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In its first 100 days, the Trump Administration has relied heavily on ambiguity, misdirection, and plausible deniability to accomplish its aims. It’s a model that has parallels to other countries that have slid into autocracy, Andrew Marantz writes.
Is the U.S. Becoming an Autocracy?
Other countries have watched their democracies slip away gradually, without tanks in the streets. That may be where we’re headed—or where we already are.
www.newyorker.com
May 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
In its first 100 days, the Trump Administration has relied heavily on ambiguity, misdirection, and plausible deniability to accomplish its aims. It’s a model that has parallels to other countries that have slid into autocracy, Andrew Marantz writes.
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Just hit me that the importing of white folks from South Africa and exporting of brown people is actually, literally an attempt at a great replacement
May 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Just hit me that the importing of white folks from South Africa and exporting of brown people is actually, literally an attempt at a great replacement
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No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.
February 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.
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New state media www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
February 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
New state media www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Whenever you welcome guests, treat them with kindness, grace and respect. Simple as that.
February 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Whenever you welcome guests, treat them with kindness, grace and respect. Simple as that.
Time to CANCEL The Washington Post! Bezos is now directing (censoring) opinion pieces. The paper's motto is "Democracy Dies in Darkness." Bezos just turned out the lights. #cancelwashingtonpost
February 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Time to CANCEL The Washington Post! Bezos is now directing (censoring) opinion pieces. The paper's motto is "Democracy Dies in Darkness." Bezos just turned out the lights. #cancelwashingtonpost
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Week 4: Trump Continues to Block Hundreds of Billions of Dollars Owed to Communities Across America
www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/minorit...
www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/minorit...
Week 4: Trump Continues to Block Hundreds of Billions of Dollars Owed to Communities Across America | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
www.appropriations.senate.gov
February 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Week 4: Trump Continues to Block Hundreds of Billions of Dollars Owed to Communities Across America
www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/minorit...
www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/minorit...
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Fuck him. He is selling us out and breaking America from the inside. All for the benefit of our biggest adversary Russia.
I wonder how much of the data DOGE is stealing is going there.
I wonder how much of the data DOGE is stealing is going there.
February 19, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Fuck him. He is selling us out and breaking America from the inside. All for the benefit of our biggest adversary Russia.
I wonder how much of the data DOGE is stealing is going there.
I wonder how much of the data DOGE is stealing is going there.
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This is like a bank robber getting to fire the cops and disable the alarms just before he strolls into the bank lobby.
February 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
This is like a bank robber getting to fire the cops and disable the alarms just before he strolls into the bank lobby.
Sure - run the country by random non-strategic, short-sighted ego proclamations. What fools!
Breaking: Trump is signing an executive order intended to cut federal workforce
Order directs agencies to work with DOGE and says that after the current hiring freeze lifts, agencies will only be able to hire one new employee for every four who leave (with a few exceptions like law enforcement)
Order directs agencies to work with DOGE and says that after the current hiring freeze lifts, agencies will only be able to hire one new employee for every four who leave (with a few exceptions like law enforcement)
February 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Sure - run the country by random non-strategic, short-sighted ego proclamations. What fools!
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uhhh lowering aggregate demand you say?
WHITE HOUSE ECONOMIC ADVISER HASSETT: TRUMP WANTS TO FIGHT INFLATION BY INCREASING LABOR SUPPLY AND LOWERING AGGREGATE DEMAND -CNBC INTERVIEW
February 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
uhhh lowering aggregate demand you say?
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of all the many terrible things that seem to be afflicting the public, the prevalence of defeatist mindsets with zero capacity for creative problem solving (or indeed the unwillingness to even *imagine* possible solutions to problems) might be the thing which freaks me out most.
Electricity generation has always felt like an impossible engineering problem. Demand has to match supply - yet we managed that with ancient, all-analog equipment for over a century.
Now we have so many more tools at our disposal. Why should this be hard?
Now we have so many more tools at our disposal. Why should this be hard?
February 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
of all the many terrible things that seem to be afflicting the public, the prevalence of defeatist mindsets with zero capacity for creative problem solving (or indeed the unwillingness to even *imagine* possible solutions to problems) might be the thing which freaks me out most.
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The AMA has a YouTube page where you can catch up on all the fun, ongoing TB & bird flu outbreaks, since the CDC is no longer allowed to do that: youtube.com/watch?v=HlPB...
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February 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The AMA has a YouTube page where you can catch up on all the fun, ongoing TB & bird flu outbreaks, since the CDC is no longer allowed to do that: youtube.com/watch?v=HlPB...
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Free speech baby
1. EXCLUSIVE
Today, the NSA is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion," a NSA source tells Popular Information.
The massive purge is creating chaos, taking down "mission-related" work
Today, the NSA is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion," a NSA source tells Popular Information.
The massive purge is creating chaos, taking down "mission-related" work
The NSA's "Big Delete"
Today, the National Security Agency (NSA) is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion." The "...
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February 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Free speech baby
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This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
globalnews.ca
February 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...