Mark Prysant
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Mark Prysant
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March 16, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Lee Bollinger is no wild-eyed catastrophizer. Pay heed.
From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
March 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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March 1, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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February 21, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Elon Musk’s claim of Social Security fraud is…a fraud.

www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
No, 150-Year-Olds Aren't Collecting Social Security Benefits
Elon Musk claims to have found rampant fraud in the Social Security Administration. There's a much simpler explanation.
www.wired.com
February 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
February 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I *am* the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me."

Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.
February 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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A critical point.
February 16, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Looks like the swasticar is a fire hazard
February 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Harris beat Trump 54% to 43% among voters ages 18-24.
Harris beat Trump 53% to 45% among voters ages 25-29.
Harris beat Trump 51% to 45% among voters ages 30-39.

Trump to Fox: “I won youth by 36 points.”

www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/p...
Fact check: Trump litters Oval Office interview with false claims | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump littered a Wednesday interview on Fox News with many of the same false claims he made earlier in his first three days back in the White House.
www.cnn.com
January 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Elon Musk, who spent millions to help Trump get elected and has been handed the reins of the Department of Government Efficiency, gave a nazi salute today, and has endorsed the AfD, a neo-nazi party in Germany.

Thus begins (at least) four years of hell.
January 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM