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YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 8h

It’s a personalist administration where viziers compete over who gets to control what

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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 13h

Got my ballot and voted Yes on 50! California voters, look for your ballot in your mailboxes this week - many have already arrived!

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YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 12h

lol yeah

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 1d

California must be governed by an egomaniac at all times

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YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 13h

oh okay sure

ProPublica @propublica.org · 14h

A former DOGE staffer developed an AI tool that hallucinated the size of Veterans Affairs contracts.

For example, it concluded that more than a thousand deals were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.

(Published June)

DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts

We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wron...

www.propublica.org

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YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 13h

So have we figured out who is trying to Klobuchar Katie Porter yet

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

If you look at the sheer insanity of what government officials and agencies openly post on XShitter, it becomes abundantly obvious how much the press is complicit. If Dems did even a fraction of this poasting it would be saturated in news coverage.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 21h

Someone should get back to him on the whole “are the things I’m seeing not what is actually happening” thing

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 22h

this is one of the sweatiest and most desperate documents the the united states government has ever produced

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 23h

"Antifa-led hellfire"

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

PORTLAND: Fake News Ignores Antifa Violence, Residents’ Pleas for Help

For years, an Antifa-led hellfire has turned Portland into a wasteland of firebombs, beatings, and brazen attacks on federal officers and property —

www.whitehouse.gov

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YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 21h

It’s always a tell that the clips they show are from 2019

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 1d

Caltrans has released a cross section for the ultimate (raised viaduct) version of SR-37.

Now maybe I'm just being paranoid, but if you were building a road that you planned to keep at 4 lanes wide, I don't think it would look like this.

Cross section of 114' wide bridge structure with each direction having a 12' outside shoulder and a 10' inside shoulder.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 22h

Elon Musk said he was going to cut spending by $2 trillion dollars, but instead spending is higher this year than we thought it would be before Trump took office. Truly incredible stuff.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 22h

CBO fy2025 projections for deficit/spending/etc are out

Some issues make simple comparisons apples-to-oranges, so I'll do apples-to-apples & explain in the thread

Relative to pre-Trump projections:
-Primary deficits ⬆️ $34 bn
-program spending ⬆️ $97 bn
-revenues ⬆️ $63 bn
www.cbo.gov/publication/...

2025 (January estimate, adjusted to fix issues) 2025 CBO estimate (remove student loan one-time revaluation) 2025 (adjusted for student loans) vs. 2025 projection (adjusted to fix issues)
Spending 7061 7166 105
Program spending 6108 6205 97
Interest 953 961 9
Revenue 5163 5226 63
Primary deficit 945 979 34
Total deficit 1898 1940 42

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YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 1d

Being unaware and forgetful is a full time job

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YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I mean he’s so busy right now

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "Federal workers, it's my understanding that the law is that they would be paid. There is some other legal analysis floating around. I haven't yet had time to dig in and read that."

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YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 1d

He is an imbecile first and foremost

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YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of their plans don’t work well because they were put together to with jerk off like-minded imbeciles or an extrapolation of a conversation they had with the goo man once

YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 1d

When you say they’re evil geniuses, people feel as if obeying in advance is the only option. With imbeciles it seems like it might be optional

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YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of their plans don’t work well because they were put together to with jerk off like-minded imbeciles or an extrapolation of a conversation they had with the goo man once

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1d

Weird. It’s almost like making accusations generates friction which generates news which rallies your supporters.

2 Key Democrats Come Out And Say It: Trump Has 'Some Kind Of Dementia'

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YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 1d

It would be a mistake to paint the administration as a genius supervillains simply because they are executing on plans to do bad things. They are imbeciles carrying out orders from a reactionary old man whose brain is goo

YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 1d

They really flew out the secretary of DHS out to Portland so they could show her how they’re all set up to sniper a guy in a chicken costume

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Momster for Gliberty 🧟 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder if the lead up to Civil War I had large portions of the population being like "They did not fire on Fort Sumter, you're just being hysterical again." Or just an assumption that we can't sell the people on opposing southern rebellion because low info voters won't understand or care.