George Dinwiddie
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George Dinwiddie
@gdinwiddie.bsky.social
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"So in relative GDP terms, what the Marshall Islands just did is equivalent to the United States paying everyone a basic income of around $750 per month, no strings attached."

#UBI

scottsantens.substack.com/p/marshall-i...
The Marshall Islands Just Quietly Implemented the First National Universal Basic Income (UBI)
How the Marshall Islands built the first nationwide universal basic income, funded by a US-capitalized Compact Trust Fund, and what it means for UBI everywhere.
scottsantens.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Politicians talk about socialism like it is some distant thing.

Socialism looks like Salem State, Middleton’s electric light department, our public libraries and New Hampshire’s liquor stores.

Anyone who has made a run up north before a party has enjoyed socialism.
November 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Now that MTG is feeling all soft, and free, and easy, it might be a good time to ask her why before even being sworn-in she was one of the 10 members of the House who met with Trump in December 2020 to discuss “Stop the Steal” plans, and the details of the convo….

www.axios.com/2022/07/12/h...
November 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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The White House doesn’t offer a plausible legal rationale because the orders are illegal.

Various lawyers wouldn’t sign off on it because the orders are illegal.

Trump flipped out at veterans saying don’t follow illegal orders because he’s giving illegal orders.

Real Occam’s razor situation here.
On the patently unlawful boat strikes

It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.

WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:

1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
🧵
White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Guys, we're doing Enron again.
November 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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I know appearances can be deceiving, but if you didn’t take one look at RFK Jr and hear every possible alarm go off in your head, you really should have your fight or flight system checked.
November 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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"Well, yes, Mamdani and I have our differences. He's a socialist, they say he's a socialist, and I guess he says so too. A democratic socialist, but a socialist. Meanwhile, I'm busy seizing the means of production, forcing a cultural revolution, cracking down on the intelligentsia ...."
November 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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If you've done a lot of practical demonstrations of development techniques like e.g., refactoring or CI or TDD, you will likely have experienced someone saying "No, I can't see that working" after they've literally just watched you do it.
November 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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"When you remove scientists from science, you don’t get truth. You get ideology. " Signed D3- Deb, Dan, and @drdemetre.bsky.social
We are former CDC officials. RFK Jr.'s change to vaccine guidance is propaganda.
Under Secretary Kennedy, CDC materials can no longer be assumed to reflect scientific authority.
www.ms.now
November 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Just thinking about all the threats and insults I got on here for criticizing an MIT preprint
November 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Nobody wants this shit. Nobody.

The hostile reaction has been so pronounced, in fact, that it feels like a company announcing it would never force AI into its products would carve out a pretty good chunk of the market.
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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What would happen if all the reporters started calling her "Piggy?"

Would she congratulate them on their openness and honesty?
Meanwhile, from bizarro world: Horrendous Karoline Leavitt actually defends Trump for calling a female reporter “piggy”, thinks we should admire Trump for being “frank, open, and honest”.
November 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Kash Patel's personal firing of the Pride flag-displaying employee was always absurd and unconstitutional, so I'm glad David Maltinsky is suing, but, wait.

It was a flag FLOWN BY THE FBI that was given to him BY THE FBI?! Come on.

Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Bovino is building a record as a fabulist that has been noted by federal judges and at least one jury which acquitted a protester that Bovino testified against.
Judge Ellis derides Greg Bovino as a serial fabulist who brazenly lied on the stand and seemingly considered it funny to perjure himself. cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...
November 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Trump is pressuring Zelenskyy to sign the so-called peace treaty negotiated by the US and Russia by Nov 27. It basically gives Russia everything it wants and Ukraine nothing, and bases it on Russian non-aggression guarantees which are worthless.
November 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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In related news, the claim ‘the Tooth Fairy does not actually take lost baby teeth from under pillows’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that magical beings are secretly thieving teeth in the dead of night…”

www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
CDC backpedals on vaccines and autism, despite earlier assurances from RFK Jr.
The CDC, under the direction of an unqualified health secretary, is now promoting claims that flunk Logic 101.
www.ms.now
November 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Not you, God. It's another god, you wouldn't know them, they go to a different school.
September 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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October 1940.
A member of the London Auxiliary Ambulance Service holds a cat that's just been saved from the rubble, after a daylight raid in London.
November 19, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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/6 Also, it is the obligation of every lawyer who takes their oath and the Constitution seriously to shun from legal society every single AUSA and DoJ lawyer participating in this. Strike their names from every book and tablet, every pylon and obelisk, every monument of the rule of law.
November 19, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Wonder Woman, 1944:
November 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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I love DC, man. The woman checking into my hotel next to me is complaining about a homeless encampment “with a chicken coop in the middle of I5”; meanwhile, on my bike ride over, I passed some locals with a few boxes of pizza asking an unhoused guy if he wanted one slice or two. That’s my city, baby
November 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM