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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
I was given an ultimatum.
July 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Most horrifying part of this imo is that this country never *stops* funding these things once they start. We've never closed Guantanamo, we've never shuttered Homeland Security. The potential damage here lasts forever.
rhutabhayga.bsky.social Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · Jul 2
More context of scale for the #ICE budget.
We are going to war with ourselves.
As Don Moynihan, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan, noted, The spending is so large that it defies easy understanding. For example, ICE will receive a 365% increase in detention, spending $45 billion. For context, this is more than the combined budget for all 50 state prison systems. The current budget for the federal Bureau of Prisons is just over $8.3 billion. Moynihan notes that the ICE detention budget is larger than the former budget for USAID, and that the increase is larger than budget cuts to education, SNAP, and larger than cuts to NIH, CDC and cancer research combined. “It is on the scale of the type of supplemental budgets that the US passed when engaged in foreign wars,” Moynihan warns.
July 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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mrhoneybunch.bsky.social
Yeah according to this article it was to accommodate for the cost in developing AI.

So like, cutting out the parts of your company that make money to pay for the parts that don't.

www.seattletimes.com/business/mic...
Screenshot from the article that reads: As Microsoft cuts corporate ranks, the company is investing heavily in artificial intelligence. Microsoft’s push into AI doesn’t mean the company is replacing workers with the technology. Rather, the significant cost of building out the infrastructure over multiple years has Microsoft looking to trim costs where it can. During the company’s 2025 fiscal year, which ended on Monday, Microsoft said it planned to spend more than $80 billion on infrastructure to meet AI demands. That’s a $25 billion increase in capital expenditures from the company’s 2024 fiscal year.
July 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM