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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 3h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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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Fiziker @fiziker.bsky.social · 7h

Really loved her singing opera like pop music and (especially!) pop music like opera.
youtu.be/c6wysGU66fs?...

Why Don't You Sing Opera Like A NORMAL Person?

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farqfox.bsky.social @farqfox.bsky.social · 9h

Comic dog saying:

Pls rewards of being loved??
NO mortifying ordeal of being known
ONLY rewards of being loved

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 10h

Think about how for decades, one of the ingredients of a crackpot was: retired engineer.

Retired engineers, for *generations* have been a fertile ground for crackpot theories in everything.

They get that golden watch and bam, incoherent manifesto about quantum archeology inbound.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 12h

People will scoff at virtue signaling and then wonder why today’s billionaires don’t build museums, libraries, hospitals, and universities like Gilded Age ones did.

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 13h

Really seems like a thing that a consortium of blue states could set up in exile, maybe with corporate donation help.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 22h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 11h

Some kid is doing the standard “ur mom” voice chat trash talk and they got no idea they’re talking to bashar al assad

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 21h

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 21h

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 21h

Great news, everyone, the Mortality and Morbidity people got fired

We're all going to live forever

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 22h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

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andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 1d

Negative polarisation has hit many of the anti AI people real bad

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work

see you all there

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Speaker Mike Johnson, standing next to Emmer here, urged Democrats less than a month ago to "turn down their rhetoric," saying, "Nazis and fascists is not helpful."

As such, striking to see him stand quietly as a fellow Republican insists there is a "terrorist wing" of the Democratic Party.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 2d

Feels like "a bunch of ICE new hires are actually registered sex offenders" is a shoe waiting to drop given how certainly little vetting anyone is doing of these guys.

♨ naïve dumbass @atticusgf.bsky.social · 2d

half these people aren't even allowed to be this close to an elementary school

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1d

one sort of interesting contradiction here is that a lot of this policy/political goal could be accomplished with progressive taxation on political spending specifically, and not caring if they spent the money on a yacht. But that runs into 1A issues, while just taking it away doesn’t.

Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 1d

This is the correct take, by the way. Why I have come around to some form of a wealth tax is not because I fantasise that it can pay for the government programs I want (it won’t) or moral disgust at wealth (don’t care), but because of very rich people using their money to warp the body politic

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1d

Lot of people confidently missing the point in the replies to this: if every cent of Elon musks net wealth was liquid, which it isn’t, that’s not even enough money to run the govt for two weeks. The problem less that they have money, and more how they use that money in destabilizing ways.

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 1d

This is the correct take, by the way. Why I have come around to some form of a wealth tax is not because I fantasise that it can pay for the government programs I want (it won’t) or moral disgust at wealth (don’t care), but because of very rich people using their money to warp the body politic

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1d

Lot of people confidently missing the point in the replies to this: if every cent of Elon musks net wealth was liquid, which it isn’t, that’s not even enough money to run the govt for two weeks. The problem less that they have money, and more how they use that money in destabilizing ways.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

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This literally does nothing. You are not beating fascism by dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing

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Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non violently) beat Fascism. Humor and ridicule are key.

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 1d

I truly don’t understand living through the DOGE experience and being like “great model, a+, no notes”

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

Portland is doing well making clear the ridiculousness of the military takeover.

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 1d

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

Euros have a long history of training here (and Canada for that matter) due to airspace restrictions at home (Germans did tactical training here for decades, separate from ENJJPT), same thing applies to Asian countries like Singapore and Taiwan, and getting US-quality training is a bonus

I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing a lot of folks being shocked by this but this is just a training agreement. Mountain Home is a major F-15 base & the Qatari air force just bought a bunch. This is pretty common, Norway & the UAE both have facilities in AZ for flight training.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

that Watchmen panel but in every single one the government of Argentina has caused a financial crisis.

I think this has happened six times in my lifetime.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 2d

The problem, in Argentina, was utterly predictable. Milei repeated the exact same mistake of the 1990s, stabilizing the peso by tying it to the dollar, without having the political capacity to reign in spending (driven by state governments) enough to make that sustainable.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 1d

This is the deeply embedded norm for a *lot* of extremely dysfunctional countries, and a warning to us (and anyone else paying attention):

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not sure they can ever break out of it. The idea that market forces are evil has become part of their national mythology.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 1d

It really doesn't help that prediction markets have taken off right at the same time that the US government has been in perpetual extreme stress, and more recently in a state of total crisis with no end in sight.

There's no one to crack down on insider trading, fraud, and market manipulation here.

Jason Furman @jasonfurman.bsky.social · 1d

The other day a student asked me about the prevalence of insider trading in prediction markets. I now have an answer.

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Jason Furman @jasonfurman.bsky.social · 1d

The other day a student asked me about the prevalence of insider trading in prediction markets. I now have an answer.

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