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This reminds me of John Doar's meeting with Freedom Summer volunteers before they went down to Mississippi.
He sympathized with the work but told them, accurately, that the federal government couldn't protect them and they were on their own. Some were furious; others appreciated the straight talk.
He sympathized with the work but told them, accurately, that the federal government couldn't protect them and they were on their own. Some were furious; others appreciated the straight talk.
March 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
This reminds me of John Doar's meeting with Freedom Summer volunteers before they went down to Mississippi.
He sympathized with the work but told them, accurately, that the federal government couldn't protect them and they were on their own. Some were furious; others appreciated the straight talk.
He sympathized with the work but told them, accurately, that the federal government couldn't protect them and they were on their own. Some were furious; others appreciated the straight talk.
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GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office.
ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.
ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.
February 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office.
ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.
ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.
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Like how are the viewers of these AI videos different from the human batteries in The Matrix?
February 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Like how are the viewers of these AI videos different from the human batteries in The Matrix?
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So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID.
This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.
What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.
What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
Elon Musk: "We will make mistakes. We won't be perfect ... so for example, with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was ebola prevention."
February 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID.
This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.
What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.
What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
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Ok. So. Look. Lend-Lease, since it’s in the news again thanks to BoJo.
LL, introduced in spring 1941, was intended to get around the specific problem that the UK no longer had dollar liquidity to pay for US imports at a time when the United States was still neutral in the war.
LL, introduced in spring 1941, was intended to get around the specific problem that the UK no longer had dollar liquidity to pay for US imports at a time when the United States was still neutral in the war.
February 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Ok. So. Look. Lend-Lease, since it’s in the news again thanks to BoJo.
LL, introduced in spring 1941, was intended to get around the specific problem that the UK no longer had dollar liquidity to pay for US imports at a time when the United States was still neutral in the war.
LL, introduced in spring 1941, was intended to get around the specific problem that the UK no longer had dollar liquidity to pay for US imports at a time when the United States was still neutral in the war.
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Elon, I hate to break it to you but you aren’t my boss. I answer to the people of Minnesota.
But since you bring it up, I spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for billionaires like you, paid for by defunding health care for moms and babies
But since you bring it up, I spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for billionaires like you, paid for by defunding health care for moms and babies
February 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Elon, I hate to break it to you but you aren’t my boss. I answer to the people of Minnesota.
But since you bring it up, I spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for billionaires like you, paid for by defunding health care for moms and babies
But since you bring it up, I spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for billionaires like you, paid for by defunding health care for moms and babies
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One more thing about this piece of bullsophistry by Barnett and Wurman on birthright citizenship.
To the framers of the 14th Amendment, people who had, by bad actions, failed of allegiance, obedience, and amity were not a hypothetical problem. *There were hundreds of thousands of them.*
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To the framers of the 14th Amendment, people who had, by bad actions, failed of allegiance, obedience, and amity were not a hypothetical problem. *There were hundreds of thousands of them.*
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February 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
One more thing about this piece of bullsophistry by Barnett and Wurman on birthright citizenship.
To the framers of the 14th Amendment, people who had, by bad actions, failed of allegiance, obedience, and amity were not a hypothetical problem. *There were hundreds of thousands of them.*
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To the framers of the 14th Amendment, people who had, by bad actions, failed of allegiance, obedience, and amity were not a hypothetical problem. *There were hundreds of thousands of them.*
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These dorks who’ve played Metternich in wargames think that they’re doing a super clever great power realpolitik, letting Russia absorb Ukraine while planning to absorb Canada, Greenland, and Panama.
They’ve convinced themselves that instead of doing a Munich… they’re doing a Molotov-Ribbentrop.
They’ve convinced themselves that instead of doing a Munich… they’re doing a Molotov-Ribbentrop.
February 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
These dorks who’ve played Metternich in wargames think that they’re doing a super clever great power realpolitik, letting Russia absorb Ukraine while planning to absorb Canada, Greenland, and Panama.
They’ve convinced themselves that instead of doing a Munich… they’re doing a Molotov-Ribbentrop.
They’ve convinced themselves that instead of doing a Munich… they’re doing a Molotov-Ribbentrop.
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What even does this mean? And we're going to have to kill all of the AI, because we will have to assume that Musk's lack of proper security protocols has put it all in jeopardy. Notwithstanding that AI is garbage.
We are going to need leaders who understand SYSTEMS. Technology is just a bad crutch.
We are going to need leaders who understand SYSTEMS. Technology is just a bad crutch.
Our next president will have to be technologically competent, at least , in order for us to sustain our place in the world.
This will become increasingly obvious over the next 4 years as AI gets more powerful
This isn’t necessarily bad. Truly. Done right, we will be a better, more equal society
This will become increasingly obvious over the next 4 years as AI gets more powerful
This isn’t necessarily bad. Truly. Done right, we will be a better, more equal society
February 16, 2025 at 12:49 AM
What even does this mean? And we're going to have to kill all of the AI, because we will have to assume that Musk's lack of proper security protocols has put it all in jeopardy. Notwithstanding that AI is garbage.
We are going to need leaders who understand SYSTEMS. Technology is just a bad crutch.
We are going to need leaders who understand SYSTEMS. Technology is just a bad crutch.
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::taps sign::
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: an administration (and its supporters) who believe that they are not limited by the rule of law have no moral or philosophical claim to the protection of the rule of law. “The law is whatever we say it is” warrants the same in response.
