Gruss Gott
@grussgott.medsky.social
We know accidents happen, illnesses appear, chance defeats us all. But the greatest danger surely must be human passion & follies. We look for reasons & meaning in human behavior and they simply don't exist. We're left only w/ awe, despair, or foolish hope
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Gruss Gott
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· Nov 20
ICYMI: “.. rivaling or surpassing models hundreds of times its size, even outperforming Chinese rival DeepSeek's famed R1 that went viral at the start of this year ..”
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The battle:
🇺🇸 "The spend is justified cuz global rents on AI capacity"
vs
🇨🇳 "We will make AI capacity a $0 commodity"
🙋 😱
🇺🇸 "The spend is justified cuz global rents on AI capacity"
vs
🇨🇳 "We will make AI capacity a $0 commodity"
🙋 😱
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The killing of an unarmed woman in Minneapolis by a federal agent is horrifying. There must be immediate transparency, a full independent investigation, and real accountability. Minneapolis and America deserve answers. 1/2
January 7, 2026 at 10:50 PM
The killing of an unarmed woman in Minneapolis by a federal agent is horrifying. There must be immediate transparency, a full independent investigation, and real accountability. Minneapolis and America deserve answers. 1/2
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“.. they carried her body out, just like by her limbs, they didn’t even have a stretcher," Heller said. "She was carried out like a sack of potatoes."
“This was horrific and will change my life forever,” she said. “I feel so scared."
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“This was horrific and will change my life forever,” she said. “I feel so scared."
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Minnesota ICE shooting live updates: Driver fatally shot by immigration agent
Follow the latest news after an ICE agent fatally shot a 37-year-old woman after a group of individuals began to block an immigration-related operation.
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January 7, 2026 at 11:17 PM
“.. they carried her body out, just like by her limbs, they didn’t even have a stretcher," Heller said. "She was carried out like a sack of potatoes."
“This was horrific and will change my life forever,” she said. “I feel so scared."
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“This was horrific and will change my life forever,” she said. “I feel so scared."
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Trump claims the ICE agent who shot a woman today in Minneapolis “is now recovering in the hospital.”
However, the agent was able to walk up the crashed vehicle and walk back to his own vehicle before driving away. He didn’t appear injured.
However, the agent was able to walk up the crashed vehicle and walk back to his own vehicle before driving away. He didn’t appear injured.
January 7, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Trump claims the ICE agent who shot a woman today in Minneapolis “is now recovering in the hospital.”
However, the agent was able to walk up the crashed vehicle and walk back to his own vehicle before driving away. He didn’t appear injured.
However, the agent was able to walk up the crashed vehicle and walk back to his own vehicle before driving away. He didn’t appear injured.
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Where are all those "but my academic freedom!" folks now? Where's the 5 article coverage on The Free Press site?
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."
surreal times
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surreal times
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Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
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January 7, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Where are all those "but my academic freedom!" folks now? Where's the 5 article coverage on The Free Press site?
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The perfect two sentence story.
When I was 23, I saw a bunch of really cute velvet furniture on the side of the road, totally nice. Took it in and a year later a friend’s new gf came to my house and it turns out I’d stolen her entire living room while she was moving.
January 6, 2026 at 11:58 PM
The perfect two sentence story.
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January 6, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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Chuck Schumer rejecting out of hand the one point of leverage he has, the one that was actually working really well last year until he caved, is the most Chuck Schumer he can be.
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Schumer rejects idea of another government shutdown
Lawmakers returned to Washington from a holiday break Monday after seeing a record-long 43-day shutdown in the fall.
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January 6, 2026 at 5:34 AM
Chuck Schumer rejecting out of hand the one point of leverage he has, the one that was actually working really well last year until he caved, is the most Chuck Schumer he can be.
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It can always get dumber. And it is.
Leavitt: "It's a top priority for President Trump, and he believes that Gov. Walz is criminally liable, and I think the Department of Justice is going to find out."
January 6, 2026 at 1:57 AM
It can always get dumber. And it is.
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JUST IN: DOJ says it has finished reviewing *less than 1%* of the Epstein Files for potential release.
Only 12,285 documents have been released while more than 2 million remain under review.
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Only 12,285 documents have been released while more than 2 million remain under review.
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January 6, 2026 at 3:14 AM
JUST IN: DOJ says it has finished reviewing *less than 1%* of the Epstein Files for potential release.
Only 12,285 documents have been released while more than 2 million remain under review.
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Only 12,285 documents have been released while more than 2 million remain under review.
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Everything about this moment in time is surreal and absurd.
Hannity: Did you at any point offered to give him the Nobel peace prize?
Machado: It hasn’t happened yet. We want to give it to him. Share it with him.
Machado: It hasn’t happened yet. We want to give it to him. Share it with him.
January 6, 2026 at 4:09 AM
Everything about this moment in time is surreal and absurd.
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“.. a modern version of the law of the jungle, where might-equals-right determines which power wins. That’s a game China knows how to play all too well.”
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January 6, 2026 at 1:18 AM
“.. a modern version of the law of the jungle, where might-equals-right determines which power wins. That’s a game China knows how to play all too well.”
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Neil McCabe—former director of external affairs for the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office and now a senior adviser to DOJ’s Ed Martin—asks, “Why is it a problem?”
January 5, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Neil McCabe—former director of external affairs for the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office and now a senior adviser to DOJ’s Ed Martin—asks, “Why is it a problem?”
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To drive this home: We learned this morning that the US manufacturing sector contracted in December for the 10th consecutive month, per ISM
The factory revival was always a myth, how tariffs backfired, and why chaos, favoritism, and attacks on rule of law are making the U.S. a riskier place to do business.
