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Portrait of a Young DOGE Coder Dismantling America’s Institutions Luke Farritor could have been an artist, or a builder, or someone dedicated to seeing a great historical mystery through. Instead he wound up at the Department of Government Efficiency, slashing, dism...

Yes, the future of the United States government was very much influenced by the decisions of a 23-year-old from Lincoln, Nebraska. But there is much more to the Luke Farritor story. One of @jacobfeldman.bsky.social & @dvnjr.bsky.social's top picks via @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Trump remains a clear and present danger to democracy, and seizing control of the election process remains the most direct path to authoritarianism.

https://trib.al/JTUFFz1

I think what you mean is that we never shed the poisonous UK class system. The wealthy families that dominated the economy of the Colonies embraced it both before and after the Revolution, and intentionally built institutions to serve their own interests.

Jeffries is >< this close to getting it

The filings seem to indicate this is at 1331 Maryland, which is an absurdly swanky executive apartment building. The only units even close to that price are 3 BR + den, and are more than 3k sqft. Would be cheaper to actually buy a brownstone in Capitol Hill.

Verizon Wants Trump To Kill Phone Unlocking. Consumer Groups Say That Will Drag U.S. Wireless Back To The Stone Age

With the Trump administration openly destroying whatever is left of U.S. federal corporate oversight, regulatory independence, and consumer protection standards, Verizon sees an…

“The River House Broke. We Rushed in the River.” The July 4 Texas flooding ripped our Kerr County home from its pillars, pulling us into the water and into the night. Then morning came.

“I don’t know how long it took—ten seconds, maybe fifteen—for the house to come apart."

During the early-morning hours of July 4, the Guadalupe River pulled senior editor Aaron Parsley and six members of his family into its waters. Read his firsthand account:

Hey Dems, you stand no chance of taking back control by timidly NOT BEING TRUMP. Your polls are in the toilet. Milquetoast doesn't sell. Take a lesson from MAMDANI instead of trying to kneecap him: have ideas, be creative, exude empathy and energy, know what people want and need, make things happen.

Imagine if banks could just make it a "policy" that financial regulators weren't allowed to visit them or ask questions. That's basically what ICE has done here. It's laughably illegal.

As someone who I suspect is much closer to these issues than you are, what you are claiming is grossly untrue. It's a big lie with a kernel of truth, which is that the grant funding does pass through US-based NGOs who coordinate and implement the work. But that work is done apolitically.

Feels like an intentional attempt to derail the future prosecution. No LEO would be ignorant of the effect it could have.

OpenAI is a banana republic and a sign that something is wrong in the tech industry.

www.wheresyoured.at/whatre-we-ev...

EXCLUSIVE: Alex Jones Responds To The Palantir Hysteria & Lays Out What's Really Happening

Alex Jones, who spent years ranting about shadowy government mass surveillance technology, is now stanning for Palantir

It took generations for the food supply to get safe enough that you could eat chicken and pork and beef that hadn't been overcooked, vegetables that were roasted instead of boiled into mush, etc.

That era is gone. It was an anomalous window, which is now closed for at least another generation.

Trump's appeal to swingy voters can be explained by (1) his quasi-mystical role as an avatar of Mammon who will make his supporters rich by proxy; (2) incoherence and periodic iconoclasm that allows people to imagine that his preferences match their own; and (3) some amount of preference for cruelty

i keep seeing people say that LLMs are good at search.

NO. WRONG.

You have just forgotten how good search used to be.

Google broke it's own flagship product, and so you are accepting a demented chatbot's half baked gishgallop because we no longer have functional web search.

Yes, you've literally described reality. That's how young male circles of influence have worked since forever.

Could there also be a social media manipulation effect in play that is showing up by country?

The reality is that neither of them are continuing to import because neither can make a workable profit at even the lower 30% tariff. The business simply goes under if there's no price-equivalent second source. Most goods don't have demand that will withstand a 50+% price swing.

You're sort of describing old school early CMS like textpattern.

TANK vs TESLA

"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"

- ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

$10 says his staff is gaslighting him into thinking this is getting positive responses. "We're getting great engagement numbers on social..." 🤮

This is incredibly vague. If nobody's talking about it, and you aren't explaining it, how can anyone be expected to know what you're referring to?

Opinion | What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal. It will take a concerted effort by every sector of our society to respond to Trumpism’s threat.

David Brooks went the other way, and is actually advocating for mass resistance.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...

Guys it's just an ad, it's probably randomly inserted data to show how the graphing works. It's not a real person's budget.

Joe Rogan has been platforming terrible people for a very long time (15+ years?) and some of us have been pointing that out in our circles the whole time. He was basically doing long form advertising for right wing radicalization channels on YouTube, driving traffic there.

That's not what I said, and you know it. I didn't make any excuses for anything the US military has done, nor would I. I was simply pointing out the organizational fact. If I remember right, the ratio of logistics roles to combat roles in the US military is more than 2:1.

I, too, wish that human beings could live in peace and harmony without ever engaging in armed conflict. But until that day comes, we will need militaries.

Do you really not know that logistics are the backbone of the US military? It's a global scale logistics organization that enables a successful side business in combat.

DNA appears to show this Revolutionary War general was a woman or intersex Researchers noticed the Polish officer's delicate bone structure after the skeleton was extracted from the Pulaski monument in Savannah, Georgia.

Don't forget General Casimir Pulaski.