April
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Here's Marjorie Taylor Greene literally telling a British reporter to "go back to your country" and berating her for trying to ask a question.
"We don't give a CRAP about your opinion."
"We don't give a CRAP about your opinion."
March 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Here's Marjorie Taylor Greene literally telling a British reporter to "go back to your country" and berating her for trying to ask a question.
"We don't give a CRAP about your opinion."
"We don't give a CRAP about your opinion."
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Confirming, as was obvious from context already, that this wasn’t a one-off. They are routinely using Signal to evade statutory record retention requirements.
March 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Confirming, as was obvious from context already, that this wasn’t a one-off. They are routinely using Signal to evade statutory record retention requirements.
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This whole riff on the ages of people on social security is IDENTICAL to the lies he's told about voter rolls and voting fraud.
March 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
This whole riff on the ages of people on social security is IDENTICAL to the lies he's told about voter rolls and voting fraud.
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Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
March 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
1 Question For You
You get to pick a new career based on one factor: Your job is to do the activity that most frequently puts you into a flow state.
Flow state = you feel fully immersed in your work, you're in "the zone," time flies by without you realizing it, etc.
What do you choose?
You get to pick a new career based on one factor: Your job is to do the activity that most frequently puts you into a flow state.
Flow state = you feel fully immersed in your work, you're in "the zone," time flies by without you realizing it, etc.
What do you choose?
March 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
1 Question For You
You get to pick a new career based on one factor: Your job is to do the activity that most frequently puts you into a flow state.
Flow state = you feel fully immersed in your work, you're in "the zone," time flies by without you realizing it, etc.
What do you choose?
You get to pick a new career based on one factor: Your job is to do the activity that most frequently puts you into a flow state.
Flow state = you feel fully immersed in your work, you're in "the zone," time flies by without you realizing it, etc.
What do you choose?
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EXCUSE me?! The unelected, unconfirmed, apparently all-powerful person in charge of destroying our government from within must remain SECRET?! #TrumpCorruption #ThisIsAmerica now
Reporter: Who is the administrator of DOGE?
White House secretary: “I’m not going to reveal the name of that person from this podium…”
White House secretary: “I’m not going to reveal the name of that person from this podium…”
February 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
EXCUSE me?! The unelected, unconfirmed, apparently all-powerful person in charge of destroying our government from within must remain SECRET?! #TrumpCorruption #ThisIsAmerica now
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This x10000000000
“In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.”
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...
“In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.”
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...
They Are a Minority
Get your mind right.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
February 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This x10000000000
“In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.”
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...
“In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.”
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...
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We asked Senate Republicans: is there any millionaire or billionaire rich enough who doesn't need another tax giveaway?
$10M a year? No.
$100M a year? No.
$500M a year? No.
$1 BILLION a year? No.
With Republicans in control: Billionaires win, families lose.
$10M a year? No.
$100M a year? No.
$500M a year? No.
$1 BILLION a year? No.
With Republicans in control: Billionaires win, families lose.
February 21, 2025 at 10:02 PM
We asked Senate Republicans: is there any millionaire or billionaire rich enough who doesn't need another tax giveaway?
$10M a year? No.
$100M a year? No.
$500M a year? No.
$1 BILLION a year? No.
With Republicans in control: Billionaires win, families lose.
$10M a year? No.
$100M a year? No.
$500M a year? No.
$1 BILLION a year? No.
With Republicans in control: Billionaires win, families lose.
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I was just an Education Department guy under Reagan and the most junior WH senior staffer under G.H.W. Bush, so what do I know? But if I were an ex-president, and the current president were executing the most disastrous turn in American foreign policy in 80 years, I think I might say something?
February 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I was just an Education Department guy under Reagan and the most junior WH senior staffer under G.H.W. Bush, so what do I know? But if I were an ex-president, and the current president were executing the most disastrous turn in American foreign policy in 80 years, I think I might say something?
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Egg prices are up 53% compared to last year and the spread of bird flu is a major reason why.
How has Trump responded?
By letting DOGE fire thousands of federal employees across the CDC, NIH, FDA, and the USDA who could respond to this outbreak.
How has Trump responded?
By letting DOGE fire thousands of federal employees across the CDC, NIH, FDA, and the USDA who could respond to this outbreak.
February 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Egg prices are up 53% compared to last year and the spread of bird flu is a major reason why.
How has Trump responded?
By letting DOGE fire thousands of federal employees across the CDC, NIH, FDA, and the USDA who could respond to this outbreak.
How has Trump responded?
By letting DOGE fire thousands of federal employees across the CDC, NIH, FDA, and the USDA who could respond to this outbreak.
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Your FFP weekend read: The University of Nebraska will do less cutting-edge research on cancer and heart disease and lose top scientists if deep federal cuts backed by the Trump administration take effect, NU leaders say.
Read more 🔗 https://buff.ly/3WWasM6
Read more 🔗 https://buff.ly/3WWasM6
February 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Your FFP weekend read: The University of Nebraska will do less cutting-edge research on cancer and heart disease and lose top scientists if deep federal cuts backed by the Trump administration take effect, NU leaders say.
Read more 🔗 https://buff.ly/3WWasM6
Read more 🔗 https://buff.ly/3WWasM6
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Don't let Trump flood your zone. Stay focused. Keep your eye on what this corrupt regime is really doing — looting the government to line their own pockets with massive tax cuts and the ability to steer more federal contracts their way.
February 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Don't let Trump flood your zone. Stay focused. Keep your eye on what this corrupt regime is really doing — looting the government to line their own pockets with massive tax cuts and the ability to steer more federal contracts their way.
2025: book 18 -this was a good one!
February 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
2025: book 18 -this was a good one!
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In response to RFK Jr. & Tulsi Gabbard's Senate confirmations, Mikki Willis, the conspiracy theorist behind the viral COVID misinfo "Plandemic" video, wrote that he's "been working with RFK Jr. & Tulsi Gabbard for over a decade, collaborating on media productions," & "travel[ed] with both" of them.
February 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
In response to RFK Jr. & Tulsi Gabbard's Senate confirmations, Mikki Willis, the conspiracy theorist behind the viral COVID misinfo "Plandemic" video, wrote that he's "been working with RFK Jr. & Tulsi Gabbard for over a decade, collaborating on media productions," & "travel[ed] with both" of them.
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New, from me and my friends at the Heroic Imagination Project: the heroism of being a bureaucrat at a moment when norms and institutions are under threat.
Why Every Federal Worker Needs to Prepare for Their Hero Moment—Right Now
Wow, what a response to the first email!
open.substack.com
February 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
New, from me and my friends at the Heroic Imagination Project: the heroism of being a bureaucrat at a moment when norms and institutions are under threat.
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Wow, $10 million for $400 million. That’s a pretty good deal for Musk.
And Trump gets to pocket the $10 million for free, so it works out for him too.
The ones holding the bag? The American people!
And Trump gets to pocket the $10 million for free, so it works out for him too.
The ones holding the bag? The American people!
February 13, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Wow, $10 million for $400 million. That’s a pretty good deal for Musk.
And Trump gets to pocket the $10 million for free, so it works out for him too.
The ones holding the bag? The American people!
And Trump gets to pocket the $10 million for free, so it works out for him too.
The ones holding the bag? The American people!
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I thought Lucy would keep holding the football when *I* tried to kick it.
Van Hollen: "My one vote I cast for a member of the Trump cabinet was for now Secretary Rubio. I regret to say I regret that vote, because once installed in office he is essentially abandoning the positions he took here." (Who could've foreseen ... )
February 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I thought Lucy would keep holding the football when *I* tried to kick it.
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After Biden just about had inflation tamed, it is spiking today, the hottest number since early 2022. You can thank Donald Trump and his ill advised rhetoric and policies. Fools that thought he would fix this!
February 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
After Biden just about had inflation tamed, it is spiking today, the hottest number since early 2022. You can thank Donald Trump and his ill advised rhetoric and policies. Fools that thought he would fix this!
"As one administrator for a federal agency with deep knowledge about the government’s IT operations told us, 'I don’t think the public quite understands the level of danger.'”
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified
Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be.
www.theatlantic.com
February 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
You’ve got to read this book! 2025: book 16
February 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
You’ve got to read this book! 2025: book 16
I’m old enough to remember when drivers actually turned on their headlights when it was dark and rainy
February 6, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I’m old enough to remember when drivers actually turned on their headlights when it was dark and rainy