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It's in the article. Jeffries specifically states that the report is false and he is not discouraging trips to El Salvador.

A really good use of DNC money right now would be a Super Bowl ad buy simply informing people what Trump and Musk are doing. Right wing media isn't reporting but their audience will definitely be watching that night.

Later, after leaving the war room:
Gentleman 1: "Dr. Strangelove definitely threw a Nazi salute, right?"
Gentleman 2: "It was reminiscent of one, but I don't think it was actually a Nazi salute."
Gentleman 3: "Yeah he was just really enthusiastic."

Today I learned that I am exceedingly unique among federal employees, in that I actually show up to work in person. Only 6% of us do! Can't wait to tell some of my 2500 colleagues in the office tomorrow.

Headlines/decks need to do a better job capturing the context of the article, it's often the furthest people read.

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They made a journalist decision to word the post like this. Dozens of different sentences that could be chosen, but they chose the one that allows for the interpretation that the preparation was unnecessary and that the whole problem was "hype".

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I think this might have been my ex-girlfriend. You never met her because she went to school in Canada.

An Imperial control systems engineer, diagnosing interlocks in the machinery control system to figure out why the garbage mashers on the detention level keep activating despite the waste level being below the activation threshold.

Book cover of Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Just finished reading my kids the 4th Harry Potter book, my first time through the series as well. If it could not be so directly analogous the current US political climate, that would be great.

I always recall that in the official rules for golf, unsolicited advice is a 2 stroke penalty.

Is social media anxiety a thing? The crippling fear that when attempting to say something insightful and innocuous online, I'll make a simple mistake and be ridiculed, ostracized, and possibly meme-icized by the entire Internet community?

Anyway, I've got that. Here's my tiny attempt to overcome.