February 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
::taps sign::
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"When strangers reside with you in your land, you shall not wrong them. The strangers who reside with you shall be to you as your citizens; you shall love each one as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt." (Leviticus 19:33-34)
WWJD according to Greg Abbott:
"The Bible calls for strong borders and law and order," Abbott wrote. "And Jesus guided others to follow the laws of the land."
"The Bible calls for strong borders and law and order," Abbott wrote. "And Jesus guided others to follow the laws of the land."
'The Bible calls for strong borders': Texas governor tries to school Pope
On Wednesday, Governor Greg Abbott had choice words regarding Pope Francis' stance on President Donald Trump's mass deportation efforts.
www.chron.com
February 15, 2025 at 11:49 PM
"When strangers reside with you in your land, you shall not wrong them. The strangers who reside with you shall be to you as your citizens; you shall love each one as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt." (Leviticus 19:33-34)
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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
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Agreed. But they also reflect tension, uncertainty, disorder, and chaos. All of which we have right now.
Markets are not a morality play. They measure two things: expectations of future corporate profits and the cost of capital (interest rates). They are not a moral barometer of society. (I say this as someone who thinks markets are a very important barometer of other things).
February 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Agreed. But they also reflect tension, uncertainty, disorder, and chaos. All of which we have right now.
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Making sure folks realize that Alex Spiro is both Musk’s attorney and Eric Adams’ attorney.
February 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Making sure folks realize that Alex Spiro is both Musk’s attorney and Eric Adams’ attorney.
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I’ve considered it and, you know what? I don’t fucking care.
They’ve already elevated those exact far right outlets at the Pentagon and pushed out legacy media.
Legitimate news outfits can take a stand against this now, or they can meekly enable this fascist shit & *still* get pushed out later.
They’ve already elevated those exact far right outlets at the Pentagon and pushed out legacy media.
Legitimate news outfits can take a stand against this now, or they can meekly enable this fascist shit & *still* get pushed out later.
Consider the possibility that the Trump White House WANTS this fight. Wants journalists to act like opponents instead of observers. If the entire press pool skipped a Trump photo op in solidarity with The AP, wouldn't the White House welcome Breitbart and One America News to take their places?
And, are you or your colleagues boycotting covering the WH as a protest?
February 15, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I’ve considered it and, you know what? I don’t fucking care.
They’ve already elevated those exact far right outlets at the Pentagon and pushed out legacy media.
Legitimate news outfits can take a stand against this now, or they can meekly enable this fascist shit & *still* get pushed out later.
They’ve already elevated those exact far right outlets at the Pentagon and pushed out legacy media.
Legitimate news outfits can take a stand against this now, or they can meekly enable this fascist shit & *still* get pushed out later.
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I am willing to learn more, but I am deeply skeptical of the proposition that there is anything heroic about doing the wrong thing to preserve the ability of other people to stay in a corrupted department.
"This is not a capitulation-this is a coercion," one of the people briefed on the meeting said. “That person [Ed Sullivan, career prosecutor who volunteered to dismiss to save his colleagues job jobs], in my mind, is a hero."
100% Stalinist.
100% Stalinist.
February 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I am willing to learn more, but I am deeply skeptical of the proposition that there is anything heroic about doing the wrong thing to preserve the ability of other people to stay in a corrupted department.
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If CMH had a sense of humor, they'd send him the Green Books on WWII logistics as a Valentine from Erna Risch.
I'm working on the bureaucracy of logs for the Junction. Coming this weekend.
I'm working on the bureaucracy of logs for the Junction. Coming this weekend.
I still cannot get over this quote, this moron actually thinks we won WWII without a bureaucracy
February 14, 2025 at 8:50 PM
If CMH had a sense of humor, they'd send him the Green Books on WWII logistics as a Valentine from Erna Risch.
I'm working on the bureaucracy of logs for the Junction. Coming this weekend.
I'm working on the bureaucracy of logs for the Junction. Coming this weekend.
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From now on when I had people envelopes of cash as bribes I will be sure to write 'Not a bribe' on the envelope so I'll be in the clear.
February 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
From now on when I had people envelopes of cash as bribes I will be sure to write 'Not a bribe' on the envelope so I'll be in the clear.
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Unfollowed another person for just the unrelenting demand that the Democrats do the exact thing they want or it's all ruined.
Have any of you who have written one of these posts ever totted up how many there are, how many specific individual red lines are set, and how unreasonable is the chorus?
Have any of you who have written one of these posts ever totted up how many there are, how many specific individual red lines are set, and how unreasonable is the chorus?
February 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Unfollowed another person for just the unrelenting demand that the Democrats do the exact thing they want or it's all ruined.
Have any of you who have written one of these posts ever totted up how many there are, how many specific individual red lines are set, and how unreasonable is the chorus?
Have any of you who have written one of these posts ever totted up how many there are, how many specific individual red lines are set, and how unreasonable is the chorus?
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Thank you for explaining that. Thirty years in military history, foreign policy, national security, strategy and policy, military affairs, I somehow managed to arrive at this point where Hertz Toupee needs to lecture me on banalities.
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February 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Thank you for explaining that. Thirty years in military history, foreign policy, national security, strategy and policy, military affairs, I somehow managed to arrive at this point where Hertz Toupee needs to lecture me on banalities.
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A better man would be embarrassed to admit that scolding from a teenage girl affects his world view so much
"...if American democracy can survive 10 years of Greta Thunberg scolding you guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk," VP Vance tells the Munich Security Group.
February 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
A better man would be embarrassed to admit that scolding from a teenage girl affects his world view so much
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This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.
February 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.
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Too much effort. I just fire one or two and then block.
February 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Too much effort. I just fire one or two and then block.