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What Elon Has Done Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has faded from public consciousness in America, despite leaving death and destruction in its wake.

Today, @mckay4senate.bsky.social urges us not to forget what Elon Musk do to USAID, something that is still likely to have the highest body count of the administration’s actions. McKay documents just what Elon has done in detail www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-ha...

The piece I wrote for Liberal Currents on Musk's USAID cuts and how we can respond to them is out, take a look if you get the chance.

This is more Biss calling out the blatant NIMBY astroturfing in the campaign than just Popeyes, no?

What are lot sizes in Evanston? Would this bind in Chicago's housing constrained North Shore suburbs?

Are you the only young voter to pass the Likely Voter screen?

Given America spends more than the defense budget on nonuniversal Healthcare, this seems unlikely.

It's census so both should be counted in this stat?

It is still really funny that Republican leadership seemed to decide that they way to fix not having the votes to defend tariffs was to have a vote to defend tariffs.

The more I come back to the paper the more insane the results are. I believe the analysis, and it essentially says that exposure to opioid use, particularly when it interacts with the economy going to shit, makes people more authoritarian.

Spending Deal Leaves Government in Shutdown Limbo for the Weekend

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
This is an insane heist by Schumer. Dems get to only shut down DHS while the rest of the government is funded.

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.

Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.

Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

Predictably, the scoop that Biss met with AIPAC turned out to basically be a nothingburger. The whole pattern in the race where, because Biss is Jewish, people presume he's AIPAC aligned is worrying. AIPAC is getting uncomfortably close to a left wing blood libel.

The TACO cycle:

Markets want to price in TACO. But TACO only works if Trump sees stocks tank.

So we get a loop: Trump does things → nothing happens (markets already priced in TACO) → that emboldens him to do more → until markets start to think he might not TACO → stocks fall → TACO is restored.

It seems like he took a meeting with AIPAC and refused to change his positions? Like, how does this at all indicate he'd sell out Gazans?

Guy who is frantically rushing to IKEA before the tariffs hit

Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w...

“I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them,” he said at a 2023 conference on antinuclear activism in Johannesburg. “I am not a pacifist.”

It is extremely funny that ICE can't drive on ice

If the price level goes up, so does the Present Value of Expected Future Cash Flows. This is rational.

In other words, the "Source Familiar with the Situation" could be

Not saying this isn't true, but this is what you leak when it was actually you and you recognize you're beat.

Is this good chat?

www.debian.org/distrib/

Handled by the IV in the paper, to tbe extent that cancer is unrelated to despair levels.

Many states have this, it doesn't stop anything. Title "to improve the state"

I think I'm just being imprecise and we agree. So like if I take the M4 to the 7, I pay 2.50 for the initial fare then .40 for the train, right.

That would make too much sense if true, but doesn't the bus fare just get refunded on transfer like in every city?

What's always bugged me about this is that bus-subway transfers are already free. Any commuter who takes the subway (which I'd assume are most, especially with lower income people who are more likely to be stuck with a long commute) sees no benefit from this policy?

Hire disgruntled former federal employees as cops?

At least 60,000 murdered in Sudanese city, which resembles ‘a slaughterhouse’ Satellite evidence shows extent of paramilitary massacre in El Fasher

So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified