Richard Harvey

Any guesses as to what this is a photo of?

May the healing be swift and thorough. 🙂

That seems true as well. I've noticed aspects of my world view seemingly more amplified in millennials. Like having a more profound experience and knowledge that the system/systems we live within being bullshit, so why should we participate. It makes since Gen Z would amplify this attitude further.

I'm guessing it's more of the latter.Perhaps those of the younger generations who have grown up with devices are so used to interactions playing out internally for them, that they have an inertial pattern of responding internally rather than responding externally.

Yep. It's curious. Even when I say, "Hey, how's it going?", there often is no response.

May peace and justice prevail.

‘We’ve Got an Enormous Crisis on Our Hands’ Public-policy expert Don Kettl discusses Trump and Musk’s blitzkrieg attack on the federal workforce and where it goes next.

“There’s a strategy underlying all of this, and that is an assertion of presidential authority under Article II…They intend to redefine what that means. It has always been clear that the president is chief executive, but there’s always been the question of constraints…”

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Please, everyone, drop what you’re doing and read this:

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

I sound like a broken record, but to understand what's happening in government look to Musk's Twitter purchase.

Before Musk officially closed his deal for Twitter in Oct. 2022, his team demanded that the company freeze all payments to outside contractors and vendors.

bsky.app/profile/eric...

Elon’s Twitter Destruction Playbook Hits The US Government, And It’s Even More Dangerous Remember how Elon Musk destroyed Twitter by ripping apart its infrastructure without understanding it? Now imagine that same playbook applied to the federal government. It’s happening, and th…

“Let’s be crystal clear about what’s happening: A private citizen with zero Constitutional authority is effectively seizing control of critical government functions.”- @mmasnick.bsky.social

www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/e...

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