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Part of the problem is that X is now 8chan. Fox News is now 8chan. Half of the Cabinet is now 8chan. We can care about 8chan, but that genie has left the bottle.
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It seems like the news orgs have decided that since Trump lies constantly, his lies aren’t news so they’re not reported as such.
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Same. I was in HS when Flying in a Blue Dream came out. Saw him a few times. I couldn’t get into some of the shredders but Joe and Vai something extra. Still listen to this one sometimes.
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She is the moment
When you strip away humanity
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I was in APO around the same time. Best decision I ever made.
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My son is a diver in HS just starting the recruiting process. What this settlement has done to Olympic sports, especially diving, is horrible. Kids that have dedicated their lives to this sport are facing the reality that they may not be able to continue to pursue their dreams.
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Funny how it peaks in 2028. Anything important happening in 2028?
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That would still require funding. This just guts any space science or exploration all together.
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And yet they’ll all be reelected.
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Probably easier to count those that didn’t.
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
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What do you have against raccoons?
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I was asked by a friend to teach a math class at a local community college. I’ve been wavering for a while now. Seeing what this current administration is doing to higher education, I decided to go for it as an FU to those that are trying to destroy the education system. I start this fall.
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I was asked by a friend to teach a math class at a local community college. I’ve been wavering for a while now. Seeing what this current administration is doing to higher education, I decided to go for it as an FU to those that are trying to destroy the education system. I start this fall.
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Got one kid out. Other soon to follow. Then, hopefully wife and I can go.
The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity: 1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas… 2) enabled by Engineering Innovations… 3) based on Science Research in Universities… 4) funded by Grants from the US Government. It’s time more people understood this.
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Nobody is ever rewarded for maintaining the status quo. To make gains, you have to improve something, not just keep it from being destroyed.
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We live in the Onion Age. It’s like the Information Age, but with more tears.
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Republican M.O. for 45 years.
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Which is crazy because the first amendment was written explicitly to protect them.
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Which is crazy because the first amendment was written explicitly to protect them.
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Will they let the Canadian team in to play?
Final_Version_of_Tarrifs_actualFINALcopy_version7_USETHISONE.docx
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Yes. This is a case study in why we do not have a unitary executive government model.
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NC State too
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Yes, and…
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Important thread
It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.
I keep hearing pundits saying that various Trump crimes & follies "aren't landing with the American people." I can't believe we're still talking like this. The US information system is broken, just as it was broken throughout the election. People *aren't hearing about what he's doing*.
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Weren’t the names of operatives mentioned? Would those not be classified?
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Who did Waltz mean to add to the chat when he added Goldberg?
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So who did Waltz mean to add to the chat when he added Goldberg?
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This is the kind of thing that will break into the consciousness of more people. If these stories are told on local news and tied directly to DOGE, this will start getting peoples’ attention.
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How will Gov Abbot get to work?
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From what I understand, the head of the FBI believes that climate change is a hoax and everyone involved in researching it with federal money has therefore been defrauding the government. Same pretext for going after Habitat for Humanity.
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Standard Republican MO
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That’s not trolling. Thats just good parenting.
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Probably because they’ve been involved from the beginning and any focus in them would reveal their collusion.
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That’s going to be hard to do before long.
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I hate this. Every couple hours a new horror.
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Honestly, I don’t know. Realistically, they probably can’t. But voicing support for students free speech rights even when they disagree with them would be a start.
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“Nobody can protect you” = “we won’t protect you”
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Hi, can you do me a favor? Ask people to follow me. I want to wean myself off the other site but I need to beef up follows here. Thank you!
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Exactly! If you’ve watched them cut veterans benefits, vote against the burn pit bills, cut the VA, this is not surprising.
Wrote up something about Techdirt's recent coverage, and why (whether we like it or not) we need to be a "democracy blog" now, rather than just a "tech" blog (not that we've ever been just a tech blog). This story is *the* story and it impacts everything else. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...
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I really wish every local TV meteorologist would say in their broadcast every morning and night exactly how this will damage their ability to give us the weather forecast. The local weather people are probably the most trusted people on TV.
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I really wish local TV and radio station meteorologists would speak out about how this will harm their ability to get vital information to their viewers. They are one of the top trusted sources of information.
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I hope you’re being dramatic too. However…
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Comparing to WWII major players
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Yep. Impervious to reality.
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Every local TV meteorologist should say in their broadcast every morning and night exactly how this will damage their ability to give us the weather forecast. The local weather people are probably the most trusted people on TV.
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It never was about savings. The hard right believes that government shouldn’t do these things. So they’re preventing the government from doing these things.
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I sure hope every local meteorologist mentions this on their weather reports tonight.
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There was an old lady who swallowed a fly…
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They’re gutting the National Weather Service during storm season and the IRS during tax season. This ain’t going to work out well for anybody.
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Destroying government does, however.
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He did this during his first term too. Had Mnuchin go look to make sure it was still there. It was. Now, he’ll say “the gold isn’t there. Biden stole it!” And use that as a pretense for arresting Biden.
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It’s a feature, not a bug.
At the moment, mansion-sized Asteroid 2024-YR4 has a one-in-fifty chance of hitting Earth in the next eight years. Now might be a bad time to reduce spending on Science. Just sayin’.
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He called in 2 students and the other doc in the practice. Nurses too. He describes her pain perfectly and lit up when she said “that’s it.” Changed her meds. Worlds of difference! Not a cure but she can sleep at night without pain. He was her Dr House. Yours is out there!
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My wife has RA. The scripts she was given helped some but were never great. Several docs over 20 years. One old cranky doc she’d seen for several years that never said much one day stared at her charts for a while. Wife was about to say something when he jumps up “I know what’s wrong with you!” 1/
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“Why would you start listening to me now!”
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Every damn day so far.
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Egg prices = trains on time
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Well, removing oversight does make fraud more efficient.
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Me too. Still use it
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I’ve always loved Dick Vitale. He gets so excited and you can tell he just loves what he does. Nothing better than ACC basketball on a cold winter night with Dickie V announcing!
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Also mention the leaks/theft of FAFSA data on calls to your congressional reps.
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Technician guy here. Can’t they both lose?
Like not to be glib here, but the answer to all of the "wait can he do this???" stuff is "no", with the remedy of impeachment. We're living through a constitutional failure not because the constitution permits this, but because it doesn't and congress will not do the thing it demands in response.
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Unfortunately, I think it’s going to take a disaster that can be tied directly to these decisions for anything to happen. Even then, I’m not sure the cult will make the connection.
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This will be a disaster for science. Not just in the US, but the world. It will have wide reaching implications that we haven’t even considered yet.
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It’s not like we use lumber for anything.
it’s important that high up in every story air traffic controllers are ID’d as federal government employees. I do not assume most Americans know this but they should. This is what happens when we underfund, hollow out and ignore the federal workforce. GOP actions lead to preventable deaths.
Not gonna lie I did kinda expect our Democratic politicians to have something like a plan to counter the 920-page detailed fascist blueprint that was published in April 2023
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Does that mean we’re back to selling Freedom Fries in the Capitol cafeteria?
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You mean ChatGPT wasn’t smart enough to create the sources too?
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The media gets outraged at what republicans tell them to be outraged about.
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Ironic then that people are losing their property because they didn’t care about the environment.
I'm going to start referring to cybertrucks as firetrucks.
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Yes! There is not nearly enough emphasis on the “why” in early/middle education. And not just in the humanities. How many times did you ask “when will I ever use this” in algebra class? Learning the “why” would go a long way to importing education outcomes.
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Well, I guess we could gift the armadillo that’s taken up residence in our garden. But I’ve grown kind of attached to him.
THE COMING WAR ON UNIVERSITIES. GIFT LINK www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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WTF!!!
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You mean the President? Why should he have a say?
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Aerial Intelligence Task Force? Sounds like drones.
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Same. But throw in a dog that treats the litter box like a snack bar.
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He’ll change his mind within 2 weeks.
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I don’t see “CEO Lives Matter” painted on any streets.
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Those books have all been banned.
