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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 13h

Dems floated a narrow bill to fund the military, which can’t move because the House isn’t in session. Meanwhile, DoD is now going to spend funds not appropriated by Congress to ensure military paychecks continue.

POTUS now both commands and provisions the military. Unconstitutional and SO dangerous

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.
A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC
News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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水餃子のカンパネラ @hitorisha.bsky.social · 11h

たっちの助

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 11h

It’s no wonder that Trump has such a twisted view of war and sacrifice. And the utility of bribes.

Donald was seven years old, and his father was brought before a U.S. Senate committee investigating abuses in a housing program for war veterans and middle class families. President Eisenhower had been outraged to learn of the bribes that developers paid to bureaucrats and of the alleged profiteering practiced by Trump and others. Ike called them "sons of bitches."
As federal investigators had discovered, the elder Trump had collected an extra $1.7 million in rent-equivalent to $15 million today-before beginning to pay back his low-cost government loan. He was able to do this because a bureaucrat named Clyde Powell approved the paperwork.
Powell, who had never been paid more than a modest government salary, had mysteriously amassed a small fortune. (While it was clear Powell accepted bribes, the sources were never officially identified.) In addition to collecting the extra rent, Trump paid himself a substantial architect's fee. And he charged inflated rents based on an estimate of construction costs that was far greater than what he actually spent. All of this was legal, even if it did victimize taxpayers, veterans, and other renters.

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Daemonic Space Program @chelspacepro.bsky.social · 18h

Conducting important research

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Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 22h

Trump’s first-term foreign policy was riddled with one failure after another. Almost everything he attempted either fizzled out or blew up in his face. Don’t let this garbage revisionism stand.

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Tonk O'Bonne @spamps.bsky.social · 10h

Grilled Asparagus x Leg of Lamb (sativa dominant hybrid)

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クルム @curumu510.bsky.social · 11h

冷えてるからソファにブランケットを置いたらまんまと☺️

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Bones Hyland's Homeopathic Cold Relief @wellburrowed.bsky.social · 11h

Ayyyy hijoeputa www.eluniversal.com/politica/182...

Revelan documento de María Corina Machado pidiéndole a Netanyahu intervención militar a Venezuela

También se dirigía al expresidente de Argentina, Mauricio Macri, donde Machado catalogó la intervención militar de

www.eluniversal.com

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 11h

thread

Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 11h

Seeing a lot of celebration of this as a win.

But at NIH we have seen this exact play before.

It looks like it is the Vought strategy -and to stop the lawless firings we have to see the bigger picture.
A 🧵:

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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We're David Skroob Pumpkins @pseudonymble.bsky.social · 11h

Never forget.

Anthony Blinken in a dark suit at a microphone with silent protesters in the back with red hands calling out the Palestinian blood on Blinken & Biden 's hands.

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Tonk O'Bonne @spamps.bsky.social · 10h

Lol

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kate @katewitko.bsky.social · 11h

once again remembering fondly a former twitter mufo who got really pissed off one day and said divorce is a slur

stop using divorced as a slur you fucking assholes. divorce might have ruined one of your mufo's life and it sucks. ask my kids if divorce is funny you cunts

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Tonk O'Bonne @spamps.bsky.social · 10h

I would absolutely "nothing much," myself and get hung up on

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 11h

US government is running a protection racket bsky.app/profile/nyti...

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13h

Venezuelan officials, hoping to end their country’s clash with the U.S., offered the Trump administration a dominant stake in Venezuela’s oil and other mineral wealth in discussions that lasted for months, according to people close to the talks.

Venezuela’s Maduro Offered the U.S. His Nation’s Riches to Avoid Conflict

Venezuela’s autocrat had proposed allocating his country’s oil wealth and other natural resources to the U.S. and ending deals with American adversaries to appease President Trump.

nyti.ms

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Pesi @pesi.bsky.social · 11h

ふふふ、また猫に襲われた。
マグカップは少し遠くに避けてある。

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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 11h

he just learned what a pig is and he is intrigued. he thought they were merely myth and legend, rather than a creature a cat could meet

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Adam @adam-parker.bsky.social · 3d

Funny, but THIS was the star of the show!

@grubb.wtf

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小島秀夫 @hideokojima.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp · 11h

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Alex P. 👹 @saddestrobots.bsky.social · 11h

so, uh, if the democratic party are the mom in this metaphor, then the republicans are your dad brutalizing you, because the source of this "pain" isn't "you have leukemia," it's "your dad is a nazi pedophile rapist," and if that's the case then it's very fair to ask why your mom isn't able to help

(in response to a post about how the democrats should do something)

"This is basically magical thinking. It is the thought process of a small, frightened child who just wants mommy to make the pain stop and is getting angry that she can't. The issue is that this is a grown adult, not a small child, and also when the Democrats do things it's never good enough."

"People are asking you what you want, Cait, because they are being polite and trying to engage you like an adult. Since you want to act like a child, I'll treat you like one- I know you want the pain to stop, but the time when that could have happened was last November, it's gonna hurt now."

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Mystery Ape-erition @lasers.bsky.social · 10h

Goodnight

Grey cat with greenish yellow eyes looking at a laptop screen

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alygory @alygory.bsky.social · 12h

Fine, I’ll leave

A box with a hole in it and a cat bed inside. A cat is lying on top and another cat is inside and they are both looking at me like they want me to leave

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𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕒𝕧𝕚 𓅰 🐱 @lucavi.bsky.social · 12h

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 12h

I understand and appreciate efforts to work with AI in teaching and research for well-specified reasons and purposes but only so long as it's acknowledged AI in education is also and mainly a public problem for the sector that still needs addressing
codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2024/02/22/a...

AI in education is a public problem

Photo by Mick Haupt on Unsplash Over the past year or so, a narrative that AI will inevitably transform education has become widespread. You can find it in the pronouncements of investors, tech ind…

codeactsineducation.wordpress.com

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Tonk O'Bonne @spamps.bsky.social · 11h

Your country is being destroyed by the people you voted for lol

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Tonk O'Bonne @spamps.bsky.social · 11h

I just can't see Disney being as gullible as Sony Pictures

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