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This push began under Musk’s leadership at DOGE. Now it’s Thiel’s turn. And make no mistake, this is about power. With a centralized, government-controlled data system, Trump gains new tools to target critics, intimidate dissenters, and go after immigrants.
May 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
This push began under Musk’s leadership at DOGE. Now it’s Thiel’s turn. And make no mistake, this is about power. With a centralized, government-controlled data system, Trump gains new tools to target critics, intimidate dissenters, and go after immigrants.
Just got done listening to slate money podcast and wanted point @felixsalmon.com to the learned lag podcast (hosted by my sister and her husband) for learned league tips useful for new players and experts. Follow them on @learnedlag.bsky.social. Podcast is here mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/259mw...
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May 31, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Just got done listening to slate money podcast and wanted point @felixsalmon.com to the learned lag podcast (hosted by my sister and her husband) for learned league tips useful for new players and experts. Follow them on @learnedlag.bsky.social. Podcast is here mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/259mw...
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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
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Oh my god. They deported a man who an immigration judge had declared was "more likely than not" to face persecution in El Salvador ... to El Salvador, during the big March 15 AEA flights!
They outright admit it! Yet the Trump admin's response to a court is basically "oops, well, no take backsies."
They outright admit it! Yet the Trump admin's response to a court is basically "oops, well, no take backsies."
April 1, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Oh my god. They deported a man who an immigration judge had declared was "more likely than not" to face persecution in El Salvador ... to El Salvador, during the big March 15 AEA flights!
They outright admit it! Yet the Trump admin's response to a court is basically "oops, well, no take backsies."
They outright admit it! Yet the Trump admin's response to a court is basically "oops, well, no take backsies."
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The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific.
If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved
If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved
benefit.me
March 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific.
If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved
If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved
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Elon Musk said a “massive cyberattack” disrupted X on Monday and pointed to “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area” as the source of the attack. Security experts say that's not how it works.
What Really Happened With the DDoS Attacks That Took Down X
Elon Musk said a “massive cyberattack” disrupted X on Monday and pointed to “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area” as the source of the attack. Security experts say that's not how it works.
wrd.cm
March 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Elon Musk said a “massive cyberattack” disrupted X on Monday and pointed to “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area” as the source of the attack. Security experts say that's not how it works.
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Wrote about how easy it is to claim you saved taxpayers billions when you just make shit up. But also how this is the Twitter Files all over again. The dumbest people don't know what they're looking at so it must be a conspiracy www.techdirt.com/2025/02/19/i...
It’s Easy To Save Billions In Taxpayer Funds When Everything Is Made Up
Here’s a neat trick for saving taxpayers billions of dollars: just make stuff up! I mean, sure, you could do all the hard work of actually finding government waste and fixing inefficient proc…
www.techdirt.com
February 20, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Wrote about how easy it is to claim you saved taxpayers billions when you just make shit up. But also how this is the Twitter Files all over again. The dumbest people don't know what they're looking at so it must be a conspiracy www.techdirt.com/2025/02/19/i...
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I need people to play attention to this 👇 and to what I said on Thursday
www.marketplace.org/2025/02/13/t...
The destruction of politics is coming for the economy
www.marketplace.org/2025/02/13/t...
The destruction of politics is coming for the economy
February 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I need people to play attention to this 👇 and to what I said on Thursday
www.marketplace.org/2025/02/13/t...
The destruction of politics is coming for the economy
www.marketplace.org/2025/02/13/t...
The destruction of politics is coming for the economy
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Melanie Stansbury just wrecked Musk and his GOP enablers. More of this energy, please.
Watch this Democrat unload on Musk at first DOGE hearing
Rep. Melanie Stansbury of New Mexico is the ranking Democrat on the House’s new Delivering on Government Efficiency subcommittee—and on Wednesday, she showed why. Along with the rest of the ...
www.dailykos.com
February 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Melanie Stansbury just wrecked Musk and his GOP enablers. More of this energy, please.
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We’re in for weeks of this on end. One of Musk’s tween haxx0rz stumbles into a complicated system they don’t understand, thinks they’ve discovered something earthshattering the veteran dunces never noticed, relays to Musk who also doesn’t understand, and broadcasts it to millions of followers.
February 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
We’re in for weeks of this on end. One of Musk’s tween haxx0rz stumbles into a complicated system they don’t understand, thinks they’ve discovered something earthshattering the veteran dunces never noticed, relays to Musk who also doesn’t understand, and broadcasts it to millions of followers.
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#BREAKING - NIH plans to slash support for indirect research costs, sending shockwaves through science
NIH plans to slash support for indirect research costs, sending shockwaves through science
The NIH said Friday night that it would slash support for indirect costs on all existing and future grants to 15%
buff.ly
February 8, 2025 at 1:20 AM
#BREAKING - NIH plans to slash support for indirect research costs, sending shockwaves through science
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If this happens - and if Musk et al get control of BLS - then all economic bets are off.
I can’t say it any more plainly than that.
I can’t say it any more plainly than that.
NEWS: Sources tell me that DOGE is setting its sights on the Department of Labor next. DOL workers have been ordered to give DOGE access to whatever they ask for—or risk termination.
“We’re supposed to stop everything we’re doing and do whatever the DOGE kids ask… It feels dirty and illegal.”
“We’re supposed to stop everything we’re doing and do whatever the DOGE kids ask… It feels dirty and illegal.”
February 5, 2025 at 12:51 AM
If this happens - and if Musk et al get control of BLS - then all economic bets are off.
I can’t say it any more plainly than that.
I can’t say it any more plainly than that.
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Vaccines do not cause autism. You’ve heard that before, but it's often repeated without an explanation of how we know that. Here's the explanation.
Here is how we know that vaccines do not cause autism
Vaccines do not cause autism. You’ve almost certainly read that before — but often without a full explanation of how we know it to be true. Here's how we know.
buff.ly
February 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Vaccines do not cause autism. You’ve heard that before, but it's often repeated without an explanation of how we know that. Here's the explanation.
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These are the stakes
February 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
These are the stakes
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Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they *done* yet but the level of …
February 2, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they *done* yet but the level of …