months.
www.project2025.org/playbook/
Playbook | Project 2025
The fourth pillar of Project 2025 is our 180-day Transition Playbook and includes a comprehensive, concrete transition plan for each federal agency. Only through the implementation of specific action ...
www.project2025.org
February 6, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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solardavegreen.bsky.social
@krassenstein.bsky.social Musk's long term plan is to privatize the flow of money through the Federal government, and he intends to be the head of the company that provides that service. That's why he has the baby-bros involved. They are collecting requirements and they will build the new system.
February 6, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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xinicit.bsky.social
Survival horror is when you read the news and keep on going
January 23, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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atrupar.com
Trump: "FEMA is gonna be a whole big discussion very shortly, because I'd rather see the states takes care of their own problems."
January 23, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Revealing exchange between Douthat and Marc Andressen. Douthat says that DOGE won't save money b/c most programs are popular and you need people to run them. Reasonable!

Andressen: the existence of the program reflects contempt for the taxpayer. Social media will allow us to weaken public support.
Douthat: I can imagine a remarkable new plan for making the federal government in various ways much more efficient. I can totally imagine that. I am skeptical that such a plan would, in the end make a big dent in the federal government’s costs. Let’s say you have tons of dead wood in a particular federal agency. Well, you’re going to get rid of that dead wood. But in fact, you’re going to need to hire better people to replace those people. And you’re going to need to pay those people appropriately and so on. And all of this is in the shadow of Social Security, Medicare and a range of federal commitments. There is no magical argument on social media that will suddenly make cutting those commitments popular. But this is, of course, the traditional, institutional, cynical Washington view. Andreessen: I was going to say, but this is the traditional, institutional, cynical Washington view. And the way that reads to a normal person is absolute contempt for the taxpayer. Absolute contempt for the taxpayer by saying, “We can sit here in Washington, and we can ladle out $50 billion here and $100 billion there, and when we’re challenged on it, the answer is, ‘Eh, it’s a rounding error.’” Right? Douthat: No, no. The answer when we’re challenged on it is: The actual spending that the federal government does is either big-ticket things that the average taxpayer supports or smaller things like funding for students with disabilities across public school districts or something that if the average taxpayer doesn’t support it, at least a very vocal and influential constituency supports it. Those are the two groups. It’s not dripping with contempt for the taxpayer. It’s the taxpayer that because of their desire for large amounts of federal spending tends to support. Andreessen: I will just tell you that what you just said comes across as total contempt for the taxpayer. Just absolute contempt. This will be part of the — Douthat: But who is the taxpayer? I wrote many, many columns in support of various versions of Paul Ryan’s plan to cut Medicare or reform Medicare and reform Social Security. And the reason those plans went down to defeat was not that federal bureaucrats had contempt for the American taxpayer. It was that the American taxpayer, in election after election, likes and supports and votes in favor of Medicare and Social Security. Andreessen: They’re not exposed to it. This is a big part of the bet. And look, maybe it’ll work, and maybe it won’t. But this is a big part of the bet, which is that the American taxpayer doesn’t experience it that way because they don’t actually have the insight into it. Take what you would think would be a bulletproof program, like child disability in schools. It’s far from clear to me that the median taxpayer would support that if they really knew what that was. As you and I both know, what that has become is basically a medicalized mental illness. To the point where students in schools now are basically using fake diagnoses of mental illness in order to get drugs and in order to get extra time on tests. That whole program has run completely out of control, and everybody with kids knows that, but it’s not a discrete thing that people can wrap their heads around and understand. And it’s not a thing that gets exposed in the bright light of day.
January 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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lakotaman.bsky.social
#NationalDayOfMourning
January 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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jamellebouie.net
this confirms something i have long suspected, which is that certain people are told that their professional and academic failures are because of “affirmative action” or “DEI” as a way to avoid difficult conversations about their mediocrity www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
You Blamed DEI for Hurting Your Career. Now What?
For people who pin their failures on diversity, corporate America’s DEI retreat removes a barrier—or maybe an excuse.
www.wsj.com
January 16, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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pbump.com
Writing that, I looked at IRS data and learned that in 2021 (the most recent year for which there was data) LA County paid more in income taxes than all but four states.
January 14, 2025 at 4:06 AM
highsierra.bsky.social
January 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM