Overeducated Chaos Demon

Got added to a chat I don’t recognize. Gonna hang around and see if SecDef tells me something I shouldn’t know.

Taking away Clinton and Harris’s clearances seems silly when they can just get the information from the group chat.

mRNA vaccines are the biggest breakthrough in disease prevention and treatment in decades. We're curing *cancer* with mRNA vaccines. To eliminate research in this field, at this moment, is fall-of-the-empire-grade stuff.

And next it’ll be women out of combat arms and then all women and they’ve already stopped recruiting black leaders…

And when have they ever gotten something like this wrong….

Endless bullshit

This is ridiculous bullshit.

Veterans who already completed their service and are entitled to care are going to see their medical care discontinued wholly or partially in an act of venal discrimination with absolutely no standing whatsoever.

Get fucked.

Transgender veterans' health services in question as VA rescinds guidance on care In an internal VA memo seen by NPR, the VA says it's rescinding a directive that contains detailed guidance on the kind of care transgender veterans can receive at VA facilities.

In an internal VA memo seen by NPR, the VA says it's rescinding a directive that contains detailed guidance on the kind of care transgender veterans can receive at VA facilities.

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What bargain basement lawyer gave him the word “collusively”?

@knightsout.bsky.social

Lean In Make the Army Gay (Again) Against All Enemies, Foreign and Domestic

Here is my modest proposal- but this one isn't satire. #lgbtqia+ #military #politics #leanin @rbreich.bsky.social

I made a Substack and wrote my first article. I hope it makes you think.

#hamilton #politics #deepthoughts

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Kind of makes us…NOT alarmists, then.

Doesn’t it fucking just?

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Just a thought. Original idea not mine, but you should see this.

The department of education wants to know what is disrupting your child’s education.

Please tell them so we can get to the bottom of this travesty.

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It would be horrible if folks used a concept of an email address and responded to this heritage foundation survey.

Just awful.

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Breaking News: Thailand deported dozens of Uyghurs back to China, activists said. They were part of a wave of asylum seekers who had fled persecution in 2014.

The most discerning trait of contemporary GOP members of Congress is abject cowardice.

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So this is fascinating, both for what it is and for being a window into an organised mind capable of extraordinary clarity. I’m happy with my weird, funhouse mirror cognition, but if I had to have another kind of brain I would like one that can do this, please.

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I despise that I feel the same way waking up in this country every day as I did waking up in an active war zone.

I do not know how to make it any clearer.

There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing — The Atlantic How regime change happens in America February 13, 2025 Despite its name , the Department of Government Efficiency is not, so far, primarily interested in efficiency. DOGE and its boss, Elon Musk, have...

@anneapplebaum.bsky.social wrote a terrifying article today.

But I believe, as she says, that “none of this is inevitable.”

RESIST

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DOGE staff list reveals tech vets, McKinsey alum, Supreme Court clerks — Business Insider Three weeks into Trump's second term, the makeup of Elon Musk's DOGE staff is becoming clearer. BI saw a list of around 30 staffers at the White House DOGE office; nearly all are early or mid-career p...

These are the people responsible.

We will remember.

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