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January 5, 2026 at 5:31 PM
To drive this home: We learned this morning that the US manufacturing sector contracted in December for the 10th consecutive month, per ISM
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Has anyone written an up-to-date treatment on the application of the First Amendment to Article 88 for retired servicemembers? Or can someone point me to a well-informed smarter person who may know?
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Sen. Mark Kelly will face administrative action
January 5, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Has anyone written an up-to-date treatment on the application of the First Amendment to Article 88 for retired servicemembers? Or can someone point me to a well-informed smarter person who may know?
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When the LAPD arrests a dude at a gas station they don’t take over the gas station and use it to gas up all the cop cars tho
STEPHANOPOULOS: Why wasn't congressional authorization necessary?
RUBIO: It wasn't necessary because this was not an invasion. We didn't occupy a country. This was an arrest operation.
RUBIO: It wasn't necessary because this was not an invasion. We didn't occupy a country. This was an arrest operation.
January 4, 2026 at 6:45 PM
When the LAPD arrests a dude at a gas station they don’t take over the gas station and use it to gas up all the cop cars tho
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Schumer: "I'm so angry I'm actively and vigorously doing nothing and making sure my party in unison does the same."
#Satire
#Satire
STEPHANOPOULOS: In your view, who is running Venezuela right now?
SCHUMER: Nobody knows
SCHUMER: Nobody knows
January 4, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Schumer: "I'm so angry I'm actively and vigorously doing nothing and making sure my party in unison does the same."
#Satire
#Satire
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I mean, it’s dangerous to snitch on a criminal gang.
NYT, WaPo learned of the secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin but held off publishing what they had at the administration's request to avoid endangering US troops
January 4, 2026 at 6:33 PM
I mean, it’s dangerous to snitch on a criminal gang.
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Vance’s use of quotes is deliberate, not illiterate like Trump’s. Here, it signifies that legality itself is a dubious or frivolous concept as applied to the actions of the regime. It conveys not just that it’s wrong to say the acts were illegal, but ridiculous to use law as a metric at all.
Vance pushes back and says this was not illegal, arguing "Maduro has multiple indictments in the United States for narcoterrorism. You don't get to avoid justice for drug trafficking in the United States because you live in a palace in Caracas."
January 3, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Vance’s use of quotes is deliberate, not illiterate like Trump’s. Here, it signifies that legality itself is a dubious or frivolous concept as applied to the actions of the regime. It conveys not just that it’s wrong to say the acts were illegal, but ridiculous to use law as a metric at all.
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America is not going to be rescued from utter fascism by Democrats, at least not those currently in power.
January 3, 2026 at 5:57 PM
America is not going to be rescued from utter fascism by Democrats, at least not those currently in power.
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Brilliant US military operation to seize Maduro. Good outcome. Trump says we will run Venezuela. Seize the oil. No Congressional authorization. An element of gangster think. Pres Petro of Colombia “better watch his ass.” Incredible.
January 3, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Brilliant US military operation to seize Maduro. Good outcome. Trump says we will run Venezuela. Seize the oil. No Congressional authorization. An element of gangster think. Pres Petro of Colombia “better watch his ass.” Incredible.
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In 2019, Tulsi Gabbard warned that Trump’s desire to intervene in Venezuela is “about the oil ... again.”
January 3, 2026 at 4:01 PM
In 2019, Tulsi Gabbard warned that Trump’s desire to intervene in Venezuela is “about the oil ... again.”
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Tulsi Gabbard in 2019:
“The United States needs to stay out of Venezuela.
Let the Venezuelan people determine their future.
We don't want other countries to choose our leaders--so we have to stop trying to choose theirs.”
“The United States needs to stay out of Venezuela.
Let the Venezuelan people determine their future.
We don't want other countries to choose our leaders--so we have to stop trying to choose theirs.”
January 3, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Tulsi Gabbard in 2019:
“The United States needs to stay out of Venezuela.
Let the Venezuelan people determine their future.
We don't want other countries to choose our leaders--so we have to stop trying to choose theirs.”
“The United States needs to stay out of Venezuela.
Let the Venezuelan people determine their future.
We don't want other countries to choose our leaders--so we have to stop trying to choose theirs.”
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ICE plans to descend on Phoenix, per reporting from @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-ice-...
Scoop: ICE Plans to Descend on Phoenix
Following L.A., Chicago, and Charlotte, DHS now intends to scale up arrests—and its network of detention facilities—in Maricopa County.
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January 2, 2026 at 8:52 PM
ICE plans to descend on Phoenix, per reporting from @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-ice-...
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“.. Again and again, Mr. Trump dares the system to stop him. He does so knowing that the same system that failed to hold him to account for Jan. 6 is unlikely to do so now. ..
“.. In Mr. Trump’s second term, he has governed as if Jan. 6 never ended.”
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“.. In Mr. Trump’s second term, he has governed as if Jan. 6 never ended.”
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January 2, 2026 at 7:57 AM
“.. Again and again, Mr. Trump dares the system to stop him. He does so knowing that the same system that failed to hold him to account for Jan. 6 is unlikely to do so now. ..
“.. In Mr. Trump’s second term, he has governed as if Jan. 6 never ended.”
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“.. In Mr. Trump’s second term, he has governed as if Jan. 6 never ended.”
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“.. Since his return to office, President Trump and his family have engaged in a moneymaking campaign like none in modern American history.”
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Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches
The president, his family and some of their closest associates have engaged in a sprawling campaign of deals that stretches across industries and the globe.
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January 1, 2026 at 11:41 PM
“.. Since his return to office, President Trump and his family have engaged in a moneymaking campaign like none in modern American history.”
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