@drmikecook.bsky.social
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47 years.
September 8, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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At some point, someone's going to ask them why, if all this free money is coming in, they are ending all our medical research and taking food away from hungry children, right?
Lutnick: "The Japanese in order to buy down their tariff rate, they have given President Trump $550 billion for President Trump to direct where and how he wants it invested in America ... It is just the most fun working for Donald Trump. I mean, this deal is off the rails."
September 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
At some point, someone's going to ask them why, if all this free money is coming in, they are ending all our medical research and taking food away from hungry children, right?
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for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
February 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
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Here's the WIRED piece from 1AM, reporting that -- contrary to White House claims -- a 25-year-old Musk lackey has obtained direct access to Treasury Department systems responsible for nearly all payments made by the US government:
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
EMERGENCY PIECE: Previous reports that Musk's DOGE programmers only have "read only" access is inaccurate. I can confirm what @wired.com first reported at 1 AM today that they have Read & WRITE access with a source in BFS referring to this as "apocalyptic"
www.crisesnotes.com/day-five-of-...
www.crisesnotes.com/day-five-of-...
Day Five of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025: Not “Read Only” access anymore
If you are a current or former career Bureau of the Fiscal Service Employee, especially if you’re a legacy IT programmer with years of experience and especially if you are a COBOL programmer currently...
www.crisesnotes.com
February 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Here's the WIRED piece from 1AM, reporting that -- contrary to White House claims -- a 25-year-old Musk lackey has obtained direct access to Treasury Department systems responsible for nearly all payments made by the US government:
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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FLASHBACK: Trump brags about cutting a 2020 deal with Russia & Saudi Arabia to cut oil production to save the oil companies, sending gas prices (+ the price of all things) ⬆️ ⬆️ for 2 years.
@mcuban.bsky.social calls it “the root cause of inflation” — why was this not talked about more?🤔
@mcuban.bsky.social calls it “the root cause of inflation” — why was this not talked about more?🤔
December 1, 2024 at 2:49 PM
FLASHBACK: Trump brags about cutting a 2020 deal with Russia & Saudi Arabia to cut oil production to save the oil companies, sending gas prices (+ the price of all things) ⬆️ ⬆️ for 2 years.
@mcuban.bsky.social calls it “the root cause of inflation” — why was this not talked about more?🤔
@mcuban.bsky.social calls it “the root cause of inflation” — why was this not talked about more?🤔